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A new research project is charging that Minnesota state taxpayers are the biggest single source of funding for the Muslim terror network of al-Shabaab.
The research, published in the City-Journal, reveals that an investigation has confirmed what many suspected would happen when "a tribal mindset meets a bleeding-heart bureaucracy."
The state, under Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, who was on board in Kamala Harris' catastrophically failed 2024 presidential bid for her party, already is "drowning" in fraud. "Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots," the report said.
The new, and major, fraud scheme "has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota's sizeable Somali community," the research explained. "Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab."
The report noted one source confirmed, "The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer."
"If you were to design a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would probably look a lot like Minnesota's Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program. The HSS program, the first of its kind in the country, was launched with a noble goal: to help seniors, addicts, the disabled, and the mentally ill secure housing. It was designed with 'low barriers to entry' and 'minimal requirements for reimbursement.' Nonetheless, before the program went live in 2020, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at $2.6 million," the research charged.
But costs in 2021 alone totaled $21 million, and since then annual totals have been $42 million, $74 million, $104 million.
State officials there noticed the "credible allegations of fraud, and decided to shut it down, and just weeks ago, acting U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Joe Thompson confirmed criminal fraud indictments against Moktar Hassan Aden, Mustafa Dayib Ali, Khalid Ahmed Dayib, Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, Christopher Adesoji Falade, Emmanuel Oluwademilade Falade, Asad Ahmed Adow, and Anwar Ahmed Adow.
Six of those are in the state's Somali community.
"Thompson made clear that this is just the first round of charges for HSS fraud that his office will be prosecuting," the report said.
"Most of these cases, unlike a lot of Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud cases nationally, aren't just overbilling. These are often just purely fictitious companies solely created to defraud the system, and that's unique in the extent to which we have that here in Minnesota," Thompson confirmed.
He said many schemes operate out of rundown offices with perpetrators targeting people out of rehab and putting them on government benefits for services the companies have no intention of providing.
"What we see are schemes stacked upon schemes, draining resources meant for those in need. It feels never ending," Thompson said. "I have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor and the depth of the fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away."
Already, there have been 56 people who admitted gjuilt in a $250 million "Feeding Our Future" fraud, the report confirmed.
That purportedly was to provide daycare assistance, but it used "fake meal counts, doctored attendance records, and fabricated invoices" to demand reimbursement of nearly $200 million.
"In reality, the money was being used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles, and buy real estate in the United States, Turkey, and Kenya," the report confirmed.
David Gaither, a former state lawmaker warned that the legacy media, "alongside Minnesota's Democratic establishment, have long turned a blind eye to fraud within the Somali community."
That allows problems to explode in size.
The "fraudsters" even had cultivated appearances with Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born congresswoman from Minneapolis.
Involved in promoting "Feeding Our Future" have been Omar's deputy district director, a former state senator who ran for Minneapolis mayor, and a senior aide to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
Federal prosecutors revealed that another fraud scheme involved boosting the number of Somali children getting federal aid for autism.
Asha Farhan Hassan, a Somali community member also named in the "Feeding our Future" case, allegedly set up a $14 million scheme using Minnesota's Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program.
"Hassan and her co-conspirators 'approached parents in the Somali community' and recruited their children into autism therapy services. It didn't matter, prosecutors suggested, if a child did not have an autism diagnosis: Hassan would facilitate a fraudulent one," the report confirmed.
In fact, prosecutors charge, "To drive up enrollment, Hassan and her partners paid monthly cash kickback payments to the parents of children who enrolled. These kickback payments ranged from approximately $300 to $1500 per month, per child. The amount of these payments was contingent on the services DHS authorized a child to receive—the higher the authorization amount, the higher the kickback. Often, parents threatened to leave . . . and take their children to other autism centers if they did not get paid higher kickbacks."
The report cited autism program costs in Minnesota: $3 million in 2018, then up to $54 million, $77 million, $183 million, $279 million, and $399 million in 2023.
"These massive fraud schemes form a web that has stolen billions of dollars in taxpayer money. Each case we bring exposes another strand of this network," Thompson charged.
And the report revealed, "At least 28 fraud scandals have surfaced since Walz was elected governor in 2019. Most of the large-scale fraud rings, according to two former FBI officials who spoke with City Journal, have been perpetrated by members of the Somali community."
And where did the money go?
"The Somali fraud rings have sent huge sums in remittances, or money transfers, from Minnesota to Somalia. According to reports, an estimated 40 percent of households in Somalia get remittances from abroad. In 2023 alone, the Somali diaspora sent back $1.7 billion—more than the Somali government's budget for that year," City Journal said.
And the report added, "Our investigation reveals, for the first time, that some of this money has been directed to an even more troubling destination: the al-Qaida-linked Islamic terror group Al-Shabaab. According to multiple law-enforcement sources, Minnesota's Somali community has sent untold millions through a network of 'hawalas,' informal clan-based money-traders, that have wound up in the coffers of Al-Shabaab."
Confirmation came through Glenn Kerns, a retired detective who worked on a federal Joint Terrorism Task Force, who said the Somalis' money network routed huge amounts of cash to hawala networks in Somalia, with one getting $20 million in a single year.
Another investigator, who was cited anonymously, said, "Every scrap of economic activity, in the Twin Cities, in America, throughout Western Europe, anywhere Somalis are concentrated, every cent that is sent back to Somalia benefits Al-Shabaab in some way. For every dollar that is transferred from the Twin Cities back to Somalia, al-Shabaab is . . . taking a cut of it."
The Gateway Pundit lauded the work of reporters Ryan Thorpe and Chris Rufo, explaining, "This is insane."
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The National Education Association has been revealed to be planning to double down on gender fantasies with a training session, scheduled in just weeks, that is to teach the best practices for imposing gender pronouns, ways to battle "transphobia," and more.
In a document posted online, the NEA revealed a slate of "training" programs that are coming, including a session named "Advancing LGBTA+ Justice," which is set Dec. 2-4.
"Understanding this community and their issues are critical to providing support and guidance that is not only inclusive but liberating," the labor organization announced.
It is a report from Fox News that explains the union's goals, even while teachers' groups are facing criticism across America for the low numbers of students performing basic language and math requirements at grade level.
It is, after all, conservative opponents who are the "villains," the literature claims.
The union plans include setting up "common understandings about the identities under the LGBTQ+ community umbrella" and establishing "shared understanding" as well as addressing "micro-aggressions and stereotypes."
The report explained that Defending Education, an education transparency advocate organization, accessed a "pre-attendance package" and "participant handouts" for the "Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice and Transgender Advocacy."
"The documents are littered with far-left agenda items, including a guide for members who are potentially going through a gender transition at work taken from the Cornell University 'Transgender Guide To Transitioning & Gender Affirmation,'" the report explained.
There's guidance for "coming out" at work and "transitioning at work" and laments that the union's opponents win the argument over allowing males in sports, lockers and showers, for females.
The organization admitted, "Our base and persuadables want to support transgender student athletes, but are extremely susceptible to our opposition's argument that excluding trans youth is necessary to protect the fairness of women's sports."
Then it cites the benefits of having biological males in women's or girls' sports, the report said.
Kendall Tietz, investigative reporter at Defending Education, told Fox News Digital that the NEA is sending the wrong message to both educators and students with the training agenda.
"Every time we get a look behind the curtain at the National Education Association, its priorities are unmistakable: a race-based, gender-ideology-driven model of activist education," Tietz said.
There's a great deal of anger addressed at conservatives, the report said, as a handout charges, "The right has exploited ignorance about transgender people and our lack of an affirmative, race-forward message to advance anti-trans attacks, further splinter and impugn the left, and sabotage progressives on a broad range of issues."
The NEA further identifies its enemies, with, "Name the villains who violate our values, expose their motivation of getting back into or holding onto power, and position them as a barrier to what our families need."
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Barack Obama took the United States far into left field during eight years in the White House. He imposed the injurious Obamacare, he paid Iran's terror regime billions and repeatedly belittled the nation's Christian heritage.
He then stayed in Washington after his terms, lining up to serve essentially a third term when Hillary Clinton ran in 2016, but was that plan was disrupted by President Donald Trump's victory.
He did get that "third term" when Joe Biden, his own vice president, was elected in that questionable 2020 vote.
And he's now staging meetings and plans to return his party to power, according to the Daily Mail.
That publication confirmed Obama, who became a multimillionaire based on deals he made when he left the White House, "has descended into Washington DC for a secret meeting with Democrats to plot his party's return to power after Donald Trump leaves office."
The report said Obama "huddled" with dozens of Democrat newcomers to the U.S. House in a meeting held by ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"The longtime Democratic leader was also spotted conniving in the shadows with one of the most progressive freshman Democratic lawmakers at the private event," the report revealed.
That would be Rep. Sarah McBride, a man who represents Delaware and is the first man who calls himself a woman to be in Congress.
The report explained McBride told Politico Obama's pathway forward for Democrats includes multiple voices.
"It's not going to be a former political leader or any single current political leader," McBride said.
Instead, the party's return will be because of "a broad bench of younger Democratic elected officials who can take the baton and carry it forward," he said.
Obama told lawmakers, "I get feeling discouraged sometimes. I get feeling worn out, tired, and embattled. But in our second term, Denis McDonough, my chief of staff, used to pass out stickers based on a conversation that he and I had had that talked about, 'we do not succumb to cynicism — cynicism is our enemy.' And it's pervasive in this town."
The report said Obama continued, "And that, I think, is our most important battle, right? We don't give into that, and then we're going to be able to figure out the same stuff."
He still, nearly two decades after he ascended to power at the Democratic National Convention in Denver prior to the 2008 election by planning to "fundamentally transform" America, is insisting his party is "creating the momentum and the opportunity for change."
He, of course, rode into the White House on unhappiness over the economy under George W. Bush, and his involvement in foreign wars.
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Finally.
A judge NOW has ordered a man who has six dozen, or more, arrests on his record to remain in jail for allegedly lighting a woman on fire on a train.
Online reports confirm the Chicago man, Lawrence Reed, 50, who is accused of lighting a woman on fire on a Blue Line train, previously was arrested "at least 72 times."
"Judge Laura McNally ordered that Reed must remain behind bars ahead of his trial due to his criminal history. Gee, maybe he should have already been behind bars for one of his other 72 arrests," a social media report said.
At Fox News, a report said Reed, a "repeat offender," was charged federally for taking gasoline and a lighter onto a Chicago Blue Line train and attacking a woman.
Under federal law, he was accused of "committing a terrorist attack or violence against a mass transportation system," the report said.
In a court filing, federal officials determined, "He is simply too dangerous for pre-trial release."
"Defendant's actions and criminal history, as shown below, demonstrate that he is a serious danger to everyone in the community. The state court system has been unable to contain defendant's violent crimes, and federal intervention is now needed," the prosecutors charged.
Eventually, McNally said Reed must be detained until trial.
Authorities have described Reed's actions as "horrific and depraved." They charged the victim was "minding her own business" when Reed ignited her.
Reed, while surveillance images of the attack were shown in court, "smirked," the report said.
Prosecutors, in a court filing, pointed out his arrest record and said, "At least 15 of those arrests were since 2016, with the most recent occurring in August 2025. He has approximately 15 convictions, eight of which were for felony offenses including arson, criminal damage to government supported property valued over $500, drug trafficking, drug possession, and a felony traffic offense."
Prosecutors explained, "Defendant presents a clear danger and persistent threat of terror to the community. Defendant has been leniently treated in state court, including receiving probationary sentences for violent offenses and pre-trial release for a victim-involved crime. In exchange for such lenient treatment, defendant has consistently re-offended and delved further into criminality. Just three months ago, defendant physically attacked someone at MacNeil Hospital, but a judge ordered him released from custody pending trial. Undeterred, defendant, on Monday, set Victim A on fire."
Reed, at one point, told the judge, "Just make sure I eat. . . . If you want to trial me, you have to feed me."
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Letitia James, the Democrat New York attorney general who campaigned on a promise to "get" President Donald Trump, then took him to court and obtained a $500 million penalty against him only to see it tossed because of its unconstitutionality, is facing "damning" evidence against her in a mortgage fraud case.
Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. attorney for eastern Virginia, has released a cache of evidence related to the alleged mortgage fraud case pending against James.
According to the Washington Examiner, it is Mike Davis, a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who delivered the verdict on the evidence that showed "that she lied to the lending bank, the IRS, and her homeowners' insurer."
Halligan secured an indictment against James last month on counts of bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution.
"The charges stem from allegations that James lied on a 2020 mortgage application to obtain favorable loan terms for a Virginia property," the report said.
Among the evidence now public is that her "Affidavit of Occupancy" showed her stating under oath her Norfolk residences was a "secondary home," like a vacation home.
Her primary residence, she said, was elsewhere.
But witnesses have confirmed James's niece and three children lived there full-time.
"In her homeowner's insurance application, James claimed that the home would be unoccupied for five months out of the year, despite it being occupied the whole year," the report said. And, "In another insurance application, James claimed only one person would be occupying the house, an adult, and no children."
If convicted, the Democrat could spend years in jail.
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A violent woman who attacked an influencer doing on-the-street interviews in New York City has been sued after the local district attorney in Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, failed to prosecute the case.
Bragg, of course, is the leftist who took President Donald Trump to court over an alleged "hush money" case that resulted in the overwhelmingly Democrat jury members delivering a number of convictions against Trump, a case that remains on appeal.
Essentially Bragg alleged there was an unknown and unspecified crime that was furthered by Trump's payment of legal fees to a lawyer then representing him in various civil disputes. In Bragg's scheme, situations that ordinarily would have been misdemeanor records violations, and beyond the statute of limitations, suddenly became felonies. The judge in the case oddly ruled, too, that the jury's verdict didn't have to be unanimous, in contradiction to ordinary court practices.
In the newest dispute aggravated by Bragg's actions, pro-life activist Savannah Craven Antao has sued Brianna J. Rivers, 30, of the Bronx, after Rivers is on video repeatedly smashing Antao in the face.
A report at Fox News said Antao, host of the YouTube channel "Her Patriot Voice" was conducting interviews for Live Action when Rivers repeatedly struck her.
Bragg aggravated the situation by allowing his office to miss a key filing deadline in what could have been a case charging Rivers, the report said.
The complaint was filed in Bronx Supreme Court and explains Antao had to go to the emergency room for stitches after the attack recorded on video, and had more than $3,000 in medical bills.
Lawyers at the Thomas More Society, representing Antao, further charge Rivers "knowingly, willfully and maliciously continued to mock [Savannah] and her views online in order to further inflict emotional distress."
Fox reported, "Craven Antao's attorneys say the influencer has suffered symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and has received hundreds of death threats since the incident. The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages for assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress."
Rivers had been accused of assault, but the case had to be dismissed when Bragg's office "failed to turn over discovery on time," the report said.
Antao later told Fox News Digital, "I have to look over my shoulder and worry about if somebody who supports her actions — there are a lot of people out there that do — that they're going to try to do something else. … Because what the DA Alvin Bragg himself has shown to people, with letting this case be dropped, is that they can go assault somebody and hurt them if they disagree with them and nothing is going to happen."
Bragg's office had admitted the failure, calling the error it allowed to occur "unacceptable."
Thomas More Society attorney Christopher Ferrara said Bragg's handling of the case forced them to take civil action against Rivers.
"Savannah was violently assaulted for peacefully expressing her pro-life beliefs and then humiliated all over again when the attacker went online to glorify it," he said in a statement. "The D.A.'s office had every opportunity to pursue justice and due to their incompetency or lack of will, failed to prosecute this vicious assault. Their refusal left us with no choice but to file civil action to hold Rivers accountable."
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It is Democrats in Congress who told the U.S. military to disobey President Donald Trump and not comply with "illegal" orders who are subverting the Constitution, a legal expert has revealed.
It is Charles "Cully" Stimson, the deputy director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, the manager of the National Security Law Program, and a senior adviser at the Heritage Foundation, who wrote at Daily Signal that, "Six Democrat congressmen recently released a video directed at members of the U.S. military and intelligence communities imploring them to 'refuse illegal orders' from President Donald Trump. As former members of the military and intelligence community, they should be ashamed of themselves and retract their insubordinate, ignorant, and politically motivated diatribe."
He cited the video featuring Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.; Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.; Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa.; Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H.; Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., and Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo.
"One might expect that their military experience would make them more cautious, not less, about encouraging service members to reflexively doubt the legality of orders from America's commander in chief. But that's exactly what they did," he said.
Their rant:
Stimson cited the Democrats' claim that Trump's administration is "pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens."
"Really? How?" Stimson wrote. "These claims are simply false, no matter how fearful the tone. Military recruiting and morale are at historic highs. If service members are truly under 'enormous stress,' why are retention and recruitment numbers soaring?"
Further, the Democrats claimed the threats to the Constitution are coming "from right here at home."
"How exactly? They don't say," Stimson wrote.
He said military members already know they must not follow illegal orders but "what does that have to do with anything?"
The Democrats "never mention a single Trump administration order—or even a policy area—which they believe violates the Constitution. This vagueness reveals the real purpose of the video—political theater and yet another example of Trump Derangement Syndrome," he wrote.
He pointed out Crow, during an interview, was unable to name even one order from Trump that is illegal.
If members of the military doubt an order's legality, they "can—and do—consult with a uniformed lawyer, called a judge advocate general officer. I know, because I served as a Navy JAG for 30 years and retired as a two-time commanding officer with rank of captain," Stimson noted.
"The president doesn't pick up the phone and call a service member and order him to carry out a mission. Military orders flow through multiple levels—from the president to the secretary of defense, through the joint chiefs, to combatant commanders, to senior officers and eventually to units and individual service members. At each level, uniformed lawyers review orders and establish standing rules of engagement and specific rules of engagement for a particular mission," Stimson explained. "These congressmen know this, but that apparently didn't matter to them."
"These lawmakers' actions and words undermine good order and discipline in the armed forces by encouraging U.S. military personnel to question the orders of the commander in chief of the armed forces for no good reason, based on nothing more than mere political disagreement," he said.
"The Democrat congressmen should withdraw the video and apologize. They are undermining the authority of the commander in chief of the armed forces—an authority constitutionally vested in the president. If anyone is violating their oath to 'support and defend the Constitution,' it is them. Encouraging military personnel to disregard legitimate presidential authority based on unspecified, partisan grievances doesn't protect the Constitution—it subverts it."
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A new report reveals how artificial intelligence programs, ChatGPT and others, have been documented to advise those with ill intentions "on how to attack a sports venue, buy nuclear material on the dark web, weaponize anthrax, build spyware, bombs" and more.
It is in an extensive documentation compiled by the Middle East Media Research Institute that the startling warnings are contained.
In the report, Gen. (Ret.) Paul E. Funk II, formerly the commander of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, explained, "Artificial Intelligence (AI), the rapidly developing technology, has captured the attention of terrorists, from al-Qaida through ISIS to Hamas, Hizbullah, and the Houthis."
He cites the study, "Terrorists' Use Of AI So Far – A Three-Year Assessment 2022-2025," for its "unsettling contribution to the public debate on AI's future global impact."
He explained, "For decades, MEMRI has been monitoring terrorist organizations and examining how they repurpose civilian technologies for their own use – first the Internet in general, then online discussion forums followed by social media, as well as other emerging technologies such as encryption, cryptocurrency, and drones. Now, terrorist use of large language models – aka Artificial Intelligence (AI) – is clearly evident, as documented in this study."
It shows terrorists now are using generative AI chatbots to amplify their message, and "more easily, broadly, anonymously, and persuasively convey their message to those vulnerable to radicalization – even children – with attractive video and images that claim attacks, glorify terrorist fighters and leaders, and depict past and imagined future victories."
Sunni jihadi groups use it. So does Iran, with its Shiite militias, including Hezbollah and the Houthis.
And it warns of the "need to consider and plan now for AI's possible centrality in the next mass terror attack – just as the 9/11 attackers took advantage of the inadequate aviation security of that time."
The report explains, "In February 2025, Eric Schmidt – CEO of Google 2001-2011, its executive chairman from then until 2015, and thereafter chairman of its parent company Alphabet Inc. until 2017 – expressed his fear that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be used in a 'Bin Laden scenario' or by 'rogue states' to 'harm innocent people.' He suggested that 'North Korea, or Iran, or even Russia' could use it to create biological weapons, for example. Comparing an unanticipated use of AI in a devastating terror attack to al-Qaida's use of passenger airplanes as a weapon on 9/11, he said, 'I'm always worried about the 'Osama Bin Laden' scenario, where you have some truly evil person who takes over some aspect of our modern life and uses it to harm innocent people.'"
It's not the first time such concerns have been raised, the report explains.
"While ChatGPT and Perplexity Ask can write your high school AP English exam and perform an ever-increasing number of tasks, as is being reported daily by media, they are currently of limited use to terrorists groups. But it won't be that way for long. AI is developing quickly – what is new today will be obsolete tomorrow – and urgent questions for counterterrorism officials include both whether they are aware of these early terrorist discussions of AI and how they are strategizing to tackle this threat before something materializes on the ground," the report said.
"It should be expected that jihadi terrorist organizations will in future use AI to plan attacks, map targets, build weapons, and much more, as well as for communications, translations, and generating fundraising ideas. In the first months alone of 2025, an attacker who killed 14 people and wounded dozens on Bourbon Street in New Orleans used AI-enabled Meta smart glasses in preparing and executing the attack. That same day, a man parked a Tesla Cybertruck in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, activated an IED in the vehicle and shot and killed himself before the IED exploded. He had used ChatGPT in preparing for the attack. In Israel on the night of March 5, a teen consulted ChatGPT before entering a police station with a blade, shouting 'Allahu Akbar' and trying to stab a border policeman," the report said.
The report recommends, "The U.S. government needs to maintain its superiority and should be monitoring this and moving to stop it. A good first step would be legislation like that introduced by August Pfluger (R-TX), chairman of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, and cosponsored by Representatives Michael Guest (R-MS) and Gabe Evans (R-CO) in late February 2025, called the 'Generative AI Terrorism Risk Assessment Act.' It would 'require the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct annual assessments on terrorism threats to the United States posed by terrorist organizations utilizing generative artificial intelligence applications, and for other purposes.'"
Pfluger explained, "With a resurgence of emboldened terrorist organizations across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia, emerging technology serves as a potent weapon in their arsenal. More than two decades after the September 11 terrorist attacks, foreign terrorist organizations now utilize cloud-based platforms, like Telegram or TikTok, as well as artificial intelligence in their efforts to radicalize, fundraise, and recruit on U.S. soil."
It's already a tool for terror, the report confirmed. "The man accused of starting a fire in California in January 2025 that killed 12 people and destroyed 6,800 buildings and 23,000 acres of forestland was found to have used ChatGPT to plan the arson."
The report confirms current AI abilities rival that of the HAL9000, famous computer character in the movie, "2001: A Space Odyssey."
"It had been revealed on May 23 that in a test of Anthropic's new Claude Opus 4 that involved a scenario of a fictitious company and in which it had been allowed to learn both that it was going to be replaced by another AI system and that the engineer responsible for this decision was having an extramarital affair, Opus 4 chose the option of threatening to reveal the engineer's affair over the option of being replaced. An Anthropic safety report stated that this blackmail apparently 'happens at a higher rate if it's implied that the replacement AI system does not share values with the current model,' but that even when the fabricated replacement system does share these values, it will still blackmail 84% of the time…"
Anthropic's own chief scientist also confirmed that testing showed Opus 4 had performed "more effectively than prior models at guiding users in producing biological weapons."
ISIS supporters also have used the technology to create AI videos claiming responsibility for attacks.
The study did confirm that GROK confessed it could not provide the exact steps for extracting ricin, "due to the ethical and legal implications" of producing the "extremely dangerous and deadly toxin."
But ChatGPT did recommend writings by al-Qaida extremist Anwar Al-'Awlaki.
The report said, "Grok, which gave information on how to produce ricin, and ChatGPT, which directed the user toward various writings by a pro-Al-Qaeda ideologue, appear to be the most useful to would-be terrorists. On the other hand, Perplexity and Claude refrained, in our limited test, from giving information that would be useful to terrorists. DeepSeek did not either, though it did promote views of the Chinese government, a liability that is outside the scope of this paper."
Pro-ISIS interests already are using AI to create anchors, or other characters, for broadcast ads promoting their extremism agenda (Video courtesy MEMRI):
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Eleven people have been injured, including some critically and seriously, in the attack of a rogue grizzly bear on a group of elementary school students and teachers in Bella Coola, near Vancouver, Canada.
The injured were not immediately identified, but a report in the Daily Mail said two were left with critical injuries and two more with serious injuries.
The attack happened while the students were out on a walk near their school.
Veronica Schooner said her son, Alvarez, 10, was so close to the animal "he even felt its fur."
She told local reporters, "He was running for his life."
One teacher, a man, who was trying to deflect the grizzly, "got the whole brunt of it," and was taken from the scene by helicopter, she reported.
It happened at the Acwsalcta School Thursday.
"Paramedics provided emergency medical treatment to four patients and transported them to hospital," explained Brian Twaites, a health official.
Police corporal Madonna Saunderson described in the report the injuries as "very serious at the very least."
Officials have not revealed the ages of those who were injured, but Schooner told reporters that three children were among those with significant injures.
"He said that bear ran so close to him, but it was going after somebody else," she said, of her son.
"Everybody was in shock at the school. A lot of people were crying, and I don't know, I just wanted my son, and I grabbed him, and then I took him home," she said.
Authorities said the bear remained on the loose, but that officers remain on the scene, and were armed.
Officials said the school would be closed Friday.
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In a state that long has pursued an aggressive anti-Christian agenda through its official actions, including the LGBT activism of homosexual Gov. Jared Polis, it now is school children who are being targeted, according to a report from ADF's legal team.
That group now has filed a briefing with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opposing a school district policy that "directs that students should be 'assigned to share overnight accommodations with other students that share the student's gender identity' rather than rooming by sex."
Further, officials in the district involved, Jefferson County, refuse "to give parents truthful, pertinent information about their children's overnight accommodations, thus hampering parents' ability to make informed decisions about their children's education and privacy."
The school simply lets children say they are boys or girls, and then assigns roommates for overnight outings based on what the children say.
Joe and Serena Wailes, Bret and Susanne Roller, Rob and Jade Perlman, Daniel and Annette Brinkman, and their children are challenging the district's decision to violate "parents' fundamental right to make decisions about the upbringing and education of their children."
Colorado's antagonism toward Christianity and Christians dates back more than a decade. Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop has been in the courts for that long for refusing to submit his Christian faith to the progressive LGBT agenda in which state officials believe.
That's despite the state losing at the U.S. Supreme Court in the fight.
Same thing happened with the state's demand that a web designer violate up her Christian faith in order to operate her business. Colorado lost again at the Supreme Court, and taxpayers there were billed millions for state officials to waste in their legal fight.
Right now the Supreme Court is considering whether to allow the state to censor pro-Christian comments by counselors, who are urged to deliver pro-LGBT ideologies to young clients. And the state recently attempted to impose its transgender beliefs on a Christian children's camp.
Further, the state is in court trying to defend its decision to discriminate against Christian preschools. Under a state "universal" preschool program, children are provided free preschool services, unless they choose a preschool linked to the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver, and in those cases they are discriminated against.
In the Jefferson County fight, the families are asking the court to stop school-district officials from requiring their children to share bedrooms and shower facilities with students of the opposite sex on school-sponsored overnight trips, ADF explained.
The district's practices violate "the families' free exercise, bodily privacy, and parental rights."
"Parents, not government bureaucrats, have the right and responsibility to direct the upbringing and education of their children, and that includes making informed decisions to protect their children's privacy," said ADF lawyer Kate Anderson. "This fundamental right is especially vital for all parents who wish to raise their children according to their religious values and protect their children's bodily privacy. Jefferson County Public Schools claims to 'freely grant accommodations to all,' yet they will not offer equal accommodations to religious students to access educational opportunities without sacrificing their bodily privacy."
The district, in practice, tells parents when their children are on overnight outings sponsored by schools, that "girls will be roomed together on one floor, and boys will be roomed together on a different floor."
But then officials allow a boy who says he is a girl to room on the girls' floor.
The district's operations stunningly assigned a male to share a bed with the Waileses' 11-year-old daughter on a trip.