Makes you wonder how much of ‘rising medical costs’ is just fraud, is just people stealing money. https://t.co/WtdZQE5Xkq
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) May 14, 2026
"We believe that at least half of the hospices in the entire area around Los Angeles are fraudulent."
"Today we announce 800 of those hospices have been suspended. 800 hospices that last year charged the federal taxpayer $1.4 billion will no longer be paid." - CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An explosive was discovered underwater at the base of a dam in Alabama that supplies the City of Mobile and the surrounding region with drinking water.
The explosive was discovered on Wednesday by divers contracted by the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System (MAWSS), who were surveying the Converse Reservoir dam in Mobile County for routine maintenance and repairs.
The divers immediately reported the device, which MAWSS described as 'a grenade-type IED (improvised explosive device).'
The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office was notified, and a huge, multi-agency response involving federal partners ensued.
Those agencies included the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, FBI Bomb Squad, Mobile Police Department Explosive Ordnance Detail, ALEA Bomb Squad and the Daphne Search and Rescue Team.
The explosive was retrieved and safely detonated on land away from the dam. No one was harmed.
'Our top priority is keeping your drinking water safe,' said MAWSS Director Bud McCrory in a public statement.
'This is an unprecedented threat, and we are fortunate that this device was discovered before it could cause serious damage to our water supply or harm to individuals,' he continued.
It is unclear how the explosive made it to the bottom of the dam, but bomb experts told 1819News that the device was likely purposely built and placed there.
MAWSS has not named a suspect for who may be responsible.
Monica Allen, the public relations manager for the agency, told 1819News that there are cameras around the dam to monitor activity.
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"The explosive device was discovered by Mobile Area Water and Sewer System divers on Wednesday during a routine inspection for maintenance and repairs. They said it was a "grenade-type IED."
Whoopie... headlines for a Big Cherry Bomb.
Given Dam Thickness even if it went off I might kill a few Cat Fish and wipe off some dirt.
Above ground yes and issues underwater min. impact.
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[Regnum] In the US state of Michigan, foster parents kept children in dog cages and starved them. The Daily Mail reported this on May 14.
According to the newspaper, the investigation began in February 2024, after one of the minors was urgently hospitalized. Doctors assessed the patient's condition as critical due to severe exhaustion and dehydration.
Upon arriving at the home of 45-year-old Jessica Klimp and 47-year-old Jason Klimp, police discovered dog kennels where the couple kept their children. They also found straitjackets.
According to law enforcement, two children were starved, their diet limited to liquids only. Food intake was restricted to adults under strict supervision.
The defendants pleaded guilty and have officially lost custody of their children. The couple is currently awaiting the final verdict. Might I suggest cages, starvation, and daily beatings?
A similar incident occurred in North Carolina. Three women kept a six-year-old girl in a dog cage and starved her. Paramedics took the girl to the hospital but were unable to save her. She weighed only 12.2 kg (26 lbs), and had fractures, marks of ligature, open wounds, and burns. Furthermore, the child was constantly wearing dirty diapers, causing her skin to become covered in sores.
A former Cadillac couple has pleaded no contest to first-degree child abuse of two adopted children, according to the Michigan attorney general’s office.
On May 11, 45-year-old Jessica Klimp pleaded no contest to two counts of first-degree child abuse, the department said. Her husband, 47-year-old Jason Klimp, pleaded no contest to the same charges in March.
The couple are parents to four adopted children and four biological children, said the department. Formerly from Cadillac, the couple was staying in a rental home in Tennessee in February 2024 when one of their adopted children was taken to a Tennessee Hospital with symptoms of severe dehydration and malnutrition.
Two of the adopted children were determined to be severely underweight, on a liquified food diet, and had supervised access to food, the department said.
Michigan State Police executed a search warrant at the couple’s Wexford County home, where a man-made straitjacket was discovered in a bedroom, along with security alarms mounted on the bedroom door and dog cages that appeared to have been used for the children, said the department.
Following the discovery, the Wexford County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged the couple in February 2024.
COUPLE SENTENCED IN TENNESSEE
The department said the couple pled guilty to one count of aggravated child abuse for related crimes in Tennessee. In October 2025, they were sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The couple was extradited to Michigan and arraigned in November 2025 for the additional charges stemming from the findings in the Wexford County home, said the department.
Their parental rights have been terminated. The department said Jason Klimp is set to be sentenced on June 16, and Jessica Klimp’s sentencing has not yet been set. Their prison terms from Tennessee will be served concurrently with their sentences received in Michigan.
[YouTube] Holland in the 1970s, windmills, clogs, tulips and..... an armed terror group seizing control of commuter trains, schools and consulates. Wait, what? Yes, the 1970s in the Netherlands had an ongoing terror problem as the "Free South Moluccan Youth" movement, yearning for a homeland that they never saw, decided that terror and violence were the answer....
The South Moluccas archipelago is somewhere in Indonesia.
More than three dozen protesters rallied outside the Hillsdale County Courthouse hours before the ceremony began, with participants arriving from Macomb, Calhoun, Monroe and Branch counties, the Hillsdale Daily News reported. The demonstrators took issue with the college’s involvement in the 1776 Commission, the Barney Charter School Initiative and various school voucher programs, according to the outlet.
A group called Hope in Action organized the demonstration,
What odds, dear Reader, that the group is yet another tentacle of the Antifa/Black Bloc anarcho-communist syndicate?
WILX reported. Demonstrator Allison Bader, who attended with her daughter Norah, opposes what she called “blatant racism, homophobia, and sexism” tied to Turning Point USA and Project 2025, she told the station.
Inside the auditorium, Erika Kirk urged Hillsdale’s 400-member graduating class to model themselves after her late husband, according to the New York Post (NYP). “Through his learning, Charlie was better able to recognize his duty to pursue truth and to defend liberty, and this responsibility he felt to God. He felt it for our family, to our country, and that was born from what he learned,” Kirk told the audience, per the outlet.
Hillsdale President Larry Arnn wrapped the ceremony by conferring on Kirk two honorary degrees of public service, with the first recognizing her own contributions and the second awarded posthumously to Charlie Kirk, according to the NYP. Arnn was fulfilling a promise he made at the activist’s September memorial, per the outlet.
A gunman killed Charlie Kirk in September as he addressed students at Utah Valley University in Orem during a Turning Point USA event. Suspected shooter Tyler Robinson remains jailed pending trial.
No doubt. But Zimbabwe’s rulers have proved dangerously untrustworthy.
[YouTube] Zimbabwe once ran one of Africa’s most productive agricultural economies, powering exports, industry, and national stability. A fast-track land reform aimed at correcting colonial inequality instead dismantled the systems that sustained it. It wasn't land reform, it was tribal racial theft
As farming collapsed, revenue vanished and hyperinflation erased the currency, leaving behind one of the most extreme economic breakdowns in modern history—and a long, complicated path toward recovery.
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They’re in Zambia. They’re not coming back.
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Right, low trust society. Now discovering that maybe, just maybe colonialism wasn't all that bad. Another example of Marxism vs Western Civilization the Left wants to keep buried.
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Another excellent example of what those who run the UK can do for you. President Trump keeping his distance from these foks is a prudent move indeed. The antics of Christopher David Steele (born 24 June 1964) is a British former intelligence officer with the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) was a clear example of their inherent evil and betrayal.
[UPI] Cuban Energy Minister Vincente de la O Levy said the country's diesel and fuel oil stocks had run completely dry and that the energy system was on life support due to the oil embargo imposed by the United States in January.
"We have absolutely no diesel," O Levy said in an interview broadcast on state-run national television Wednesday night in which he repeatedly stated that oil stocks to generate power for the electrical grid were pretty much exhausted too.
O Levy said that a lone delivery of 730,000 barrels of oil gifted by Russia in March had run out and the national grid was now completely dependent on Cuba's home-produced crude oil, natural gas and renewable energy.
"In Havana, the blackouts now exceed 20-22 hours [per day]. The situation is very tense, it's becoming hotter," he said, referring to surging demand for energy with the arrival of summer on the island.
In a post on X on Wednesday evening, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel blamed a 2,000 megawatt electricity shortfall overnight and 1,100 megawatts that could have been produced during the day had the fuel to generate it been available to power stations on a "criminal siege."
"This dramatic worsening has a single cause: the genocidal energy blockade to which the United States subjects our country, threatening irrational tariffs against any nation that supplies us with fuel," Diaz-Canel wrote.
The comments came as Havana and Washington traded claim and counterclaim over purported behind-the-scenes U.S. offers to provide $100 million in assistance that the Cuban government claimed it was unaware of, with the State Department formally reiterating Wednesday that its offer was still on the table.
In a news release, the State Department said Cuba had rebuffed repeated private offers of financial assistance made by the United States, including support for free and fast satellite internet.
"The regime refuses to allow the United States to provide this assistance to the Cuban people, who are in desperate need of assistance due to the failures of Cuba's corrupt regime. Today, the Department of State is publicly restating the United States' generous offer to provide an additional $100 million in direct humanitarian assistance to the Cuban people that would be distributed in coordination with the Catholic Church and other reliable independent humanitarian organizations," the news release said.
[BBC] The Cuban government says it is open to reviewing a US offer of $100m (£74m) in aid, hours after rare protests over worsening power cuts erupted on the Communist-run island.
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said on Thursday that Cuba was "ready to hear the details of the proposal and how it would be implemented".
The shortages have been exacerbated by a US-imposed blockade of oil which has squeezed the country's supplies of essentials such as diesel and fuel oil.
Hospitals have been unable to function normally, and schools and government offices have been forced to close. Tourism, an economic engine for Cuba, has also been impacted.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said she has received death threats for "doing my job" and meeting with foreign ambassadors about Cuba’s fuel shortages and U.S. sanctions.
Following her trip to Cuba as part of a congressional delegation in April, conservatives are now labeling the progressive lawmaker a "traitor" who is "conspiring against the U.S." because she met with political leaders to discuss the "crisis" on the island.
"I've gotten death threats as a result of this," Jayapal told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. "People are calling for me to be shot, and it's just a fabrication. It is what's wrong with so much of the work that we do."
[Breitbart] The Republic of China has agreed to purchase 200 Boeing jets in a multibillion-dollar deal just a year after the country ordered its airlines to not take any further Boeing jet deliveries, President Donald Trump revealed.
Trump made the announcement during a Thursday appearance on Fox News’s Hannity, after he led a group of CEOs, including Boeing’s Kelly Ortberg, Tesla’s Elon Musk, and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, to meet with President Xi Jinping this week:
“One thing [Xi] agreed to today is he’s going to order 200 jets,” Trump told host Sean Hannity. “That’s a big thing — Boeing. 200 big ones. That’s a lot of jobs, that’s a lot. Boeing wanted 150, he got 200.”
“I think it was a commitment, sort of […] a statement,” the president added of Xi’s order. “But I think it was a commitment.”
During last year’s trade standoff with China, the Asian power ordered airlines not to take any further deliveries of Boeing jets and parts after Trump levied tariffs on them.
The Chinese ban on Boeing was lifted about a month later, Bloomberg reported.
However, the outlet noted on Thursday that Trump’s announcement “fell short” of the 500 737 Max and widebody aircraft Chinese airlines “were expected to buy at the upper extreme of a landmark deal.”
According to CNBC, analysts had expected a larger order of Boeing aircraft to come out of Trump’s visit to China — though the company had not won a major order from the country in nearly 10 years while China was buying from Airus, Boeing’s competitor.
While Trump did not name the specific aircraft that China would be buying, analysts expect the order to include the 737 Max planes.
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Apparently the ChiComs are not to be Trusted after all...
"NYP Reporter: Prior to boarding Air Force One to depart Beijing, the entire U.S. delegation disposed of every item provided to them by their Chinese hosts. Gifts, badges, pins, and commemorative items were all dumped into a trash bin on site. The directive was absolute, no item of Chinese origin was permitted to board the aircraft. The precautions extended beyond the departure itself. Delegation members had left all personal electronic devices at home before traveling to China and operated exclusively on clean burner phones throughout the duration of the trip."
[BBC] From your weight and facial expressions to your destination, cars collect a startling amount of data about you. Some of it may even raise your insurance costs. But you can take some simple steps to limit what they know about you.
Cars used to mean freedom. When I first got the keys to the old family Toyota it was a rite of passage, a sign I was old enough to step away from the watchful eyes of my parents and enter a world where time and decisions were mine alone. Things change.
Modern cars are computers on wheels, and giant corporations are using them to suck up intimate details about your life and make more money. If you think driving today is a chance for solitude and independence, think again. And it looks like it's about to get a lot worse.
Car companies will tell you themselves if you wade through their privacy policies. The information they harvest can include precise location data about everywhere you go, who's in the car with you, what's on the radio and whether you buckle your seatbelt, drive too fast or brake too hard. Some can gather details you might not expect like your weight, age, race and facial expressions. Do you pick your nose? Some cars have cameras on the inside pointed at the driver's seat. And most come with internet connections that can ship off that data as you drive in blissful ignorance.
WhatsApp said on Wednesday it is launching an AI chat function known as Incognito Chat that is built to allow users to converse privately with Meta AI—such that Meta itself cannot access the questions or answers. The feature is based on WhatsApp's Private Processing scheme, which debuted a year ago and already underlies WhatsApp's existing AI features, including message summarization and composition tools.
The idea of Incognito Chat is to create a way for WhatsApp to offer AI chat integration that does not conflict with the communication platform's commitment to end-to-end encryption, the privacy scheme in which only direct participants in a conversation can read messages or hear a call. Most generative AI platforms now offer some type of “incognito mode,” but these features are usually designed to separate users from the questions they ask and the answers they receive rather than including a mechanism to entirely shield those questions and answers from the provider's view. With Incognito Chat, WhatsApp will only be able to see that an account used the feature, according to Meta.
Meta invites third-party audits and vulnerability reports on Private Processing and says Incognito Chat itself is going to be subject to expert oversight so third parties can verify that code Meta ships for the feature is durable. But as with any cloud system, chatting with Meta AI on WhatsApp will ultimately involve trusting Meta in the same way using WhatsApp for communication does.
“A big part of our work at WhatsApp relates to when there’s a perfect solution that’s very hard to use—how do you give people other options that still bring them the privacy benefits?” WhatsApp head Will Cathcart tells WIRED. “With AI, from a privacy standpoint, you’d want to run everything on your own phone, but the benefit of these models is using larger and larger compute to make them work. So the challenge is how do you build something in a data center that’s not going to fit in your pocket but has the same types of security properties. Incognito Chat is kind of like we’re running a giant phone for AI and we don’t have the passcode.”
Incognito chats are ephemeral by default and will disappear once your conversation is over. Cathcart says that WhatsApp may work on developing an option within Private Processing to retain some or all of these conversations over time for users who want that history. And for now, Incognito Chat is text-only. Cathcart says support for image processing and voice recognition is in the works. Reducing latency in any way possible, including by optimizing routing, has been key to making Incognito Chat usable given the extra demands of running AI within the secure cloud environment of Private Processing.
“Incognito Chat handles all AI inference in a Trusted Execution Environment that ensures your messages are not accessible to us,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Wednesday. “The conversations on your phone also disappear when you exit the session. This is different from other disappearing AI products where your conversations logs often remain on other companies' servers for many months.”
Meta is also adding Incognito Chat as an option in the Meta AI app.
Another feature announced on Wednesday alongside Incognito Chat is “Side Chat with Meta AI,” which integrates the ability to essentially DM with Meta AI about a text chat you're having with another person or group of people. The idea is to give users a way to ask AI for restaurant suggestions or about a movie your friends are discussing without essentially leaking these locations or interests to a company.
“It's sensitive information, and you should’t have to screenshot a conversation and upload it to a regular chatbot to be able to ask a question about what a friend is talking about or get an AI summary of what's been said in a big group chat,” Cathcart says.
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I believe you, Skidmark. Usually I can use the Reader setting to see it, but for some reason it’s not working for me for the BBC links. I cleared cookies the other day —perhaps that has something to do with it.
[FoxNews] A company called Panthalassa has raised $140 million in new funding to develop and deploy autonomous, floating AI computing nodes powered by ocean waves. The Series B round brings Panthalassa's total funding to $210 million, a sign that investors are taking this ocean-based AI idea seriously. The round was led by Peter Thiel, the Palantir co-founder, and the company says the money will help complete a pilot manufacturing facility near Portland, Oregon. Panthalassa also plans to deploy its Ocean-3 pilot node series in the northern Pacific Ocean later in 2026.
Instead of building another giant AI data center on land, Panthalassa wants to place computing power out at sea. Ocean waves would generate electricity. Seawater would help with cooling. Onboard computing systems would process AI prompts and send the results back to land through low-Earth-orbit satellites.
[ZERO] A retired US Army major and former CIA-linked remote viewer issued stark final warnings of a devastating solar "Killshot" before his death in March, claiming the current period of heightened solar activity could trigger infrastructure collapse on a global scale.
Retired Major Ed Dames, who participated in the US government’s classified remote-viewing programs during the Cold War,
….all that parapsychology stuff that turned out not to work even a little. And to be fair, the best scientific test is that true believers tried really, really hard to make it work, and couldn’t. So now we all know…
described the event as enormous solar blasts that would knock out power grids, communications and essential services, potentially leading to millions of immediate deaths and widespread societal breakdown.
Dames died at age 76. In his last recorded interviews he tied the timing directly to Solar Cycle 25 and the recent passage of comet C/2023 A3.
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Dames was linked to Project Stargate, a declassified US intelligence initiative that ran from the 1970s until 1995. It explored whether psychic phenomena, particularly remote viewing—the claimed ability to perceive distant or hidden targets mentally—could be used for espionage.
The program originated amid Cold War concerns that the Soviet Union was investigating similar psychic capabilities.
Dames, who had served in Airborne Infantry and later as a tactical electronic warfare officer, transferred into the remote-viewing unit after studying biophysics and Mandarin at UC Berkeley.
He maintained that remote viewers sometimes supplied intelligence unavailable through conventional means.
The Stargate Project was, at least officially, shut down in 1995 after official reviews claimed it had not delivered reliable operational value.
In one of his last interviews, recently released, Dames stated: "Right now we’re at the beginning of the solar cycle. 25 Solar Max. Solar Max should last for about two years, and the sun’s doing unprecedented stuff. There are more solar spots than there have been in the last 20-something years."
He continued: "I predict that this Solar Max will be the beginning of the kill shot sequence. But more, more interestingly, intriguingly, the comet C/2023 A3 that’s in the sky."
Another hypothesis shot down by reality. It seems that remote viewing didn’t work after all.
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There is some use of remote viewing in the CIA, but the success has its limits. Zero chance that Trump is president either time if they were any good at remote viewing.
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I am at this very moment "remote viewing" the resignation of the Fed Chairman.
**Wave function collapse** (often referred to as waveform collapse) is the process in quantum mechanics where a system transitions from a **superposition** of multiple possible states into a single, definite state upon measurement. Before observation, a quantum system exists in a probabilistic state described by a wave function, which encodes the likelihood of various outcomes.
The **measurement** or interaction with a macroscopic environment forces this probabilistic wave to "collapse" into one specific outcome, with the probability of each result determined by the wave function's amplitudes. This phenomenon is central to quantum theory and is observed in experiments such as the **double-slit experiment**, where detecting which slit a particle passes through destroys the interference pattern, indicating the wave function has collapsed into a particle-like state.
Key aspects include:
* **Decoherence**: Many physicists view collapse as a result of **decoherence**, where interaction with the environment randomizes the phase relationships between quantum states, effectively destroying superposition.
* **Interpretations**: The exact nature of collapse is debated. The **Many-Worlds Interpretation** suggests no actual collapse occurs, but rather that all outcomes happen in branching parallel universes. **Spontaneous Collapse Theories** propose that collapse is a real, physical process that happens randomly, especially in larger systems.
* **Quantum Computing**: In quantum algorithms, collapse is the final step where the processed qubits are measured, yielding a classical binary result (0 or 1) from the quantum superposition.
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.
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.
According to the newspaper, the investigation began in February 2024, after one of the minors was urgently hospitalized. Doctors assessed the patient's condition as critical due to severe exhaustion and dehydration.
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