Aaron Rodgers Hints at Support for RFK Jr.

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Aaron Rodgers Hints at Support for RFK Jr.

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) NFL quarterback and vaccine skeptic Aaron Rodgers expressed support for Democratic presidential challenger, Robert F. Kennedy, in a Wednesday tweet, Fox News reported.

“Give me a sword. I need an army, and it can’t be just the Party. I need Democrats, Republicans, and Independents,” Kennedy initially tweeted, asking for campaign support.

“I won’t pretend to agree with you on every position,” he continued. “But I would make America a safe place to debate your positions and I will give you an ear and open mind.”

Rodgers responded by retweeting Kennedy’s initial message, including a sword emoji.

The quarterback also posted his support for Kennedy last week, reposting an interview and captioning it “kennedy2024.”

He has waded into political discourse in recent years with the advent of the COVID jab and the subsequent state and corporate attempts to force vaccination on the larger American populace.

Rodgers has been a vocal critic of Biden in the past, slamming him for running a “fake White House.”

“When the president of the United States says, ‘This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,’ it’s because him and his constituents, which, I don’t know how there are any if you watch any of his attempts at public speaking, but I guess he got 81 million votes,” Rodgers said in January44 2022.

Rodgers has been excoriated by the corporate media, however, for suggesting that our ruling class could be corrupt in any way.

Jimmy Kimmel, for example, mocked Rodgers last month for questioning numerous high-level connections to Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged pedophilia operation.

“Needless to say all this UFO talk has the tin-foil hatters going wild,” Kimmel said, noting that his list of conspiracy theorists includes “Green Bay ‘whack-packer’ Aaron Rodgers.”

“Might be time to revisit that concussion protocol, Aaron,” Kimmel added.

Deepfake Porn Could Be a Growing Problem Amid AI Race

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Deepfake Porn Could Be a Growing Problem Amid AI Race

(Headline USA) Artificial intelligence imaging can be used to create art, try on clothes in virtual fitting rooms or help design advertising campaigns.

But experts fear the darker side of the easily accessible tools could worsen something that primarily harms women: nonconsensual deepfake pornography.

Deepfakes are videos and images that have been digitally created or altered with artificial intelligence or machine learning. Porn created using the technology first began spreading across the internet several years ago when a Reddit user shared clips that placed the faces of female celebrities on the shoulders of porn actors.

Since then, deepfake creators have disseminated similar videos and images targeting online influencers, journalists and others with a public profile. Thousands of videos exist across a plethora of websites. And some have been offering users the opportunity to create their own images — essentially allowing anyone to turn whoever they wish into sexual fantasies without their consent, or use the technology to harm former partners.

The problem, experts say, grew as it became easier to make sophisticated and visually compelling deepfakes. And they say it could get worse with the development of generative AI tools that are trained on billions of images from the internet and spit out novel content using existing data.

“The reality is that the technology will continue to proliferate, will continue to develop and will continue to become sort of as easy as pushing the button,” said Adam Dodge, the founder of EndTAB, a group that provides trainings on technology-enabled abuse. “And as long as that happens, people will undoubtedly … continue to misuse that technology to harm others, primarily through online sexual violence, deepfake pornography and fake nude images.”

Noelle Martin, of Perth, Australia, has experienced that reality. The 28-year-old found deepfake porn of herself 10 years ago when out of curiosity one day she used Google to search an image of herself. To this day, Martin says she doesn’t know who created the fake images, or videos of her engaging in sexual intercourse that she would later find. She suspects someone likely took a picture posted on her social media page or elsewhere and doctored it into porn.

Horrified, Martin contacted different websites for a number of years in an effort to get the images taken down. Some didn’t respond. Others took it down but she soon found it up again.

“You cannot win,” Martin said. “This is something that is always going to be out there. It’s just like it’s forever ruined you.”

The more she spoke out, she said, the more the problem escalated. Some people even told her the way she dressed and posted images on social media contributed to the harassment — essentially blaming her for the images instead of the creators.

Eventually, Martin turned her attention towards legislation, advocating for a national law in Australia that would fine companies $370,706 if they don’t comply with removal notices for such content from online safety regulators.

But governing the internet is next to impossible when countries have their own laws for content that’s sometimes made halfway around the world. Martin, currently an attorney and legal researcher at the University of Western Australia, says she believes the problem has to be controlled through some sort of global solution.

In the meantime, some AI models say they’re already curbing access to explicit images.

OpenAI says it removed explicit content from data used to train the image generating tool DALL-E, which limits the ability of users to create those types of images. The company also filters requests and says it blocks users from creating AI images of celebrities and prominent politicians. Midjourney, another model, blocks the use of certain keywords and encourages users to flag problematic images to moderators.

Meanwhile, the startup Stability AI rolled out an update in November that removes the ability to create explicit images using its image generator Stable Diffusion. Those changes came following reports that some users were creating celebrity inspired nude pictures using the technology.

Stability AI spokesperson Motez Bishara said the filter uses a combination of keywords and other techniques like image recognition to detect nudity and returns a blurred image. But it’s possible for users to manipulate the software and generate what they want since the company releases its code to the public. Bishara said Stability AI’s license “extends to third-party applications built on Stable Diffusion” and strictly prohibits “any misuse for illegal or immoral purposes.”

Some social media companies have also been tightening up their rules to better protect their platforms against harmful materials.

TikTok said last month all deepfakes or manipulated content that show realistic scenes must be labeled to indicate they’re fake or altered in some way, and that deepfakes of private figures and young people are no longer allowed. Previously, the company had barred sexually explicit content and deepfakes that mislead viewers about real-world events and cause harm.

The gaming platform Twitch also recently updated its policies around explicit deepfake images after a popular streamer named Atrioc was discovered to have a deepfake porn website open on his browser during a livestream in late January. The site featured phony images of fellow Twitch streamers.

Twitch already prohibited explicit deepfakes, but now showing a glimpse of such content — even if it’s intended to express outrage — “will be removed and will result in an enforcement,” the company wrote in a blog post. And intentionally promoting, creating or sharing the material is grounds for an instant ban.

Other companies have also tried to ban deepfakes from their platforms, but keeping them off requires diligence.

Apple and Google said recently they removed an app from their app stores that was running sexually suggestive deepfake videos of actresses to market the product. Research into deepfake porn is not prevalent, but one report released in 2019 by the AI firm DeepTrace Labs found it was almost entirely weaponized against women and the most targeted individuals were western actresses, followed by South Korean K-pop singers.

The same app removed by Google and Apple had run ads on Meta’s platform, which includes Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. Meta spokesperson Dani Lever said in a statement the company’s policy restricts both AI-generated and non-AI adult content and it has restricted the app’s page from advertising on its platforms.

In February, Meta, as well as adult sites like OnlyFans and Pornhub, began participating in an online tool, called Take It Down, that allows teens to report explicit images and videos of themselves from the internet. The reporting site works for regular images, and AI-generated content — which has become a growing concern for child safety groups.

“When people ask our senior leadership what are the boulders coming down the hill that we’re worried about? The first is end-to-end encryption and what that means for child protection. And then second is AI and specifically deepfakes,” said Gavin Portnoy, a spokesperson for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which operates the Take It Down tool.

“We have not … been able to formulate a direct response yet to it,” Portnoy said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

DoD Official: Biden Administration Allowed Afghan Terrorists into America

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DoD Official: Biden Administration Allowed Afghan Terrorists into America

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) The Biden Administration, once again, allowed terrorists to enter into America with its disastrous management of illegal immigration, this time, from Afghanistan.

The Biden administration allowed terrorists who had set improvised explosive devices, to enter into America as it flew dozens of unvetted Afghans into The United States, according to Breitbart News.

These facts became apparent as Simone Ledeen, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, testified to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement and Intelligence, on Tuesday.

“Those first couple of planes that took off from Kabul airport were full of people who had not been vetted and subsequent vetting showed that actually, some of them were, you know, had emplaced IEDs and they appeared on our biometrics [database],” she said. “So, I have very grave concerns about this.”

Ledeen warned that the facts may be even worse than they appear based on a whistleblower’s testimony.

“A Department of Defense whistleblower has alleged that 324 individuals evacuated from Afghanistan were allowed to enter the U.S. despite appearing on the Defense Department’s Biometrically Enabled Watchlist,” she said.

She also suggested that the Biden a0dministration w0as less than honest about the numbers of people it evacuated.

“Our data suggests that the administration’s estimate of the number of evacuees who departed via the airport — 124,000 — is likely inaccurate and overstates the number of evacuees,” she said.

“Today our institutional leaders for acting as if the war and the withdrawal didn’t happen, and we are just meant to move on,” she continued. “We must hold those responsible for the failed Afghanistan withdrawal accountable for their decisions.”

Unfortunately, these are not the first terrorists Joe Biden has allowed into America with his impotent immigration policy. In June of 2022, it was discovered 15 terrorists had illegally immigrated into the United States.

In addition, Biden’s weak stances on illegal immigration have exposed Americans to men who feed their living victims to tigers, according to the New York Post.

SpaceX Takes Shot at Launching Biggest Rocket

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SpaceX Takes Shot at Launching Biggest Rocket

(Headline USA) SpaceX prepared to launch the biggest and most powerful rocket Thursday, working nonstop after the first shot at a test flight fizzled earlier in the week.

The nearly 400-foot Starship was poised to blast off from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. SpaceX’s Elon Musk gave 50-50 odds of the spacecraft reaching orbit on its debut.

None of the rocket will be recovered. Instead, if all goes well, the first-stage booster, dubbed Super Heavy, would drop into the Gulf of Mexico. The spacecraft on top would continue eastward, passing over the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans before ditching near Hawaii. The whole flight, if successful, would last just 1 1/2 hours.

The company plans to use Starship to send people and cargo to the moon and, eventually, Mars. NASA has reserved a Starship for its next moonwalking team, and rich tourists are already booking lunar flybys.

A stuck booster valve scrapped Monday’s try. Hundreds of space fans returned to the launch site at Boca Chica Beach on the eve of the second launch attempt, snapping more selfies.

“I’ve been waiting for this, really, for years,” said Bob Drwal, a retired engineer who drove down from Chicago with wife Donna.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Leftist Rep. Jayapal Ripped for Saying Migrants ‘Needed’ to ‘Pick the Food We Eat’, ‘Clean Our Homes’

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Leftist Rep. Jayapal Ripped for Saying Migrants ‘Needed’ to ‘Pick the Food We Eat’, ‘Clean Our Homes’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., is under fire following pro-immigration remarks during a Tuesday House Judiciary Committee “markup” on the Border Security and Enforcement Act of 2023, in which she said immigrants are needed to “pick the food we eat” and “clean our homes.”

“This country needs immigrants to survive,” she said. “Immigrants pick the food we eat, rebuild our communities after climate disasters, help construct our infrastructure, power our small business economy, clean our homes, and look after the most precious in our families — our children and our elders.”

“They strengthen our economy, our food supply chain and our ability to complete,” the leftist lawmaker continued.

Jayapal’s racially loaded remarks prompted conservative voices to share their thoughts on Twitter.

“Democrats want this historic border invasion to continue so that they have folks to pick the food they eat and clean their homes,” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., said. “Appalling.”

“Jayapal using the tired old, ‘Who will clean our homes?’ defense on illegal immigration,” conservative organization FreedomWorks tweeted. “Limousine liberalism at its finest! #ampFW.”

“WOW! Just wow!” said Twitter user @lonestarherd.

“Racist Democrat Jayapal defending mass illegal immigration of Biden admin,” said Twitter user @ps1ack.

Jayapal’s comments came a day after Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was ripped by Senate Republicans over his neglect of border security.

“You’re failing miserably,” Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Mayorkas in a heated exchange. “Four to five million people […] unknown gotaways. We have no idea who those people are. What kind of security do they risk. You’re not giving me any stats whatsoever in terms of the number of people that are human-trafficked. How many young girls are sex trafficked.”

The lawmaker’s remarks wouldn’t make the first time she found herself under fire for her comments. In January 2023, Jayapal’s apparent double standard was exposed after she called for former President Donald J. Trump to be “held accountable to the full extent of the law” over the Republican’s alleged mishandling of classified documents. Jayapal, however, rushed to defend President Biden for a seemly equal violation of the law. “There are clear differences […],” claimed the lawmaker in an interview with regime collaborator CNN.

Jayapal has voiced fierce support for lax immigration policies. The congresswoman’s press team has ignored the backlash, opting instead to call on Congress to pass the leftist Fairness to Freedom Act to “ensure all immigrants have representation.”

Edu. Secretary Refuses to Define What a Woman Is before Congress

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Edu. Secretary Refuses to Define What a Woman Is before Congress

(Headline USA) Education Secretary Miguel Cardona repeatedly refused to define what a woman is during a congressional hearing on Tuesday.

The House Appropriations Committee hearing, which focused primarily on the Education Department’s proposed budget, veered into cultural issues when Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., asked Cardona to define what a woman is.

“Our focus at the department is to provide equal access to students, including students who are LGBTQ, access free from discrimination,” Cardona replied.

Clyde continued to press Cardona: “What’s the definition of a woman?”

“I think that’s almost secondary to the important role that I have as secretary of education,” Cardona replied, again refusing to answer the question.

When asked a third time, Cardona replied: “My job is to make sure that all students have access to public education.”

Cardona also refused to say whether he agreed or disagreed with the statement, “A biological male who self-identifies as a woman should be allowed to compete in women’s sports,” instead saying that “all students” should have access to school sports.

The Education Department, however, has made it clear through a number of regulations that it has embraced gender ideology. A recent Title IX rule change, for example, would forbid schools from implementing a “one size fits all” prohibiting biological males who identify as girls from competing on girls’ sports teams. Schools can still impose restrictions on participation in athletics, but must “minimize harms” to the students who are excluded. In other words, schools will never be allowed to ban transgender students from sports.

Clyde derided the Biden administration proposal on Tuesday as an attempt to “weaponize Title IX” in a way that “endangers women.”

“Through the Department of Education, President Biden, in my opinion, is attempting to weaponize Title IX, morphing it from a law that protects women to a law that disadvantages or endangers women. Further, the department is doing so with taxpayer dollars, an action that spotlights were your and your president’s true priorities lie in my opinion,” Clyde said in a statement.

Klepto-Tranny Sam Brinton to Undergo Mental Health Evaluation

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Klepto-Tranny Sam Brinton to Undergo Mental Health Evaluation

(Headline USA) Sam Brinton, the former “nonbinary” Biden administration official who was charged with stealing luggage on at least two separate occasions, will undergo a mental health evaluation as part of a Minnesota diversion program, according to a report.

Brinton appeared remotely at a Hennepin County Court hearing stemming from charges filed against him for a luggage theft incident that occurred in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport last September. The former nuclear waste official was ordered to write a formal apology to the victim whose luggage he stole, return the stolen property, perform community service and undergo a mental health evaluation, Fox9 reported.

It’s not clear whether these conditions were a part of a plea deal, but it does appear Brinton has avoided significant legal consequences. If his case had moved to trial and resulted in a conviction, he could have been sentenced to up to five years in prison.

Brinton was also spared jail time in his second theft case, which occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he stole another woman’s suitcase at the Harry Reid International Airport in July 2022. Brinton plead no contest to the charges Vegas officials filed against him, and in return his felony charge was downgraded to a misdemeanor. 

The Vegas court handed Brinton a 180-day suspended sentence and ordered him to pay $3,670.74 in restitution to the victim for the luggage.

After news of the charges against Brinton were made public, the Biden administration fired him from his job as deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition. However, before Brinton was fired, he was placed on administrative leave, during which he was still cashing his six-figure salary, according to Townhall. In fact, Brinton was still receiving paychecks for at least a month, FOIA records revealed.

IRS Whistleblower Cites ‘Conflicts of Interest’ on Hunter Biden Criminal Investigation

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IRS Whistleblower Cites ‘Conflicts of Interest’ on Hunter Biden Criminal Investigation

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An IRS whistleblower is claiming that the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, is being mishandled by the Biden administration and is now seeking federal, whistleblower protections.

An attorney for a career IRS criminal supervisory special agent told Congress that his client has evidence that contradicts sworn testimony from a “senior political appointee,” presumably a Biden official. The letter cited a “failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

The whistleblower can show “preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected,” the letter stated.

Mark D. Lytle, an attorney for the whistleblower, requested whistleblower protection for his client in a letter addressed to Congressional leaders of both political parties.

“Despite serious risks of retaliation, my client is offering to provide you with information necessary to exercise your constitutional oversight function and wishes to make the disclosures in a nonpartisan manner to the leadership of the relevant committees on both sides of the political aisle,” Lytle wrote.

“My client wants to come forward to Congress. He’s ready to be questioned about what he knows and what he experienced under the proper legal protections,” Lytle said during an interview with CBS News’s ‘Evening News.’

“Typical steps that a law enforcement investigator would take were compromised because of political considerations,” Lytle said, refusing to confirm whether the information the whistleblower has is related to Hunter Biden.

Both CBS News and the Wall Street Journal, however, verified through sources close to the story that the whistleblower’s information is indeed about the criminal investigation of President Biden’s son.

Lytle’s letter and on-the-record interview contradict previous statements from Biden officials, who claimed they haven no role in the investigation. Attorney General Merrick Garland, for example, claimed in March that the federal prosecutor in charge of the Hunter Biden investigation, Delaware U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss, had full independence on the investigation. Weiss is a Trump appointee.

“He has been advised he is not to be denied anything he needs,” Garland said before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on March 1. “I have not heard anything from that office to suggest that they are not able to do everything the U.S. attorney wants to do.”

The scathing letter comes a day after members of the House Oversight Committee viewed financial records related to the Biden family and their associates’ business transactions. Access to the records was granted after an agreement with the Biden Treasury Department.

“The Biden family enterprise is centered on Joe Biden’s political career and connections, and it has generated an exorbitant amount of money for the Biden family,” House Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said in a statement released on April 17. “We’ve identified six additional members of Joe Biden’s family who may have benefited from the Biden family’s businesses that we are investigating, bringing the total number of those involved or benefiting to nine.”

Hunter Biden, who has not been indicted for any wrongdoing, faces a criminal probe in relation to potential tax fraud and alleged false statements in connection to the purchase of a gun.

The Biden White House declined to comment on the story, instead deferring to the Department of Justice and the IRS for comment.

Both the IRS and the Biden Justice Department’s inspector general were provided with the information of the whistleblower.

United Nations Normalizes Pedophilia

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United Nations Normalizes Pedophilia

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A report that was issued by international legal experts and backed by the United Nations appears to decriminalize pedophilia.

According to Fox News, the title of the report is “The 8 March Principles for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Criminal Law Proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex, Reproduction, Drug Use, HIV, Homelessness and Poverty.”

The report was released on March 8 in recognition of International Women’s Day.

“Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law,” the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists stated in its report with an assist from UNAIDS and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The International Commission of Jurists doubled down on the acceptance of sexual relations with minors in the same report.

“In this context, the enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them,” the commission wrote.

“Pursuant to their evolving capacities and progressive autonomy, persons under 18 years of age should participate in decisions affecting them, with due regard to their age, maturity and best interests and with specific attention to non-discrimination guarantees.”

 

“Take notice of who remains silent about this. That means they support pedophilia,” he added.
A former NHL star and Canadian Olympic gold medalist Theo Fleury commented on Twitter, too.

“The UN is full of pedophiles!!!!”

Australian feminist Michelle Uriarau also criticized the report, according to Fox News.

“This hideous UN report … seeks to decriminalize sex — even between children and minors. Evil.”

House GOP Reveals Explosive Truth about Hunter Probe after Visiting Treasury

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House GOP Reveals Explosive Truth about Hunter Probe after Visiting Treasury

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and other members of the GOP visited the Treasury Department this week and revealed some shockingly disturbing facts they discovered.

The visit came after a breakthrough agreement allowing access to suspicious activity reports, which lawmakers had been long-seeking but consistently stonewalled. Financial institutions can use these reports to flag possible law violations for the Biden family and their associates’ business transactions, the Daily Wire reported. 

“Thousands of pages of financial records related to the Biden family, their companies, and associates’ business schemes were made available to members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, which confirm the importance of this investigation,” Comer said.

“The Biden family enterprise is centered on Joe Biden’s political career and connections, and it has generated an exorbitant amount of money for the Biden family,” the oversight chairman added. “We’ve identified six additional members of Joe Biden’s family who may have benefited from the Biden family’s businesses that we are investigating, bringing the total number of those involved or benefiting to nine.”

CNN reported that the president denied these findings, and a spokesperson for Hunter Biden dismissed them as a “baseless right-wing conspiracy.” The spokesperson added that the president’s son “received his portion of good faith seed funds” as part of a joint venture and then shared this money “with his uncle, James Biden, and Hallie Biden, with whom he was involved with at the time, and sharing expenses.”

Following the House GOP members’ trip to the Treasury Department, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., tweeted, “The number of Biden family members involved (more than previously known), the amount of money involved (astronomical), the shell companies, the accusations of prostitution rings… wild….”

“The Oversight Committee will continue to pursue additional bank records to follow the Bidens’ tangled web of financial transactions to determine if the Biden family has been targeted by foreign actors and if there is a national security threat,” Comer said.

“We will soon provide the public with more information about what we’ve uncovered to date. The American people need transparency and accountability, and the Oversight Committee will deliver much-needed answers.” 

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