After a tenure mired in controversy, former Dalton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyward is back in the news.

This time, she is urging Governor JB Pritzker (D) and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to accept President Trump’s help in tackling rampant crime in the state.

The plea comes after her father was shot in the neck.

ABC7 reports:

The shooting happened around 5:54 p.m. Wednesday in the 1300 block South Kedzie Avenue in North Lawndale, Chicago police said.

A 65-year-old man was in an alley when he was shot in the neck, CPD said. He was taken to a hospital in serious condition.

Henyard confirmed to ABC7 Thursday that her father was the victim in the shooting.

Henyard shared a statement on Facebook, noting, “Although I am deeply saddened to have to address this issue, I want to begin by sincerely thanking everyone for the calls, messages, and prayers.  During this incredibly difficult time, your support has meant more than words can express.”

“Yes, it is true, my family has been directly affected by the senseless gun violence that continues to plague Illinois. Yesterday, my father, my hero was an innocent victim of this random and heartbreaking violence. This tragedy has shaken my family to its core, and unfortunately, it reflects a reality that far too many families across our state are facing.”

“This devastating moment only further highlights what many of us already know, and shouldn’t be ignored: the ongoing gun violence in the City of Chicago has made too many of our communities feel unsafe. It reinforces the urgent need for stronger action and meaningful solutions.”

“I urge Governor JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson to seriously reconsider federal assistance from President Donald J. Trump to help address this crisis and better protect the residents of Illinois, particularly in Chicago. Across the country, communities that have welcomed federal support have experienced measurable reductions in crime. Cities such as Memphis, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and New Orleans, Louisiana during the 2026 Mardi Gras period have all seen positive outcomes through collaborative efforts.”

“The difference between Illinois and those other states is simple, their leadership chose collaboration, and that collaboration produced results.”

“I respectfully urge Governor Pritzker to reconsider working in partnership with President Donald J. Trump to ensure the safety and well-being of the people you were elected to serve. Once again, thank you for your prayers, your support, and your compassion. Please continue to keep my family lifted in prayer during this extremely difficult time.”

Last year, Henyard lost her bid for re-election after suffering a landslide defeat in the Democrat primary.

The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on allegations and investigations into Henyard,including an FBI investigation for abusing her power after she shut down businesses that didn’t donate to her campaign.

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The scam centers operating along Burma (Myanmar)’s borders are among the most significant revenue streams sustaining the junta and the ethnic armed organizations aligned with it, alongside mining and Chinese investment through the Belt and Road Initiative. All three have a direct Chinese dimension.

The scam compounds are run predominantly by Chinese criminal syndicates, the mining output flows primarily to China, and BRI investment sustains the junta’s economic position while benefiting connected cronies. Scam centers in areas controlled by armed groups have brought in billions of dollars annually, with both the military and regime-aligned ethnic armed organizations using their cut to purchase weapons.

These revenue streams are shared between the junta and various ethnic armed organizations, including border guard forces, militias that nominally answer to Naypyidaw but maintain their own interests and are not always fully aligned with it.

This gives the junta a reliable source of ongoing funding, which allows it to purchase weapons and ammunition, including Chinese and Russian aircraft. Meanwhile, the resistance struggles to feed its soldiers and the displaced civilian population.

For every move the resistance makes or considers, it must balance the well-being and support of millions of internally displaced people living in resistance-controlled areas. These IDPs depend on the resistance’s civilian administrations for support and protection. The junta, however, has no such constraints and is free to spend on weapons and launch strikes without consideration.

For the past two years, the Burmese junta has only managed to maintain control over roughly 21% of the country’s territory. However, the regime remains firmly in place because of its complete air superiority and greater access to money and weapons. This wartime economic structure, largely underwritten by China, is one of the primary reasons the conflict has not yet ended.

China’s diplomatic and economic footprint has deepened throughout the conflict. China’s special envoy for Asian Affairs Deng Xijun met junta Foreign Minister Than Swe in Naypyitaw on March 13, days before the opening of a parliamentary session on March 16, to discuss border stability, socioeconomic development, and anti-scam cooperation.

The Myanmar Investment Commission announced on March 16 that it will accept Chinese yuan alongside U.S. dollars for foreign investment activities, a move that reflects deepening economic integration. Min Aung Hlaing had pushed for the change, saying in September that many Chinese investors prefer to use yuan and that Burma was already conducting some trade settlements in yuan and kyat.

The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation framework has become a vehicle through which China channels project funding to the junta. Established in 2016 among China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, the LMC covers areas including agriculture, science, culture, tourism, and disaster prevention.

From 2017 to 2025, Burma received 132 projects under the LMC Special Fund with a cumulative value of over $38.6 million, the highest total among all member states. The Stimson Center noted that engagement routes through the LMC offer the junta a starting point for international engagement, with Burma being a key stakeholder in realizing the framework.

The junta has attempted to leverage the LMC for broader legitimacy, though with limited success, when Burma held the rotating chair in 2022 and sought to host a leaders’ summit, China did not respond to the invitation and the summit was cancelled, with analysts concluding that Beijing recognized a high-level convening would undermine ASEAN centrality.

The decisive shift in China’s position came in November 2024, when Min Aung Hlaing made his first post-coup visit to China and met Premier Li Qiang, who expressed support for the junta’s planned elections. China also pledged $3 billion in aid to prop up Burma’s currency.

The UN Special Rapporteur identified China among a small number of states that have implicitly supported the junta’s claim to be Burma’s government through actions including presenting diplomatic credentials to junta leadership and strengthening economic and military relations.

As China promotes an expanded version of the LMC, it reinforces Burma’s economic dependence on Beijing while sustaining the regime’s position. China remains a major investor despite international sanctions, and the framework has given the junta access to development projects and political cover it could not obtain elsewhere.

The linguistic and cultural penetration of border areas reflects how structurally integrated parts of Burma have become with China. The degree of integration varies by region.

Kokang presents the clearest case. Its population is ethnically Han Chinese. Residents carry Chinese names, and Mandarin is the dominant language of instruction, commerce, and daily life.

In Wa State, an autonomous region within Shan State, Mandarin is one of four official working languages. Commodities are sourced from China, and the renminbi is commonly used in place of the kyat. The UWSA has recently directed that Burmese be taught as the primary language in schools, with Wa literature as a secondary priority. However, residents report that Chinese remains dominant in daily communication and commerce.

An LSE study found that schooling is far from universal in Wa State and that Chinese spreads primarily through military service rather than formal education. Many boys learn it through army units rather than classrooms.

In the Mongla border region, Chinese has become the de facto lingua franca. Educators report that children mainly speak Chinese rather than their native tongues because it improves employment prospects, and that Burmese instruction is being displaced by Chinese-language curriculum delivered by teachers brought in from China.

Across border zones in northern and eastern Shan State more broadly, Mandarin functions as a working language between ethnic groups that share no common tongue, though this is most pronounced in areas directly adjacent to Yunnan.

This integration predates the current war and makes the region’s alignment with Chinese economic networks structurally durable, independent of political outcomes in Naypyidaw.

In northern Shan State, the MNDAA’s capture of Kutkai and sections of the Lashio-Muse trade corridor has aligned control of strategic routes with Beijing’s economic interests. The pattern is consistent: shifts in territorial control along Burma’s northern border have repeatedly produced outcomes that serve Chinese infrastructure and trade priorities, regardless of which armed actor holds the ground.

These gains have delivered severe setbacks to the resistance, which has lost control of most of the paved roads to Thailand and neighboring countries and must resupply through the jungle. Small amounts of supplies are carried in open pickup trucks, on motorcycles, and even by mules or human porters, moving up and down mountainous terrain through the bush while carefully avoiding landmines, firefights, and exposure to airstrikes.

Consequently, most finished goods, medicines, packaged food products, baby formula, and even personal hygiene items like soap and shampoo are both expensive and in short supply. Gasoline, distributed in plastic bottles and cans, costs about four to five times what it does in Thailand, while bullets can cost as much as $3 USD each.

The military imbalance between forces aligned with the junta and those fighting against it reflects the degree to which Chinese material support has determined the conflict’s trajectory. Between the February 2021 coup and May 2023, 41 Chinese suppliers sold the junta approximately $267 million in weaponry, including fighter jets, spare parts, helicopters, and transport aircraft, according to the Stimson Center.

The majority of the junta’s fixed-wing combat aircraft are Chinese-supplied, primarily FTC-2000G jets delivered by state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China. A former Burma Air Force sergeant confirmed to Voice of America that many Russian-made Yak-130s are out of service, making the Chinese jets critical to operations. Russia continues to supply rotary-wing aircraft, and in November 2025 Burma simultaneously commissioned Russian helicopters and Chinese warplanes into its air force.

On the drone front, the junta has access to at least 19 UAV models sourced from China, Russia, and Iran, according to ACLED researchers tracking the conflict. Chinese models deployed on the battlefield include the CH4 Rainbow, CH3A, and Yellow Cat. Beginning in early 2024, junta soldiers attended drone training courses in Tianjin, and by mid-2024 Chinese-made drones were being deployed in large numbers for both offensive strikes and reconnaissance, according to the Irrawaddy.

North Korea’s contribution has been limited to training rather than hardware supply, a junta drone unit commander reportedly attended a missile technology course provided by North Korean specialists in Pyin Oo Lwin.

While many resistance soldiers and civilians say they would like to see a United States intervention, what most people in Burma are asking for is that Washington place sufficient pressure on China to halt the flow of money, weapons, jet fuel, and support to the Burma Army and level the battlefield.

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If you or someone you love had COVID-19 – or received a COVID-19 vaccine – and has since experienced unexplained headaches, memory problems, brain fog, or cognitive decline, this may be the most important thing you read today.

A growing body of medical research is now drawing a direct connection between SARS-CoV-2 spike protein exposure and a serious neurological condition called Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy – or CAA.

And most doctors aren’t talking about it.

What Is Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy? 

Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy is a condition in which abnormal protein deposits – amyloid – accumulate in the walls of the brain’s blood vessels.

When those deposits build up, the vessels become fragile. Brittle. Prone to leaking or rupturing entirely.

The results can range from subtle cognitive changes and persistent brain fog to full-blown strokes, seizures, and in the most severe cases, life-altering neurological damage.

CAA has historically been associated with aging and Alzheimer’s disease. It was considered a condition that developed slowly, over decades, in elderly patients.

That understanding is now being rewritten.

The COVID Connection Nobody Is Talking About 

Researchers studying post-COVID neurological complications have identified something deeply alarming:

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein – whether from infection or from vaccination – appears to trigger inflammatory and amyloidogenic processes in the brain’s vasculature.

In plain language: spike protein exposure may be accelerating the exact kind of abnormal protein buildup in brain blood vessels that defines CAA.

Cases of CAA are appearing in patients who are younger than historically expected. Patients with no prior neurological history. Patients whose only known risk factor is a COVID-19 infection or vaccination in the preceding months or years.

The timeline is not subtle. The pattern is not random.

And for millions of Americans still carrying spike protein in their systems – right now, today, years after their initial exposure – the question is urgent:

What is that spike protein doing to your brain?

Dr. McCullough Has Been Warning About This 

Dr. Peter McCullough – one of the most published cardiologists in America, and one of the few physicians willing to speak openly about spike protein pathology – has been raising the alarm about neurological complications from persistent spike protein for years.

In his clinical practice, he sees it regularly:

Patients with brain fog that won’t lift. Patients with memory problems that started after COVID. Patients with headaches, cognitive changes, and neurological symptoms that their other doctors are dismissing, misdiagnosing, or simply unable to explain.

His position is consistent and unambiguous:

Spike protein is not benign. It does not simply disappear. And for a significant number of patients, it is actively driving pathological processes — including, the research now suggests, the vascular amyloid accumulation that defines CAA.

If you are experiencing symptoms consistent with spike protein pathology – including the kind of cognitive and neurological symptoms now associated with CAA – Dr. McCullough’s recommendation is clear.

The Protocol Dr. McCullough Developed For His Own Patients 

For nearly four years, Dr. McCullough has been searching for compounds capable of addressing spike protein accumulation in the body.

The research led him to three molecules with specific, documented mechanisms of action against the biological processes spike protein drives:

Nattokinase – a fibrinolytic enzyme derived from fermented soybeans, shown in research to degrade spike protein directly and support healthy blood flow in vessels where abnormal protein accumulation is a concern.

Bromelain – a proteolytic enzyme from pineapple with demonstrated anti-inflammatory properties and the ability to break down protein aggregates of the kind implicated in vascular amyloid pathology.

Curcumin – the active compound in turmeric, one of the most extensively studied natural anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective agents in the literature, with specific research supporting its role in inhibiting amyloid formation and protecting cerebrovascular integrity.

These are not random supplements. These are molecules selected specifically because their mechanisms of action address the biological processes – protein aggregation, vascular inflammation, amyloid accumulation – that the research is now linking directly to post-COVID neurological complications including CAA.

Dr. McCullough formulated them into a single product: Ultimate Spike Detox, produced by The Wellness Company in the United States.

What Patients Are Reporting 

The research is compelling. But the patient outcomes are what matter most.

“I feel like I have had brain fog for the past 18 months and after taking this supplement noticed the fog finally lifting. I plan to buy more for myself and now for a friend suffering from heart issues.”

Read that again. Eighteen months of brain fog – exactly the kind of persistent cognitive symptom now associated with spike protein-driven neurological pathology – beginning to lift after starting Ultimate Spike Detox.

“I saw Dr. McCullough talk about the product and decided to give it a try. A month and a half later, I feel sooo much better. I also have recommended the product to family members to help them detox from the painful side effects of the vaccine.”

“We ordered your spike protein cleanse for our patients who took a couple of COVID-19 vaccinations. After about two weeks of them taking the supplements, their appetites increased and our mother with diagnosed heart issues claimed she wasn’t getting dizzy anymore.”

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“I am grateful for The Wellness Company and for you coming out with this spike protein supplement. I am a big believer in natural healing and not pharmaceutical drugs. Thank you for doing what is right and for speaking truth in a world that is so dark.”

These are not people reporting minor improvements. These are people describing the return of cognitive clarity, physical function, and quality of life they had lost – in some cases, for years.

The Window You Cannot Afford To Miss 

Here is what makes the CAA research so urgent:

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is a progressive condition. Amyloid deposits in blood vessel walls do not resolve on their own. They accumulate. The damage compounds over time.

The research suggests that the inflammatory and amyloidogenic processes driven by spike protein are most effectively addressed early – before deposits have time to consolidate, before vessel walls have been structurally compromised, before the window for meaningful intervention narrows.

Every month of elevated spike protein circulating in your system is another month of potential accumulation.

This is not the moment to wait and see.

What To Do Right Now 

If you have been infected with COVID-19, received a COVID-19 vaccine, or are experiencing cognitive symptoms, brain fog, headaches, memory problems, or any of the neurological signs now associated with post-COVID spike protein pathology – take action.

Order Ultimate Spike Detox from The Wellness Company.

It contains the full McCullough Protocol formulation – nattokinase, bromelain, and curcumin — in the researched combination, at therapeutic concentrations, manufactured in the United States under quality standards you can verify.

It is the only product built directly on the published science of spike protein detoxification.

And it is backed by Dr. McCullough’s own clinical experience, thousands of patient outcomes, and a satisfaction guarantee from a company that has staked its reputation on getting this right.

From The Doctor Who Wouldn’t Back Down 

Dr. McCullough lost colleagues. He lost institutional affiliations. He spent years being attacked by the very medical establishment he had spent his career serving.

He kept talking anyway.

Because the patients sitting in front of him deserved the truth. Because the research was too important to bury. Because the consequences of doing nothing – for the millions of Americans carrying spike protein right now, experiencing symptoms their doctors can’t explain, potentially developing conditions like CAA that nobody warned them about – were simply too serious.

The research on spike protein and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy is still emerging. But the direction it is pointing is not ambiguous.

If you have been exposed to spike protein – through infection, through vaccination, or both – your brain’s blood vessels may be at risk in ways that will not announce themselves loudly until significant damage has already been done.

Ultimate Spike Detox is available now. Made in America. Built on published science. Backed by the doctor who told the truth when it cost him everything.

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