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As if Chris Rufo and Ryan Thorpe’s blockbuster breaking story of Minnesota Somalis sending bags of pilfered American taxpayer cash back to the motherland and their terrorist Al-Shabaab armies wasn’t infuriating news enough.





$1.7B IN 2023 ALONE

This, on top of the already revolting Feeding Our Future COVID-19 fraud, which just saw its 77th (!) suspect indicted five days ago.

Ousman Camara, age 45, was indicted today in a nine-count indictment with wire fraud, federal programs bribery, and money laundering for his participation in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen.  Camara is the 77th defendant indicted in what has been identified as the largest Covid-19 fraud scheme in the country.

WHOOPS – I lied. 

The 78th (!) indictment was handed down yesterday in the $300M fraud of COVID feeding frenzy frauds.

For those not actively involved in graft and grift – there are no percentages available for that – they also have an alarming number of their community collecting the benefits that Americans find scarce, God forbid they should ever need them themselves. 





42%, or nearly half of all the Somalis in the US, are receiving SNAP payouts every month.  

Nearly half.

That is unacceptable. I’m sorry.

Contrary to their indefatigable congresswoman’s treacherous yapping, Somalis have not been the best visitors. And, as they’ve only been here in any number since the late 90s, her rhetoric, much like her non-existent integrity, rings hollow. 

They may wrap in the warmth and safety of the nation’s fabric. But the vast majority have made no effort to become part of it or enrich anything but themselves.

The assimilation score is nil.

And yet, the American dollars flow.

On X, my entertaining and unfiltered friend OilField Rando has had a long-running side-gig, RandoLand.us, exposing government waste, long before the flashier DOGE was a gleam in anyone’s eye. He climbs through and documents grants and handouts that astonish, aggravate, and infuriate.

Thanks to Rufo and Thorpe, Rando thought he’d showcase some of his collection of Somali NGO handouts… 

…and it got interesting really fast. 





Surprising as it may seem, there is quite a bit of your money headed to Somali pockets in Maine. 

The money the Somalis have been raking in – ON TOP OF SNAP and their other individual government handouts – will blow your mind.

If you can’t read the print on his sheet, the United Somali Women of Maine reported over $1.28M in salary and wages on their financial reports at the end of 2022, but they haven’t filed a 990 since 2019, yet are still getting grants. They also got a $3.9M handout from the state of Maine in ‘Rental Assistance grants and DHS disaster grants‘ that doesn’t show up in USA Spending data.

This ladies’ group received $100K in a sub-award as part of a $9.5 million Crime Victim Assistance handout.

Racket, huh? United Somali Women is like a huge money vacuum cleaner – you can hear the sucking from here if you scroll through the RandoLand X feed.

$125K sub-award this year for home heating.





One hand washes the other with these NGOs, as we have all learned to our chagrin.

Oh, hi.

Incestuous.

The Bantu Community Association

Hmmm.

Let’s look at other good stuff he’s found…oh, farmers. Salt of the earth.

We love family farms, especially *checks notes* Bantu farmers, again in Maine.

EE YI EE YI YO, DAWG

…Purpose: The Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine’s (SCBA) BFRDP is a large standard grant project with the long-term goal of assisting limited-resource Somali Bantu beginning farmers and ranchers in sustainable agricultural production and viable business ventures.  

In fall 2020, the organization began the transition to a 104 acre farm in Wales, Maine. It is becoming the home to our community’s agricultural programs with a 99-year rolling lease. 

A project grant for $416,652 in 2020 for the Bantu farming community known as ‘Liberation Farms.‘

What I guess you could call a co-op farm is still in business, but it is still dependent on government money. I didn’t do through Rando’s Xweets to see if there were more in relation to this particular organisation, but I did come across an article from this summer where the farms had lost a contract to provide produce for markets in the area and food pantries, which were government-funded.





English was still an issue, as they needed a translator for the public radio reporter.

Maine’s immigrant farmers keep growing despite cuts to USDA’s local food program

…Salat is one of about 20 Somali Bantu farmers who grow crops for market and wholesale at the 103 farm which is owned and run by the Lewiston-based Somali Bantu Community Association. Muhidin Libah, the organization’s director, is translating from Maay-Maay, a language spoken in southern Somalia, to English.

Salat is cheerful, until we start talking about the recent cancellation of their Local Food Purchasing Assistance contract.

“I just really got confused,” she said in Maay Maay. “I thought all the markets would be gone all of a sudden.”

Until the program’s abrupt termination in March, the LFPA allowed disadvantaged farmers to earn a fair wage growing healthy food and distributing it to underserved communities.

...Last year, Liberation Farms received $75,000 through the program, about half of their wholesale accounts. The funding made it possible for farmers to get paid to donate fresh produce and culturally familiar crops, like amaranth greens and African flint corn, to food pantries and directly to community members.

According to Good Shepherd Food Bank, the LFPA would have provided $1.25 million and an estimated 500,000 pounds of local produce to hungry Mainers over the next three years.

“It helps both farmers and the low-income communities, like the farmers, to get access to markets, and the low-income community get fresh veggies,” Libah said.

…About 15 miles away, a similar situation is unfolding in Lewiston at the New Roots Cooperative Farm, which is now in its tenth season.

Batula Ismail is weeding beets in head-to-toe maroon fabric and flip flops. She’s one of four elder Somali Bantu farmer-owners who came to Maine in the early 2000s as refugees and now grow and sell crops together at farmers markets, CSA, and wholesale…

...New Roots’ farmers were also counting on the federal funding to come through this year. It helps them distribute fresh food to more than 150 families every week.

But farm coordinator Omar Hassan said 2025 is shaping up to be one of their hardest seasons yet.
He said the loss of LFPA funding and other income streams, means that, “per farmer, we’re looking at least 30% of their income.”





They grow African vegetables in Maine for Africans in Maine.

Well, yeah – that’s by definition a limited income stream to begin with, that the government is financing, and ‘feeding hungry ‘MAINERS‘ with amaranth greens and African flint corn seems like a bit of a rhetorical stretch in generalities. I mean, God bless them, at least these folks are working hard, no doubt about that.

But.

The Bantu farmers are receiving other funds. COVID funds in 2024.

Peculiar, no?

He might be right. We could have well chosen our Destructor.

Only it won’t be the face of a Somali pirate and his well-fed courtesy of the taxpayer crew of cuthroats.

It will be the affluent white female or effeminate soy-boy liberal judge who pulls the pirate to safety- overturning a jury’s verdict – just as he’s finally forced to walk the plank for his crimes.





That crap is what’s going to do us in.


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