Border Agents Being Sent to Vermont as Ilegals Surge Across Northern Border

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Border Agents Being Sent to Vermont as Ilegals Surge Across Northern Border

(Headline USA) Border agents are being reassigned from the U.S. southern border to the northern border with Canada as illegal crossings from the north surge, according to reports.

Border Patrol is reportedly begging agents to volunteer along the northern border after hundreds of mostly-Mexican illegal immigrants entered into the country from Canada last month. The agency said illegal crossings across the Canadian border are up a stagger 850%.

Northern states such as Vermont are under immense “strain caused by the surge,” said Robert Garcia, chief patrol agent for Vermont’s Swanton Sector. 

“Due to the increased numbers, stations are task saturated with processing large groups, which has contributed” to more migrants being able to slip into the country, Garcia wrote in a memo.

In the first four months of the current fiscal year, which started in October, Vermont’s sector has seen more encounters with illegals than the whole of the previous two years combined, Garcia said. Last month alone, agents in the area recorded 367 apprehensions and encounters.

Southern border officials admitted that illegal immigration from the north is often forgotten because the volume at the U.S.–Mexico border is “astronomical.”

However, that’s very likely why so many migrants are now trying to enter the country via the northern border, said Chris Clem, the former patrol chief for the Yuma sector in Arizona.

“Chief Garcia is a phenomenal agent … If he’s asking for help, we do know that we’ve got a problem up there,” he said.

Sean Walsh, president of the Swanton Sector of the National Border Patrol Council, said Canada’s officials bear as much blame for the growing migrant crisis as does the Biden administration.

“They’re not saying anything,” Walsh said of Canada’s leadership. “They’re allowing it to happen. The visas in place, they are allowed to travel a lot easier. They fly into Montreal, Ontario, and you name it across Canada, and these cartels and smuggling organizations are making money hand over fist.”

Ohio Residents Not Impressed w/ EPA Ordering Norfolk Southern to Cleanup Toxic Mess

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Ohio Residents Not Impressed w/ EPA Ordering Norfolk Southern to Cleanup Toxic Mess

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) The same government officials who for weeks have been dodging accountability for the toxic train explosion in Ohio that unfolded under the supervision of the Biden regime’s Transportation Department, have ordered the same company that reportedly created the disaster to clean it up.

While President Joe Biden was being roundly criticized for not only visiting Kyiv this week instead of Ohio, but also for doling out another $500 million in largess to Ukraine, his Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced it had “ordered Norfolk Southern to conduct all necessary actions associated with the cleanup from the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment.”

As part of its mandate, the EPA said it will “approve a workplan outlining all steps necessary to clean up the environmental damage caused by the derailment. If the company fails to complete any actions as ordered by EPA, the agency would conduct “the necessary work” and try to force the rail titan to pay triple the cost.

“The Norfolk Southern train derailment has upended the lives of East Palestine families, and EPA’s order will ensure the company is held accountable for jeopardizing the health and safety of this community,” said EPA chief Michael S. Regan. “Let me be clear: Norfolk Southern will pay for cleaning up the mess they created and for the trauma they’ve inflicted on this community.” 

The tough talk did little to mollify East Palestine Mayor Trent Conoway, who told Fox News that the people of his town are still struggling and have received little government assistance.

“That was the biggest slap in the face that tells you right now he doesn’t care about us,” Conoway said of Biden’s visit to Ukraine and his administration’s continued snubbing of Ohio.

“He can send every agency he wants to,” Conoway said, adding that so far all the government intervention has proved scant benefit. When he learned that Biden “was giving millions of dollars away to people over there and not us, then I’m furious,” he said. “That tells you what kind of guy he is.”

Biden’s embattled Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has yet to step foot in Ohio after the toxic explosion, said he would eventually try to clear some space on his calendar.

“I am planning to go,” Buttigieg told Good Morning America. “But when I go, the focus is going to be on action.”

Meanwhile, another train has derailed under Buttigieg’s action-packed oversight.

CDC Stealth-Updated Vinyl Chloride Page Days Before Ohio Derailment

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CDC Stealth-Updated Vinyl Chloride Page Days Before Ohio Derailment

(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doctored its page on vinyl chloride, a toxic chemical, a few days before Norfolk Southern Railroad’s train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio on Feb. 3 and spilled the gas.

In January, the CDC amended the nearly four-decade-old guidance on vinyl chloride exposure. The CDC determined the original guidance in 1987 and had not updated it since 2006, Evie reported.

The new guidance, dated January 2023, took out a warning about vinyl chloride’s effects on children, though it maintains that “vinyl chloride” is “known to be a human carcinogen.”

The CDC removed two sections: “How can vinyl chloride affect children?” and “Has the federal government made recommendations to protect human health?”

Under a pdf link to vinyl chloride’s ToxGuide, the CDC still has the old statement that “infants and young children might be more susceptible than adults to vinyl-chloride induced cancer,” but it is not on the main webpage.

The page does not seem to have the previous warning that “studies in animals suggest that vinyl chloride might affect growth and development.”

Under the Medical Management Guidelines for Acute Chemical Exposure, the CDC further claims that “vinyl chloride is not considered a developmental toxicant.”

The new CDC guidance admits that inhaling “high levels of vinyl chloride can cause you to feel dizzy or sleepy…cause you to pass out…or cause “death” at extremely high levels.

But the CDC pushes the blame on its preferred scapegoat: tobacco products. The website does not mention chemical spills but does advise families to limit their “cigarette or cigar smoke” because they emit vinyl chloride.

Workers also need “protective eye wear, clothing, gloves, and when needed, respiratory protection,” but as for the most important markers of health, air and water, the CDC has little to say.

“Vinyl chloride in water or soil evaporates rapidly if it is near the surface,” the CDC website states. “Vinyl chloride in the air breaks down in a few days to other substances, some of which can be harmful.”

CNN Admits Kyiv Air-Raid Sirens Were Part of Staged Biden Photo-Op

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CNN Admits Kyiv Air-Raid Sirens Were Part of Staged Biden Photo-Op

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) CNN admitted that air-raid sirens were turned on in the city of Kyiv in order to secure a full theatrical effect during President Joe Biden’s visit to Ukraine.

CNN senior national security correspondent Alex Marquardt made the admission earlier this week that the sirens had been off until the president’s arrival, Resist the Mainstream reported.

“I’ve been here for the past five days,” Marquardt noted. “I have not heard any explosions, I have not heard any air sirens until about a half an hour ago, right when President Biden was in the center of Kyiv.”

The New York Times also joined in the melodrama, publishing a report titled “Biden Visits Embattled Ukraine as Air-Raid Sirens Sound.”

“There were air raid sirens as Mr Biden arrived with his cavalcade in the capital, adding a sense of drama and giving Mr Biden a glimpse of what citizens across the country have been dealing with for almost 12 months, as we reach the anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s invasion,” Yahoo! News added, emphasizing Biden’s bravery.

Biden’s visit lasted approximately five hours, and included a meeting with degenerate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

In a follow-up interview, Biden gave a run down of how much money and supplies he has sent from the United States to Zelenskyy, and also committed $500 million in further funding.

“Together, we’ve committed nearly 700 tanks and thousands of armored vehicles. 1,000 artillery systems, more than 2 million rounds of artillery ammunition, more than 50 advanced launch rocket systems, anti-ship and air defense systems, all to defend Ukraine,” Biden said. “And that doesn’t count the other half a billion dollars we’re announcing with you today and tomorrow that’s going to be coming your way.”

Of course Sleepy Joe is not the first Biden to visit Ukraine, given the money that has flowed from the foreign nation into the pockets of his family.

Dems Fume over MTG’s Call for Nat’l Divorce, 3 Years after Plotting to Secede

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Dems Fume over MTG’s Call for Nat’l Divorce, 3 Years after Plotting to Secede

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) After Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., called for a national divorce between red and blue states, numerous leftists fell into a state of hysteria, American Wire News reported.

“We need a national divorce,” Greene wrote on Twitter.

“We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done,” she wrote to mark the occasion of President’s Day by suggesting that red and blue states should go their own way.

RINO political pundit and corporate media hack David French was quick to condemn MTG for her “dangerous” rhetoric.

French’s sentiments were shared by Cenk Uyger, the founder of The Young Turks–an liberal activist group of foreigners who live in the United States.

According to Uyger, MGT does not care enough about equality, and she and millions of other Americans are traitors.

MTG’s tweet even drew a reaction from Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, who suggested that such notions were evil.

“This rhetoric is destructive and wrong and—honestly—evil,” Cox wrote on Twitter. “We don’t need a divorce, we need marriage counseling. And we need elected leaders that don’t profit by tearing us apart. We can disagree without hate. Healthy conflict was critical to our nation’s founding and survival.”

Of course numerous leftists called for national divorce just before the 2020 election.

In an attempt to hold the nation hostage, more than 50 progressive groups met just before that election to discuss what they would do if Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden lost to then President Donald Trump—or if Biden won and Trump refused to concede.

They concluded that violence and national divorce would be the most likely answers.

Kimberly Guilfoyle Hits Back after Smear by Ex-Hubby Gavin Newsom

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Kimberly Guilfoyle Hits Back after Smear by Ex-Hubby Gavin Newsom

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Last week California Gov. Gavin Newsom offered a theory as to why his ex-wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle, is now engaged to Donald Trump, Jr.

According to the COVID-lockdown specialist, “she was a different person” at the time of their marriage. Now, he claims, she was infected by Fox News, where she worked from 2006 to 2018.

“She’s whip smart, and she fell prey, I think, to the culture at Fox in a deep way,” he said. “She would disagree with that assessment. She’d perhaps suggest she found the light.”

But Guilfoyle, not pleased with her ex-husband’s public airing of his problems with her, noted that Gavin has taken a hard Left, the Daily Mail reported.

“I didn’t change, [Newsom] did,” Guilfoyle said in an interview earlier this week.

“He used to be so proud to fight for small business, for entrepreneurs, for those hard-working men and women. And he’s fallen prey to the Left, the radical Left, that is pushing him so far to the Left that it’s unrecognizable.”

She also noted that since her teenage years she has been a “proud Republican and conservative.”

Guilfoyle and Newsom were married for five years before getting divorced in 2006.

During that time they rubbed shoulders with liberal elites.

“We were close to Kamala [Harris],” Newsom lamented. “She knew her well, and she was spending a lot of time in Democratic circles.”

Newsom is now married to a woman more befitting a leftist of his stature: Jennifer Newsom, who helped to found an organization that created a film for middle school students that shows them sexually explicit images from Pornhub to groom children and teach them about the so-called “gender” roles and stereotypes in society.

She also went to serial rapist Harvey Weinstein, begging for help after Gov. Newsom cheated on her.

CNN Requires Don Lemon to Undergo Sensitivity Training

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CNN Requires Don Lemon to Undergo Sensitivity Training

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Corporate media hack and CNN personality Don Lemon will undergo sensitivity training following a recent on-air remark that many considered to be sexist, Fox News reported.

Last week Lemon, commenting on Republican Nikki Haley’s recent announcement that she would run for president in 2024, noted that Haley is past her prime, much to the chagrin of his middle-aged co-hosts.

“A woman is considered to be in their prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s,” Lemon said, persisting in his approach even as co-hosts Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow tried to restrain their anger toward him.

According to CNN boss Chris Licht, he met with Lemon to arrange sensitivity training sessions, even as female CNN staffers threaten to quit if he remains on air.

“I sat down with Don and had a frank and meaningful conversation,” Licht said. “He has agreed to participate in formal training, as well as continuing to listen and learn. We take this situation very seriously.”

Licht also noted that Lemon’s time-out will only be temporary.

“It is important to me that CNN balances accountability with a fostering a culture in which people can own, learn and grow from their mistakes,” Licht said. “To that end, Don will return to CNN This Morning on Wednesday.”

Lemon had previously attempted to apologize—first to his coworkers and boss, and then publicly—noting that because he is friends with many women, his insults are fine.

“The people I am closest to in this organization are women,” Lemon said in an email to his coworkers, according to the New York Post.

“The people I seek counsel to first in this organization are women,” he continued. “The person I am closest to is my mother, a woman.”

Haley, who is 51 years old, had called for “mandatory mental competency tests” for politicians over the age of 75, leading Lemon to mock her for being past her prime.

But some interpreted the remark as a vailed dig at Collins and Harlow. Tension has been building between Lemon and his co-hosts for some time now.

According to several insider sources, the seasoned veteran approached the relatively new Collins after a show in early December to berate her publicly for interrupting him during the broadcast.

“Don screamed at Kaitlan, who was visibly upset and ran out of the studio,” one source with knowledge of the rift told the New York Post.

Another source noted that Collins now avoids Lemon as much as she can.

“At this point, Kaitlan wants to be on set with Don as little as possible,” the source said. “It’s messy.”

Putin Suspends Russian Participation in Nuclear Pact as Biden Wanders Europe

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Putin Suspends Russian Participation in Nuclear Pact as Biden Wanders Europe

(Headline USA) Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States, moving the two countries that much closer to nuclear confrontation.

Putin’s announcement, made Tuesday in his state-of-the-nation address, would suspend Moscow’s participation in the New START Treaty.

The pact, signed in 2010 by the U.S. and Russia, caps the number of long-range nuclear warheads the two sides can deploy and limits the use of missiles that can carry atomic weapons.

Putin also said Russia should stand ready to resume nuclear weapons tests if the U.S. does so, a move that would end a global ban on such tests in place since the Cold War era.

Putin’s announcement comes on the heels of President Joe Biden making a surprise visit to Ukraine and announcing a new $500 million weapons package for Kyiv—also making pundits scratch their heads by pledging “700 tanks,” when the U.S. has only officially pledged to send 31 Abrams tanks thus far.

Putin said in his address that both his country and Ukraine are victims of Western governments’ desire to continue the war.

“We aren’t fighting the Ukrainian people,” Putin said ahead of the war’s first anniversary Friday. “The Ukrainian people have become hostages of the Kyiv regime and its Western masters, which have effectively occupied the country.”

The speech reiterated a litany of grievances he has frequently offered as justification for the widely condemned military campaign while vowing no military letup in a conflict that has reawakened Cold War fears.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described Moscow’s decision as “really unfortunate and very irresponsible.”

However, neither Blinken nor any other U.S. diplomat have called for a cease fire or peace negotiations.

In fact, Biden has called for regime change in Moscow, while numerous U.S. officials have thrown their support behind Ukraine retaking Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.

Moreover, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in an interview published earlier this month that the Biden administration actively sabotaged peace talks he attempted to broker last year.

Legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh further demonstrated the Biden administration’s provocations this month in a blockbuster article, which details how Biden ordered the Pentagon and CIA to devise a plan to explode Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipelines last September.

Biden gave his own speech later Tuesday. He did not directly respond to Putin’s decision to suspend participation in the arms treaty.

Biden warned that there were “hard and bitter days ahead,” but pledged that the United States and its allies would “have Ukraine’s back” as the war enters its second year.

“Democracies of the world will stand guard over freedom today, tomorrow and forever,” he said at the Royal Castle, a historical landmark in Warsaw, before a cheering crowd of Polish citizens and Ukrainian refugees.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that Biden’s address was not intended as “some kind of head to head” with Putin’s.

“This is not a rhetorical contest with anyone else,” he said.

On Wednesday, Biden plans to meet again with Duda along with other leaders of the Bucharest Nine, a group of the easternmost members of NATO military alliance.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

Headline USA staff writer Ken Silva contributed to this report. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Biden Deal Gives WHO Authority over Future U.S. Pandemic Responses

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Biden Deal Gives WHO Authority over Future U.S. Pandemic Responses

(Dominick Sansone, Headline USA) The Biden administration is taking steps to hand over the country’s pandemic decision-making authority to the World Health Organization, the Epoch Times reported.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra met with WHO Director–General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus earlier this month to lay the groundwork for a pandemic treaty under the banner of bringing “the world together equitably.”

The “zero draft” of the treaty grants the WHO authority in declaring and managing a “global pandemic emergency.”

This includes control over “[medical] treatments, government regulations such as lockdowns and vaccine mandates, global supply chains, and monitoring and surveillance of populations,” going all the way down to primary-care physicians.

The effect would be to create a world police state that issues medical decrees—including the mandate of newly developed and previously untested vaccines, as well as preventing doctors from prescribing any type of alternative non-vaccine treatments.

The treaty would need to be ratified by Congress in order to be legally instituted in the U.S. according to international law. However, a “provisional” stipulation means that it can be legally binding on signature countries before ratification.

This comes after the Biden administration experienced legal difficulties imposing mask and vaccine mandates during the COVID pandemic from the federal level. Health care is largely under the control of U.S. states.

The zero draft additionally calls for signees to implement “One Health surveillance” that maintains control over the control of medical information related to the pandemic.

This includes targeting and countering anything that the WHO declares to be mis- or disinformation.

During his tenure in the Oval Office, then-President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the WHO, citing its deep levels of corruption and complicity in helping China cover up the origins of the pandemic.

Upon taking over, President Joe Biden moved quickly to reenter the country into the international organization.

Universities Spend $521K on Speeches by 1619 Project Author

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Universities Spend $521K on Speeches by 1619 Project Author

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) Across the country, universities are hiring journalist and author of the 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, to speak to students on issues of race and history. Her lucrative speaking fees cost students and taxpayers.

Just 12 universities have paid a combined $521,000 in speaking fees to Hannah-Jones.

The 1619 Project is a New York Times project that “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.”

Its controversial narrative and the facts it puts forth have been questioned, including the incorrect claim “that the patriots fought the American Revolution in large part to preserve slavery in North America,” as disputed in Politico by a Northwestern University history professor and author of two books on slavery.

“Despite my advice, the Times published the incorrect statement about the American Revolution anyway, in Hannah-Jones’ introductory essay,” Leslie M. Harris wrote in Politico.

According to an investigation by the Daily Wire, Hannah-Jones was hired for 33 speaking engagements in 2022. Of those, 12 were at publicly-funded entities, and averaged $43,000 per engagement, often for speeches lasting about an hour.

Assuming all 33 engagements cost the average of $43,000, Hannah-Jones would have made $1.4 million in speaker fees in 2022 alone.

In her most lucrative engagement, Hannah-Jones was paid $101,700 for about 24 hours of work at Indiana University. This included her participation in four classroom discussions, her attendance at a dinner party, and a one-hour speaking engagement, followed by a book signing. Out-of-state students pay $39,000 in tuition and fees to attend Indiana University.

In another lucrative deal, Northern Illinois University paid Hannah-Jones $30,000 to speak on Zoom. In addition to public and private universities, other venues included public libraries and embassies.

Private universities and other private entities can spend their money as they see fit, but taxpayers that fund public universities and public libraries should not be on the hook for $43,000 speeches.

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