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Biden Appointee’s Firm Admits He Belonged To Alleged Chinese Intel Operation
President Joe Biden’s appointee to represent the U.S. at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) formerly served as a member of an organization which experts have identified as a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence front group, according to a spokesman from the company he leads.
Dominic Ng, CEO of East West Bank, served at an “executive-director level” in an “honorary position” at the China Overseas Exchange Association (COEA), yet allegedly withdrew from the organization in 2014 due to “non-participation,” according to statements an East West Bank spokesman made to American Banker on Friday. The statements were issued following a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation which found that Ng served as “executive director” at COEA between 2013 and 2017, before the banker began a five-year position with the same title of “executive director” at the related China Overseas Friendship Association (COFA) in 2019; both COEA and COFA have been identified by China experts as Chinese intelligence front groups.
Is the US facing a retail apocalypse? More than 800 big box retail stores are set to close across the nation this year - including Bed Bath & Beyond, Walmart, Gap and Party City
- Many of America's most iconic retail stores are set to close locations this year
- Over 800 big box retailers are planned to be closed down throughout 2023
- Bed Bath & Beyond leads the way in closing down at least 416 stores this year, followed by Tuesday Morning, Gap and Walmart
You Know Your City's in Trouble When Even Your Walmarts Are Leaving
Let’s be brutally honest, shall we? And I mean to cast no aspersions on Walmart, but when even Walmart finally packs up and skedaddles out of your city, it’s a strong indication that your city is in pretty bad shape. And when Lori Lightfoot is your mayor, you live in Chicago, and you know exactly what I’m talking about.
Closing stores isn’t rare for Walmart, particularly given its more than 5,000 stores nationwide. As ABC affiliate WLS-TV in Chicago reported the giant retailer closed 160 stores over the past couple of years, but with 5,000 stores the company has to be flexible and the bottom line is, literally, it has to go where the business is, and just as importantly, leave where it isn’t.
The company declined to provide specific reasons to local media for the closure of the three stores, but Walmart’s decision is just one more reminder of Greater Chicagoland’s decadelong decline.
Chicago’s population and tax base have shrunk for nine straight years, while crime continues to soar. Yet, the city is about to adopt no-cash bail, which makes it nearly impossible for police to enforce the law against thieves. Businesses don’t like that, of course, but guess who does? Her picture “might” be below.
Dem Reps Defend Biden Appointee Who Belonged To Alleged Chinese Intel Fronts, Suggest Critics Are Racist
“No Chinese Americans — indeed no Americans — should face suspicions of disloyalty or treason based on their ethnicity, nation of origin, or that of their family members,” CAPAC’s press release stated. “That kind of profiling is beneath us all, particularly those entrusted with public office.”
However, Chu’s comments follow a series of DNCF investigations that produced evidence of her own alleged CCP intel front group ties.
Chu served as the “honorary chairwoman” for an organization opposing Taiwan’s independence, which the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission identified as a front group of the United Front Work Department, one of the CCP’s overseas influence operations, according to a previous DCNF investigation. The DCNF also found that since 2012, Chu has served as the “honorary president” at the All-America Chinese Youth Federation, an organization whose leaders have included five individuals who’ve belonged to alleged UFWD front groups.
Most recently, the DCNF reported that Chu gave certificates of “Congressional Recognition” to at least 10 individuals who belonged to alleged CCP intel groups, many of whom also made political donations to Chu, campaign finance records reveal.
“Anyone who comes to Mr. Ng’s defense has questionable judgment, but calling members who are simply demanding an investigation ‘racist’ is just sad,” Gooden told the DCNF on Monday.
Prior to Ng’s appointment to APEC, CAPAC unsuccessfully lobbied President-elect Biden in December 2020 to appoint Ng to serve as secretary of the Commerce Department, according to Rep. Chu’s website.
2 Migrants Stoned to Death by Smugglers at Southern Border
Two migrants were reportedly stoned to death on the Mexican side of the southern border Saturday.
According to Border Report, police in Tijuana, Mexico, say the migrants were preparing to illegally cross a border barrier into San Diego when smugglers repeatedly struck them in the head with rocks, killing them. A third migrant was shot and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
“No one can go through there unless a payment has been made,” Soraya Vazquez, a human rights lawyer based in Tijuana, told Border Report. “The border barrier on the Mexico side has become a domain owned by cartels.”
The cartels control the southern border, according to former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott.
“There’s nothing that crosses the southwest border without working with the cartels,” Scott said on a recent episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast.”
Amtrak Joe Couldn’t Be Bothered To Visit A Train Wreck
I & I Editorial BoardFebruary 24, 2023
Afreight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, three weeks ago. Residents were ordered to evacuate and the cargo of toxic chemicals from five tanker cars was eventually released and set on fire. So far, Joe Biden hasn’t visited the scene, as is tradition for presidents when large-scale disasters strike. Instead, Biden officials have blamed Donald Trump, who hasn’t been president in more than two years, for the wreck. But even some media outlets are admitting it wasn’t his fault.
Official word from the White House accuses “congressional Republicans and former Trump administration officials” for selling out “to rail industry lobbyists when they dismantled the Obama-Biden rail safety protections as well as EPA powers to rapidly contain spills.” The administration believes Trump, who beat Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (who is utterly useless) to the site, and GOP lawmakers, owe “East Palestine an apology.”
“Congressional Republicans laid the groundwork for the Trump administration to tear up requirements for more effective train brakes,” Andrew Bates, a deputy White House press secretary, ranted on Wednesday, “and last year most House Republicans wanted to defund our ability to protect drinking water.”
That last point must really eat at the White House. Bates issued the statement on the same day Trump showed up with 13 pallets of bottled water, nine of which he donated (and delivered by two moving companies based in Red States), for the East Palestine residents who are understandably fearful of their water supply. Seems the former president was doing the work of the federal agency that has “emergency management” in its name but had not arrived in the city until this past weekend.
New York Times Admits Biden’s ‘Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs’
Hundreds of thousands of migrant teenagers are working “brutal jobs” to pay off their smuggling debts amid President Joe Biden’s loose border rules, the New York Times admitted in a February 25 article.
“Cristian works a construction job instead of going to school. He is 14 … Carolina packages Cheerios at night in a factory. She is 15 … Wander starts looking for day-labor jobs before sunrise. He is 13,” are the newspaper’s captions of photographs showing young teenagers admitted via the “Unaccompanied Alien Child” border loophole.
The children usually work for staffing companies at low-wage subsidiaries of Fortune 500 companies, such as PepsiCo., General Mills, Walmart, Target, and Ben & Jerry’s.
The article is headlined: “Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.”
A very small percentage of the human race suffers from ailments associated with sexuality. Researcher Leonard Sax estimates that about 0.018% of people are afflicted with “conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female.”
Sax’s observations are supported by the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders which reports that the percentage of people suffering from clinical gender dysphoria is exceedingly small. According to the DSM-5, it’s estimated that between 0.005% - 0.014% of males and 0.002% - 0.003% of females are diagnosable as such; hardly representative of any culture or subculture.
Inexplicably, the number of Americans claiming to be transgender is exponentially greater than clinical research indicates. According to the Pew Research Center, 5.1% of Americans under the age of 30 claim to be transgendered or non-binary.
Some of the people in this survey undoubtedly suffer a clinically recognized form of dysphoria and we should do everything possible to make sure they get the treatment and care they need. But the vast majority of these survey respondents are simply pretending. They are exhibiting behavior that the APA defines as delusional.
That statement may sound bold but believing the human species has somehow undergone a stratospherically rapid rate of genetic mutation strains credulity. The scale and the timing of this trend suggest that young people are falling prey to a type of social contagion.
The APA notes that “social contagion is sustained by relatively mundane interpersonal processes, such as imitation, conformity, universality, and mimicry." Given the continuous portrayals of transgender people as everything from simply cool to positively heroic, it’s small wonder these attributes would be attractive to impressionable, insecure youngsters.
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Sax’s observations are supported by the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders which reports that the percentage of people suffering from clinical gender dysphoria is exceedingly small. According to the DSM-5, it’s estimated that between 0.005% - 0.014% of males and 0.002% - 0.003% of females are diagnosable as such; hardly representative of any culture or subculture.
Inexplicably, the number of Americans claiming to be transgender is exponentially greater than clinical research indicates. According to the Pew Research Center, 5.1% of Americans under the age of 30 claim to be transgendered or non-binary.
Some of the people in this survey undoubtedly suffer a clinically recognized form of dysphoria and we should do everything possible to make sure they get the treatment and care they need. But the vast majority of these survey respondents are simply pretending. They are exhibiting behavior that the APA defines as delusional.
That statement may sound bold but believing the human species has somehow undergone a stratospherically rapid rate of genetic mutation strains credulity. The scale and the timing of this trend suggest that young people are falling prey to a type of social contagion.
The APA notes that “social contagion is sustained by relatively mundane interpersonal processes, such as imitation, conformity, universality, and mimicry." Given the continuous portrayals of transgender people as everything from simply cool to positively heroic, it’s small wonder these attributes would be attractive to impressionable, insecure youngsters.
The Delusional States of America
In East Palestine And Everywhere, Biden Is Putting America Last
In this time of environmental crisis, Greta Thunberg and the usual climate change activists are nowhere to be found. Where are the students who felt so passionately about the notion of disrupting the system in the name of preventing environmental catastrophe they threw mashed potatoes at one of the most cherished works of art in the world?
I don’t need to ask where Biden is. He made his visit to Ukraine very public in an effort to show his unwavering support. While not a single person from the White House had even acknowledged the disaster in Ohio for 10 days, Joe Biden spent this week personally visiting Ukraine to announce a half billion dollars in new spending.
While Joe Biden claimed in his State of the Union speech earlier this month to fight for the “forgotten” man, the Ohio train derailment had already gone unaddressed by his administration for four days by that point. What man is he referring to?
The past year has been challenging for most Americans suffering from out-of-control gas and grocery prices, unsafe streets, radical school curricula, and an ever-growing fentanyl crisis. Every day proves the Biden administration is placing the well-being of the American people last, and nowhere is that clearer than in East Palestine, Ohio.
ABC & NPR Confused Why Americans Aren't 'Feeling' Biden's Good Economy
Biden incoherently explained that Americans aren't feeling good because "it goes well beyond the economy." The octogenarian President blamed the constant negative stories Americans see when they turn on the news: "can you think of anything when you turn on the television that makes you think, God, that makes me feel good? Almost anything. Everything is in the negative."
Has there ever been a time when the news wasn't negative? Not to our memory. That's why there's the saying "no news is good news."
"Inflation is still higher than it should be, and, you know, everything from gasoline prices to a war going on in Ukraine," Biden proclaimed. "I mean, so I can't think of a time when there's been greater uncertainty, notwithstanding the fact that we created 800,000 manufacturing jobs."
Later on in the broadcast, during This Week's "PowerHouse Roundtable" segment, NPR's White House correspondent Asma Khalid showed how out of touch she is too. With a straight face she claimed that by "look[ing] at the inflation picture today, the economy is by most metrics healthier than it was six months ago."
In what seems to be news to only Khalid, inflation continues to rise and wreak havoc on consumer finances. Inflation rose once again in January by 0.5 percent. This was up from December's 0.1 percent increase in December.
To be charitable to Khalid, she maybe meant to say that inflation isn't rising by as much as it has in the past. But it still continues to rise and stands at a red-hot 6.4 percent year-over-year. When Biden took office, inflation was a cool 1.7 percent.
Always knew they were a bunch of socialists.
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ABC & NPR Confused Why Americans Aren't 'Feeling' Biden's Good Economy
Biden incoherently explained that Americans aren't feeling good because "it goes well beyond the economy." The octogenarian President blamed the constant negative stories Americans see when they turn on the news: "can you think of anything when you turn on the television that makes you think, God, that makes me feel good? Almost anything. Everything is in the negative."
Has there ever been a time when the news wasn't negative? Not to our memory. That's why there's the saying "no news is good news."
"Inflation is still higher than it should be, and, you know, everything from gasoline prices to a war going on in Ukraine," Biden proclaimed. "I mean, so I can't think of a time when there's been greater uncertainty, notwithstanding the fact that we created 800,000 manufacturing jobs."
Later on in the broadcast, during This Week's "PowerHouse Roundtable" segment, NPR's White House correspondent Asma Khalid showed how out of touch she is too. With a straight face she claimed that by "look[ing] at the inflation picture today, the economy is by most metrics healthier than it was six months ago."
In what seems to be news to only Khalid, inflation continues to rise and wreak havoc on consumer finances. Inflation rose once again in January by 0.5 percent. This was up from December's 0.1 percent increase in December.
To be charitable to Khalid, she maybe meant to say that inflation isn't rising by as much as it has in the past. But it still continues to rise and stands at a red-hot 6.4 percent year-over-year. When Biden took office, inflation was a cool 1.7 percent.
Once the pandemic is officially over changes are coming that could make matters worse. There were millions added to medicaid due to the pandemic who would not normally qualify. Those will lose that insurance. I just saw today extra Snap benefits will end. Add to that the SC saying no to the college debt forgiveness and loans will be back on being payed. Any other pandemic rules put into place that keeps people from owning up to their debt will end. Going to be a lot less extra money out there.
The Journal credited China’s turnaround to abandoning its awful Covid policies:
So … a bad covid-zero economy “slowed” China’s growth to 3%, and a good open economy sees growth exceeding 6%. Got that? By contrast, on February 15th, the Conference Board published its US economic forecast, which predicted that real GDP growth will slow to 0.3% in 2023, and then ‘rebound’ to 1.6% in 2024.
That’s a Joe Biden economy for you. We’re doing a fraction — ten percent! — of what China did at its worst — under covid-zero lockdown! — which was considered embarrassingly-low economic performance even by the COMMUNIST PARTY.
How about Russia? A month ago on January 31st, Newsweek ran a story headlined, “Russia’s Economy Forecast to Outperform U.S. Within Two Years.” Hmm. According to Newsweek, the International Monetary Fund predicted that, after taking a hit from US sanctions in 2022, Russia’s GDP will “rebound slightly” in 2023 to 0.3% growth, and then in 2024, the Russian economy is predicted to grow by 2.1%.
So let me get this straight. Biden’s awesome economy, after getting his gigantic “inflation act” passed, is sputtering at 0.3% — the exact same level as the most heavily-sanctioned country in the world, which is also currently dumping everything it owns into a losing Proxy War, not to mention being handily trounced by the Ukrainians every time you turn around?
And then, EVEN UNDER SANCTION, and gushing men and matériel into a losing Proxy War for a whole ‘nother year, the IMF still predicts Russia’s economy will perform about 50% better next year than the United States’ economy, even though we were the SANCTIONING COUNTRY to start with? Are you kidding me, Joe Biden?
It seems like covid and the proxy war have been pretty good for Russia and China, but awful for the United States. We’re running a distant third.
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So … a bad covid-zero economy “slowed” China’s growth to 3%, and a good open economy sees growth exceeding 6%. Got that? By contrast, on February 15th, the Conference Board published its US economic forecast, which predicted that real GDP growth will slow to 0.3% in 2023, and then ‘rebound’ to 1.6% in 2024.
That’s a Joe Biden economy for you. We’re doing a fraction — ten percent! — of what China did at its worst — under covid-zero lockdown! — which was considered embarrassingly-low economic performance even by the COMMUNIST PARTY.
How about Russia? A month ago on January 31st, Newsweek ran a story headlined, “Russia’s Economy Forecast to Outperform U.S. Within Two Years.” Hmm. According to Newsweek, the International Monetary Fund predicted that, after taking a hit from US sanctions in 2022, Russia’s GDP will “rebound slightly” in 2023 to 0.3% growth, and then in 2024, the Russian economy is predicted to grow by 2.1%.
So let me get this straight. Biden’s awesome economy, after getting his gigantic “inflation act” passed, is sputtering at 0.3% — the exact same level as the most heavily-sanctioned country in the world, which is also currently dumping everything it owns into a losing Proxy War, not to mention being handily trounced by the Ukrainians every time you turn around?
And then, EVEN UNDER SANCTION, and gushing men and matériel into a losing Proxy War for a whole ‘nother year, the IMF still predicts Russia’s economy will perform about 50% better next year than the United States’ economy, even though we were the SANCTIONING COUNTRY to start with? Are you kidding me, Joe Biden?
It seems like covid and the proxy war have been pretty good for Russia and China, but awful for the United States. We’re running a distant third.
☕️ JUMPING THE SHARK ☙ Wednesday, March 1, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
A packed and delicious roundup with tons of good news, including the craziest, most wonderful new bill in Florida. And Zelensky probably just jumped the shark. Plus LOTS more.
www.coffeeandcovid.com
Biden Seeks to Strip Health Care Professionals of Conscience Protections
What does it look like for HHS to robustly enforce conscience-protection laws? In 2020, the Office for Civil Rights took away $200 million of California’s Medicaid funds. The state had violated federal law by requiring state health care plans to cover abortions—without any limitations—including in plans used by an order of nuns.
Health and Human Services also referred a hospital in Vermont to the Department of Justice. The hospital forced a nurse to assist in an elective abortion despite her objections. The hospital also refused to change its policies to comply with the Church Amendments and prevent its employees from having their conscience rights violated again.
Predictably, the Left challenged the conscience rule in court, and the Biden administration restored the Medicaid funding to California. The Biden DOJ also dropped the lawsuit against the Vermont hospital that refused to comply with the Church Amendments.
Now, HHS plans to roll back the conscience rule. The new one would gut enforcement provisions; remove critical definitions and explanations of what counts as discrimination or violations; allow the Office for Civil Rights to not respond to complaints at all; allow for informal, nonbinding resolutions; and more.
Why does this matter?
HHS is, in effect, trying to turn back the clock. Once again, Americans would have to rely on a (potentially hostile) government bureaucrat to investigate, and act on, a complaint that their civil rights have been violated.
Biden’s DHS Funnels $350M to Illegal Aliens Released into U.S. Communities
This week, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the agency would be spending some $350 million on the Emergency Food and Shelter Program, specifically to fund support services for border crossers and illegal aliens arriving in various U.S. towns and cities.
Mayorkas said:
Already, DHS has spent $75 million “to fund costs incurred by localities and non-governmental organizations” through the program.
The taxpayer funds were authorized by Congress and the figure is set to rise to $800 million in social support services for newly released border crossers and illegal aliens.
Biden’s expansive Catch and Release network through the southern border has made the funding sources through this program possible as American communities struggle to absorb a constant stream of tens of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens released into the U.S. interior every month.
WHAT PRICE BIDEN?
If we ask What price Biden?, it is to seek a reckoning of the cost. The cost in financial terms must be the least of it, but it is nevertheless unthinkably enormous. Today’s New York Post editorial places a number on the financial cost to New York City of Biden’s erasure of our southern border:
The editorial touches on the “the vast human cost [Biden is] imposing” in its concluding sentence: “beyond sickening.”
Federal judge rules Biden's border policies unlawful, just a 'speedbump' for illegal migrants
A federal judge in Florida on Wednesday struck down the Biden administration’s use of parole to mass release migrants into the U.S. interior, finding the practice unlawful and accusing the administration of turning the border into a "meaningless line in the sand."
Judge T. Kent Wetherell ruled in response to a lawsuit from the state of Florida, which alleged the administration’s mass release of tens of thousands of migrants via humanitarian parole into Alternatives to Detention — known as "Parole + ATD" — is unlawful.
Mexican president to US: Fentanyl is your problem
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appeared to depict the synthetic opioid epidemic largely as a U.S. problem, and said the United States should use family values to fight drug addiction.
His statement came during a visit to Mexico by Liz Sherwood-Randall, the White House homeland security adviser, to discuss the fentanyl crisis. It also comes amid calls by some U.S. Republicans to use the U.S. military to attack drug labs in Mexico.
The Mexican government has acknowledged in the past that fentanyl is produced at labs in Mexico using precursor chemicals imported from China. Fentanyl has been blamed for about 70,000 opioid deaths per year in the United States.
He's not wrong, although I don't think any drug user in the US is demanding fentanyl. The US's appetite for illegal drugs does not appear to be diminishing.