Lawmakers Blast Biden over Illegal and Ineffective Attack on Yemen

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Lawmakers Blast Biden over Illegal and Ineffective Attack on Yemen

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites purportedly used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Thursday, in a massive retaliatory strike using warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, U.S. officials said.

However, early reports indicate that the attack was mostly ineffective. The massive bombardment, which likely cost hundreds of millions of dollars, only killed five Houthis and wounded six.

Unconfirmed reports said that the U.S. officials actually warned the Houthis ahead of the airstrikes—much like they’ve done with previous strikes in Syria.

And the strike didn’t complete its goal of clearing up the shipping lanes in the Red Sea.

The Biden administration reportedly told companies to avoid that area following the strikes, as forces in Yemen responded by vowing strict retaliation. The Houthis’ military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, said in a recorded address that the strikes would “not go unanswered or unpunished.”

The strikes were also unconstitutional, as noted by numerous lawmakers, inclusing some from Biden’s own party.

“Only Congress has the power to declare war,” said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., supporting his colleague across the aisle, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.

“I have to give credit to @RepRoKhanna here for sticking to his principles, as very few are willing to make this statement while their party is in the White House.”

Sen. Mike Lee agreed with Khanna and Massie, stating: “The Constitution matters, regardless of party affiliation.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., joined the opposition, too.

“The Constitution is clear, only Congress has the power to declare war,” she said on Twitter. “President Biden must come to Congress and ask us to authorize this act of war.”

However, Speaker Mike Johnson joined Biden and the neocons in supporting the unconstitutional action, which he said was “long overdue.”

“We must hope these operations indicate a true shift in the Biden Administration’s approach to Iran and its proxies that are engaging in such evil and wreaking such havoc,” Johnson said.

Finally, it’s worth mentioning that the U.S. has provided financial and military support to the parties it bombed on Thursday. The Bush and Obama administrations both backed the Houthis in the Yemen civil war at one point, on the grounds that the faction opposing the Houthis included al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

“American officials are communicating with Houthi fighters, largely through intermediaries … to promote a stable political transition as the Houthis gain more power and to ensure Washington can continue its campaign of drone strikes against leaders of the group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, officials said,” the Wall Street Journal reported in 2015.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

FAA to Intensify Oversight of Boeing after Midflight Panel Blowout

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FAA to Intensify Oversight of Boeing after Midflight Panel Blowout

(Headline USA) The Federal Aviation Administration will begin auditing Boeing’s aircraft production and increase oversight of the troubled manufacturer after a panel blew off a jetliner in midflight last week, the last in a string of mishaps for its marquee aircraft.

The agency’s move comes just a day after it announced an investigation into whether Boeing failed to make sure a fuselage panel that blew off was safe and manufactured to meet the design that regulators approved.

The FAA said Friday that it would audit Boeing’s 737 Max 9 jetliner production line, as well as the company’s parts suppliers “to evaluate Boeing’s compliance with its approved quality procedures.”

The FAA statement said it also would look into safety risks from the agency delegating inspection authority to company employees, and will consider moving those functions to an independent third party.

“It is time to re-examine the delegation of authority and assess any associated safety risks,” FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said in the statement. “The grounding of the 737-9 and the multiple production-related issues identified in recent years require us to look at every option to reduce risk.”

The agency also will increase monitoring of 737-Max incidents that happen while the plane is in use.

Boeing said Thursday it would cooperate with the FAA investigation, which is focusing on plugs used to fill spots for extra doors when those exits are not required for safety reasons on Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners.

The FAA investigation is focusing on plugs used to fill spots for extra doors when those exits are not required for safety reasons on Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners.

One of two plugs on an Alaska Airlines jetliner blew out shortly after the plane took off from Portland, Oregon, a week ago, leaving a hole in the plane. The cabin lost pressure and the plane was forced to return to Portland to make an emergency landing. No serious injuries were reported.

After the incident, the FAA grounded all Max 9s equipped with the plugs, forcing Alaska and United to cut flights. The aircraft remain grounded while the National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA continue their investigation.

After the plane lost pressure, the FAA was told of other problems on the 737-9. Alaska and United reported finding loose bolts on door plugs that they inspected in some of their other Max 9 jets.

NTSB investigators said this week they have not been able to find four bolts that are used to help secure the 63-pound door plug. They are not sure whether the bolts were there before the plane took off.

On Thursday, the FAA asked Boeing to respond within 10 business days and tell the agency “the root cause” of the problem with the door plug and steps the company is taking to prevent a recurrence.

Earlier this week, Boeing CEO David Calhoun called the incident “a quality escape.” He told employees that the company was “acknowledging our mistake … and that this event can never happen again.”

The door plugs are installed by Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, but investigators have not said which company’s employees last worked on the plug on the Alaska plane that suffered the blowout.

The day after the blowout, the FAA grounded Max 9 jets, including all 65 operated by Alaska and 79 used by United Airlines, until Boeing develops inspection guidelines and planes can be examined. Alaska canceled all flights by Max 9s through Saturday.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Ohio Grand Jury: No Charges for Woman Who Clogged Toilet w/ Fetus

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(Headline USA) An Ohio woman facing a criminal charge for abusing the corpse of her dead child after a home miscarriage will not be charged, a grand jury decided Thursday.

The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office said grand jurors declined to return an indictment against Brittany Watts, 34, of Warren, resolving a case that sparked national attention as states across the country hash out new laws in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned.

Abortion activists have been quick to push test cases, some of them ghastly, as the one involving Watts, who casually went to get her hair done after clogging the toilet with the remains of her infant child.

“No matter how shocking or disturbing it may sound when presented in a public forum, it is simply the devastating reality of miscarriage,” attorney Traci Timko said in a statement. “While the last three months have been agonizing, we are incredibly grateful and relieved that justice was handed down by the grand jury today.”

A municipal judge had found probable cause to bind over Watts’s case—a felony punishable by up to a year in prison—after city prosecutors said she miscarried—clogging the toilet and removing some of its contents to an outdoor trash area—then left the house, leaving the 22-week-old fetus lodged in the pipes.

Watts had visited Mercy Health-St. Joseph’s Hospital, a Catholic facility in working-class Warren, about 60 miles southeast of Cleveland, twice in the days leading up to her miscarriage. Her doctor had told her she was carrying a nonviable fetus and to have her labor induced or risk “significant risk” of death, according to records of her case.

Due to delays and other complications, her attorney said, she left each time without being treated. After she miscarried, she tried to go to a hair appointment, but friends sent her to the hospital. A nurse called 911 to report a previously pregnant patient had returned reporting “the baby’s in her backyard in a bucket.”

That call launched a police investigation that led to the eventual charge against Watts.

Warren Assistant Prosecutor Lewis Guarnieri told Municipal Court Judge Terry Ivanchak the issue wasn’t “how the child died, when the child died” but “the fact the baby was put into a toilet, was large enough to clog up the toilet, left in the toilet, and she went on [with] her day.”

An autopsy determined the fetus died in utero and identified “no recent injuries.”

Timko told Ivanchak that Watts had no criminal record and was being “demonized for something that goes on every day.”

She also argued that Ohio’s abuse-of-corpse statute lacked clear definitions, including what is meant by “human corpse” and what constitutes “outrage” to “reasonable” family and community sensibilities.

When Ivanchak bound the case over, he said, “There are better scholars than I am to determine the exact legal status of this fetus, corpse, body, birthing tissue, whatever it is.”

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins said in a statement that county prosecutors “respectfully disagree with the lower court’s application of the law,” after their follow-up investigation found Watts committed no crime.

Hours after the grand jury’s announcement on Thursday, 150 supporters gathered for a “We Stand With Brittany!” rally on Warren’s Courthouse Square, where Watts was among several speakers who addressed the crowd.

“I want to thank my community— Warren. Warren, Ohio. I was born here. I was raised here. I graduated high school here, and I’m going to continue to stay here because I have to continue to fight,” she said.

While pro-abortion activists sought ways to deflect from the barbarity of the underlying offense, some used Watts’s race as a convenient vehicle for deflection, following a familiar playbook in leftist politics.

In Our Own Voice, a black activist group, expressed relief Thursday at the case’s outcome.

“What happened to Brittany Watts is a grave example of how [b]lack women and their bodies face legal threats simply for existing,” president and CEO Regina Davis Moss said in a statement. “Her story is one that is becoming alarmingly common: in states with abortion restrictions, [b]lack women, girls, and gender-expansive people are being surveilled, arrested, prosecuted and punished for pregnancy loss.”

Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights—a key backer of Ohio’s successful fall amendment to block the state legislature’s passage of pro-life laws—had lobbied Watkins to drop the charge against Watts, which Watkins insisted was not within his power.

On Thursday, the group commended the grand jury and called for the “dangerous trend” of criminalizing reproductive outcomes to be halted.

“It not only undermines women’s rights but also threatens public health by instilling fear and hesitation in women seeking necessary medical care during their most vulnerable moments,” President Marcela Azevedo said in a statement.

Watts hopes her inspiring story about flushing her fetus down the toilet to go and get her hair did can be an “impetus to change,” Timko said.

“Through education and legislation,” Timko said, “we can make sure no other woman must set her grief and trauma on a back burner to muster the strength to fight for her freedom.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Biden Forges Ahead on Illegal Student-Loan Cancellations as Primaries Loom

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Biden Forges Ahead on Illegal Student-Loan Cancellations as Primaries Loom

(Headline USA) Despite a ruling from the nation’s highest court last year that explicitly told him his loan-cancellation policies were unconstitutional and should go through Congress, President Joe Biden continued to show his disdain for the rule of law as he desperately seeks to regain his fast-eroding support among younger voters.

The Biden administration will start canceling student loans for some borrowers starting in February as part of a new repayment plan that’s taking effect nearly six months ahead of schedule.

Loan cancellation was originally set to begin in July under the new SAVE repayment plan, but it’s being accelerated to provide faster relief to borrowers as Biden faces the prospect of a humiliating defeat in the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary.

Hoping instead to give Biden a boost in the more black-dominated South Carolina primary, Democrats had tried to block New Hampshire from holding its first-in-the-nation primary by threatening to withhold its electors at the August convention, but New Hampshire officials scoffed at the ultimatum.

On Friday, Biden said in as statement that the new loan-amnesty scheme was part of an effort “to act as quickly as possible to give more borrowers breathing room” and move on from their student debt.

The loan cancellation programs do not actually wipe away student debt but transfer it from the borrowers onto taxpayers at large, thereby exacerbating the already out-of-control inflation and federal debt concerns that have brought the U.S. economy to the brink of disaster. From September to January, the country’s debt increased as much as its entire debt in 1981, when it first hit the trillion-dollar mark. It now stands at $34 trillion.

Borrowers will be eligible for cancellation if they are enrolled in the new SAVE plan, if they originally borrowed $12,000 or less to attend college, and if they have made at least 10 years of payments. The Education Department said it didn’t immediately know how many borrowers will be eligible for cancellation in February.

Biden announced the new repayment plan last year alongside a separate plan to cancel up to $20,000 in loans for millions of Americans. The Supreme Court struck down his plan for widespread forgiveness, but the repayment plan has so far escaped that level of legal scrutiny. Republicans in Congress tried unsuccessfully to block the new repayment plan through legislation and a resolution last year.

The new plan offers far more generous terms than several other income-driven repayment plans that it’s meant to replace. Previous plans offered cancellation after 20 or 25 years of payments, while the new plan offers it in as little as 10. The new plan also lowers monthly payments for millions of borrowers.

Those who took out more than $12,000 will be eligible for cancellation but on a longer timeline. For each $1,000 borrowed beyond $12,000, it adds an additional year of payments on top of 10 years.

The maximum repayment period is capped at 20 years for those with only undergraduate loans and 25 years for those with any graduate school loans.

The Biden administration says next month’s relief will particularly help Americans who attended community colleges, which generally cost less than four-year universities. The plan aims to place community college students “on a faster track to debt forgiveness than ever before,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said.

Counterintuitively, those with smaller student loan balances tend to struggle more. It’s driven by millions of Americans who take out student loans but don’t finish degrees, leaving them with the downside of debt without the upside of a higher income.

Republicans have railed against the new repayment plan, saying it helps wealthier Americans with college degrees at the expense of taxpayers who didn’t attend college. Some say it’s a backdoor attempt to make community college free, an idea that Biden campaigned on but that failed to win support in Congress.

Starting next month, the Education Department says it will automatically wipe away balances for eligible borrowers enrolled in the SAVE plan. The department will email borrowers who might be eligible but have not enrolled.

Some of the plan’s provisions took hold last summer—it prevents interest from snowballing as long as borrowers make monthly payments, and it makes more Americans eligible to get their monthly bill lowered to $0.

Other parts are scheduled to take effect in July, including a change to limit borrowers’ payments to 5% of their discretionary income, down from 10% in previous income-driven repayment plans.

The Biden administration is separately pursuing another plan for widespread cancellation. After the Supreme Court rejected Biden’s first plan, he asked the Education Department to try again under a different legal authority. The department has been working on a new proposal that would provide relief to targeted groups of borrowers.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Jill Claims Scrutiny Against Hunter ‘Cruel,’ Despite Past Berating

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Jill Claims Scrutiny Against Hunter ‘Cruel,’ Despite Past Berating

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) First Lady Jill Biden has come to the defense of Hunter Biden, amid what she described as “cruel” treatment stemming from a congressional investigation into allegations of bribery, political corruption and an influence-peddling scheme. 

Jill Biden, who had a contentious relationship with Hunter Biden, leading to him referring to her as an “entitled c—t,” dismissed the scathing accusations against her stepson and President Joe Biden. She expressed pride in Hunter Biden during a softball interview on MNSBC’s Morning Joe.

“I think what they are doing to Hunter is cruel,” she claimed. “I’m really proud how Hunter has rebuilt his life after addiction. I love my son; it has hurt my grandchildren and that’s what I’m so concerned about. That it’s affecting their lives as well.” 

The relationship between Jill Biden and Hunter Biden wasn’t always positive, as revealed in leaked text messages from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop, according to the Sun.

In a 2018 exchange with Hallie Biden — Beau Biden’s widow and also Hunter Biden’s ex-girlfriend — the president’s son reportedly used derogatory language towards his stepmother, saying, “F–k my stepmother for always being as much of a selfish silly entitled c–t as you.” 

In a separate alleged text to his uncle, James Biden, Hunter disparagingly referred to the first lady as a “f–king moron, a vindictive moron.” He added, “And you do know the drunkest I’ve ever been is still smarter than you could ever even comprehend and you’re a shut [sic] grammar teacher that wouldn’t survive one class in a ivy graduate program.” 

The berating continued, with Hunter Biden claiming: “So go f–k yourself Jill let’s all agree I don’t like you anymore than you like me.” 

Hunter Biden has been a source of trouble for the Biden administration, leading officials to caution that Joe Biden might need to distance himself from his scandal-ridden son, a former attorney, turned lobbyist, turned painter. 

Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings are at the center of an impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden, alleging that the president personally benefited from the profits of his son’s questionable business activities. 

Hunter Biden Pleads Not Guilty in L.A. Court on Federal Tax Charges

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(Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s troubled son Hunter pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal tax-fraud charges filed after the collapse of a sweetheart plea deal that could have spared him the spectacle of a criminal trial during the 2024 campaign.

Hunter Biden has been accused of nine felony and misdemeanor tax offenses. The charges stem from what federal prosecutors say was a four-year scheme to skip out on paying the $1.4 million he owed to the IRS and instead use the money to fund an extravagant lifestyle that by his own admission included drugs and alcohol.

“We’re here today because you’ve been accused by the United States of a criminal offense,” Judge Mark Scarsi said to Biden, who entered the not guilty plea himself.

The judge set a tentative trial date of June 20 during the half-hour-long hearing.

Meanwhile, Hunter Biden has also been charged in Delaware with lying in October 2018 on a federal form for gun purchasers when he swore he wasn’t using or addicted to illegal drugs. He was addicted to crack cocaine at the time. He’s also accused of possessing the gun illegally and has pleaded not guilty in that case.

The accusations all come from a yearslong federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax and business dealings that had been expected to wind down over the summer with a plea deal in which he would have gotten two years’ probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor tax charges. He also would have avoided prosecution on the gun charge if he stayed out of trouble.

The deal unraveled when a federal judge who had been expected to approve the deal instead began to question it. Now, the tax and gun cases are moving ahead as part of an unprecedented confluence of political and legal drama: As the 2024 election draws closer, the Justice Department is actively prosecuting both the president’s son and Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner.

The former president is facing his own criminal problems—91 charges across four separate cases, including that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. He too appeared in court Thursday, in New York for closing arguments in his civil fraud trial.

Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell referenced the failed deal to the judge on Thursday, suggesting there had been Congressional interference. Lowell had previously accused special counsel David Weiss of “bowing to Republican pressure.”

“We had a resolution of this case in the summer of 2023, and then things happened,” Lowell told the judge.

Weiss told the judge there was no need for additional hearings on the failed deal.

“Pleas fall apart all the time,” Weiss said.

Hunter Biden’s criminal proceedings are also happening in parallel to an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, as House Republicans investigate the elder Biden’s role in a far-reaching influence-peddling scheme with his son that involved several foreign entities and may have compromised national security.

Hunter Biden defied a congressional subpoena to appear for closed-door testimony, insisting he wanted to testify in public. He made a surprise appearance at a congressional hearing Wednesday as House Republicans took steps to file contempt of Congress charges.

In an interview that aired Thursday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, first lady Jill Biden said she thought the GOP’s treatment of her adoptive son was “cruel.”

“And I’m really proud of how Hunter has rebuilt his life after addiction. You know, I love my son,” she said. “And it’s had—it’s hurt my grandchildren. And that’s what I’m so concerned about, that it’s affecting their lives as well.”

If convicted of the tax charges, Hunter Biden, 53, could receive a maximum of 17 years in prison.

Following the collapse of the plea deal, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to handle the matter. A special counsel is tapped to handle cases in which the Justice Department perceives itself as having a conflict or where it’s deemed to be in the public interest to have someone outside the government step in.

Critics, however, have noted that Weiss is not a true special counsel since he does not come from outside the DOJ and ultimately must still answer to Garland—and Joe Biden.

Some have speculated that appointing Weiss, the man responsible for slow-walking the original investigation until it reached the brink of its statute of limitations before then settling on an unacceptable plea deal, was hardly a move that signaled the intention of holding Hunter Biden accountable.

Rather, it seemed designed to continue thwarting the House GOP’s efforts by preventing them from subpoenaing the department’s records of its investigation.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Trump Hints at VP Pick in Blockbuster Town Hall: ‘I Know Who It’s Gonna Be’

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Trump Hints at VP Pick in Blockbuster Town Hall: ‘I Know Who It’s Gonna Be’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump discussed his potential running mate in a Fox News town hall on Thursday. 

Trump, who chose to skip the final Republican debate, nearly doubled the ratings of the CNN-hosted clash between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. Both DeSantis and Haley are competing for second place in the 2024 primary, with the potential of securing a vice presidential role.

While it’s not immediately clear if Trump would choose DeSantis or Haley as his running mate, he admitted that he already knows his pick. During the town hall, Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked, “If you’re the nominee, who would be in the running for a vice president?” To which Trump replied, “I can’t tell you that really. I mean, I know who it’s gonna be.”

When pressed for a potential hint, Trump retorted, “We’d do another show sometime.” The former president also expressed willingness to reconcile with those who ran against him in the primaries. “I already started liking [Former N.J. Gov. Chris] Christie better,” he jokingly added.

Meanwhile, Haley and DeSantis exchanged jabs – sometimes against Trump – during the CNN debate airing simultaneously with the Trump town hall. 

In the debate, DeSantis implied that Trump is running for personal gratification, while Haley answers to donors.

“Donald Trump’s running to pursue his issues; Nikki Haley’s running to pursue her donor’s issues; I’m running to pursue your issues and your family’s issues and to turn this country around,” he asserted. “I’m the only one running that’s delivered on 100% of the promises that I’ve made.” 

In contrast, Haley stated she is running to become a “generational leader,” emphasizing her alleged new vision. She specifically said, “We have watched our country be in disarray, we see the world on fire and we need someone who’s had executive experience.”

Although DeSantis was initially considered a contender for Trump’s vice-presidential role, he has largely alienated the MAGA base by consistently criticizing Trump, credited by many for DeSantis’ gubernatorial victory in 2018.

Similarly, Haley, focusing heavily on foreign policy, has also estranged the Trump base, earning labels such as “neo-con” and “warmonger.” 

Other individuals considered for a potential vice-presidential role by Trump reportedly include Reps. Byron Donalds, R-Fla.; Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.; Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.; South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.” 

Pentagon Denies that Taylor Swift Works as Propagandist for Biden Regime

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Pentagon Denies that Taylor Swift Works as Propagandist for Biden Regime

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) On Dec. 10, 2024, the woke Pentagon responded to reports that pop singer Taylor Swift may be a “front for a covert political agenda” on behalf of the Biden regime.

In her statement, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh denied the claims that Swift is used as a weapon to brainwash Americans so that they would keep voting for the destructive leftist policies, according to the Epoch Times.

“As for this conspiracy theory, we are going to shake it off,” she said, referring to one of Swift’s songs called “Shake It Off.”

While making puns, Singh changed the subject and started talking about “potential fiscal concerns.”

“But that does highlight that we still need Congress to approve our supplemental budget request as Swift-ly as possible so we can be out of the woods with potential fiscal concerns,” she said while adding more references to Swift’s songs.

Jesse Watters from Fox News also commented on the topic on Jan. 9, 2024, during his show by questioning how Swift suddenly became so popular over the years and noting that her sold-out “The Eras Tour” has an economic impact greater than the GDP of 50 Countries.

“Around four years ago, the Pentagon’s psychological operations unit floated turning Taylor Swift into an asset during a NATO meeting. What kind of asset? A psyop for combating online misinformation,” he said.

After that, the Fox News host showed a clip from a 2019 conference on “misinformation” titled “Information Warfare: Defining and Analyzing” that took place at the 11th International Conference on Cyber Conflict in Tallinn, Estonia.

Data engineer Alicia Marie Bargar spoke during the conference about how famous people can be used to help share information or a particular message. After that, she used the image of Swift standing next to a “Go Vote” sign as an example of that.

“Social influence can help encourage or promote behavior change. So, potentially as a peaceful information operation… I include Taylor Swift in here because she’s, you know, a fairly influential online person,” she said.

Bargar then pointed out that American celebrities posting photos of themselves with an “encouragement for people to go vote” can very easily affect the outcome of an upcoming election.

“It’s real. The Pentagon psyop unit pitched NATO on turning Taylor Swift into an asset for combating misinformation online,” Watters said.

He also questioned whether the singer could be “a front for a covert political agenda,” considering that Swift has been spewing every leftist talking point that exists and endorsing far-left politicians, like Biden.

‘Good God’: Major Biden Agency Failed to Properly Disclose 2022 Gov’t Grants

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‘Good God’: Major Biden Agency Failed to Properly Disclose 2022 Gov’t Grants

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden-led Environmental Protection Agency failed to accurately disclose its taxpayer-funded grants in fiscal year 2022, raising concern about transparency on its spending, a scathing report found. 

First reported by the Daily Caller on Thursday, the EPA’s Office of the Inspector General exposed the Biden agency’s failure to report its fiscal year spending to USAspending.gov, the federal government’s spending database.

Directly targeting the EPA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer, the report decried: “The lack of complete and accurate reporting also led to taxpayers being initially misinformed about the EPA’s spending, and policy-makers who relied on the data may not have been able to effectively track federal spending.”

The report revealed that the EPA did not follow proper management procedures to facilitate the disclosure of its spending to USAspending.gov. Making matters worse, the report revealed that the EPA did not have procedures to detect errors and confirm the completeness of its reporting to public database.

A report summary added, “Because of our audit, the EPA corrected its fiscal year 2022 reporting in USAspending.gov in May 2023 and made the necessary configuration changes in June 2023 to improve the accuracy and completeness of its future reporting.” 

Responding to the disturbing revelations, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., emphasized the pressing need for increased transparency within the EPA.

“It’s outrageous and unacceptable that the EPA cannot keep track of its spending or inform Congress—and the American people—of how it is using taxpayer dollars,” Rodgers said in a Thursday press statement.  

She added, “[The report] also raises questions about whether the agency is incapable of managing its record-high budget or if the agency is attempting to hide the amount of taxpayer dollars it is spending to advance the administration’s radical rush-to-green agenda.”

A description of the scathing report highlighted USAspending.gov as the primary source of EPA information, focusing primarily on federal awards. 

“USAspending.gov is the federal government’s official public source of spending information. The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 requires federal agencies to report complete and accurate spending data to USAspending.gov to facilitate transparency into how they spend taxpayer dollars,” the report disclosed. 

“Spending encompasses both obligations, which are promises made by the government to spend money, and outlays, which are money actually paid. Both summary-level spending data and more detailed award-level data must be reported,” it continued. 

Instagram Censors Conservative Account for Hunter Biden Post

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Instagram Censors Conservative Account for Hunter Biden Post

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) On Jan. 10, 2024, Instagram deleted the America First Policy Institute’s account without any explanation, even though the reason is clear — the organization’s latest post dared to criticize the Biden regime.

“In less than an hour this morning, Meta suspended and then deleted @A1Policy’s Instagram account after posting facts about how The Biden Administration has dismantled the rule of law in our Nation,” Chad Wolf wrote on Twitter while reposting the information that the establishment doesn’t want people to see.

On the same social media platform, Brooke Rollins, founder and CEO of the organization, announced that the account, a1policy, was banned at 8:49 a.m., according to the Daily Signal. At 9:10 a.m., the organization appealed, but only received another message from the woke fascists at 9:16 a.m. disabling the account.

“After posting graphics highlighting the radical Left’s duplicity and egregious double standards relating to Hunter Biden’s failure to honor a congressional subpoena, this morning the America First Policy Institute’s Instagram account was suspended and deleted by the leader in Big Tech censorship, Meta,” Rollins said.

She then pointed out the obvious.

“Once again, when the Left is confronted with the facts, they do everything in their power to silence and censor those with whom they disagree, including removing their opponents from the ballot,” Rollins said.

In addition to her statement that was provided to the Signal, she also shared the news on Twitter.

“We ‘appealed’ the decision and were permanently deleted in less than 7 min. Disagree with Big Tech and they will cancel you. Grateful to be on a platform like @X where @elonmusk defends and promotes free speech,” she wrote.

On Instagram, the AFPI’s account had 39,000 followers. After the account was deleted, a new account, a1policy2.0, was created.

After the organization spread the news and conservatives started protesting the decision by the social media platform, Instagram restored the account in the afternoon of the same day, fearing even further backlash. Despite that, a spokesman for the organization said that the AFPI would continue to press the platform for the reason why their account was deleted.

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