[YouTube] Dec 9, 2024
I hate to see these types of situations, this guy is a 'money mule' for a large criminal enterprise based in India. These people prey on elderly folks using a number of different methods ranging from fake warrants they tell people they have or computer popup messages that tell them to call a phone number for help with their bank accounts etc.
The first 5 minutes of this video is a recorded phone call between Police and the 78 year old male victim. This was after he had already picked up over $250k in gold and around $20k in cash from a 77 year old unrelated female victim. The Police then setup a 3rd meeting with a fake package for him to pickup, they then pulled him over after he left.
The guy in the video is a 21 year old from India who was living in Chicago apparently. There is no video of his interview with Police, he did confirm that all the victims he had stolen from are American and that all the people he was sending the gold and money to were from India. He claimed to not know what the money or gold was for even though he had another warrant out for doing the same thing in a different county.
He was charged with:
-FIRST DEGREE GRAND THEFT (812.014(2a1))
2 Counts
-ORGANIZED FRAUD-$50,000 OR MORE (817.034(4a1))
Case is still pending, he has pled not guilty so far. I would expect him to change that and try to get some sort of plea deal.
If you have elderly relatives, give them a heads up about all these scams going on right now. Honestly the volume is out of control, I know people cant understand how they fall for these but it happens more often than you would think.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An attention-seeking influencer handed out massive machetes and liquor to homeless people in an outrageous stunt that caused a social media uproar.
Keith Castillo, a Texas-based content creator, went viral for all the wrong reasons when he shared footage of himself handing out the dangerous weapons to people on the streets on Thanksgiving on Instagram and TikTok.
While his TikTok account, appears to have been removed, The New York Post reported that the clip garnered more than 14 million views.
In the video, which is still posted on Instagram under his other account, Castillo is seen passing out the deadly gifts to his eager recipients.
'Keeping the homeless in the streets,' he captioned the bizarre video.
Castillo told The Post that he purchased the knives in bulk for less than $5 each.
In another video from the same day, Castillo is seen grabbing fistfuls of Fireball whiskey shooters and distributing them to the vulnerable population.
While these particular acts caught significant attention, Castillo's page is full of similarly unsettling clips of him giving out harmful gifts to homeless people in Austin, Texas, and in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The videos all have 'keeping the homeless on the streets' as the caption.
Castillo, 29, has primarily gifted weapons and liquor to the homeless communities in these major cities, but he has also handed out loose cigarettes.
He told the Post that he embarked on a nationwide tour in October and is currently in Little Rock, Arkansas.
'I have like 30 machetes in my car right now,' he told the Post as he chuckled. 'Dude, they're cheap.'
He has been seemingly set off on this strange endeavor in an attempt to gain internet notoriety. He has about 53,000 followers on his Instagram account and more than 147,000 on another.
'I travel around, bulk record in one city and then for my safety go to another city, do the same thing there for like two weeks and kind of like travel around,' he told the outlet.
He has plans to visit Las Vegas and New York - and claimed he has even checked with law enforcement that he is doing nothing wrong.
Castillo told the Post that police told him it was fine to be handing out machetes.
'These are for, like, tool purposes. They have zero intent for what people are claiming they want to do with the [machetes],' he told the outlet, explaining that they are not for violence, but for safety.
He said the fact that he could be giving alcohol to substance abusers never crossed his mind.
'Honestly, I really don’t care bro, it’s good for the clicks and views, you know. Gotta do what we have to do so we eat,' he bluntly told the Post.
The possession of a machete is legal in most states - as there is no federal laws banning them because they are considered agricultural tools.
The same goes for alcohol. Castillo can hand it out, but in many states, including New York - where Castillo plans to visit - possessing an open container of alcohol in public spaces, like parks or on the street, is illegal.
This means that if a homeless person is seen drinking the liquor Castillo provided them, they could get in trouble with the law.
'That sounds like a cocktail for disaster - alcohol and machetes. Could we get any dumber?' retired NYPD Sergeant and John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor Joseph Giacalone told the Post.
Viewers had similar reactions to Giacalone.
'Keeping them safe [no], making them dangerous [yes],' one Instagram user commented on the machete video.
'How does this seem like a good idea?' another asked.
'Did you want them to be killing each other or killing people with the weapons you're sharing with them?' someone added. 'What's the purpose of this?'
In a statement to the Daily Mail, Castillo claimed that the videos he films are all skits and that he gets the machetes back from the homeless after he records.
He also said that the negative feedback his videos receive is the result of a negative public perception of homeless people.
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#1
This is like if we sent machetes to the Hutu in Rwanda. Instead, Bill Clinton did nothing.
Despite clearly having the ability to stop a genocide in progress.
See the movie Hotel Rwanda which chronicles this in heart-breaking detail.
Only a few years later we put an end to Saddam's WMD which was the exact same threat.
#2
It does not seem that Keith is a good person. People watching his show ought to be ashamed. Instead at least one of them will be headed to Tractor Supply to buy and distribute spears.
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[IsraelTimes] The administration of US President Donald Trump says it has paused all immigration applications, including green card and US citizenship processing, filed by immigrants from 19 non-European countries, citing concerns over national security and public safety.
The pause applies to people from 19 countries that were already subjected to a partial travel ban in June, placing further restrictions on immigration — a core feature of Trump’s political platform.
The list of countries includes Afghanistan and Somalia.
The official memorandum outlining the new policy cites the attack on US National Guard members in Washington last week, in which an Afghan man has been arrested as a suspect and has pleaded not guilty. One member of the National Guard was killed and another was critically wounded in the shooting.
At a cabinet meeting, Trump says that Somali Americans “contribute nothing” and he berated Ilhan Omar, the outspoken Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota who is originally from Somalia.
“Ilhan Omar is garbage. Her friends are garbage,” Trump says.
“Let them go back to where they came from and fix it.”
Omar later writes of Trump on X, “His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.”
Trump last week ended protections against deportations of Somalis in place in the United States since 1991, when Somalia descended into anarchy.
Prosecutors are investigating several plots to steal taxpayer money, allegedly led by members of the Somali community in Minnesota, including by groups that falsely claimed to be feeding children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The list of countries targeted in Wednesday’s memorandum includes Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, which were subjected to the most severe immigration restrictions in June, including a full suspension on entries with a few exceptions.
Others on the list of 19 countries, which were subjected to partial restrictions in June, are Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
[Breitbart] More than 165,000 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background checks were conducted on Black Friday 2025.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) reported there were precisely 165,183 NICS checks conducted on Black Friday 2025 and a total of 530,156 conducted during the “the week leading up to, and including” Black Friday.
NICS checks are those conducted at retail for the sale of a firearm. The checks began in 1993 and are conducted by the FBI, which uses the information a would-be gun buyer provides on gun transfer Form 4473.
Once a would-be gun buyer passes the NICS check, he is able to buy a firearm.
It is important to remember that more than one gun can be transferred after a successful check is conducted on an individual, as the check is done on the person not the firearm(s). This means 165,183 checks could actually translate into 200,000+ or 300,000+ guns sold, or even more.
#1
165,000 people that are now on a Fed/state firearm owner database.
Private sales with verified 1 on 1 bill of sale, or do it yourself 80 lowers builds are better to avoid that future knock on the door... come next Liberal Scoialist Democrat coup.
[Breitbart] Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell together pledged $6.25 billion Tuesday to fund investment accounts for some 25 million American children.
The couple’s unprecedented donation will be the largest ever devoted to the nation’s youth, according to Invest America, a nonprofit advocacy group partnered with the Dells.
Dell, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies, one of the world’s largest technology infrastructure companies, told CNBC in an interview just what sparked the act of philanthropy:
We know that when children have accounts like this, they’re much more likely to graduate from high school, from college, buy a home, start a business and less likely to be incarcerated.
The pair’s commitment underscores a new federal government program that allows parents to open tax-advantaged investment accounts for children under 18 with Social Security numbers.
The initiative, known as “Trump accounts”, was created this year under President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Reuters notes.
Under the federal program, U.S. citizens born from the beginning of 2025 through 2028 will receive a federal grant of $1,000 to seed those so-called Trump accounts. Parents will be able to open and contribute to these accounts starting on July 4, 2026, with IRS guidance yet to be issued.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent praised “Trump Accounts” earlier this year, promising they will transform financial literacy for working families and set up the next generation for prosperity by giving every American newborn a stake in the economy and a pathway to long-term wealth, as Breitbart News reported.
Trump accounts, Bessent said, would make “everyone a shareholder” in the success of the U.S. economy.
The Dells promise to seed Trump accounts with $250 for children who are 10 or under who were born before Jan. 1, 2025.
According to Invest America, the pledged funds will cover 25 million children age 10 and under in ZIP codes with a median income of $150,000 or less.
“We want to help the children that weren’t part of the government program,” Dell said.
Brad Gerster founded the Invest America Foundation in 2025, which helped advance the Invest America Act — federal legislation that created $1,000 tax-advantaged investment accounts for every child born between 2025 and 2028.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Around one in three schoolchildren in Britain's 'asylum capital' do not speak English as their first language, data has shown.
Scottish Government figures show 28.8 per cent of students in Glasgow speak English as an additional language (EAL). It is the highest figure than anywhere else in the country, which led one Scottish politician to describe the figure as 'staggering'.
Of the 71,957 students in schools in Glasgow, 20,717 are EAL learners, according to the figures from last September. That is a rise of a third since 2019 (22.5 per cent). It is believed the increase is partly due to a more precise recording of students, reported The Telegraph.
Glasgow was recently branded the 'asylum capital' of the UK after figures showed it housed the highest proportion of asylum seekers of any local authority - 65 per 10,000 residents, totalling 4,023. It has also begun attracting homeless refugees from other UK cities including Belfast, Birmingham, and London.
Stephen Kerr, a Tory MSP, said: 'The statistics for English as an additional language pupils in Glasgow are truly staggering.
City Council leader Susan Aitken in September said the pressure could become unbearable due to Labour's decision to cut the amount of time migrants granted asylum can stay in official accommodation - including hotels - from 56 days to 28. She believes this could prompt large numbers of refugees to head to Scotland due to its policy of guaranteeing everyone a legal right to housing. English councils are required only to house those in 'priority need', such as parents with children.
Were Scotland to change their laws to match England, there would be no attractive force pulling in more migrants to succor — pretty basic stuff, really.
The local authority has previously warned of a £110million shortfall in the money required for homelessness services over the next two years - prompting the Scottish Tories to insist the budget crisis is of the SNP's own making.
Indeed. Their reach far exceeds their possible grasp.
A spokesman for Glasgow council said: 'Glasgow thrives as a city enriched by many different languages and cultures, and we proudly celebrate this diversity and the positive impact it brings to all our school communities.'
Oh? How many little girls carry machetes so they can protect themselves and their little friends from predators?
Council chiefs and homeless charities have demanded more support from the government to avoid Scotland's housing emergency being made even worse by an influx of refugees.
Speaking in September, Ms Aitken criticised Labour's decision to halve the grace period successful refugees are given to find private housing to 28 days. It had previously stood at 28 days under the Tories before Labour doubled it in December in response to calls from refugee charities.
Ms Aitken criticised the U-turn, saying: 'This is a decision that reeks of panic and pandering.
'It's hard to see it being anything other than disastrous for refugees and for the communities trying to support them when the Home Office washes its hands.'
Sean Clerkin of the Scottish Tenants Organisation also said more support was needed for Glasgow.
He said: 'The British and Scottish Governments have got to make Glasgow a special case and give the city much more money to house everybody that needs a home including all refugees.
What money? The entire country is going broke trying to pay for your gentry values instead of fitting your plans to suit your purse in the old Scottish way.
'The Home Office must also introduce a fairer dispersal system – where more refugees are sent to other council areas in Scotland – to take the pressure off Glasgow.'
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[Regnum] A global campaign to steal WhatsApp accounts (owned by Meta, a company designated as extremist and banned in Russia) is rapidly expanding and affecting users in dozens of countries. This was reported by Russian cybersecurity experts on December 2.
The large-scale hacking operation has been dubbed HackOnChat. According to experts, attackers are massively creating phishing websites that mimic WhatsApp Web, forcing users to undergo fake authentication. Thousands of malicious URLs and hundreds of confirmed cases of compromise have been identified in recent weeks.
Hackers are reportedly intercepting active web sessions through device linking and completely taking over accounts by obtaining access keys through fake notifications. Phishing resources automatically select country codes and adapt the language and interface to the region.
After gaining access to an account, attackers send messages impersonating the victim, collect personal and financial data, and distribute new phishing links, forming a chain of self-replicating attacks. Experts emphasize that social engineering and the spoofing of familiar interfaces remain the decisive factors.
Georgy Volkov, a member of the Public Council under the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, attributed the attacks' success to the service's device connection mechanism.
"WhatsApp's problem is that after scanning a QR code, the service immediately links the new device, without further confirmation. That's why the session hijacking scheme works so well. Could Meta do something about it? Yes, but the company categorically avoids anything that could complicate the interface or reduce profits," Volkov noted.
Nikita Danyuk, a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation and First Deputy Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts at RUDN University, added that the systemic security failures of Meta's services are understandable given the corporation's admission that it derives a significant portion of its revenue from fraudulent advertising. He added that this situation demonstrates that combating phishing and abuse is not a company priority, meaning attacks like HackOnChat will continue.
On November 21, the Russian information security portal SecurityLab reported that researchers from the University of Vienna gained unauthorized access to 3.5 billion WhatsApp user numbers in just a few hours. They found vulnerabilities in the web version of the messenger. The researchers noted that this issue had been discussed for eight years.
All the important news is in the Regnum channel in the MAX messenger.
[TheLocal.de] Europe's biggest economy "is in free fall, but the federal government is not responding decisively enough," said Peter Leibinger, president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
Predicting that industrial production will fall in 2025 for the fourth year in a row, the BDI warned this is "not a temporary economic dip -- but a structural decline".
The German economy is facing a perfect storm: high energy costs burdening manufacturers, weak demand for its exports in key markets, the emergence of China as an industrial rival, and the US tariff onslaught.
It has suffered two years of recession and is forecast to eke out just meagre growth in 2025.
Merz, who took power in May, has pledged to revive the economy but is facing growing criticism that his government's efforts are moving too slowly and are ineffective.
Leibinger charged that the coalition was "not responding with sufficient determination".
"Germany now needs an economic policy turnaround with clear priorities for competitiveness and growth," he added.
#4
The Green party, notwithstanding its electoral success and/or formal participation in government has been the agenda setting party in Germany for decades.
#5
Energiewiende, the German suicidal 'transition' to 'alternative power' (unicorn farts and rainbows?). Transitioning to a pre-industrial Third World economy and lifestyle one government diktat at a time.
#6
These people are nuts, to expand on Energiewiende:
In a broader sense, the transition also entailed a democratization of energy... [Muhahahahah. Did someone say unicorns, for realsies] ... In the traditional energy industry, a few companies with large centralized power stations were perceived as dominating the market as an oligopoly and consequently amassing a worrisome level [of surplus energy] of both economic and political power. Renewable energies can be established in a decentralized manner [how is that working out?]. Public wind farms and solar parks can involve many citizens directly in energy production. [first rule in energy productions is producing energy].
#7
One Party, one Gaia, one Mädchen
Rebooting her Führer's creation,
She scowls, growls, and speaks:
"Miscellaneous freaks,
You were stabbed in the back by... the nation!"
Arielle Roth [Breitbart] President Joe Biden and congressional democrats established the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program with the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Despite the program’s generous funding, the program became infamous for failing to expand internet access during Biden’s term in office.
Now, Roth said in her speech, the Trump administration “transformed BEAD from a boondoggle built on unlawful rules into a genuine success for the American people.”
“We’re projecting about $21 billion in savings, thanks to our efforts to cut red tape, expand participation, and redirect the program to its core mission of universal, cost-effective connectivity,” Roth told Breitbart News in a written statement.
Roth remarked, “These successes are thanks to a surge in participation. Providers who sat out under hostile, burdensome rules came back to the table, strengthening competition and improving value for taxpayers.”
“States, freed from one-size-fits-all mandates, could evaluate projects on a granular basis and select those that truly fit their needs,” Roth continued. “Indeed, our results show huge diversity in state technology mixes—both within and across states—reflecting the realities of our country’s geographic, topographic, and population density differences, as well as our guiding principle of market-driven technological innovation.”
She continued in her speech, “NTIA has been working around the clock to approve as many states as possible by year’s end.”
“Last month, we announced 18 approvals, with Texas and West Virginia following soon thereafter. Today, we are adding 9 more to the list: South Dakota, Nebraska, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio. I am thrilled by this momentum and eager to complete the remaining reviews,” Roth announced.
“We saw the consequences of distorted investment with the prior administration’s fiber mandate. Preferencing a single technology doesn’t just waste money; it can stifle innovation and undermine America’s leadership in critical emerging sectors. And in a world where technological dominance and national security go hand in hand, domestic policies shouldn’t be viewed in a vacuum. Policies that handicap American companies don’t just limit connectivity but have real international consequences, especially as other countries seek to follow our lead,” Roth emphasized.
“Our approach to the BEAD savings will complement the program and reflect the same principles that made the reforms successful. We haven’t made any decisions yet but stay tuned. We’ll have much more to share in early 2026,” she concluded in her speech to the Free State Foundation.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
