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your support. I'm going to move on from the Senate
bill debate that occurred in the House. It did pass
the House party line vote. They got to hammer out
the differences in conference. But Alex has been waiting the
last call from the last topic, and so I will
get to Alex now. Hello Alex, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hey, how you doing okay? I just want to say
the Democrats won't be satisfied until America's turned into a
filthy third world Spanish speaking dung heap sr is happening?
Speaker 1: Why a Spanish speaking one?
Speaker 2: Because I'll give you an example. I remember Biden gave
a speech to some Hispanics. They said the future of
America is Spanish. I mean, when you call a business
or an agent said the federal government, it always says
press one for English. You shouldn't have to press one
for English in this country. I mean, when you look
at all the various Spanish speaking countries in Latin America,
Spanish is the official language. Why has the United States,
the United States of America been forced to become suddenly bilingual.
Speaker 1: Well, because we don't have an official language of the
United States. I remember this debate twenty years ago. There
is no official right, there's our culture. Well, I mean,
but language changes obviously, right we I mean, people adopt
different language. You heard kids talk nowadays. My gosh, it's
like a whole different language old in and of itself.
But yeah, I mean, if i'd say, if you want
the official language of the of the federal government, state government,
and the like, like, you could do that and make
it all the official language. Now, I will say, also,
you go overseas, you go other countries, they speak a
lot of English over there.
Speaker 2: But in the Latin American countries, Spanish is.
Speaker 1: Officially, right, but we don't have an official language. That's
what I'm saying. Unless something has changed.
Speaker 2: I thought that President Trump had issued a proclamation several
months back as stating about that English would be the
language that of government.
Speaker 1: Okay, well then there you go. Then then fantastic, right
that would solve that would solve the one of your
one of your issues, right, yeah, hopefully, Okay, all right, cool,
all right, thanks Alex, I appreciate the call. All right,
let me get to this story. This is out of Harvard.
You heard about their commencement speaker Luana Jiron Jiang spoke
at the commencement for Harvard University. She apparently worked for
the COMMIS. I know, I am as shocked as you are.
She worked for the Chinese Communist Party entity with extensive
ties to Beijing's military and intelligence networks. That according to
a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation, Jiang, who graduated from
the Kennedy School on May twenty ninth and appeared to
take a swipe at the Trump administration during her speech,
was a volunteer, aren't they all for the commis? A
volunteer for the International Department of the China Biodiversity Conservation
and Green Development Foundation or the CBC GDF, or as
I call it prior to I don't know why they
like at that point, guys, don't even give me the acronym.
Just give me a different name, you know, the CBCGDF. Really,
that's what the acronym are going. Ok, yeah, just anyway,
So she was a volunteer for this CBCGDF prior to
attending Harvard between at least twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two.
The organization is controlled by the Communist Party and has
signed a cooperative agreement with a Chinese military arm Furthermore,
it hosts a branch of a Chinese influence and intelligence
service called the United Front Work Department or the UFWD,
or as I call it, the UFWOOD, to which many
of its leaders belong, including its secretary General, who reportedly
wrote a recommendation letter for Luana Jaran Jang to go
to Harvard. And then there's this from Detroit. Federal agents
arrested a University of Michigan scholar from China on charges
she tried to smuggle a biological pathogen in to the
United States. This pathogen is characterized as a potential agricultural
terrorism weapon that can be used for targeting food crops.
Does anybody else get the sense that China is trying
to do all sorts of things that are not quite
military actions but kind of affect the same result, and
then if they want to go take Taiwan, they may
go ahead and pull the trigger on a whole bunch
of different little ops that create chaos and mayhem and
death and destruction inside the country. Is that just me?
Is that just me? Or does anybody else kind of
get that feeling? The FBI counterintelligence case against um scholar
Jung Qing Jan thirty three years old, as well as
her boyfriend, her boyfriend, or is this one of those
partnerships you know they put spies together and they're like, Okay,
you're gonna go over as like a boyfriend girlfriend team,
but they're not really boyfriend girlfriend. Did anybody see the
documentary The Americans, Right? It was a TV series The
Soviets send over these couples that pose as Americans, married couple,
and they even have kids who are American, right, But
they're actually Commi spies. Now, I'm not saying that the
communist Chinese would engage in any kind of behavior that
mimics what the communist Russians would do, but they do
share a bit of a history. So her boyfriend, thirty
four year old Zunyoglu, So you have John and Lou.
The case was unsealed in federal court in Detroit this
week on Tuesday, and it marks the second time in
less than a week that a Chinese national ties to
the university has been charged with federal crimes. On Friday,
prosecutors unsealed the criminal case against former UM Chinese student
who had voted illegally in the twenty twenty four election
and then he fled the US to avoid prosecution. So
the woman, the girlfriend Jian, is a citizen of China
who received a doctorate degree in plant pathogens from Xijiang University,
and investigators say they have discovered information describing her membership
in and loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. I did
not see that coming. Yeah, oh, really, like somebody who's
studying plant pathogens and crop killing agriterrorism weapons, she would
be in the Communist Party, gosh. Prosecutors say she received
money from a Chinese fan foundation funded largely by the
Chinese government, in order to conduct postdoctoral work, including research
on a fungus known as Fusorium gramminarium, a biological pathogen
that can cause devastating diseases and crops. Prosecutors say that
her boyfriend illegally smuggled a biological pathogen into the US
at the Detroit Airport on July twenty seventh, wait, a
year ago. When Customs and Border Protection officers questioned him,
he made false statements two Customs Border Patrol officers about
the purpose of his visit to the United States and
his knowledge of the existence of the biological pathogen that
was in his possession. Yeah, oh, I left my luggage alone.
I guess somebody must have put it in there while
I was asserts in your shoe. I took my shoes
off while I was going through the scanning thing. He
admitted ultimately to smuggling the pathogen and said that he
brought it to the United States so that he could
conduct research on it at a lab at the University
of Michigan, where his girlfriend worked. So, who do you
think is the brains of this operation? Right now? So
far in this story, arc, who do you think is
the brains? Fusarium greminarium is a strain of a plant
pathogen that causes head blight, according to the Criminal Case,
a disease that can devastate wheat, barley, maize, and rice.
Wouldn't that just be corn is corn the same as maze,
I feel like, I mean, okay, they may be genetically
different or something, because I've heard you can't even grow
corn with without all of the stuff anywhere, like you
can't like the original corn doesn't exist anymore. I don't know.
It's responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide
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It's responsible for billions and economic losses worldwide every year.
Toxins produced by Fusorium gramminarium. Sorry, I'm not really up
on my Latin. It can actually affect people too, causing vomiting,
liver damage, and reproductive defects in livestock as well as humans.
According to the complaint, a potential agro terrorism weapon is
what it's described as fusori I'm just gonna call it
FG from now on, if that's okay with everybody. FG
is classified as a potential agro terrorism weapon that could
be us used for targeting food crops. So John and
her boyfriend are charged with several crimes, including conspiracy to
defraud the US smuggling, making false statements to investigators, as
well as visa fraud. The smuggling charge carries the stiffest penalty,
up to twenty years in federal prison. The roots of
the case, though, go back to March of twenty twenty four.
That's when Lou applied for a B two tourist visa
to enter the United States, and on the visa application,
it asks do you seek to engage in espionage? Are
you coming to spy? And you know spies, they have
to tell you, all right, like that's the old thing,
you know, Like if you're under cover, you got to
tell me. Are you going to engage in sabotage or
export control violations or any other illegal activity while you're here?
And Lou answered no. And then he arrived at Detroit
Metro Airport four months later July of twenty twenty four,
and during an inspection, an officer found a hidden note
written in Chinese, also a round piece of filter paper,
and four baggies filled with small clumps of reddish plant material.
When asked about these materials, Lou lied and said someone
must have put them in his bag, so I left
it unattended. I know you, said not to, but I
totally forgot. I really had to go to the bathroom
and I want to bring my suitcase into the scummy
floor bathroom, so I left it out and maybe that's
when somebody put it in my bag. But upon further questioning,
he broke down and acknowledged that the materials were different
strains of FG. So they prevented him from entering the US.
They sent him back to China, but before that, investigators
searched his iPhones. Apparently he had multiple iPhones, which is
totally not something a spy would have. One contained an
article that titled twenty eighteen plant pathogen warfare under changing
climate conditions. So, right, so you carry with you the
phone that has the article on it about plant pathogen
warfare with coincidentally a plant pathogen that is used in
plant pathogen warfare. Guys, I'm not sure if we're going
to be able to figure this one out. A search
of his devices then revealed messages between him and his
alleged girlfriend that indicate Jian, who is at University of
Michigan working in the laboratory there, that she apparently smuggled
biological material into the United States. Also back in August
of twenty twenty two. They discussed smuggling seeds. So she
says where to put it, and Lou says, just put
it in your shoes, and then she writes back, I
stuffed them in my shoes. Travel record show. One day
after those messages were exchanged, she arrived in San Francisco
from South Korea. She did not declare that she was
importing biological materials. The investigation then intensified four months ago
in February, after Donald Trump assumed the presidency. That is
when FBI agents interviewed you. Well, I mean that makes
sense because the FBI was, you know, overloaded with a
whole bunch of cases of you know, Catholic church goers
and you know, parents complaining to school boards about you know,
comic books showing gay sex and so like. The FBI
were up to their eyeballs and more important things. And
then Trump came in and was like, you're going to
focus on like these less important things like agro terrorism
and the destruction of our food. You know, I know,
I can't believe people voted for this, but whatever they did.
So that's when the FBI agents interviewed Jin, who was
still working at the lab. She's still at the University
of Michigan. They popped this guy in July and she
remained at the lab. The Communist Chinese must think we
are fools, and honestly they're I guess not too far
off on that. I mean, they did float a balloon
over our entire country for several weeks. Right, So the
FBI goes and interviews her at the lab. While talking
to the FBI, she makes several false statements. She denied
knowing that her boyfriend planned to study in the United
States or that he was bringing any biological materials into
the country. She also denied helping him in his research
on the fg FBI agents asked her to hand over
her cell phone. Can we just check your cell phone?
And she refused, but the investigator seized it and searched
the device after obtaining a search warrant. The search uncovered
a form that was signed last year that included a
pledge to support the Chinese Communist Party. So he's got
on one of his multiple phones an article about plant
pathogens whilst carrying a plant pathogen, and she has a
form a loyalty pledge on her phone. The search also
revealed the conversation between her and another person in January
of last year that indicated prior smuggling efforts, which included
unknown substances shipped to the United States that were hidden
between the pages of a used statistics book. Which that's
kind of brilliant. Okay, if you're going to be smuggling stuff,
put it in a book about statistics. You know, you know,
customs and tsapeople, they're not going to be checking that.
No one's going to be opening up a book on statistics.
The book was destined for Jeon's home in ann Arbor, Michigan,
but it was intercepted by federal agents and analyzed by
biological threats specialists in Kentucky. The samples were subsequently destroyed
in twenty twenty four. That's how long this took. You
finally got around to interviewing this woman only after Trump
got into office. I kind of feel like we deserve
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All Right, So I have an update on the missing
bulldog named Julio. French bulldog named Julio. This was the
dog that was stolen while he was sitting in a car.
The car was stolen by a bunch of punks and
the car was eventually recovered the thief. The car thief
was arrested, but the dog has not been returned to
its owner. And last week, I think it was maybe
a week or maybe two weeks ago, the owner and
another person who is supporting her and helping her spread
the message and the word, they went down to the
Charlotte City Council and they were, you know, demanding some
action here, like they've got evidence of who has the dog,
and like they can't get any traction to get this
woman her dog back from these these thieves and their
family members. Well this was I guess Monday. Another arrest
has been made now in connection to the theft of
the French bulldog named Julio. Twenty year old to Harry
Taylor was booked into the Mecklinburg County Detention Center on
May thirtieth and charged with felony possession of stolen Goods.
According to an affidavit, Charlotte Mecklamburg police were called to
you know, the scene where the stolen vehicle was taken
and Julia was inside the victim's vehicle. The car was
found five days later. A juvenile was charged. So we
don't know who that person is. I went over all
of this a couple of weeks ago or a week ago.
They've been harassing the victim because her name is known
right the publicity of the case, but also her information
is on the police report. But because it's a juvenile,
it's a child who did the crime, allegedly, they get
all of their information redacted. So they get to hide
and now they get to target the victim. They've tried
to extort the victim. They've harassed her, they've threatened her.
But apparently this twenty year old to Harry Taylor had
the dog and off of his phone they got So
let me back up. This is from Queen Cityews qcnews
dot com. While investigators were investigating an unrelated incident, data
from a cell phone was reviewed and found to contain
evidence for this case. So that's where they get this phone.
They got a text message that says Taylor had the
dog to Harry Taylor, twenty years old, and was bringing
it to the co defendant's home. Further evidence on the
phone confirmed that the dog and the vehicle belonged to
the victim. They were also photos and videos of the
victim's car and her dog. Like this still is beyond me, Like,
how do you not just go and start going to
these people's homes and say give us the dog or
you're gonna face charges. Because there was another woman, another adult,
i should say, who was also charged with felony possession
of stolen goods in relation to this case. Her name
Kendra Hunter, thirty seven years old. So now you have
two adults plus the juvenile that I'm sure like went
right back to the guardian or parent that is obviously
unable to control him. So both of the adults are
being charged with felonies because the dog is worth five
thousand dollars. Investigators also reviewed Kendra Hunter's teenage son's cell
phone and they found a photo of Julio that was
taken at their home less than a day after the
dog was stolen. Gee, I wonder who's got the dog?
Could it be Mommy? The teenage son who has not
identified the officer's officials have not said of Hunter's son
was the juvenile who was arrested. But my money's on yes.
And so Junior shows up with a stolen vehicle and
a stolen dog and you take pictures of it, and
now you're popped for a felony, and for some reason,
you still have not returned this woman's dog. Some people
do not have a chip in their brain. I am
convinced the dog, a six year old French bulldog named Julio,
was inside a car that was stolen from the Alta
Croft apartments on April sixth. This is wbtv's report. Within
days of the theft, Julio's owner, Jayla Gittens, said her
brother got a video of the alleged thief driving around
with the dog. According to the affidavit, investigators were looking
to an unrelated incident. When they reviewed Jahari Taylor's phone,
they found evidence for this case. The Affidavid continues to
state that there were text message conversations between Tahari Taylor
and Kendra Hunter. Sorry, Taylor and a co defendant in
the other case in the affidavit as identified as Jamari Banks.
That's the other co defendant from this other unrelated case
that they got his phone for. Officials said that Taylor
and Banks had a text conversation on April seventh, the
day after the theft, and in the messages, Taylor stated
he had Gitten's dog and was bringing it to Jamari Banks.
Nail him with possession of stolen goods, slap the felony
on him now too. The Affidavid also said after further investigation,
evidence was found on Taylor's phone confirmed that the dog
and vehicle being discussed was Gittens, and with Gittens, text messages,
photos videos of Gitten's vehicle and dog further confirmed Taylor
was in possession of Julio. Why is this dog still
not reunited with its owner? All right? If you're listening
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more transparent. All right, some updates here regarding the Charlotte
Mecklenburg police chief and the big payoff and the no
confidence vote. So first, the Charlotte Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of
Police did not receive enough responses from its members to
release an outcome of the no confidence vote over the
police chief, Johnny Jennings. The FOP made the announcement in
a Facebook post Tuesday evening. The local FOP announced it
would hold the vote after news of the mysterious payment
made by the City Council too Jennings in a closed
session on April twenty eighth. Charlotte Observer reports by Emily
Broyles quote, over the last nine days, the Charlotte Mecklenburg
FOP Lodge Number nine conducted a vote of confidence against
against CMPD Chief Johnny Jennings. We provided numerous opportunities for
members to vote, offering both in person and online options.
The vote concluded tonight as scheduled, and the number of
votes we received was not enough to validate an outcome,
and that concludes the process. So he avoids a no
confidence vote, but he is going to get some pension spiking,
so good for him, good for us, but good for
him the chief, I mean the Observer also then details
goes through the agreement that was eventually released after public
pressure and Charlotte City Council members gave him a retroactive
pay raise. They gave him another forty six K retention
bonus split into two payments, and that money totally roughly
sixty thousand dollars, could boost Jennings's annual pension by about
ten thousand dollars, so he'll be pulling in one hundred
and seventy three thousand annually pension. This is something called
pension spiking, where you load up a bunch of pay
and compensation at the end of a career in order
to make that the sort of the time period that
they use for the calculations for your pension. They also
gave him an extra forty days of vacation, which if
he doesn't use it can boost his pension even more
to about one hundred and eighty thousand dollars annually or
fifteen K a month. Pension benefits for local government employees
in North Carolina take into account two factors, the person's
highest four years of consecutive earnings and the person's years
of service. So the last four years I'm assuming he
probably made the most amount of money in his career.
So now he's got the pension and these To be clear,
the observer points this out, these are only estimates, right.
His total compensation for twenty twenty five, which would be
used to determine his pension and includes bonuses and other pay,
is not known at this time, but like that's the formula,
they include bonuses. He has gotten bonuses. It's also unclear
how much sick or vacation time he had accrued and
when he leaves that all gets paid out and rolled
in as well, so that could also increase his pension too,
So yeah, good for him. He'll pull in, you know,
one hundred and eighty to two hundred thousand a year
for the rest of his life as a pension thanks
to the Charlotte City Council paying him with our money
for this stuff. So thanks a lot for that city Council.
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