Escaped Biden employee shot, killed during foot-chase after possibly killing 1 adult, 4 children from the Houston-area, TDCJ says

[Daniel Heaton]

Democrats are stupid criminals.

No argument here.

CENTERVILLE, Texas – Officials from the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice (TDCJ) say the convicted killer who escaped
police custody in Leon County and possibly murdered one adult
and four children from the Houston area has been shot and
killed. The update came late Thursday night.

Gonzalo Lopez, 46, was reportedly shot to death during a foot
chase with law enforcement agencies near San Antonio,
authorities tell KPRC. This comes after a investigators found 5
bodies inside a home in Centerville near where Lopez escaped
Thursday around 6pm. TDCJ officials at the time, put out a call
to look out of a getaway vehicle, a 1999 white Chevy Silverado,
that was parked in front of the home. At 10:30pm, Leon County
Sheriff’s Office deputies were able to spot the vehicle. Lopez
shot at deputies who then returned fire. Lopez was armed with an
AR-15 and a handgun, TDCJ officials said.

TDCJ Stated:

“Law enforcement in Atascosa County located the stolen vehicle,
disabled it with spike strips, & gunfire ensued. At
approximately 22:30, the TDCJ received information that Lopez
had been shot by law enforcement in Jourdanton, Texas, South of
San Antonio.”

Breaking developments continued throughout Thursday night.

Here’s what happened:
According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, someone
who was worried about the well-being of their elderly relative
called a law enforcement agency which led authorities to the
home.

When authorities arrived at the home, they found one adult and
four children who had been murdered.

The family was said to have been visiting the home, which they
owned, for a short stay.

Lopez is a convicted murderer who was able to escape police
custody on May 12.

Authorities say Lopez escaped on Highway 7 after he stabbed a
TDCJ correctional officer who was transporting him and other
prisoners to Huntsville for a medical appointment.

The 46-year-old was serving a life sentence for capital murder
out of Hidalgo County and attempted capital murder out of Webb
County.

TDCJ officials said that the will review their protocol and
systems after this to determine how Lopez was able to escape.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/06/03/bodies-found-
in-home-near-area-where-inmate-escaped-last-month-dps-says/

[USA South Africa]

Liberals are mentally ill.

GOP governors call on DOJ to 'enforce the law' as protesters
gather outside justices' homes

Republican Govs. Larry Hogan of Maryland and Glenn Youngkin of
Virginia on Wednesday called on the Justice Department to
“provide adequate resources” to protect Supreme Court justices
and their families as demonstrators gather outside their homes
in protest of the disclosed draft opinion that would overturn
Roe v. Wade.

Hogan and Youngkin sent the letter to Attorney General Merrick
Garland, citing federal statute Title 18, Section 1507 of the
U.S. Code, which says it’s illegal with “the intent of
influencing any judge” to picket or parade “in or near a
building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror,
witness, or court officer.” The governors asked Garland to
“enforce the law as it is written.”

“We together ask that the Department of Justice through the
respective United States Attorneys’ offices provide appropriate
resources to safeguard the Justices and enforce the law as it is
written,” the letter said. “It is critical that our Department
acts to preserve the safety and standards of the highest court
in the land,” the letter said. “There is simply too much at
stake.”

The debate over protests at justices’ homes is just one of the
murky political fault lines emerging from the disclosure of a
draft majority opinion last week. While Republicans have
denounced the protests as illegal, Democrats have been in a
challenging spot — from some lawmakers pointing to past
demonstrations at their own private residences to White House
press secretary Jen Psaki suggesting the protests were OK as
long as they were peaceful.

White House responds to protests outside of Supreme Court
Justices’ homes

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“I know that there’s an outrage right now, I guess, about
protests that have been peaceful to date — and we certainly
continue to encourage that — outside of judges’ homes. And
that’s the president’s position,” Psaki said on Tuesday.

From Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to House Minority
Whip Steve Scalise, the chorus of GOP lawmakers condemning
Democrats and the White House has grown louder this week.
Republicans contend that Democrats are encouraging illegal
activity as demonstrators gather outside of the homes of Justice
Samuel Alito, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett
Kavanaugh. Youngkin in particular faced backlash from members of
his own party on Tuesday, when conservatives called on the new
Republican governor to do more after tweeting that state police
were “closely monitoring” the protests.

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on Senate
Judiciary Committee, sent his own letter to Garland on
Wednesday, requesting the department “prioritize the protection”
of the justices.

“The President may choose to characterize protests, riots, and
incitements of violence as mere passion,” Grassley wrote. “But
these attempts to influence and intimidate members of the
federal judiciary are an affront to judicial independence. No
fair-minded person can question that ‘such conduct inherently
threatens the judicial process.’”

Justice Department spokesperson Anthony Coley said Wednesday
afternoon that Garland “continues to be briefed on security
matters” related to the court and justices.

“The Attorney General directed @USMarshalsHQ to help ensure the
Justices’ safety by providing add’l support to the Marshal of
the Supreme Court and Supreme Court Police,” Coley said on
Twitter.

Another element of the fallout continued on Capitol Hill on
Wednesday when the Senate once again failed to advance abortion
rights legislation in a 49-51 vote. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)
and all Republicans voted against the largely symbolic attempt
to codify the rights.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/11/gop-governors-doj-
protesters-outside-justices-homes-00031909

[Just Kill The Protesters]

Democrats are stupid criminals.

No argument here.

House Judiciary Committee Republicans claimed in a letter on
Wednesday that the FBI conducted investigations into Americans
based on allegations that they threatened local school boards,
citing whistleblowers from the agency.

The FBI’s counterterrorism bureau reportedly created an internal
“threat tag” in fall 2021 to track alleged threats against
school boards following an October 4 directive from Attorney
General Merrick Garland. Garland released his directive after
the National School Boards Association called on the Biden
administration on September 29 to investigate parents who
allegedly threatened boards over policies on school masks and
critical race theory, and to determine whether the parents had
violated the Patriot Act or hate crimes laws. (The NSBA
subsequently apologized for releasing the letter.)

The FBI labeled “dozens” of investigations with the threat tag
“EDUOFFICIALS,” Representatives Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) and Mike
Johnson (R., La.) claimed in their new letter on Wednesday,
citing FBI whistleblowers. Jordan and Johnson wrote that the new
revelations contradicted Garland’s congressional testimony
denying that parents were intentionally targeted under
counterterrorism procedures.

One investigation allegedly began after the FBI received a tip
that a mom had told a local school board, “We are coming for
you.” The complaint “alleged that the mom was a threat because
she belonged to a ‘right wing mom’s group’ known as ‘Moms for
Liberty,’ and because she is a ‘gun owner,'” the congressmen
wrote. An FBI agent reportedly interviewed the the mom, who said
she was upset about a school mask mandate and wanted to elect
new board members.

In another instance, the congressmen wrote that an FBI agent
interviewed a tipster who admitted he had “no specific
information or observations . . . of any crimes or threats.” The
tipster had submitted a complaint against an anti-mask-mandate
dad, claiming that the dad “fit the profile of an
insurrectionist,” and the FBI had opened an investigation into
the dad.

The congressmen also claimed that the FBI began an investigation
into Republican elected officials in a certain state because a
Democratic state-party official claimed that the Republicans
“‘incited violence’ by expressing public displeasure with school
districts’ mask mandates.”

It was not immediately clear how the investigations were
resolved.

https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-whistleblowers-claim-agents-
investigated-024910174.html

[Let's All Panic!]

Chinks are criminals.

No argument here.

A Chinese chemical engineer was sentenced to 14 years in prison
for stealing trade secrets on drink can coatings to establish a
Chinese company backed by the Chinese government.

Xiaorong “Shannon” You, 59, was sentenced on Monday by a federal
judge in Greeneville, Tennessee, on the charges of conspiracy to
commit trade secret theft, conspiracy to commit economic
espionage, possession of stolen trade secrets, economic
espionage and wire fraud. In addition, she is ordered to pay a
$200,000 fine and serve three years of supervised release.

“Stealing technology isn’t just a crime against a company,”
Acting Assistant Director Bradley S. Benavides of the FBI’s
Counterintelligence Division said in a release. “It’s a crime
against American workers whose jobs and livelihoods are
impacted.”

You stole valuable information related to bisphenol-A-free (BPA-
free) coatings found inside beverage cans. BPA was used to help
lessen flavor loss and prevent cans from corroding. Companies
began developing BPA-free alternatives because of BPA’s
potential health risks.

You was the principal engineer for global research at Coca-Cola
from December 2012 through August 2017. She also became a
packaging application development manager at Eastman Chemical
from September 2017 through June 2018.

The trade secrets cost coating companies about $120 million to
develop.

You hoped to establish a BPA-free coating company in China. She
and her corporate partner, Weihai Jinhong Group, received
millions of dollars in Chinese government grants to support the
new company. Prosecutors said that You also intended to benefit
Shandong Province, the city of Weihai and the Chinese Communist
Party.

“When companies invest huge amounts of time and money to develop
world-class technologies, only to have those technologies
stolen, the results are devastating,” Assistant Attorney General
Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal
Division said. “Here, the defendant intended not only to enrich
herself and her China-based partners, but also the government of
China. Crimes like the defendant’s threaten both victim
companies and the economic security of the nation as a whole.
This case should serve as a warning to those entrusted with
valuable trade secrets: if you break the law, you will be
punished.”

https://news.yahoo.com/ex-coca-cola-chemist-sentenced-
234210142.html

[Ramon F. Herrera]

Democrats are stupid criminals.

No argument here.

PHOENIX (AP) — With anti-immigrant rhetoric bubbling over in the
leadup to this year’s critical midterm elections, about 1 in 3
U.S. adults believes an effort is underway to replace U.S.-born
Americans with immigrants for electoral gains.

About 3 in 10 also worry that more immigration is causing U.S.-
born Americans to lose their economic, political and cultural
influence, according to a poll by the Associated Press–NORC
Center for Public Affairs Research. Republicans are more likely
than Democrats to fear a loss of influence because of
immigration, 36% to 27%.

Newly arrived immigrants are barred from voting in federal
elections because they aren’t citizens, and gaining citizenship
is an arduous process that can take a decade or more, when they
are successful at all.

Those views mirror swelling anti-immigrant sentiment espoused on
social media and cable TV, with conservative commentators like
Tucker Carlson exploiting fears that new arrivals could
undermine the native-born population.

In their most extreme manifestation, those increasingly public
views in the U.S. and Europe tap into a decades-old conspiracy
theory known as the “great replacement,” a false claim that
native-born populations are being overrun by nonwhite immigrants
who are eroding, and eventually will erase, their culture and
values. The once-taboo term became the mantra of one
conservative candidate in the recent French presidential
election.

“I very much believe that the Democrats — from Joe Biden and
Nancy Pelosi, all the way down — want to get the illegal
immigrants in here and give them voting rights immediately,”
said Sally Gansz, 80. Actually, only U.S. citizens can vote in
state and federal elections, and attaining citizenship typically
takes years.

A white Republican, Gansz has lived her whole life in Trinidad,
Colo., where about half of the population of 8,300 identifies as
Hispanic, most with roots going back centuries to the region’s
Spanish settlers.

“Isn’t it obvious that I watch Fox?” quipped Gansz, who said she
watches the conservative channel almost daily, including the
prime-time Fox News Channel program “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” a
major proponent of those ideas.

‘I very much believe that the Democrats — from Joe Biden and
Nancy Pelosi, all the way down — want to get the illegal
immigrants in here and give them voting rights immediately.’

— Sally Gansz, Trinidad, Colo.
News Corp, parent of MarketWatch publisher Dow Jones, and Fox
News parent Fox Corp. share common ownership.

“Demographic change is the key to the Democratic Party’s
political ambitions,” Carlson said on the show last year. “In
order to win and maintain power, Democrats plan to change the
population of the country.”

Those views aren’t held by a majority of Americans — in fact,
two-thirds feel the country’s diverse population makes the U.S.
stronger, and far more favor than oppose a path to legal status
for immigrants brought into the U.S. illegally as children. But
the deep anxieties expressed by some Americans help explain how
the issue energizes those opposed to immigration.

“I don’t feel like immigration really affects me or that it
undermines American values,” said Daniel Valdes, 43, a
registered Democrat who works in finance for an aeronautical
firm on Florida’s Space Coast. “I’m pretty indifferent about it
all.”

Valdes’s maternal grandparents came to the U.S. from Mexico, and
he said he has “tons” of relatives in the border city of El
Paso, Texas. He has Puerto Rican roots on his father’s side.

While Republicans worry more than Democrats about immigration,
the most intense anxiety was among people with the greatest
tendency for conspiratorial thinking. That’s defined as those
most likely to agree with a series of statements, like much of
people’s lives is “being controlled by plots hatched in secret
places” and “big events like wars, recessions, and the outcomes
of elections are controlled by small groups of people who are
working in secret against the rest of us.”

An audit in the state of Georgia found fewer than 2,000
instances of noncitizens attempting to register and vote over
the last quarter-century — and none of those people succeeding.
In all, 17% in the poll believe both that native-born Americans
are losing influence because of the growing population of
immigrants and that a group of people in the country is trying
to replace native-born Americans with immigrants who agree with
their political views. That number rises to 42% among the
quarter of Americans most likely to embrace other conspiracy
theories.

‘Most of the immigrants I have seen have a good work ethic, they
pay taxes and have a strong sense of family.’— Teresa
Covarrubias, Los Angeles
Alex Hoxeng, 37, a white Republican from Midland, Texas, said he
found those most extreme versions of the immigration
conspiracies “a bit far-fetched” but does believe immigration
could lessen the influence of U.S.-born Americans. “I feel like
if we are flooded with immigrants coming illegally, it can
dilute our culture,” Hoxeng said.

Teresa Covarrubias, 62, rejects the idea that immigrants are
undermining the values or culture of U.S.-born Americans or that
they are being brought in to shore up the Democratic voter base.
She is registered to vote but is not aligned with any party.

“Most of the immigrants I have seen have a good work ethic, they
pay taxes and have a strong sense of family,” said Covarrubias,
a second-grade teacher in Los Angeles whose four grandparents
came to the U.S. from Mexico. “They help our country.”

Republican leaders, including border governors Doug Ducey of
Arizona and Greg Abbott of Texas — who is running for re-
election this year — have increasingly decried what they call an
“invasion,” with conservative politicians traveling to the U.S.-
Mexico border to pose for photos alongside former President
Donald Trump’s border wall.

Vulnerable Democratic senators up for election this year in
Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire and Nevada have joined many
Republicans in calling on the Biden administration to wait on
lifting the coronavirus-era public health rule known as Title 42
that denies migrants a chance to seek asylum. They fear it could
draw more immigrants to the border than officials can handle.

From the archives (June 2021): How to treat ‘election deniers’
and ‘Big Lie’ adherents is an ongoing challenge for mainstream
news organizations

See: Trump-aligned broadcaster OAN airs segment admitting
Georgia election workers ‘did not engage in ballot fraud or
criminal misconduct’

U.S. authorities stopped migrants more than 221,000 times at the
Mexican border in March, a 22-year high, creating a fraught
political landscape for Democrats as the Biden administration
prepares to lift Title 42 authority May 23. The pandemic powers
have been used to expel migrants more than 1.8 million times
since it was invoked in March 2020 on the grounds of preventing
the spread of COVID-19.

The backdrop: Biden administration set to lift COVID limitations
on asylum claims at southern border

Also see: U.S. has quietly been expelling more migrants while
preparing to end asylum restrictions

And: Texas Gov. Abbott’s migrant bus discharges passengers at
Washington, D.C., building housing Fox News and other
broadcasters

Newly arrived immigrants are barred from voting in federal
elections because they aren’t citizens, and gaining citizenship
is an arduous process that can take a decade or more — if they
are successful. In most cases, they must first obtain permanent
residency, then wait five more years before they can apply for
citizenship.

U.S. authorities stopped migrants more than 221,000 times at the
Mexican border in March, a 22-year high.

Investigations have failed to turn up evidence of widespread
voting by people who aren’t eligible, including by noncitizens.
For example, a Georgia audit of its voter rolls completed this
year found fewer than 2,000 instances of noncitizens attempting
to register and vote over the last 25 years, none of which
succeeded.

Blake Masters, a candidate for Senate in Arizona, is among the
Republicans running for office this year who have played into
anxieties about a changing population.
“What the left really wants to do is change the demographics of
this country,” he said in a video recorded in October. “They
want to do that so they can consolidate power so they can never
lose another election.”

The AP-NORC poll of 4,173 adults was conducted Dec. 1–23, 2021,
using a combined sample of interviews from NORC’s probability-
based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative
of the U.S. population, and interviews from opt-in online
panels. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus
or minus 1.96 percentage points.

The AmeriSpeak panel is recruited randomly using address-based
sampling methods, and respondents later were interviewed online
or by phone.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/poll-finds-one-third-of-adults-
say-they-think-an-effort-is-afoot-to-replace-native-born-
americans-with-new-immigrants-for-electoral-purposes-
01652314775?siteid=yhoof2

[Nutless Buzz Lightyear]

Democrats are stupid criminals.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday launched a formal
partnership with 11 East Coast governors to boost the growing
offshore wind industry, a key element of President Joe Biden’s
plan for climate change.

Biden, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and other top
administration officials met with governors, wind industry
officials and labor leaders Thursday at the White House. The
session focused on ways to expand important segments of the
offshore industry, including manufacturing facilities, ports and
workforce training and development.

“Together we’re stepping up. We’re about to build a better
America," Biden said. “It’s not just about the future. It’s
about right now."

The partnership comprises governors of both parties from
Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania
and Rhode Island.

Missing from the compact is Virginia, where Republican Gov.
Glenn Youngkin has moved to withdraw the state from a regional
carbon-limiting initiative meant to combat climate change.

Spokesperson Macaulay Porter said Youngkin supports the offshore
wind industry, and his administration has participated in calls
with the White House on the topic.

“The commonwealth is already a leader in offshore wind, and the
Youngkin administration is focused on ... this emerging sector
in a way that is consistent with promoting jobs for Virginia and
its right-to-work philosophy," Porter said, referring to a state
policy that promotes a worker’s right not to be required to join
a labor union.

Youngkin is “fully committed to Virginia’s current offshore wind
project” and will continue to support any future project “that
meets Virginia’s economic needs and protects ratepayers from
high energy costs," Porter said.

In working with states and the private sector, the White House
said it will “provide Americans with cleaner and cheaper energy,
create good-paying jobs and invest billions in new American
energy supply chains," including construction of wind turbines,
shipbuilding and servicing.

Biden has set a goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind
power by 2030, enough to provide electricity to 10 million
homes, support 77,000 jobs and spur $12 billion per year in
private investment in offshore wind. Offshore wind is a key
component in the Democratic president’s plan to make the
nation’s electric grid carbon free by 2035.

The Biden administration has approved two large-scale wind
projects, Vineyard Wind in Massachusetts and South Fork Wind off
New York and Rhode Island. Both are under construction with
union labor. The Interior Department has begun reviews of
another 10 offshore projects that, if approved, would produce 22
gigawatts of clean energy.

Danish wind developer Orsted signed a project labor agreement
last month with a national union representing 3 million people
in the building trades to construct the company’s U.S. offshore
wind farms with an American union workforce. Orsted currently
has six offshore projects in five states.

A national agreement signed with North America’s Building Trades
Unions covers contractors working on those projects and future
ones, with no termination date on the project labor agreement.
It sets the terms and conditions for union workers to build
offshore wind farms, with targets to ensure a diverse workforce.
It contains provisions for training to ensure they can construct
the complex infrastructure, which costs billions of dollars.

“We recognize that states are huge players here," said David
Hayes, a White House climate adviser. With a formal partnership,
the Biden administration can “work with the governors on
policies going forward and help ensure that there is an American-
made supply chain for this brand-new industry," Hayes said.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, said he and other East
Coast governors “are united with our regional and federal
partners not just by geography but by a shared commitment to
clean and affordable energy, economic opportunity and a future
in which all community members are shielded from the worsening
impacts of climate change."

The federal-state collaboration comes as the Biden
administration has announced a plan to conduct up to seven
offshore wind auctions by 2025, including one held last month
off North Carolina and earlier this year in a coastal area known
as the New York Bight. Other sales are expected in the Gulf of
Maine, the central Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as
offshore in California and Oregon.

Environmental and clean energy groups hailed the federal-state
collaboration.

“Today, there are just seven offshore wind turbines in the
United States, and we’re going to need a lot more, done
responsibly, to meet our clean energy goals," said Diane
Hoskins, campaign director for the conservation group Oceana.
She called for “strong safeguards for marine life to avoid,
minimize and mitigate the impacts of offshore wind."

Heather Zichal, CEO of the American Clean Power Association, an
industry group, said wind energy developers support the federal-
state initiative. “Clear and predictable permitting for offshore
wind is essential to recognizing its potential, and there is
still work to do," Zichal said.

https://apnews.com/article/climate-biden-and-environment-
government-politics-13e5d01c3f43c899e39f337d478c1179