Shawn Ryan discusses crooked NGO's and "The homeless industrial complex."
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Nick Shirley returns to break down his latest investigations into alleged large-scale fraud across the U.S., from uncovering billions in Minnesota to exposing suspected hospice and Medicaid scams in California, where empty offices and shell operations are tied to massive government payouts. He also dives into concerns around election integrity, sharing on-the-ground examples of how voting systems operate in states without voter ID requirements, and discusses the backlash, threats, and political responses he’s faced. The conversation expands into homelessness, NGO funding, and what he describes as a growing “fraud ecosystem,” along with his viral rise, meeting Elon Musk, and the real-world impact of independent journalism.
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The Armenian mob aspect of that episode was pretty eye opening.
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Absolutely amazing how a young man like Ryan can make these alarming discoveries while our 'leadership' in Washington continues to sit on their arses as if nothing out of the ordinary is happening.
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Worse yet B, Washington remains silent when this is exposed...
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Hope Nick is watching his six. Maybe he should invest in a detail. California Assemlywoman Mia Bonta, Democrat wife of AG Rob Bonta, is already sponsoring a bill that would prohibit him from posting any more videos, a direct violation of the First Amendment. If that doesn't work, what next?
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I was going to list all the GIVERnment departments, programs, NGOs…. That are corrupt. Instead I have come to the conclusion that they all are!!! The Census cannot even count fairly, the National Archives is corrupt….
I cannot think of one public entity or institution that is not corrupt or a fraudster or grifter…
[NationalReview] The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, which is now facing federal charges related to financial crimes, allegedly paid more than $270,000 to an informant who was a member of the leadership group that planned the 2017 "Unite the Right" event in Charlottesville, Va., according to federal prosecutors.
The SPLC informant, whose salary from the group was paid out between 2015 and 2023, “made racist postings under the supervision of the S.P.L.C. and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees,” prosecutors said.
Prosecutors say SPLC paid another informant with a neo-Nazi group more than $1 million over the course of nine years. In 2014, that informant stole 25 boxes of documents from an unidentified violent extremist group — documents that SPLC later used to create a report about the group.
Blanche says the SPLC was “doing the exact opposite of what it told its donors it was doing — not dismantling extremism, but funding it.” He also accused the group of “manufacturing racism to justify its existence.”
The SPLC’s revenue increased by roughly $80 million in the wake of the rally, from $51 million in October 2016 to $133 million in October 2017, according to Fox News.
Now, the group faces charges of wire fraud, false statements to a bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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It is encouraging that President Trump's administration "followed the money" on these scoundrels. I have to wonder how many other NGO's or actual government agencies use similar tactics ?
Yes, we've seen it before: In 1938, Hitler set his sights on Poland, claiming that the large German ethnic population in the port city of Danzig needed protection and should be under German control. After Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Hitler traveled to Danizig on September 19 and delivered this speech. Wiki
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The SPLC is trying to say that they just paid informants and infiltrators. It’s not much of a jump to seeing them having Ray Epps on their payroll.
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/\ Nor is it much of a "Jump" to say that the FBI or some other gov't entity orchestrated multiple events on January 6, 2021, at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., along with other dates and locations, in order to torpedo Donald Trump.
Not a crime, but definitely very poor judgement for someone in a security position. The problem with being surrounded by people who have a lot more money is that it’s easy to lose track of the life that people in your actual income bracket live, which in this case led to unfortunate contortions.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A glamorous Trump aide has been suspended from her job after the Daily Mail exposed her dates with older 'sugar daddies' for cash.
Julia Varvaro, 29, was put on leave from her job as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism on Wednesday afternoon, hours after we revealed her shameless money-grabbing antics with a much older boyfriend who gave his name as Robert B. "On leave" with her TS-SCI security clearance hopefully suspended. It really is a condition of employment....just saying.
A Department of Homeland Security source told the Daily Mail: 'Julia Varvaro is on administrative leave as a result of the investigation and she is no longer serving in her capacity as a Deputy Assistant Secretary at DHS.'
Varvaro's hunger for money and gifts from older men sparked national security fears. Who could have known ?
One of the 'sugar daddies,' Robert B, a divorced father told his story to the Daily Mail after meeting Varvaro on a notorious website. A website they mistakenly thought was not being monitored.
Varvaro earned her PhD in Homeland Security in 2024, and has served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism since May 2025. Obviously illicit websites were not her or Bob's specialties.
Prior to her suspension, she told the Daily Mail she did nothing wrong.
'I didn't know it was bad to go on vacation with your boyfriend,' she said.
She got her degrees from St. John’s University, which gives partial scholarships to the children of police and firefighters. The school did a write-up on her as one of their success stories after she got her PhD — it sounds like she is attractive, bright, and hard working, but drew some wrong lessons from her experiences. Some facts pertinent to the current story:
Julia Varvaro ’18TCB, ’20MPS, ’24DProf and the other members of her close-knit cohort in St. John’s University’s doctoral program in Homeland Security swore by a simple but deeply binding motto: "Stayin’ 11."
"Our motto meant that there were 11 of us left from the initial start of cohort three in 2020, and we said it often to encourage one another to keep going with the doctoral program," explained Julia, became a triple alumna of the University when she graduated this year with a Doctor of Professional Studies degree from The Lesley H. and William L. Collins College of Professional Studies.
Compared to her classmates, Julia was, at 24 years old, the youngest student and without any professional experience in the homeland security area when she joined the cohort. "All of the other students worked in the criminal justice or homeland security fields. Some of them were decorated veterans or experts in their respective specialties," said Julia, who went straight into the doctoral program after earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, with a minor in Arabic, and a Master of Professional Studies degree in Homeland Security and Criminal Justice Leadership.
Julia, who currently works as a Program Analyst for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, traces her passion for homeland security to her father’s work as an officer with the New York City Police Department during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. "I remember that day very vividly. Thank God my father, Anthony Varvaro, was fine and was able to assist with the clean-up for years after the attack," she said. "But it really impacted my dedication to counterterrorism and devotion to ensuring a brutal event like that never happens again." She "vividly remembers that day." Interesting indeed, considering her age.
"Education and communication will help us solve the root causes of terrorism. This is why I was motivated to learn Arabic, aside from my interest in that culture and that part of the world," said Julia.
"I was motivated to apply for a student internship with the United States Secret Service because my language skills from St. John’s gave me an advantage over those applicants who did not know an additional language, especially when it comes to studying counterterrorism," Julia said.
And her plumbing provided an additional advantage.
Her internship with the Secret Service, which took place in the agency’s Melville, NY, field office from August 2015 to September 2016, is a memorable highlight of her time at St. John’s. Noting one of the chief responsibilities of the Secret Service deals with financial crimes that include counterfeiting, Julia said most of her daily responsibilities involved categorizing counterfeit dollars and uploading the data into a secure database. "I basically became a counterfeit detection expert—which was very cool in and of itself," she said. All is not lost. She'll still be able to handle a lot of money as a cashier at Target.
While earning her master’s and doctoral degrees, Julia has worked for CCPS as a graduate assistant and doctoral fellow, and has been grateful for the opportunity to work with professors on academic research. These days, she is teaching an undergraduate course in Homeland Security, Introduction to Intelligence, at CCPS. Did Julia have any foreign connections? Just asking.
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I've had the expression "Dumb whore with PhD" pass through my mind before. But that referred to the women's in question competence as a scientist - not competence as a whore.
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If it seems too good to be true, it isn't! In relationships with the opposite gender, I have learned that I'm not as handsome, charming, interesting, or intriguing as I'd like to think I am, and the "why" thought has saved my ass a couple of times over the years...
[29 News] CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - A Tazewell County Circuit Court judge has once again blocked Virginia’s redistricting push, this time through a ruling in an emergency lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee and National Republican Congressional Committee just one day earlier.
On Thursday afternoon, Tazewell Judge Jack C. Hurley issued a temporary restraining order on redistricting efforts, just about two weeks before early voting for the April 21 referendum on the constitutional amendment was slated to begin. This prevents the defendants in this case - most importantly, the State Board of Elections - from "taking any action to further the procedure of the referendum."
"For a second time, the Virginia courts have ruled against Virginia Democrats’ partisan attempt to ignore their own Constitution and rig the system in their favor," said NRCC Spokesman Mike Marinella in a statement. "This is a massive win in defending honest representation for every Virginian."
Attorney General Jay Jones, a Democrat elected in 2025, announced Thursday evening that his office will immediately appeal the decision.
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.
