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#24051993 at 2025-12-31 14:57:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #29306: GM Wednesay: New Years Eve (YOU) Are The News Edition

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Dasting little 2012 article about how Minnesota Somalis had difficulties laundering money. It would be an interesting dig to see who cleared the way for them …

Somali-Americans' Remittance Demands Put Banks in Bind
By Robert Barba
May 10, 2012
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/somali-americans-remittance-demands-put-banks-in-bind
A group that represents thousands of Somalis living in Minnesota is demanding the two banks provide them remittance services by Friday or they will close their accounts. Since December most Somalis there have been unable to wire money to family and friends back home because the community bank that handled the bulk of those transactions ceased the service. It blamed the difficulty of compliance with U.S. anti-money-laundering rules.

The Minneapolis-St. Paul area - where U.S. Bancorp and Wells combined hold more than half of the market share - is home to one of the largest Somali populations outside of the war-torn country. If anyone can help reopen the remittance lines, it is these two banks, the Somali leaders say.

"They are among the biggest banks nationwide, and we want them to take the lead," Abdirahman Muse, a community organizer, said in an interview. "We bank with them, we do business with them here, but we need them to help us find a solution to this humanitarian crisis."

Bank officials say they sympathize with the plight of the expatriates but that there is no clear way to process the payments comfortably within federal rules.

"We recognize there is a tragic situation in Somalia and we have a large community here that wants nothing more than to send money safely to their families," Tom Joyce, a spokesman for U.S. Bancorp, said in an interview. "We have a responsibility to the nation and the regulators to adhere to the laws and ensure that the money that gets transmitted ends up in the right hands."

Risky Transactions

The problem lies in Somalia's money-services businesses. Remittance there is done through a loose network of MSBs known as hawalas. U.S.-based hawalas work with banks to wire the money to hawalas in Somalia.

However, the country in the horn of Africa has no functioning government or banking system, and the hawalas are unregulated. U.S. government officials worry that such intermediaries assist in funding terrorism. Though a U.S.-based Somali might send money to help feed his family, the fee the hawala in Somalia collects might fall into dangerous hands.

As much as $1.6 billion flows into the country of 10 million people through remittance annually, according to the Central Intelligence Agency's website. The Star Tribune in Minneapolis, which has extensively covered the Somali remittance issue, has cited a United Nations figure that says $100 million is sent annually from the United States.

The Treasury Department, however, says that such businesses have also handled transfers to Al-Shabaab, an international terrorist group.

In October, two Somali women in Minnesota each were convicted on a conspiracy charge for sending money through remittance to Al-Shabaab. The women, both of whom are U.S. citizens, raised money by going door to door in Somali communities in the U.S. and Canada, telling donors they were doing so for the poor and needy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says.

Shortly after the convictions, University Financial Corp. - an $822 million-asset company in St. Paul that does business as Sunrise Community Banks - suspended services to the hawalas; it had worked with them for three years.

Overall, banks have isolated MSBs in the post-9/11 era because of the potential risks of doing business with companies that exchange large amounts of cash. CusTomers are hard to track, and banks worry about having to pay heavy fines for violating federal rules. Given the costs of complying with the Bank Secrecy and USA Patriot acts, banks have simply chosen to stay away.

But for Somalis in the U.S., the bigger concern is the stories of suffering family members who need the aid they send.

#23051585 at 2025-05-18 21:41:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28125: E-Bake Edition

GPS Disruption Reported In World's Most Critical Maritime Chokepoint

A new report has emerged stating that vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz are experiencing GPS interference, disrupting electronic navigation systems and forcing commercial ships to rely on manual or backup methods in one of the world's most critical maritime chokepoints.

UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) announced on X late Sunday morning that it has "received reports from vessels experiencing GPS interference in the Strait of Hormuz area, with disruptions lasting several hours, affecting navigation systems and requiring vessels to rely on backup methods."

UKMTO provided no further information on the source of the GPS interference. However, if it was caused by a foreign adversary such as Iran, GPS interference in the critical maritime chokepoint would be considered a form of hybrid warfare.

GPS interference or spoofing falls into the domain of non-kinetic warfare-it doesn't involve firing weapons but can degrade vessel operations in the strait.

The incident occurred after Iran's president and the US agreed to continued nuclear talks on Saturday.

"We are negotiating, and we will negotiate, we are not after war but we do not fear any threat," President Masoud Pezeshkian said during a speech to the military broadcasted on state television.

The issue with GPS disruptions in the strait is that it's considered an energy superhighway for the global economy. About 20% of global oil (and about 30% of seaborne-traded oil) passes through the narrow stretch of water (approximately 17 to 20 million barrels of oil per day) that connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.

Last year, analysts led by Tom Joyce, managing director and capital market strategist at MUFG, showed clients the critical maritime chokepoints across the Middle East, including the Suez Canal, the Bab-El Mandeb Strait, and the Strait of Hormuz. This note was published around the time Iran-backed Houthis were just getting started on their campaign to attack US and Israel-linked ships in the Southern Red Sea.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/gps-disruption-reported-worlds-most-critical-maritime-chokepoint

#21465902 at 2024-08-23 12:40:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26303: TGIF Morn'n Edition

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3126108/can-babies-be-nonbinary-democrats-think-so/

Can babies be nonbinary? Democrats think so
By
Tom Joyce
August 20, 2024 10:13 am

#18180134 at 2023-01-20 11:48:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22293: Some Heroes Don't Wear Capes Edition

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-penn-foreign-donations


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#16149195 at 2022-04-25 11:18:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20426: Florida Sheriff Says “We Prefer” Homeowners to Shoot Burglars Edition

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By Tom Joyce
Updated: April 24, 2022 - 10:54pm
Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R-Mesa) will soon receive a prestigious award for pushing back against calls to suspend the state's 2020 general election results.
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation announced on Thursday that Bowers is among the five people it will honor with the 2022 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
The award is given to public servants who have made "courageous decisions of conscience without regard for the personal or professional consequences," according to a press release from Bowers' office.
The award gets its name from former President Kennedy's 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Profiles in Courage." It tells the stories of eight U.S. Senators who risked their political careers for taking unpopular, yet principled, positions.
On multiple occasions, Bowers has refused inquiries or stopped legislation that would have cast doubt on the results of Maricopa County's 2020 general election, which saw President Joe Biden besting President Donald Trump in his quest for reelection. Bowers said he received multiple calls from Trump and the former president's lawyers. He's seen protests outside of his home and an unsuccessful recall effort. Bowers is running as a Republican for state Senate this November.
Bowers is receiving an award for "his actions to protect the integrity of Arizona elections," according to the press release.
"I am very grateful for this honor yet cannot help but feel undeserving of it," Speaker Bowers said. "Honoring my oath and the people's choices at the ballot box are not heroic acts - they are the least that Arizonans should expect from the people elected to serve them."

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/arizona-house-speaker-awarded-jfk-profile-courage-2020-election-stance

#15218758 at 2021-12-19 12:52:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19252: IT'S ALIVE! Edition

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-lets-go-brandon-merchandise-is-selling-in-blue-states

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Why 'Let's go Brandon' merchandise is selling in blue states
by Tom Joyce
| December 19, 2021 07:00 AM

#14555845 at 2021-09-11 00:48:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18412: EBake in the air tonight...

>>14555808
9/11 Memorial

A Look at the Museum's Memorial Hall

"No Day Shall Erase You From the Memory of Time."

This quote from Book IX of "The Aeneid" by the Roman poet Virgil suggests the transformative potential of remembrance and is indicative of the museum's mission to honor and remember the victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993.
Each letter was forged from pieces of recovered World Trade Center steel by New Mexico artist Tom Joyce.

These words are part of a larger art installation in the 9/11 Memorial Museum created in 2014 by artist Spencer Finch, titled "Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning."
The installation is the focal point for Memorial Hall, the area between the two main exhibitions at bedrock in the museum.

Every one of the 2,983 watercolor squares is its own shade of blue - one for each of the 2001 and 1993 attack victims - and the artwork as a whole revolves around the idea of memory.
Our own perception of the color blue might not be the same as that of another person. But, just like our perception of color, our memories share a common point of reference.

https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/look-museums-memorial-hall

#9158257 at 2020-05-13 20:53:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11722: !BOOM! This Is Only The Start Edition

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>>9158023
NEW RESIGNATION ANONS

Danaher owns a large amount of medical fields, including dental, water filtration/processing, and the big daddy of hematology and…
DIAGNOSING AIDS/HIV:

BECKMAN COULTER

SHOVELS READY. DIG!

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2020/05/06/danaher-names-next-ceo-as-Tom-Joyce-plans.html

https://www.danaher.com/our-businesses

Danaher employs me. Give me some dirt to spread anons.

God speed.

#4804199 at 2019-01-18 13:27:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6131: How Many Normies Edition

For those of you who don't think AOC is genuinely that stupid, here's one of her contemporaries.
https://www.lifezette.com/2019/01/ohio-teenager-calls-911-after-her-father-confiscates-her-cellphone/
POPZETTE
Ohio Teenager Calls 911 After Her Father Confiscates Her Cellphone
You be the judge - was this really an emergency that required valuable department resources?
By Tom Joyce | Friday, January 18, 2019

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A 16-year-old girl in South Euclid, Ohio, was not happy when her father took away her cellphone.

And the teenager apparently felt the situation was so dire that she actually called 911 - which he did not buy, as WDTN and other outlets noted.

"My father took my property, which is an $800 phone that does not belong to him. He didn't buy it," the teen exclaimed.

This dispute over a phone, of course, was not a top priority for the police, who said, "Certainly, if we were busy, it would be pushed to the back burner, but we still have an obligation to respond."

As a result, the police showed up at the house with body cameras and caught some of the family dispute on video.

While the teen said she wanted her phone back, the father, Anthony Robertson, argued that his daughter was still a juvenile, so he did not want her to have a phone, especially one that he could not inspect.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham of "The Ingraham Angle" weighed in on the situation on Thursday night - and supported the father's point of view. The call to the police by the teen was an over-the-top move, she felt.

"The police have so much on their hands and now they're having to give life advice to people," she said.