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Red China's Infection of US Classrooms
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by Michelle Malkin
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Thursday News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


GETTING CLOSER: Trump signs USMCA trade deal; next up is Canada’s ratification (National Review)

ACQUITTAL IMMINENT? Trump could be acquitted in impeachment trial as early as Friday, according to No. 3 Republican Sen. John Barrasso (Reuters)

Government & Politics


“SOME … INFORMATION IS AT THE TOP SECRET LEVEL”: White House seeks to block classified material in John Bolton’s book (The Hill)

WHO’S READY FOR MORE DEBT? House Democrats release $760 billion “green” infrastructure plan (National Review)

SELF-AWARENESS FAIL: Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” dinky/liar-Warren proposes criminal penalties for spreading voting disinformation online (CNBC)

“I DID NOT LIE TO THEM”: Michael Flynn takes on “egregious” FBI misconduct, little-known FBI agent in guilty-plea withdrawal (Fox News)

BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER: New York Times hires BuzzFeed News editor who green-lighted the publishing of bogus Steele dossier (Fox News)

Culture & Heartland


BEYOND IDIOTIC: Convicted of sex crimes as a man, felon no longer deemed threat because of gender change (Storm Lake Times)

SLOW BUT STEADY: Fourth-quarter GDP rose only 2.1% and full-year 2019 posts slowest growth in three years at 2.3% (CNBC)

APEX REACHED? Drug deaths fall for first time in nearly 20 years, buoying U.S. life expectancy (Washington Examiner)

National Security


THOUSAND TALENTS PLAN: Acclaimed Harvard scientist is arrested, accused of lying about ties to China (NPR)

OPEN BORDERS: MS-13 gang member deported five times found in U.S. again (The Daily Wire)

WHEN THEY CAN’T GO OVER THEY GO UNDER:  Feds expose longest illicit cross-border tunnel ever discovered on southwest border (The Daily Wire)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Do we even need a FISA Court? (Issues & Insights)

POLICY: Monopoly power isn’t why hospital prices are so high (E21)

HUMOR: dinky/liar-Warren wears her ancestral headdress while vowing to criminalize election “disinformation” (Genesius Times)  

~The Patriot Post
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John Bolton Busted
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by Jeffrey Lord
{ thejeffreylord.com } ~ So suddenly there was the Bolton book.  Ohhhhhh the humanity. The New York Times headlined their “scoop” this way... Trump Tied Ukraine Aid to Inquiries He Sought, Bolton Book Says - The story said, in part, this: President Trump told his national security adviser in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the loose lips liar-Bidens, according to an unpublished manuscript by the former adviser,  John R. Bolton.” - The predictable media frenzy ensued. Then, several days into the frenzy, with media-types and Democrats still in the midst of high-fiving that finally, at long last, they have nailed Trump the Road Runner, the hammer falls on the Wylie Coyote media industrial complex. An August 2019 Bolton television interview with Radio Free Europe surfaces, in which the then-national security adviser says the complete opposite of the now-famous phone calls between President Trump and the Ukrainian president. ( https://thejeffreylord.com/john-bolton-busted/?jwsource=em ) Unsurprisingly – if amusingly to his supporters – President Trump pounced. Bolton was busted.Over at Real Clear Politics, the headline was this: Trump Tweets Video of Bolton Praising “Warm and Cordial” Ukraine Call: “Game Over!” - And sure enough, there was Bolton himself, on camera, calmly saying the exact opposite of what his book now allegedly says. Here is the money quote from the interview- with bold print supplied: “I will be meeting President Zelensky. He and President Trump have already spoken twice. The president called to congratulate President Zelensky on his election and on his success in the parliamentary election. They were very warm and cordial calls. - We’re hoping they’ll be able to meet in Warsaw for a few minutes together, because the success of Ukraine, maintaining its free, its system of representative government, a free-market economy, a free of corruption, and dealing with the problems of the Danbass in the Crimea are high priorities here, obviously, but high priorities for the United States, as well.” Got that? Bolton appeared not only totally unperturbed but quite casually observed that the calls were “very warm and cordial” – something that in fact is borne out by the transcript of the actual call. In other words? Game over indeed. Bolton has been busted. By himself.  https://thejeffreylord.com/john-bolton-busted/
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scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff Claims 
‘I Don’t Know Who the Whistleblower Is’
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by thepoliticalinsider.com ~ On Wednesday, House Intelligence Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff insisted that he did not know the identity of the so-called “whistleblower”... who filed the original complaint about President Donald Trump that led to the impeachment trial. - ‘I don’t know who the whistleblower is’ - “First of all, I don’t know who the whistleblower is, I haven’t met them or communicated with them in any way,” scumbag/liar-Schiff said Wednesday during the Senate impeachment trial. What scumbag/liar-Schiff failed to mention was that the “whistleblower” approached a House Intelligence Committee aide with supposed details about Trump’s phone call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The New York Times reported that a scumbag/liar-Schiff committee staffer told the “whistleblower” to meet with the inspector general and file a whistleblower complaint. - scumbag/liar-Schiff Denies His Staff Did Anything to Help Whistleblower - Yet scumbag/liar-Schiff is still denying that any member of his staff did anything to help the “whistleblower.” “The committee staff did not write the complaint or coach the whistleblower what to put in the complaint,” scumbag/liar-Schiff said. scumbag/liar-Schiff condemned what he called a “conspiracy theory” that someone on his committee staff allegedly “colluded” with the whistleblower to craft a complaint that launched the impeachment investigation. A spokesman for scumbag/liar-Schiff told the NYT that the whistleblower, “contacted the committee for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence community.” scumbag/liar-Schiff said his staff has shown “complete professionalism,” adding that members of his staff had become subject to threats on social media thanks to “smears” committed by President Trump and his allies...
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Rand Paul Vows to Fight after Justice John 
Roberts Blocks Question Naming Whistleblower
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by Rusty Weiss 
{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ Tensions were on the rise Wednesday evening as Chief Justice John Roberts blocked a question from Senator Rand Paul that would have identified the alleged whistleblower at the center of the impeachment trial... Roberts’ actions prompted shouting from the Kentucky Senator as he vowed to “fight for recognition.” Sean Davis, a co-founder of the Federalist, reported that Roberts, at the behest of Democrats, “previously vowed to ban any questions about the whistleblower whatsoever, named or not.” “Roberts’ arbitrary and unilateral censorship of senators and Senate business raises serious questions about whether he would similarly ban any and all motions to subpoena by name the whistleblower … to compel his testimony,” Davis said. GOP senators previously suggested having the whistleblower testify should witnesses be approved for the trial. After Republicans threatened a vote to rebuke Roberts on the record, the Chief Justice retreated and said the actual name of the whistleblower would be the only thing earning a block. Even that should be challenged...
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GOP senators believe they have 
the votes to block witnesses
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By ALEXANDER BOLTON
{ thehill.com } ~ It was clear to Senate Republicans on Wednesday after a morning meeting between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. rino-Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that the question of having additional witnesses is settled... and the Senate will vote Friday to wrap up the impeachment trial of President Trump. There was no discussion of witnesses at a Senate GOP lunch meeting Wednesday, which was held a couple hours after McConnell and rino-Murkowski met for about 20 to 30 minutes. That was seen as a sign by several senators that Democrats will fail to convince four Republicans to join them in calling for witnesses. Without a vote to hear from witnesses, the trial could end as soon as Friday. “We’re going to get it done by Friday, hopefully,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said following the meeting. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), emerging from the lunch, said, “I think I can say the mood is good.” Braun expressed confidence that McConnell will be able to keep his conference unified enough to defeat a motion to consider subpoenas for additional witnesses and documents. “If I had to guess, no witnesses,” he said. “We’ll be in a place where I think everyone is going to have their mind made up and I believe that we’ll be able to move to a verdict, and the witness question will be clear at that point,” Braun added...   https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/480526-gop-senators-believe-they-have-the-votes-to-block-witnesses   
Flynn Case Update – Flynn Files Motion to
Dismiss, Declaration of Plea Reversal – DOJ
Files Revised Sentence Recommendation
for Probation Only
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Lawyers representing Lt. General Michael Flynn have filed a motion to dismiss citing “government misconduct”... Additionally Mr. Flynn has filed a declaration requesting to remove his prior guilty plea and take the case to trial. Hours later the DOJ revised their sentencing memo, dropped their request for jail time and offered probation. Within the motion to dismiss Flynn’s legal team point out several issues with the prosecution of Mr. Flynn and highlight the recent findings, admissions and briefs amid the IG report, DOJ notifications to the FISA Court, and FISC orders therein. NOTE: FBI Supervisory Special Agent Joseph Pientka III, the FBI agent with his finger in the majority of the corrupt FBI activity, has an ongoing protective court order upon his personage requiring the redaction and/or removal of his name from any government or case document.   No-one has publicly stated the reason for the protective order...
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The Israeli Army Is Unprepared for a 
Ground War with Iran and Hezbollah
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by Michael Peck
{ nationalinterest.org } ~ If Israel has to go to war tomorrow against Iran or its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, there’s a problem. The Israeli mechanized division that would defend Israel’s northern border, or enter Syria or Lebanon to eject Iranian and pro-Iranian forces, are in bad shape... The 319th Division, stationed in northern Israel, is short of equipment such as tanks, and the equipment it does have is in poor condition, according to an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) audit cited by Israeli news site Ynet. “According to the audit's findings, 52 percent of combat vehicles are unfit for use and there is a 20 percent shortage of weapons and night-vision equipment for soldiers,” Ynet said. “The auditors found that many armored vehicles were lacking during proper maintenance checks, with 68 of them sitting uncovered and unprotected against the elements. Dozens of other vehicles were found unusable due to faulty tires and broken engines, and only 34 percent of oil tankers and more than 33 percent of cranes were also found to be unusable. The Ynet article was accompanied by photographs that showed vehicles in a dilapidated condition or unprotected by tarps against the elements. Auditors found that the problem extended to the 319th Division’s support units, as well. “The Northern Command's logistics unit, upon which the 319th Division relies in times of war, has a shortage in communications equipment and vehicles for medical evacuation, and the division's medical unit hasn't had a commanding officer or lieutenant for almost a year.”...  https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/israeli-army-unprepared-ground-war-iran-and-hezbollah-117691?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=491a1c02d1-MEF_Peck_2020_01_30_12_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-491a1c02d1-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-491a1c02d1-33703665&mc_cid=491a1c02d1&mc_eid=f33b9e6c12   
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Red China's Infection of US Classrooms
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by Michelle Malkin

{ townhall.com } ~ Dangerous menaces are spreading from mainland China to the United States. Surgical masks and Big Pharma vaccines, however, won't protect this nation from its infiltration. The problem doesn't lie with bats. It lies with America's batty pursuit of globalization at all costs.

Chinese Communist Party agents are using our suicidal pathologies -- blind worship of "diversity," naive exaltation of "cultural exchange" programs, and reckless surrender of our education system -- against us for economic espionage, intellectual property theft and world dominance. While Beltway blowhards rail against foreign interference in our elections, Beijing's hijacking of our classrooms ensues with hardly a peep of political resistance.

On Monday, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston announced that the chairman of Harvard University's Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, along with two Chinese nationals, have been "charged in connection with aiding the People's Republic of China." Acclaimed Harvard chemist and nanoscientist, Dr. Charles Lieber, had served as a "strategic scientist" at Wuhan University of Technology for the past nine years and is accused of lying about his role as a "contractual participant" of China's infamous Thousand Talents Plan.

Last fall, after years of intel warnings, a bipartisan Senate committee blew the whistle on TTP's systematic recruitment of an estimated 7,000 academics who have agreed to "transmit the knowledge and research they gain here to China in exchange for salaries, research funding, lab space, and other incentives." Lieber reportedly received $50,000 a month plus living expenses and more than $1.5 million for a Chinese research lab, all while soaking up $15 million in federal grants from the National Institutes of Health and Defense Department.

It is unknown how many Chinese nationals worked in either Lieber's America-based or China-based labs. But the two Chinese nationals charged with Lieber were cancer researcher Zaosong Zheng, 29, whom Harvard sponsored on a J-1 work-study exchange visa and Yanqing Ye, 29, whom Boston University sponsored on a J-1. Prosecutors allege Ye is a CCP member and top military lieutenant. Zheng is accused of attempting to smuggle "21 vials of biological research" aboard a flight destined for China.

Those are just a few who got caught. In 2018-2019, China sent the most international students from around the world 369,548 out of nearly 1.1 million to study in U.S. institutions. More than 71,000 Chinese students headed to Massachusetts; 6,222 of them embedded at Harvard and 10,598 of them enrolled at Boston University. Those figures don't include their spouses and children, who are also welcomed through their own special visa programs. And the national security risks of the untold tens of thousands of Chinese nationals on the H-1B tech worker visa is a whole 'nuther story.

China has cunningly exploited America's alphabet soup of temporary visa programs, which are overwhelmed by out-of-control mass migration and are operated by open borders ideologues who put the alleged economic benefits of admitting 1 million international students into the country every year over the national security risks. Top administrators at Harvard and other prestigious universities have continually denounced the Trump administration for increasing vetting of foreign student visas and inconveniencing their wealthy clientele.

But mum's the word on the treachery taking place under the guise of "cultural" enrichment:

--Last July, the FBI indicted Chinese F-1 student visa beneficiary Weiyun "Kelly" Huang in an alleged visa fraud scheme that allowed more than 2,500 Chinese foreign students on F-1 -- including a purported spy for the Chinese government -- to extend their stays by claiming employment with a phony internet front she created. The ruse allowed the scammers to take advantage of the uncapped Optional Practical Training program allowing F-1s to stay an extra three years to work. Ji Chaoqun, an F-1 who received a master's degree in electrical engineering in 2015 from an unspecified U.S. university, paid for Huang's services and was arrested in 2018 for alleged spying and recruitment of academics and engineers under the direction of the People's Republic of China.

--In September, the FBI arrested Chinese national Zhongsan Liu in New Jersey for operating a fraudulent J-1 visa racket that imported PRC operatives to staff a New York front group recruiting scientists, academics and engineers to work in China. Liu targeted seven American universities for the scheme, including the University of Massachusetts Boston.

 --Just last week, the University of Missouri at Columbia announced it was terminating its partnership with a Chinese government-funded language and cultural program called the Confucius Institute amid widespread national security concerns. The Institute's teachers were pouring into local K-12 schools through the J-1 visa program unsupervised. The U.S. Government Accountability Office identified more than 500 "Confucius Institutes" worldwide, with 96 located at colleges and universities in the United States as of December 2018 -- the vast majority of them publicly funded institutions. A PRC propaganda outfit called Hanban has provided funding ranging from $900,000 to $1.7 million for "model" Confucius Institutes.

While several universities have closed their programs, several Chinese language charter schools and entire school districts, including K-12 public schools in Broward County, Florida, Houston and Seattle, operate "Confucius Classrooms" approved and co-operated with the Chinese government.

Where's a nationwide public health emergency declaration when you need one?
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