Health Experts Analyze Whoopi Goldberg’s Chronic Flatulence Problem

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Health Experts Analyze Whoopi Goldberg’s Chronic Flatulence Problem

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg once again passed gas on live TV this week, causing health experts to speculate that the Oscar-winning actress may be afflicted by multiple problems.

Goldberg (née Caryn Johnson) has a long history of farting on air and even reportedly derived her stage name from the whoopee cushion when she first began performing as a stand-up comedian.

“When you’re performing on stage, you never really have time to go into the bathroom and close the door,” she told the New York Times in 2014. “So if you get a little gassy, you’ve got to let it go.”

On Wednesday, while discussing the testimony of former porn star Stormy Daniels in New York’s ongoing probe of former President Donald Trump, Goldberg was interrupted mid-sentence by another flatulent eruption.

“That was gas,” she said, causing her co-hosts and audience to laugh uncomfortably.

After the latest incident, Dr. Ahmed Albusoda, a gastroenterologist at the Princess Grace Hospital in London, noted that Goldberg is suffering from sciatica, a painful nerve condition of the lower back that she was diagnosed with in 2021, the Daily Mail reported.

“In general, people with sciatica are less active, which is a risk factor for constipation because there is more fermenting in the stools,” Albusoda said.

He added that people in such a condition often “take painkillers,” which can “cause constipation because they cause more fermentation and gas in the stools.”

Goldberg even took a week off of the show last summer on account of her sciatica pain.

Albusoda further suggested that Goldberg’s infamously unhealthy diet may be contributing to her inability to control her bowels.

“Of course, we need to talk to a patient specifically,” he said, “[but] if she is eating a lot of junk food, or anything that has a lot of fat in it like processed foods, that can also slow down your bowel movements and cause constipation.”

“Junk food is not healthy for the bowel and may also change the population of gut bacteria,” he added.

Dr. Jessica Cording, a nutritionist in New York City, also suggested that Whoopi’s diet could be causing her problems.

“If somebody is experiencing excess amounts of gas, something that might be contributing to that is certain foods,” she said.

“What I would tell someone if they experience it to the point where it seems excessive or uncontrollable, I would encourage them to check in with a gastroenterologist, just in case it is anything underlying.”

Seymour Hersh Doubles-Down on Biden Blame for Nord Stream Sabotage: ‘He Did It’

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Seymour Hersh Doubles-Down on Biden Blame for Nord Stream Sabotage: ‘He Did It’

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) After sparking widespread speculation, theories and concerns last month about the origins of the Nord Stream pipeline explosion, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh this week reiterated his claim that “the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret” to sabotage the pipeline.

Hersh told a packed house at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., that President Joe Biden pulled the trigger on an operation to sabotage the pipeline to bolster his image as a war time president and help his poll numbers.

“He did it. He did it, I’m telling you, he did it,” Hersh said, and admonished the mainstream media for not pressing the administration for a full account.

“I’m not taking a flier on this. I’ve spent a lot of time on this, and he did it,” Hersh said, claiming that Biden made the decision in January 2022 to “see if we can find a way to blow… those pipelines, and put [the Russians] back in the dark ages.”

Hersh last month dropped a bombshell report that cited sources who claimed direct knowledge of the Biden regime’s covert mission to have Navy divers plant explosives near the pipelines under cover of a NATO exercise. The Pentagon and CIA coordinated the sabotage plan with the White House, with CIA operatives reportedly stressing that “This is not kiddie stuff … It’s an act of war.”

When asked Thursday if Hersh thought Biden was trying to lure Russia into a direct conflict, and if so, who was running the show, Hersh reached for what he said was a quote from his Jewish grandmother.

“Who knows?” Hersh said. “I don’t know who’s running him. I do know that his status is such that he could talk all the smack he wants to about how safe the banks are and they’re still diving.”

The prospect of war, though, can play for good politics, Hersh said.

“I think Biden also saw beating up Russia as a ticket to ride,” he said. “Historically, Jack Kennedy is a classic example – presidents always did well politically in wars.”

As Hersh was holding forth on the prospects of Biden ordering the Nord Stream explosion, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry was also keen for answers.

During a Thursday press conference, Wang Wenbin expressed skepticism about reports from U.S. intelligence officials that a pro-Ukrainian group was behind the explosion, and called for an “objective, impartial and professional investigation into the explosions.” Wenbin said that “those responsible must be held to account. It is important to speed up the investigation, so as to swiftly find out the truth.”

Wenbin also questioned the media’s coverage of the bombing, which he accused of pushing a narrative that clears the Biden regime.

“We have noted that some Western media have been mysteriously quiet after Hersh reported that the US was behind the Nord Stream blast,” Wenbin said. “But now these media are unusually simultaneous in making their voice heard. How would the US account for such abnormality? Is there anything hidden behind the scene?”

As Hersh’s grandmother might say, “Who knows?” The Biden administration is in no hurry to answer.

The Real March Madness: Christian School Girls’ Hoops Team Punished for Keeping Players Safe

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The Real March Madness: Christian School Girls’ Hoops Team Punished for Keeping Players Safe

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) A Christian school in Vermont was punished this week for defying an increasingly radical LGBT orthodoxy and trying to protect the safety of its student-athletes.

The Mid Vermont Christian School girls’ basketball team last month forfeited a state playoff game against an opponent that had stacked its team with a male player who claimed to be a transgendered female. School officials said they believed that the trans-player “jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players.”

In retaliation, the Vermont Principals’ Association on Monday banned Mid Vermont Christian from all state-run activities and athletic events with other schools in Vermont.

The decree, which was issued with guidance from the principal association’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion in Activities Committee, means that all students — boys and girls — from the private Christian school are now ineligible to compete in all state sports or interscholastic activities, Vermont’s WCAX Valley News reported.

“The prohibition against discrimination includes discrimination based on a student’s actual or perceived sex and gender,” the association declared. The VPA “reiterates its ongoing support of transgender student-athletes” as “part of building an inclusive community for each student to grow and thrive.”

The inclusiveness didn’t extend to anyone who thinks that for safety reasons biological males shouldn’t be allowed to participate in female sports, as Mid Vermont Christian learned the hard way.

The school’s original decision seemed reasonable and in the best interests of student safety, said Mid Vermont Head of School Vicky Fogg.

“We withdrew from the tournament because we believe playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players,” Fogg wrote in a statement to WCAX. “Allowing biological males to participate in women’s sports sets a bad precedent for the future of women’s sports in general.”

The principals’ association not only disagreed, but were openly hostile in blaming Fogg’s desire to protect her students as the problem.

“If you don’t want to follow VPA rules, that’s fine,” Ray Nichols, the association’s executive director told the VT Digger said. “But then you’re just not a VPA member. It’s fairly simple. That’s really all we’re gonna really say about it.”

The dismissive and exclusionary attitude is nothing new for Vermont’s cancel cultists, according to the Daily Signal. Last year, a Vermont middle school coach was suspended without pay for “misgendering” a trans athlete and supporting a group of girl soccer players who felt uncomfortable about changing in front of their trans (male-to-female) teammate.

Fogg told Fox News Digital that Mid Vermont Christian was disappointed in the principals’ association’s latest decision and planned an appeal.

“Cancelling our membership is not a solution and does nothing to deal with the very real issue of safety and fairness facing women’s sports in our beloved state,” Fogg said. “We urge the VPA to reconsider its policies, and balance the rights of every athlete in the state.”

Rep. Daniel Goldman’s Family Foundation is Invested in Norfolk Southern, Filings Indicate

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Rep. Daniel Goldman’s Family Foundation is Invested in Norfolk Southern, Filings Indicate

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) New York Democrat U.S. Rep. Daniel Goldman’s non-profit organization is reportedly invested in Norfolk Southern, the company responsible for the toxic East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, according to the organization’s tax filings.

The financial ties of Goldman’s organization, the Richard W. Goldman Family Foundation, were initially investigated by Fox News, which published a story Wednesday about the foundation being invested in two hedge funds based in the Cayman Islands. While there’s nothing illegal about the arrangement, the investments in the tax-free Cayman Islands calls into question Goldman’s sincerity when he talks about hiking taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

Headline USA has also reviewed Goldman Family Foundation filings, which appear to indicate that Norfolk Southern is included in the organization’s investment portfolio.

The filings indicate that around 2019, the foundation owned about $26,489 in Norfolk Southern bonds, and $27,178 of the company’s stock.

Other apparent Goldman Family Foundation investments include a variety of American big tech firms, Chinese tech firm Tencent, the shaky First Republic Bank and military contractor Halliburton.

The Richard W. Goldman Family Foundation did not respond to an email seeking comment. Goldman, who was lead counsel for the first impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump before joining Congress, also did not comment to Fox News.

Fox News reported that according to the group’s 2020 tax filings, Goldman, who is a freshman congressman and member of the powerful House Oversight Committee, served as its secretary and treasurer of the foundation, giving him direct oversight of its finances. He had reportedly assumed the secretary position in 2012 and the treasurer position in 2018.

“The New York lawmaker’s most recent financial disclosure filed with the House of Representatives Clerk showed that he has maintained his position on the foundation’s board of advisors as of July 2022,” Fox News reported.

“But while his foundation reported investments in funds organized in the Cayman Islands, Goldman has repeatedly called on the government to hike taxes for the wealthiest Americans since taking office earlier this year.”

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

Biden and Schumer Snatched Money from SVB Before Collapse

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Biden and Schumer Snatched Money from SVB Before Collapse

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Before Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., grubbed mountains of moolah in donations from individuals and political action committees associated with the defunct bank.

Open Secrets compiled data that indicated Schumer received $5,800 directly from SVB CEO Greg Becker, the maximum allowable individual contribution, and Biden received some $66,700 from Silicon Valley Bank affiliates in the 2020 election cycle. The DNC Services Corporation also received $21,400.

According to the Daily Wire, Schumer donated all funds he has garnered from SVB affiliates, including a $2,700 contribution from the PAC in 2015 after the financial institution collapsed.

Open Secrets also pointed out that each of the seven registered lobbyists employed by SVB in 2022 and each of the eight employed in 2021 had previously worked for the government. The only lobbying firm working on behalf of Silicon Valley Bank since 2011, Franklin Square Group, has opposed regulations established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

Two of Franklin Square Group employees previously worked as senior aides to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.: Wes McClelland served as his senior policy advisor between 2011 and 2015 and Brian Worth was his director of coalitions between 2011 and 2014, the Daily Wire reported. McClelland also served as a senior policy advisor to former Rep. John Campbell, R-Calif., and the primary staffer for the House Financial Services Committee.

Other Franklin Square Group associates worked for politicians like Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, and former Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., as well as the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Even though that SVB essentially collapsed, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg still defended the banking system in their joint statement and gaslighted Americans by saying that they won’t be forced to pay for the bailout of the bank.

“The U.S. banking system remains resilient and on a solid foundation, in large part due to reforms that were made after the financial crisis that ensured better safeguards for the banking industry,” they wrote. “No losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer.”

James O’Keefe Launches New Media Company

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James O’Keefe Launches New Media Company

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Former Project Veritas CEO James O’Keefe announced that he is launching the O’Keefe Media Group after leftists who infiltrated the company he founded ousted him for daring to reveal once again that Pfizer is an evil company.

In a video promoting his upcoming new company, O’Keefe vowed to “build an army of investigators” to expose corruption. The platform will be launched on the Independence Day of this year.

“We are going to build an army of investigators and exposers. They have awakened the sleeping giant. I’m back. Remaining by my side is a small, tight-knit group of the most elite journalists in the world,” O’Keefe said.

“Exposing corruption requires standing up to power because power hates sunlight and we are sunlight. Welcome to the O’Keefe Media Group, where we will never be shut down. Because not only do I own it, but you own it too.”

On the website, O’Keefe also promised that the journalists who are going to work for him will be bringing “factual, unbiased stories to light.”

“Empowering and equipping a movement of thousands of people like you to report things that are wrong, with the support of an in-house team of elite journalists to bring factual, unbiased stories to light.”

To that end, O’Keefe went headhunting on social media for recruits to join his new endeavor.

Last month, O’Keefe left Project Veritas, the company he founded in 2011, after the board of directors placed him on leave and considered whether he should be booted from the company.

Aside from the board of directors, other people in the company, including his communications adviser and employees, also decided to stab the founder of the company in the back, claiming that O’Keefe allegedly mismanaged the company, wasted money and was mean to his staff.

“Throughout my 13 years doing this my mission has evolved. Over the last few weeks, I have felt a lot of despair and seen a lot of evil and felt overcome with various emotions,” O’Keefe said. “I take away from these the gratitude that I have for many of you, most of you. I reflected upon my appreciation for many of you, what makes this great is because we actually believe in this, we have a passion for this and we have principle.”

Biden Budget Spends Record High Billions to Push Gender-Bending Agenda

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Biden Budget Spends Record High Billions to Push Gender-Bending Agenda

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) President Joe Biden’s 2024 budget proposal requests billions of dollars to advance his gender and sexuality agenda around the world, allocating far more taxpayer dollars to that than dozens of other spending priorities, such as stopping fentanyl from being smuggled across the southern border.

Biden’s budget request for this issue in particular has more than doubled in the last two years. In the past, that focus would have been almost entirely on women and young girls. In recent years, though, advancing women’s rights across the globe is sharing the focus, and the funds, with the president’s gender agenda.

While Biden says he is cutting $3 trillion from the deficit over the next decade, his budget plan would increase the funding to promote “Gender Equity and Equality Around the World.”

From the budget:

The Administration remains steadfast in its commitment to invest in opportunities for women and girls and support the needs of marginalized communities, including the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex community. Reflective of that commitment, the Budget requests more than $3 billion to advance gender equity and equality across a broad range of sectors.

Last year, the U.S. Agency for International Development touted Biden’s budget request of $2.6 billion to promote “Gender Equity and Equality Around the World,” saying it was “more than doubling the amount requested for gender programs in the prior year,” calling it the “largest-ever gender budget request.”

That funding will fuel the USAID and the State Department to pay particular attention to “those who face multiple forms of discrimination, such as adolescent girls and young women, Indigenous women, women and girls in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) community, women with disabilities, and racial, ethnic, and religious minorities.”

Biden’s request for advancing this kind of equity this year increased from the previous doubling by another $400 million, a new record.

Federal spending, in particular debt spending, is under increased scrutiny as inflation remains elevated.

“At a time of dangerous deficits and painful inflation caused by too much federal spending, the Biden administration is constantly seeking ways to waste even more taxpayer resources on ideological crusades,” David Ditch, a budget expert at the Heritage Foundation, told The Center Square. “The obsession with ‘equity’ permeates the entire Biden agenda, often at the expense of core federal duties and functions. Biden is regularly touted as a ‘moderate’ by the press, but he has been comfortable allowing radical activists in his administration to control the agenda and regularly flout the rule of law.”

Biden took fire after the budget’s release for mentioning “equity” 62 times while other major issues received less attention. “Inflation” is mentioned 56 times, though that number is far less if you omit references to the Inflation Reduction Act, which has nothing to do with higher prices. “Border” is mentioned 33 times. “Poverty” is mentioned 21 times. “Ukraine” is mentioned 13 times. “Opioid” is mentioned four times and “fentanyl” is mentioned twice.

For comparison, the budget proposal includes $25 billion for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol but specifies that only $40 million of that is to “combat fentanyl trafficking and disrupt transnational criminal organizations.” According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, more than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdose in 2021.

Opioid spending gets a fraction of the attention that equity receives in the budget.

The proposed budget seeks to spend “$715 million toward opioid use disorder prevention and treatment programs such as VA’s Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation, the VA Opioid Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution program, and programs authorized in the Jason Simcakoski PROMISE Act.”

While the opioid issue may receive federal aid directly or indirectly from other established health and drug grants and programs, the gender issue would also benefit from the same kind of additional help.

A litany of domestic crime issues also receives less funding than the $3 billion overseas investment.

From the budget:

The Budget makes robust investments to bolster Federal law enforcement capacity. The Budget includes $17.8 billion, an increase of $1.2 billion above the 2023 enacted level, for DOJ law enforcement, including a total of nearly $2 billion for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to expand multijurisdictional gun trafficking strike forces with additional personnel, increase regulation of the firearms industry, and implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. The Budget includes $1.9 billion for the U.S. Marshals Service to support personnel dedicated to fighting violent crime, including through fugitive apprehension and enforcement operations. The Budget also provides $51 million to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to support the continued implementation of enhanced background checks required by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. In addition, the Budget provides a total of $2.9 billion for the U.S. Attorneys, which includes 130 new positions to support the prosecution of violent crimes.

Certain overseas grant funding opportunities from the federal government prioritize LGBT issues. The State Department’s “Global Equality Fund” is a public-private partnership that funnels federal dollars overseas to “provides critical resources to civil society organizations (CSOs) and human rights defenders, including those working to increase the visibility and empowerment of queer women, transgender and other gender diverse people, intersex people, and members of other marginalized LGBTQI+ communities…”

Despite Calif.’s Mass Shootings, Biden Wants To Emulate Its Gun Laws

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Despite Calif.’s Mass Shootings, Biden Wants To Emulate Its Gun Laws

(John R. Lott Jr., RealClear Wire) President Biden traveled to Monterey Park, California, the site of a mass public shooting that left 11 dead in January, to announce new executive actions on gun control. He touts the proposals as necessary “to reduce gun violence and make our communities safer.” But California already has all the gun control laws that Biden put forward, and yet it has a higher per capita rate of mass public shootings than the rest of the country.

Measures already in place include background checks on all transfers of firearms, “red flag” gun confiscation laws, and an assault weapon ban. Even if Biden’s ideal background check law had been in effect and perfectly enforced, it wouldn’t have stopped one mass public shooting this century.

Biden exaggerated the support for his background check proposals. The surveys he cites compress long, complicated proposals into one-sentence summaries. But when people are told that these laws would turn someone into a felon just for temporarily lending a handgun to a woman who is being threatened by a stalker, survey respondents answer that they oppose the regulation.

One proposal would force people who sell or transfer only a few guns to obtain a federal firearms license. But even licensed dealers face an uphill regulatory battle. Biden’s zero-tolerance (zero tolerance for what?) policy drives licensed dealers out of business. The end effect is to stop gun sales.

But Biden has another goal. Despite federal law explicitly forbidding a national gun registry, the President has begun putting together a national database on gun ownership. By the beginning of last year, there were almost a billion entries.

Forcing gun transfers to go through licensed dealers will help create a more complete registry. And that’s about all it will do, since gun licensing and registration doesn’t solve any crime. The bottom line is to drive up the price of guns for law-abiding citizens and therefore stop gun sales altogether. In other countries, and even in parts of the United States, registration is consistently used to eventually take away people’s guns, and given Biden’s constant call to ban all semi-automatic weapons, which make up about 85% of all guns sold in the U.S., that is a real concern here.

Biden wants to “improve public awareness and increase” use of red flag laws (Extreme Risk Protection Orders). But this diverts focus from better laws already on the books in all 50 states. Involuntary commitment laws provide for evaluations by mental health experts, an emergency court hearing, and a lawyer. These laws give judges more options, such as mandatory outpatient mental health care, driver’s license suspensions, or taking away their guns.

By contrast, red flag laws only take away a person’s guns. If a person is truly suicidal – almost all the red flag cases involve concerns over suicide – there are so many other methods that are just as likely to be successful (hanging oneself, walking in front of a train, jumping from a height). Simply taking away someone’s legally owned guns isn’t a serious solution.

Gun control advocates claim that California’s 1990 assault weapon ban is responsible for its 55% drop in firearm mortality from 1993 to 2017. But California’s murder rate peaked in 1993 at 13.1 per 100,000 people, rising from 10.9 in 1989, the year before the state enacted its assault weapons ban. So why did the murder rate fall by 10%  in 1994 and not in 1990, and continue falling by 53% by 2000? California’s tough three-strikes criminal punishment law started on March 7, 1994.

Biden says we need national gun control laws to protect states like California, but that ignores the fact that the guns used in California’s mass public shootings were from California. Indeed, the firearms in all but two mass public shootings over the last 25 years were from the state where the attack occurred.

Gun control measures aren’t just ineffective against mass public shootings – they actually encourage attacks. The shootings keep occurring in places where people can’t have concealed handguns. In Los Angeles County, where two mass public shootings occurred in January, there is only one permit for every 5,660 adults. In San Mateo County, where another attack occurred, there is one permit per 24,630 adults. By comparison, there is one permit holder for every nine people in the 43 right-to-carry states.

Concealed handgun permit holders make a difference in those 43 states. Indeed, people legally carrying guns stopped at least 37 mass public shootings since 2020. And when Americans are allowed to legally carry concealed handguns, they stop about half of the active shooting attacks in the U.S.

Mass public shooters purposefully pick targets where they know their victims cannot protect themselves. The perpetrator of a mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., last year wrote in his manifesto: “Areas where CCW [carrying a concealed weapon] are outlawed or prohibited may be good areas of attack ... Areas with strict gun laws are also great places of attack.” Other mass murderers have made similar statements.

These killers may be crazy, but most aren’t stupid. Yet, states like California, New York, and New Jersey are moving to create more gun-free zones, where mass murderers won’t have to worry about victims protecting themselves.

Unfortunately, the gun control Biden pushes won’t stop mass public shootings and will only make problems worse. Gun control failures are used to call for more gun control laws. The solutions that would actually work aren’t being discussed.

DeSantis Leads Coalition of Governors Fighting Biden’s ESG Policy

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DeSantis Leads Coalition of Governors Fighting Biden’s ESG Policy

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is leading a coalition of governors from 18 states who’ve pledged to fight the Biden administration’s environmental, social and corporate governance agenda.

The governors said Biden’s investment agenda is a “decision to jeopardize retirement savings for millions of Americans to promote far left priorities.”

Joining DeSantis are the governors of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.

The coalition argues President Joe Biden’s ESG agenda is “destabilizing the American economy and the global financial system.”

“At my direction, Florida has led the way in combating the pernicious effects of the ESG regime by directing our state pension fund managers to reject ESG and instead focus on obtaining the highest return on investment for Florida’s taxpayers and retirees,” DeSantis said, referring to the state last August divesting its retirement system from funds that prioritize ESG.

The coalition pledged to fight against the administration’s ESG policies after 25 state attorneys general sued the administration over them in January. Many in the governors’ coalition overlap with states represented in the AG coalition.

Last August, DeSantis vowed to “spearhead an initiative to join with other like-minded states to send an even louder message to the financial industry that the American people have rejected ESG at the ballot box, and ideologues cannot and should not circumnavigate the will of the people.” The governor’s coalition, he said, “delivered on that promise.”

In a joint statement issued on Thursday, the governors said, “Congress exercised its powers under the Congressional Review Act” to disapprove a Department of Labor Rule, which the president has threatened to veto. In doing so, Biden has “put his political agenda above the well-being and individual freedoms of hardworking Americans.”

The coalition of governors said “… freedom loving states can work together and leverage our state pension funds to force change in how major asset managers invest the money of hardworking Americans, ensuring corporations are focused on maximizing shareholder value, rather than the proliferation of woke ideology.”

The rule risks the pensions of thousands of hardworking Americans, they argue, instead of “prioritizing investment decisions on the highest rate of return.”

The rule, “Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights,” follows an executive order Biden issued last May. In it, he directed the federal government to implement policies “to help safeguard the financial security of America’s families, businesses and workers from climate-related financial risk that may threaten the life savings and pensions of U.S. workers and families.”

The rule change “will bolster the resilience of workers’ retirement savings and pensions by removing the artificial impediments – and chilling effect on environmental, social and governance investments – caused by the prior administration’s rules,” Acting Assistant Secretary for the Employee Benefits Security Administration Ali Khawar said in a statement last fall. “A principal idea underlying the proposal is that climate change and other ESG factors can be financially material and when they are, considering them will inevitably lead to better long-term risk-adjusted returns, protecting the retirement savings of America’s workers.”

The governors argue that retirees are “already suffering from the reckless fiscal policies of the Biden Administration” and are likely to “continue to experience diminished returns on the investment of their hard-earned money while the corporate elite continue to use their economic power to impose policies on the country that they could not achieve at the ballot box.”

The governors have vowed to protect their residents and taxpayers by implementing several measures. These include “blocking the use of ESG in all investment decisions at the state and local level, ensuring that only financial factors are considered to maximize the return on investment, protecting retirees and taxpayers alike.” It may also include “eliminating consideration of ESG factors by state and local governments when issuing bonds or prohibiting state fund managers from considering ESG factors when investing taxpayer money.”

The governors also vowed to protect citizens from ESG influences in the financial sector by “banning the financial sector from considering so called ‘Social Credit Scores’ in banking and lending practices aimed to prevent citizens from obtaining financial services like loans, lines of credit, and bank accounts.” They’re also considering “stopping financial institutions from discriminating against customers for their religious, political, or social beliefs, such as owning a firearm, securing the border, or increasing our energy independence.”

The AG’s lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court Northern District Amarillo Division and names Secretary of Labor Martin Walsh and the U.S. Department of Labor as defendants.

Former Epstein Associate Was Arrested at Jimmy Kimmel’s House

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Former Epstein Associate Was Arrested at Jimmy Kimmel’s House

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In recent weeks Late Night Show TV host Jimmy Kimmel has come to the defense of known pedophile Jeffrey Epstein‘s circle of friends, denouncing people like NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers as “conspiracy theorists.”

But now, it turns out, Kimmel himself ran in Epstein’s social circles, the Post Millennial reported.

Epstein’s former associate, friend and private chef, Adam Perry Lang, was arrested by authorities at Kimmel’s California beach house in January of 2019.

According to the report, Lang was believed to have been staying on the property at that time. Authorities arrested him after they received reports of explosives located on the premises.

Kimmel’s house was surrounded by drones and helicopters in a dramatic investigation.

He eventually bailed Lang out of jail for $50,000, and his lawyer suggested that the incident was a case of “swatting”–the reporting of a false emergency.

“Mr. Lang will be cleared of any wrongdoing. He was fast asleep with his ringer off. He immediately cooperated once he was notified of the commotion.”

No explosives or weapons were found in the house. Lang was found to have been a victim of swatting.

Aside from that bizarre incident, however, Kimmel and Lang appeared together in numerous social media posts.

In 2020, the Daily Beast also ran a report on Lang, noting in particular his connection to Epstein and emphasizing his cooperation with the federal investigation.

The string of events becomes even more bizarre when one considers that Kimmel went out of his way in a recent episode of the Late Night Show to slam Rodgers for speculating about the upcoming release of the Epstein client list.

“There’s some files that have some names on ’em that might be getting released pretty soon,” Rodgers had said earlier that week, speculating that the federal government and mainstream media were using the Chinese Spy Balloon hysteria as a coverup story.

“Might be time to revisit that concussion protocol, Aaron,” Kimmel said after calling Rodgers a “whack Packer” and a “tin foil hatter”.

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