(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Google has grappled with several incidents of anti-Semitism in recent months, among which were the words “kill all Jews” that were found written on a bathroom wall inside the company’s offices and a Jewish employee being assaulted by anti-Israel protesters on one of Google’s campuses.
The company’s internal emails that were discovered by the Daily Wire showed an uproar last week by a group of Jewish Google employees that call themselves “Jewglers” after the words “Free Palestine Kill All Jews” were seen scribbled on a flier inside Google’s Chelsea office in New York City in November 2023.
In addition to that, on Feb. 13, 2024, the leadership of the Jewish employee group informed fellow members that a Jewish employee was assaulted when attempting to take a photo of someone who was handing out flyers for a pro-Palestinian protest inside Google’s London office, the news source added.
“The Jewgler attempted to photograph the person handing out the flyers in order to report them to security. At that point, the Jewgler was physically assaulted. He was mildly injured,” the email said.
The incidents were confirmed by a Google spokeswoman and internal investigations were launched. The company also said that action was taken against people who “violated our workplace policies.”
“We take all concerns raised very seriously and investigate them thoroughly and consistently. We’ve absolutely taken action over the last few months against people who’ve violated our workplace policies,” the spokeswoman said.
Google also provided the email that was sent to all employees about what happened in New York City. In the email, Google said that the New York Police Department was contacted about the “obviously vile” message and an internal investigation was launched.
“I can’t promise we’ll find the person, but it will not be for lack of effort,” the company said while adding that “it’s not clear whether this was done by a Google employee, a member of our extended workforce, a guest or a visitor.”
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) It was discovered that children at a Brooklyn public elementary school are being brainwashed with a coloring book that contains far-left, communist and BLM propaganda.
Teachers at PS 321 — the kindergarten through fifth-grade school in Park Slope — supplied students last week with the coloring book, What We Believe, as part of a lesson for Black History Month, according to the Free Press.
The leftist book promotes the 13 principles of the BLM movement through drawings and worksheets, under titles like “Queer Affirming,” “Transgender Affirming,” and “Restorative Justice.” BLM’s “national demands,” like “mandate black history & ethnic studies,” “hire more black teachers” and “fund counselors not cops” are also included in the coloring book.
Among the BLM principles are “Black Villages” which is described as “disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement” and “Intergenerational” which encourages a “communal network free from ageism.”
A parent of a fourth grader who goes to that school, whose grandparents fled Communist China before permanently moving to the U.S., said that she and her husband were “shocked” that the book uses the word “comrade” and promotes other political propaganda.
“Using the word ‘comrades’ comes from Communist times. They are using words that I don’t think are appropriate for elementary school,” the parent of a 10-year-old daughter said.
She then said that the only reason why she even discovered the book on Feb. 13, 2024, was because it was a snowy day that forced her daughter to learn from home.
“This is classwork, not homework. If it weren’t for the snow, we wouldn’t have known,” she said.
Another parent whose family left the Soviet Union when she was a teenager also expressed her concern by saying that the language in the book reminds her “of the songs [they] were made to sing as elementary school children.”
“‘Dismantling’ and ‘comrade’ and everything — it really reminds me of the word salad that was a part of those songs,” the parent said, adding that the BLM movement is is communism because it is the “same salad” but with a “different dressing.”
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) House Democrats did not pledge to certify the results of the 2024 presidential election if Donald Trump emerges victorious—a strategy they condemned as undemocratic just four years ago.
Such a scenario could take place if the Supreme Court rejects contentious attempts to prevent the former president from appearing on primary ballots and refrains from ruling on Trump’s overall eligibility over what Democrats labeled an “insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021.
Democrats made the contentious insinuations in remarks to the Atlantic, which published a report on Friday on ongoing efforts to block Trump from appearing on ballots.
“I don’t want to get into the chaos hypothetical,” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., declining to commit to certifying Trump’s potential victory if the Court does not determine his eligibility for the primary ballot.
Similarly, Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., declined to comment on the scenario, disparaging Trump as an “insurrectionist” instead.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, admitted uncertainty about how to vote in such a scenario. “There was blood all over the Capitol in the hypothetical you posit,” he told the Atlantic reporter.
In contrast, Swalwell and Schiff, both infamous anti-Trump Democrats, pledged to abide by the Court’s decision in the event of the justices ruling that Trump is eligible to remain on the ballots and that he did not participate in the alleged insurrection.
Schiff emphasized that defying the justices would be “a colossal disaster,” adding: “We already had one horrendous January 6. We don’t need another.”
Swalwell echoed Schiff’s sentiments, claiming: “I would not object out of protest of how the Supreme Court comes down. It would be doing what I didn’t like about the January 6 Republicans.”
(Headline USA) Democrat donors have raised concerns about President Joe Biden’s dependence on cheat-sheet note cards during his meetings with them, according to Axios.
The Biden campaign has gotten into the habit of preparing note cards for Biden with scripted questions for pre-selected donors. They are meant to “help explain his own policy positions—on questions he knows are coming,” the outlet said.
It has been a common practice for the president from early in his term during prepared speeches and press conferences, when Biden has generally fallen back on scripted questions from pre-selected media—something that would previously have been considered unfathomable, particularly for a Republican president. At other points, it is clear that he is being fed instructions remotely through an earpiece.
Nonetheless, his reliance on such aids even in friendly company has left several donors concerned about his mental vitality and age.
“The staged Q&A sessions have left some donors wondering whether Biden can withstand the rigors of a presidential campaign, let alone potential debates with former President Trump, 77,” Axios reported.
Biden’s campaign dismissed their concerns in a statement by refusing to address them altogether.
“In news that matters to the American people when it comes to the 2024 election today: Three IVF clinics in Alabama ceased operations out of fear of criminal prosecution by the state—all at the feet of Donald Trump,” Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said, referring to an Alabama court’s ruling that frozen embryos are children.
Trump, meanwhile, challenged Biden to a debate this week, saying he was willing to “take anybody” on the debate stage.
“I think you have an obligation in this case, you really have an obligation to debate,” Trump said during a town hall with Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “As many as necessary. I could do it starting now.”
But Trump added he didn’t think Biden would agree to it.
“I really don’t think so,” he added.
The leftist hosts of The View went to bat for the senile president, repeating a stale talking point that it would be inappropriate to give Trump “that kind of platform,” while failing to address what would be at stake by not debating Trump if he were to win the election as a result.
Hosts on The View PANIC that Joe Biden will humiliate himself in a debate with Donald Trump and they are worried about giving Trump “that kind of platform” 🤣
Biden has not confirmed whether he plans to participate in the scheduled general election debates later this year.
Asked about Trump’s challenges, Biden shrugged off the request, saying, “Well, if I were him, I’d want to debate me, too.”
Asked again about it during a campaign stop in Nevada, Biden claimed Trump has “got nothing else to do.”
During the first of two presidential debates in the 2020 election, keen observers noted that Biden appeared to be wearing an earpiece.
Fleshtech concealed earpiece of Joe Biden’s right ear during debate. If I were Trump, I would absolutely insist on tech checks before another debate. pic.twitter.com/5hKtRZzhVL
A female undercover journalist sat down with Alex Mena, a member of the IRS Criminal Investigations Unit, and uncovered alarming details about the agency’s actions.
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Among the findings was that the IRS uses artificial intelligence technology to spy on Americans’ bank accounts nationwide.
Mena confirmed that the AI has access to everyone’s bank account, raising serious concerns about privacy and constitutional rights.
“We have, like, all the information from all the companies in the whole world actually, not just in the United States,” Mena told the reporter, according to the Gateway Pundit.
He readily admitted that he “doubts the constitutionality” of such a tactic, although the laws surrounding the use of AI technology have yet to catch up with the rapid developments in the techology.
These entities wield significant power over the agency’s surveillance practices, creating a nebulous arrangement that makes the possibility of reform from within all the more unlikely. It’s “AI whether we want it or not,” Mena said.
The implications of such surveillance are chilling, and the journalist expressed concern about nightmares stemming from this revelation.
Mena also candidly stated that IRS “has no problem going after the small people, putting people in prison, and destroying people’s lives.”
He described them as “robots” who relentlessly pursue average Americans.
According to Mena, IRS agents lacked empathy and viewed their targets as mere statistics. Their focus is on enforcement, regardless of the impact on individuals and families.
The report has sparked outrage among citizens who value their financial privacy. Many are questioning the IRS’s unchecked access to sensitive financial data and the potential abuse of power.
As the public grapples with these revelations, legal experts are examining the legality of the IRS’s actions. The implications could be far-reaching, affecting trust in government institutions and individual rights.
It is the latest black-eye for the widely loathed agency, whose commissioner, Daniel Werfel, was grilled last week by the House Ways and Means Committee on a litany of concerns—including its failure to follow through on a controversial $600 reporting rule for financial apps, which some viewed as an effort to avert an election-year snafu for President Joe Biden.
Werfel had to answer for several other partisan actions, as well. Among them were an IRS contractor’s leak of tax information belonging to then-President Donald Trump and several other wealthy individuals; and accusations that the agency had, once again, begun implementing a double-standard with respect to its enforcement of tax-exempt rules for nonprofits, similar to the Obama-era scandal that ensnared Lois Lerner.
Middle-class Americans are also bracing to be hit hard this tax season by the new enforcement mechanisms built into the Democrat-backed Inflation Reduction Act, which is likely to bring more audits and has spurred fears of a newly militarized enforcement arm of the bureaucratic agency, which was authorized to hire some 87,000 new agents as part of the massive spending bill to supposedly reduce inflation.
Her comments followed a recent admission from Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger that the outlet had repeatedly been badgered by the White House and its surrogates over its sometimes unsympathetic coverage of the 81-year-old president, despite the fact that it remains far more hostile to his top political rival, Republican Donald Trump.
Specifically, McCaskill was responding to a report from the Times on Wednesday that focused on Biden’s recent economic talking points.
The outlet scrutinized the president’s recent claims on job growth, the average tax rate for billionaires and more, determining several of his statements to be either misleading or false.
“Can I make a suggestion?” McCaskill began during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
“I move that every newspaper in America quits doing any fact-checks on Joe Biden until they fact-check Donald Trump every morning on the front page,” she continued. “It is ridiculous that the New York Times fact-checked Joe Biden on something.”
She went on to claim that Trump “vomits lies … Every day, over and over and over again.”
It is “ridiculous,” she added, that the New York Times “is doing a fact-check on Biden, while they let Trump, like they’re numb to the torrent of lies coming out of Trump’s mouth,” McCaskill added, to the approval of hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
Trump was fact-checked constantly throughout his presidency, with outlets such as the Washington Post even creating an entire database dedicated to stories undermining the former president. PolitiFact, too, has published more than 1,000 fact-checks on him alone, while publishing only 289 fact-checks on Biden.
McCaskill has made similar hyperbolic claims about the former president frequently since being voted out of the Senate. At one point, she claimed Trump was more dangerous than Benito Mussolini or Adolf Hitler.
“A lot of people have tried to draw similarities between Mussolini and Hitler and the use of the terminology like ‘vermin’ and the drive that those men had towards autocracy and dictatorship,” McCaskill said. “The difference, though, I think makes Donald Trump even more dangerous, and that is he has no philosophy he believes in.”
Leftist media, in turn, have unquestioningly embraced the talking point that Trump would rule as a dictator in his second presidential term, with none attempting to fact check the claim by noting that dictators do not voluntarily cede their power or seek to regain it through democratic elections.
HOLY SHLIT. In Microsoft's official 2023 Diversity & Inclusion report, they openly admit that they are paying white people LESS than other ethnic groups in the name of "pay equity." pic.twitter.com/cJLoYeBfBo
According to the report, the company penalized its white employees about $7 for every $1,000 on the basis of their race.
“All racial and ethnic groups who are rewards eligible combined to earn $1,007 total pay for every $1,000 earned by US rewards-eligible white employees with the same job title and level and considering tenure.”
Microsoft employees also noted that blacks, Hispanics and Asians all made substantially more than white Americans people at the company, which was founded in and is based in the United States.
They claimed that “US Black and African American employees earn $1,004; Hispanic and Latinx [sic] employees earn $1,004; and Asian employees who earn $1,012 for every $1,000 earned by US rewards-eligible white employees with the same job title and level considering tenure.”
However, Title VII, a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibits “discrimination on account of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.”
Among other things, it created the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, which enforces such rules on corporations, though apparently not Microsoft.
Many of the details pointed out on the Microsoft slide would likely trigger Title VII’s so-called “disparate impact” clause, which, if proven in court, could lead to lawsuits against Microsoft on the part of its employees.
But the graphic is not limited to race alone. It also demonstrated that Microsoft systematically pays women more money that it pays men, all other variables considered.
“Women who are rewards-eligible earn $1,007 total pay for every $1,000 earned by rewards-eligible employees who are men,” they wrote.
Several high-profile public figures, including billionaire Elon Musk, responded in shock on Twitter to the bombshell.
Six Muslim families with children attending St. Louis Park public schools—with the assistance of two public-interest law firms—requested that teachers and administrators send out notice before reading and discussing LGBT books in class, according to Alpha News.
As with Islamic anti-Semitism, the religion’s attitudes toward homosexuality have created a point of discomfort within the American Left’s intersectional model of identity politics, which seeks to unite all except for white, Christian, English-speaking, heterosexual, biological males under the generic banner of diversity.
But the fight against child-grooming and indoctrination in the classroom has instead given members of the Islamic community common cause with social conservatives, who have become staunch champions in the parental rights movement.
True North Legal and First Liberty Institute, two conservative-leaning firms supporting religious freedom and family values, sent letters to the school threatening to sue the district for previously denying the parents’ attempts to pull their children out of classes discussing illicit subjects, claiming the denial was a violation of their First Amendment rights.
After the receiving the letter, St. Louis Park High School granted opt-out requests for students.
“We’re proud to have worked with these families and the St. Louis Park school district to ensure that their constitutional rights are protected,” Renee Carlson, general counsel of True North Legal. “Ensuring the religious freedom of students and their families is paramount, and infringing upon that right is unacceptable.”
All six of the families emigrated from Somalia over the last 20 years.
Parents attempted to pitch the opt-out option to the school board in October 2023 and faced shock, scorn and derision.
“I respect your religious beliefs, and also as a queer person in a marginalized community, I would hope and expect solidarity,” said school board member Sara Davis, who has a lesbian partner and two children, in a meeting in October 2023. “Muslim communities have been historically marginalized and so have queer communities.”
Davis also pointed out that teaching books on LGBT topics is part of the all-important Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, and that “urging children to engage with gender identity” is imperative.
“Limiting access for children to books is not going to protect them from the fact that I exist in this world and that my family exists in this world,” she said.
Despite Davis’s protestations, the district allowed the opt-out and teachers with LGBT books in their curriculum must notify concerned parents.
Editor’s note: This article was written with assistance from artificial intelligence but was reviewed, curated and augmented by humans.
(Ben Sellers and Copilot, Headline USA) A private investigator working on behalf of former President Donald Trump uncovered a trove of evidence confirming that the relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special counsel Nathan Wade began long before the latter was hired to work with the DA’s office on the lawfare case involving Trump and more than a dozen codefendants.
Trump attorneys Steve Sadow and Jennifer Little filed the affidavit Friday from investigator Charles Mittelstadt, the Epoch Times reported.
According to the affidavit, the lovebirds exchanged more than 2,000 voice calls and nearly 12,000 text messages in 2021.
“Under normal circumstances, analysis is conducted on data involving far narrower record periods, perhaps a few days or even a few weeks,” Mittelstadt testified.
“It is difficult to understate the amount of data in this scenario, however,” he added. “While the sheer size in no way impacts the ability to conduct the analysis, it did require a different approach in order to narrow down potential dates to explore.”
These staggering figures raised serious questions about their professional conduct and the integrity of the investigation into Trump and his allies—as well as suggesting the ex-couple may have criminally perjured themselves.
Willis and Wade both testified that their relationship began in early 2022, after he was appointed as special prosecutor.
Mittelstadt’s report included a heat map that “highlights the interaction patterns which demonstrate a prevalence of calls made in the evening hours.”
Although the data didn’t pinpoint exact locations, it included more than 35 occasions when Wade’s phone was in close proximity to the address of a condo where Willis stayed, directly contradicting Wade’s testimony that he never stayed overnight at the condo.
The court battle over whether Willis’s office should be disqualified will resume on March 1, according to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee. This hearing will be the final chance for both parties to present their arguments.
“We are required to respond to the filing via the court and we are preparing a response now,” Jeff DiSantis, a spokesman for Ms. Willis, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
If the allegations are substantiated, it could spell the end of Willis’s career and have far-reaching implications for the case against Trump, once considered the best legal shot of the four criminal cases in which he has been charged.
In her jaw-dropping testimony last week, in which Willis reportedly had her dress on backwards, the radical DA appeared to dig an even deeper hole for herself by coming off as needlessly combatitive, defensive and unprofessional.
She notably claimed that there were no records of having reimbursed Wade for several trips the two took together because of the large amounts of cash that she kept at home.
Neither indicated that they had reported the expenditures on their tax forms or filed the appropriate county forms, despite having used Wade’s business credit card for many of them.
(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) As another potential government shutdown looms, precious metals markets continue to consolidate.
Although big price breakouts in gold and silver aren’t materializing quite yet, bulls are seeing some signs of gathering strength in the metals space. Gold has successfully tested the $2,000 level multiple times in recent weeks. Silver has held support at $22 an ounce. And the beaten-down platinum and palladium markets have recently rallied off their lows.
Neither metals markets nor financial markets are reflecting much concern about the upcoming deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown. Congress will need to put together a bill to fund the government by next Friday. If no agreement is reached, some federal agencies will be temporarily closed.
For the average American, life will appear to go on as normal. One side or the other in the budget standoff will inevitably capitulate.
But when Washington, D.C. gets back to “normal” it means continuing the reckless deficit spending. Newly installed House speaker Mike Johnson has already shown a willingness to cut deals with Democrats that contain no meaningful curbs on spending.
It’s not government shutdowns that risk the country’s creditworthiness and the credibility of its currency. It’s the schemes to keep funding the government at unsustainable levels that do.
Even Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has stated that federal finances are on an unsustainable path. But he doesn’t seem willing to do anything about it. In fact, it’s the Fed’s longstanding practice of suppressing interest rates and its implicit promise to buy government bonds in unlimited quantities whenever necessary that have enabled politicians to shirk fiscal responsibility.
While unsound fiscal policy reigns on Capitol Hill, the sound money movement is making gains in state capitals across the country. Most recently, the Wisconsin Assembly voted overwhelmingly to end sales taxes on purchases of gold and silver.
If the bill is signed into law, Wisconsin will join 43 other U.S. states that already exempt bullion products from sales taxes.
Financial products such as stocks and bonds aren’t slapped with sales taxes in Wisconsin or elsewhere. But seven states remain that unfairly punish investors who opt to diversify their wealth into precious metals.
Sound money advocates hope the strong bipartisan support they garnered in Wisconsin for sales tax repeal will help pave the way for tax-free bullion purchases in all 50 states.
Wisconsin is one of a few swing states that will determine the outcome of the upcoming presidential election. Whether vulnerable 80-year-old incumbent Joe Biden is re-elected could hinge on how voters feel about the economy.
The Biden administration aims to forestall a recession at all costs. And it’s quite possible that a recession according to official government statistics won’t be declared at all this year.
Democrat partisans and Wall Street cheerleaders are touting a so-called “Goldilocks” economy where demand cools enough to bring down inflation but not enough to cause an economic contraction.
It may be Goldilocks for those who get a government paycheck or benefit from a pumped-up stock market. But for millions of ordinary working families, they feel their standards of living falling – regardless of what the latest fishy GDP report shows.
Just one in 7 Americans say they’re better off since Joe Biden assumed office.
That number would be even smaller if not for the stock market defying gravity and making new highs. But the latest incarnation of the big tech bubble, fueled by hype over artificial intelligence, is at risk of bursting at any time.
That would be bad news for Joe Biden if it happens between now and the election. But it could be good news for gold bugs. Precious metals markets in recent months have lacked a catalyst to generate buying interest from investors.
When they see evidence that all is not well in the economy and stock market, then safe havens such as gold and silver will command more attention.
The election itself could also serve as a catalyst for bullion buying. The U.S. risks descending into political instability and social unrest if the outcome isn’t perceived to be freely and fairly decided.The days of the loser graciously conceding defeat to the winner and wishing him success may be over.
And the days of the U.S. dollar serving as the world’s reserve currency may also be coming to an end. Foreign central banks and governments are wary of financing ballooning U.S. debt. They are increasing their gold holdings in response.
The question is when more individual investors will as well.
