[NY Post] One of the FBI’s most wanted alleged COVID-19 fraud fugitives has been returned to the United States after authorities captured her in Jamaica, where FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital she had been living under the fake identity "Harley Newman" while evading charges tied to a $32 million pandemic relief fraud scheme.
Elaine Angene Escoe, 41, arrived back in South Florida Thursday after Jamaican authorities arrested her following a federal manhunt. Prosecutors allege she helped fraudulently obtain more than $32 million in taxpayer-funded COVID-19 relief funds before fleeing the country after failing to appear in federal court.
Escoe was indicted in 2025 on charges including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and multiple counts of money laundering, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.
Federal prosecutors said a judge issued an arrest warrant after Escoe failed to appear in court in May 2025. Authorities allege she fled to Jamaica, where she was later located and arrested after the FBI received a tip.
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I wonder how much $$$$ will be recovered?
Of course, I also wonder if a serious investigation will be done into whom in Government collected handling fees along the way?
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I don't know why you keep saying how much money is recovered! Unless you owe $38 to the IRS and they can garnish your wages nothing is getting recovered. You're a big boy accept it!
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I'm Tax on my life, my car, my gas, oil, my house, my food, my death, my savings, my retirement, and even taxed when buying bibles. Plus likely 2 dozen more.
Every %^&*'ing penny wasted by local, state and the Fed's.... deflates the value of my NET INCOME purchasing power. Since being retired in 2001 it has decreased 25.1+/- %. That's why my 2001 99.9 cents a gallon gas now costs 3.99, why my $1.25 dz eggs now costs $2.79, my 49 cent Coke(r) now costs $2.59. A stupid 50 cent Snickers candy bar in $2.59.
SO hell yeah!!! YES!!!!! it pisses me off to see waste the devalues my retirement $$.
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How come before Nixon killed the Bretton Woods system the father could work while the mother stayed at home to care for the kids and keep house? I mean, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy (and insane fed gov't fiscal policy) wouldn't have anything to do with that now, would it?
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the father could work while the mother stayed at home
Partly because the home was 1000 sq ft instead of 2500 sq ft, DooDahMan, with multiple electronic devices for each member of the family, Dad carried a lunchbox to work, Mom cooked dinners like meatloaf and mashed potatoes most nights, and the kids didn’t have thousands of dollars of tattoos on their skin.
My darling mother-in-law was a housewife. A large part of her job was chasing down bargains to make her husband’s paycheck go further, which two-income families don’t have time for. She probably spent twenty hours a week going on a circuit of shops, comparing prices before finally buying things we pick up with a few clicks online, and she got a great deal of pleasure from it. My mother, on the other hand, felt stifled at home, though she dearly loved her us all. Her net income after paying for a housekeeper, a work wardrobe, and the costs for professional journals and other incidentals was slightly negative, not positive. But we were all happier because she was happier.
But in those days many lower class, married women worked — mostly as cleaning ladies and store clerks — no matter what tv and the movies showed. And more: a friend’s father was the chief income of his family from the age of eleven, working as a shoe shine boy; going into the Air Force was a much slower pace for him.
[NYPost] They’re dolling up the trans agenda — and taxpayers are footing the bill.
“First-of-their-kind” transgender dolls — complete with removable genitalia — will debut in some Minnesota classrooms this fall to kids as young as 4 years old.
The paper dolls, with gender-neutral names like “Sam,” “Rory,” “Avery” and “Parker,” have removable internal and external genitals, along with more than 100 interchangeable pieces of clothing, accessories and hairstyles — like a trans Mr./Mrs. Potato Head.
The goal is for kids to “learn about the different options that exist for who they can be,” according to a therapist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, which spent over half a decade developing the controversial project funded by lefty Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz
The Medical School’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Health research over those six years included paying $20 to $60 for “trans and gender diverse” children and their parents to play with the dolls and “talk about gender and bodies” in groups.
Prototypes of the dolls were shown in a 2024 conference where one named “Sam” can be seen in what appears to be some phase of a gender transition, with a detachable penis off to the side, and a dress and girls’ underwear within reach.
The trans dolls — which promise to “make gender fun” — will be made available to teachers, school counselors, pediatricians and mental health providers, according to a website of the “MyGender Dolls” company. It features an image of a boy doll wearing a dress and others in various states of sexual identity confusion.
It’s not known whether parents — or children themselves — will be able to order a doll, or if they will only be marketed to professionals and schools. It is not known if parents will be able to opt out of such “therapeutic play” for their kids.
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[Regnum] Chinese authorities have issued an orange (high) alert for several regions of the country in connection with the approach of Typhoon Hongxia. The China Meteorological Administration reported this on July 25.
On the morning of July 25, Hongxia strengthened from a tropical storm to a typhoon. Meteorologists predict that it will make landfall on the night of July 26 near Hong Kong, along the coast of southern Guangdong Province, and east of it, as far as Huilai. The typhoon will then move northward, gradually weakening.
Heavy rainfall is expected on July 25, hitting Guangdong and neighboring Fujian Province, as well as the island of Taiwan. Downpours will then spread to northeastern China, including Heilongjiang Province bordering Russia, adjacent Jilin Province, and coastal Liaoning. Heavy rains are expected in eastern Shandong, central Henan, and Yunnan in southwest China.
Winds will gradually increase in strength along the coast of Guangdong and Fujian provinces over the next three days. Rainfall is expected to reach 150–300 mm in eastern Guangdong, southern Fujian, and southern Jiangxi. In some areas, 400–450 mm of rainfall is forecast, creating a high risk of natural disasters.
China has a four-tier disaster warning system: red (highest), orange (high), yellow (high), and blue (moderate).
Typhoon Bavi struck Taiwan on July 11. In the first 13 hours after landfall, over 400 mm of rain fell in some areas of the island. The heaviest downpours hit mountainous areas, raising the risk of flooding and landslides. Waves up to 8.6 m high were recorded in the southeastern waters. The typhoon's toll in Taiwan has reached 135. Heavy rainfall caused significant damage to transportation infrastructure in several areas, and 247,558 households experienced power outages during the typhoon's passage from July 11 to 12.
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^^ Apparently not, Typhoon Hongxia (Chinese name), also known as Tropical Noul in international English, seems to strike landfall too far to the north.
[NY Post] Some serious coils
U.S. Marines installed coils of razor wire along sections of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Arizona, as part of the Trump administration's latest border security efforts. Officials said the added barrier is designed to deter people from climbing the wall and is part of a broader federal operation to reinforce existing border infrastructure.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Machine traffic has overtaken human traffic. What was recently considered one of the most prominent internet conspiracy theories is now increasingly becoming the subject of serious debate. According to new data from Cloudflare, automated traffic has surpassed human activity for the first time: bots now generate 57.5% of all web page requests, while humans account for 42.5%. This doesn't refer to all internet traffic as a whole, but specifically to HTTP requests to web pages passing through Cloudflare's infrastructure.
According to the company's co-founder and CEO, Matthew Prince, this milestone has been reached significantly earlier than expected; he previously predicted that bots would surpass humans only in 2027. The increase in automated activity is primarily attributed to the proliferation of AI agents and services that independently browse websites, collect information, compare products, index content, and perform other tasks without human intervention.
An increasing number of such queries are driven by artificial intelligence systems rather than traditional search robots. However, experts emphasize an important detail: the 57.5% figure does not mean that more bots than humans use the internet. It merely reflects the number of requests to web pages in Cloudflare's network. Other cybersecurity companies also record a predominance of automated traffic, but they use their own calculation methods, so the final figures may differ.
Nevertheless, the very fact that machine traffic has begun to dominate human traffic is already being called one of the most important turning points in the history of the internet. According to Cloudflare, the rapid spread of AI could significantly change the traditional model of the World Wide Web, where interactions between programs, rather than between people, will increasingly play a role.
It was inevitable. Since 2024, a gradual, steady increase in the number of machine comments has been recorded, and over time, people in the comments began to fail to distinguish between machine and human comments.
Mandatory "passport" authentication to filter out human and machine comments is inevitable. Last year, 51% of queries were machine-generated.
[FOX] Federal records show that a number of Chinese government entities, state-controlled media organizations and China-based companies have registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) to disclose operations with political implications carried out in the United States on their behalf. Lobbying Disclosure Act filings submitted to Congress by other Chinese entities, meanwhile, cover lobbying activity by companies pursuing what they say are purely commercial interests.
Those filings provide a partial public record of how Chinese interests seek to shape U.S. policy, public opinion and commercial decisions, though they do not establish the full scope of Beijing’s activity or prove Trump’s election claims.
Private entities based in China and Hong Kong, many of which have significant ties to the Chinese Communist Party, spend significant amounts of money attempting to influence America. The DOJ recorded over $20 million in FARA expenditures from these entities in 2025, with millions of dollars more being recorded in lobbying disclosures filed with Congress. Chinese government sources, over the same period, spent close to $80 million on FARA expenses.
[FOX] Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker was dealt a major legal blow Friday after a federal judge gutted key state laws providing in-state tuition, financial aid and scholarships to illegal immigrants, marking another win for the Trump administration's nationwide immigration agenda.
U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn, a Trump appointee serving in the Southern District of Illinois, sided with the Justice Department, ruling that Illinois' in-state tuition policies, the RISE Act and the Illinois DREAM Act are "unconstitutional and invalid" as they apply to illegal immigrants.
The ruling permanently prevents Illinois from enforcing the laws, although McGlynn delayed the order from taking effect for 14 days to allow the state to ask an appeals court to intervene.
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.
