Biden Relegated to Using the Short Stairs to Board Air Force One

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Biden Relegated to Using the Short Stairs to Board Air Force One

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden has been using a shorter staircase to board and debark Air Force One over the past several weeks, likely due to his heightened risk of physical injury from his frequent trips and falls.

Video footage of the president shows Biden taking a short staircase that leads to the undercarriage of the presidential plane rather than the long staircase to the cabin that presidents normally take.

The switch to the shorter staircase seems to have occurred right after his public fall at the Air Force Academy’s graduation in the beginning of June.

The 80-year-old at one point turned to make his way back to his seat and started to motion as if he were going to jog. He then appeared to trip and fell down on the stage.

The next week, Biden began using Air Force One’s shorter staircase:

Even with the shorter staircase, however, Biden still seems to have difficulty moving around. Last week, he appeared to trip coming down the stairs after he landed in Delaware.

Biden’s age and mental acuity have become a rising concern among voters since he was elected in 2021. T

hese concerns have led to suggestions that the president is too senile and old to run the country, with some worrying that Vice President Kamala Harris may soon become the president. 

Even members of Biden’s own political party have voiced concerns about his physical and mental faculties. Alex Thompson, a reporter for Axios, revealed that “some top Democrats have privately been saying for months that they’re nervous about Biden tripping again on the trail. Today he did.

Even Hillary Clinton acknowledged that “people have every right to consider” Biden’s age for the 2024 campaign.

And, after Biden’s Air Force Academy fall, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey blasted the Democratic Party for trying to shut out other Democratic presidential options.

“Open the Democrat primaries and debates. This isn’t fair to anyone,” he said.

Bombshell Report Confirms Biden Meddled in Brazilian Election

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Bombshell Report Confirms Biden Meddled in Brazilian Election

(Headline USA) A new report alleges the Biden administration mounted an “unannounced campaign” in 2022 to meddle in Brazil’s presidential election and ensure that far-Left Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the office.

The Financial Times revealed it spoke to six former or current U.S. officials who were involved in the effort, as well as to several Brazilian leaders aware of it.

These sources alleged a government-wide effort on the part of the Biden administration, including the military, the intelligence community, the State Department and the White House, to undermine former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

One former top State Department official called the Biden administration’s strategy a “very unusual” messaging campaign, which it rolled out in the months leading up to the vote, “using both public and private channels.”

President Joe Biden also had “a more direct motivation” to ensure Bolsonaro’s loss: Bolsonaro’s similarities to former President Donald Trump.

Bolsonaro, like Trump, suggested he would challenge the results of Brazil’s elections if Lula won. Biden reportedly wanted to make sure Bolsonaro was unable to do so. 

“There’s a parallel here with what we saw after the U.S. elections in 2020 and then Jan. 6—I think it’s made everyone’s antennae much more sensitive to these things,” Matt Duss, a former top foreign-policy advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said at the time.

The Biden administration also issued threats to Bolsonaro’s administration in rare, escalatory diplomatic meetings. The intent of these meetings was to communicate to Brazilian officials that there would be consequences for supporting Bolsonaro, the sources said. 

In July 2021, for example, Biden’s CIA director, William Burns, traveled to Brazil to meet with senior Brazilian officials. During the meeting, he warned them that Bolsonaro should stop casting doubt on the integrity of Brazil’s elections.

A month later, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan issued a similar warning. And in June 2022, Biden reportedly made this threat directly to Bolsonaro at the Summit of the Americas meeting in Los Angeles.

Biden Using Short Staircase to Board Air Force One as Questions Swirl over Failing Health

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Biden Using Short Staircase to Board Air Force One as Questions Swirl over Failing Health

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) President Joe Biden has been using the short built-in stairs to board Air Force One for weeks since the aging president has fallen a couple of times in public this year, causing more speculation about the 80-year-old’s ability to run the country,” the Gateway Pundit reported.

Biden is notorious for his on-camera gaffes, not knowing where he is during most events and being unable to use the stairs of Air Force One without an oopsie.

The president has tripped at least eight times since being elected in 2020.

Recently, after giving a speech this spring, Biden stumbled during the Air Force Academy commencement ceremony in Colorado Springs. He was assisted by Secret Service agents and Air Force officials and returned to his seat. White House Communications Director Ben LaBolt tweeted that a sandbag had been on the commencement stage.

The most dramatic fall happened in March 2021 while the president was climbing up the stairs of Air Force One where he tripped three times, before finally falling over onto the stairs. He then stood up and climbed the remaining stairs before giving a salute before the plane took off for Georgia.

Some thought it was just a fluke, a random series of unfortunate events. But then reports came in that Biden had also tripped and fallen at his home after a shower. Now, after months of slips, Biden’s handlers changed the trajectory of Biden’s direction from the traditional long staircase to shorter steps under the plane, to prevent any further incidents.

Biden was slammed for using the short steps on social media in a tweet by Brick Suit that garnered over 1,300,000 views, the Gateway Pundit noted.

“No more big stairs for Joe! They are so afraid of Biden tripping as he boards Air Force One that they are making him take the small stairs into the bottom of the plane,” the user posted.

Whether it was from being slammed on social media for using shorter stairs, or a “mistake” by the White House, Biden’s Monday departure from California was noted for his use of short steps to board Air Force One. However, it was an old photo from March 28 of the president looking energetic while walking down the long staircase, along with the caption “We’re on the move to invest in America.”

The imagery surrounding the president is significant in demonstrating their health, vigor and power. The long climb up and down the stairs of Air Force One symbolizes their physical abilities while standing at the top with the robin’s egg blue of the plane and the presidential seal conveys the majesty and authority of the American presidency.

Disney’s Top DEI Officer Leaves Company as Downward Spiral Continues

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Disney’s Top DEI Officer Leaves Company as Downward Spiral Continues

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Latondra Newton, Disney’s head of diversity, equity and inclusion, is leaving the company after six years, according to an internal email, as reported by RedState.

It follows shortly after news that the company’s top financial officer, Christine M. McCarthy, was stepping down as it faces a catastropic year brought about in large part by its own poor marketing choices.

Despite having seen recent theatrical flops with other “woke” films, the company failed to learn its lesson with the newly released Elemental, which introduced Disney’s first “non-binary” character and also saw its worst box-office opening in 28 years.

Newton’s role at Disney was to ensure the company followed its “commitment to produce entertainment that reflects a global audience and sustains a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone,” according to Variety.

However, Newton’s time at Disney was controversial as she oversaw several woke moves that alienated core customers, according to the New York Post.

For example, last year Disney ditched its traditional greeting for its iconic firework show at Disney World.

Newton explained that the cherished, “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,” was too exclusionary for the new Disney.

“We want to create that magical moment with our cast members, with our guests,” she said at the time, explaining what the slogan already did for many guests. “And we don’t want to just assume because someone might be—in our interpretation, may be—presenting as female that they may not want to be ‘princess.’”

Newton also oversaw the transing of Cinderella’s fairy godmothers that worked at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique at Disney Parks.

The “Fairy Godmothers in Training” are now referred to as “Fairy Godmother’s Apprentices,” so that “cast members that might not identify as female can still be part of the process to dress up & style the children without having to refer to themselves as a female Disney character,” according to “Streaming the Magic” Disney’s blog.

Disney also created controversy by hosting homosexual raves at its park during “Pride” month and launching a “Pride” themed series of children’s toys.

Disney officials have also admitted that they were attempting to establish a “not at all secret” homosexual agenda in their children’s programming, a fact apparent to anyone who has witnessed their newer productions.

The company has also engaged in an extended culture struggle with Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis over his anti-grooming law.

AI Advancement Creates New Set of Problems for Preventing Child Pornography

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AI Advancement Creates New Set of Problems for Preventing Child Pornography

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) As concerns surrounding the potential world-ending power of artificial intelligence continue to grow, other unanticipated consequences of the computer programming have raised red flags.

According to ARS Technica, the AI industry generated a massive amount of extremely lifelike, sexually explicit images of children, stoking the concern of child safety experts.

“Children’s images, including the content of known victims, are being repurposed for this really evil output,” said Rebecca Portnoff of Thorn, a nonprofit focused on the safety of children.

“Victim identification is already a needle in a haystack problem, where law enforcement is trying to find a child in harm’s way. The ease of using these tools is a significant shift, as well as the realism. It just makes everything more of a challenge.”

Not only has the increase of AI made it more difficult for law enforcement to protect children, but validating the images as real or fake could take significant amounts of time.

There are safety tools that mark images and detect when they are reshared on online platforms; however, those tools only work on previously reported images. The newfound AI-imaging complicated the issue for law enforcement and child safety experts, as pedophiles started taking advantage of the reported grey area.

A poll done by ActiveFence revealed that an estimated 80% of 3,000 respondents admitted to “us[ing] or intend[ing] to use AI tools to create sexual abuse images.”

The photos spread on more than just the dark web—social media, public forums and other websites were all guilty of hosting the pornographic content.

“Once circulated, victims can face significant challenges in preventing the continual sharing of the manipulated content or removal from the Internet,” said a recent alert from the FBI. “This leaves them vulnerable to embarrassment, harassment, extortion, financial loss, or continued long-term re-victimization.”

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg Agree to Las Vegas Octagon Cage Match

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Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg Agree to Las Vegas Octagon Cage Match

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) After an initial challenge from Elon Musk, Twitter owner and Tesla founder, Metaverse CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to fight Musk in a Las Vegas cage match, the Verge reported.

The idea started when Musk tweeted that he was in for a cage match if Zuckerberg agreed to it.

Soon thereafter, Zuckerberg responded, writing “send me the location.” According to Meta officials, Zuckerberg’s response to the challenge is no joke. “The story speaks for itself,” Meta spokesperson Iska Saric said.

Musk responded by saying they would meet in Vegas.

“Vegas Octagon,” Musk wrote, later tweeting that “I have this great move that I call ‘The Walrus,’ where I just lie on top of my opponent and do nothing.”

Numerous Twitter users were intrigued by the idea of watching the billionaires duke it out on a big ticket pay-per-view.

One user even created a poll to see which billionaire people would put their money on, with Zuckerberg getting a slight edge.

Tension has been building between the two billionaires in recent months, especially as Meta attempts to create an alternative to Twitter.

According the Verge’s report, Meta held an internal meeting last week to promote the launch of the platform that is to compete with Twitter called “Threads,” which Meta chief product officer Chris Cox called “our response to Twitter.”

He also noted that “public figures” have an interest in Meta starting its own Twitter alternative.

“We’ve been hearing from creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run, that they believe that they can trust and rely upon for distribution,” he said.

For Zuckerberg, the competition with Twitter is imperative to achieve his political aims.

“I’ve always thought that Twitter should have a billion people using it,” Zuckerberg said in a follow-up podcast.

Another FBI Agent Blows the Whistle on J6

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Another FBI Agent Blows the Whistle on J6

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Another FBI special agent has come forward to blow the whistle on how the bureau is investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest—this one claiming that FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate threatened anyone who disagreed with him on the matter.

The whistleblower, whose identity is anonymous at this time, said that Abbate conveyed his threat to all FBI personnel in a video teleconference during February 2021.

According to the whistleblower, the FBI’s deputy director “told the audience that anyone who questions the FBI’s response or his decisions regarding the response to January 6th did not belong in the FBI and should find a different job.”

Abbate also told all special agents in charge that “if they had an employee that did not agree, the SACs could have that employee call [him] personally and he would set them straight.” Special agents in charge, or SACs, are the leaders of the respective FBI field offices around the country.

The whistleblower, a 15-year FBI veteran, said he had observed hundreds of teleconferences with senior FBI officials but had never “seen a direct threat like that any other time.”

In response to the whistleblower allegations, the FBI provided the following statement to Just the News, the publication that broke the story:

“Throughout his 27-plus year career, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate has strongly supported the people and the work of the FBI, treating employees with dignity, compassion, and respect. He continues to proudly serve the American people and the FBI as Deputy Director. Deputy Director Abbate is going nowhere, and any suggestion otherwise is baseless.”

But Empower Oversight, a whistleblower advocacy group, is seeking accountability for Abbate. Empower Oversight is representing the whistleblower, and wrote to the Justice Department Inspector General and Congress about the matter.

“The FBI is not a private club for FBI executives to make in their own image. It is an extremely important agency that is supposed to enforce the law without prejudice,” the group’s president, Tristan Leavitt, said in a letter to the House and Senate judiciary committees.

“Empower Oversight respectfully requests that you work swiftly to independently corroborate this information with other witnesses, publicly document your findings, and hold Deputy Director Abbate accountable.”

The anonymous whistleblower is the latest FBI agent to criticize the bureau’s handling of J6 cases.

Last week, former special agent Stephen Friend published a book on the topic, discussing how J6 cases were directed from the FBI’s offices in Washington D.C., instead of the respective field offices where the investigations were supposed to be taking place.

“This is a radical deviation from FBI DIOG rules … For all intents and purposes, special agents in Washington, DC, were working as case agents in absentia,” he wrote in his book.

Another whistleblower, retired agent George Hill, recently provided a possible motive for Washington DC wanting to control the J6 investigation: Officials wanted to protect the identities of any undercover agents or informants who were involved in breaching the Capitol.

“The [Washington field office] said, ‘We can’t show you those videos unless you can tell us the exact time and place those individuals were in the Capitol’, to which [Boston agent] responded back: ‘Why can’t you just give us access to the 11,000 hours of video?’” Hill said in an interview to the House Weaponization Subcommittee, which was played live during a hearing last month.

According to Hill, the DC office then responded, “Because there may be undercover officers or confidential human sources on those videos, whose identity we’d need to protect.”

Friend and Hill are joined by FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin, who revealed last month that the pipe bombs planted outside the DNC and RNC the night before J6 were inoperable.

In its letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Empower Oversight said its latest whistleblower “does not know and is not associated” with its other clients.

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

Report: Pentagon Paid $51,606 Apiece for Trash Cans

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Report: Pentagon Paid $51,606 Apiece for Trash Cans

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Pentagon is often accused of throwing money in the waste bin—and a recent investigation shows that this is true in more than the figurative sense.

According to a report from Responsible Statecraft, top military contractors have overcharged the Pentagon by more than $1.3 million in markups on non-competitive contracts, including roughly $200,000 for a mere four trash cans.

Citing Pentagon contracting data, Responsible Statecraft reported that the Defense Department paid Boeing more than $200,000—or roughly $51,606 per trash can—in 2020. The next year, it paid $36,640 each for 11 trash containers, resulting in a total cost of more than $400,000.

“The apparent overcharge cost taxpayers an extra $600,000 between the two contracts,” Responsible Statecraft said.

The trash cans, made for the E-3 Sentry surveillance and radar plane based on the 707 civilian airliner, previously cost about $300 apiece. But when the 707 fell out of use in the U.S., the trash can ceased being a “commercial” item—meaning that Boeing was not obligated to keep its price at previous levels, according to Responsible Statecraft.

In another case, Responsible Statecraft found that the Pentagon paid $49,000 apiece for 13 radio filters that previously cost only $350.

“The examples revealed here represent only a small portion of what experts say is a pattern of contractors overcharging DoD for a wide range of parts and weapons systems, a practice that reduces military readiness and drives up spending,” Responsible Statecraft said.

The publication’s findings follow a recent investigation by 60 Minutes, which highlighted rampant price gouging in the arms industry—including one case in which Boeing overcharged taxpayers by more than half a billion dollars for missiles used in the Patriot missile defense system.

Since then, a bipartisan group of senators has called on the Pentagon to investigate the apparent price-gouging.

Responsible Statecraft further noted that the top arms dealers are seeing record revenues, due in large part to the U.S. proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

“Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Raytheon Technologies have each reported all-time highs in demand following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, allowing the companies to give shareholders nearly $20 billion last year through stock buybacks and dividends,” Responsible Statecraft said.

“And the CEOs of the top five weapons makers each make between $18 million and $23 million per year.”

Responsible Statecraft added that about half of the Biden administration’s $842 billion Pentagon budget request goes to contractors.

“In 2022, roughly 30 percent of military spending went to the ‘big five’ weapons makers, which include Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman,” the publication said.

Boeing reportedly declined to comment on its alleged price gouging, while Jamaica Bearings—the company that sold the radio filters—did not respond to questions from Responsible Statecraft.

CEO of Disastrous Titanic Tourism Venture Refused to Hire ’50-Yr-Old White Guys’

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CEO of Disastrous Titanic Tourism Venture Refused to Hire ’50-Yr-Old White Guys’

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) The CEO of OceanGate, the company operating the submarine that went missing while touring the Titanic, recently pledged never to hire “50-year-old white guys” because they are not “inspirational.”

According to a report by the Daily Caller, a submarine taking tourists who paid $250,000 to see Titanic wreckage went missing in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday. At this time, the submersible remained missing and hopes for a successful recovery were dim. Its passengers included British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shanzada Dawood and his son Sulaiman, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet and OceanGate’s CEO Stockton Rush.

In a recording making rounds on social media, Rush said, “When I started business, one of the things you’ll find for other sub operators out there, they typically have people who are ex-military submariners and you’ll see a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys. I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational.”

The titanic tourist CEO added, “And I’m not gonna inspire a 16-year-old to pursue marine technology, but a 25-year-old who’s a sub pilot, a platform operator, or one of our techs can be inspirational. So we’ve really tried to get very intelligent, motivated younger individuals to get involved.”

On Tuesday, G. Michael Harris, who headed the tour, said, “More people have been to outer space than to this depth of the ocean. When you’re diving in these situations, you have to cross your t’s, dot your i’s. You have to do everything absolutely perfect and by the book.”

Harris added, “Worst situation is something happened to the hull. Our fear is that it imploded at around 3,200 meters.”

Though the search for the vessel is still on, experts have noted that the challenge here is against time as the submarine seem to have little or no oxygen left.

UPDATE: The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday afternoon announced that a missing submersible imploded near the wreckage of the Titanic, killing all five people on board, according to the Associated Press.

LGBT Mafia Demands ‘Queer Theory’ Be Incorporated into Atomic Science

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LGBT Mafia Demands ‘Queer Theory’ Be Incorporated into Atomic Science

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A nonprofit known as the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists recently released an article announcing the need to “queer nuclear weapons.”

According to the Post Millennial, the article, published on June 15, made the argument that LGBT inclusion could improve national security and “nuclear justice.”

Founded in 1945 as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of Chicago (BAC) by Manhattan Project scientists, the bulletin includes “top policymakers, researchers, and opinion makers from more than 150 countries,” and focuses on nuclear risk, climate change and disruptive technologies.

BAC published its “queer theory” article in recognition of “Pride” month, claiming that “equity and inclusion for queer people” was “essential for creating effective nuclear policy,” although there is no indication that the two are directly correlated from a scientific standpoint.

The bulletin suggested, however, that perhaps hosting a Drag Queen Story Hour could liven up their bunker and take the intensive focus off the mathematical calculations, vectors and formulas that too often occupy the thoughts of the average nuclear physicist.

“Nuclear facilities still have a reputation for being unwelcoming toward queer people and have failed to investigate allegations of homophobia and harassment,” the article said. “In part, this is due to the lack of diversity in the nuclear field.”

The article also claimed that queer participation “informs theories that aim to change how officials, experts and the public think about nuclear weapons.”

Allegedly, the inclusion of gay people into the nuclear disarmament process may allow the closed-minded scientists currently in the field to “reject binary choices and zero-sum thinking,” it said.

“Queer theory… identifies the assumptions and interests these ideas are built on—and imagines alternatives that serve a broader range of interests, including those of the invisible and resource-stripped,” the article said.

The article further stressed the urgency of the situation, insisting that “the time to do better is now.”

The scientists compared the situation to the anti-communist movement, the “Red Scare,” dubbing the alleged persecution of gay and lesbian employees the “Lavender Scare.”

BAC is also well known for maintaining its notorious Doomsday Clock, which it uses to fearmonger about the growing risk of a global armageddon while passive-aggressively offering woke commentary on global events with which it disapproves.

In January, the group put the clock at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest its ever been to nuclear catastrophe—after threats made by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Finding a path to serious peace negotiations could go a long way toward reducing the risk of escalation,” the scientists said. “In this time of unprecedented global danger, concerted action is required, and every second counts.”

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