Grandstanding Democrat Mocked for 9-Hour Hunger Strike on Capitol Steps

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Grandstanding Democrat Mocked for 9-Hour Hunger Strike on Capitol Steps

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Democrats heaped praise onto Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, for his strength and endurance after doing a 9-hour fast to protest the lack of national heat standards for factory workers.

“9 hours without water or food, but I’m more energized than ever to get this done,” Casar posted.

Accompanying the grandstanding Democrat during his tribulations were several female nurses, who anointed him with water, mopped his furrowed brow and monitored his vital signs throughout the day lest he become critically imperiled, according to the Daily Wire.

However, conservatives mocked Casar for what he perceived as a feat of immense strength.

“I did that last night from 10:45 till 7 this morning,” said one Twitter user.

“I hear tomorrow you’re going to go nearly 17 hours without sleep,” another joked.

“Is he sure he wants communism if he can only go 9 hours without food?” another asked.

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh called the stunt one of the “funniest things any American politician has ever done” in a tweet responding to Casar’s post.

“This is a real picture that he posted of himself being attended to by three people as he attempted to go nine hours without eating, or roughly the time from an early lunch to a late dinner,” Walsh added.

Many other users also pointed to the recent trend in intermittent fasting, which often involves people fasting for at least 20 hours at a time.

Casar protested a state-level law he claimed banned water breaks for Texas workers.

The law does not ban water breaks, but does prevent the cities of Texas from creating rules that contradict state law.

“Ensuring the safety of Texas is a top priority as our state experiences high summer heat,” a spokesperson from Gov. Greg Abbott’s office explained. “This law maintains the federal Occupation Safety and Health Administration’s standards to keep workers safe and will not inhibit people from taking water breaks.”

Despite the fact that the law will not prohibit workers from taking water breaks, several cities are banding together to sue the state over the bill, which they dubbed the “Death Star Bill.”

RFK Jr.: Biden Admin. Denied Request for Secret Service, Despite Threats

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RFK Jr.: Biden Admin. Denied Request for Secret Service, Despite Threats

(Headline USA) Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that the Biden administration has denied his request for a Secret Service detail despite the credible threats against him and his family.

Invoking the assassination of his father, Robert F. Kennedy, the candidate pointed out that protection for presidential candidates is typically a routine service provided to them.

“Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me,” Kennedy tweeted. “Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request.”

Kennedy said he received a message from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that read, “I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not warranted at this time.”

However, Kennedy said his campaign provided the administration with a detailed report about credible threats he has experienced.

“Our campaign’s request included a 67-page report from the world’s leading protection firm, detailing unique and well established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats,” he explained.

Kennedy has blasted the Biden administration, and much of the Democrat Party, for its opposition to him. Specifically, Kennedy testified before Congress about the White House’s efforts to censor him on social media.

Predictably, congressional Democrats tried to censor his censorship testimony.

“This is an attempt to censor a censorship hearing,” he told lawmakers.

Growing animated at times, Kennedy defended his statements, which have delved into race, vaccine safety and other issues, as neither “racist or antisemitic.” He said his family has long believed in the First Amendment right to free speech.

“The First Amendment was not written for easy speech,” Kennedy said. “It was written for the speech that nobody likes you for.”

‘Just Say Aye’: Feinstein Forgets How to Vote During Awkward Senate Proceeding

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‘Just Say Aye’: Feinstein Forgets How to Vote During Awkward Senate Proceeding

(Headline USA) Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., had to be reminded by an aide how to vote during a congressional proceeding this week.

The awkward moment came during a roll call vote in a Senate Appropriations Committee, when Feinstein began speaking instead of voting “aye” or “nay.” She appeared to be reading from prepared remarks.

“I would like to support a ‘yes’ vote on this. It provides $823 billion …” she began, before being interrupted by committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.

“Say aye,” Murray told Feinstein.

But Feinstein continued speaking, “…that’s an increase of $26 billion for the Department of Defense and it funds priorities submitted…” Finally, one of Feinstein’s aides interrupted her, whispering to “just say aye.”

“Ok, aye,” Feinstein said.

The 90-year-old Democrat has faced numerous questions about her health over the past year, including from members of her own party. She was hospitalized in February while battling shingles and was absent from the chamber for months.

When she returned in May, her physical and mental decline became even more apparent. At one point in June, she appeared confused when asked about her time away from the Senate and insisted that she had not left.

“No, I haven’t been gone. You should follow the – I haven’t been gone. I’ve been working,” Feinstein claimed.

Feinstein also appeared confused by Vice President Kamala Harris, who was presiding over the Senate at the time.

“What is she doing here,” she asked her aides.

Feinstein has said she will not run for another term in 2024 and will retire once her term ends in January 2025.

Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara Lee have already announced their campaigns for Feinstein’s Senate seat. According to a confidant of the Pelosi family cited by Politico, the prevailing political strategy is to keep Feinstein in the Senate “as long as possible” to benefit Schiff’s campaign.

Oregon Ends Unjust Corporate Activity Tax on Precious-Metals Dealers, Investors

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Oregon Ends Unjust Corporate Activity Tax on Precious-Metals Dealers, Investors

(Sound Money Defense League) With the stroke of her pen, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek put an end to the state’s punitive corporate activity tax (CAT) as applied to precious-metals dealers—and, ultimately, to gold and silver investors, effective in 2024.

Supporting the efforts of in-state small business owners, the Sound Money Defense League and Money Metals Exchange mobilized grassroots support and worked in other ways to secure the passage of House Bill 2073, a package of CAT reforms and cleanups which included the exemption of precious metals sales from Oregon’s CAT.

Gold and silver businesses operate on extremely small margins—margins that are similar in
scale to brokerages, which are already exempt from the CAT.

A CAT imposed on topline precious metals sales revenue is therefore extremely burdensome when compared to the taxes paid by other current CAT payers.

Furthermore, these increased costs on precious metals businesses ultimately are passed through to Oregon savers and investors.

Oregon is among the 43 states that do not directly impose sales taxes on precious metals, but Oregon’s corporate activity tax had been doing this in a back-door manner.

“It’s bad public policy to penalize small-time savers and investors—as well as the businesses that support them,” said Stefan Gleason, president of Idaho-based Money Metals Exchange. “The trend across the nation is to reduce the costs and obstacles in the way of preserving wealth in the form of gold and silver.”

Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia passed legislation within the last two years to
exempt precious metals-related purchases from taxation in their states. Oregon is the latest state to promote sound money by removing the CAT from precious metals dealers and their customers.

Sound money advocates have targeted the elimination of discriminatory tax policies that discourage precious metals ownership reducing the likelihood that citizens will take steps to insulate themselves from the inflation and financial turmoil that flows from the Federal Reserve System.

Sound Money Defense League policy director Jp Cortez testified in support of House Bill 2073, making the following public policy arguments:

• Taxing gold and silver harms in-state businesses. It’s a competitive marketplace, so
buyers will take their business to neighboring states (which have all eliminated or
reduced taxes on precious metals), thereby undermining Oregon businesses and jobs.

• Gold and silver are the only money mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. Article 1, Section 10 states that “no state shall make any Thing but Gold and Silver a tender in payment of
debts.” Therefore, the exchange of one form of U.S. money for another should not be
taxed.

• Taxing precious metals businesses is harmful to small-time savers. Purchasers of precious metals aren’t usually fat-cat investors. Most who buy precious metals do so in small
increments as a way of saving money, seeking to preserve their wealth against the
damages of inflation.

“Oregon should not be increasing the costs of saving in a proven inflation hedge—especially considering the economic danger that currently faces the nation. Inflation harms the poorest among us, including pensioners, Oregonians on fixed incomes, wage earners, savers, and more,” said Cortez.

“We congratulate Oregon on enacting House Bill 2073, and we encourage other states to follow their lead in promoting sound money principles and reducing obstacles to wealth preservation,” Cortez concluded.

The Sound Money Defense League is a non-partisan public policy group working nationally to restore sound money at the state and federal level.

Money Metals Exchange is a national precious metals company recently named “Best in the USA” by an independent global ratings group and serves almost 500,000 investors in physical gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. The company also operates the largest precious metals depository in the western United States and a collateral lending group. 

Police Report on Obama Chef’s Drowning Omits Name of 911 Caller, Fuels Speculation

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Police Report on Obama Chef’s Drowning Omits Name of 911 Caller, Fuels Speculation

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The investigation into the drowning of the Obama family’s private chef while paddleboarding took a strange turn when the Martha’s Vineyard police report omitted the name of a second paddleboarder, Becker News reported.

Tafari Campbell, 45,  who had worked for the Obamas during and after their time in the White House, for died Sunday in the Edgartown Great Pond, which backs up to the Obama mansion.

But the shifting narrative and glaring gaps in the official reports have fueled rampant speculation about to how closely involved one or more members of the “scandal free” family may be involved, as the investigation awaits key details including a toxicology report.

According to the preliminary police report, Campbell’s unnamed partner desperately attempted to save him “but did not reach him in time.”

However, police suspiciously declined to name the person with whom was paddleboarding.

Making things even stranger, the 911 call log specified the reason for every other call on the night of the incident, but not the reason for the call regarding Campbell’s drowning.

All that is known is that the caller was a woman who was presumably on a boat searching for Campbell at 7:46 p.m., about 30 minutes after he went under.

Campbell’s wife, Sherise, shared an emotional tribute on Instagram but offered no indication that she was the person with him at the time of the tragedy or the one who called police afterward.

 

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“My heart is broken. My life and our family’s life is forever changed. Please pray for me and our families as I deal with the loss of my husband,” she wrote in the comment, which Instagram indicated had been edited.

Local officials denied that the report omissions were part of a nefarious cover-up.

Edgartown police chief Bruce McNamee said that the call logs are automatically generated, so the information could have been left out if the caller called the direct business line rather than the 911 line, the Daily Mail reported.

Reports have shifted as to whether members of the Obama family were at home at the time of the drowning.

Both Barack and Michelle Obama were reportedly in Martha’s Vineyard but were not at home when the incident occurred on Sunday evening, according to TMZ.

However, the couple’s daughters, Malia and Sasha, were spotted flying out of Martha’s Vineyard on Tuesday, the day after Campbell’s body was recovered. It is not known if they were present at the estate at the time.

Campbell’s body was found Monday morning, around 10 a.m. about 100 yards off shore in water only 8 feet deep.

The Massachusetts State Police ruled his death an accident, noting that there were no external injuries apparent on Campbell’s body, though the toxicology report is yet to be released.

The chef served the Obamas for 14 years, first in the White House, then subsequently as their private chef.

Autopsy Released of Nashville Trans-Terrorist Reveals Strange Notes

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Autopsy Released of Nashville Trans-Terrorist Reveals Strange Notes

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Trans-terrorist Audrey Hale had a knife inscribed with the chosen name of Aiden, bizarre notes written on clothes and an orange plastic bracelet on the right ankle with the number 508407 oddly etched on it, an autopsy revealed.

The Nashville, Tennessee, medical examiner found that, Hale, who identified as a man at the time of the shooting on March 27, had “handwritten words, drawings and numbers on her clothes.” However, it was unclear what the cryptic message meant on the clothes or what the number meant on the ankle bracelet, the Daily Mail reported.

The toxicological analysis also found there was no detection of drugs or alcohol on the 28-year-old and reported bruises and “minor” blunt force trauma to the body. Additionally, the Davidson County Medical Examiner’s office acknowledged that Hale identified as a trans male but officially listed her as female. 

Unsurprisingly, Hale’s death was ruled as a homicide by gunshot wounds with additional bruises and minor blunt force trauma, after responding officers successfully apprehended the mass shooter.

The autopsy detailed Hale was hit by three bullets—one through the lungs and spine, another through the head, and a third in the femur that fragmented and came out in two places, Fox News Digital noted. The first bullet passed through the arm on the way out.

Moreover, the autopsy report was made public amidst increasing controversy over the release of Hale’s manifesto and other written works found at the scene of the crime and Hale’s parent’s residence. Hale was previously a student at the school and planned the attack for months prior.

The killer, who slayed six people including three 9-year-old students at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville had dozens of notebooks and drawings, including a hand-drawn map of the Covenant School.

Police revealed Hale slept with notes from other school shootings under the bed. The parents of the killer stated that they do not want the manifesto released to the public.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Network Considered Ranking Weaponization Democrat a ‘Friend’

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Network Considered Ranking Weaponization Democrat a ‘Friend’

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Recently filed court records show that deceased millionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein apparently considered Weaponization Subcommittee ranking member delegate Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, to be a “friend.”

The court records come from an ongoing lawsuit the U.S. Virgin Islands’ government has against JP Morgan Chase bank for allegedly helping Epstein finance his human trafficking network.

Journalist Lee Fang, who reported on the records that reference Plaskett, said they undermine her previous assertion that she was unaware of the Epstein donations.

“When she was asked by the Virgin Islands affiliate of NPR whether she was aware of Epstein’s donations, she said no she didn’t know about them. But these documents tell a different story,” Fang said in a recent interview with journalist Glenn Greenwald.

One of the records filed last month includes a 2014 email from then-Epstein aid Cecil de Jongh, who advised him to support Plaskett’s bid for Congress against local legislator Shawn-Michael Malone.

“Shawn is the one who came after you in the senate hearing last week. He is nasty and needs to be defeated and we have a friend in Stacey,” wrote de Jongh.

Another email from de Jongh in 2014 states that Epstein indeed pledged $13,000 to Plaskett, who wound up winning that year’s election in what local media deemed a shocking upset.

Yet another email from 2018 shows that Plaskett requested money from Epstein for her reelection campaign.

“If you would share this invitation with Jeffrey I’d be much appreciative,” wrote Plaskett on July 12, 2018, in an email to Epstein attorney Erika Kellerhals and personal assistant Lesley Groff—the latter who has been accused of helping Epstein recruit underage girls.

Epstein would also financially supporting Plaskett in that 2018 reelection campaign, before dying about a year later—as Headline USA has previously reported.

When news about Epstein’s donations to Plaskett first broke about four years ago, her press secrety initially said she was going to keep the dirty money.

“I’m pretty sure she’s not,” Plaskett spokeman Mike McQueery said on July 8, 2019, when questioned by CNBC about whether the money would be returned.

A day later, Plaskett reportedly reversed course and decided to send the Epstein donations to non-profit organizations.

“In light of new information and allegations that have been made against Jeffrey Epstein I have decided to make contributions to Virgin Islands organizations that work with women and children in the amount of his previous contributions,” Plaskett said in a statement to CNBC.

Headline USA has asked Plaskett’s office about whether her ties to Epstein prevented her from effectively serving on a committee designed to investigate the FBI—given that the FBI covered up Epstein’s crimes for decades—but has not received an answer to that question.

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

UN Secretary General Upgrades ‘Global Warming’ to ‘Global Boiling’

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UN Secretary General Upgrades ‘Global Warming’ to ‘Global Boiling’

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently announced that “global warming” was no longer a sufficient term for the earth’s climate situation, opting instead for “global boiling.”

“Humanity is in the hot seat,” Guterres said at a press conference. “For vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa and Europe, it is a cruel summer. For the entire planet, it is a disaster. And for scientists, it is unequivocal—humans are to blame.”

Guterres insisted that the rebranding of the panic-stricken climate movement was consistent with current scientific evidence, according to the Daily Wire.

“All this is entirely consistent with predictions and repeated warnings. The only surprise is the speed of the change. Climate change is here, it is terrifying, and it is just the beginning,” he said. “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”

He claimed the air is “unbreathable” and the heat all over the globe “unbearable.”

Guterres has been an avowed socialist for decades, and started working with the United Nations in 2005 after serving as president of the Socialist International.

In a 1999 address, he summarized his vision for socialist utopia and described his ideal relationship between the international government and its global citizens.

“Dear friends and dear comrades …We must not abandon utopia because the antagonism between ideas and reality is both the major dilemma of democratic socialism and its fascinating driving force,” he said in the conclusion of the speech.

In a previous article he advocated for extreme government intervention globally in order to halt carbon emissions and rising temperatures.

“The 1.5-degree limit of global warming agreed in the Paris Agreement is achievable, but it will take a quantum leap. Every country and every sector must massively fast-track climate efforts,” he wrote. “We need climate action on all fronts—everything, everywhere, all at once.”

Democrats and global elites changed the language of the environmentalist movement several times—from global warming, to climate change, to extreme weather, and now global boiling.

The United Nations also has a nasty habit of randomly updating the climate apocalypse timeline, pushing baseless scientific guidelines as gospel and perpetuating climate alarmism.

Did Google Experiment with Military Troops’ Tissue Samples?

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Did Google Experiment with Military Troops’ Tissue Samples?

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Defense Department’s Joint Pathology Center contains more than 31 million blocks of human tissue and 55 million slides, including rare samples that have contributed to historic breakthroughs such as the first genetic sequencing of the 1918 influenza virus.

Google reportedly wanted exclusive access to this, calling it “on par with the Human Genome Project.”

“Google began in late 2015 to gather medical information at military installations and hospitals around the country, which it planned to use to build AI tools,” a ProPublica investigation stated.

“Such software, the company hoped, would give it an edge in the race to develop algorithms that could help pathologists diagnose illnesses more quickly and accurately, predict prognoses and, eventually, Google scientists hoped, find new treatments for diseases, including cancers.”

Google’s attempts to access the trove of tissue reportedly alarmed some of the Pentagon staff in charge of the JPC. They raised concerns about Google’s attempts, and the company’s attempts were purportedly unsuccessful.

But the matter has caught the attention of the U.S. Senate. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wrote a letter to Google and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin this week, seeking to know whether Google actually accessed the service members’ tissue.

“The public deserves a full accounting of Google’s efforts to access the private health data contained at the JPC and complete transparency surrounding its intended use,” she said.

Warren said Google’s attempts to access service members’ tissue is even more alarming considering the company’s history of mishandling health data.

The senator referenced Google’s Project Nightingale, which was revealed in 2019 and entailed engineers working to “create an omnibus search tool to aggregate disparate patient data and host it all in one place,” which Google could then sell to other hospital systems.

“Even before Project Nightingale, a Google subsidiary collected troves of patient data without notifying patients about how their data would be used,” she added.

Warren asked Google and Austin to respond to her letter by Aug. 8.

Google, for its part, said it wanted access to the human tissue for the public good.

“We had hoped to enable the JPC to digitize its data and, with its permission, develop computer models that would enable researchers and clinicians to improve diagnosis for cancers and other illnesses,” the company said, according to ProPublica.

“Despite efforts from Google and many at the Department of Defense, our work with JPC unfortunately never got off the ground, and the physical repository of pathology slides continues to deteriorate.”

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

Plea Deal Suggests DOJ Colluded w/ Hunter’s Lawyers to Hide ‘Blanket Immunity’

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Plea Deal Suggests DOJ Colluded w/ Hunter’s Lawyers to Hide ‘Blanket Immunity’

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The full text of a failed plea agreement involving Hunter Biden suggested that the federal prosecutors who were supposed to be holding the president’s son accountable to the fullest extent of the law instead attempted to trick U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika by sneaking in a “blanket immunity” clause.

The sudden revocation of these presumptive terms in court Wednesday came much to the chagrin of Biden’s elite, high-powered trial attorneys.

As earlier reports indicated, the deal would have protected Biden from violations of the Foreign Agent Registration Act that are still under investigation by both Congress and the Justice Department. Yet, the overly vague arrangement may also have granted Biden unprecedented immunity for crimes about which the public may not even be fully aware, the Daily Mail reported.

“This was a way of hiding the ball both in federal court in Delaware, and in the court of public opinion, to give Hunter Biden a free pass on a decade of criminal activity not covered by the charges in this case,” said Will Scharf, an ex-assistant U.S. Attorney.

He said Biden’s legal team and DOJ prosecutors were effectually “spitting in the face of justice.”

The discussion of the attempt to manipulate Noreika was released via published transcripts of the trial.

Noreika began by grilling Delaware assistant U.S. Attorney Leo Wise over the sneaky deal he attempted to make with the defense attorneys representing the president’s son.

“We looked through a bunch of diversion agreements that we have access to and we couldn’t find anything that had anything similar to that,” the judge said.

“Have you ever seen a diversion agreement where the agreement not to prosecute is so broad that it encompasses crimes in a different case?” she questioned.

“No,” Wise responded before Noreika cut him off, telling him to “sit down.”

The judge accused both sides of attempting to get her to “rubber stamp” the plea bargain without considering the immunity they would attempt to secure for Hunter for numerous other crimes.

Scharf commended Noreika for calling out the shenanigans—a rarity in today’s two-tiered judicial system where political allegiance to the president and to the Democrat cause takes priority over legal and ethical norms.

“Judge Noreika smelled a rat,” said the former prosecutor.

“She understood that the lawyers were trying to paint her into a corner and hide the ball,” he continued. “Instead, she backed DoJ and Hunter’s lawyers into a corner by pulling all the details out into the open and then indicating that she wasn’t going to approve a deal as broad as what she had discovered.”

Other DOJ alums likewise acknowledged that Noreika was the day’s big winner while the prosecution and defense both lost.

Appearing on CNN Wednesday to discuss the trial, former assistant U.S. Attorney Shanlon Wu, coyly ignored the possibility that the plea agreement was intentionally deceptive, however, instead characterizing the unprecedented deal as “sloppy” legal work from the DOJ.

“The fact they didn’t cover this ahead of time is really sloppy on the prosecution’s part,” Wu said during the left-leaning network’s analysis of the trial fiasco.

“For Biden’s team if it’s ambiguous it’s good for them,” he continued. “But the fact that the judge is pointing it out now, that’s on the prosecution. They should have taken care of this a long time ago.”

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