[FoxNews] Former CIA operative says plot was 'targeted' operation to gain access to Jacksonville Naval Air Station
A former CIA operative says that a recent alleged "sham marriage" scandal involving U.S. Navy sailors marrying Chinese citizens exposes a "targeted" national security threat focused on a major U.S. Naval base, potentially opening the door to foreign spies.
According to court documents, Jacinth Bailey and Morgan Chambers, both Navy sailors based in Jacksonville, Florida, were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud after they allegedly accepted thousands of dollars from Chinese nationals in order to enter sham marriages.
Both Bailey and Chambers allegedly took part in a plot where American citizens marry Chinese nationals for the sole purpose of getting green cards. According to Stars and Stripes, Bailey was assigned to the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier as an aviation boatswain’s mate.
According to federal prosecutors, Bailey even attended a party after the sham wedding in order to "substantiate its purported legitimacy by taking pictures to be used for immigration application purpose."
The plot dates back to September 2024 and involved several other unnamed individuals who are called "conspirators" in the indictment.
In Bailey's case, she was offered a total of $45,000 for entering into the sham marriage, obtaining a green card for her "husband" and divorcing him, according to federal prosecutors, including $10,000 that was offered upfront. Chambers, according to court documents, was offered $35,000 for the sham marriage, which included obtaining a green card and getting a divorce.
Notably, the scheme specifically preferred to target members of the military to "join the conspiracy and marry Chinese nationals," prosecutors detailed.
Chambers and Bailey face up to five years in prison if they're found guilty. Neither has entered a plea, records show.
According to Stars and Stripes, former Navy recruiter Brinio Urena pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud after marrying a Chinese woman for money in August 2024.
In July, Navy Reservist Raymond Zumba pleaded guilty after prosecutors said he tried to bribe a Naval Air Station Jacksonville official to get fraudulent military identification cards for individuals that had links to China.
J. Michael Waller told Fox News Digital that he believes the sham marriages are an attempt to gain Chinese citizens access to the U.S. Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida.
"It appears to be a targeted intelligence recruitment and collection operation. At the U.S. Naval Air Station in Jacksonville. These sham marriages, why the marriage part was important is it would entitle the Chinese spouses to get passes to the Naval base," Waller said.
Waller said there's a clear reason that U.S. service members are being targeted rather than civilians.
"There's no shortage of Americans who'll be happy to get married for a day for $50,000 and get divorced right away and take off and pocket the money. This is a targeted operation against the U.S. Naval facility. They were recruiting Navy recruiters and they were recruiting someone whose duty was aboard a naval destroyer, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer responsible for anti-submarine warfare, responsible for air defenses, and then on a much larger naval facility that has a whole lot of sensitive programs vital to the national defense."
The former CIA operative said even if the Chinese nationals weren't trying to gain national security secrets, the alleged incident exposes a major problem for the Navy.
"It's a huge issue for the Navy. It involves the screening of personnel. It involves the training of personnel, it involves discipline, and you've seen recruitment, training, and discipline deteriorate in the Navy over recent years. It's only starting to come back," he said.
[Promethean Video] — In this video, Susan Kokinda delves into the connections between a shooting, the fallout from Davos, and a 170-year-old British playbook. Highlighting the end of America's foreign regime-change policies under President Trump, Kokinda explains how British tactics of destabilization are now being used within the US. With figures like Rachel Sayre and Vice President JD Vance shedding light on engineered chaos in Minneapolis, the discussion extends to the historical context of Lord Palmerston's strategies — tactics now resurfacing as Britain grapples with the decline of the postwar order. Tune in to understand how the new National Defense Strategy is redefining American priorities and why Minneapolis serves as ground zero for these covert operations.
Lord Palmerston's strategies were characterized by an assertive foreign policy, often referred to as "gunboat diplomacy," aimed at protecting British interests abroad through military intervention. He famously stated that Britain had "no permanent allies, only permanent interests," reflecting his pragmatic approach to international relations.
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⚡️Regime mobilizes troops for planned large scale operation across South Wollo Zone (📍Amhara Region, Ethiopia).
🔵 As of January 24th, reports indicate the regime has begun extensive military preparations for a planned operation referred to internally as a “cleaning campaign,”… https://t.co/ce7TPaiJQ2pic.twitter.com/124IFnr7du
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⚡️Regime mobilizes troops for planned large scale operation across South Wollo Zone (📍Amhara Region, Ethiopia).
🔵 As of January 24th, reports indicate the regime has begun extensive military preparations for a planned operation referred to internally as a “cleaning campaign,” expected to be launched in the coming week in western parts of South Wollo Zone.
🔵 Preparations reportedly include large-scale troop movements and logistical deployments, with forces redeployed from multiple locations across North Wollo, South Wollo, and North Shewa zones.
[BBC] The European Union and India have announced a landmark trade deal after nearly two decades of on-off talks, as both sides aim to deepen ties amid tensions with the US.
"We did it, we delivered the mother of all deals," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at a media briefing in Delhi. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the pact "historic".
It will allow free trade of goods between the bloc of 27 European states and the world's most populous country, which together make up nearly 25% of global gross domestic product and a market of two billion people.
The deal will see a number of huge tariff cuts across a range of goods and services, and a joint security partnership.
Von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa are in Delhi, where they met Modi at a bilateral summit.
The European Commission said would eliminate tariffs on most exports of chemicals, machinery and electrical equipment, as well as aircraft and spacecraft, following phased reductions. Significantly, duties on motor vehicles, currently as high as 110%, would be cut to 10% under a quota of 250,000 vehicles. That is six times larger than the 37,000-unit quota India granted to the UK in a deal signed last July.
India will also cut tariffs on wine, beer and olive oil from the EU. Brussels said the agreement would support investment flows, improve access to European markets and deepen supply-chain integration.
Delhi said almost all of its exports would get "preferential access" into the EU, with textiles, leather, marine products, handicrafts, gems and jewellery set to see a reduction or elimination of tariffs.
While commodities such as tea, coffee, spices and processed foods will benefit from the agreement, Delhi "has prudently safeguarded sensitive sectors, including dairy, cereals, poultry, soy meal, certain fruits and vegetables, balancing export growth with domestic priorities", it said.
Delhi and Brussels have also agreed on a mobility framework that eases restrictions for professionals to travel between India and the EU in the short term.
"This is India's biggest free trade agreement," Modi said. "It will make access to European markets easier for India's farmers and small business. It will also boost manufacturing and services sectors. It will boost innovative partnerships."
The trade deal comes as both India and the EU contend with economic and geopolitical pressure from the US.
Delhi is grappling with 50% tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump last year amid talks aimed at securing a trade deal between India and the US that are still dragging on.
[Zero] Winter Storm Fern's Arctic blast from January 21-26 provided clear data on generation dispatch patterns during extreme cold weather events. The storm stressed multiple U.S. power grids, such as PJM and ERCOT and demonstrated the operational characteristics of different generation types under peak winter demand conditions.
As the cold rolled in - Criterion's pipeline data showed huge increases in deliveries to gas-fired power plants. That included dozens of active plants hitting all-time highs, along with a huge amount of peaking capacity firing online to help keep the grid stable.
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Initially, leftists prevented the expansion of nuclear power. Then they prevented any increase in conventional power capacity as well. Finally, they sued and regulated a reduction of all non-renewable capacity. Now we are trying to implement AI.
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^It's fascinating how all IT people were against nuclear power - until they needed it.
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Yes, Grom, the hazards of nuclear power are a concern even for IT guys like me.
Sometimes, like right now, and when I used to sit in the clean computer rooms programming until my poor little fingers were sore, I think about my grandfather who mined coal until he died of black lung disease at the age of 61, long before I was even born. I could never tell him how I felt about the sacrifices that men like him made for my career. I'm not sure I could put it into words if I met him face to face even now.
We get energy from burning things and some of the things we burn are more hazardous than others. I guess it's better than freezing your ass off in a blizzard. I think natural gas is the cleanest and we have that in abuncance. Someday, maybe, they'll figure out how to make nuclear power plants that are safe.
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..the Navy has been operating safe nuclear plants for a long time.
Observed annually by people of good will. Traduced daily by deliberate liars and the uncaringly ignorant, who would be happier had the genocide been complete the first time.
[Newsmax] Candles flickered at dawn Tuesday at the vast Holocaust memorial in Berlin as people across Europe and beyond paused to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, reflecting on Nazi Germany's murder of millions of people and its attempt to completely wipe out Jewish life on the continent.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed across the world on Jan. 27, the anniversary of the liberation by Soviet forces of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of the Nazi German death camps. The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution in 2005 establishing the day as an annual commemoration.
At the memorial site of Auschwitz, in an area which was under German occupation during World War II, former prisoners laid flowers and wreaths at the Execution Wall, where German forces murdered thousands of people, most of them Poles.
Later in the day Poland's President Karol Nawrocki will join survivors for a remembrance ceremony at Birkenau, the vast site nearby where Jews were transported from across Europe to be exterminated in gas chambers.
Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, most of them Jews, but also Poles, Roma and others.
Commemorations on the anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation by the Red Army on Jan. 27, 1945, were also taking place across Europe on Tuesday, as well as at the United Nations. Germany, the nation that inflicted war and genocide on its neighbors, is holding a commemoration in the Bundestag, the parliament, on Wednesday.
Candles burned and white roses were placed at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a field of 2,700 gray concrete slabs near the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin, which honors the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust. The vast site in the heart of the capital underlines Germany's remorse.
Israel marks its Holocaust Remembrance Day on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 1943, which stresses Jewish resistance to the Nazi terror.
There are an estimated 196,600 Jewish Holocaust survivors still alive globally, down from the 220,000 survivors estimated to be alive a year earlier, according to new information released by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Nearly all of them — some 97% — are “child survivors” who were born 1928 and later, the group said.
Though the world's community of survivors shrinks with time, some are still telling their stories for the first time after all these years.
On Sunday, the Netherlands marked its National Holocaust Memorial day with a silent march through Amsterdam’s historic Jewish quarter to a memorial to Auschwitz victims. Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema spoke to hundreds of people who attended the somber event.
“Bergen-Belsen, Sobibor, Auschwitz — they are unprecedented and still incomprehensible examples of what intolerance, hatred, and racism can lead to. Unparalleled in history,” she said. The Dutch commemoration happens each year on the last Sunday in January at the Wertheim Park in Amsterdam.
[IsraelTimes] UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres honors the victims of the Holocaust in a speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“They were mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren, six million Jews murdered just because they were Jewish. We also grieve the Roma, Sinti, people with disabilities,” he says.
“Remembrance is more than honoring the past. It is a duty and a promise to defend dignity, to protect the vulnerable,” Guterres says. “The Holocaust, after all, is not only history, it is a warning, a warning that hatred, once unleashed, can consume everything.”
“Today, that warning feels more urgent than ever. Antisemitism around the world is raging, Jewish communities live in fear, synagogues attacked, families shattered, violent antisemitic hatred racing across cyberspace. We are haunted by the horrific terror attack of October 7, which I once again categorically condemn,” he says.
Guterres repeatedly condemns antisemitism, but takes a universalist message from the Nazi genocide. He does not mention Israel.
Had Israel existed, the six million would not have been murdered, because there would have been a place that would let them in. Because Israel existed after 1948, the 800,000 or more Jews driven out of the Arab world by the governments and screaming mobs had a place to go instead of dying on the road like Hindus and Moslems did when Pakistan broke off from India. Israel is pivotal to understand the Holocaust.
“When those with power fail to act, evil goes unpunished… When the past is distorted, denied and weaponized, hatred and prejudice fester. When words become weapons, lies, conspiracies, the casual joke and the coded slur can grow until the unthinkable becomes policy and violence,” he says.
He spoke well…
“I’ve always understood the clear link between the horrors of the Holocaust and the spirit of multilateralism, justice and rights that founded our organization,” he says. “Let us honor the memory of the victims, of the Holocaust, by recommitting to justice, dignity, compassion.”
Experimenting with electron beams in space:https://t.co/TuUC4HmaoL kW-scale electron beams can be used to map Earth's magnetosphere, probe our upper atmosphere or study interactions with the solar wind. pic.twitter.com/SKHQgvlIDF
[BBC] The menopause is linked to changes in the brain similar to those seen in Alzheimer's, according to a large UK study.
The loss of grey matter in areas involved with memory and emotion might partly explain why women are generally at greater risk of dementia than men, researchers speculate.
The findings come from nearly 125,000 women, of whom 11,000 had MRI brain scans.
In the study, published in the journal Psychological Medicine, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use did not appear to prevent the grey matter loss.
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In the next round they'll want to look at whether/how much impact various vitamins, aerobic/strength/balance exercise, and mental exercises such as crossword puzzles, Sudoku, and reading Rantburg impact progression of the condition.
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You would think wymyns would have better exercise preventing dementia.
They practice jumping to conclusions, remembering something you said 7 years ago, ...
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^^^ or something they dreamed you did.
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#6 No, the aha moment is how they found a metric to tell them apart from the run of the mill AWFL.
[JustTheNews] Preprints.org, operated by open-access publisher MDPI, cited its "withdrawal policy" as a whole, but no specific reason, for removing the paper by Children's Health Defense researchers. They found worse risks by race and sex.
Twelve years after a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admitted through his lawyers to withholding a "statistically significant finding" on black babies from his peer-reviewed study finding no link between autism and vaccination, a preprint server that hosts research before peer review erased a study that also found a racial vaccination link.
Preprints.org, operated by the Swiss open-access publisher MDPI, took down the study, "Increased Mortality Associated with 2-Month Old Infant Vaccinations," three weeks after it was posted by Brian Hooker and Karl Jablonowski, who are scientists with Children's Health Defense, founded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Jan. 14 withdrawal statement on the preprint even disappeared between Thursday morning, when Just the News viewed it and asked Preprints.org and MDPI for an explanation, and the afternoon, when the entire manuscript page displayed a 404 error message. It was restored without changes sometime late Thursday.
It says Preprints.org's advisory board, which has more than 300 identified members, requested its removal under the withdrawal policy, without specifying what grounds within the policy the board invoked. Only the title, author information and withdrawal statement remain.
The editors and advisory board can withdraw approved manuscripts for author misconduct such as plagiarism and data fabrication, "serious scientific errors that cannot be corrected by updating the paper" and "serious concerns to which the readers should be alerted."
But another part of the policy gives Preprints.org boundless discretion to remove manuscripts: "in very exceptional circumstances, such as" – meaning not limited to – court or government request or to prevent "an illegal act, including copyright violation," threat to personal privacy, unlawful publishing or "risks to the general public."
The publishing policy says Preprints.org staff screen every submitted manuscript, which includes "checks for basic scientific content, author background, and compliance with ethical standards," in consultation with "active researchers" and the advisory board, before posting. This usually takes less than 24 hours.
That suggests no one saw a problem with the infant vaccination paper until well after the holidays. It was received Dec. 22, posted Dec. 23 and withdrawn Jan. 14.
MDPI gave Just the News the specific reasoning behind the paper's withdrawal on Friday.
"Following the posting of the preprint, concerns were brought to our attention regarding aspects of the methodology and the potential for misinterpretation of the findings by a general audience," and after "careful evaluation" by the advisory board, "it was determined that the content could pose a risk of public misunderstanding," public affairs manager Jisuk Kang wrote in an email.
While the public generally understands that preprints are not peer-reviewed and "may contain flaws," in this case the potential for misinterpretation was so great it "could pose a potential risk to the public" if the original version remained posted, as opposed to retracted but left intact, Kang said.
"We would like to emphasize that withdrawal is not a judgment on the authors’ intentions but reflects the preliminary nature of preprints and our responsibility to prevent public misinterpretation," Kang wrote. "We encourage the authors to submit their work to a peer-reviewed journal, where the findings can be appropriately assessed and contextualized."
'MUCH WORSE FOR FEMALES THAN FOR MALES'
CHD's Hooker is known for prompting William Thompson, the CDC scientist, to come clean about the connection he found between measles, mumps and rubella vaccination and autism – specifically in African-American males under 3 years – a decade after Thompson's study in Pediatrics, by secretly recording their conversations.
The paper was never updated. The corresponding author's CDC email bounced back when Just the News tried it Thursday, and the CDC didn't answer subsequent queries about whether its researchers tried to update the paper after Thompson's admission through counsel.
Thompson's mea culpa, featured in the 2016 documentary Vaxxed, came up again last year when President Trump yanked Dave Weldon's nomination as CDC director, which Weldon traced in part to his interest as a Republican congressman 20 years earlier in research on MMR vaccine side effects by the pediatrician who made Vaxxed.
CHD filed a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act lawsuit Thursday against the American Academy of Pediatrics, which publishes Pediatrics, for financially incentivizing pediatricians to vaccinate heavily and receiving money from vaccine makers while making "false and fraudulent” claims about the CDC childhood immunization schedule's safety.
The infant vaccination paper "had an amazingly large reception" on social media when the duo posted it shortly before Christmas, Jablonowski told CHD on Tuesday, six days after its withdrawal. (Preprints.org statistics show more than 3,000 downloads and 15,000 views.)
The preprint server then notified the authors "they are going to retract the paper with no explanation as to why, and that's really befuddling" given the paper's reach and "implications," he said. It's "poor practice to say the least."
Jablonowski and Hooker have since posted the preprint on Zenodo, a platform commissioned by the European Commission and operated by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. It has about 1,000 views and 700 downloads as of Thursday night.
Analyzing Louisiana Department of Health data on children who died before 3, matched with their immunization record, the authors showed a statistically significant connection between vaccination in the second month since birth and death in the third month.
"It was worse for black children than for white children, and it was much worse for females than it was for males," Jablonowski told CHD, explaining the "biological plausibility" for the latter.
Female immune systems at that age are "ready to fight against everything," which could "lead to a much stronger immune response" than in males, whose immune systems are more selective, he said.
74% INCREASED RISK FOLLOWING ROTAVIRUS VACCINE: STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE
The Louisiana data specifically cover 1,775 children from 2013 to 2024 who died before age 3. They were mostly male (57%), black (59%) and non-Hispanic (94%).
Vaccination is only counted in the second month of life (60-90 days old), with children inoculated earlier counted as unvaccinated. Dying in the third month refers to 90-120 days.
Depending on the vaccine, children were 28-74% more likely to die in the third month when vaccinated in the prior month than those who weren't. It was nearly identical for black children specifically (29-74%) and startlingly higher for females (52-98%).
Unvaccinated children had the lowest mortality rate, at 15.16%. The only rates over 22% were for combination vaccines: the five first given at two months (DTaP, rotavirus, HIB, polio, pneumococcal, 22.24%), those five plus hepatitis B (23.12%) and the 6-in-1 Vaxelis (30.65%).
"The hazard for the vaccinated translated to an increase in mortality by: 42% for DTaP; 29% for HepB; 35% for HIB; 32% for polio; 41% for pneumococcal" and 74% for rotavirus, the last of which the authors note reached statistical significance.
"For every vaccine inspected, children who were not vaccinated in their 2nd month of life had a lower mortality rate than those who were vaccinated in that same time window," they wrote.
Collectively, children who received all six recommended vaccines at two months were 68% more likely to die the next month — blacks 68%, females 112%, the paper says.
The causes of death also "present differently based on vaccination." Females following CDC recommendations were "more likely to die of non-leading causes of death," which in their analysis included three infectious-disease and four nervous system-related deaths, while unvaccinated children had zero of either.
Jablonowski told CHD's The Defender the data set is "really small" epidemiologically but far larger than others on the subject, such as a 1988 study on the risk of sudden infant death syndrome following DTaP immunization by CDC and Vanderbilt University researchers, published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
"If vaccine safety were as heavily researched as vaccine proponents would like us to believe, this would have been a well-trodden exercise and we would have found nothing," he said. "But there is nothing subtle about the measured safety signals."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BBC] The menopause is linked to changes in the brain similar to those seen in Alzheimer's, according to a large UK study.
