Friday Morning Breakfast For The Brain

THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY!

Foreign-Born Researchers At US Agencies Were Secretly Working For China And Recruiting Others, Senate Report Finds

Via DCNF

Foreign-born researchers working at U.S. agencies secretly joined China’s payroll, sending sensitive U.S.-funded research to the country while U.S. government agencies took almost no defensive measures against a major recruitment operation, a Senate investigation found.

Researchers linked to the Chinese government formed a Chinese cell within the Department of Energy, attained access to American genomic data, and recruited other U.S. researchers to join, the bipartisan report stated.

China’s Thousand Talents Plan (TTP) aims to get foreign governments to finance the communist power’s military and economy by buying off researchers who are doing work abroad. The experts apply to the program, and if approved by the Communist Party, they join China’s payroll and sign secret side agreements that the experts will share their research with that country, according to the investigation.

Some of the information captured by TTP had significant military value. For example, in 2016, Dr. Long Yu, a Chinese citizen and U.S. permanent resident working for a U.S. defense contractor, applied for Chinese talent plans and was arrested for attempting to give hundreds of gigabytes to China, including design info on military jet engines, according to the investigation.

“China wins twice. First, the American taxpayer funds China’s research and development. Second, China uses that research to improve its economic and military status,” Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican who chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said in a statement.

Read the entire article HERE.

Leftist Bullying Works

Via PJ Media

Chick-fil-A’s disappointing decision to discontinue donations to “controversial” Christian charities is emblematic of the power of political correctness and the bullying left that drives it. If the previously stalwart Chick-fil-A folds, who is left standing to fight?

Tireless, intolerant LGBTQ activists bombarded the restaurant chain with protests and accusations about it being “anti-gay.” The gist of its sin is that it has donated millions of dollars to the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which have historically opposed same-sex marriage.

Just this week, the restaurant chain announced it has stopped funding these two charities. “We made multi-year commitments to both organizations and we fulfilled those obligations in 2018,” said a spokeswoman for the company. She added that the company would focus its giving on “education, homelessness and hunger.”

The Salvation Army issued a statement expressing that it was “saddened” by this development. “We serve more than 23 million individuals a year, including those in the LGBTQ+ community,” the statement reads. “In fact, we believe we are the largest provider of poverty relief to the LGBTQ+ population.”

Read the entire article HERE.

DNA Tests Confirm Hunter Biden Fathered Arkansas Baby While Dating Brother’s Widow

Via Big League Politics

New DNA testing has confirmed that Hunter Biden is indeed the father of an Arkansas woman’s baby.

Lunden Roberts filed a lawsuit in an Arkansas court in May, seeking to hold the son of former Vice President and current Democratic candidate Joe Biden accountable for child support and health insurance for the child.

Roberts’ lawyers released a statement revealing that DNA testing had confirmed Biden as the father of the child.

The child was born in August of 2018. The younger Biden appears to have fathered the child while dating his brother’s widow, Hallie Biden.

Hunter Biden has proved a source of embarrassment for his family. The Biden son was discharged from the Navy just two months into his service (after receiving an unusual commission on the basis of his political connections)when he tested positive for cocaine on a drug test.

Read the entire article HERE.

MIT boosts prof seeking to abolish ‘racist’ concept of citizenship

Via Campus Reform

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is actively promoting a “citizenship expert” who believes in the abolition of citizenship because he says the concept itself is “racist” and biased against women.

MIT recently highlighted an interview with former Princeton professor and current professor at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands Dimitry Kochenov, a “citizenship expert” who vehemently asserted that the notion of citizenship is a “truly racist concept,” guilty of a “chronic exclusion of women.”

Kochenov insists that “having no borders is not really as radical as it might seem,” and that citizenship is “not always about creating the borders,” but that “it can also be about, precisely, removing them.”

When asked to present practical suggestions for improving or replacing citizenship, such as what he would do about identification for travel in place of passports, Kochenov spoke of a vision where things like borders, passports, and the concept of not being “from here” doesn’t exist.

“This world, the world of nation-states, is quite new and will obviously not last forever,” said Kochenov, who went on to explain that “the idea of citizenship goes radically against all the core ideals our current notion of freedom, liberty and deserving are building upon.” He argues that while at one point citizenship may have been an equalizer, it now has “emerged as the key tool of suppressing the idea of giving reasons to underpin the distribution of the most important rights.”

Read the entire article HERE.

Democrat Finally Releases Something Of Substance

Via The Babylon Bee (Satire)

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The nation rejoiced as a Democrat finally released something of substance yesterday.

Democrats have been criticized for not releasing statements or policy positions of any weight or substance recently, but Rep. Eric Swalwell changed all that last night, releasing something that definitely had some substance to it.

“Finally, the Dems are getting serious about pushing out things beyond just empty policy proposals,” said one pundit after watching the footage of Swalwell. “It’s encouraging to see some Democrats move beyond empty talking points and put the shards of a real, hefty policy platform together.”

“I don’t mean to raise a stink about this, but all these Dems still in the race are all vapor. They’re all smoke and mirrors. I’m the real deal,” the rep said, pointing to specific policy proposals he has that are much better than those of the candidates who are still in the race. For instance, while many Democrats have suggested passing a gas tax, Swalwell said he will cut out the middle man and just pass the gas.

Swalwell really dropped a bomb on Democrats’ talking points, nuking his own party’s crappy, vaporous ideas. “These Democrats are all full of hot air, just dangling in the wind. But not me. I’m just having an absolute blast, and I think real progressives will greet my ideas with thunderous applause when they see I’m really cooking with gas.”

Swalwell also said he doesn’t always weigh in on things, sometimes preferring the “silent but deadly” approach. “We really need to cut the crap and offer people something that doesn’t smell fishy.”

There was a real flap over Swalwell’s comments, but most Dems agree it’s time to flush out bad ideas and replace them with ideas that won’t be poo-pooed by the masses.

“Sorry for my frankness,” the rep said later. “But sometimes you just have to let it all out.

Check out all of the Bee’s hilarious takes on politics and culture HERE.

Be sure to subscribe to Def-Con News to get Breakfast For The Brain in your morning mailbox