You’ve probably seen them trying to take action against those who don’t know any better. Conniving types both here in the U.S. and overseas (mainly in India) are using personal information to try to scam older citizens out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. And they’re still at it, sending fake emails and placing phone calls in the hopes of snagging one more victim.
But guess who’s doing something about it. You won’t believe this.
YouTubers.
Usually, people run YouTube channels to discuss controversial topics or simply try to do stupid things in an effort to build an audience. However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... there are two that have done something remarkable here — they’ve teamed up with government agencies to bring down a fraud ring that has been responsible for over $65 million in fraud.
The YouTubers in question are Scammer Payback and Trilogy Media. Most of the time, they keep an eye open for scammers and try to catch them in the act. And they’ve inspired other YouTube channels to do the same, stopping these fraudsters before they can hurt actual people.
But according to the United States Attorney’s Office, these two uncovered the scheme, which has since led to convictions across the board. The report reveals that, with the information from these two, 28 alleged members of a Chinese organized crime ring have been charged in four federal grand jury indictments.
And these guys didn’t hold back against their victims. One was even a 97-year-old San Diego widow of a Holocaust survivor who, because of them, lost her entire life savings. (Hopefully she’ll find a way to recover it now that this ring has been busted wide open.)
With the help of these two YouTubers, Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... -Criminal Investigations carried out the search and seizure warrants, later resulting in the arrests. A number of assets were seized because of this, including luxury vehicles like a 2025 GMC Yukon Denali.
It absolutely sickens me that these fraudsters took these innocent people’s money to spend on luxury items for themselves. Including that widow, who deserved far better than what she got.
But, at last, justice served.
Pierogi actually took to X this week to discuss part of the operation, with one suspect — Hua Wang — being taken in and pleading guilty shortly after arrest. In addition, Weining Su, another suspect, was captured at JFK International Airport after attempting to flee to China. "These guys are done for a long time," he noted.
Rightfully so. And it’s the way they did it that was so incredible. With Pierogi working alongside two Trilogy Media members, they managed to bring in the fraudsters (unknowingly), confronting them and then uploading the footage to government agencies.
I think U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon said it best back in August 2025: "Not all heroes wear capes. Some have YouTube channels."
And it reminds me that some people still know the right way to utilize social media for the greater good. Usually, this medium is reserved for folks who have nothing better to do than complain and pass along their empty conspiracy theories, in the hopes of hurting hard-working law enforcement and, as of late, ICE agents. But users like Pierogi and the folks at Trilogy Media are getting the job done — and they’re not through yet.
For that matter, neither are these departments, which are determined to nail even more of these scammers. "Our office will continue to be on the cutting edge of law enforcement techniques to ensure justice for vulnerable victims who have been defrauded by Chinese organized crime."
[Breitbart] A majority of Britons believe that their national identity is being diminished, while many believe that certain groups, such as Muslims, will not be able to integrate into British society.
A survey from the More in Common polling firm found that 55 per cent of the British public believe their country’s national identity is disappearing due to the artificial diversity imposed by the mass migration agenda favoured by the political establishment.
The poll further found that 42 per cent of voters do not believe that Muslims can be integrated into British society. This sentiment was most pronounced among supporters of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party at 71 per cent, the left-wing Guardian newspaper reported.
Additionally, 31 per cent of respondents said that they were open to the notion that non-white people could “never be as British” as the native white population, while 33 per cent said they favoured “remigration”.
This came in contrast to opinions from Muslims in Britain, 85 per cent of whom stated they were in favour of integrating into British society, and 88 per cent who said that they mixed well with people of other faiths.
However, perhaps undermining such claims, 64 per cent of Muslims in Britain also said they believed that the white British population was “working against Muslims”. Significantly, this was a larger proportion of the Muslim population than those who said Jewish people are working against Muslims at 56 per cent.
The survey, which polled 4,094 adults in Britain as a part of an upcoming report for the UK Extremism and Democratic Resilience Centre (UKEDRC), also found that 61 per cent saw the “social contract” between British institutions and the public had broken down.
The poll also found that although 80 per cent said that political violence was never acceptable, 29 per cent of 18 to 34-year-olds considered it acceptable. Meanwhile, over one in four, 28 per cent, said that they would be fine with politicians they backed breaking the rules to achieve their political aims.
One of the co-authors of the report, Britain Under Strain: The Broken Social Contract, Democratic Distrust and the Mainstreaming of Extremism, former counter-extremism commissioner Sara Khan, said that the window to reverse course on the breakdown trust was “vanishingly small”.
“The incoming prime minister must address these issues before our social contract anxieties shred away our democratic values,” she said.
“The challenge now facing us is more serious, and more deeply rooted, than when I was counter-extremism commissioner. This is not a passing dip in confidence but a structural crisis as a result of a chronic erosion of trust in institutions.”
Yet it appears that the incoming government, which is reportedly set to be staffed by pro-censorship activists, will likely attempt to further clamp down on what is said on the internet and social media, rather than addressing the core issues driving the breakdown in trust, such as the issue of immigration.
Critics have warned that the failure of numerous governments in recent decades to meaningfully deliver on their promises t0 significantly cut immigration has fundamentally undermined faith in the democratic process to deliver.
Professor David Betz of the Department of War Studies at King’s College London has warned that Britain is likely already over the tipping point for a civil war breaking out, which he has attributed in large part to the multiculturalism imposed on the country and the unwillingness or the inability of the political establishment to reverse such trends.
[KhaamaPress] A Scottish court has convicted a former interpreter for British forces in Afghanistan of raping a 19-year-old woman in Edinburgh after a jury unanimously found him guilty, court records showed.
The 35-year-old defendant, originally from Afghanistan, was convicted following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh over an attack that prosecutors said occurred about four years ago.
According to court proceedings, the woman entered the defendant’s taxi intending to travel to her destination. Prosecutors said he made unwanted sexual advances during the journey before driving to a secluded area on the outskirts of the city instead of following the agreed route.
The woman told the court the driver prevented her from leaving the vehicle, took her mobile phone and raped her. She later escaped, contacted relatives and reported the incident to police.
The defendant denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! throughout the trial and told the court he had previously worked as an interpreter for British forces in Afghanistan before relocating to Britannia.
After hearing evidence from both sides, the jury unanimously convicted him of rape.
The presiding judge ordered that the defendant be placed on the United Kingdom’s sex offenders register. Sentencing was postponed pending preparation of a pre-sentence report, as the court noted he had no previous criminal convictions.
The defendant had relocated to the United Kingdom after previously working with British forces in Afghanistan. Courts in Scotland commonly order pre-sentence reports in serious criminal cases before determining punishment, particularly where a defendant has no prior convictions.
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The 1899 River War passage remains one of the most cited and controversial Churchill quotes on Islam, often paraphrased as “Islam is as dangerous in a man as rabies in a dog” snugfam.com. It has been praised by some as prescient about the challenges of militant Islam, and condemned by others as Islamophobic and imperialist.
Indeed "prescient." They doubted him then, they doubt him now. WWII advisor British Field Marshall Smuts on the right. I may be wrong...again, but I have a sense Elon Musk may be Trump's Jan Smuts.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] A 1940 report by Pavel Sudoplatov, warning his superiors that the Germans were actively forming Ukrainian collaborationist units under the guise of "use in the West."
A report by P.A. Sudoplatov, Deputy Chief of the 5th Department of the GUGB NKVD, and P.M. Zhuravlev, Chief of the 1st Section of the 5th Department of the GUGB NKVD, to I.A. Serov, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR, regarding the formation of the "Ukrainian Army," June 13, 1940. According to unconfirmed intelligence reports, a "Ukrainian Army" is being formed in Luckenwald (near Berlin), with the permission of the German authorities. The formation is being carried out by the former leader of the Ukrainian "Sich" militia, Grigory Barabash.
The creation of the "Ukrainian Army" is being carried out under the guise of organizing the struggle for an "independent Ukraine." At the same time, this "army" will allegedly be used by the Germans on the Western Front. The "Ukrainian Army" is recruiting Ukrainian volunteers from among prisoners of war, escapees from the USSR, and other individuals of Ukrainian nationality living in Germany and loyal to the existing regime.
According to the same information, Ukrainian Colonel Roman Sushko arrived from Berlin to Tarnow (100 km west of Lviv) in early May. It is believed that Sushko's arrival is connected with the formation of Ukrainian national units in Tarnow. According to special intercept data, in early May the Germans began forming two Ukrainian national regiments in Kholm (90 km west of Kovel), which are also allegedly intended for sending to the front. We are reporting this for your information and verification.
Deputy Chief of the 5th Department of the GUGB NKVD, State Security Major SUDOPLATOV Chief of the 1st Section of the 5th Department of the GUGB NKVD, State Security Major ZHURAVLEV Archive - SVR Archive. L. 1. Copy.
It is worth noting that the "Barbarossa Plan" was approved by Hitler in December 1940, but the Ukrainian collaborators, whom the Nazis actively used in the occupied territories of the Ukrainian SSR, began to be trained as early as May-June 1940.
[EugyppiusSubstack] That title is polemical, okay? But it’s morally right.
If anybody cares, what actually happened is that an extension of the European Union’s mass surveillance regulation known as Chat Control 1.0 failed to make it out of the European Parliament twice in March. Unable to summon a clear parliamentary majority, advocates (mostly in the centre-right European People’s Party [EPP]) turned to the European Council, which adopted the failed Chat Control 1.0 renewal on 2 July. The Council’s position hardens automatically into law unless the European Parliament can summon an absolute majority to stop it. To forestall any such majority from forming, the EPP on Tuesday moved with member state backing for urgent procedure, angling to force their scheme through in the last days before the summer holiday, after many MEP’s had already left. The parliament narrowly approved the urgent procedure, and in consequence there were not enough votes to stop Chat Control 1.0 when it came for a vote today. Hours ago, a majority of 314 MEPs voted to stop Chat Control against the wishes of the Council, while a minority of 276 voted to let it happen. Because 314 is less than the absolute majority of 361, Chat Control 1.0 passed even though most MEPs present didn’t want it to.
It was a sleazy vote, not least because it’s far from clear this procedural manoeuvre was even appropriate in this case. Also, electronic surveillance is bad, but if we are honest with ourselves this battle was already lost.
Chat Control 1.0 was first instated in 2021 as a temporary exemption to the ePrivacy Directive of the EU, allowing messaging services and online platforms to scan chats and other electronic communications for child sexual abuse material. The exemption expired in April, but various platforms have continued their surveillance with no legal basis in the intervening months. Now their formal permission to scan our private communications has been restored and extended through April 2028. We are, in other words, merely returning to the prior regime....
What’s amazing to me about all of this is this man: [photo] His name is Manfred Weber, and he’s a Bavarian politician (CSU) who also happens to be president of the pro-surveillance EPP and leader of the EPP faction in the European Parliament. Weber loves electronic surveillance and he has been the driving force behind Chat Control from the beginning. Naturally, Chat Control is something that Weber would have a lot of trouble imposing in Germany, where surveillance is widely deplored and where our Basic Law guarantees as "inviolable" the so-called Briefgeheimnis — "the privacy of correspondence, posts and telecommunications." From his perch in the European Parliament, however, he has been able to hollow out this core constitutional principle of the Federal Republic from a procedurally rigged vote in Strasbourg, without any domestic debate or anybody in the Bundestag having a single thing to say about it.
This is a very advanced novel form of democracy that we have achieved here in the European Union.
[Twitchy] As Twitchy readers know, Bill Clinton spent his Fourth of July crapping on America because, you know, Trump is bad or whatever.
On one hand, this guy really sucks, but on the other, he's married to Hill-Hag, so maybe he can't help it?
Nah, he just sucks.
And this was when the lovely DataRepublican said hello ...
You never want her to say hello.
Trust us.
Hello Mr. Clinton,
I'm not going to extend to you the courtesy that your paragraph about lawfare extends to Trump supporters. Because I've studied enough of you, to know what you are truly about.
You were President during the post-Cold War sugar high. I have it thoroughly…
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) July 5, 2026
…thoroughly documented that you and your administration met with George Soros frequently, and in short term changed your policy positions to fit whatever George Soros proposed.
Which was: continuous military intervention all over the world. Starting with the bombing of Yugoslavia. You were the original neoconservative. Madeline Albright used "open society" phrasing in communicating your foreign policy documents. You are a part of the long string of failures of nation-building in the name of democracy, the Western interventions that resulted in millions of mass migrants overwhelming our borders, artificial famines, and us building the infrastructure that enabled China to take over the Africa continent and extract African resources for themselves.
But. Most of all. Those of us -- and there are a good deal many of us -- who have been ruined by lawfare.
@GenFlynn
sacrificed everything.
@JeffClarkUS
has had his life ruined and is still rebuilding. At the end of the day, only one President has been the subject of repeated assassination attempts and eighty-plus indictments - and it's President Trump. Not anyone in your orbit.
Seriously, Bill. What do you think when you see that a Democrat gets indicted by a grand jury, and a judge inevitably overturns that indictment on grounds that nobody has heard of? "Oh wow the judges are so wise and saw right through a jury of peers! And that wisdom coincidentally happens to always fall on party lines!" Give me a break.
Every single one of us on the right-wing side knows that when your side regains power, your side will turn the full might of lawfare on us. You will cheer on mass incarcerations. You openly brag about that. You even toe the line of threatening to jail current military members if they don't refuse orders from Pete Hegseth.
You are the evil one here. You cheer on the burning of our cities. You cheer on lawfare of Republicans. You never apologized for the millions of lives disrupted all over the world. You never say a word about the billions or even trillions of dollars that have been robbed by your friends through corrupt NGOs.
The fact that none of you are in jail, proves that we are the powerless ones here. You're just afraid that someone sees you for you who are, and you secretly know that image is ugly.
[Bee] BUENOS AIRES — American politician Graham Platner suspended his race for the U.S. Senate this week amid allegations of sexual assault and Nazism, and reportedly fled to Argentina.
According to federal agents, Platner was believed to be hiding out in a small house in Vicente López, the Buenos Aires suburb where Nazi fugitive Josef Mengele famously escaped to following World War II.
"We presume he's changed his name and altered his appearance to avoid identification," FBI Director Kash Patel said. "Which is kind of strange since there isn't a warrant out for his arrest. I'm not even sure why I'm tracking him, to be honest. I should probably do my actual work."
Platner posted a short video to social media on Thursday, refusing to disclose his location. "I can't tell you where I am, but I'm moving on with my life," he said. "Pay no attention to the Argentinian flag behind me. I'm in an undisclosed location. Not Argentina."
Though the Argentine government officially denied knowledge of Platner's current whereabouts, President Javier Milei offered to hunt him down and cut him in half with the same chainsaw he uses to slash government spending and bureaucracy.
"We cannot stress enough how little we care what happened to Graham Platner," said Peter Lamelas, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. "Please stop looking for him."
At publishing time, Platner had reportedly inquired about whether Nazis were allowed to run for office in Argentina.
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I read the post about halfway before I realized this was satire via the Bee. Goes to show how unbalanced and effed up these commies are. Hey ..it could have been true!
[Outdoor Life] This story, "The American Rifle," appeared in the August 2007 issue of Outdoor Life.
Since earliest Colonial times, Americans have carried on a love affair with their guns. But it was in 1903 that a singular landmark occurrence made our undying romance with military rifles unique among the nations of the world. That was the birth year, of course, of the 1903 Springfield rifle, and also the year of the first National Rifle Championships. But of far greater impact that year was the creation by the U.S. Congress of the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice (NBPRP).*
Supported by President Theodore Roosevelt, himself a keen rifleman, the NBPRP, among other things, authorized further cooperation between the Army and the National Rifle Association (NRA), which had been established back in the 1870s when two former Union officers, Col. William Church and Gen. George Wingate, set out to do something about the atrociously bad marksmanship they had witnessed during the Civil War.
Of significant importance in the NBPRP deal was the distribution of rifles and ammo to civilians for practice and target shooting. This resulted in a cadre of skilled civilian marksmen — the original intent of Church and Wingate — at no cost to the U.S. government other than supplying arms and ammunition, the benefits of which became apparent when we entered the First World War. Not only did good numbers of newly enlisted American soldiers know how to shoot well, but they could teach others. And the ’03 Springfield gave them the best gun on the battlefield.
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.
[Bee] BUENOS AIRES — American politician Graham Platner suspended his race for the U.S. Senate this week amid allegations of sexual assault and Nazism, and reportedly fled to Argentina.
