Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Anti Semitism


Teen accused of torching Mississippi synagogue posted gruesome selfie of severe burns hours after attack


UN to Censor All Criticism of the Climate Agenda as Whistleblower Exposes it as a Total Scam


Good grief!

Biden admin likely paid out $84.6M in error for Minnesota housing assistance — including to hundreds who were already dead


NY's official descent into anti Semitism

After 2 Years of Pro-Hamas Riots, NY AG Announces Shutdown of Pro-Israel Group


Mamdani ally shuts down group for claiming "that Muslims 'hate America'"

After 2 years of pro-Hamas riots that included multiple assaults on Jewish New Yorkers, streets being blocked off and synagogues terrorized, including a mob chanting “We support Hamas” outside a synagogue last week, New York’s Attorney General Letitia James finally acted by… forcing the shutdown of Betar, a pro-Israel activist group, accusing it of “widespread persecution of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian(s)”

Attorney General Letitia James, an ally of Mamdani, claimed that Betar’s activism is “driven by broad hostility and animus toward several protected groups, in violation of New York civil rights laws.”

Her evidence of this was that “members repeatedly referred to keffiyehs – traditional Palestinian scarves – as “rape rags” and claimed that Muslims “hate America.” Betar publicly circulated content celebrating violence against Palestinians, including social media posts mocking civilian deaths, declaring hatred toward Gazans, and calling for further bloodshed.”

Whatever one thinks of these remarks by ‘members’ (which is not the same thing as the position of an organization), it’s constitutionally protected unlike the support for illegal terrorist organizations and the assaults on individuals and police officers by members of pro-Hamas groups.

Not to mention Antifa.

AG James has refused to take action against any of the Muslim and leftist groups behind the violence and the riots, but has shut down a Jewish group whose tone may have been confrontational that advocated fighting back against those groups.

Here’s the specific text of James’ ‘legal’ document. “For example, Betar members repeatedly referred to keffiyehs as “rape rags” in
public and private. Keffiyehs are a traditional middle eastern headscarf that have become identified with Palestinian identity. One member stated on an internal Betar Whatsapp chat that all devout Muslims “‘hate America.” Echoing these sentiments, Betar’s chairman wrote that they harass “Muslim terrorists.”

AG James obviously has a real problem with that last part.

The James press release claimed that “Betar threatened to place Jewish activists on lists to be shared with foreign authorities in an effort to bar them from travel and intimidate them into silence.”

By that she means that the names of terrorist supporters were passed on to Israeli law enforcement authorities. There’s nothing illegal about that.

The only actual violence that AG James describes by Betar took place when Hamas supporters came to hold a hate rally at a synagogue. Not that the James statement mentions that point. It’s the equivalent of accusing a black group of encouraging violence against a KKK rally at a black church.

AG James does not address the fact that Hamas supporters routinely come with weapons and assault Jews outside synagogues and Jewish events. Nor has she gone after any of the Muslim groups behind it. Instead she’s targeting Jews who have defended their community against assaults by the hate groups that James supports. Their rhetoric and tactics may not have been nice or politically correct, but they did not do a fraction of the things that the allies of Mamdani and James have routinely done.

But this is nothing new for AG James who had illegally gone after the NRA for political reasons. Now the Mamdani ally is targeting Jewish groups.

This is how New York turns into London.

Mamdani celebrated the move which protects his Hamas allies from encountering Jewish self-defense during their attacks on synagogues in New York City. And this way he outsources the dirty work to others.

Why are government run programs so easy to scam?

Independent journalist reveals shocking similarities between Medicaid fraud in Minnesota, Maine

"I think the government of Somalia is backing this as a nation-building project,” said independent journalist Steve Robinson. 


Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Where's the liberal support for the Iranian revolution?


  • Iran Cracks Down. Where Are the Western Protests? - Gerard Baker
    As the people of Iran brave another intensifying crackdown by their rulers in one of the world's most repressive regimes, where are the protests in the West? Where are all those defenders of persecuted Muslims who have been so active on the streets of New York, London, Sydney, Rome and elsewhere the past two years? Where are the demands for justice and freedom for the downtrodden victims of a brutally repressive state?
        More than three million Iranians have been driven from their homeland in the 47 years of the mullahs' rule. People have been forced into prisons or into exile in foreign lands, their homes and property stolen, their loved ones punished and frequently murdered.
        Where are the movie stars and pop icons with their video pleas for justice? Where is the International Criminal Court's crack team of lawyers to investigate crimes against humanity and issue indictments against Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, as they did for Benjamin Netanyahu?
        In the UK, there has been criticism that the BBC has been playing down or even ignoring the dramatic events in Iran. BBC News world affairs editor John Simpson noted how difficult it is to get accurate and reliable information given the reporting conditions in the country. Yet in Gaza, the scarcity of reliable information didn't stop the BBC from broadcasting daily for two years the most lurid accounts of the Israeli offensive there - much of it pure Hamas lies.
        Perhaps the reason so many protesters condemn Israel for its legitimate actions and give Iran a pass for its illegitimate ones is that, unlike Israel, Iran isn't run by Jews. (Wall Street Journal)
  • The Courage of Iran's Women - Joanna Williams
    It is impossible to overstate the bravery of Iran's protesters. Men and women, united in opposition to the dictatorship, have taken to the streets in defiance of the threat to their lives. "I am not afraid," one female protester is filmed saying. "I've been dead for 47 years." Her arm is raised in defiance, as blood drips from her mouth.
        Robina Aminian, 23, from a Kurdish region in Iran, was shot last week at close range in the back of her head by Iranian security forces and then buried by the side of the road. Today, her vibrant, smiling face shines from the front covers of British newspapers. Yet not even this has been enough to nudge privileged Western activists to so much as summon up a hashtag in solidarity with Iran's women. Instead, those quick to don a keffiyeh for the supposedly "right" cause have determinedly looked the other way.
        Mass displays of solidarity from the West's activist class have been notable only by their absence. Celebrities queued up to sign petitions, pen open letters, make TikToks and join protests critical of Israel's actions in Gaza. Students established protest camps on posh university lawns and hundreds of thousands of people marched through Britain's city centers week after week, purportedly in solidarity with Palestinians. But when it comes to supporting Iranian women? Silence.
        The silence of the Western virtue-signalers reminds us that not all women are equal. Hamas's attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 revealed that Jewish women do not count. Jewish rape victims are to be forever doubted. Now we know that Iranian women do not count either.
        To date, the iconic image to emerge from the Iranian protests is of a beautiful young woman, hair loose about her shoulders, lighting a cigarette from a burning image of the ayatollah. That is freedom. (spiked-UK)


Top NY union executives served as mouthpieces for Maduro’s regime in Venezuela

Top NY union executives served as mouthpieces for Maduro’s regime in Venezuela



Executives of some of New York’s top unions have long served as mouthpieces for Venezuela’s left wing socialist government formerly headed by strongman Nicolas Maduro, an analysis by a labor watchdog group claims.

Three New York labor officials visited Venezuela in 2017 to monitor the National Constituent Assembly elections, at the invitation of the Venezuelan Transport Workers Union, and all gave fawning reviews of the now-ousted Maduro regime. 

The trio included Estela Vazquez, then-executive vice president of the 1199 SEIU Health Care Workers Union East, John Patafio a vice president of Transport Workers Union Local 11 and Judy Gonzalez, former president of the New York State Nurses Association.

“I would say that (people) need to come and see for yourselves what is happening in Venezuela. You can not rely on CNN or any other international communication or papers like the New York Times or the Washington Post, because they are only reflecting the story of the ruling classes, the oligarchy of this country, that want to preserve their interests,” Vazquez told a media outlet tied to the socialist government.

“They’re reflecting the voices of the 1%, while 99% of the Venezuelans support the process, support their government and they want peace and they want to continue the social gains they have made under the Bolivarian Revolution,” she was quoted as saying to Caracas-based media outlet Telesur.

The headline of the article: “US Trade Unionist Unmask Mass Media Lies on Venezuela Assembly.”

Vazquez’s union also co-hosted and delivered the opening remarks at an African leadership summit on Sept. 28, 2015 that featured Maduro — the deposed dictator brought to the US by President Trump’s administration to face charges including conspiracy to commit narcoterrorism and import cocaine.

Gonzalez told the outlet that the election was well organized, without violence or chaos.

“We visited several polling places and that was when we were just so moved by what was going on. We were just overwhelmed by the number of young people and women who were basically running the vote,” said Gonzalez, adding she was impressed by the transparency.


Patafio agreed, telling the local outlet: “I’ve been through a lot of union elections, I know what to look for when there’s cheating, I didn’t see any cheating.”

“I saw a very open process; I saw the people that were controlling it, were people from the community, earnest. So, I thought it was fine,” he said.

Vazquez, Patafio and Gonzalez were not immediately available for comment Monday.

Independent groups such as Human Rights Watch said Venezuela at the time was a dictatorial regime.

“Accumulation of power in the executive branch and erosion of human rights guarantees have enabled the government to intimidate, persecute, and even criminally prosecute its critics,” Human Rights Watch wrote in a 2017 report.

Union leaders, meanwhile, have opposed the US military’s capture of Maduro and his wife of drug charges this month.

“We should be demanding the immediate release of Nicholas Maduro and Cilia Flores,” said Benjamin Dictor, the New York-based counsel for the United Auto Workers.

The Center for Union Facts slammed the labor leaders for playing footsies with a repressive socialist regime.

“The hypocrisy here is insane. They’re standing up for a dictator in a repressive regime,” said the interest group’s spokesperson, Charlyce Bozzello. “It’s disconnected from reality. It’s pretty shocking.”

Current TWU president John Samuelsen said the union did not pay for Patafio’s trip, and that he went of his own volition.

The union booted Patafio from his position as the Local 100’s vice president for its Brooklyn bus division for trying to improperly punish a philandering bus driver rep, The Post reported last year.


Ironic, no!

NBC pulls ‘Law & Order: SVU’ episode featuring Timothy Busfield after child sex abuse charges

The veneer of civilization is very thin

Shocking images show post-apocalyptic Calif. mall overrun by vandals — cops were called over 400 times in 3 months

The Epstein files

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton skip House depositions in Epstein investigation


exas Strips American Bar Of Law School Oversight After ‘Unlawful Discrimination’ Complaints

Texas Strips American Bar Of Law School Oversight After ‘Unlawful Discrimination’ Complaints

Why Are So Many Leftists Such Trash?

Why Are So Many Leftists Such Trash?

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Have you ever “taken to the streets” over any issue? Marched in a protest? Chanted whatever some weirdo ordered you to repeat? Maybe, but probably not. The only protests or marches I’ve ever attended were one against war a friend wanted to go to and he didn’t want to drive to DC alone (plus, I’d never been to DC at that point), one I got extra credit for in college involving newspaper strike, and one that was an annual even to “protest” pot laws because we went to meet chicks and get stoned in a crowd – mostly the novelty of it (which is now common). 


In other words, I don’t protest; I’d rather “do.” Protesting is stupid and a waste of time. Nothing has ever happened because a group of morons chanted and drum circled. 

But marching, chanting and screaming at anyone who isn’t them is pretty much all Democrats do. Well, that and lie. 

How many people’s minds have been changed by blocking traffic? Zero. How many political victories have been racked up by screaming at police? Zero. How many votes have been switched by smashing windows and looting? Zero.

Yet, Democrats do all of these things – not only regularly, but as a default position. The call goes out, the signs are printed (who paid for those?) and the drone army shows up. Many of them have no idea what they’re there to protest or how to pronounce the name of the person they’re instructed to declare having been the subject or perpetrator of the “injustice” that brought them there.

It's often the generic police or white people, a lot of times it’s Jews. It is never, ever the murder of a police officer, a white person or a Jew, no matter how horrific and unjust the circumstance of their deaths were. Not one Democrat marched for justice for Laken Riley or Iryna Zarutska because they were white and the people who murdered them were non-white, or “people of color,” as they like to proclaim like it matters. 

The Somali fraud in Minn. is so widespread deep and entrenched it will fill an entire prison!

INVESTIGATION: MPS finance chief who signed contracts with questionable transportation companies placed on leave

Alpha News has reported extensively on Ibrahima Diop and questionable contracts with Frontier Transportation Services. 

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Ibrahima Diop, the finance boss at Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), has been placed on administrative leave, Alpha News has learned.

Alpha News has reported extensively on Diop and questionable contracts with Frontier Transportation Services, hired by MPS to transport Homeless and Highly Mobile (HHM) students in passenger vans.

Additionally, another transportation company under contract with the district was filmed dropping off children at the now-closed Quality “Learing” Center — a moment many observers believe was staged to make the site appear active.

MEISA Transportation Services vans were recorded outside the Minneapolis daycare made famous in a viral Nick Shirley video for misspelling the word “learning.”

MEISA Transportation Services website screenshot

An article from transportation consultant Rob Carpenter first raised questions about MEISA, noting its apparent connections to Abedelhalim Lawabni and Nohad Loabneh.

In 2020, two individuals with those same names were charged in Arizona with submitting $2.75 million in fake medical trip invoices through A&N Services. Prosecutors alleged more than 9,000 non-emergency medical transportation rides never occurred. Court records show the case was dismissed without prejudice in September 2020 at the request of prosecutors.

The indictment in that case says the two are brothers, reside in Fountain Hills, Ariz., and “are both listed as managers with a business address showing 8441 Wayzata Blvd, Suite 125, Golden Valley, Minnesota, 55426.”

That address is linked to MEISA Transportation Services on government records. A Secretary of State filing from the company’s 2009 incorporation lists a Nohad Loabneh as an organizer.  Additionally, a Nohad Loabneh is listed as the manager of a separate entity known as MEISA Integrated Services, which lists a Fountain Hills address as its mailing address. Heslon Kagaruki is listed as the manager on Secretary of State records for MEISA Transportation.

Furthermore, records from an Arizona civil case state that “brothers Abed and Ned (Nohad) have operated several businesses in Minnesota and Arizona” over the past 30 years, and that MEISA Transportation is “another non-emergency medical transportation business owned and operated by Ned and Abed.”

That case involved a dispute between a subcontractor and A&N Services, operated by Loabneh and Lawabni. In 2020, the Arizona Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision against A&N Services, “finding clear and convincing evidence of bad faith and fraud.”

“The manner in which A&N kept their books was misleading and purposefully opaque. Subcontractors were not always paid for rides and did not have a method of knowing, at least before 2015 or 2016, which rides had been approved and paid. Subcontractors had to rely on A&N’s accounting, regarding both earnings and deductions, which was later determined to be false. To further complicate matters, A&N’s data disappeared after each billing period,” the ruling states.

Alpha News attempted to contact MEISA Transportation. An email to the company bounced back because the address couldn’t be found. Alpha News called the company’s listed number but the line rang repeatedly, never went to voicemail, and then disconnected.

Nevertheless, MEISA Transportation Services has held a lucrative contract with Minneapolis Public Schools for years, transporting HHM students in passenger vans to and from school.

According to records, Diop signed off on MEISA contract increases of $1 million$1.5 million, and $500,000 in recent years. Contract agreements also require school board approval.

When Alpha News asked the district to confirm Diop’s status and whether his leave relates in any way to transportation vendors or contracting decisions, MPS replied: “Due to data privacy laws, Minneapolis Public Schools cannot comment at this time.” Past inquiries to Diop have gone unanswered.

Diop lands new job in Wisconsin … and then doesn’t 

Local media in Milwaukee recently reported that Milwaukee Public Schools hired Diop as its new deputy superintendent at a salary of $240,000 a year.

TMJ4 reports that Diop was hired on Dec. 18, before he was placed on administrative leave in Minneapolis for allegedly failing “to submit necessary financial paperwork to the state as the district faces a $25 million budget shortfall.”

However, once it was publicly revealed that Diop was placed on leave in Minneapolis, Milwaukee Public Schools said he would not be joining the district, citing “new information,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

Diop signs off on multi-million dollar contracts

Alpha News previously reported on Diop and the district’s contract with Frontier Transportation Services.

Frontier is operated by Falmata Bedasso and Abdurahman Kadir. Under Diop’s oversight, the district’s contract authorized Frontier to receive up to $3.6 million through 2027 — a cumulative cap. Yet by early 2025, invoices show MPS had already paid more than $7 million to the company.

MPS admitted through a public data request that it does not have any copies of vehicle inventories provided by Frontier — despite the contract requiring “a vehicle inventory of all vehicles planned to be used to provide service.”

Last year, Alpha News reporters Liz Collin and Jenna Gloeb visited Frontier’s listed office building in Roseville, where the office appeared mostly vacant. An individual at the location said Bedasso was not there. Reporters observed about a dozen minivans bearing Frontier Transportation signage in the parking lot that appeared covered in snow and ice.

Even after Alpha News’ investigation, Diop signed another contract with Frontier in June 2025 valued at $2.7 million. Neither Diop nor MPS responded to multiple follow-up inquiries.

Staff warn of deeper problems inside district

An MPS employee who contacted Alpha News on the condition of anonymity described mounting frustration among staff as district leadership turns over and contracts come under scrutiny.

“I find it very disturbing that instead of submitting our financials that were due to the state on December 31, Diop was busy job-seeking and getting a job in Milwaukee,” the staff member said. “If he accepted the job three weeks ago, why did Minneapolis Public Schools wait until January 2nd to place him on administrative leave?”

The employee also questioned whether Diop had a relationship with Frontier Transportation.

“I would like to know if there was any personal connection or mismanagement that contributed to Frontier Transportation [being] overpaid by four million dollars,” the employee said.

They further described a district that has cycled leaders in and out while leaving long-term staff to absorb the fallout.

“Every few years we get complete leadership change — they muck up the district, spend recklessly, and move on to a different district leaving us in financial turmoil,” the employee said. “The people who suffer are the students, families, and dedicated staff.”

The staff member called for a full independent audit of Minneapolis Public Schools.

Transportation vendors are one thread in a growing statewide scandal. Prosecutors estimate more than $9 billion in losses across child daycares, adult daycares, autism centers, and more.

A Twin Cities attorney who also reviewed the Minneapolis Public Schools transportation contracts noted how the invoices for multiple East African-owned companies all look the same. Only the company names are different.

This article was originally published Jan. 11, 2026.