Chinese woman Yujing Zhang nabbed at Trump resort had hidden camera detector

A little prelude to the story below:

Pure and simple the Chinese are natural born liars no better than North Korea and a far bigger threat. They just lie better pulling the wool over our eyes for years.

A couple of examples:

(Lied about military outposts)

What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea

(stealth-modified helicopter technology went to China)

Top Secret Stealth Helicopter Program Revealed in Osama Bin Laden Raid: Experts

But this pales in comparison to what their about to do. As you know all the rage right now is 5G. The development of 5G is being led by companies such as Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd a China-based company. Any country which would allow them to install a 5G Network has shit for brains!!

Go on Bing and type in  [Huawei Technologies scandals] and you'll get my drift.

Cleary, the woman below is a spy. There's no two ways about it. If it were up to me I'd send her to Gitmo and waterboard the shit out her.

BTW...glad to see Trump fired the head of the Secret Service.

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Chinese suspect Yujing Zhang is seen in a court sketch during a two-hour hearing, scribbling notes in Chinese characters as she listened to a translator through headphones. Her wrists were shackled.

A Chinese woman recently arrested at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club lied repeatedly to Secret Service agents while carrying computer malware unlike anything a government analyst had ever seen and had more than US$8,000 in cash at her hotel room, along with an electronic device that detects hidden cameras, federal authorities told a judge Monday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Rolando Garcia told Magistrate Judge William Matthewman during a bond hearing that “there are a lot of questions that remain” about 32-year-old Yujing Zhang

He said the FBI is still investigating whether Zhang is a spy.

"Whether Zhang is a spy"!!!

Whose investigating her???

Zhang was arrested March 30 after Secret Service agents said she lied to gain admission to the president’s Palm Beach resort and was found to be carrying two Chinese passports, four cellphones, a laptop computer, an external hard drive and a thumb drive containing the malware.

Matthewman adjourned the hearing until next Monday as Zhang’s public defender said he is still gathering evidence that could justify her release on bail on charges of lying to federal agents and illegal entry to a restricted area. Garcia said he expects Zhang will be indicted by a federal grand jury this week on those charges.

(Can't believe they would even entertain the thought)

He said Zhang would be a “serious risk of flight” if she were released while awaiting trial, as she has no ties to the United States. The State Department revoked her visa last week, he said, so even if released on bond, she would be detained by immigration officials. She arrived in the U.S. on a flight from Shanghai to Newark, New Jersey, two days before her arrest.

Zhang sat quietly at the defense table during the two-hour hearing, scribbling notes in Chinese characters as she listened to a translator through headphones. She wore a blue jail jumpsuit and her wrists were shackled.

“She lies to everyone she encounters,” Garcia told the judge. He said that not only did Zhang falsely tell a Secret Service agent at a Mar-a-Lago checkpoint that she was a member there to use the pool, even though she had no swimsuit, she told agents she was carrying her computer gear because she was afraid the items would be stolen if she left them in her hotel room.

But when agents searched it, they found US$7,620 in U.S. currency, another US$663 worth of Chinese currency, numerous U.S. credit and debit cards, the device used to find hidden electronics and other computer gear, he said.

While questioning Ivanovich, public defender Robert Adler presented Zhang as not fluent in English and suggested she may not have been lying, but misunderstanding agents’ questions. He pointed out that Zhang made no attempt to hide her electronic gear while entering Mar-a-Lago and agreed to be interviewed for almost nine hours.

Adler asked that the hearing be adjourned as he believes he can present evidence next week that would justify her release on bail while assuring she wouldn’t flee.

Zhang’s arrest has raised questions about Mar-a-Lago’s security during the president’s visits. There’s no evidence Zhang ever approached the president and it is believed he was at his nearby golf course when she arrived.

Agents say she wasn’t on the membership list, but a club manager thought Zhang was a member’s daughter. Agents say that when they asked Zhang if the member was her father, she did not answer definitively but they thought it might be a language barrier and admitted her. Zhang is a common Chinese name -- about 7% of the country’s population carries it.

Secret Service agent Samuel Ivanovich told the judge Zhang later told him she was there for a Chinese American event that didn’t exist, contradicting her checkpoint statement. She showed him an invitation in Chinese he could not read.

After being questioned for about 90 minutes at a property neighboring Mar-a-Lago, Zhang was taken to the local Secret Service office for questioning that lasted about seven hours. It was not recorded.

There, Ivanovich said, it became clear Zhang speaks and reads English well. He said Zhang said an acquaintance named “Charles” had invited her to the nonexistent event.

Adler said wire records show Zhang paid US$20,000 in February to Charles Lee, a Chinese national, for admission to the event. Lee ran the United Nations Chinese Friendship Association and was photographed at least twice with Cindy Yang, a Republican donor and former Florida massage parlor owner. She recently made news after it was learned she was promising Chinese business leaders that her consulting firm could get them access to Mar-a-Lago and mingle with the president.

Yang previously owned a spa where New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was charged with soliciting prostitution.-AP

Chinese woman Yujing Zhang nabbed at Trump resort had hidden camera detector

Gov. Newsom Says El Salvador Trip a Counter to Trump

He's going to El Salvador to check out the produce:

When will these assholes realize a miniscule amount of foreign aid is actually reaching the people who desperately need it in these countries... especially Shit-Hole Haiti. The lion's share lines the pockets of government officials.

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom said Sunday his visit to El Salvador serves as a counter-narrative to what he called President Donald Trump’s demoralizing and toxic rhetoric about Central American migrants.

“Right now you have a president that talks down to people, talks past them, demoralizing folks living here and their relatives in the United States,” Newsom told reporters to close out the first day of his trip. “I think it’s important to let folks know that’s not our country — that’s an individual in our country who happens at this moment to be president.”

Newsom, a Democrat who took office in January, chose El Salvador as his first international trip because California is home to both the United States’ largest Salvadoran population and its busiest border crossing.

His visit comes as Trump moves to cut billions of dollars in U.S. aid to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and demands those three nations and Mexico do more to stop migrants from entering the United States.

There has been a surge of immigrants seeking asylum from the Central American nations. About 3,000 unaccompanied children and 12,000 family members from El Salvador have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border since October.

Newsom kicked off his trip with a visit to the tomb of Saint Oscar Romero, the Salvadoran priest assassinated in 1980 at the start of the nation’s civil war because of his advocacy for human rights and the poor.

The visit served as a symbol of Newsom’s desire to learn about the social and economic hardships forcing Salvadorans to leave. After a private tour of the cathedral where Romero preached, Newsom lit a candle near Romero’s tomb in the cathedral basement alongside his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, and California state Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo.

Newsom’s trip includes meetings with President Salvador Sanchez Ceren, U.S. Ambassador Jean Manes and President-elect Nayib Bukele. He’ll also tour a reintegration center that processes Salvadorans deported from the United States and Mexico, see a cultural demonstration in a rural town, meet with human rights groups and discuss economic development and gang intervention.

Newsom said he’s figuring out in real time what more California can do to help tackle the root causes of migration, namely deep poverty and gang violence. El Salvador is one of the world’s most violent countries, with the gangs MS-13 and Barrio 18 exerting strong control. The minimum wage is just $300 per month.

Mayor Ernesto Muyshondt of San Salvador, the capital city, said he hopes Newsom can use his political influence to halt the cuts to U.S. aid, saying cuts will halt the countries progress and could cause more people to flee.

In Newsom’s first three months in office, he has fought the Trump administration on perhaps no issue as much as immigration, suing over the president’s emergency declaration to build a southern border wall and pledging $25 million in state money to help asylum seekers.

Gov. Newsom Says El Salvador Trip a Counter to Trump

Bernie Sanders says 'there should be a study' on slavery reparations

Sharpton and Sheila Jackson Lee support it 100%.

NEW YORK — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders slightly modified his position on reparations when he joined a slew of other Democratic presidential candidates on Friday, saying he now supports studying the possibility of payments.

Sanders, who has made earning support of black voters a central part of his White House bid, has previously said he does not back directly compensating the African-American community for the damage wrought by slavery and segregation. However, when pressed by the Rev. Al Sharpton at the National Action Network convention in Manhattan, Sanders expressed willingness to pass a law that would establish a commission to study the feasibility of reparations if he becomes president.

Sharpton has asked each of the presidential candidates at the convention if they would back the legislation as president.

“If the House and Senate passed that bill, of course, I would sign it,” Sanders said.

A reparations bill was introduced by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas.

After offering some support for Jackson Lee’s reparations bill, Sanders qualified his position.

“There needs to be a study, but let me also say this, that I think that what we need to do … is to pay real attention to the most distressed communities in America,” he said. “We have got to use 10 percent of all federal funds to make sure that kids who need it get the education, get the jobs, get the environmental protection that they need. And that would be a major focus of my efforts.”

When he has previously been asked about the possibility of reparations, Sanders has similarly said he prefers aid focused on “distressed” communities. In a March 1 appearance on “The View,” Sanders said he wanted to “pay attention to distressed communities: black communities, Latino communities, and white communities.”

“I think that right now, our job is to address the crises facing the American people and our communities, and I think there are better ways to do that than just writing out a check,” Sanders added.

Reparations have emerged as a major question for the candidates in this early phase of the Democratic primary. Other candidates, notably New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and California Sen. Kamala Harris have expressed support for forms of aid that would be disproportionately directed toward the black community.

This is the insidious nature of Democrats and the reason they have a lock on the black vote. This entire article could be summed up in one sentence...
$Vote for us and we'll send you a check$ 
And the fall for it every time.

While Sanders only shifted somewhat from his previous rejection of reparations at the National Action Network convention, he did express support for other positions that are priorities for Sharpton and other black activists. In addition to asking about Jackson Lee’s reparations legislation, Sharpton’s second question for the candidates was whether they would return to former President Barack Obama’s policy of using consent decrees — court approved agreements between federal and local governments on reforms — and federal funding to push for changes at police departments found to have engaged in abusive behavior. Sanders said he supported these positions and that his White House would have “zero tolerance for police brutality.”

Sanders also called for “automatic voter registration” to address concerns about voting rights and emphasized his own history of civil rights activism, including protesting housing discrimination and marching with Martin Luther King Jr. in the ’60s.

“I am the son of an immigrant, whose family was murdered by the Nazis,” Sanders said. “So, from a very young age, I knew that we must stand up to bigotry, wherever and whenever it exists.”

Bernie Sanders says 'there should be a study' on slavery reparations

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Rhino poacher killed by an elephant and then 'devoured' by lions

Police say the man entered the park with a group intending to shoot and kill rhinos

Kate Lyons Sun 7 Apr 2019 20.41 EDT

A rhino poacher is believed to have been attacked by an elephant and then eaten by a pride of lions during an incident in South Africa’s Kruger national park.

Police Brigadier Leonard Hlathi said police received information that a group of men had gone into the park on 1 April in order to hunt rhino, “when suddenly an elephant attacked and killed one of them”.

“His accomplices claimed to have carried his body to the road so that passersby could find it in the morning. They then vanished from the park.”

Hlathi said the group of men left the park and informed a family member of the deceased what had happened, who contacted police. Park rangers began a search for the man, on foot and by air, but could not locate the man at first due to failing light.

Rangers and police returned on 4 April and were able to find the man’s remains in the Crocodile Bridge section of the park.

“Indications found at the scene suggested that a pride of lions had devoured the remains leaving only a human skull and a pair of pants,” said Isaac Phaahla, the general manager of communications for the Kruger national park.

The remains of a pair of pants belonging to a man who was believed to have been killed by an elephant. Photograph: South African police service

Three men, aged between 26 and 35, were arrested in the KaMhlushwa and Komatipoort precincts, police said in a statement.

The suspects appeared in court on 5 April charged with possession of firearms and ammunition without a license, conspiracy to poach as well as trespassing. An inquest has also been opened into the cause of the man’s death.

The managing executive of Kruger national park said: “Entering Kruger national park illegally and on foot is not wise, it holds many dangers and this incident is evidence of that. It is very sad to see the daughters of the deceased mourning the loss of their father, and worse still, only being able to recover very little of his remains.”

South Africa, which is home to almost 80% of the world’s rhinos, has been hard hit by poaching. More than 1,000 rhinos were killed by poachers each year in South Africa between 2013 and 2017. The number dropped to 769 for 2018, with poachers targeting the animal for its horn, according to Save the Rhino.

Kruger national park has the largest concentration of rhinos on the planet and has been a target for poachers. In 2015, more than 70% of all rhinos known to be poached in South Africa were poached in the park.

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