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Thursday, January 1, 2026

Watch: TSA Whistleblowers Expose Somali Cash Smuggling Operations At US Airports

 by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

Former TSA agents are sounding the alarm on Somali men routinely flying out with suitcases crammed full of cash, undoubtedly linked to massive taxpayer-funded fraud schemes that could be funneling money to terrorist groups overseas.

A former agent from Minnesota described witnessing “Somali men flying out of Minnesota with suitcases filled with cash” amounting to “$1 billion over 5 years,” including one instance of a suitcase “filled with brand new passports.” 

These groups were “always waived through,” with a clear “trail” leading back to implicated parties, the former agent claims.

Recent reports from independent outlets like Alpha News highlight these claims, where a former TSA agent at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport recalled seeing “suitcases filled with millions of dollars of cash, and the couriers were always Somali men traveling in pairs.”

She connected the dots to broader fraud, noting an “obvious connection to billions of dollars of fraud” in the state.

Another whistleblower from Phoenix reported a Somali man with a Minnesota driver’s license flying through every 7-10 days with around “$250k cash” in a suitcase. 

He claimed to be a “registered courier” sending family remittances to Sudan and Somalia via Dubai. The agent even offered the passenger’s name for investigation by authorities like the FBI or USDOT.

These revelations tie directly into ongoing exposes of Somali-linked fraud in Minnesota, where citizen journalists have uncovered millions in questionable taxpayer payouts to seemingly inactive daycares and care facilities. 

The FBI is treating these cases as the “tip of the iceberg,” networks of shell companies appear designed to siphon funds, with one investigation alone spotting $110 million in dubious payments.

But where does this money ultimately end up? A source told City Journal: “The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.” 

Al-Shabaab, a Somali-based Islamic terrorist group affiliated with al-Qa’ida, has killed more U.S. citizens than any other affiliate and stands as its wealthiest branch.

Citizen journalists nationwide are now replicating these probes, visiting facilities in states like Washington to document empty or non-operational sites receiving hefty government funds.

Yet, instead of gratitude, they’re facing backlash. Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has accused these investigators of “harassment” for scrutinizing fraud in fake daycares, claiming Democrats “don’t want us uncovering fraud because they’re the ones committing it and benefiting from it.”

The pushback escalates further with outright cover-up attempts. Washington State Senator Lisa Wellman has pre-filed legislation to conceal information about daycares and their operators from public view, effectively shielding potential fraudsters from scrutiny.

This pattern reeks of a system rigged to protect insiders while American taxpayers foot the bill for schemes that undermine national security. 

With billions vanishing into thin air—or worse, into terrorist coffers—it’s high time for federal probes to dismantle these networks and restore accountability before more “waived through” suitcases slip away.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-tsa-whistleblowers-expose-somali-cash-smuggling-operations-us-airports

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S. Korean researchers build AI to design cancer vaccines

 A research group from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and biotechnology firm Neogenlogic announced that it has built an artificial intelligence system designed to create personalized cancer vaccines.

The model identifies patient-specific neoantigens that can train the immune system to prevent the disease from returning. Neogenlogic reported the technology has been tested against large genomic datasets and integrated into its DeepNeo platform.

Meanwhile, Professor Choi Jung-kyoon of KAIST said the team plans to submit an investigational new drug application to the US Food and Drug Administration, aiming for clinical trials in 2027.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/S.-Korean-researchers-build-AI-to-design-cancer-vaccines/65416130

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Venezuela frees 88 more prisoners detained after post-election protests

 Venezuela’s government has freed 88 more people detained after protests that followed the South American nation’s July 2024 election, marking the second mass release in as many weeks amid U.S. pressure on the government of President Nicolas Maduro.

The New Year’s Day release follows the government’s announcement that it released 99 people on December 26, which would bring a total of 187 people released in two weeks.

“These actions are part of the comprehensive review process of cases ordered by President Nicolas Maduro,” the government said in a statement.

The Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners, a local non-governmental organization, said it had verified at least 55 prisoners had been released, with all but one freed from the Tocoron prison in central Venezuela.

https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2026/01/01/venezuela-frees-88-more-prisoners-detained-after-post-election-protests/

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Celltrion Inc U.S. unit Celltrion USA signs production contract with Eli Lilly worth 473 million USD

 Under the agreement with Lilly, Celltrion will supply biologic drugs worth approximately 678.7 billion Won over three years through 2029.

https://news.nate.com/view/20260102n03230?mid=n1101

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Disaster in MacArthur Park is LA’s latest chapter in callous inhumanity

 The atrocious scenes in MacArthur Park are just the latest chapter in decades of inhumanity.

But the City of Los Angeles has stopped those of us who are trying to do something about homelessness.

My husband and I founded, funded and ran a recovery-based shared housing community called Haaven.

Together, we supported eight fully furnished and outfitted shared-homes where more than 200 formerly homeless people found community and support in homes built on cultures of health and recovery. 

The City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) excluded Haaven from their menu of solutions, claiming shared housing was “undignified.”

We did not require sobriety, but asked residents to refrain from doing drugs in the homes.

The City and LAHSA said that impeded people’s civil rights. 

Our privately-funded solution was driven out of business simply for providing a recovery-based alternative to the misery of the streets.

I first became aware of the homeless crisis in Los Angeles about 17 years ago, when my son was just three.

We live in Venice, Calif., and I used to push him in his stroller down to the local kids’ park.

Day after day, I passed the same people sprawled on the sidewalks in various states of distress.

Looking down at my innocent toddler, it hit me: Every one of these suffering souls, rotting on our streets, is someone’s child too.

Once they gazed up at their mothers with those same big, beautiful, hopeful eyes.

Seventeen years later, I’m horrified — as a mother and as a human being — to see other people’s children still rotting on the streets and in the parks of Los Angeles.

Hundreds of young people suffer in plain sight, lost to addiction, mental illness and agony, while the community, the city and now the world stands by and watches.

It shocks me today as much as it did back then that our elected officials not only tolerate but actively enable other people’s children to waste away in public parks — destroying the health, safety and well-being of everyone around them, housed and unhoused alike.

Eunisses Hernandez, the Los Angeles council member whose district includes MacArthur Park, and her politically aligned Democratic Socialists of America peers all claim to be “addressing” homelessness.

In reality, they’re pursuing a radical ideological agenda: waging war on capitalism, dismantling “neoliberal” housing policies and ending enforcement against the unhoused.

In the process, they treat our mentally ill and substance-addicted youth as mere pawns.

They say they’re tackling root causes, but they’re actively sustaining drug addiction and mental illness.

It’s a perverse form of maternalism — wrapping ideological indulgence in a blanket of “compassion” and “harm reduction,” while turning places like MacArthur Park into open-air fentanyl markets rife with hourly overdoses and daily deaths.

And we’re paying for it in so many ways.

Los Angeles pours about a billion dollars a year into “Housing First” and so-called harm reduction strategies that claim to protect those who are most vulnerable.

Tens of millions of dollars are spent each year on needle distribution and “safer smoking” kits—including crack pipes distributed on our streets. 

Government-funded teams roam through MacArthur Park daily, handing out drug paraphernalia to other people’s sons and daughters, who are barely clinging to life in drug-induced stupors and various states of psychological torment. 

Seven of these kids die on the streets of Los Angeles every single day.

Yet politicians celebrate “minor” reductions in homelessness — reductions that suspiciously mirror the annual toll of those very deaths.

These are not just statistics.

These are someone’s babies — children who once laughed, played and dreamed.

Now they lay dying in filth, poisoned by drug addiction nurtured by our tax dollars.

All while idealogues like Eunisses Hernandez and her DSA allies preach “compassion” as they hand out pipes and needles. 

There is nothing kind about this approach.

What Hernandez is allowing in MacArthur Park is cruelty disguised as progressivism — yet another instance of a politician prioritizing her radical agenda over saving lives.

It’s a betrayal that tears the heart out of every mother who’s ever held her child close.

Imagine how the mothers of the seven kids who will die on the streets of Los Angeles today feel, and ask yourself: How many more of our children must suffer and die in broad daylight for the sake of flawed ideologies?

How many more hearts must break?

And when will we finally demand treatment-first programs, enforcement and recovery housing that can help our kids rebuild and restore their lives?

Enough.

These are our kids — our beautiful, flawed and irreplaceable children.

Not one more should die for the sake of a heartless political ideology.

The madness must end today, before another mother is forced to bury her child. 

Heidi Roberts co-founded a shared housing initiative that shifted 212 people out of homelessness until the city intervened.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/01/opinion/macarthur-park-is-las-latest-chapter-in-callous-inhumanity/

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Swiss nightclub where 47 died advertised flaming champagne bottles in eerie promo before blaze

 At least 47 people were killed in a Swiss ski resort nightclub inferno so intense that some bodies were burned beyond recognition after witnesses said a champagne bottle topped with “birthday candles” was raised too close to the club’s low wooden ceiling.

The blaze erupted at Le Constellation, a low-ceilinged basement bar, where promotional videos showed waitresses weaving through the crowd with flaming champagne bottles held aloft and nearly brushing against the ceiling — a party gimmick witnesses say turned deadly.

The fire triggered a rapid “flashover,” igniting everything combustible in the room at once and sending panicked patrons scrambling toward the bar’s single staircase exit, witnesses said.

Waitresses in a nightclub carrying champagne bottles with sparklers.
Promo vid for Swiss nightclub shows waitresses carrying champagne bottles with sparklers.@ConstellationCransMontana / YouTube

At least 115 people were injured, many seriously, as the flames and smoke tore through the crowded basement during the New Year’s Eve celebration.

Prosecutors said the cause of the blaze remains under investigation, but authorities have ruled out terrorism or foul play and said the fire appeared to be an accident.

The area around the burned-out bar remained cordoned off as investigators continued to interview witnesses and collect evidence to determine how the fire began.

Officials said victims were believed to be from several countries, and foreign governments were working with Swiss authorities to determine whether their nationals were among the dead.

Italian authorities said 16 Italians were still missing and 15 were hospitalized, while France’s foreign ministry said at least eight French nationals were unaccounted for following the blaze.

A French professional soccer club said one of its teenage players was seriously injured in the fire.

The team, FC Metz, confirmed that 19-year-old Tahirys Dos Santos suffered severe burns in the New Year’s Eve blaze.

FC Metz — which competes in France’s pro soccer system — said Dos Santos had been vacationing with friends in Crans-Montana when he was hurt in the inferno at the Le Constellation nightclub. He was later airlifted to a hospital in Germany, where he remains under medical care.

Fire seen at Le Constellation bar and lounge during New Year’s celebration in Crans-Montana, Swiss Alps, Switzerland.
At least 47 people dead and dozens were injured, during New Year’s celebration at a Swiss Nightclub.@AnnaDeMilanese

Authorities warned that naming the victims and establishing a final death toll would take time, saying many of the bodies were burned so badly that authorities have to rely on DNA and dental records to determine identities. Many people still remain missing. 

Switzerland’s burn centers were quickly overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster, forcing authorities to transfer some of the most seriously injured victims to hospitals in neighboring countries, officials said.

Hundreds of people gathered near the burned-out bar in the upscale Alpine resort of Crans-Montana, laying flowers and candles as families waited anxiously for word on missing relatives and friends.

Swiss President Guy Parmelin called the blaze “one of the worst tragedies our country has ever known,” saying most of the victims were young people celebrating the New Year.

King Charles also expressed his condolences following the deadly disaster.

“It is utterly heartbreaking that a night of celebration for young people and families instead turned to such nightmarish tragedy,” the king said in a message to Parmelin sent Thursday evening.

Crans-Montana, which is normally packed with tourists celebrating the holiday, is scheduled to host next year’s Alpine World Ski Championships, a global event that will draw athletes, officials and spectators from around the world to the same resort now grappling with one of the deadliest fires in Swiss history.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/01/world-news/swiss-nightclub-where-47-people-died-advertised-flaming-champaign-bottles-in-eerie-promo-video-before-deadly-blaze/

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Dem NY comptroller candidate pledges divest from Israel, accuses Netanyahu of war crimes

 Insurgent Democratic candidate for state comptroller Raj Goyle wants to fully divest $338 million in foreign assets — including Israel bonds — from New York’s retirement fund, he told a gathering of Working Families Party supporters recently.

Goyle, a tech executive and lawyer, is staking out the anti-Israel position in his long-shot bid to unseat longtime Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who has stood by the state’s “Israel bond” holdings.

“I’m here to tell you that when I am comptroller, we will not renew the foreign bond portfolio of the state comptroller’s office and that includes Israel bonds,” Goyle said during an event kicking off the party’s lefty “Working Families Party Guarantee” agenda. 

Raj Goyle, a Democrat announcing his bid for state comptroller.
Raj Goyle accused state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli of sending “a blank check for Benjamin Netanyahu’s war crimes in Gaza” by investing the state pension fund in Israel bonds.Raj Goyle Campaign

“We will not send a blank check for Benjamin Netanyahu’s war crimes in Gaza,” the ex-Kansas state legislator said.

The Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest and most robust pension funds in the country, is run by the state comptroller’s office and manages pensions for state and municipal workers.

The CRF currently holds about $337.5 million in Israel bonds, as part of a massive $291 billion investment portfolio.

“They’re stable, they’re guaranteed, they’ve never had a problem and it’s a good investment,” Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Queens), former chair of the New York City Council Finance Committee, told The Post.

Weprin, who is supportive of DiNapoli’s handling of the Israel bonds, said they’re a good way to back a US ally with deep ties to New York.

“At the same time you’re making a good investment, you’re sending a message to the pro-Israel community,” Weprin said.

Goyle’s campaign argues that credit rating agency Moody’s downgrading of Israel’s credit rating following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas is enough reason to consider it a “risky” investment, and that the state should not be leveraging its pension fund to support Israel.

Tom DiNapoli smiling in a suit, with American and New York flags in the background.
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoliOffice of the New York State Comptroller

“Raj Goyle has a laser focus on investing in and protecting New York. Instead of playing politics and chasing mediocre returns with risky foreign bonds like Tom DiNapoli, Raj will put more money in the pockets of New Yorkers and use the office to fight the affordability crisis plaguing the state,” Goyle’s campaign manager, Jyot Singh, told The Post in a statement.

“At a bare minimum, public pension dollars should not be funding human rights violations abroad,” Singh added.

DiNapoli’s campaign declined to comment.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a podium with US and Israeli flags behind him.
New York’s massive $291 billion pension fund invests in foreign bond offerings, including a relatively large holding of Israel bonds.REUTERS

The incumbent comptroller invested an additional $20 million in Israel bonds in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre.

“In addition to providing a steady return for our pension fund’s members, Israel bonds help support one of our nation’s strongest allies,” DiNapoli said in a statement at the time.

“I am heartened that so many other public funds have stepped forward to purchase bonds and support Israel, the only democratic government in the region, during these tragic and challenging days.”

DiNapoli has run on the Working Families Party’s ballot line in all of his re-election campaigns since 2014.

Former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander notably refused to renew some Israel bonds in the city’s pension fund, a separate entity, in 2025.

DiNapoli currently faces a primary challenge from Goyle along with former housing nonprofit CEO Drew Warshaw and ex-Brooklyn congressional candidate Adem Bunkeddeko.

Joseph Hernandez has declared a bid to challenge DiNapoli on the GOP line.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/01/us-news/dem-ny-comptroller-candidate-pledges-to-divest-from-israel-accuses-netanyahu-of-war-crimes/

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