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The Growing Reach of Government Surveillance with Alex Newman

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High School Student Suspended For Saying “Illegal Alien”

A North Carolina male high school student, Christian McGhee who’s 16, was suspended for using the term "illegal alien" when asking his English teacher a question. The journalist who broke the story, Brianna Kraemer, joins One America's Stella Escobedo.

When China Wired Money to Joe’s House

From Beijing with love and big bucks.

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SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/when-china-wired-money-to-joes-house/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

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When Hunter Biden got wire transfers from China, they went to Joe Biden’s address.

In the summer of 2019, while Joe Biden was running for president, the money was rolling into Delaware from Communist China. This was the same Wilmington house where classified documents were lying around while Hunter Biden was living while allegedly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on prostitutes: some of them apparently foreign nationals.

In paperwork, Hunter appeared to claim ownership of the house and in 2010, he had begun paying for the upkeep of the house and his veep dad’s bills. By the time Jonathan Li, the CEO of BHR, was sending a $250,000 wire payment to Joe Biden’s address, the former vice president and future president had already met with the Chinese investment exec doing business with his family and had written recommendation letters for his kids.

The $250,000 Chinese wire was described as a “loan”. But how was Hunter, by then approaching rock bottom, going to pay it off? Where was the money coming from?

The debt was assumed by Kevin Morris, a Hollywood lawyer who has protected and paid for most of Hunter’s needs, after allegedly meeting him at a Joe Biden fundraiser that same year. The whistleblower alleges that in 2021 the CIA tried to block the IRS from interviewing Morris.

When the Biden clan was getting millions in payments from Chinese interests, many of which, like Li, Joe Biden had personal contact with, through a web of shell companies, and then portions of the money were passed along to the future president as “loan repayments”, did he really know nothing about the process that brought the money from China to his wallet?

There are two Joe Bidens.

There is the famous passage from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report stating that “at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” The phrasing is crucial. It does not state that Biden has a poor memory, but rather that he presents himself.

There was another Joe Biden who was on the receiving end of a complex financial scheme. There is the seeming loving father pained by Hunter’s addiction who also used him for money and had him take all the legal risks while leaving his only surviving son dangerously exposed.

Politicians and public figures are not one person, but two. Biden is an elderly president with a failing mind, who arranged for an unpopular vice president incapable of replacing him. He is the grieving husband who cheated on his first wife, before her death, with his current wife. He is the loving father who dragged his kids into politics from the moment he staged a photo op in the hospital after they were in an accident that killed their mother, and went right on using them.

Joe Biden spent much of his later career in politics building relationships with China. He could not, however, directly take advantage of them. That’s what his family was for. They took the risks, they got a bunch of the money and a percentage was to be reserved for the “Big Guy”.

One Biden claimed to know nothing about it while the other cashed the checks.

Biden’s interactions with his brother and son’s clients had been calculated to create an atmosphere of ambiguity into which foreign businessmen could read corrupt implications, without providing any clear evidence of wrongdoing. But would that have been enough?

The underlying question is why would a series of savvy, influential and successful Chinese business leaders have been sending large payments to the Biden family? Had they been taken in by a clever con, of Joe shaking their hands, chatting with them and seeming to imply a connection with the Biden family enterprises without discussing details, and got nothing for it?

How many Chinese businessmen could have fallen for that scam and for how long? And if nothing came of it then why, over a decade later, is there still a Biden financial link with BHR?

The alternative is that the Chinese money men didn’t get conned, the American people did.

The money wasn’t just coming from any companies, but from, in the words of the House Oversight Committee, “Chinese nationals and companies with significant ties to Chinese intelligence and the Chinese Communist Party.” They were not suckers and not stupid. In a cutthroat oligarchy where the price of failure is not just debt, but prison and death, Chinese executives are much sharper, less naive and a whole lot less trusting than any of our own.

It was a safe bet that they knew what they were paying for. They made sure that they got it.

When Joe Biden was out of office, he was at best a speculative investment, but once he was on the path to the White House, his stock was rising and the Chinese money was buying influence.

30% of BHR had been turned over to Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca firm. Hunter stayed on the BHR board until the fall of 2019. After political pressure, it was announced that Hunter Biden had resigned from BHR, but by 2021, Hunter was still “working to unwind his investment” which were apparently turned over to Kevin Morris who still represents Hunter’s interests.

Backed by the state-owned Bank of China, BHR is not run by fools or suckers. And yet throughout all of Hunter’s publicized troubles the relationship continued and continued at a distance. That relationship represents a potential open door for the Bidens and China.

If Joe Biden risks becoming a one-term president, he is in much the same situation as he was in 2016, looking at a career dead end and needing ways to monetize his time in the White House.

Now and then, Biden needs Communist China and China needs Joe Biden.

And so through every Chinese hostile act, including hacks, spy balloons and military brinkmanship, Joe Biden has prioritized China’s interests over America’s. Some critics claim that Joe Biden, like a lot of politicians, is a sucker for maintaining a relationship with China at any cost. But is Joe Biden protecting America’s relationship with China or his own relationship?

American presidents are expected to represent national interests, not personal or foreign ones, but when a politician has a $250,000 wire from China made out to his address, personal interests become foreign ones, presidents become puppets, and policy becomes pay-to-play.

‘WAKE UP’: Kristi Noem sends ominous warning to Americans

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem discusses the threat posed by China, its ownership of U.S. farmland, and the safety of U.S. food.

Maritime Expert Analyzes the Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

Maritime expert Sal Mercogliano, host of the What's Going on With Shipping YouTube channel, joins Ward once again to provide in-depth analysis about what caused MV Dali to hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge at the mouth of the Baltimore Harbor early in the morning of March 26, 2024. Upon impact, the bridge immediately collapsed.

Biden’s Fentanyl Deal With China Failed to Stop Overdoses While Biden and Xi lie, Americans die.

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SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/bidens-fentanyl-deal-with-china-failed-to-stop-overdoses/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purpose:

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Last November, Biden met with China’s Xi and the two leaders reached an agreement to tackle the fentanyl crisis fed by the traffic in precursor chemicals from the Communist dictatorship.

Three months later, the bodies were everywhere.

Fentanyl overdoses rose fourfold in Marin County in just 2 weeks, Oregon has the largest overdose rate in the nation and even children under 5 are dying of them in Tennessee.

And there’s no sign that the carnage is slowing down. 66 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco in just the month of January. The majority of those deaths were fentanyl related.

Biden claimed after the meeting with Xi that China is “taking steps to shut down companies dealing in illicit trade and precursor chemicals.”

But officially what China did was send out warning letters to the firms shipping precursor chemicals to the cartels. Rather than warning Chinese companies that they faced action from their own government, the letters cautioned them that they faced legal action from America.

The companies making the poison killing Americans then had every reason to laugh it off.

Chinese firms were told to be “cautious about orders from the United States and Mexico and be wary of the exported items being used to manufacture drugs.”

Telling companies to be cautious and wary is a long way from a crackdown.

In sharp contrast to the warning letters, earlier that same year Chinese authorities raided the offices of American companies auditing local firms on behalf of U.S. investors.

Televised footage from all over Chinese media showed blue uniformed thugs breaking into offices, carrying away boxes of files and manhandling employees. The regime was sending a message and it did so in the usual unsubtle way that Communist governments always operate.

The People’s Republic of China was far more interested in cracking down on American firms detecting fraud in China’s Potemkin village economy than on drug rings and firms that bribe local officials to be able to continue murdering hundreds of thousands of American citizens.

China has spent far more time cracking down on tech firms than it has on drug precursor dealers. And, like the crackdown on auditors, it has done so publicly and prominently.

By contrast, China’s response to the fentanyl crisis has been to sweep it under the table.

In 2019, Chinese officials claimed that all the issues had been “resolved” after a handful of members of one smuggling network were convicted. Fentanyl was eventually treated as a controlled substance. Some of the most blatant online pitches for drug sales were toned down. And hundreds of thousands of Americans still went on to die of fentanyl because none of this substantively stopped the manufacturing and traffic of precursor chemicals out of China.

Now once again, Chinese authorities are sending out warning letters to companies and telling them that the government is keeping an eye on them. But smaller companies, which exist only on paper, just swap out old names for new ones and keep right on killing Americans.

Beijing pulled this same scam in 2019 only for the fentanyl crisis to grow worse.

Even as Biden administration officials claim that the Chinese crackdown is working, it’s easy to find Chinese manufacturers still pushing precursor chemicals through Whatsapp messages.

Biden administration officials keep claiming that every meeting with Chinese officials moves things forward, but Chinese officials tend to have a different story. In February,

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met with Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong in Vienna. Biden officials claimed that progress had been made on battling fentanyl, while Chinese media claimed that the focus was on letting Chinese students enter America.

Fentanyl is profitable for Communist China both economically and politically. The mass deaths of Americans provide Beijing with leverage on everything from tariffs to visas to Taiwan.

Lenin had once reportedly bragged that the capitalists would sell him the rope with which he would hang them. Americans are buying the fentanyl rope with which China is hanging us. Every shipment puts more money into China’s pockets while undermining America. And when American leaders ask China for help, they offer some limited cooperation, hold meetings at which they issue their own demands and then the regime which runs slave labor camps and conducts forced abortions claims that there are legal obstacles in the way of a crackdown.

The official line is that the marketplace is just too complicated for China to crack down on. The same regime, which relentlessly monitors every aspect of life, especially economic activity and contact with foreigners, claims to be helpless to stop a major form of international trade.

Chinese authorities are aware of which precursor chemicals can be used for the drug trade, where they are manufactured and then shipped. And if these were being used to kill their own citizens, the crackdown would have been immediate, ruthless and thoroughly comprehensive.

But the Biden administration has been more than happy to accept the myth of Chinese helplessness. Rather than seriously taking on China, Biden’s 2022 National Drug Control Strategy focused on working together with the Communist regime “on shared drug priorities”.

But Beijing has very different drug priorities than we do.

The Biden administration keeps holding out for empty promises. A White House adviser claimed that her boss believes the China deal has “the potential to make a real difference in the lives of Americans”. The potential is there, but only if Biden really gets serious about pressuring China.

And he isn’t.

Beijing understands that American politicians have short attention spans and wants some sort of photo op that allows them to claim that they’re handling the problem. The Communist regime is occasionally willing to play the game and go through the ritual of meetings and form letters, even while the underlying problem not only continues, but gets even worse.

In response to past pressure, China rerouted the fentanyl pipeline away from direct sales and toward cartel middlemen. The deal cut profits for Chinese dealers but maintained a core priority of harming Americans. The regime will similarly allow domestic manufacturers to play musical chairs with chemicals as they and their partners develop new, even deadlier drugs.

Plausible deniability allows Xi and Biden to pretend that they’re tackling the fentanyl crisis, but both men have more to gain than to lose from the epidemic. The drug trade is lucrative for China and the suffering from the fentanyl epidemic feeds the welfare state that serves as a core organizing and campaign mechanism for the Democratic Party. It’s a win-win situation.

And a lose-lose situation for millions of Americans.

42% of American adults in one survey said that they knew someone who had died of a drug overdose. Our communities are filling up with the casualties of a drug war that China is winning.

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Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst Charged With Selling Military Secrets To China

OAN’s Taylor Tinsley
11:51 AM – Friday, March 8, 2024

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/u-s-army-intelligence-analyst-charged-with-selling-secret-military-information-to-china/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

Sergeant Korbein Schultz was arrested on Thursday by the Department of Justice at Fort Campbell in Kentucky.

A federal grand jury indicted the 24-year-old on six counts, including charges of “conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, exporting technical data related to defense articles without a license, conspiracy to export defense articles without a license, and bribery of a public official.”

The indictment alleges that from June 2022 up until the time of his arrest, Shultz conspired with an individual based in Hong Kong, identified as “Conspirator A,” in order to disclose “documents, plans, wiring, photographs, maps, and notes” related to national defense information.

Prosecutors also noted that Conspirator A recruited Schultz to gather a variety of some of the most sensitive military documents.

“Specifically, Conspirator A tasked Schultz with gathering information related to a variety of U.S. military weapons systems, including classified information, and information related to the United States’ potential plans in the event that Taiwan came under military attack,” a press release stated on the arrest.

“This included documents and info related to advanced fighter aircraft, advanced military helicopters, intercontinental ballistic missiles, high mobility artillery rocket systems, defensive missile systems and Chinese military tactics,” said attorney Henry Leventis.

Conspirator A sent at least 14 payments to Schultz, which totaled an estimated $42,000.

Schultz joined the army back in 2018. He had been working as an army intelligence analyst with the First Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment at Fort Campbell before his arrest. Prosecutors also said that he had a “top secret security clearance.”

He is scheduled to make his first appearance in a Tennessee court on Friday.

Schultz’s arrest comes after another Air Force member was charged with transmitting classified information regarding the Russia-Ukraine war to a woman on a dating website who claimed to reside in Ukraine. 63-year-old David Slater was arrested on Saturday. Prosecutors said that from February to April of 2022, Slater was asked to provide classified national defense information to an unnamed woman who referred to him as her “secret informant love” over email.

Meanwhile, on Monday, 22-year-old former Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira was similarly accused of leaking highly classified Pentagon documents. He pleaded guilty to six counts. He will serve up to nearly 17 years in prison, but no less than 11, followed by three years of supervision.

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James Biden: My Brother Gave Me $40K, $200K Loans For Chinese Company

James Biden (C), brother of US President Joe Biden, with his attorney Paul Fishman (L), arrives for a deposition before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees on President Biden's impeachment inquiry in Washington, DC, February 21, 2024. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

James Biden (C), brother of US President Joe Biden, with his attorney Paul Fishman (L), arrives for a deposition before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees on President Biden’s impeachment inquiry in Washington, DC, February 21, 2024. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN’s Sophia Flores
5:50 PM – Friday, March 1, 2024

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/james-biden-my-brother-gave-me-40k-200k-loans-for-chinese-company/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

James Biden, brother of President Joe Biden, confirmed that his older brother gave him a couple of loans that purportedly went to the CCP-linked energy firm CEFC China Energy.

During his impeachment inquiry testimony released by the House Oversight Committee on Friday, the younger Biden admitted that his brother gave him a $200,000 and $40,000 loan in 2017 and in 2018.

James claimed that he needed the money to pay “outstanding bills.” However, he also claims that he used the money to invest in the Chinese energy business. The reason remains unknown.

Subpoenaed bank records revealed that James Biden had a balance of $46.88 in his bank account prior to receiving the first check from his brother. James asserted that he paid back the interest loans without filling out additional documentation, emphasizing that they came from a family member.

“I repaid two loans that I secured from my brother,” James Biden said.

He received the $40,000 wire on July 28th, 2017 and paid back Joe less than two months later on September 3rd. He received the second wire of $200,000 on January 12th 2018, which was repaid to his big brother on March 1st.

When asked where he got the $200,000 to pay back his brother in such a short time span, James said that he received it though his work with Americore, but he refused to state the specific source of the funds.

“It came from money that I earned at Americore,” he said.

While the Biden family’s relationship with CEFC ended in 2018, James, Hunter Biden, and Hunter’s associates made millions-of-dollars through the lucrative deal.

Joe Biden has adamantly denied that he had any involvement in the business deals, however, a May 2017 email sent by James Gilliar, the Biden family’s associate, stated that the president was penciled in as “the big guy.”

The email also revealed that Joe Biden wanted a 10% cut in a proposed joint venture with CEFC.

Within 10 days after the email was sent, Hunter and James Biden received $5.1 million in their accounts. This testimony is a part of House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into the 46th president.

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Chinese Troops Invading US By the Thousands As Biden & Mayorkas Open the Floodgates

Wake up, America! Our national security is under unprecedented threat as the Chinese Communist Party's Special Operations Forces infiltrate our borders. With military-age men unmistakable in their appearance and bearing, slipping through under the Biden-Mayorkas administration, the stakes have never been higher. In this explosive special report, Gary Franchi delves deep into the crisis, armed with insights from former US intelligence official Derek Harvey. Discover the shocking reality of how open borders are not just a policy failure but a direct invitation to danger. From the strategic movements of these operatives to their ominous objectives, we expose the full extent of this infiltration. Why does this matter to every American? Stay tuned for a report that promises not only to reveal the truth but to affirm our resolve to protect our republic. Don't miss the final thought for a perspective that could change the way you see our nation's security.

4,300+ HAVE ENTERED BORDER TO DATE~ U.S. being flooded with Chinese spies? 

PLA-linked men enter America

Wave of Chinese migrants at southern border

 

Chinese Military Expert: China’s National Fortune Has Arrived — After America’s Hegemony Collapses

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/01/chinese-military-expert-chinas-national-fortune-has-arrived-after-americas-hegemony-collapses#; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

While most are focused on Iran, communist China has been using Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza to deceptively appear as if it is promoting “peace,” but of course it is not. Instead, it is in hot pursuit of its not-so-secret ambitions to expand its own global hegemony. In the MEMRI report below, the truth is unveiled by Chinese military expert Xiao Yunhua. As a rule, the more emboldened enemies get, the more outwardly brazen they become.

“Chinese Military Expert Xiao Yunhua On Houthis’ Red Sea Aggression: China’s National Fortune Has Arrived; This Is The Beginning Of The Shift To A Multipolar Future After America’s Hegemony Collapses,” MEMRI, January 18, 2024:

On December 25, 2023, Chinese military expert Professor Xiao Yunhua, who is a member of the faculty at the prestigious People’s Liberation Army National Defense University, shared on his YouTube channel a video in which he referred to the recent Houthi attacks on Western vessels in the Red Sea as “sparks” that signal a transition towards a “multipolar future” free of American “hegemony.” He said that China’s “national fortune” has arrived, and he predicted that the United States will struggle to effectively counter the “global anti-Israel organizations” involved in the situation. In addition, he predicted that the increasing frequency of these attacks will boost the significance of land transportation, aligning seamlessly with China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and he asserted that this will further erode America’s maritime dominance.

Xiao Yunhua: “The national fortune has arrived, and nothing can stop it. The Indian Ocean route is also in trouble. Hello, everyone, I am Xiao Yunhua. In recent days, the Houthi militants announced the blockade of ships from Israel and Western countries in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which has had a significant impact on global shipping.

“A few days ago, we dedicated two episodes to discussing this issue. However, the situation has not calmed down, but has become more serious. According to Reuters and the Indian media Asian News International, an Israeli cruise ship bound for India experienced an ‘Indian Ocean nightmare’ when it was attacked by an unidentified drone on the west coast of India and an explosion caused a major fire.

“This attack was the first to occur in a region far from the Red Sea since the ‘Red Sea incident,’ signifying the official start of actions by global anti-Israel organizations. In the coming period, Israeli commercial ships and freighters, apart from Europe and North America, will find it difficult to secure a safe route. What’s more delicate is that no organization or country has claimed responsibility for this incident. Such attacks that could happen at any time are destined to further undermine Israel’s maritime trade. In the United States, it is suspected that Iran is responsible. However, geographically speaking, for Iran to reach the west coast of India is quite a distance, unless the route is through Pakistan. But Pakistan’s relationship with Iran is not as friendly as it used to be, and they may not allow Iranian armed groups to enter.

“As for Israel, some analysis organizations and media believe that the geographical location of the incident makes it unlikely to be initiated by the Houthi militants in Yemen.

“In fact, as we mentioned in one of our previous episodes, the United States talked about organizing a ten-country coalition force to escort ships in the Red Sea, but it is highly likely to end up as a futile effort. Recently, France, Spain and Italy have announced their withdrawal from this organization, confirming our initial predictions. As American and Western reactions are exposed, it is clear that the weaknesses of these old imperialist powers will further stimulate ambitious and purposeful organizations or countries to come forward to cause trouble.

“If the United States cannot handle the Houthi militants, it may also struggle with some of the organizations or countries in other complex regions…..

“Just as the Houthi militants initially targeted only Israel in the Red Sea but have now expanded to the entire West, future attacks on major shipping routes are likely to expand. This will inevitably affect the global trade network’s situation and development trends. For China, we haven’t done anything, yet our country’s fortune has arrived. Why do I say this? Although the maritime trade issues may also affect our country’s exports, overall, the decline of maritime power and the rise of land power will align perfectly with our ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ and the development strategy of the China-Europe railway. It is also destined to further weaken the influence and dominance of America’s maritime hegemony.

Chinese Lab Develops New Mutant COVID Strain With 100% Death Rate In Humanized Mice

Rats And Mice In A Medical School Laboratory CHONGQING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 16: (CHINA OUT) A worker feeds white rats at an animal laboratory of a medical school on February 16, 2008 in Chongqing Municipality, China. Over 100,000 rats and mice are used in experiments every year for pharmaceutical research in the lab, where the temperature is kept at 24 degrees centigrade. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
A worker feeds white rats at an animal laboratory of a medical school on February 16, 2008 in Chongqing Municipality, China. Over 100,000 rats and mice are used in experiments every year for pharmaceutical research in the lab, where the temperature is kept at 24 degrees centigrade. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

OAN’s Abril Elfi
3:27 PM – Wednesday, January 17, 2024

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/study-chinese-lab-develops-new-mutant-covid-strain-with-100-death-rate-in-humanized-mice/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

A research group in Beijing, China, has been reportedly experimenting with a new strain of COVID-19 in humanized mice, except this strain is said to be 100% lethal. 

The study included researchers from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology and Nanjing University.

According to the study, the fatal virus, “GX_P2V,” attacked the brains of mice that were engineered to reflect genetic makeup similar to humans. 

“This underscores a spillover risk of GX_P2V into humans and provides a unique model for understanding the pathogenic mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2-related viruses,” the authors wrote.

The deadly virus is said to be a mutated version of the GX/2017, which is a coronavirus strand that was discovered in Malaysian pangolins in 2017 and also in mammals found in warm areas. 

The research states that all the mice died in just eight days, which they called “surprisingly rapid.”

The virus reportedly infected the bones, eyes, and lungs of the humanized mice as well as their tracheas and brains. Before the mice died, they had extreme weight loss, exhibited a hunched posture, moved “sluggish” and, lastly, their eyes turned completely white.

However, the results of the study do not completely indicate how it would affect human beings in comparison.

Francois Balloux, an epidemiology expert at University College London’s Genetics Institute, slammed the research as “terrible” and “scientifically totally pointless.”

“I can see nothing of vague interest that could be learned from force-infecting a weird breed of humanized mice with a random virus. Conversely, I could see how much stuff might go wrong,” the professor said. “The preprint does not specify the bio-safety level and bio-safety precautions used for the research, the absence of this information raises the concerning possibility that part or all of this research, like the research in Wuhan in 2016-2019 that likely caused the Covid-19 pandemic, recklessly was performed without the minimal bio-safety containment and practices essential for research with potential pandemic pathogens.”

The Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, the epicenter of lab leak claims surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, does not appear to be associated with this 2024 study.

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Biden Admin Tried To Keep Chinese Spy Balloon Incident Hidden From Public

OAN’s Elizabeth Volberding
3:20 PM – Tuesday, December 26, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/biden-admin-tried-to-keep-chinese-spy-balloon-incident-hidden-from-public/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

According to reports, the Biden Administration’s top authorities had planned to “conceal” China’s surveillance balloon from Congress and the public, until civilians in Montana saw the enormous white blimp.

In a January 27th phone call between President Joe Biden’s top military adviser General Mark Milley and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Chief General Glen VanHerck, which was recently revealed to the public, new information on China’s spy balloon shows that the Biden Administration initially planned to keep the balloon’s presence a secret.

In a new report from the press, a former senior authority claimed that the administration originally surveilled the Chinese surveillance balloon in an attempt to keep the situation under wraps.

“Before it was spotted publicly, there was the intention to study it and let it pass over and not ever tell anyone about it,” the former senior U.S. official told the press.

The Chinese spy balloon entered U.S. airspace on January 28th and was later shot down on February 4th after already floating over several nuclear missile sites.

However, claims regarding how the incident was supposed to be concealed were denied by a senior Biden administration official, who said that quick decisions were taken to safeguard critical intelligence capabilities.

“To the extent any of this was kept quiet at all, that was in large part to protect intel equities related to finding and tracking them,” the official told the press. “There was no intention to keep this from Congress at any point.”

Milley called VanHerck during the January 27th phone call and said that the Pentagon initially planned to deliver F-22 jets and additional aircrafts to measure its size and characteristics.

Shortly after the call, targeting pods were utilized by U.S. military jets to identify and define the object as “a balloon the size of three school buses that had a large surveillance payload but no offensive capabilities.”

However, VanHerck maintained that the Chinese balloon program is still active and that the U.S. has no capability of being able to locate or track their efforts.

“It exposed significant gaps, long range gaps, for us to be able to see potential threats to the homeland.” VanHerck said. “I think that opened the eyes of a lot of people.”

VanHerck added that the U.S. is “not where it needs to be” in the progress of “deterrence options.”

“Time is the opportunity to create deterrence options or, if required, defeat options,” he said.

Officials asserted that the reputational damage that the spy balloon would cause to China and U.S. relations was a far greater threat than the balloon’s actual entry into U.S. airspace.

According to a senior administration official, “it caused so many problems.”

The balloon was shot down over open water off the coast of South Carolina.

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