San Fran’s Drug Dealers Reportedly Fueling ‘Real Estate Boom’ in Impoverished Honduras

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San Fran’s Drug Dealers Reportedly Fueling ‘Real Estate Boom’ in Impoverished Honduras

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Dealers allegedly running San Francisco’s open-air drug markets are reportedly making enough money to prompt a home-construction upsurge in a central Honduras village cluster when they—or some of their profits—return across the border.

Democrat-run San Francisco’s sanctuary city status for illegal aliens, and its general soft-on-crime approach, seem to be enabling a “real estate boom” in the otherwise impoverished Siria Valley, the San Francisco Chronicle claimed in a very lengthy report that was a culmination of an 18-month investigation.

“The valley is also the hometown of a high concentration of people who, fleeing poverty and a country with one of the world’s highest murder rates, migrate to San Francisco, where they ultimately sell drugs,” the Chronicle revealed.

One dealer explained to the left-leaning news outlet why the northern California city is a popular destination.

“The law, because they don’t deport, that’s the problem…Many look for San Francisco because it’s a sanctuary city. You go to jail and you come out.”

According to the report that was the result, in part, of interviews with 25 current or former drug dealers, Honduran migrants allegedly started “dominating” the out-in-the-open drug sales in crime-infested San Francisco during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Authorities there have charged an estimated 200 Honduran migrants with drug dealing since last year alone.

The purported Bay-Area-to-Honduras cashflow has had a significant impact back home in the Siria Valley. And construction jobs paying $35 a day is an upgrade over the average $8 a day that locals earn in farming or performing menial tasks.

“More extravagant emblems of San Francisco appear unexpectedly and often, alongside crumbling adobe huts, stray roosters and heaps of singed garbage. Handsome new homes, some mansions by local standards, some mansions by any standard, rise behind customized iron gates emblazoned with San Francisco 49ers or Golden State Warriors logos,” the Chronicle asserted.

Some dealers who operate or operated in San Francisco boasted that they can supposedly rake in up to $350,000 a year in illegal drug transactions, including involving deadly fentanyl, while others are just scraping by.

In the previous four years, authorities have only managed to convict a paltry 6% of San Francisco drug-dealing suspects on drug-related crimes.

Most of the cases were plea-bargained down to about one month in jail, dismissed, or sent to a diversion program. Some never show up in court.

“Almost all of the alleged dealers are released on their own recognizance before trial, which means they do not have to post bond but may be required to check in regularly with a case manager.”

Further from the Chronicle: “Under the central tenet of the sanctuary law, the city jail does not allow ICE to place holds on local prisoners so they can be picked up upon release and deported. The only way most dealers face deportation is if they are arrested on federal charges or in another city.”

Even that perhaps may be a waste of time because many of the accused drug dealers apparently just turn around and again cross the border illegally.

“Most Hondurans reaching the cities in the Bay Area or elsewhere in the U.S. find legal work,” the Chronicle noted, however.

Although the news organization does not mention the Biden administration’s disastrous open-borders policy, the expose also seemed to confirm that the degree to which the cartels are very much in charge of the “secure” border region.

Public Sq. Promises to Be Anti-Woke Alternative to Amazon

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Public Sq. Promises to Be Anti-Woke Alternative to Amazon

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) PublcSq., an anti-woke alternative to Amazon, announced its plans to go public on July 20, challenging the Big Tech retail giant’s dominance with the opportunity to “shop your values, locally and online,” Red State reported.

The company, which can be accessed online or by downloading the app, is free for both users and businesses.

Users with an account can search the app for businesses in categories like banks, food and jewelry. Customers can also filter results to find a small business in their community or search for goods throughout the nation.

“The real goal was to prioritize supporting small businesses,” PublicSq. founder Michael Seifert told the New York Post in March. “But the mission has expanded to include supporting any business with similar values.”

PublicSq. pledged to align customers with their core values including being pro-life, pro-family and pro-freedom. 

The startup experienced rapid growth in its member base during the month of May, with an increase of over 300,000 users and a growth rate of more than 40% in one week, a June press release noted. 

The surge came at a time when several major retailers, including Target, faced public backlash over agendas viewed by many consumers to be overly progressive and highly politicized. 

From the participation of biological males in women’s sports, to the concept of “gender-affirming care,” to Anheuser–Busch’s twisted hookup with transgender brand ambassador Dylan Mulvaney, frustration reached its peak during LGBT “Pride” month as radical initiatives continued to be shoved down people’s throats.

While conservative boycotts have proven to be immensely successful in some areas, however, companies like PublicSq. are now beginning to fill the void in what some have dubbed the “parallel economy.”

“Our mission guides everything we do,” the copmany said in one of the values statements listed on its website. “We believe in the greatness of this Nation and will always fight to defend it.”

FBI Director Admits There Was No Basis for Targeting Protesting Parents

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FBI Director Admits There Was No Basis for Targeting Protesting Parents

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) FBI Director Chris Wray said Wednesday that there was no justification for Attorney General Merrick Garland to issue a memo in October 2021, which directed the FBI to establish a “threat tag” to investigate parents who protested COVID-19 restrictions and other issues at school board meetings.

Wray admitted that in response to a series of questions from Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., during the House Judiciary Committee’s oversight hearing of the FBI.

Wray declined to say whether Garland consulted him about the memo, but said he provided the following message to his field agents upon receiving the document: “The FBI is not in the business of investigating or policing speech at school board meetings.”

Wray also said that his bureau found no evidence that there was an uptick in threats of violence against school officials—which was the ostensible reason for Garland devoting federal resources towards the issue.

When Kiley asked Wray whether he disputes a recent congressional report that said Garland had no legitimate basis for investigating protesting parents. Wray responded with a simple, “No.”

“So we had an investigation of parents—a sweeping mobilization of federal power against the most protected core activity: the right of citizens to petition their government and speak on the most important of issues: the education of their children—and you’re telling me that the entire basis of that, there’s no evidence to support it?” Kiley asked the FBI director.

“To be clear, we didn’t investigate speech,” Wray responded.

The FBI’s surveillance of protesting parents stems from the National School Boards Association’s September 2021 letter to President Biden, requesting federal law enforcement assistance to target parents voicing concerns at local school board meetings. That letter led to an Oct, 4, 2021, memorandum from Garland that directed the FBI to establish a “threat tag” to investigate Americans.

After the memo was issued, the FBI opened at least 25 “Guardian assessments”—a constitutionally dubious category that allows the bureau to conduct surveillance against a target without a factual predicate of criminal wrongdoing—but none resulted in federal charges.

The NSBA has since rescinded its letter to Garland and apologized for it, but Garland’s memo is still in effect. The Weaponization Subcommittee, which was formed this year to investigate the weaponization of federal government, has urged Garland to finally retract his memo.

“It is crystal clear that Attorney General Garland should rescind his unwise and unsupported directive to insert federal law enforcement into local school board matters,” the subcommittee has said.

Wray declined to comment Wednesday on whether Garland should rescind the memo.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Fox News Stock Downgraded as Viewership Continues to Fall

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Fox News Stock Downgraded as Viewership Continues to Fall

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Fox Corporation’s stock was downgraded on Monday as Fox News ratings continue to decline in the wake of Tucker Carlson’s departure.

Wells Fargo officially downgraded the stock to Underweight and Yahoo! Finance reported “ecosystem risks” when investing in the outlet, according to Breitbart.

“Fox’s earnings are mostly Fox News earnings, and Fox News is facing viewership and share pressures,” analyst Steve Cahall said in a report to clients. “With ecosystem risks also elevated we find our estimate outlook more negative and below the Street.”

Cahall noted that Carlson’s departure was likely a large part of the reason for the sudden drop.

“Fox News’ share of conservative news viewers has fallen from 94% to 84%,” he said. “While the new primetime lineup could drive a rebound, we think Fox News is a Show Me viewership story.”

Fox’s ratings fell drastically after Carlson’s initial departure from the network in May, pulling in only 1.33 million viewers for the prime time slot, as opposed to Carlson’s average of 3.05 million.

A survey from the Economist revealed that a quarter of American adults watch Fox less often after Carlson’s messy departure from the network.

Since his departure, Carlson released a series of segments via Twitter, discussing various topics—including the ongoing Hunter Biden scandal, the developing situation in Ukraine, Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign, the presence of federal agents at the January 6 protest and the issue of accepting radical gender theory.

He also interviewed prominent media figures such as actor Russell Brand and influencer Andrew Tate.

All of these segments garnered millions of views—more than Fox News is currently capable of pulling.

Recent reports detailed Carlson’s desire to kickstart a media company of his own, but some speculate that this could be a temporary move to bring attention to a different move.

It is still unclear why Fox and its leading news anchor parted ways, though Carlson is reportedly still under contract with the network.

UN Uses Climate Panic to Tout Depopulation, ‘Great Replacement’ by India and Africa

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UN Uses Climate Panic to Tout Depopulation, ‘Great Replacement’ by India and Africa

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The United Nations announced World Population Day on Tuesday with the publication of an alarming new report, which predicted that the Earth’s population would hit 9.7 billion by 2050 and 10 billion by the year 3000—pushing the climate to its breaking point.

Even more concerning may be its proposed solutions—which appeared to advocate for the redoubling efforts to depopulate Western civilizations through radical leftist ideologies and practicies, while promoting the import of African labor and the assimilation of Third-World cultures to take their place.

According to Breitbart, the UN argued that the rising populations of India and several regions in Africa may develop larger carbon footprints as their populations continue to rise.

Despite policies like the Paris Climate Accord that force Western nations to pay de-facto environmental reparations to developing nations, expanded energy consumption in previously underpopulated regions may soon overwhelm globalist climate initiatives, the UN warned.

Raya Muttarack, professor of of demography at Italy’s University of Bologna, noted that African emissions currently remain on the lower end.

“What’s really interesting is that the lowest-income group in the US still emits carbon more than the highest-income group in Africa,” she said.

The UN report added that Americans should aspire to carbon emissions as low as those in sub-Saharan Africa.

Population experts also explained that newfound Western ideals, such as feminism and radical gender theory, could stymie the increasing population size of many African countries.

Critics have cautioned that recent depopulationist efforts such as the movement to chemically castrate and mutilate children, as well as the use of vaccines to sterilize vast swaths of the population, may have unintended consequences.

Nonetheless, some UN officials recommended bringing portions of the exploding Third-World populations to Europe and the Americas in order to “westernize” them and to compensate for the labor shortages as the number of young Westerners begins to dwindle.

Although the report claimed that many of the imported workers would likely adopt Western ideals, such as the importance of gender equality in the workplace, it is also probable they would adopt expanded carbon footprints.

Africa seemed open to the prospect of assimilation and indoctrination by globalist elites. However, India—which was occupied by a long progression of European nations from 1434 to 1947—was much less receptive.

The Asian nation has developed rapidly in previous years, but it has been able to secure the necessary energy to give its people increased resources and higher living standards. India’s quality of life continues to improve even as its birth rate continues to grow.

Africa also faced a unique situation, as their young, burgeoning population may allow the continent to fill a void: “70% of Africans are under the age of 30, and this is happening while many of the developed world, the developed nations, are experiencing a rapidly aging population,” observed Tighisti Amare, deputy director of Africa Program Chatham House.

It is unclear how much the United Nations will let underdeveloped countries grow as they attempt to exert global control under the guise of fighting climate change.

AMC Theaters Accused of Turning Off AC to Sabotage ‘Sound of Freedom’

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AMC Theaters Accused of Turning Off AC to Sabotage ‘Sound of Freedom’

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Moviegoers who have paid to see Sound of Freedom in recent days have found on numerous occasions that AMC Theaters’ air conditioners have mysteriously broken during screenings of the anti-pedophile movie across the country, Newsweek reported.

According to one TikTok user, Jamskillet, he and his girlfriend went to see the James Caviezel film at a usually-reliable AMC move theater in Ohio. But partway through the movie, they realized that it was incredibly hot inside the theater.

“This particular time was really uncomfortable to sit through,” he said. “There was no AC running, it was unbearably hot. So I go out and I asked if they can turn the AC on and they told me that it wasn’t working.”

Several days later, he noticed that hundreds of others across America were experiencing the same air conditioner failures during AMC showings of Sound of Freedom.

“I didn’t think anything of this until I got on TikTok a few days later, and come to find out that hundreds of other people are experiencing the same thing,” he said.

“So AMC and Regal, the people who own it, are not running AC and they’re making it hard to get tickets. And that should make you want to go see this movie even more.”

Another TikTok user, @sunni17q, who is based in Mandeville, Louisiana, noted that she experienced the same exact thing during the showing.

“Through the movie. . . I did not move from my seat, even though I was dripping with sweat,” she said.

“I didn’t think about it once until I started seeing all these videos about how there was no AC in there. There was no AC.”

Numerous others cited their own experience of the same thing happening, leading Thomas Lifson at the American Thinker to speculate that AMC might be intentionally sabotaging the movie.

Such tactics would not be surprising, especially since the corporate media has attempted to link the film to QAnon and other disreputable groups.

Rep. Massie Suggests J6 Pipe Bomb Incident was a False Flag

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Rep. Massie Suggests J6 Pipe Bomb Incident was a False Flag

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) At a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing of the FBI on Wednesday, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., played a video showing a passerby “miraculously” finding a pipe bomb outside of the DNC headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021.

To Massie, the timing of the pipe bomb discovery is suspicious. The representative suggested that the pipe bombs placed outside the DNC and RNC were distractions to divert law enforcement away from the Capitol, right around the time as the election protests were about to become violent.

“It was specifically at the same precise time to cause maximum distraction from the events going on at the Capitol,” he said. “It appears to me that that wasn’t a coincidence.”

However, FBI Director Chris Wray declined to answer any of Massie’s questions about the matter, including whether agents interviewed the person who found the DNC pipe bomb.

“I’m not going to get into that,” Wray said.

Massie’s questions follow an interview he and other House Judiciary Committee members conducted with former FBI official Steven D’Antuono, who oversaw the bureau’s pipe bomb investigation until he retired last November. In that interview, D’Antuono disclosed that some of the cell phone evidence from the FBI’s pipe bomb investigation was “corrupted.”

The retired agent said the FBI conducted geofencing, but received “corrupted data” from one of the cell phone providers.

“We have complete data. Not complete, because there’s some data that was corrupted by one of the providers—not purposely by them, right,” D’Antuono said, stammering through the interview.

“It’s just unusual circumstances that we have corrupt data from one of the providers. I can’t remember right now which one. But for that day, which is awful because we don’t have that information to search.”

The former FBI official added: “I don’t want any conspiracy theories.”

D’Antuono’s information prompted Massie and several other lawmakers to write to Wray last month, demanding all the bureau’s report on the pipe bomb investigation.

Wray said Wednesday that he’ll “work with his department” to see what information he can provide in response to Massie’s letter.

Massie chided Wray for stonewalling Congress on the matter.

“It was 900 days ago when this happened, and you said you had total confidence that you’d apprehend the subject,” Massie said. “It’s 900 days. You need to tell us what you found.”

The reason for the FBI’s stonewalling could be that the pipe bomber has a connection to the federal government, according to FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin.

According to Seraphin,  technicians who worked in the Joint Program Office for Countering IEDs told him that the devices left at the RNC and DNC were incapable of detonating. And in a later interview on the No Way, Jose! podcast, he said fake pipe bombs are often used in government sting operations.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Tucker Carlson to Host GOP Candidate Forum in Iowa This Friday

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Tucker Carlson to Host GOP Candidate Forum in Iowa This Friday

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Former Fox News luminary Tucker Carlson on Friday will host what is being billed as the first “forum” to feature leading Republican presidential candidates—with one notable exception.

The daylong FAMiLY Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, will include “one-on-one” sessions with Carlson and at least five confirmed GOP candidates, according to The Blaze.

The event will be streamed live on Blaze TV and Blaze TV’s YouTube channel on Friday, July 14, starting at 10 a.m.

Those confirmed to participate include: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, businessman and author Vivek Ramaswamy, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, who is not running for president, is also among the confirmed speakers.

According to the summit’s website, former President Donald Trump, current President Joe Biden and Democrat candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. all were invited to attend but had not confirmed as of Wednesday.

Biden, who is currently in Europe, is unlikely to accept the invitation.

Trump, the current GOP frontrunner by a considerable margin, has signaled previously that he may skip out on early debates involving candidates whom he considers to be beneath him.

“When you’re leading by seemingly insurmountable numbers, and you have hostile Networks with angry, TRUMP & MAGA hating anchors asking the “questions,” why subject yourself to being libeled and abused?” he asked in a Truth Social post.

The first debate sanctioned by the Republican National Committee will take place on Aug. 23 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, according to The Hill.

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Calif. Democrats Block Bill That Would Have Made Child-Trafficking a ‘Serious Felony’

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Calif. Democrats Block Bill That Would Have Made Child-Trafficking a ‘Serious Felony’

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A California State Assembly committee blocked Senate Bill 14, which would have made child trafficking a “serious felony,” even after the bill cleared the state Senate with unanimous bipartisan support.

State Sen. Shannon Grove, who sponsored the bill, released a statement on Twitter expressing her dismay after the bill failed to gain support from Democrats on the Public Safety Committee in the state legislature’s lower chamber, the Daily Caller reported.

“I had hoped Democrats … would agree to make sex trafficking of a minor a serious felony,” the statement read. “I am profoundly disappointed that committee Democrats couldn’t bring themselves to support the bill, with their stubborn and misguided objection to any penalty increase regardless of how heinous the crime.”

Grove added that human traffickers typically target young minority girls and promised to keep fighting to end human trafficking.

She worked on the proposal with Concerned Women for America, the Elizabeth Smart Foundation and Operation Underground Railroad—an organization recently featured in the hit movie Sound of Freedom.

California law currently classifies “serious felony” as “murder of voluntary manslaughter, mayhem, rape,” and other crimes that could result in the offender receiving the death penalty or life in prison.

Human trafficking has become an issue of particular concern in recent months, especially as increased amounts of illegal activity continue to rise at the nation’s southern border.

Because of the lack of criminal consequences, along with the California’s lack of immigration enforcement, sex trafficking from central America has become a quickly growing industry in the state.

It is even leading to a real-estate boom in Honduras, where many of the profits from the illegal operations ultimately flow.

The Biden administration has done very little to stop any crime at the border, spurring several investigations for the possible aiding and abetting of child traffickers.

A grand jury in Florida even went as far as charging the Biden administration with human trafficking.

Several U.S. senators sent a letter to Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, requesting an additional investigation as the Biden administration continually neglects the situation at the border.

“We have long known that the Biden Administration’s open border policies are fueling human trafficking and child sex trafficking, as migrants repay debts to the cartels who transport them to illegally cross the border,” the senators wrote.

DHS Unveils New Scheme to Shuttle Illegals into U.S.

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DHS Unveils New Scheme to Shuttle Illegals into U.S.

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Already facing an unprecedented surge of illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border, the Biden regime has concocted yet another scheme to enable even more crossings into states already overwhelmed by the invasion.

In what critics called a capitulation to a problem that President Joe Biden deliberately created, his Department of Homeland Security last week announced it was implementing a program to prevent illegals from trying to sneak across the border by allowing nationals from four Central America countries to jump place in the green card line and enter earlier.

The new so-called parole program uses the cover of “family reunification” for nationals from Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to skip ahead of all other green card-eligible immigrants who still must wait outside the U.S. either for a visa to become available or, as has become increasingly the case, smuggle themselves into the country.

The Family Reunification Parole Process builds off similar programs originated by the Bush and Obama administrations that were scuttled by the Trump administration. Biden’s rejuvenated FRP “intends to welcome as many as 100,000 individuals from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.”

The scheme will do little to actually address the immigration problem, critics contended, and instead of lowering the numbers flooding across the border, will simply make it easier for illegals to enter the country.

“Biden’s parole piñata just poured out more candy: ‘family reunification’ parole for Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras,” the Heritage Foundation’s Simon Hankinson tweeted in response to the DHS announcement. “Statutory per-country caps? Please – orderly lines are for chumps.”

The new program also provides the Biden administration with another tool for obfuscating border surge numbers, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. By providing a new entry scheme for illegals from countries that have comprised a large portion of border encounters, “the Biden administration will be able to further reduce the number of aliens apprehended between ports of entry DHS reports each month, while still allowing large numbers of inadmissible aliens to enter, remain, and work in the United States without a visa,” CIS reported.

“This administration seems intent to discriminate based on national origins in favor of some countries while ignoring green card waiting lists for other countries,” said Rosemary Jenks, vice president at NumbersUSA, an immigration-realist group. “This is not about deterring illegal immigration; this is about bringing additional people into the United States.”

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas hailed the new program as a model of the administration’s “holistic migration management strategy” that provided “a lawful and timely alternative to irregular migration,” moving forward Biden’s immigration goals.

“These new processes promote family unity and provide lawful pathways consistent with our laws and our values,” Mayorkas said. “The Department has proven that the expansion of safe, orderly, and lawful pathways, combined with strong enforcement, is effective in reducing dangerous, irregular migration to the United States.”

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