by Dave De Camp, antiwar.com
Adm. Alvin Holsey, the commander of US Southern Command who abruptly announced he was stepping down in October, was pushed out by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The report said that Hegseth and Holsey were at odds during the first months of the Trump administration, and the tension intensified when Holsey expressed concerns about the “murky legal authority” for the bombing campaign against alleged drug boats in Latin America, which is clearly illegal under US and international law.
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Paramount called the sale process "tainted," while two-time Oscar-winner Jane Fonda used a stronger word for its likely impact on the industry: "catastrophic."
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/netflix-buy-warner-bros-72-billion-deal-hollywood-goes-panic-mode
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Automated, cradle-to-grave traceability for "identifying and targeting the unreached"...
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/who-gates-unveils-blueprint-global-digital-id-ai-driven-surveillance-life-long-vaccine
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A new bombshell report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO)
details a long-running vulnerability in the Affordable Care Act exchanges, showing that weak verification controls continue to expose federal subsidies to significant fraud and abuse.
“Preliminary results from GAO's ongoing covert testing suggest fraud risks in the advance premium tax credit (APTC) persist,” the report reads. “The federal Marketplace approved coverage for nearly all of GAO's fictitious applicants in plan years 2024 and 2025, generally consistent with similar GAO testing in plan years 2014 through 2016.”
According to the report, GAO conducted undercover tests by creating fictitious applicants with fake identities and fraudulent or never-issued Social Security numbers to see how the federal Marketplace would respond. Over the past two years, 90% of those fake applicants were approved for subsidized coverage despite lacking required documentation. In plan year 2024, all four of GAO’s fabricated applicants were approved and received about $2,350 per month in subsidies paid to insurers, even though they failed to provide proof of Social Security numbers, citizenship, or income. GAO scaled up the test for 2025 to 20 fake applicants; 18 were still enrolled as of September 2025, generating more than $10,000 per month in subsidies.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-watchdog-reveals-rampant-obamacare-fraud-90-bad-doc-applicants-approved
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