Investigative Journalist Says Biden Cover-Ups May Be Chinese Intel Operation

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Investigative Journalist Says Biden Cover-Ups May Be Chinese Intel Operation

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer said in a recent interview that cover-ups of the Biden family’s criminal activity by top current and former U.S. intelligence officials may be linked to Chinese influence campaigns within the U.S. government.

Schweizer, a Breitbart News senior contributor and president of the Government Accountability Institute, noted that the Bidens’ lack of cooperation with investigators raises major red flags regarding their foreign dealings—in particular, the highly questionable “business” dealings that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter had with the Chinese.

“Look, I think the investigation is ongoing,” Schweizer said.

“I think the evidence continues to mount,” he continued. “The Biden team will not answer a basic question, which is when it comes to China, for example, you have three Chinese businessmen that funneled tens of millions of dollars to you.”

Especially concerning for the Bidens is the fact that the Chinese businessmen with whom they have many connections can be affirmed by records in Hong Kong.

“Each one of those three—Chay Feng, Henry Zhao, Chairman Ye—all had direct abiding and deep ties to Chinese intelligence when they were arranging these ideals for the Bidens. And that is not me saying that. That’s according to Hong Kong corporate records.”

Biden’s connections to Feng and his colleagues go back several years, Feng being a former vice minister for state security in China with ties to the CCP.

Zhao, likewise, is a higher-up CCP official, and also lead the hedge fund Harvest Fund Management which allegedly profited Hunter, Joe and their family to the tune of millions of dollars.

Chairman Ye Jianming is the 40-year-old chairman of CEFC, one of the world’s largest energy companies, who has also lavished wealth onto Hunter Biden.

Schweizer also called for an investigative journalist to go into the belly of the beast and unearth the hidden secrets of the Biden-China ties.

“So what I would say some intrepid journalist needs to go to Jim Clapper and these other 50 intelligence experts and ask them does this not have the hallmark of a Chinese intelligence operation?” he continued, alluding to the 50 intelligence officials who signed the letter, in which they claimed they were deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a “significant role” in the Hunter Biden laptop story.

.According to Schweizer, an honest investigation would likely reveal Chinese intervention in American political life.

“And if I think they gave you an honest answer, the answer would be yes.”

Ukrainian Girl Wants to Go Home; Says San Francisco Too Violent, Cruel

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Ukrainian Girl Wants to Go Home; Says San Francisco Too Violent, Cruel

(Dominick Sansone, Headline USA) An eighth-grade Ukrainian refugee girl was shocked by the level of violence in the San Francisco public school system, frightened to the point of wanting to return to her homeland ravaged by war.

According to reporting by Breitbart, Yana settled in San Francisco with her mother as a refugee from the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The cruelty with which children in her classroom treated one another came as a surprise to her, as did the total disregard for authority exhibited by her classmates. She believes that children in Ukraine are less cruel to one another than those in the California city.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that students “interrupted classes, jumped on desks, cursed at teachers. At first, Yana wondered what was going on, but then, ‘nothing happened.’ Students were not disciplined or prevented from repeat behavior.”

Yana said she’d rather return to Ukraine and its battlefields, rather than continuing to face the turmoil of San Francisco. That became especially true after she became the target of ridicule and harassment.

“After one week, I understood that was normal,” said Yana

This story comes after the city voted last year to recall three school board members due to their radical far-left direction. Public outrage ensued when the oversight body refused to reopen schools following the COVID shutdowns and instead chose to concentrate on ideological issues.

This included renaming 44 schools, such as those named after George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, both of whom were declared to be “relics of a white supremacist history.”

However, this past January the board’s leftists regained a majority and moved quickly to fire the moderate serving as president.

The new president has not made any comment about addressing the type of violence and disregard for authority experienced by Yana in the San Francisco public school system.

Many parents have recently moved to pull their children out of the San Francisco Unified School District in favor of private or religious schools, while others have simply left the city.

Dem. Rep. Gave Congressional Awards to Possible Chinese Spies

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Dem. Rep. Gave Congressional Awards to Possible Chinese Spies

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., granted congressional awards to several individuals with ties to suspected Chinese Communist Party front groups suspected of spying on American citizens.

Chu has given out at least 10 awards of “Congressional Recognition” since becoming a representative in 2009.

According to the Daily Caller, all of the certificates were given when the recipients were affiliated with organizations identified as fronts for Chinese intelligence by the U.S. government.

Many of the awardees also have a record of donating to Chu’s campaigns.

The majority of Chu’s awarded constituents are former members of either the China Overseas Exchange Association or the China Overseas Friendship Association. The two groups merged in 2019.

Officials studying Chinese influence in the U.S. said that both COEA and COFA operate under the United Front Work Department, which is a Chinese government agency. Their stated mission is to “extend the CCP’s influence and control over non-Party organizations both domestically and abroad to advance the CCP’s policy objectives.”

That assessment has also been independently verified.

“Yes, COEA and COFA are front groups for the UFWD,” said Ina Mitchell, co-author of The Mosaic Effect: How The Chinese Communist Party Started A War In America’s Backyard.

Chu awarded a Certificate of Congressional Recognition to Stephen Sham in 2018 for being the first Chinese American to serve as mayor of Alhambra, Calif.

The town is within Chu’s 28th Congressional district.

Sham formerly served as COFA’s director, working to “shape international public opinion of China abroad.”

“COFA fulfills its mission through elite capture and public diplomacy with Western political figures,” Mitchell said. “There are thousands and thousands of United Front groups. It’s not hard for us to identify them, but the public doesn’t see it.”

Chu herself has several suspected ties to the CCP via the Forums if Peaceful Reunification in China, where she was named “honorary chairwoman.”

WaPo Columnist Argues for Using ‘Shame’ to Sway Conservative Judges

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WaPo Columnist Argues for Using ‘Shame’ to Sway Conservative Judges

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A corporate media journalist at the Washington Post openly stated that the Left’s court strategy is using shame to force conservative judges to conform to their dogmas.

In a recently-published op-ed, journalist Perry Bacon Jr. claimed that, because the judiciary in the United States often hinders “progress,” the left must find ways to circumvent the rule of law, Fox News reported.

“America’s judiciary is dominated by conservatives issuing an endless stream of rulings that help corporations, the rich and the bigoted while hurting working-class people, women and minorities in particular,” he wrote, noting that the conservative justices on the Supreme Court pose a particular problem.

“Biden’s lower-court appointees must follow the precedents set by the Republican-dominated U.S. Supreme Court or their rulings will be overturned. Meanwhile, the high court usually allows very-right-wing opinions issued by lower-level conservative judges to remain in place.”

Since the courts tend to get in the way of progress, Bacon therefore concluded that there is only one way to ram through the agenda needed to create his leftist utopia: public shame and terror.

“So at least in the short term, there is only one real option to rein in America’s overly conservative judiciary: shame.”

His op-ed continued with refreshing honesty about the political situation as it currently stands, as he called for a coordinated attack by all of the major left-wing institutions against conservatives in the courts.

“Democratic politicians, left-leaning activist groups, newspaper editorial boards and other influential people and institutions need to start relentlessly blasting Republican-appointed judges. A sustained campaign of condemnation isn’t going to push these judges to write liberal opinions, but it could chasten them toward more moderate ones.”

In the longer term, Bacon noted that the strategy for the left should be far more radical, including but not limited to major constitutional overhauls such as “term limits for Supreme Court justices,” “court-packing” and “limitations of federal judges’ ability to invalidate legislation.”

Catholic Bishop Murdered in Los Angeles

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Catholic Bishop Murdered in Los Angeles

(Headline USA) A Catholic bishop in Southern California was shot and killed Saturday just blocks from a church, a slaying of a longtime priest hailed as a “peacemaker” that’s stunned the Los Angeles religious community, authorities said.

Detectives are investigating the death of Bishop David O’Connell as a homicide, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Authorities have not said whether the bishop was targeted in the shooting or if his religion was a factor in the killing. The sheriff’s department would not say how or specifically where his body was discovered. The shooter — or shooters — remain at-large.

O’Connell, 69, had been a priest for 45 years and was a native of Ireland, according to Angelus News, the archdiocese’s news outlet. Pope Francis had named him one of several auxiliary bishops of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles — the largest in the country — in 2015.

O’Connell worked in South Los Angeles for years and focused on gang intervention, Angelus News reported. He later sought to broker peace between residents and law enforcement following the violent 1992 uprising after a jury acquitted four white LA police officers in the beating of Rodney King, a Black man.

Nearly two decades later, O’Connell brought the San Gabriel Valley community together to rebuild a mission there after an arson attack and in recent years spearheaded Catholic efforts in the region to work with immigrant children and families from Central America.

O’Connell was found in Hacienda Heights around 1 p.m. Saturday with a gunshot wound. Sheriff’s deputies were called to the area — just blocks from the St. John Vianney Catholic Church, which is part of O’Connell’s archdiocese — on a report of a medical emergency.

Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene, the sheriff’s department said. The archdiocese said O’Connell lived in Hacienda Heights — an unincorporated community about 20 miles (30 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles — but it was not immediately clear whether he was found at his home or elsewhere.

Masses at churches across the region were dedicated to O’Connell on Sunday. Neighbors and parishioners left flowers and candles and prayed the rosary next to police tape in Hacienda Heights. About 50 people prayed and sang in a vigil Sunday afternoon near part of the neighborhood surrounded by crime scene tape.

“I’ve been crying for two days, every time I think of him,” said Ramona Torres, who has been a lector in her church for more than 30 years and would often read at Masses that O’Connell was conducting.

Gabriela Gil first met O’Connell when she was pregnant with her youngest child after a Catholic school Mass.

“I asked him if he would pray over my belly,” she told The Associated Press as she and her family paid their respects at the crime scene.

A mother of seven, Gil would talk to O’Connell about her sons and daughters and her faith over the years. “I’ve never ever felt more understood by anyone in this world,” she said, adding that she originally thought he had died of a heart attack or some medical emergency.

News of his killing stunned her — just last year, O’Connell had presided over her son’s confirmation.

“I saw him in the parking lot before the Mass started and he was just going out for a little walk, praying his rosary,” she said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Health Care Workers Still Subjected to Vaccine Mandates

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Health Care Workers Still Subjected to Vaccine Mandates

(Headline USA) One year after it began being enforced nationwide on Feb. 20, 2022, the vaccination mandate affecting an estimated 10 million health care workers is the last remaining major mandate from President Joe Biden’s sweeping attempt to boost national vaccination rates. Similar requirements for large employers, military members and federal contractors all have been struck down, repealed or partially blocked.

The health care vaccination mandate is scheduled to run until November 2024. But some contend it’s time to stop now, citing fewer severe COVID-19 cases, health care staffing shortages and the impending May 11 expiration of a national public health emergency that has been in place since January 2020.

“Their regulations are making it harder to give care – not easier,” said Tim Corbin, the administrator of Truman Lake Manor who also doubles as a nurse, adding that “the mandates need to end.”

The policy requires workers, contractors and volunteers at facilities receiving Medicare or Medicaid payments to have the full primary dosage of an original COVID-19 vaccine.

The Republican-led U.S. House recently passed legislation that would halt the mandate, but the bill is unlikely to pass in the Democratic-led Senate.

Meanwhile, the requirement continues with mixed results and — in some cases — widespread exceptions.

It’s hard to find workers willing to be vaccinated, Corbin said, because many local residents remain opposed to the vaccine or doubt its effectiveness. Just 42% of adults in St. Clair County are vaccinated against COVID-19 — a rate barely half the national average.

Workforce shortages are causing more than half of nursing homes nationally to limit resident admissions, according to the American Health Care Association, which represents long-term care facilities. Though most other health care sectors have rebounded, nursing home employment was down 13% in 2022 compared to pre-pandemic levels and reached lows not seen since the 1990s.

Nationwide, about 5% of the over 15,000 nursing homes caring for Medicare or Medicaid patients have been cited for violating the COVID-19 vaccination requirement, and about 2% of the 4,900 hospitals, according to the AP’s analysis. But those citations haven’t been evenly spread among states and occurred less often during the latter half of 2022.

Twenty-four states cited no hospitals for COVID-19 vaccination violations.

Texas, which has the most nursing homes nationally participating in Medicare or Medicaid, had just one nursing home cited for violating the vaccination rule.

Kansas, Florida and Texas each declined to check for vaccination violations, instead leaving that process to CMS, which hired contractors. As a result, CMS said Texas was docked more than $2.5 million in federal funding, Florida more than $1.2 million and Kansas nearly $350,000.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat who faced reelection in a Republican-leaning state, said last year that the vaccine mandate conflicted with state law and could worsen workforce shortages.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

14th ‘Self-Driving’ Tesla Hits Roadside Emergency Vehicle

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14th ‘Self-Driving’ Tesla Hits Roadside Emergency Vehicle

(Headline USA) A Tesla driver was killed and a passenger was critically injured Saturday when the self-driving car plowed into a fire truck that was parked on a Northern California freeway to shield a crew clearing another accident, fire officials said.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating how Tesla’s Autopilot system detects and responds to emergency vehicles parked on highways. At least 14 Teslas have crashed into emergency vehicles while using the system.

Four firefighters who were in the truck when it was struck on Interstate 680 were treated for minor injuries, said Tracie Dutter, assistant chief of the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.

The driver was declared dead at the scene, Dutter said. The car needed to be cut open to remove the passenger, who was taken to the hospital.

Photos showed the front end of the car was crushed and the $1.4 million ladder truck was damaged.

California Highway Patrol Officer Adam Lane said it was not clear whether the driver may have been intoxicated or whether the Tesla Model S was operating with automation or driving assistance features.

Dutter said the truck had its lights on and was parked diagonally on northbound lanes of the freeway to protect responders to an earlier accident that did not result in injuries.

The fatal accident occurred around 4 a.m., and it took several hours to clear the freeway. The firetruck had to be towed away.

The Model S was among the nearly 363,000 vehicles Tesla recalled on Thursday because of potential flaws in its “Full Self-Driving” system. While the recall is aimed at correcting possible problems at intersections and with speed limits, it comes amid a broader investigation by U.S. safety regulators into Tesla’s automated driving systems.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

 

Trump Has Big Lead Over DeSantis in Primary Polling

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Trump Has Big Lead Over DeSantis in Primary Polling

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) President Donald Trump has amassed a significant lead over Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis in their race to win the Republican nomination for President in the 2024 election, according to several polling outlets.

Rasmussen, one of the few polls that has regularly correctly projected elections including President Trump, reports that its polling estimated Trump held a lead of 13 points as of Friday, as reported by Breitbart News. The poll included 900 people, 45% said they preferred Trump to DeSantis in a head-to-head matchup, while 32% said they preferred DeSantis to Trump.

Another poll, this one by Harvard and Harris, shows Trump up over DeSantis by 23 points. It was also released on Friday, as reported by RealClear Politics.

Yet another poll, this one by Quinnipiac, projected Trump to have a smaller lead, 6 points, and was released on Thursday.

Another poll, this one by Reuters shows President Trump up by 12 points and was released on Tuesday.

These polls follow the established pattern of polling as reported by RealClearPolitics.

The Polls show Trump consistently leading DeSantis, and almost all of these leads are above the standard margin of error.

The highest projected Trump lead was 58 points in November in a poll taken by Harvard and Harris.

The smallest projected lead was 5 points in December in a poll by Cygnal.

The RealClearPolitics average shows Trump up by 15.4 points.

DeSantis, though down in the polls, has received outside help while trying to secure the nomination. George Soros, the infamous globalist oligarch, recently attacked Trump while praising DeSantis.

“DeSantis is shrewd, ruthless, and ambitious,” Soros said. “He is likely to be the Republican candidate.”

“[Trump] has turned into a pitiful figure continually bemoaning his loss in 2020. Big Republican donors are abandoning him in droves.”

Soros continued to attack Trump.

“Trump is a deeply flawed character, a confidence trickster whose narcissism grew into a disease,” he said. “As president, he was more interested in hobnobbing with dictators than in promoting democratic principles.”

Calif. Teachers Union Doesn’t Hire Straight People

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Calif. Teachers Union Doesn’t Hire Straight People

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The California Teachers Association decided to offer a scholarship available only to LGBT students, even though the Biden administration’s Title IX rule specifically prohibits any discrimination based on sexuality.

According to the scholarship website, “self-identified LGBTQ+” union members who pursue a career in public education can apply for the LGBTQ+ Safety in Schools Program to receive a scholarship of up to $2,500.

“The LGBTQ+ Safety in Schools Grant and Scholarship Program in Honor of Guy DeRosa was created to promote human and civil rights by making our public schools safe for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning+ persons (LGBTQ+),” the website stated.

Even though the Biden administration extended the prohibition of discrimination based on sex in Title IX to include sexual orientation and gender identity in June and stated that schools and educational institutions that did not comply would lose funding, the hypocritical White House controlled by Democrats seems indifferent to the California Teachers Association discriminating against straight people, according to the Daily Signal.

When you apply for the scholarship, the application’s drop-down menu asks teachers to identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or “queer/questioning+ person,” without providing an option for normal people.

“This scholarship program appears to apply only to ‘self-identified LGBTQ+’ people, which means that it discriminates against people whose gender identity or sexual orientation does not fall under that umbrella,” GianCarlo Canaparo, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, said.

“If this program receives federal funds, then under the Biden administration’s interpretation of Title IX, it is unlawful.”

The California Teachers Association, a state branch of the National Education Association, also had a history of pushing radical LGBT ideology on students by hosting webinars on the concepts of the so-called “preferred personal pronouns” and “gender identity” starting in pre-kindergarten and promoting Black Lives Matter at School Week curriculum, which included lessons on “transgender affirmation” and “queer affirmation.”

Teachers who apply for the position must write essays on experiences or a personal philosophy that would benefit the LBGT public school community. Essays must also cover the importance of role models for “LGBTQ+ ethnic minorities,” incorporate the applying teacher’s involvement in LGBT education, and demonstrate “an understanding of the importance of LGBTQ+ role models” in schools.

“Don’t expect the Biden administration to enforce its interpretation against its ideological allies,” Canaparo said. “It does not believe in equal laws and equal rights.”

Soros Calls for Weather Control to Stop ‘Climate Change’

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Soros Calls for Weather Control to Stop ‘Climate Change’

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A leftist billionaire George Soros said that to save the planet from “climate change,” people should start using experimental weather technology.

Soros, whose “nonprofit” Open Society Foundations donated millions of dollars to climate alarmism groups, said during his Thursday speech at the Munich Security Conference that he discovered a process of creating white clouds to reflect sunlight away from warm areas of the planet to see if people may prevent ice sheets from melting, according to Fox News. He explained that melting ice sheets in Greenland, in particular, could lead to the doom of human civilization.

“Our civilization is in danger of collapsing because of the inexorable advance of climate change,” Soros said.

“The melting of the Greenland ice sheet would increase the level of the oceans by seven meters. That poses a threat to the survival of our civilization,” he added.

“I wasn’t willing to accept that fate, so I tried to find out whether anything could be done to avoid it. I was directed to Sir David King, a climate scientist who had been chief scientific advisor to previous British governments.”

In 2019, Sir David King, the former U.K. special envoy on climate change and chief scientific adviser, founded the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University to further study and pursue refreezing the Arctic, carbon emission reduction and greenhouse gas removal. According to King, to do that, scientists would use man-made clouds to reflect the sunlight away from the North Pole, the South Pole and the Himalayas in the summer.

At the same time, similar methods of weather control to fight “climate change” like solar geoengineering have been roundly criticized by scientists.

“The risks of solar geoengineering are poorly understood and can never be fully known. Impacts will vary across regions, and there are uncertainties about the effects on weather patterns, agriculture and the provision of basic needs of food and water,” dozens of scientists wrote in an open letter to governments last year, telling them that using such technologies should be prohibited.

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