Canadian Media Melts Down after Hockey Player Refuses to Wear Pride Jersey

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Canadian Media Melts Down after Hockey Player Refuses to Wear Pride Jersey

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Povorov refused to wear a rainbow jersey for his team’s “Pride Night” because of his Russian Orthodox faith, driving the mainstream media into a near-apoplectic fit of rage.

“I respect everybody and I respect everybody’s choices,” Povorov said in a statement. “My choice is to stay true to myself and my religion.”

According to the Post Millennial, morning show hosts Sid Seixeiro and Dina Pugilese melted down on air, fuming with anger that Povorov would not celebrate something to strictly against his faith.

Seixeiro admonished Povorov for his religious convictions and recommended that the Flyers be hit with a massive fine.

“The theme from the National Hockey League is ‘hockey is for everyone’,” Seixeiro said. “The theme is not ‘hockey is for everyone … unless you don’t believe in gay rights otherwise do whatever you want.'”

Seixeiro continued, stating that no major league sports are implementing “repercussions” for players and coaches who do not comply with their virtue signaling, but the National Hockey League could be among the first to do so.

“I think we fine the Flyers a million dollars for this—I’m not kidding,” he said. “Figure this out and stop offending people on nights where its not about that; it’s supposed to be about inclusivity.”

Seixeiro argued that if a player attempted something similar on a night meant to honor the military, there would be social-media outrage.

“Nothing scares me more than any human being that says ‘I’m not doing this because of my religious beliefs,'” Seixeiro added, suggesting that, “when you look at people’s lives who normally say that publicly, you’d throw up at what you saw.”

Seixeiro continued, furiously rambling, and concluded by decrying the NHL for not being “serious” about the issue and called said he found it “insulting.”

Flyers head coach John Tortorella defended Provorov for “being true to himself” and refused to bench him in the game against the Annaheim Mighty Ducks.

NHL fans encouraged Provorov and thanked him for sticking to his religious convictions.

Many of them drew a comparison to an iconic Seinfeld scene.

After Barrage of Santos Attacks, CNN Praises Him for Allegedly Being a Drag Queen

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After Barrage of Santos Attacks, CNN Praises Him for Allegedly Being a Drag Queen

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) After weeks of attacking Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., for his misleading statements about his background while on the campaign trail, CNN opted for a different approach after discovering his alleged drag-queen past.

Per the New York Post, Santos dressed as a drag queen named “Kitara Ravache” while living in Brazil in 2008.

The accusation came from Santos’s former friend and fellow drag queen, “Eula Rochard.”

“I think I met him when he was around 16 or 17 years old,” Rochard said of Santos, who went by the name Anthony at the time. “He used to hang out in my house while his mom was playing Bingo.”

While discussing the bombshell allegation, CNN’s Alyssa Farah initially attacked Santos and tried, without evidence, to link his “lying” to former President Donald Trump.

But when it came to Santos’s cross-dressing, she declared, “more power to him.”

Christina Pushaw, the longtime spokesperson of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, suggested that if any on the Left failed to support Santos’s lifestyle choices, that might be considered hate speech.

Santos, one of just few openly gay Republican lawmakers,drew the wrath of many on the Left after flipping a historically blue district in the posh northwestern region of Long Island.

Shortly thereafter, he acknowledged having made some deceptive statements about his past, including claiming to be Jewish even though he was raised Catholic and attending a school that he never attended.

Republicans have been mixed in their response, with some calling on him to resign and others pointing to the long track record of Democrats—such as President Joe Biden and Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.—all blatantly lying about their past with impunity.

Despite his candor concerning previous misstatements, Santos robustly denied the most recent allegations about his gender-bending.

“The most recent obsession from the media claiming that I am a drag Queen or ‘performed’ as a drag Queen is categorically false,” he wrote.

“The media continues to make outrageous claims about my life while I am working to deliver results. I will not be distracted nor fazed by this,” Santos added.

But according to Rochard, Santos’s constant lying is nothing new.

“He used to create stories, usually involving money—like that his dad was rich,” Rochard added.

“But then people wondered why his mom was a cleaning lady. There’s nothing wrong with being a cleaning lady, but if his dad was rich, why then?”

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

New Zealand’s WEF-Linked, Vax-Nazi PM Resigns Suddenly w/ No Explanation

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New Zealand’s WEF-Linked, Vax-Nazi PM Resigns Suddenly w/ No Explanation

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who is best known for locking people over their resistance to vaccination mandates and taxing farmers for cow flatulence, announced unexpectedly that she will be resigning from her position.

According to the Daily Wire, Ardern did not elaborate on why she is leaving her post, though she did sound upset while announcing the news.

“I’m leaving, because with such a privileged role comes responsibility,” she said. “The responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead and also when you are not.”

“I know what this job takes,” she added. “And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. It’s that simple.”

Ardern will be stepping down on Feb. 7. An election for the new Prime Minister will take place in October.

The 42-year-old politician’s sudden, mysterious resignation left many wondering why she is leaving her position.

Many speculated that Ardern, an alumna of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders program, may be leaving to take a job at the WEF, which this week held its annual summit in Davos, Switzerland.

Others said she was likely in some kind of trouble and was stepping down to avoid a total media circus.

In her time in office, Ardern implemented oppressive lockdowns, insane gun restrictions and pushed the monitoring of so-called “disinformation” online.

In the midst of the pandemic, her advice to New Zealanders was “don’t talk to your neighbors.”

Once the vaccine was available, however, she allowed for orgies of up to 25 vaccinated people.

Most recently, she locked down the entire country over a single case of COVID.

Ardern took the opportunity to ban semi-automatic long guns following a shooting in Christchurch, implementing a buyback program which ended in colossal failure.

The prime minister also kept up her ongoing crusade against misinformation, even going as far as decrying free speech as a “weapon of war” in a speech at the United Nations.

Ardern proposed that the international community address the problem of misinformation and suggested intense government restrictions.

“What if that lie, told repeatedly, and across many platforms, prompts, inspires, or motivates others to take up arms. To threaten the security of others. To turn a blind eye to atrocities, or worse, to become complicit in them. What then? This is no longer a hypothetical,” she claimed.

GOP Lawmaker Critically Injured after Falling Off Roof

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GOP Lawmaker Critically Injured after Falling Off Roof

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., was critically injured earlier this week after he fell off a roof in Sarasota, Florida, the Gateway Pundit reported.

According to the Washington Examiner, Steube fell from a height of approximately 25 feet while doing routine home maintenance.

Steube’s office published a tweet soon after the event, noting that he suffered several injuries.

Headline USA sent a follow-up email to Steube’s spokesperson, Sadie Thorman, and will update with any new developments.

Florida GOP Vice Chair Christian Ziegler noted on Twitter that Steube is in stable condition at the Sarasota hospital.

“I just heard that even though Congressman @RepGregSteube is still in the hospital, he is doing well. Big relief to hear,” Ziegler tweeted.

Numerous Republican congressmen, including  Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., wished the Trump-supporting Steube a quick recovery.

“Please join Ann and me in wishing Greg a speedy recovery. We’re keeping him and the Steube family in our prayers,” Scott tweeted.

Steube, 44, has been in Congress since 2019 representing the outer suburbs of Sarasota and Fort Myers through the Everglades. Prior to his congressional career he served in the Florida state Senate.

Steube, who easily won reelection in 2022, made splashes in the mainstream media last summer by anticipating the left’s craven response to the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.

“I firmly believe that Washington’s going to turn into a completely overrun, mob rule type environment when that happens,” Steube said at the time. “Right now, if you go anywhere by the Supreme Court, there is tons of security, wire like fencing up to where you can’t climb it, people all over, security all over in anticipation of this.”

Al Gore Spews Climate Alarmist Rant, Leads Attack on Capitalism at Davos

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Al Gore Spews Climate Alarmist Rant, Leads Attack on Capitalism at Davos

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) As global elitists burned through their ever-expanding carbon footprints chartering private planes to Davos, fellow jet-setter Al Gore went on an unhinged, scaremongering climate rant during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum.

The former vice president scattershot wild predictions and dire warnings of boiling oceans, sea bombs and atomic bombs.

Lecturing about the impact carbon emissions are taking on the troposphere, Gore scolded that humans are using the thin layer of atmosphere as “an open sewer.”

“If you could drive a car straight up in the air at interstate highway speeds, you’d get to the top of that blue line in five minutes, and all the  greenhouse-gas pollution would be below you,” Gore said, claiming that “the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the Earth.”

Fox News host Sean Hannity ripped Gore’s climate hysteria, noting the long line of his similar claims that have been debunked.

“There are dark corners of the Internet with more believable conspiracy theories than his,” Hannity said. “Make no mistake, Al Gore looks like a lunatic, acts like a lunatic, and he is a lunatic.”

Gore hit full stride at Davos when he told his WEF audience that the climate crisis was “what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level and causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach one billion in this century.”

If that’s not bad enough, Gore claimed that climate change caused racism and political authoritarianism.

“Look at the xenophobia and political authoritarian trends that have come from just a few million [climate] refugees,” he said. “What about a billion? We would lose our capacity for self-governance on this world.”

To save humanity, Gore said “We have to act. We have to have a sense of urgency much greater than we have yet had. And we need to make some changes.”

To that end, Gore gaggled with Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urrego to explain how the evils of capitalism were to blame.

“The capitalism that we have known in the last 30, 40 years, can it overcome the climate crisis that the capitalism helped create?” Petro asked rhetorically, because the obvious answer, he said, was that capitalism needs to be replaced or humans will perish.

The lust to maximize profit that drives capitalism has created “global anarchy,” he declared, and “the oldest source of energy to increase profit is coal, oil and gas, and these have resulted in a change in our atmosphere.”

“We have to put an end to this if we wish to live in our planet,” Petro said. “If capitalism isn’t able to do so, either humanity will die with it or humanity will overcome capitalism so that we can live in our planet.”

Antifa Plans ‘Night of Rage’ after Leftist Militant Gunned Down for Shooting Ga. State Trooper

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Antifa Plans ‘Night of Rage’ after Leftist Militant Gunned Down for Shooting Ga. State Trooper

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The domestic terrorist group Antifa on Wednesday night was actively encouraging members and supporters to converge on Atlanta for a “night of rage,” in the wake of a leftist militant being gunned down by police after shooting a Georgia state trooper at the site of a proposed police training facility just outside of Atlanta on Wednesday morning.

Authorities stated that the trooper was a part of a “clearing operation” at the site in DeKalb County when a protester opened fire, according to the Daily Mail. Officers fired back, and the unnamed domestic terrorist died at the scene.

The unidentified trooper was in surgery by the afternoon of the same day and was in stable condition, Georgia State Patrol Col. Chris Wright said at a news conference outside Grady Memorial Hospital.

Antifa thugs swarmed the scene in protest Wednesday, and radicals with the Antifa activist group Forest Defenders were coordinating “a call for reciprocal violence to be done to the police and their allies” with a “night of rage” in Atlanta on Jan. 20.

Wednesday’s attack on police was another example of the violence that the “Forest Defenders” have committed. Before that, they hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at police and contractors at the site. Last month, five Antifa members were arrested on domestic terrorism charges from the chaos.

The radicals became even more violent over the last few weeks by destroying property, committing arson and attacking both local and government officials, the Daily Mail reported.

Richard Porter, an auto mechanic in Dallas, Georgia, said that the group was throwing things at him, including a “gas bomb,” which forced him to flee, leaving his truck behind that was eventually burned down.

“It seemed to me like they were going to burn the truck with me in it,” he said.

Headline USA’s Mark Pellin contributed to this report

EXCLUSIVE: FBI’s Militia Infiltration Predated, Spanned Wider than Whitmer Kidnap Plot

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EXCLUSIVE: FBI’s Militia Infiltration Predated, Spanned Wider than Whitmer Kidnap Plot

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The U.S. government claims it foiled the Wolverine Watchmen militia’s conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer thanks to Army veteran Dan Chappel, an FBI informant who purportedly prompted the bureau’s investigation when he notified law enforcement about the Watchmen’s violent online rhetoric in March 2020.

However, Headline USA has learned that another key FBI informant involved in the Whitmer kidnap sting operation, Stephen Robeson, was embedded in the midwestern militia movement since at least 2019. Moreover, Robeson apparently had a relationship with one of the alleged plotters dating back to January 2020—months before Chappel purportedly discovered the Watchmen and the bureau’s probe officially began.

These revelations come from independent journalist Christina Urso, who is working on a documentary about the Whitmer kidnap conspiracy entitled Kidnap and Kill: An FBI Terror Plot. Urso has access to unpublished information about the case, some of which Headline USA reviewed, including documentation showing that the FBI enlisted Robeson to be a confidential informant in October 2019.

Urso, who interviewed defendant Barry Croft for her documentary, also explained that Robeson had an established relationship with Croft from as early as January 2020.

“Stephen Robeson began contacting Barry almost daily in January 2020, posing as someone who was a friend of a friend. Barry was vulnerable at that point because he had a friend who passed away under what he perceived to be very suspicious circumstances. Robeson presented himself as someone who knew Barry’s friend and wanted to look into his death,” Urso said.

Among the overtures Robeson made to Croft was an invitation to attend the January 2020 Second Amendment rally in Richmond, Virginia, according to Urso. Croft declined because he didn’t live in Virginia and was busy supporting his fiancé and daughters as full-time truck driver, she said.

The revelations about Robeson being an informant since October 2019 and having a relationship with Croft since January 2020 indicates that government’s militia infiltration operation was much wider in scope than the Whitmer kidnap sting operation, said Urso. It also undermines government’s claim that its surveillance of militias in 2020 was in response to their violent rhetoric against lockdowns and other Covid-related policies, she said.

Robeson, who headed the Wisconsin chapter of the Three Percenters militia, was one of at least 12 informants the FBI used in its investigation.

Due to his criminal background and illegal antics throughout the investigation, Robeson ended up being one of the most prominent and controversial informants involved in the case. Defense attorneys say he helped entrap their clients by urging them to participate in the plot, setting up meetings and providing them with drugs and alcohol before recording their intoxicated anti-government rants.

Croft maintained his relationship with Robeson throughout 2020, until he was arrested in October of that year. After a jury couldn’t reach a verdict in his first trial, Croft was convicted along with co-defendant Adam Fox last August, receiving a 235-month prison sentence in December. Two other defendants struck plea deals, while two more were acquitted.

Some of Robeson’s recordings were used to convict Croft, who now has an appeal pending.

The juries in Croft’s trials never heard about his relationship with Robeson because the U.S. government pulled the informant from the case and threatened to charge him with perjury—tactics defense attorneys say were employed to keep Robeson off the stand to avoid discrediting government’s case. Robeson invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, and never testified.

Urso, who has covered the case since its inception under the pen name Radix Verum, promises that numerous other revelations will be included in her forthcoming documentary.

“The documentary is hoping to expose that this was much bigger [than the Whitmer sting]. It was not just this one militia group,” she said, adding, “We’ve learned the FBI is operating Facebook pages for militia groups, and trying to funnel people into these organization, where they have informants in there radicalizing people to get them to do things people normally wouldn’t do.

“If you go through the records, they’re talking about having targets in 15 different states, so you have 15 different [FBI] field offices involved in this, which makes me believe that there had to have been some sort of authorization coming from a higher level of the FBI to coordinate this amount of resources,” she said.

“This case was obviously a lot bigger than what government is presenting to the public.”

Urso said a trailer will be released later this month, and that she hopes the full documentary will be published by year’s end. More information about the documentary can be found here.

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

Soros Bought Off at Least 54 High-Profile Acolytes in Mainstream Media

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Soros Bought Off at Least 54 High-Profile Acolytes in Mainstream Media

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A new MRC Business investigation revealed that George Soros — a leftist 93-year-old billionaire — despite his age, just can’t stop his attempts to destroy America by funding many the most influential figures in mass media via donations to leftist groups affiliated with them.

“The over $32 billion that leftist billionaire George Soros poured into his organizations to spread his radical ‘open society’ agenda on abortion, Marxist economics, anti-Americanism, defunding the police, environmental extremism and LGBT fanaticism around the globe has paid dividends,” MRC Business analysts Joseph Vazquez and Daniel Schneider wrote.

“In fact, his funding has helped him establish ties with some of the biggest name media personalities in the United States and abroad which help indoctrinate millions with his views on a day-to-day basis.” “MRC Business found at least 54 prominent media figures… who are tied to Soros through their connections to organizations that he funds,” they added. “These include personalities like ‘NBC Nightly News’ anchor Lester Holt and The Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee.”

This study is the third and final MRC Business report that is related to Soros’s media influence, according to the Post Millennial. MRC previously revealed that the “Godfather of the Left” donated $131 million between 2016 and 2020 to control 253 media groups like puppets.

“This network of media ties allows Soros to hold sizable influence over the stories that the media covers, how they cover those stories, and what stories they don’t cover,” Vazquez and Schneider said. Among the influential figures linked to Soros’s money are Bloomberg News co-founder Matthew Winkler and CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.

“The others encompass reporters, anchors, columnists, editors, news executives and journalists linked to organizations like ABC, CBS, NPR, Bloomberg News, Reuters, The New York Times and a host of additional outlets,” Vazquez and Schneider said.

Soros donated $2,750,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists between 2018 and 2020. Amanpour is listed as a senior advisor of the committee. Buzbee and Holt are board members of the committee. Among other board members are employees of the New York Times Company, Reuters, The New Yorker, the Associated Press, the Chicago Tribune and Bloomberg News.

MRC Business also revealed that, between 2016 and 2020, Soros has been donating $1,165,000 to the Aspen Institute, which is connected to NBC Universal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde, the group that oversees NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC.

Andrew Cohen, a legal analyst from CBS, is also an editor-at-large with The Marshall Project, which received at least $1,250,000 between 2016 and 2020 from Soros. Kerry Smith, ABC’s Senior Vice President for Editorial Quality, is also on ProPublica’s Journalism Advisory Board. ProPublica received at least $1,450,008 from Soros between 2016 and 2020.

Soros also donated to the Poynter Institute and directly funds NPR.

Pennsylvania Republicans Eye Ban on Vaccine Mandates

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Pennsylvania Republicans Eye Ban on Vaccine Mandates

(Lauren Jessop, The Center Square) An impending proposal in the Pennsylvania Senate takes aim at vaccine mandates.

“The fight for medical freedom continues into the new legislative session,” said prime sponsor Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Chambersburg, in a Jan. 4 press release.

Mastriano first introduced the measure, called the Medical Freedom Act, in December 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both versions of the legislation would shield residents from adverse employment actions or discrimination for refusing vaccination while working for state agencies or political entities.

A second proposal – in collaboration with Sens. Cris Dush, R-Bellefonte, and Tracy Pennycuick, R-Red Hill – to extend similar protections to the Pennsylvania National Guard is also in the works.

“Many Pennsylvanians have lost and continue to lose their livelihoods and access to basic services due to misguided COVID vaccine mandates,” Mastriano said. “The General Assembly must take action to affirm that individuals have the basic human right to decide what goes into their body.”

This week, the Department of Defense officially lifted the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military, but Mastriano wants to make sure members of the state’s National Guard and Air National Guard are never subject to them again, either.

In the memo seeking co-sponsorship, he said “it is more than troubling that our Guard members, after years of service, now must fight for their basic human rights and medical freedom.”

According to Mastriano, the National Guard has missed its recruiting target by 10%, and 7,500 members have been separated from service since the mandates went into effect.

He also cited the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, that says there have been “over 2,000 reports of myocarditis or pericarditis among individuals aged 30 years and younger shortly following a COVID-19 vaccination.”

“Pennsylvania cannot afford to be left vulnerable by losing valuable members of our Guard who support critical missions in the Commonwealth,” he said.

The bill faced staunch opposition from Democrats in the last legislative session, who argued vaccine mandates saved lives, especially among populations more vulnerable to the “highly communicable disease.”

The new proposal could also languish in the House, where Democrats are expected to capture a narrow majority after special elections scheduled next month.

Americans Feel the Pain of Higher Housing Costs

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Americans Feel the Pain of Higher Housing Costs

(The Center Square) Americans are feeling the pain of inflation, especially when it comes to housing.

U.S. News and World Report surveyed 2,000 adults who either had to move back in with their family or got a roommate or housemate because of the higher cost of living. They made that decision even though the majority reported they believe there is a stigma associated with moving back in with your parents.

According to the survey, 71% say cost-of-living increases “had a significant personal impact on them in 2022.”

In fact, 59% of those surveyed said inflation and higher housing costs “made them consider moving to another city.”

On top of that, 87% of those surveyed say they “know at least one person who had to move in with family or get a roommate in 2022 due to inflation costs.”

The Producer Price Index, one marker of inflation with new data released Wednesday, has risen more than 15% since President Joe Biden took office.

The Federal Reserve’s higher interest rates to combat that inflation have also made borrowing money to buy a home much more expensive.

The latest Consumer Price Index data showed that shelter costs rose 0.8% in December, contributing to a 7.5% increase in the last year.

“The number one reason these surveyed Americans had to move in with family or get a roommate in 2022 was inflation making it too difficult to cover day-to-day expenses like groceries and gas, followed by cost-of-living hikes making it too difficult to pay rent or mortgage payments,” said Kristen Mollica of 360 Reviews.

“These high costs have also impacted Americans’ future family plans; among respondents who indicated they’ve considered starting a family or continuing to add to their family in 2023, 74% admit they’re reconsidering growing their family specifically due to inflation and cost-of-living increases.”

Experts say the shelter index could get even worse and may not fully reflect how much more Americans are paying for housing.

“Shelter CPI is now playing catch up but still only shows a 14% increase since the start of 2020 versus a 20.9% increase in actual Rents & 40.9% increase in Home Prices (nationally),” said Charlie Bilello, Chief Market Strategist at Creative Planning, a financial management group. “Which means that we could see more increases in Shelter CPI to close some of that gap.”

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