Hi there, !
Today Sat 09/12/2026 Fri 09/11/2026 Thu 09/10/2026 Wed 09/09/2026 Tue 09/08/2026 Mon 09/07/2026 Sun 09/06/2026 Archives
Rantburg
582781 articles and 1984928 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 38 articles and 89 comments as of 3:31.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Operations    WoT Background    Opinion    Local News    Politix   
Iran fires 20 missiles at Jordan; 18 intercepted 2 fall in empty areas
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 3: Non-WoT
2 14:11 Frank G [175] 
0 [109] 
2 08:06 Skidmark [144] 
2 10:23 NN2N1 [193] 
6 12:56 Skidmark [246] 
0 [132] 
1 05:59 NN2N1 [212] 
4 12:07 Mercutio [330] 
Page 1: WoT Operations
0 [132]
0 [154]
2 18:07 Dopey Photch2701 [414]
2 07:36 Skidmark [274]
8 21:58 Woodrow [362]
0 [199]
1 12:49 Clyde Thaviling6482 [301]
0 [228]
1 07:41 Besoeker [221]
Page 2: WoT Background
4 17:50 Jack Guelph2611 [217]
0 [127]
1 10:12 NN2N1 [150]
9 17:01 swksvolFF [325]
0 [143]
1 10:03 Chantry [190]
Page 4: Opinion
5 17:03 DarthVader [209]
0 [170]
8 13:17 Mullah Richard OTR [346]
1 09:35 trailing wife [219]
0 [138]
0 [160]
5 11:13 Procopiu2k [262]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
0 [135]
0 [139]
1 15:45 Lord Garth [183]
0 [137]
0 [133]
Page 6: Politix
4 12:13 SteveS [209]
12 20:52 Skidmark [326]
7 15:30 swksvolFF [314]
-Lurid Crime Tales-
What Happened To All The Hospices ?
[Nick Shirley] BOOM! All the hospices are gone. Not a single hospice remains. No more luxury vehicles and no more of your dollars funding their fraudulent scheme. They were all frauds.

In this one location alone we saved America $30 million+.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2026 11:43 || Comments || Link || [175 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What Happened To All The Hospices

They're the only ones that died in this instance.
Posted by: Mullah Richard OTR || 09/09/2026 13:13 Comments || Top||

#2  "I'm not dead yet. I got bettah! I feeeel happy"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/09/2026 14:11 Comments || Top||


Education Department Saves Taxpayers $400 Million in 4 Months
[PJMedia] In just a few months, the Trump-McMahon administration has saved U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by fighting fraud.

The White House Fraud Task Force is assisting the Department of Education (ED) to ensure the government isn’t wasting educational funding on nonsense, or letting taxpayer money go to criminals.

As a victim of federal student loan fraud myself, I particularly appreciate the Trump administration’s crackdown on fraud. It took me a year and a half of fighting with the government and various third parties to prove that I was not the person who took out loans in my name, since the Biden administration deliberately removed guardrails and made it as easy as possible to obtain funding, but as difficult as possible to prove fraud. The Trump administration is reversing that deliberate decline.

In fact, the Daily Wire piece that ED shared had a mention of the fact that the Biden administration stopped data-sharing agreements with other federal agencies that would have assisted in the identification of ineligible or fake recipients. One of the reasons was clearly to ensure illegal aliens could receive student loans, because one terminated partnership was with the Department of Homeland Security.

Now, however, since Donald Trump
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
took office, ED inaugurated a policy of checking every student FAFSA aid applicant's identity to make sure fraudsters aren't demanding money. James Bergeron, ED deputy under secretary, told the Daily Wire, "We provide about 130 billion dollars a year in federal grants, loans, and what we saw when we came into office is that the previous administration, the Biden administration, had turned off all the protections for our programs."

He stated that the DHS partnership termination was indeed to funnel money to illegal aliens, but that wasn't all the Biden-era ED did. "They were not requiring institutions to verify identity, so we had a proliferation of bots and foreign international rings that were stealing federal student aid. And so, one of the first things that we did in February 2025 is that we turned all those systems on again," Bergeron said.

The move saved the agency $30 million right off the bat, Bergeron said, particularly since dead individuals were no longer getting federal aid, as well as $10 million from preventing overpayments on Pell grants.

In April 2026, the Education Department revamped FAFSA with new technology. That new technology has built fraud detection into the FAFSA forms themselves, mandating that every student applicant is evaluated in real time using risk-based identity screening... Since the administration’s Fraud Task Force was launched in March 2026, it has uncovered almost $230 billion in fraud, according to the White House. It has also stopped $56 billion in payments that were going to fraudsters, and enforced over $55 billion through indictments, settlements, and civil penalties.

Just as Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
don’t want voter ID, they also didn’t want to require IDs to receive federal aid. The same reasoning is behind both decisions. The Trump administration has to correct years of deliberate fraud.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/09/2026 2026-09-09 02:38 || Comments || Link || [193 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Only $400 millions?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/09/2026 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  According to several US Gov data sources/maps.

Most of the college closures and $$$$ abusers, strangely seem to be in Northern and Northern Mid-West States areas, with high populations of Illegals, African's and Muslims
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/09/2026 10:23 Comments || Top||


High Trust Culture Meets Low-Trust Immigrant Criminals - $100 Billion Stolen: Dr. Oz Exposes Massive Healthcare Scam Bleeding Taxpayers Dry
[Townhall] Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Dr. Oz said his agency has rooted out tens of millions of dollars in fraud.

The White House has taken several actions to prevent fraudsters from stealing taxpayer money through government programs.

During an appearance on Fox News, Oz discussed his agency’s efforts to stop fraud.

“They're not just stealing your money, they're stealing your health, because they don't care about stealing from poor people,” he said. “They'll take your health away. And they're stealing the nation's trust. Medicare and Medicaid were created in a high-trust environment. We assumed people would do the right things. We now are experiencing about $100 billion of theft a year, much of it because of the COVID pandemic's impact on teaching criminals to move into healthcare.”

The CMS administrator further explained that “if we could just take the fraud out of Medicare, we would double the life expectancy of the Medicare trust fund.”

So what has to happen? We already stopped $42 billion. Kim Brandt, who leads this program at Medicare, has already taken $42 billion just by not shipping the money out of the building. So number one issue is don't let the criminals get the money from you. Number 2, an all-of-government approach to get it back. You know, we've been working closely with Scott Bessant. Big announcements that he'll make this week about how effective that has been.

Dr. Oz further explained how foreign governments have been involved in defrauding federal agencies. “Here in New York City, you go to Queens, there's a massive fraud scheme with social adult daycare where they're basically paying seniors to play mahjong, and literally, and you've got the Chinese mafia actively involved in that,” he said.

And they're also running human trafficking because once they get a cash cow, like selling, you know, membership, club memberships to seniors where they basically get their Medicare beneficiary number, which millions have been stolen now, and just charge the government as though they're legitimate bills. So this has to be shut down, and it is. We're going after it in a big way. In California, we've got a third of all hospices in the whole country.

Dr. Oz has made fraud a central part of his agenda as CMS administrator. The agency deferred $259.5 million in federal Medicaid funds to Minnesota while it reviews fraudulent claims, according to a press release.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, “For decades, Medicare fraud has drained billions from American taxpayers—that ends now.”




Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/09/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [330 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1 

Given what was and still is being stolen, skimmed and pocketed.
Many areas could have been treating disabled US Taxpayers and US Retirees for free.

Instead we saw increases in the cost of Medicare premiums and a joke for a COLA that did not even come close to being equal to the real economy inflation.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/09/2026 6:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Thank you Obamacare.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2026 6:33 Comments || Top||

#3  This should come as absolutely no surprise.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2026 7:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Cultural imperative. Most of these mokes are still in the hunter/gatherer mode. They don't plant; they just harvest what resources they find "out in the wild".
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/09/2026 12:07 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The first magnetic storm of autumn has begun on Earth
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] The first magnetic storm of the month began on Earth at approximately 11:00 AM Moscow time on September 8. This was reported by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

"The event is currently weak and falls into Category 1 on a 5-point scale. The storm was predicted the day before due to the expected arrival of a plasma cloud ejected by the Sun three days ago," the laboratory staff noted on their Telegram channel.

The plasma reached Earth the day before, on September 7, in the middle of the day, causing prolonged yellow-level geomagnetic disturbances that persisted for about a day. On September 8, readings exceeded the magnetic storm threshold.

According to the forecast, geomagnetic conditions will stabilize no sooner than in two days. During this period, magnetic storms of the second level (moderate strength) are possible, with a slight probability of strong level three storms.

Geomagnetic activity also shifted the polar auroral boundary toward mid-latitudes. A strong surge in aurora borealis activity was recorded yesterday, around midnight Moscow time, followed by numerous reports from northern and northwestern Russia.

By midday on September 8, auroral activity was estimated at approximately 5 out of 10. It is possible that it will intensify by evening. A lowering of the auroral limit to Moscow's latitudes, in the range of 53–56 degrees, is considered unlikely, but not ruled out.

The laboratory previously reported that two large solar plasma ejections would reach Earth on September 8 and 9, disrupting space weather for at least three days. Numerical modeling and images from space-based coronagraphs indicate that multiple plasma ejections have been detected on the Sun over several days.

Posted by: badanov || 09/09/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [132 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
UK summons air traffic boss after major outage as flights slowly resume
LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Airlines intensified their criticism of Britain's aviation ‌systems on Wednesday after a major air traffic failure left hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded, while ministers called in the flight control boss to explain the shutdown.

Flights resumed at major airports across the country after the hours-long outage on Tuesday, which resulted in the cancellation of 2,000 flights and ramped up pressure on air traffic control provider NATS ​and its boss Martin Rolfe.

Ryanair (RYA.I), opens new tab said NATS had told it that the cause of shutdown was the same problem behind ​the last major air traffic outage in 2023 which cost airlines £100 million ($135 million). The carrier has repeatedly called ⁠for Rolfe to step down.

Transport minister Heidi Alexander will later on Wednesday hear directly from Rolfe after she summoned him to explain the fault, ​amid concerns over the resilience of the infrastructure and technology.

The NATS shutdown in August 2023 caused travel chaos, and there was also a radar-related technical ​issue in July 2025, which affected major airports including Britain's largest, Heathrow.
"I am seeking assurances that lessons will be learned and systems that support aviation are up to the job," Alexander said on X.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2026 07:46 || Comments || Link || [109 views] Top|| File under:


Cyber
Google to invest $15 billion in AI infrastructure and buy nuclear power in Finland
HELSINKI, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google will invest at least €13 billion ($15.1 billion) in artificial intelligence ‌infrastructure in Finland over the next two years and has signed its first nuclear power contract outside the U.S., it said on Wednesday.

The Finnish deal includes a 22-year purchase agreement for up to 50% of the energy output of one of Finland's two ​nuclear plants, its operator Fortum (FORTUM.HE) said separately.

Nuclear power, as a source of large amounts of low-carbon ​energy, is one of the attractions Finland offers as companies including Microsoft (MSFT.O) and TikTok ⁠owner ByteDance as well as Google seek sites for data centres while containing energy costs and meeting climate goals.

"This ​is Google's first nuclear energy deal outside of the United States, and we think it's a really important ​cornerstone to everything that we are doing here," the U.S. company's Chief Investment Officer Ruth Porat told reporters in Helsinki.

Fortum and Google will also explore the development of new nuclear and renewable energy in Finland, the companies said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2026 07:45 || Comments || Link || [144 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tech explores Argentina's Patagonia for mega data centers
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2026 7:52 Comments || Top||



Economy
The entire skyline of Bellevue WA is for sale.
[YouTube] unDivided with Brandi Kruse: As Washington state faces uncertain economic times, Kemper Development Company announced it is seeking a broker to sell the Bellevue Collection, which accounts for a massive chunk of the city's downtown.

Posted by: Jefe101 || 09/09/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [212 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
The states Social equality, its generally liberal tone agenda and related punitive taxes to support its non-working voters, is not a welcome mat for large tax revenue generating employers.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/09/2026 5:59 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Astronomer Ananeva: The Solar System may have once had five giant planets
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] The Solar System may have once contained five giant planets, one of which was "ejected." This was stated on September 8 by Vladislava Ananyeva, a researcher at the Department of Planetary Physics at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a PhD candidate in physics and mathematics.

Astronomer Ananeva: The Solar System may have once had five giant planets
"When a planetary system disperses over several million years, the planets begin to interact with each other. They can get too close, distorting each other's orbits, and one planet can move into a highly eccentric orbit or even fly away. <…> There is a hypothesis that the Solar System once had five giant planets, and one of them was ejected," she noted in an interview with TASS.
Was that Theia?
Ananyeva also clarified that the largest planets are hot Saturns or hot Jupiters. According to her, these are lightweight gas giants that orbit close to their star, are extremely hot, have "fluffy" and "loose" atmospheres, and have very low average densities.

In April 2025, scientists discovered possible signs of biological activity beyond the solar system. In the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b, specialists found chemical traces of dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide, which are produced by living organisms on Earth.

Posted by: badanov || 09/09/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [246 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Since the article mentioned that the "fifth planet" was a lightweight gas giant that orbited very close to the sun, instead of being ejected, that planet could have had its gas atmosphere blown away by the sun, leaving a rocky core that we know as Mercury today!

This might also help explain why Venus has such a hot atmosphere and a weird rotation as well.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/09/2026 5:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Discussion on reddit:

What if Mercury is the leftover core of a once hot Jupiter whose atmosphere was blown off?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2026 6:26 Comments || Top||

#3  /\Beyond all of this and that, what is there ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2026 7:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, there reportedly is a mass of dark matter out by Uranus.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2026 7:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Generally observable, but there is no denying the latent Skidmarks.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2026 7:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Kinda like meteor and fireball atmospheric ionization trails.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2026 12:56 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
20[untagged]
5Govt of Iran
2Palestinian Authority
2Migrants/Illegal Immigrants
1Hezbollah
1Houthis
1Narcos
1Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
1al-Qaeda
1[untagged]
1Antifa/BLM
1Boko Haram (ISIS)
1Hamas

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2026-09-09
  Iran fires 20 missiles at Jordan; 18 intercepted 2 fall in empty areas
Tue 2026-09-08
  IDF eliminates two 3 terrorists from the terrorist organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip
Mon 2026-09-07
  The US secretly cleared mines in the Strait of Hormuz for four months, according to media reports
Sun 2026-09-06
  US military says it destroyed 3 Iranian oil tankers after IRGC targeted its warships
Sat 2026-09-05
  Security forces kill 48 terrorists in 'high-tempo' Balochistan operations over 72 hours: ISPR
Fri 2026-09-04
  US strikes killed Iranian pilots, naval and IRGC personnel
Thu 2026-09-03
  US pounds Iran, Tehran strikes back at bases in biggest exchange since July
Wed 2026-09-02
  US strikes IRGC targets after 'attempted attacks' in Strait of Hormuz: CENTCOM
Tue 2026-09-01
  A supertanker hit two mines in the Strait of Hormuz
Mon 2026-08-31
  US forces strike Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz in first military action in weeks
Mon 2026-08-31
  Iran fires 'massive' 8 rocket attack on US Base in Jordan after U.S. bombs 2 rocket launchers on Larak Island
Sun 2026-08-30
  Ambassador to Niger: Armed men attempted to enter a hotel with Russian diplomats
Sat 2026-08-29
  Three Palestinian terror operatives were killed in an Israeli drone strike in the West Bank city of Jenin
Fri 2026-08-28
  Hezbollah launches two drones at IDF
Thu 2026-08-27
  IDF dismantles Hamas ambush positions near hospital and school
Wed 2026-08-26
  IDF strikes Hamas weapons depots inside mosques, near aid sites


Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
216.73.216.168
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Operations (9)    WoT Background (6)    Opinion (7)    Local News (5)    Politix (3)