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FBI chief warns ‘swatting’ will no longer be tolerated

Filed Under: THE NEWS, WND

(Photo by Somchai Kongkamsri on Pexels)

(Photo by Somchai Kongkamsri on Pexels)

The chief of the nation’s Federal Bureau of Investigation warns criminals and wannabes that “swatting” “will not be tolerated.”

Swatting is when someone calls police with a fake report that there’s some sort of violence crime occurring at a specific address.

Police department SWAT teams show up, expecting to confront violent criminals. But in swatting cases, they find only innocent people who are unaware their addresses have been targeted by the criminals.

Kash Patel, FBI chief, said, “I want to address the alarming rise in ‘Swatting’ incidents targeting media figures. The FBI is aware of this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable. This isn’t about politics—weaponizing law enforcement against ANY American is not only morally reprehensible but also endangers lives, including those of our officers. That will not be tolerated. We are fully committed to working with local law enforcement to crack down on these crimes. More updates to come.”

The comments follow a long list of swatting attacks in recent days, including on conservative personalities Gunther Eaglement, Nick Soretor and Shawn Farash.

And it’s just a week after Infowars journalist Jamie White was brutally murdered in Austin.

According to a report in Newsweek, radio show host Joe Pagliarulo and Infowars’ Chase Geiser also have been targeted.

Eagle said on social media someone called in a “fake hostage situation,” and Geiser shared on X he had been swatted for the second time in 12 hours.

And Catturd, a popular pro-Trump social media account with more than 3.4 million X followers, wrote Friday morning that he was “swatted again for the fourth time” at his home, reported the Gateway Pundit.

The Pundit also reported that independent journalist Breanna Morello has “discovered an important clue: the individuals swatting conservative influencers are sending pizza delivery orders to their homes before placing the distress call to 9-1-1. Specifically, the orders are coming from Domino’s and Papa John’s.”

The report advised, “Unless you specifically ordered pizzas from those locations, do not eat the food and contact authorities immediately.”

300 Beagles Per Week!? US Continues To Fund Dog Experiments in China

Filed Under: THE NEWS, Zerohedge

300 Beagles Per Week!? US Continues To Fund Dog Experiments in China

Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations,

Topline: A Chinese lab is continuing to receive funds from the U.S. to conduct cruel studies on beagles, according to contracts obtained by the nonprofit White Coat Waste Project and shared with the New York Post.

Key facts: The $124,200 contract was awarded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences using money from the Pentagon, for the experiments on beagle puppies — as well as mice and rats — at the Beijing-based company’s lab from September 2023 until May 2025.

The Chinese company Pharmaron uses the funds to test pharmaceuticals for neurological disorders on 300 beagles per week, as well as mice and rats, White Coat Waste found. Some of the dogs are as young as eight months. Those that suffer organ dysfunction are euthanized, the contract states.

Pharmaron’s proposal to the NIH promises to comply with the Animal Welfare Act and notes that “Beagle dog is docile, cute and easy to domesticate.”

It describes how the hundreds of dogs, some as young as eight months, “will be reused” throughout the study “to save animals and decrease cost,” while saying those suffering organ dysfunction will be “euthanized.”

The DOD’s Office of Inspector General conducted an audit in June, citing Pharmaron, as well as the Chinese biotech firms WuXi AppTec and Genscript Inc., as so-called “companies of concern” and blacklisted from doing business with U.S. firms. A bill to this effect passed the U.S. House of Representatives but was not voted on in the Senate.

Background: The research contract is just one example of how the U.S. and China fund each other’s medical research, often resulting in payouts for government scientists and potential national security concerns at taxpayers’ expense.

In 2023, 139 foreign companies licensed medical technology invented by NIH scientists, compared to only 102 domestic companies. The businesses included Pokrov Biologics Plant, which researched the weaponization of smallpox for the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and WuXi AppTec, a Chinese firm with alleged military ties and alleged access to American genetic information.

Search all federal, state and local government salaries and vendor spending with the AI search bot, Benjamin, at OpenTheBooks.com. 

Critical quote: Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) claims the federal government spends $20 billion each year on animal testing.

“Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has elevated the problem of wasteful spending from think-tank white papers to a national cover story,” Malliotakis wrote in an op-ed in the Post. “With $36 trillion in national debt — more than $300,000 per taxpayer — there’s a lot of spending to slash. What better way to start than by cutting the $20 billion the government wastes every year on dead-end experiments that torture dogs, cats and other animals?”

Summary: Contract oversight is difficult enough when funds stay within America. Foreign contracts open up even more issues and should only be awarded after strict scrutiny.

Tyler Durden
Fri, 03/14/2025 – 17:40

DOGE slashes $620,000 from pregnancy program for ‘transgender boys’

Filed Under: THE NEWS, WND

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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), under the fearless leadership of Elon Musk and the Trump administration, has taken a sledgehammer to yet another pile of taxpayer-funded lunacy.

This week, DOGE announced via X that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had slashed funding for a slew of controversial, taxpayer-funded research grants, including a staggering $620,000 for a so-called “pregnancy prevention program” for biological females identifying as “transgender boys.”

The outrageous revelation was shared by DOGE on X:

“Today, NIH cancelled the following grants:

  • $620K for ‘an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys’
  • $699K for studying ‘cannabis use’ among ‘sexual minority gender diverse individuals’
  • $740K for examining ‘social networks’ among ‘black and Latino sexual minority men in New Jersey’
  • $50K for assessing ‘sexual health’ among ‘LGBTQ+ Latinx youth in an agricultural community’
  • $75K for researching ‘structural racism’”

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. More taxpayer dollars were being funneled into radical research projects at universities nationwide.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) had been wasting:

  • $100,000 at Vanderbilt University to study “social networks” among “sexual and gender minorities.”
  • $37,000 at the University of Houston to explore the “fear of deportation” among “Latinx young adults.”
  • $681,000 at the University of Pennsylvania to push “anti-vaping” propaganda targeting “sexual and gender minority teens.”
  • $225,000 at the University of Colorado to research the “effects of hormones on headaches in transmasculine adolescents.”

According to DOGE, “Contract update! Over the last two days, agencies terminated 239 wasteful contracts with a total ceiling value of ~$1.7B and total savings of ~$400M, including an $8.5M consulting contract for “fiscal stewardship to improve management and program operations in order to drive innovation and improve efficiency and effectiveness of business services; rethink, realign and reskill the workforce; and enhance program delivery through a number of transformational initiatives”.”

This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com.