Soros Praises DeSantis, Attacks Trump in Hopes of Splitting GOP Votes

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Soros Praises DeSantis, Attacks Trump in Hopes of Splitting GOP Votes

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) George Soros, an America-hating globalist billionaire who constantly tries to destroy this country by donating to various leftist causes, pushing communist policies and funding politicians, praised Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by highlighting his good qualities and saying that he will defeat Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination ahead of the 2024 election.

As was expected of him, Soros also criticized Trump and said that he will run as a third-party candidate, expecting that, in 2024, Americans will witness another “William Taft vs. Theodore Roosevelt” situation when the latter “broke” the Republican Party by dividing right-wing votes and allowed leftist Woodrow Wilson to take over the White House, according to the Post Millennial.

“This could induce Trump, whose narcissism has turned into a disease, to run as a third-party candidate. This would lead to a Democratic landslide and force the Republican Party to reform itself,” Soros said at the 2023 Munich Security Conference.

“DeSantis is shrewd, ruthless, and ambitious. He is likely to be the Republican candidate. [Trump] has turned into a pitiful figure continually bemoaning his loss in 2020. Big Republican donors are abandoning him in droves.”

After that, he started spewing the typical leftist propaganda.

“Trump is a deeply flawed character, a confidence trickster whose narcissism grew into a disease. He feels no commitment to democracy. Democracy merely provides him with a stage on which to perform,” he said.

“As president, he was more interested in hobnobbing with dictators than in promoting democratic principles.”

In this tirade, the only true thing that he said was his comment on Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin.

“[He] amassed a fortune while asserting total control over his country.”

However, Soros then continued repeating nonsensical leftist ideas, while also showing his elitism by making despicable comments about Trump supporters.

“Trump attracted a lot of non-educated white followers, but his biggest backers were the mega-rich — and he certainly delivered for them. First, he cut their taxes. Second, he nominated to the Supreme Court ideologues who embraced an extreme version of the Republican agenda. Third, he brought the Republican Party under his control by threatening those who didn’t swear loyalty to him with a challenge in the primaries,” he said.

“Lastly, he encouraged Republican-controlled states to introduce outrageous measures of voter suppression to ensure that his party would remain in power indefinitely. With that program, he was almost reelected in 2020,” Soros concluded.

CNN Sidelines Don Lemon after Sexist Rant Against Nikki Haley

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CNN Sidelines Don Lemon after Sexist Rant Against Nikki Haley

(Headline USA) CNN’s Don Lemon was notably absent from the network’s morning show panel on Friday following derogatory comments he made about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley.

“Don has the day off,” said co-host Kaitlin Collins at the beginning of Friday’s show before introducing her guest co-host, Audie Cornish.

On Thursday, Lemon commented on Haley’s entrance into the 2024 race, claiming the 51-year-old is “not in her prime.” 

“This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable. I think it’s the wrong road to go down. She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime,” Lemon said. “Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime, sorry. A woman is considered to be in their prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.”

He later attempted to apologize — first to his coworkers and boss, and then publicly. Tellingly, he never directly apologized to Haley.

“The people I am closest to in this organization are women,” Lemon said in an email to his coworkers, according to the New York Post. “The people I seek counsel to first in this organization are women. The person I am closest to is my mother, a woman.”

Lemon later tweeted: “The reference I made to a woman’s ‘prime’ this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it. A woman’s age doesn’t define her either personally or professionally. I have countless women in my life who prove that every day.”

Lemon’s other co-host, Poppy Harlow, was reportedly furious at Lemon after his comments. Her frustration comes just weeks after Collins and Lemon publicly sparred in front of others on set.

Haley blasted Lemon in response, saying on Friday that “liberals can’t stand the idea of having competency tests for older politicians to make sure they can do the job.”

“BTW it’s always the liberals who are the most sexist,” she said.

California School Tells Students to Report ‘Race-Related Stress’

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California School Tells Students to Report ‘Race-Related Stress’

(Headline USA) A California university urged students of color to report incidents that cause “race-related stress,” such as being called on by a professor in class.

California State University Monterey Bay’s Personal Growth and Counseling Center released guidance this week offering tips on how students can cope with the “burden of race-related stress” and the psychological and physical consequences it can have.

“Unfortunately, among students of color, the common stressors of the college experience are often compounded by the burden of race-related stress. Racism and discrimination continue to be a fact of life for many students of color on college campuses. At times, racism is overt, such as the use of racial slurs, graffiti, or even violence,” the school said.

“However, it can also frequently arise in more subtle forms, such as stereotyping, assumptions, or exclusion. In any form, racism and discrimination add stress and challenges to the lives of students of color. Finding ways to cope and bringing concerns to the forefront are important steps in owning personal power,” the guidance continued.

To deal with this stress, students should document “acts of racism or intolerance” by reporting peers and faculty members to the administration.

“Don’t ignore or minimize your experiences, and think broadly about what could be an act of racism. It doesn’t have to be an overt act (e.g., professor consistently not calling on you or minimizing your contributions, curriculum racially biased, etc). Talk to someone you trust, and report it,” the school said.

The guidance claims race-related stress can cause anxiety, depression, paranoia and self-blame. It can also lead to heart disease, hypertension and muscle tension, the guidance said.

“It is important to understand that you can experience race-related stress even if you were mistaken that a racist act occurred. Race-related stress reactions only require that a person believes that they were the target of racism,” the guidance states.

“Students of color who experience stereotype threat may begin to believe that their peers do not regard them as individuals, but as representatives of their racial/ethnic group.”

EPA Chief at Train Derailment Site: ‘Trust the Government’

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EPA Chief at Train Derailment Site: ‘Trust the Government’

(Headline USA) The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency got a first-hand look Thursday at the toll left by a freight train derailment in Ohio, where toxic chemicals spilled or were burned off, leaving the stench of fresh paint nearly two weeks later.

His response as residents struggle to overcome the growing environmental hazards was to tell people to trust the same government that has so far paid scant attention to the town’s peril. The Biden administration has steadfastly and without explanation refused to provide the town of East Palestine, or the state of Ohio, federal aid.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan, who walked along a creek that still reeks of chemicals, sought to reassure skeptical residents that the water is fit for drinking and the air safe to breathe around East Palestine, where just under 5,000 people live near the Pennsylvania state line.

“I’m asking they trust the government. I know that’s hard. We know there’s a lack of trust,” Regan said. “We’re testing for everything that was on that train.”

Since the derailment, residents have complained about headaches and irritated eyes and finding their cars and lawns covered in soot. The hazardous chemicals that spilled from the train killed thousands of fish, and residents have talked about finding dying or sick pets and wildlife.

Residents are frustrated by what they say is incomplete and vague information about the lasting effects from the disaster, which prompted evacuations.

“I have three grandbabies,” said Kathy Dyke, who came with hundreds of her neighbors to a public meeting Wednesday where representatives of railroad operator Norfolk Southern were conspicuously absent. “Are they going to grow up here in five years and have cancer?”

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whose response to the disaster has been roundly criticized, was absent from the town hall.

Regan said Thursday that anyone who is fearful of being in their home should seek testing from the government.

“People have been unnerved. They’ve been asked to leave their homes,” he said, adding that if he lived there, he would be willing to move his family back into the area as long as the testing shows it’s safe.

Those attending the previous night’s informational session had questions about health hazards and demanded more transparency from Norfolk Southern, which did not attend, citing concerns about its staff safety. Many who had waited in a long line snaking outside the high school gymnasium came away upset that they didn’t hear anything new. Some booed or laughed each time they heard the village mayor or state health director assure them that lingering odors aren’t dangerous.

“They just danced around the questions a lot,” said Danielle Deal, who lives a few miles from the derailment site. “Norfolk needed to be here.”

At least five lawsuits have been filed against the railroad, which announced this week that it is creating a $1 million fund to help the community while continuing to remove spilled contaminants from the ground and streams and monitoring air quality.

“We are here and will stay here for as long as it takes to ensure your safety and to help East Palestine recover and thrive,” Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw said in a letter to the community.

Families who evacuated said they want assistance figuring out how to get the promised financial help. Beyond that, they want to know whether the railroad will be held responsible.

State and federal officials have promised to make sure Norfolk Southern not only pays for the cleanup but also reimburses residents.

The White House said teams from the federal health and emergency response and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will go to East Palestine.

No one was injured when about 50 cars derailed in a fiery, mangled mess on the outskirts of East Palestine on Feb. 3. Critics contend that officials wanting to clear the train tracks quickly released and burned toxic vinyl chloride from five rail cars, sending flames and black smoke billowing into the sky again.

The Ohio EPA said the latest tests show five wells supplying the village’s drinking water are free from contaminants.

At least, 3,500 fish, mostly small ones such as minnows and darters, have been found dead along more than 7 miles of streams, according to the estimates from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

Precautions are being taken to ensure contaminants that reached the Ohio River don’t make it into drinking water, officials said.

There have been anecdotal reports that pets or livestock have been sickened. No related animal deaths have been confirmed and the risk to livestock is low, Ohio officials said, but the state Agriculture Department is testing samples from a beef calf that died a week after the derailment.

The suspected cause of the derailment is a mechanical issue with a rail car axle. The National Transportation Safety Board said it has video appearing to show a wheel bearing overheating just beforehand. The NTSB expects to issue its preliminary report in about two weeks.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Longtime YouTube CEO Departs Ahead of Big SCOTUS Ruling on Internet Accountability

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Longtime YouTube CEO Departs Ahead of Big SCOTUS Ruling on Internet Accountability

(Headline USA) Susan Wojcicki, a longtime Google executive who played a key role in the company’s creation, is stepping down as YouTube’s CEO after spending the past nine years running the controversial video-streaming site, which has played a significant role in aggressively censoring and shadow-banning conservative content.

In an email to YouTube employees that was shared publicly Thursday, the 54-year-old Wojcicki said she is leaving to “start a new chapter focused on my family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about.” She didn’t elaborate on her plans.

Neal Mohan, who has worked closely with Wojcicki for years, will replace her as YouTube’s CEO.

Wojcicki is leaving just days before the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case threatening the freewheeling style that has long been one of YouTube’s biggest advantages.

The case stems from the 2015 death of an American woman killed in Paris during an attack by ISIS, in an incident that spurred the victim’s family to file a lawsuit alleging YouTube’s algorithms aided the terror group’s recruitment.

If the court decides that tech companies can be held liable for material posted on their sites, experts say the effects could not only destroy YouTube but shake up the entire internet.

That’s because under the U.S. law, internet companies are generally exempt from liability for the material users post on their networks. Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act—itself part of a broader telecom law—provides a legal “safe harbor” for internet companies—a protection that YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen seized upon as an opportunity to launch as video site to “broadcast yourself.”

Wojcicki’s departure also comes at a time when YouTube is facing one of its most challenging periods since Google bought what was then a quirky video site facing widespread complaints about copyright infringement in 2006 for an announced price of $1.65 billion. The all-stock deal was valued at $1.76 billion by the time the transaction closed.

Although Google was initially derided for paying so much for a video service whose future appeared to be in doubt, it turned out to be a bargain. Besides becoming a cultural phenomenon that attracts billions of viewers, YouTube also has become a financial success with ad revenue totaling $29 billion last year. That was up from annual ad revenue of $8 billion in 2017 when Google’s corporate parent, Alphabet Inc., began to disclose YouTube’s financial revenue.

But YouTube’s ad revenue during the final six months of last year dropped 5% from the previous year—the first extended downturn that the video service has shown since Alphabet peeled back its financial curtain.

It comes, ironically, as the very Democrats that Google and YouTube helped to install into office—through financial donations, algorithmic content manipulations and possible collusion with deep-state operatives in the intelligence community—now bring to bear a recessionary economy that has taken one of its biggest tolls on tech companies thus far.

Analysts are worried the slump will continue this year, one of the reasons Alphabet’s stock price has fallen 11% since it released its most recent quarterly report two weeks ago.

Although she became one of the most prominent female executives in the male-dominated tech industry, Wojcicki will also be remembered as Google’s first landlord.

Shortly after Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated their search engine into a business in 1998, Wojcicki rented the garage of her Menlo Park, California, home to them for $1,700 a month.

Page and Brin—both 25 at the time—continued to refine their search engine in Wojcicki’s garage for five months before moving Google into a more formal office. They later persuaded their former landlord to come work for the company.

“It would be one of the best decisions of my life,” Wojcicki wrote in the announcement of her departure.

In 2006, Google bought Wojcicki’s home to serve as a monument to the roots of a company now valued at $1.2 trillion. During Wojcicki’s career at Google, Brin became her brother-in-law when he married her sister, Anne, in 2007. Brin and Anne Wojcicki divorced in 2015.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Fight over Reparations Breaks Out on ‘The View’

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Fight over Reparations Breaks Out on ‘The View’

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Whoopi Goldberg got in a heated yelling match with one of her fellow co-hosts of The View, Sunny Hostin, over reparations for descendants of slaves.

Goldberg kicked off the conversation with the announcement that black people should get reparations, to which Hostin responded by referencing Special Field Order 15, signed on Jan. 12, 1865, which issued freed slaves each a 40-acre plot of land.

“You all got 40 acres and a mule, because we didn’t get none,” Hostin said, according to the Daily Caller.

Goldberg shot back, claiming that black people in America had a much more difficult time than Hispanic Americans.

“Well, you didn’t do what my people did,” Goldberg said, not acknowledging that she also did not do what her ancestors did. “They weren’t really looking for you, but they were looking for my folks and my folks got it and that’s because that’s what was promised.”

She concluded the segment by claiming the government currently pays reparations to several different groups, and argued that pretending “we don’t owe some folks something is ridiculous.”

Twitter users fought Goldberg’s take, claiming that no freed slaves received 40 acres and a mule.

“Whoopi Goldberg literally just said on TV that black people got reparations because her family got some land, which is categorically untrue for most black people,” user Eluard Gabriel posited. “How many times will she stick her foot in her mouth before she’s severely reprimanded?”

The panel discussed reparations in a Columbus Day segment last year, where Goldberg and Hostin agreed that both of their families received restitution.

“[Racism is] really a power dynamic, it’s not just about the color of your skin,” Hostin explained. “And I think when you talk about those who committed crimes owe reparations, those are the people the atrocities of slavery, who stole land, who killed indigenous people. Today is Indigenous People’s Day.”

Epstein’s Emails w/ JP Morgan Exec Show ‘Disney Code’ Used to Pimp Girls

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Epstein’s Emails w/ JP Morgan Exec Show ‘Disney Code’ Used to Pimp Girls

(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) In an email exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and then-JP Morgan CEO Jes Staley, they used Disney code words to discuss child sex trafficking.

A year after Epstein finished his 13-month sentence for prostituting a child, Staley sent him an email that seemed to describe a recent sexual encounter and to plan an upcoming one, the Western Journal reported.

These Disney terms do not seem to have a generally accepted meaning, so they could be the perverted creations of Epstein and his clients. But Twitter users have noted that Snow White is 14 years old in the movie and Belle is 17 years old.

Between 2008 and 2012, Epstein and Staley sent 1,200 emails to each other. This period corresponded to Staley’s tenure as JP Morgan’s chief executive officer. He left the company in 2013.

The email conversation came up because the Virgin Islands filed a lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase for alleged “complicity” in Epstein’s sex trafficking and prostitution operations.

JP Morgan called the case “meritless,” adding that the Virgin Islands want to pull from “deeper pockets” than Epstein’s estate allowed.

Documents from the lawsuit also revealed that Epstein sent Staley a picture of a girl, but the court redacted the image.

The Virgin Islands claim that JP Morgan facilitated Epstein’s criminal sexual activities.

The lawsuit alleges that “at least 20 individuals paid through JP Morgan accounts were victims of trafficking and sexual assault in Little St. James, New York, and/or other Epstein properties.”

Biden Blew Nearly $2M to Shoot Down… Weather Balloons

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Biden Blew Nearly $2M to Shoot Down… Weather Balloons

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) President Joe Biden broke his silence Thursday on the recent balloon controversy to inform the public that the last three objects shot down by the military were likely harmless weather balloons.

“Nothing right now suggests they were related to China’s spy balloon program or that they were surveillance vehicles from any other country,” Biden told reporters, referencing the last three unidentified objects spotted over Alaska, Canada and Lake Huron in the Midwest.

“The intelligence community’s current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation, or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research.”

If Biden’s claims are accurate, that means the military spent some $1.6 million to shoot down the harmless objects—plus another $400,000 to shoot down the Chinese surveillance balloon.

Antiwar.com editor Dave DeCamp noted that U.S. fighter jets 12 heat-seeking AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles, which are worth over $400,000 apiece.

The military used one of those missiles to take down the Chinese surveillance balloon near South Carolina earlier this month, and another four missiles to take down the last three objects—two were required to shoot down the one above Lake Huron because the first missile failed to detect the object and crashed “harmlessly” into Lake Huron, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

Biden did not mention the use of heat-seeking missiles in his speech, nor did reporters ask him about it.

According to a report from Aviation Week, one of the objects shot down may have been a party-style “pico balloon” used by the Illinois-based hobbyist club Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade.

DeCamp took to Twitter to show the public exactly what a pico balloon is.

Aviation Week quotes a scientist who tried to warn government they were shooting down a pico balloon, to no avail.

“I tried contacting our military and the FBI—and just got the runaround—to try to enlighten them on what a lot of these things probably are. And they’re going to look not too intelligent to be shooting them down,” Ron Meadows, the founder of Scientific Balloon Solutions, reportedly told the publication.

Reacting to the bizarre sequence of events, Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., told Newsmax that he would have court-martialed” one of his soldiers if they shot a missile at a weather balloon.

‘I’ve got to tell you, as a Green Beret commander, I would have court-martialed one of my guys if they just started randomly shooting things they didn’t identify as hostile or having hostile intent,” Waltz said.

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

Ex-MSNBC Host: Network Banned Unfavorable Clinton Coverage in 2014

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Ex-MSNBC Host: Network Banned Unfavorable Clinton Coverage in 2014

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) MSNBC censored its own host for producing a negative monologue about Hillary Clinton before her failed presidential run in the 2016 election.

Krystal Ball, a former MSNBC host, described during an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience how she was censored by the cable network, according to Breitbart News.

Ball said that in 2014 she produced a left-wing monologue against Hillary Clinton on the network, describing Obama’s floundering recovery from the recession of 2008 that failed to produce economic relief for middle- and working-class Americans.

“In a time when corporations have hijacked our politics, enabling them to reap all the profit without feeling any compunction to do right by their workers, is someone who sat on the rabidly anti-union board of Walmart for six years the right person to restore workers’ rights?” she asked.

“In a time when we are still reeling from a global financial disaster brought on by foolhardy bank deregulation, is someone who recently took $400,000 to give two speeches at Goldman Sachs the person we need to wrest control of the asylum back from the banking inmates?”

“I must say: ‘Don’t run Hillary. Don’t run,’” Ball concluded.

Ball reported that her mainstream media employers then censored her.

“Afterwards, I get pulled into an office and [was told,] ‘Great monologue, everything’s fine; but next time you do any commentary on Hillary Clinton, it has to get approved by the president of the network,’” she said.

While Ball reported wishing the chastisement did not change her reporting, she admitted that it did.

“I’m a human being. I’m sure I responded to the incentives of that system of like, ‘I don’t want to get in trouble with the boss,’” she said.

Ball explained, “the way it works.” She said most reporters know exactly what they are supposed to cover and what they are not supposed to say.

“They know what they’re allowed to say, and so they don’t need that direct intervention of censorship,” she explained. “Most of them in cable news — they’re not really there because they’re talented. They’re there because they’re reliable purveyors of whatever it is that that network wants to purvey. So that’s ultimately why they get the job and they understand the parameters of the task.”

Biden Rejects Federal Aid for Site of Ohio Toxic Spill

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Biden Rejects Federal Aid for Site of Ohio Toxic Spill

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The White House rejected a request for federal disaster assistance for the cleanup of the train derailment and subsequent toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has reportedly been in contact with the Federal Emergency Management Agency since the disaster took place and has received nothing but negative answers, according to the Daily Wire.

“The DeWine Administration has been in daily contact with FEMA to discuss the need for federal support, however FEMA continues to tell Governor DeWine that Ohio is not eligible for assistance at this time,” DeWine’s office said. “Governor DeWine will continue working with FEMA to determine what assistance can be provided.”

FEMA officials said they are in contact with DeWine’s office, but did not give any indication as to why they are continually rejecting his requests for assistance.

“FEMA is in constant contact with the emergency operations center in East Palestine and with the Ohio Emergency Management Agency,” said FEMA spokesperson Jeremy Edwards. “We are closely coordinating with EPA, HHS, and the CDC, who are helping to test water and air quality, and to conduct public health assessments.”

Dan Tierney, a spokesperson for DeWine’s office, did say that the Department of Health and Human Services sent aid for residents suffering from the derailment and toxic burn.

Norfolk Southern, the company that owned the cars that derailed, provided the Environmental Protection Agency with a list of the cargo, claiming that the chemicals the train were “stabilized” after a controlled burn by cleanup crews.

Locals and government officials are reporting on the side effects of the crash. Chemicals seeping into the ground have contaminated several local water ways.

According to the National Cancer Institute, exposure to vinyl chloride—one of the chemicals that spilled from the train—may cause an increased risk of several types of cancers, including liver, brain and lung cancers, lymphoma and leukemia.

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