Pompeo Accuses U.S. University of Abandoning Student in Chinese Reeducation Camp

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An official at the University of Washington refused to seek the release of a Chinese national sent to a “reeducation camp” after studying at the university “because of a multimillion-dollar deal with China,” according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

“Now, thank God, Vera was eventually released and returned to the U.S. — but no thanks to the University of Washington and no thanks to the deal that it had made with the Chinese Communist Party,” Pompeo said Wednesday at Georgia Tech, referring to the once-detained student named Vera Zhou.

Pompeo identified by name schools and university officials he regards as wary of crossing Beijing while making the case that Chinese Communist authorities are exploiting the latent “anti-Americanism” and greed of U.S. schools at the expense of national security.

“Americans must know how the CCP is poisoning the well of our higher education for its own ends and how those actions degrade our freedoms and our national security,” Pompeo said. “If we don’t educate ourselves, we’ll get schooled by Beijing.” (Read more from “Pompeo Accuses U.S. University of Abandoning Student in Chinese Reeducation Camp” HERE)

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DOD Will Prioritize Its Healthcare Workers With First COVID Doses

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Within 48 hours of emergency authorization, the Department of Defense aims to have shots in the arms of some 44,000 mostly healthcare military personnel across 16 global locations, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

Among the first to receive shots will not be those safeguarding U.S. national security.

“They most definitely come in,” Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Thomas McCaffery told the Washington Examiner, before clarifying that only about five senior officials would be part of the first tranche.

“The 44,000 that we expect to get initially, that we will be testing through those 16 sites, those won’t even cover the very first section of Phase 1A, which is going to be healthcare workers,” he said.

McCaffery said acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, Deputy Secretary David Norquist, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley, Vice Chairman John Hyten, and Senior Enlisted Adviser to the Joint Chiefs CZ Colon would likely be the only five people to be offered the first vaccine as soon as emergency authorization is granted. (Read more from “DOD Will Prioritize Its Healthcare Workers With First COVID Doses” HERE)

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Doctors Tell Senate They’re Attacked for Saving COVID Patients

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At a Senate hearing, six prominent physicians called for removing obstacles to outpatient therapies for COVID-19 they contend are saving lives.

The testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Tuesday was the second part a hearing organized by Chairman Ron Johnson titled “Early Outpatient Treatment: An Essential Part of a COVID-19 Solution.”

Dr. Jane Orient, the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, urged the committee to exercise its oversight over federal agencies that are “effectively blocking treatment that could prevent 100,000 needless deaths and stop the crippling fear and the destruction of millions of livelihoods.”

“Today’s top-down, authority-based ‘standard of care’ for early COVID, promulgated in NIH guidelines, is therapeutic nihilism,” she said in her prepared statement.

“This is shocking and unprecedented, but in today’s litigious environment,” she said, doctors who “dare prescribe” a drug proven to effectively treat COVID-19 like hydroxychloroquine could be “fired, removed from insurance panels, investigated, or even delicensed.” (Read more from “Doctors Tell Senate They’re Attacked for Saving COVID Patients” HERE)

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Radio Host Sounds Ominous Warning About Future of America

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With the political divide in America continuing to increase, radio star Rush Limbaugh believes the nation is moving toward secession.

“I actually think that we’re trending toward secession,” the broadcaster said on his Wednesday broadcast.

“There cannot be a peaceful coexistence of two completely different theories of life, theories of government, theories of how we manage our affairs. We can’t be in this dire a conflict without something giving somewhere along the way.”

“I know that there’s a sizable and growing sentiment for people who believe that that is where we’re headed whether we want to or not. Whether we want to go there or not.” . . .

“Our problem is the fact that there are just so many RINOs, so many Republicans in the Washington establishment who will do anything to maintain their membership in the establishment because of the perks and the opportunities that are presented for their kids and so forth.” (Read more from “Radio Host Sounds Ominous Warning About Future of America” HERE)

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Democrat Calls on ‘Soldiers’ To Make Trump Supporters ‘Pay’

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Calling on “soldiers” of the left to “make them pay,” a Democratic state lawmaker delivered a threat to supporters of President Trump on Facebook Live.

Michigan state Rep. Cynthia Johnson prefaced her warning Tuesday with a wish that “I could be talking to y’all in a private room … but we’re public.”

“So this is just a warning to you Trumpers. Be careful, walk lightly, we ain’t playing with you. Enough of the shenanigans. Enough is enough,” she said, emphasizing every word.

“And for those of you who are soldiers, you know how to do it. Do it right, be in order, make them pay.” . . .

On Wednesday, Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield announced Johnson had been stripped of her committee assignments in response to her threats. (Read more from “Democrat Calls on ‘Soldiers’ To Make Trump Supporters ‘Pay'” HERE)

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Facebook Sued by 48 Attorneys General

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Forty-eight U.S. Attorneys General led by New York filed a lawsuit against Facebook Wednesday arguing that the social media giant violated antitrust law by engaging in anticompetitive practices through buying out smaller rivals. The group of state law enforcement executives were joined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filing a separate lawsuit.

Both suits center on Facebook’s purchases of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 for $1 billion and $19 billion respectively, while also targeting smaller firms. The acquisitions, plaintiffs allege, illegally stifled online competition. The FTC is seeking to force Facebook sell Instagram and WhatsApp.

“Facebook’s actions to entrench and maintain its monopoly deny consumers the benefits of competition,” said FTC Director of Bureau Competition Ian Conner. “Our aim is to roll back Facebook’s anticompetitive conduct and restore competition so that innovation and free competition can thrive.”

Facebook reins as the world’s dominant online networking giant boasting 2.7 billion monthly active users across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, according to Yahoo Finance. (Read more from “Facebook Sued by 48 Attorneys General” HERE)

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Judge Dismisses Case Against Michael Flynn After Trump Pardon

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A federal judge has dismissed the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn after months of resisting a Department of Justice request to drop the case.

Judge Emmet Sullivan dismissed charges against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, ruling the case moot after President Donald Trump pardoned his former administration official on November 25. Sullivan has presided over the case since December 2017 after the DOJ charged Flynn with lying to the FBI.

Pending before the Court are: (1) the government’s motion to dismiss the criminal information against Mr. Flynn with prejudice pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a) … and (2) the government’s notice of executive grant of clemency and consent motion to dismiss this case as moot,” Sullivan wrote in the dismissal, according to The Washington Examiner. “Upon careful consideration of the motions, the applicable law, the entire record herein, and for the reasons explained below, the Court DENIES AS MOOT the government’s motion to dismiss pursuant to Rule 48(a), and GRANTS the government’s consent motion based on the presidential pardon and DISMISSES this case AS MOOT.”

Trump announced Flynn’s pardon in a tweet, effectively ending the retired military officer’s three-year prosecution over allegedly lying to the FBI about a phone call he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016 as the then-incoming national security adviser.

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Hunter Biden’s ‘Tax Affairs’ Under Federal Investigation

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Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, is under investigation for “tax affairs,” Hunter Biden confirmed to CNBC.

“I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs,” Biden told the outlet in a statement. “I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors.”

Hunter Biden’s foreign business ties became a central issue in his father’s campaign, especially after the elder Biden was implicated in one such business deal with a Chinese energy executive by one of Hunter’s former business partners, Tony Bobulinski.

Joe Biden’s campaign responded to the announcement in a statement, telling CNBC: “President-elect Biden is deeply proud of his son, who has fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks of recent months, only to emerge stronger.” (Read more from “Hunter Biden’s ‘Tax Affairs’ Under Federal Investigation” HERE)

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17 States Support Texas Supreme Court Lawsuit Alleging PA-MI-GA-WI Elections Were Unconstitutional

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Seventeen states filed an amicus brief Wednesday supporting the state of Texas’s lawsuit — filed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court — which targets Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin over claims of unconstitutional practices in their respective elections.

The states include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia:

Texas filed the lawsuit on Monday, arguing that the battleground states “violated the Electors Clause of the Constitution because they made changes to voting rules and procedures through the courts or through executive actions, but not through the state legislatures,” as Breitbart News reported:

Additionally, Texas argues that there were differences in voting rules and procedures in different counties within the states, violating the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. Finally, Texas argues that there were “voting irregularities” in these states as a result of the above.

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Drones Increasingly Being Used for Drug Smuggling

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Border Patrol officials in Arizona report the use of drones to smuggle drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border is on the rise. Yuma Sector officials ask for the public’s help in spotting and reporting illegal drone activity.

“Drones, more formally called unmanned aircraft systems, have many positive and legitimate uses; however, drones are also frequently being used to smuggle illegal drugs across the international border from Mexico into the U.S.,” Yuma Sector Border Patrol officials said in a written statement. “They are operated from a distance by remote control and are most often used under the cover of night.”

Last month, Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two U.S. citizens who picked up nearly 25 pounds of methamphetamine that smugglers dropped from a drone, according to a November Border Patrol statement. The drone delivered the package of drugs near a residence near San Luis, Arizona. Agents arrested the two U.S. citizens and seize the $225,ooo worth of meth. (Read more from “Drones Increasingly Being Used for Drug Smuggling” HERE)

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