Roundup
(1) A large terrorist network linked with Hamas has been uncovered in Europe:
According to an investigation published by Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Hamas built a covert terrorist infrastructure across the continent years before the October 7 massacre, including hidden weapons caches, smuggling routes, logistical networks, and dormant terror cells ready to be activated on orders from the organization’s leadership.
The report, based in part on German security investigation files, states that German authorities believe Hamas intended to carry out the attacks around the second anniversary of the October 7 massacre. The plot was reportedly foiled through intelligence operations and arrests conducted across several European countries.
Authorities uncovered Hamas-linked activity in Germany, Austria, Denmark, Britain, Greece, and Cyprus. …
According to the report, Vienna served as a key logistical hub for the network. …
The investigation concludes that Hamas’s military wing secretly established an operational infrastructure in Europe despite the organization’s longstanding claims that it operates only in Israel, Gaza, and Judea and Samaria. Investigators say the network included hidden weapons depots, arms-smuggling routes, and an activation system designed to enable attacks to be launched quickly once the order was given.
I assume similar networks exist in the US.
(2) I’m in favor of federalism, but one of its more negative consequences is this sort of thing:
An unethical doctor named May Lau who medically transitioned children in Texas was sued by the state Attorney General and surrendered her medical license.
She moved to Portland, Ore. where she was hired as an associate professor of pediatrics at OHSU.
(3) The Department of Health and Human Services has announced a freeze of “$1 billion in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota pending review of high-risk claims in crackdown on fraud.” It’s about time.
(4) This is one of many reasons why so many people are suspicious of computer involvement in voting:
New Jersey Gov. Sherrill Blames Software Error for Registering 6,600 Noncitizens to Vote
But only 400 of them voted, you guys. No biggie.
These were not people who lied and said they were citizens when in fact they were not. They were people who had said “no” on a form when asked whether they were citizens. And yet they were registered to vote anyway.
(5) This amount of fraud starts sounding like relatively small potatoes:
The FBI has captured a fugitive accused of stealing more than half a billion dollars from Medicare and leading authorities on an international manhunt, marking the third arrest from the bureau’s “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list.
Khalid Ahmed Satary, who was indicted in 2019 in the Southern District of Florida, was arrested overseas after spending nearly three years on the run, according to the FBI. Authorities said Satary violated the conditions of his pretrial release in 2022, prompting a federal arrest warrant.
Good work. Keep finding these people and trying them.
(6) Rubio is basically overseeing Venezuela. He also coordinated massive rescue efforts after the earthquake. Does the guy sleep?
Hamas in Vienna. We are coming up on the anniversary of the siege of Vienna by the Muslim Ottomans being broken by a multi national force of Protestants and Catholics on September 12, 1683.
About that Venezuelan earthquake, over 5,000 deaths are confirmed while some 43,000 to 50,000 are reported by families and acquaintances to be still missing. It’s an awful toll.
1) What a surprise… Quietly inform the Iranians that activation of terrorist cells in the US will result in the loss of every place of religious importance in Iran. Such as the city of Qom, third holiest site in Islam. Since they only value their ‘religion’ make them pay a costly price. Then declare that the day that the US suffers a WMD attack is the day that Mecca will cease to exist. In response to the predictable outrage, tell the ‘moderates’ that either they deal with their ‘rabid dogs’ or we will…permanently. When dealing with fanatics, only overwhelming force can dissuade them.
Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TyxxLHfBwE
2) It’s likely that someday unethical doctors like May Lau will meet some of her victims whose lives she ruined. It may not go well for them. Ruin lives and retribution may be on a future’menu’. Of course not just doctors, many parents bear much responsibility. They too may meet ‘meathead’ Rob Reiner’s fated end.
3) Congressional democrats may well shut down the fed gov in response.
6) Anybody else think that its visibly aging him?
(1): “I assume similar networks exist in the US….”
Known to the rest us as the DSA.
I’m guessing the European reaction to those planned violent attacks won’t be “These terrible people are even worse than we thought — let’s keep them out of here.” But rather, “Why do the Jews keep causing us so much evil?”
#4.
DPOTUS is salivating…
“Nicaragua’s Ortega says country will ‘never again’ hold elections, shutting out opposition;
“The president made the announcement during a speech commemorating the 1979 Sandinista revolution”—
https://www.foxnews.com/world/nicaragua-ortega-ends-elections
Geoffrey, Mecca is in Saudia Arabia, not Iran. Does that make a difference to you?
In re #5, from yesterday’s post.
https://thenewneo.com/2026/07/20/we-knew-there-was-medicaid-fraud-but-this-much-fraud/#comment-2858508
Occasional Commenter on July 21, 2026 at 6:00 pm said:
“There is so much fraud because there’s no incentive to look for it.
Now, if you implemented a program in which a whistleblower detects fraud, and gets to keep, say, 5% of what he uncovered, I bet eager beavers would suddenly find find lots of it.”
The incentive works in other programs.
Although it’s been known to also “cause” problems that can then be “uncovered” for a payout.
See “cobra effect” –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
Although Wikipedantica claims that the cobra story itself is apocryphal, I have heard a personal account of a similar incident. While vacationing in Wales with a group tour, we went to a botanic garden which featured peacocks on the grounds.
Our bus driver regaled us with a chronicle of his youth: at that time, the peacocks would often escape over the walls, so the park authorized a reward to anyone catching and returning them. The driver’s brother hatched a plan with him where one boy would go into the park with their parents while the other boy made some excuse to lag behind, and then find a way to catch a bird or two unobserved and throw them over the wall. The boy outside would then take the bird to the entry kiosk and get in free, with a few pence to boot.
They ran that scam several times before their parents caught on.
#5: … “Satary violated the conditions of his pretrial release in 2022, prompting a federal arrest warrant.”
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I’m simply SHOCKED that the Biden admin gave Satary “pretrial release”.
Note, they didn’t even mention bail.
Bail would have been mean.
I guess we’re lucky Biden didn’t pardon him!!
Re: Computerized voting
This retired Senior Software Engineer says, “Just say no.”
Barry Meislin
The Sandinistas overthrew Somoza, but it became apparent that far from being anti-Somozas, they had copied some of Somoza’s tactics. Such as the “turbas divinas,” “divine mobs” who attacked peaceful opponents. Just like the “Nicolasa” mobs that Somoza employed.
Ortega may have forgotten that the first Somoza president was assassinated–the father of the Somoza the Sandinistas overthrew.
“Only 400 of the 6,000 voted” how would they know that it was only 400? If true, then all 400 have been arrested and charged, right?
Re #2, the doctor who fled Texas to Oregon so she could continue to abuse children-
The TX Medical Board website says only that the her TX license was “cancelled by request.” Most likely that means that once she got her first notification that the Texas AG was aware of her activities, she thought it best to get out of Dodge, and found a willing/eager home in OR. The TMB had no need to take further action, nor did the Texas AG.
This is not a negative about federalism. If I lived in Portland and liked to keep a gun handy, moving to Texas as soon as I learned that the local DA was interested in my gun collection would be wise.
In both the real life case of Dr Lau and my hypothetical, Texas is better off and Oregon slides further down the chute.
The states are laboratories of democracy, and sanity.
The only ones caught were the ones who truthfully answered they were non-citizens. It stands to reason that only a small percentage of them would actually attempt to vote (around 7%)
The real question is how many illegals lied about their citizenship, got registered without issue, and got to vote without detection? I would assume the number is a lot larger (and the percentage who lied and went on to vote larger as well).
West TX Intermediate Crude on July 22, 2026 at 8:57 am:
“The states are laboratories of democracy, and sanity.”
It would appear that many of those “best places to live” surveys are not asking or recording all of the right questions.
Eg.
1) How many child mutilating doctors and institutes exist in the state, county, or city?
2) How likely is my daughter to be injured while playing sports where a biological male is also allowed to play?
3) How many fraudulent NGOs are there in the state, county, city?
… etc.
WRT Hamas-controlled networks; Neighbors of the San Bernardino shooters said they’d seen suspicious stuff going on but didn’t report it for fear of being called racist and Muslim-haters. Have we gotten over that?
@ Richard > “Have we gotten over that?”
The jury is still out.
However, Britain has not given up protecting their terrorists, Muslim and otherwise.
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/07/22/uk-politicians-call-for-more-speech-regulation-after-the-murder-of-ann-widdecombe-who-opposed-such-measures/