Univ. of Delaware, Which Houses Biden’s Senate Archives, Caught Hiding Chinese Donations

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Univ. of Delaware, Which Houses Biden’s Senate Archives, Caught Hiding Chinese Donations

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The University of Delaware has received millions of dollars in donations from China, including some directly from the Chinese government, since Joe Biden set up a program at the school in his name.

The Government Accountability Institute discovered the anonymous Chinese funds flowing into the Biden Institute at UD, as reported Monday by the Drilldown.

According to Breitbart, Biden founded the institute in 2017, just after his second term as vice president.

“Part of Biden’s vision for the institute is an annual conference at UD, similar to the World Economic Forum or the Aspen Institute,” said the announcement of the new addition the school.

At the time of the announcement, several members of the Biden family, including his son Hunter, were actively pursuing business ventures with high-ranking Chinese officials.

Before the implementation of the Biden Institute on UD’s campus, there were no disclosed donations from the Chinese government or any officials related to the eastern power.

A year after the Biden Institute was announced, payments of millions of dollars started pouring in—the first adding up to $3,204,070 from an anonymous donor in China.

Several other payments of either millions or hundreds of thousands continue to pour into the institute.

At least three of the donations are confirmed to be from a “Foreign Government Source.”

The idea for the institute originated with Hunter Biden. He and his business partner, Eric Schwerin, met with UD’s then-incoming president, Dennis Assanis, in order to get the plans to build the “Biden brand” while his father was still in office.

The younger Biden was very concerned about the elder Biden’s “future earnings potential.”

In addition to the Biden Institute, the University of Delaware is currently in possession of some 1,800 boxes worth Biden’s official Senate records and consistently rejects requests from people hoping to study them.

Calls for a federal raid of the archives emerged after several boxes of classified materials, some dating back to Biden’s Senate days, were discovered at locations including his home in Wilmingon, Del., and his office at the Penn Biden Center think tank in Washington, D.C.

The global-policy think-tank is run through the University of Pennsylvania, which also accepted multi-million-dollar donations from anonymous foreign investors. Those donations roughly tripled after the opening of the Penn Biden Center, in March 2017.

Prior to running for office, both Biden and now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken drew substantial salaries from the center.

Rolling Stone: Trump Is Considering Return of Public Executions if Re-Elected

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Rolling Stone: Trump Is Considering Return of Public Executions if Re-Elected

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump will reportedly consider bringing back public executions if he is re-elected in 2024, Rolling Stone reported.

The music magazine, which has a history of unreliable reporting on serious topics, claimed Trump had been asking some of his closest advisors, “What do you think of firing squads?”

The report also claimed that the former president has mused about “bringing back death by firing squad, by hanging, and, according to two of the sources, possibly even by guillotine.”

An unnamed source who reportedly had direct knowledge of the matter told Rolling Stone that Trump felt public executions, especially if televised, would deter violent criminals.

“The [former] president believes this would help put the fear of God into violent criminals,” this source says. “He wanted to do some of these [things] when he was in office, but for whatever reasons didn’t have the chance.”

A spokesman for Trump denied that Trump had speculated about video advertisements promoting capital punishment, Breitbart reported.

“More ridiculous and fake news from idiots who have no idea what they’re talking about,” he wrote. “Either these people are fabricating lies out of thin air, or Rolling Stone is allowing themselves to be duped by these morons.”

The journalists at the Rolling Stone have ripped on Trump for years for his pro-law policies.

According to a previous report, celebrated President Joe Biden for suspending capital punishment at the federal level, Trump went on a “killing spree” during his final months in office.

The report cited the allegedly murderous former president’s recent campaign announcement, in which he promoted the enforcement of laws as a major part of his platform.

“The former president is running again—and opened his 2024 campaign with a speech that promised more executions if he wins: ‘We’re going to be asking [for] everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts,'” said the magazine.

Rolling Stone also noted that “Donald Trump’s enthusiasm for the death penalty dates back decades,” making referenc to his having taken out an advertisement on the front page of a 1989 issue of the New York Daily News to condemn the brutal rape of a female jogger in the city.

“Bring back the death penalty. Bring back our police,” the ad said.

Marxism Alert: Dem. Rep. Says Traditional Families Are ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Un-American’

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Marxism Alert: Dem. Rep. Says Traditional Families Are ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Un-American’

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A South Dakota lawmaker recently implied that traditional, two-parent families were “dangerous” and “un-American” while attacking the Family Heritage Alliance for saying that the safest place for a child is a married home with a mother and a father.

State Rep. Erin Healy, a Democrat, even went as far as calling the Christian, pro-values organization an “extremist group” in a tweet posted Monday, the Daily Caller reported.

It was unclear exactly what comments the third-term congresswoman was referencing as she did not respond or link to anything directly in her tweet.

FHA works with churches and organizations with similar values to help South Dakota become a state “where God is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive, and life is valued,” according to its website.

Several Healy critics came to the defense of the organization on Twitter.

“This is just true though,” said one user. “Why is it dangerous to say what is true?”

“Yeah, it’s only backed up by statistics from every time it’s studied,” said user Can of Spam. “But why trust the science?”

“So, what is the safest family situation for kids?” user Karl Dierenbach pressed. “Are kids safer when there’s just a single mom? Is having a single parent exactly as good for a child on average as having two parents?”

A 2010 study performed by the Department of Health and Human Services found that children whose single parents had a live-in partner saw far more abuse and neglect than children living with their married biological parents.

Children whose single parents had a live-in partner also saw much greater rates of physical and sexual abuse compared to children in any other living situation.

According to the study, 15.4 out of every 1,000 of kids whose single parents have live-in partners were victims of physical abuse and 12.1 per 1,000 experienced sexual abuse. Comparatively, kids living with their married, biological parents experienced these phenomena 2.5 and 0.7 out of 1,000 times, respectively.

Healy has come out against traditional families before, saying she was “disgusted” with “fundamentalist groups who only believe in nuclear families” in her state for not passing a bill that would legalize gay marriage in South Dakota.

She also refers to “women” as “people who menstruate.”

Milley’s Woke Military Failed to Hit Alleged Spy Balloon on First Attempt

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Milley’s Woke Military Failed to Hit Alleged Spy Balloon on First Attempt

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The United States military—which has lately been committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, even at the expense of protecting the American people—failed to hit an alleged spy balloon as it hovered above Lake Huron on Sunday, the Washington Times reported.

The admission was made by America’s most embarrassing general, Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

“The first shot missed [but] the second shot hit,” Milley said during a press conference Tuesday at NATO headquarters.

He then sought to reassure the media in attendance that the army had successfully tracked and recovered the stray AIM-9X Sidewinder missile, each of which costs about $400,000.

It is unclear if the missle was reusable. But with a toxic spill from Ohio already threatening to contaminate the nearby Ohio River watershed, Michiganders may take solace in knowing that the Biden administration has created only one deadly threat this week to Midwesterners’ well-being.

“In this case, the missile landed harmlessly in the water of Lake Huron,” Milley said at the press conference.

According to the report, the U.S.–Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command, known as NORAD, discovered the alleged spy balloon around 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 11, tracking it from Montana eastward to Lake Huron.

It was one of four such aerial devices downed by the military since the issue first came to public attention earlier this month. However, only the first one—shot down on Saturday, Feb. 4—has been more or less confirmed as a Chinese spy balloon.

Pentagon officials have declined to offer details into the subsequent encroachments, involving much smaller aircrafts.

In explaining why some of the so-called spy balloons were allowed to remain in U.S. and Canadian airspace for so long after making landfall, Milley told reporters that he was worried about civilians getting hurt.

“We evaluate the risks of the balloons themselves: Are they a kinetic threat or not—yes or no? Are they an intelligence threat? Are they a threat to civilian aviation?” he said. “All those things we go through very carefully.”

Biden administration officials, when asked about the potential origins of the balloons, could not or did not provide any details.

“We don’t see anything that points right now to these being part of the [People’s Republic of China] spying program or, in fact, intelligence collection against the United States of any kind,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.

FBI Spied on Congressman, Audit Finds

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FBI Spied on Congressman, Audit Finds

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI’s improper surveillance of an unnamed U.S. congressman has been revealed in a recently released government audit, which looks at how federal agencies use and abuse their access to information collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

FISA’s Section 702 allows the U.S. government to target foreigners outside the U.S. for intelligence purposes. This often results in the collection of Americans’ communications.

The law also allows intelligence agencies to search through the Section 702 data they collect—including information relating to Americans—if doing so is “reasonably likely” to return foreign intelligence information or evidence of a crime.

But the recently released audit, conducted by DOJ and Office of the Director of National Intelligence officials, found that the FBI abused this process.

For example, “In one query incident, FBI queried the names of a local political party to determine if the party had connections to foreign intelligence. This query was not reasonably likely to retrieve foreign intelligence information,” said the audit, which covers the period from Dec. 1, 2019, to May 31, 2020.

Perhaps the most prominent example of abuse cited in the report is the FBI’s surveillance of an unnamed “U.S. congressman.” According to the audit, an intelligence analyst conducted multiple queries—the exact number is redacted—using the congressman’s name.

The report further says that the analyst opened “Section 702-acquired products”—in other words, communication records—but did not use or disseminate them.

“[The attorney general] and ODNI assess, based on these facts, that these queries were not compliant because they were overly broad as constructed (i.e., queried the U.S. congressman’ s name with no limiters),” the report said.

In yet another instance, auditors found that the FBI conducted a number of improper 702 queries after receiving a dubious report about two people of Middle Eastern descent.

“An FBI analyst conducted queries related to an assessment opened based on a witness’s report that a vehicle driven by an individual of Middle Eastern descent sped into the parking lot and began honking the horn. A second individual of Middle Eastern descent came out of the apartment complex, and the individuals began loading boxes into a second vehicle,” the report said.

“The witness reported that some of the boxes were labeled ‘Drano,’ and that there were also ‘white containers which appeared to be upside down with black screw tops in the box.’

The report said these facts were insufficient for the FBI to launch an assessment, and therefore the queries were improper.

The audit determined that the FBI’s errors were due to “misunderstandings,” and said the bureau has approved in this area markedly in recent years.

“Misunderstandings regarding FBI’s systems and FBI’s querying procedures caused a large number of query errors. In particular, a single multifactor query at one field office accounted for a significant number of compliance incidents during this reporting period,” the report said.

“Even so, the numbers of FBI query errors, and FBI compliance incidents overall, reported during this reporting period were significantly lower than they have been in the past few reporting periods.”

An FBI spokesperson also reportedly told tech publication Wired that the issues described by the report pre-date FBI reforms.

However, a report last year from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed that the number of searches conducted by the FBI of Americans’ communications doubled from 2020 to 2021.

According to the report, the FBI used its Section 702 powers to collect the data of roughly 3.4 million U.S. people in 2021—up from 1.3 million a year before. The report only provides statistics for 2020 and 2021.

Senior Biden administration officials reportedly attributed the uptick in FBI searches to Russian cyberattacks throughout 2021.

But privacy activists said last year’s report as well as this latest audit further demonstrate the need for FISA reform.

“There is a reason EPIC has spent years advocating for reform of Section 702 and for the end of the backdoor search loophole the FBI uses to conduct warrantless searches—these searches are ripe for abuse. The FBI has proven this over and over again,” Electronic Privacy Information Center lawyer Jeramie Scott said in a statement Friday

“These latest revelations are only the latest in a string of improper FBI searches that violate Americans’ privacy. Congress must enact serious reform of Section 702 or let the authority expire.”

As Scott referenced, Section 702 expires at the end of the year unless reauthorized by Congress.

A number of Republicans have expressed opposition to renewal, including House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

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

Is Ohio’s Train Derailment a Modern-Day Chernobyl?

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Is Ohio’s Train Derailment a Modern-Day Chernobyl?

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Legacy fake news media, whether out of apathy, cost-cutting or collusion, has roundly ignored what has been described as potentially America’s Chernobyl, as its coverage of the massive toxic train derailment and explosion in Ohio earlier this month has received near blackout coverage.

The mainstream media’s noticeable non-response mirrors what critics have derided as the Biden administration’s failure to address the situation with the level of attention and resources it deserves.

“Secretary Buttigieg seems awful late to this situation. He’s not addressing this issue,” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., told Newsmax, speaking about Biden’s transportation chief.

Instead, he’s been busy grousing about alleged racial disparities in the transportation industry, Biggs said, a sentiment that was shared by Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance.

“They are focused more on whether we have too many white men in construction jobs than he is on the fundamentals of his job, which is ensuring we have a viable transportation infrastructure in this country,” Vance told Fox News.

“The problem we have is that we are ruled by unserious people who are worried about fake problems instead of the real fact that our country is falling apart in some of the most important ways.”

Officials are still searching for an immediate cause of the derailment and busily trying to deflect blame for the ensuing so-called controlled release-and-burn of five rail cars that erupted into an explosion and released a mushroom cloud of toxins into the air.

Biggs accused the Biden administration of being AWOL from the scene.

“We need him on the ground,” he said of Buttigieg’s failure to visit East Palestine, the Ohio town where the disaster occurred.

“We need him there, talking about what they’re going to do to remediate this situation and investigate what happened so we can prevent this from happening again.”

“This administration is sweeping it under the rug,” Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., told Headline USA. “Obviously, it affects people in my state. They want to know what’s going on.”

The mainstream media’s near blackout coverage of the disaster ran in tandem with the administration’s weak response, according to NewsBusters, which reported that “the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have completely moved on from the story.”

Despite ongoing impacts creating a blooming environmental and social disaster, with “widespread reports of chickens and fish dying, new chemicals discovered, pets falling ill, and residents complaining of health complications,” NewsBusters reported that legacy media has virtually ignored the story since government agents gave local residents permission to return to their homes.

ABC, CBS and NBC have spent less than 30 combined minutes since Feb. 8 covering the Norfolk Southern train derailment.

“This happened almost 2 weeks ago,” tweeted a concerned citizen. “2 weeks of this affecting citizens and yet its just now getting news coverage from either the left or the right… why is that? Why has this disaster taken so long to get attention? Should it have been a balloon to get noticed?”

Buttigieg, meanwhile, has offered little but tepid tweets trying to prove he still cares about the largely red state and its residents, assuring folks that his team is deep into its investigation of the disaster.

Axios Claims Murdering Unborn Babies is ‘Abortion Care’

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Axios Claims Murdering Unborn Babies is ‘Abortion Care’

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) In a recent Axios article, a leftist reporter and no less leftist editors agreed that abortion drugs that murder unborn babies are “care.”

“40 million more women would lose access to abortion care if a federal court revokes the use of a key drug in medication abortions, data from the abortion rights group NARAL shows,” Oriana Gonzales of Axios wrote.

However, even the leftist Associate Press’s anti-scientific Abortion Topical Guide never tells journalists to refer to abortion as “care,” according to the Daily Signal.

“These terms [medical abortions, abortion pills] describe a method for ending a pregnancy that usually involves taking two prescription medicines—mifepristone and misoprostol—days apart, at home or in a clinic,” the AP guide stated.

Gonzales wrote that if a Texas District Court decides to temporarily block the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of mifepristone, the ruling would effectively ban murdering unborn babies through chemical abortions nationwide.

Mifepristone is a drug that baby-killing women take when they choose to go through chemical abortion. The drug blocks nutrients to the unborn child, which eventually results in a woman’s body painfully expelling the dead baby.

Gonzales also wrote that if the Texas judge grants an injunction on the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, the ruling would require manufacturers and distributors of the murder pills to stop selling and shipping mifepristone immediately, “regardless of what state a person is in.”

During the first trimester of pregnancy, chemical abortions are responsible for nearly half of all abortions each year in the United States, which makes it the most common way to murder an unborn baby in the country. Another important factor left out of the Axios article is that, according to FDA, chemical abortions have killed 24 women and injured thousands more since this new way of murdering innocent human beings was legalized in 2000.

“’Abortion care’ is an absurd phrase because almost all abortions are elective procedures that would never fit the definition of healthcare,” Dr. Ingrid Skop, senior fellow and director of medical affairs at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the Susan B. Anthony List’s research branch, said.

“Because few obstetricians are willing to perform surgical abortions, abortion pills give the abortion industry an opportunity to evade both their personnel issues and pro-life state laws, while still maintaining high-profit margins.“

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Jim Banks Says Biden Is Sweeping Ohio Toxic Spill ‘Under the Rug’

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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Jim Banks Says Biden Is Sweeping Ohio Toxic Spill ‘Under the Rug’

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) As a congressman from Indiana who hopes to serve as the state’s next U.S. senator, Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., has grave concerns about the potential fallout from the catastrophic train derailment several hundred miles away in East Palestine, Ohio.

His concerns are for good reason: Not only do the two states share a border; many Indiana towns receive their drinking water from the Ohio River, which may have been contaminated from the release of toxic chemicals.

However, Banks told Headline USA that he’s yet to receive any information from the Biden administration on the Feb. 3 incident, or the other recent derailments.

“This administration is sweeping it under the rug,” he said. “Obviously, it affects people in my state. They want to know what’s going on.”

Likewise, Banks said he didn’t receive any new information from the Biden administration on the recent sightings of Chinese surveillance balloons—even when he was briefed on the matter behind closed doors.

“We had classified briefings in Congress that I can’t talk about, but nothing was revealed in the classified briefings that hasn’t already been discussed publicly,” he said, adding, “We went from the most transparent president ever to the least transparent president ever.”

The congressman called out mainstream media outlets for their lack of criticism on Biden’s silence.

“First of all, if President Trump were as silent as Biden has been, the media would be howling about it. The hypocrisy is thick,” he said.

“But [Trump] would have handled it in a much more public way. He was the most transparent president of our lifetime. He would have spoken to the American people.”

Banks said transparency is at the top of the new Republican-controlled House’s agenda.

“Now that we have the majority, we have to use it to demand answers from the administration,” he said.

In addition to the aforementioned issues, Banks said he expects answers on controversial matters such as the recent report that Biden sabotaged Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines last September.

The House Armed Services Committee member said he’s seen—but hasn’t yet read—the blockbuster report last week from Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh.

Nevertheless, “it obviously raises a lot of questions, and I hope we get a chance on the Armed Services Committee to ask about it,” he said.

“Every year, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Secretary of Defense come before the committee, and I imagine this will be one of the questions we ask with them under oath, in front of the full committee.”

Along with transparency, Banks is also seeking to refocus government’s priorities on the homeland. He lamented the fact that the Biden administration is seemingly focused on its war efforts in Ukraine, while neglecting issues that directly affect Americans.

That’s why Banks voted against a recent $40 billion aid package to Ukraine, and why he agrees with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that the days of “blank checks” for Ukraine are over, he said.

“I believe America can’t lead abroad when we’re so weak at home. We need to focus on our own issues before we invest so heavily in places like Ukraine. Maybe in a different era where we’re strong and on our feet, but right now we have an open border and the biggest humanitarian crisis in U.S. history—fentanyl is the leading cause of death of Americans my age,” he said.

“By the way,” Banks added, “almost all of fentanyl coming into this country is made in China, and I don’t believe there’s any coincidence there. They funnel it through the southern border and it ends up in communities where I come from in Indiana. So it’s hard for me to justify to my constituents that we can spend tens of billions on Ukraine with these kinds of problems at home.”

Banks’ “America First” agenda and accountability plans for the Biden administration are a preview of what he hopes to bring to the Senate in 2024, he said.

“I’m in my fourth term in the House, and I’ve had frustrations over the last few years looking at the Senate and wondering where’s their will to fight. We have a lot of fighters in the House fighting for our country, but the Senate is mostly go along to get along—and we don’t have any time left for that.”

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

Bideflation Ruins Breakfast as OJ and Eggs Hit Record Highs

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Bideflation Ruins Breakfast as OJ and Eggs Hit Record Highs

(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) As President Joe Biden spends without limit on foreign wars and hopeless green energy projects, regular Americans have had more difficulty putting a nutritious breakfast on the table with each passing month.

Orange juice prices hit record highs in January at $10 a gallon for 100% juice and $6.27 a gallon for juice from concentrate, The Guardian reported. Futures on whole oranges—which investors use to predict long-term price changes—have almost doubled from $1.40 per pound to $2.60 per pound.

The jump causes the price of orange juice in stores to rise because investors believe that oranges will remain in short supply.

Meanwhile, egg prices jumped 60% last year, with shoppers routinely paying $4 or more for a dozen factory-raised eggs and $6 or more for organic eggs, CNBC reported.

Large, Grade A eggs, which most shoppers buy, increased in price from $1.79 a dozen in December 2021 to $4.25 a dozen a year later—a 138% spike.

One TikTok user showed that a bottle of Simply Orange juice cost $6.48.

In addition to the Biden administration’s reckless spending and failure to guard the supply chain, orange growers have faced some difficulties. Hurricane Ian devastated citrus growers, and a disease affecting citrus plants has been an ongoing issue.

That storm, according to one estimate, cost citrus growers almost a quarter billion dollars and hit Florida’s overall agricultural sector for more than $1 billion.

In the 1990s, Florida produced 200 million 90lb boxes of oranges every year. Last year, Florida produced only 41 million boxes, and the US Agriculture Department expects that number to fall to 16 million boxes in 2023.

“While the current crop size is a real disappointment, we’re not giving up,” said Matt Joyner, CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual, a trade association, on Wednesday.

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