Dem. Rep Named ‘Honorary Chairwoman’ of Chinese Intel Front Group

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(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., was named “honorary chairwoman” of an intelligence front group for the Chinese Communist Party in 2019.

The group, called Forums of Peaceful Reunification in China, opposes Taiwanese independence and almost certainly serves as a front for Chinese intelligence, according to the U.S.-China Economic Security and Review Commission.

According to the Daily Caller, the Forums for the Peaceful Reunification of China is one of many anti-Taiwan independence organizations stateside. Each of the 33 organizations serves as a chapter for the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification.

The CCPPNR is “directly subordinate” to the United Front Work Department, according to the USCC.

The Forums nominated Chu as “honorary chairwoman” at the group’s 34th inauguration ceremony. At the ceremony, Chu served as a witness and oversaw the transfer of the organization’s seal.

Chinese intelligence experts confirmed that the group is a Chinese intelligence operation, connected with the UFWD.

“They are the same organization,” Russell Hsiao, executive director of the Global Taiwan Institute, told the DCNF.

“Anyone with basic understanding of Chinese language, China-Taiwan relations, and the politics of related affinity groups within the United States would easily see similarities between the problematic United Front organization identified by the USCC and its southern California chapter where Rep. Judy Chu appears to have been appointed honorary chair,” Steve Yates, former Chinese language analyst for the National Security Agency, told the DCNF.

Chu became a memberof the House in 2009, and currently represents California’s 28th district.

Since her election, Chu wished for China and Taiwan “to become one family.” However, she appeared to walk this back just before former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s diplomatic trip to Taiwan, saying she “always supported” the independence of the small island nation.

It is not clear if she continues to serve as “honorary chairwoman” for the Forums for Peaceful Reunification of China, or has any involvement in the organization at all.

Biden Lauds Harris for Her Work on the Border

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) President Joe Biden praised Vice President Kamala Harris for doing a “good job” ensuring the security of America’s southernmost border on Monday, just a month after U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that record numbers of migrants crossed into the country in 2022.

“Do you think Kamala Harris is doing a good job with the border?” a reporter asked Biden outside the White House.

“Yes, she is,” Biden responded.

According to the Daily Caller, Harris recently made an announcement that she will be addressing the “root causes” of immigration, and secured $1 billion in private sector funding for the investigation, as well as clean energy development, technical support and labor training.

“These investments have created jobs, these investments have increased access to the financial system, including to the internet,” Harris said. “These investments have allowed small businesses, which have the potential, not only in the United States, but around the world, and in particular this region, have the potential to really thrive if they have access to financing.”

This announcement comes eight months after her last public comments on the issue of the border. Her last conference on the topic also revolved around the “root causes” of immigration, and she acquired $2 billion in funding to address the same issue.

The veep was appointed as the border czar in March 2021 by the president, who said “it’s not her full responsibility and job, but she’s leading the effort.” Harris, apparently, took those words to heart and has done very little to even limit the influx of illegal immigrants rushing into the states.

Harris did not join Biden on his first visit to the border in January. In the second half of 2022, Harris turned what little focus she had on the border to left-wing issues like abortion access and diversity.

She also focused on diplomatic meetings with foreign politicians in the last half of 2022, meeting with officials from Mexico, France, South Korea, South Africa, Moldova, Thailand, the Philippines, Moldova, Nigeria, Guyana, Canada, Australia, Japan, Poland, Jamaica and Lithuania.

Harris also hosted and spoke at events for the National Space Council, stumped for the Inflation Reduction Act and promoted climate and LGBT initiatives.

BLM Cofounder Slams Biden, Accuses Him of ‘Abandoning the Movement’

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(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter co-founder and owner of a $6 million Los Angeles mansion, slammed President Joe Biden and other government officials for being “cowards” and “abandon[ing] the movement” for refusing to completely defund the police.

According to Fox News, Cullors accused government officials from local levels all the way up to the Biden administration of a “failure of leadership” and “deep cowardice.”

“[T]he people who hold the power have chosen not to wield it on behalf of Black life,” she claimed. “They’ve chosen to side with violent police forces.”

She also argued that BLM helped Biden become president and suggested that the organization is owed some kind of favor for their assistance.

“This movement was able to help get Joe Biden into office,” Cullors said, “and yet in his first State of the Union address, he yelled: ‘Fund the police.’”

Biden did walk back his “defund the police” policies he preached on the campaign trail in his 2022 State of the Union address.

Cullors asserted that Biden’s sudden desire to “fund [the police] with resources and training,” was a “direct affront to the movement that called for resources out of policing and into social services.”

“Our elected officials have decided to abandon a movement that could have saved the lives of the people who have died,” she added.

Cullors also attacked Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who she said called her after her cousin, Keenan Anderson, died after his arrest for causing a traffic accident and attempting to flee the scene.

“I couldn’t really think about it then, but I’ve been thinking now about how he’s the secretary of transportation, and this is a powerful opportunity where he could be helping lead a conversation about what federal dollars could fund programs to remove law enforcement from traffic stops,” Cullors said about her phone call.

She claimed that getting cops out of traffic stops is important for the safety of all involved. Buttigieg did not comply with what she called a “reasonable demand.”

Cullors and her cohorts at BLM have described themselves as “trained Marxists” on several occasions. She recently stepped down from her position as executive director of BLM after reporters discovered much of the donated money intended for the charity was spent on several posh, multimillion dollar mansions across the country.

Disney Drops Simpsons Episode Because it Mentions Chinese Forced Labor Camps

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Disney dropped an episode of The Simpsons from its streaming platform in Hong Kong, because it mentions Chinese forced labor camps, making it the latest American company to bow to the censorship regime of the communist state.

The Simpsons episode is entitled “One Angry Lisa,” according to Axios. Marge Simpson, whilst attending an exercise class on top of the Great Wall of China, makes the offending comment.

“Behold the wonders of China,” she began. “Bitcoin mines, forced labor camps where children make smartphones.”

This is not Disney’s first time submitting to the censorship regime of the Chinese Communist Party.

Disney dropped another episode in 2021 over another joke regarding Chinese politics, according to Business Insider.

This episode was entitled “Goo Goo Gai Pan,” and featured several jokes that were deemed offensive to communist China.

One such joke was a plaque at the infamous Tiananmen Square that read, “on this site, in 1989, nothing happened.”

Another joke was a statement made by Homer, who visited the grave of Chairman Mao Zedong and called him “a little angel that killed 50 million people.”

Disney also filmed its live action remake of Mulan, in China’s Xinjiang providence, the same location China is detaining Muslims in reeducation centers.

As even the left-leaning Axios noted, “Disney is no stranger to China’s censorship demands and has a long track record of bowing to them.”

Disney’s not caving to just any communist regime, but rather one of the most lucrative markets for film in the world.

Disney also owns two theme parks in the region. One in China, Shanghai, and the other in Hong Kong.

Disney is not the only entertainment company to bend the knee to China.

The NBA fired one of its star centers for wearing a shoe raising awareness of the Chinese genocide carried out against Muslims.Renowned libertarian journalist, John Stossel, summarized the policy.

“China, it turns out, must not be criticized by an NBA player.”

Woman Boasts of Breastfeeding Her Husband after Vacation Mishap

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A TikTok user admitted to breastfeeding her husband in order to relieve her pain after she forgot to pump while on vacation, the Daily Mail reported.

Janelle McAloon, a 32-year-old mother of four from Boston, announced this intimate detail to her roughly 586,500 TikTok followers last November.

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“Desperate times called for desperate measures,” McAloon wrote after she forgot her pump during a vacation in Puerto Rico with her husband, Joshua.

“We were in Puerto Rico and, as you know, I’m breastfeeding, and I forgot to pack my pump for whatever reason,” she said in the video, which has garnered more than 189,000 views.

“My boobs are on fire,” she continued. “By the first day, I’m like, ‘Josh, I need you to help me out.’ And that’s what we did. I’m here to tell you, I had to breastfeed my husband.”

McAloon wrote as a caption that “the awkwardness was real.”

She cited marriage vows as the reason for asking her husband to do what he did.

“You know the part in your marriage vows, ‘For better or for worse?’ Well, I had to take my husband up on that this last week,” she said in the video.

Though some social-media users were understandably horrified, numerous commenters on the video approved of the action.

“Probably the best vacation ever for your husband,” wrote one person.

“I bet that job must have been so tough for him,” another wrote. “I wouldn’t say that was a bad thing…. In fact one my conclude that was the for better part of the marriage.”

Some even suggested that it was a husband’s dream.

“It’s hard to see other men living out your dream,” another TikTok consumer wrote.

Promotion of 3 Marines Arrested over Jan. 6 Protest Fuels New False-Flag Suspicions

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Three U.S. Marines who entered the Capitol illegally on Jan. 6, 2021, were later given “sensitive” new intelligence assignments within the federal government—including one at National Security Agency headquarters, according to a new report from Pulitzer-winning journalist James Risen.

Cpl. Micah Coomer and Sgts. Joshua Abate and Dodge Hellonen were arrested last month on several charges, including disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. FBI agent Kelsey Randall noted in her affidavit that Abate admitted to entering the Capitol building last June while being interviewed for a security clearance.

It turns out, Abate’s security clearance interview was reportedly for a highly sensitive intelligence assignment at NSA headquarters, according to Risen.

Writing for The Intercept, Risen reported that Abate was assigned to the Marine Cryptologic Support Battalion, which acts as a liaison between the Marines and the NSA at Fort Meade.

“The transfer into the liaison unit after the Capitol riot placed Abate inside one of the most sensitive facilities in the entire U.S. government,” Risen noted.

Hellonen and Coomer were also reportedly given new intelligence assignments after Jan. 6, 2021.

Hellonen was assigned to the 3rd Marine Raider Support Battalion, which provides intelligence support to the Marine Forces Special Operations Command at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina; and Cpl. Micah Coomer was assigned to a battalion that provides signals intelligence and electronic warfare support for the Marine Expeditionary Force based in Camp Pendleton, California, according to Risen.

The Marine Corps provided scant details about the three defendants when they were arrested last month. Risen wrote that The Intercept “independently discovered” that all three of them had been given new intelligence assignments after Jan. 6.

The NSA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence both reportedly declined to comment.

The Intercept framed its bombshell story as the latest indication of right-wing extremism run amok in the U.S. military.

However, skeptics have suggested that the heavy presence of informants, law enforcement and military personnel among the Jan. 6 protestors shows that the federal government had foreknowledge of plans to storm the Capitol—or worse, even encouraged the plan.

Notable examples of alleged federal provocateurs include Jan. 6 protestor Ray Epps, a retired Marine who encouraged people to storm the Capitol, though he did not do so himself and was never charged over the matter; as well as FBI informant Dan Chappel, an Army combat veteran who helped organize meetings and supply members of the alleged conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Additionally, retired Marine and FBI informant John Matthews came out as a whistleblower in 2011 to allege that the bureau was infiltrating right-wing groups to incite them to violence.

In the case of Coomer, Abate and Hellonen, there is no public evidence that they encouraged others to enter the Capitol or commit violence therein. They are scheduled to make an initial appearance in court on Thursday.

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

As Biden Plans to Tout Booming Economy, ACTUAL Jobs Data May Paint Bleaker Picture

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Friday’s unadjusted jobs report said the U.S. lost 2.5 million jobs last month, but the adjusted report said the country gained 517,000 jobs—a disparity that had some economists questioning the veracity of data released by the U.S. government.

With employers typically laying off workers immediately after the holidays, January jobs reports are often dismal. Number crunchers at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics adjust for this annual layoff spree and for other population factors, ostensibly to give a more accurate picture of what’s actually going on in the economy.

On the heels of last week’s unexpectedly rosy report, Biden is expected to continue gaslighting the public about the robust, not-at-all-recession-like economy during Tuesday’s State of the Union Address.

However, the BLS adjustments have some investors asking questions.

Financial commentator Peter Schiff, who gained fame for accurately forecasting the mid-2000s housing crisis, juxtaposed the recent jobs report with the other recent economic data—including daily layoff announcements, CEOs bracing for a recession and a collapsing money supply.

“These two sets of data points are not a little different. They are at the polar ends of the spectrum,” Schiff stated on his website Saturday.

“How can anyone look at the environment and then take such a job report seriously?” he asked. “This is the type of job report you would see at the height of an economic cycle where the economy is firing on all cylinders.”

Schiff is not alone on this issue.

“If it seems too good to be true, that’s because it is too good to be true—the gain is mostly due to seasonal factors and revisions to past data,” economists Anna Wong and Eliza Winger reportedly told Bloomberg.

Nonetheless, Bloomberg’s analysis noted that even if the U.S. economy lost 2.5 million jobs—as the unadjusted report states—that would still be the one of the strongest Januarys in decades.

Other financial forecasters—including Jennifer Lee, a senior economist for BMO Capital Markets—likewise took the jobs report with a grain of optimism.

“We can’t completely dismiss all of these data. We can’t blame it on the seasonals,” Lee said. “Breaking it down by industry, it’s pretty safe to say there’s wall-to-wall strength.”

Either way, more bad news has followed Friday’s report. Dell announced plans Monday to cut about 6,650 jobs.

According to Layoffs.fyi—which tracks layoffs in the tech sectors—more than 88,000 workers in the tech economy have lost their jobs already this year. More than 159,000 were lost last year, according to the site.

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

SELLERS: Is This the Dumpster Where Eric Swalwell Discards the Bodies?

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Let’s get something out of the way, first and foremost:
The headline (and a few portions of the article itself) are satirical.

Some might call it a cheap clickbait gimmick. However, it is intended to make a point about the problem of abandoning journalism’s longstanding ethical code for a more solipsistic, self-indulgent approach, as influential thought-leaders in the field are now advocating.

The fact is, I researched online for a good 15 minutes before coming up with this theory.

Public records suggest that Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., recently purchased a fancy $1.025 million duplex on Trinidad Drive in Washington, D.C.

That would make Joseph H. Cole Park playground, just a block away, the perfect recruiting ground for whatever his nefarious intentions may be, and the trash bin in an alleyway behind the Cole Community Center would be a convenient disposal spot.

Do I have any hard evidence linking Swalwell to this particular Dumpster? No.

Nonetheless, as a journalist, I am apparently justified in pressing the above claim since it is my truth, stemming from my own personal biases and lived experiences, such as the quarter-hour I spent Googling Swalwell’s address. (Note: I make no guarantees that he really is the current resident.)

FAREWELL TO FACTS

Is it reasonable to suspect that the disgraced California Democrat—recently booted from the House Intelligence Committee for posing a direct threat to national security—might be dumping bodies near a D.C. playground?

As former FBI Director James Comey would argue, “it’s possible.”

Unfortunately, readers looking for salacious new details about Swalwell will have to wait till his hometown paper, the Washington Post, picks up the case. But don’t hold your breath.

In truth, this piece is a critique about the sorry state of the news media under the reckless stewardship of woke, Marx-loving leftists whose goal is to leave American society devoid of its moral foundation and vulnerable to a radical, anti-democratic social revolution once the Overton window reaches a certain threshold.

Fortunately, I happen to have a lot of field experience with that particular topic.

As a former journalism instructor at the high school and university levels, I often told students that there is no such thing as an unbiased journalist, but it is the duty of all to recognize and acknowledge those biases—and strive to overcome them on a personal and institutional level.

Then came Donald Trump, and leftists everywhere decided that rules no longer applied.

According to Leonard Downie Jr., the former executive editor of the Washington Post, objective facts are no longer the primary function of journalism.

Instead, it is the duty of every journalist to let you into his/her/xir own private world, Downie wrote in a Jan. 30 op-ed.

“[I]ncreasingly, reporters, editors and media critics argue that the concept of journalistic objectivity is a distortion of reality,” Downie wrote.

“They point out that the standard was dictated over decades by male editors in predominantly White newsrooms and reinforced their own view of the world,” he continued. “They believe that pursuing objectivity can lead to false balance or misleading ‘bothsidesism’ in covering stories about race, the treatment of women, LGBTQ+ rights, income inequality, climate change and many other subjects.”

WORSE THAN WATERGATE?
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Downie goes on to say that he bore witness firsthand to a similar shift in newsroom paradigms in the late ’60s and early ’70s, culminating in the Watergate scandal.

That is fitting for two reasons:

1) The first is that hindsight now suggests there may have been much more to the Watergate scandal than was reported.

Some even argue that Bob Woodward—the famed reporter who broke the story after colluding with a top FBI deputy, Mark Felt, during the chaotic power-vaccuum that followed J. Edgar Hoover’s death—may have been involved with the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird and that the intention all along was to sow disinformation and carefully orchestrated half-truths in order to set up then-President Richard Nixon.

Nixon, who had signaled to the FBI that he knew the truth about John F. Kennedy’s assassination, was conveniently replaced by Gerald Ford, one of the seven Warren commissioners who helped cover it up.

Ironically, Downie claimed the opposite in his op-ed, suggesting that idealogues from the hippie generation swooped in to rescue the media from its folly of overly credulous reporting.

“Under the leadership of a few editors… our generation of young journalists moved away from mostly unquestioning news coverage of institutional power,” he wrote.

2) Of course, the media’s questioning of “institutional power” was lopsided from the very beginning, and it’s safe to say that Watergate ushered in the era of blatant media bias and double standards when it came to covering right- and left-wing topics.

The attack on Nixon—whose offenses undoubtedly paled in comparison with the Clinton and Biden crime syndicates—inspired even more radicals to follow suit, all hoping to break their own Watergate just like Redford and Hoffman Woodward and Bernstein.

FALLEN HEROES

The key players all relished in helping create the Watergate mythos. As a young journalist, I had the opportunity to see Downie speak at an Arizona State University workshop, and a few years later to see Woodward and Bernstein at the University of Virginia.

Even though my political values were different from theirs, I bought into their bill of goods that journalism transcended politics and that the pursuit of truth trumped all.

But now, Downie admitted in his op-ed, “I never understood what ‘objectivity’ meant. I didn’t consider it a standard for our newsroom.”

Woodward has been exposed as no less of a charlatan, revealing during the 2020 campaign season that he had sat on important information about the early threat of the coronavirus in order to keep it as material for his anti-Trump book.

More recently, he claimed that Post reporters failed to heed his warnings about the Russia-collusion hoax, even though he evidently never considered going public with his reservations concerning the bogus smear campaign against a sitting president.

With media credibility cratering as a result of such false, politically driven coverage, it seems these elite journalists are now wholly complicit in aiding and abetting the “institutional power” they once took such pride in questioning—if that ever was the case.

A DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF DISINFO

Despite their haphazard handling of the the Fourth Estate’s sacred obligation to inform the public, as a core function of democracy, Downie and his ilk now have the audacity to double-down on the lackadaisical mentality that polarized and eroded trust in U.S. media to begin with.

By declaring an end to objectivity, newsrooms and journalism training programs will now heed the clarion call to tell reporters that their own perspectives are more important than those on whom—and for whom—they are reporting.

“The consensus among younger journalists is that we got it all wrong,” said Emilio Garcia–Ruiz, editor in chief of the San Francisco Chronicle. “Objectivity has got to go.”

They also seem to think that those who disagree with their flawed worldview will simply accept this and continue with the status quo.

But while conservative media will be able to hammer these fragile snowflakes with hard facts, some may be tempted to respond in kind by speaking their partisan counter-truths, and the lines between fact and fiction will, inevitably, blur even more.

The media itself may be the biggest casualty, as the pressure to compete leads to more sensationalism that proves antithetical to its core mission.

The deep-state intel community, whose underlying goal is essentially the opposite of telling the truth, will continue to benefit from a free-for-all environment where nobody really knows what is going on and nobody is there to truly keep institutional power in check beyond an illusory overture.

NOT ALL FAKE NEWS IS EQUAL

Shockingly, while fact is being actively fictionalized on one side of the political spectrum, the corrupt Justice Department is busy brutally prosecuting memes on the other side.

It recently charged 31-year-old Douglas Mackey of Florida over a Twitter post from the 2016 election telling voters that they could text-message their votes for Hillary Clinton instead of going to the voting booth.

“There is no place in public discourse for lies and misinformation to defraud citizens of their right to vote,” said Seth D. DuCharme, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

“With Mackey’s arrest, we serve notice that those who would subvert the democratic process in this manner cannot rely on the cloak of Internet anonymity to evade responsibility for their crimes,” he continued. “They will be investigated, caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”

By the time Mackey is released from prison, of course, Democrats may well have reached the point of allowing voters to text their selection.

Will the media stop navel-gazing long enough to take note? Don’t hold your breath.

Ben Sellers is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/realbensellers.

Two More Major Food Processing Plants Destroyed

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Continuing what has been an ongoing destruction of food production plants around the globe, including upwards of at least 700 in the United States since President Joe Biden took office, a seafood processing factory in Canada burned to the ground over the weekend, followed on Monday by the destruction of the largest egg farm in New Zealand.

The W.E. Acres Crabmeal plant in New Brunswick suffered what the company’s owner declared as a “total loss” from the blaze, reported the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

Although a cause for the fire has not been officially determined, and despite suspect circumstances surrounding the inferno, authorities insisted that it was not arson. The building’s owner, while also denying any theory of arson, told CTV News that an explosion of unknown origin in an oil drum ignited the blaze inside the plant, which produces seafood, fertilizer and animal feed as a major disturber in Canada, the United States and globally.

“WTF is going on? It’s one of many similar ‘accidents’ recently,” tweeted one concerned Canadian. “Are we supposed to starve to death?”

The question took on added urgency when the incident was followed internationally on Monday by a fire at New Zealand’s largest egg producer that killed at least 75,000 hens, according to Zero Hedge.

“Egg supplies are tight, so this will not assist in any way,” said Michael Brooks, executive director of the Egg Producers Federation.

The dual blazes mirror the destruction of myriad other food processing plants, a disturbing trend that prompted the FBI to issue a warning last spring.

“Ransomware actors may be more likely to attack agricultural cooperatives during critical planting and harvest seasons, disrupting operations, causing financial loss, and negatively impacting the food supply chain,” the bureau advised.

Last September it was reported that nearly 700 food processing plants had been destroyed since Biden took office. The wreckage has impacted not only the United States, but also other countries and global supply chains.

“If I had any doubts about this being on purpose, that is completely gone at this point,” an independent researcher told the Gateway Pundit at the time. “It’s almost terrifying seeing what is going on and the majority of people have no idea. Every day something else happens to add to this list.”

Subsequent events have added to concerns. The incidents of food processing facilities being burned to cinders in the U.S. alone have included a flour mill in Oregon that went up in flames; the giant JBS USA meat-processing plant in Nebraska that caught fire, costing the U.S. about 5% of it beef supply; a fire that forced Taylor Farms Food in California to stop production and Azure Standard, one of the country’s largest organic food producers burned to the ground.

Preceding the New Zealand fire, the United State’s third-largest egg-producing plant burned down last month amidst a national egg shortage. The fire at Connecticut’s Hillandale Farms destroyed thousands of hens and has yet to be explained.