The Marine Corps Goes Woke

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In a world where everything that was once normal is now woke, it’s no surprise that the Marine Corps has also turned the tide.

A newly released academic report from the University of Pittsburgh recommended that the U.S. Marine Corps drop the words “sir” and “ma’am” used to address senior officers to avoid “misgendering” drill instructors despite there only being 14,000 females in the Marine Corps, which makes up of only 7 percent of the branch.

Instead of using the words “sir” and “ma’am,” recruits in the military services refer to their drill instructors using their ranks or roles followed by their last names.

The 738-page report highlights a $2 million study that was conducted to examine gender-integrated recruit training, which claimed that the change would make both genders feel more comfortable when being addressed by peers. (Read more from “Ukraine War Could Drag On for Years, Former Ambassador Says” HERE)

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Biden Promises Zelensky US Backing for ‘as Long as It Takes’

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America will back Ukraine with military and financial aid until Russia‘s invasion ends in failure, President Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during their historic appearance together at the White House on Wednesday, with the leaders projecting unity and seeking to hold together an international coalition — and a fraying U.S. Congress — as the war nears the 10-month mark.

The White House meeting, which marked Mr. Zelenskyy‘s first trip outside of Ukraine since the war began on Feb. 24, offered the two men the chance for a rare face-to-face conversation. Mr. Biden said he looked deep into the Ukrainian president’s “soul” and saw that Mr. Zelenskyy “is who he says he is.”

“It’s clear who he is. He‘s willing to give his life for his country,” Mr. Biden said of Mr. Zelenskyy during their joint press conference, which followed a roughly two-hour conversation in the Oval Office. (Read more from “Biden Promises Zelensky US Backing for ‘as Long as It Takes’” HERE)

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Girlfriend and a Co-Founder of FTX Have Pled Guilty to Criminal Fraud Charges

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s girlfriend Caroline Ellison and another co-founder of FTX pleaded guilty to criminal fraud charges related to the billion-dollar FTX cryptocurrency exchange, according to unsealed court documents.

The report on Friday came after Bankman-Fried was extradited from the Bahamas to the United States to face charges, including wire fraud and money laundering.

Bankman-Fried was lauded by many as a genius when he co-founded the massive cryptocurrency exchange FTX. He shrouded his actions by claiming that he was amassing billions in wealth in order to donate much of it to charity.

Ellison had been the CEO of Alameda Research, a privately-controlled hedge fund. Bankman-Fried is accused of illegally and covertly transferring billions from FTX to Alameda without properly notifying his investors. She pleaded guilty to seven counts, including conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. (Read more from “Sam Bankman-Fried’s Girlfriend and a Co-Founder of FTX Have Pled Guilty to Criminal Fraud Charges” HERE)

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Biden Admin Used Taxpayer Funds to ‘Sponsor’ Foreign Journalists Attending Climate Change ‘Reporting Tour,’ Emails Reveal

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Last year, the Biden administration used taxpayer dollars to “sponsor” multiple foreign journalists to attend a virtual “tour” intended to educate them on climate change reporting, Fox News Digital reported.

According to internal emails obtained by Protect the Public’s Trust, a government watchdog project, officials from Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s office and the Office of Global Change exchanged emails in March 2021 discussing a proposal to sponsor international journalists.

The Foreign Press Centers, an agency within the Bureau of Global Public Affairs, was lined up to sponsor the reporting tour — “Combating the Climate Crisis Through U.S. Innovation.” The FPC’s mission is to further “global understanding of U.S. policy, society, culture, and values through engagement with foreign media.” In addition, the department provides foreign news outlets with “authoritative American information sources.”

High-ranking State Department officials, whose names were redacted, expressed interest in the program and referred to the idea as “fantastic” and “great.” (Read more from “Biden Admin Used Taxpayer Funds to ‘Sponsor’ Foreign Journalists Attending Climate Change ‘Reporting Tour,’ Emails Reveal” HERE)

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Senator Demands Investigation Into Secret FBI Gun Confiscation Forms

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A Republican senator is calling for an investigation into the FBI, Secret Service, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for secretly coordinating to strip U.S. citizens of their rights to own, use, or even buy firearms.

The Washington Examiner reported on Dec. 13 that the three federal agencies waived people’s gun rights without congressional approval with internal forms. Now, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wants answers from the government on this “extremely concerning” revelation and for Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to “immediately hold a hearing” with FBI, ICE, and Secret Service officials.

“It is extremely concerning that federal agents have allegedly been pressuring American citizens to waive their constitutional rights. The Second Amendment is not negotiable and cannot be waived by signing a form, regardless of what the deep state wishes,” Blackburn, who is also a member of the Judiciary Committee, told the Washington Examiner.

“A federal agency cannot simply strip Americans of their Second Amendment right,” she said. “We need answers and documents that will tell us exactly what happened.” (Read more from “Senator Demands Investigation Into Secret FBI Gun Confiscation Forms” HERE)

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Billionaire Mark Cuban Says Trump Was ‘Political Chemotherapy’ and ‘Changed the System’

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Billionaire Mark Cuban told comedian Bill Maher that former President Donald Trump reset the American political system.

The duo were talking politics on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, with Cuban saying that, while he has no political aspirations, if he did run, he’d run as a Republican.

“I can f**k with them more, and I think they’re more pragmatic,” Cuban said. “But I think Democrats are smarter.”

Maher then retorted that Democrats are too committed to identity politics and that Cuban, being white, would have little chance of winning a Democratic primary. Cuban then expressed support for ranked choice voting because it “eliminates extremism,” while Maher said the political climate is “rough because this is a team era when people just want to hear what they believe.”

“So, I think Trump has been political chemotherapy. Meaning, he was such a mess that he changed the system,” Cuban said. (Read more from “Billionaire Mark Cuban Says Trump Was ‘Political Chemotherapy’ and ‘Changed the System’” HERE)

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Pork, Parks, And Woke: All The ‘Fun’ Features In $1.7 Trillion Omnibus

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Critics are howling at spending perks and rules littered throughout the $1.7 trillion “omnibus” bill meant to fund the federal government for another fiscal year.

The legislation was unveiled in the Senate early Tuesday and boasts $858 billion in defense funding as well as $772.5 billion for non-defense “discretionary programs,” according to a summary. Time is of the essence as funding expires Friday at midnight, leaving some lawmakers to grumble while poring over the legislation that is more than 4,000 pages long.

Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) shared a Twitter thread on what he dubbed “some of the most egregious provisions in the bill.” First on his list was a section outlining requirements of more than $1.5 million geared toward “border management requirements” for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, including a ban on using those funds “to acquire, maintain, or extend border security technology and capabilities, except for technology and capabilities to improve Border Patrol processing.”

Detecting something “fishy,” Bishop noted that the word “salmon” appears 48 times in the bill, which included a $65 million commitment to Pacific coastal salmon recovery. He also found $3 million for bee-friendly highways.

The conservative Heritage Foundation released a list of its own focused on “WOKE PRIORITIES IN THE OMNIBUS,” including several LGBTQ projects and “anti-racism” initiatives.

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The Latest January 6 Development Puts FBI in Embarrassing Situation

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. . .The House Select Committee on January 6, which proved to be Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) swan song, issued its referrals which carry little to no legal weight. The Department of Justice, while corrupt and politicized, isn’t going to charge former President Donald Trump on the slew of ludicrous allegations that have been lobbed against him by this anti-Trump political circus. It was a riot, but it wasn’t an armed rebellion, an insurrection, or worse than the American Civil War, Pearl Harbor, or the 9/11 attacks. Everyone but bubble liberals have moved on with their lives, but since they keep bringing it up, let’s take a gander at the latest development which makes the Democratic Party’s most trusted ally—the Federal Bureau of Investigation—look grossly incompetent.

You’d be correct if you guessed that a confidential informant told the bureau that there was a good chance that violence could engulf the capital that day. You’ll also win an adult-sized stuffed panda bear if you also guessed that the FBI did absolutely nothing about it. Our great FBI was receiving an avalanche of threats but doing nothing about them. Maybe that’s because they had too many agents perusing social media to censor and influence public opinion in favor of the Democrats (via NBC News):

On Dec. 19, 2020, the day that then-President Donald Trump sent a tweet summoning his supporters to a “wild” protest in the nation’s capital on Jan. 6, one of the FBI’s own confidential sources warned the bureau that the far-right considered Trump’s message “a call to arms,” according to an email reviewed by NBC News.

That tip to the FBI, from a source who is still used by the bureau and spoke on the condition of anonymity, warned there was a “big” threat of violence on Jan. 6. It was among hundreds of pages of reports viewed by NBC News that this source sent to the FBI in the weeks before the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. The email, which has not been previously reported, warned that the Trump tweet was “gaining hold” on social media.

“Trump tweeted what people on the right are considering a call to arms in DC on Jan 6,” the confidential source wrote on the afternoon of Dec. 19, the day of Trump’s 1:42 a.m. “will be wild” tweet.

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Report: Attacks on Christian Churches Nearly Triple in Four Years

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Attacks on Christian churches have nearly tripled in the last four years, according to a 84-page report released by Family Research Council (FRC) in December.

Between January 2018 and September 2022, FRC found 420 documented acts of hostility against 397 separate churches in the United States.

Many cases included incidences of vandalism, bomb threats, arson, and gun-related violence.

“The report documents one homicide, numerous arsons, bomb threats (real and fake), and a pervasive desecration of holy items. Vandals regularly smashed crosses, statues, and headstones in cemeteries; vandalized carvings of the Ten Commandments; set fire to a Nativity scene; and smeared feces on a statue of the Virgin Mary,” according to the Washington Stand, FRC’s news outlet. (Read more from “Report: Attacks on Christian Churches Nearly Triple in Four Years” HERE)

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Gay Republican Who Allegedly Lied About His Background Responds to NY Times Bombshell by Blaming ‘The Left’

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By David Badash. George Santos, the subject of a bombshell New York Times investigation that alleges he appears to have made up large parts of his resume, is responding to the paper of record’s report – through his attorney – in a statement that blames “the Left” for apparent false claims about his work history, colleges attended, and even co-workers who he claimed died during the Pulse nightclub hate crime mass shooting.

Santos, the first out gay Republican to be elected to Congress, is a MAGA supporter who was endorsed by House GOP Caucus chair Elise Stefanik. . .

In its damning and thorough report, The New York Times reveals both Citigroup and Goldman Sachs “told The Times they had no record of [Santos] ever working there,” despite Santos’ claims he had. Santos claims he graduated from Baruch College in 2010, but officials “could find no record of anyone matching his name and date of birth graduating that year.”

Santos even claimed he founded “an animal rescue charity that saved more than 2,500 dogs and cats,” but there is “little evidence that his animal rescue group, Friends of Pets United, was, as Mr. Santos claimed, a tax-exempt organization.”

Shockingly, even his claim four co-workers died at Pulse came up short. The Times reported its “review of news coverage and obituaries found that none of the 49 victims appear to have worked at the various firms named in his biography.” (Read more from “Gay Republican Who Allegedly Lied About His Background Responds to NY Times Bombshell by Blaming ‘The Left’” HERE)

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Newly elected House Republican busted as a fraud — weeks after winning his race: report

By Salon. George Santos, who flipped the House seat in New York’s 3rd Congressional District last month, made history as the first openly gay Republican to win a House seat as a non-incumbent, but his résumé appears to be filled with falsehoods, according to a deep dive by The New York Times. . .

Similarly, officials at Baruch College found no record of Santos or anyone with a matching name and date of birth graduating from the college in 2010 despite Santos claiming he received a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance.

The incoming congressman has also claimed to have a family-owned real estate portfolio of 13 properties, but The Times found no records of such properties. . .

Santos omitted key information on his personal financial disclosures and was charged with check fraud in Brazil, according to The Times.

Santos, whose parents emigrated from Brazil, spent some time there in 2008. When he was 19 years old, he stole the checkbook of a man his mother was caring for, according to Brazilian court records uncovered by The Times. (Read more from “Newly Elected House Republican Busted as a Fraud — Weeks After Winning His Race: Report” HERE)

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