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The United States Launches an Additional Barrage of Missiles at Houthi Strongholds

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Wednesday, additional waves of ship and submarine-launched missile strikes against Houthi-controlled areas were carried out by the U.S. military, according to U.S. Central Command. This marks the fourth consecutive day that the United States has directly targeted the group in Yemen, as the violence that erupted following the Israel-Hamas war continues to spread throughout the Middle East.

From the Red Sea, the strikes intercepted fourteen missiles regarded by the command to be a “imminent threat.”

Concerns regarding further escalation are falling on deaf ears.

The assaults occurred subsequent to a formal declaration made by the United States on Wednesday, which re-designated the Houthis as a globally designated terrorist organization. The formal designation entails sanctions intended to cut off the financial ties that bind violent extremist organizations.

“Forces conducted strikes on 14 Iran-backed Houthi missiles that were loaded to be fired in Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen,” Central Command said in a statement posted on X late Wednesday. “These missiles on launch rails presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and U.S. Navy ships in the region and could have been fired at any time, prompting U.S. forces to exercise their inherent right and obligation to defend themselves.”

Notwithstanding the imposition of sanctions and military engagements—including a substantial operation executed on Friday by warships and aircraft of the United States and the United Kingdom that targeted over sixty locations throughout Yemen—the Houthis persist in their campaign of harassing commercial and military vessels.

On Wednesday, a one-way attack drone launched from a Houthi-controlled area in Yemen collided with the M/V Genco Picardy, which is owned and operated by the United States and flagged for the Marshall Islands, in the Gulf of Aden.

Additionally, the United States has issued a dire warning to Iran to cut off its arms supply to the Houthis. A U.S. operation on a dhow on Thursday seized components of ballistic missiles that the United States claimed Iran was transporting to Yemen.

All very convenient for the Military Industrial Complex, who analysts believe has long hungered for a full scale war with Iran.

Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, a spokesman for the Pentagon, stated on Wednesday that the United States would continue to employ military force to avert additional attacks.

“They are exploiting this situation to conduct attacks against the ships and vessels from more than 50 countries … around the world. And so we’re going to continue to work with our partners in the region to prevent those attacks or deter those attacks in the future,” Ryder said.

Multiple incidents have transpired since the joint operations on Friday. The Houthis fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward a U.S. Navy destroyer over the weekend, but was shot down.

Tuesday, in response, the U.S. struck four anti-ship ballistic missiles that were ostensibly prepared to launch and presented an imminent threat to merchant and U.S. Navy ships in the region.

Jim Jordan Obtains Documents Showing Federal Agencies Flagged Transactions of “MAGA” and “Trump” Supporters
Additionally, those who shop at sporting goods stores and those who've purchased bibles are also being tracked.

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Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, announced on Wednesday that the committee had obtained documents revealing that federal agencies have flagged financial transactions for people using politically sensitive words such as “MAGA” and Trump.”

Jordan elaborated in a letter to Noah Bishoff, a former director of FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) and current anti-money laundering (AML) officer at the fintech company Plaid, Inc., on scenarios in which the transactions of American citizens purchasing bibles or sporting goods stores might be flagged.

New documents obtained by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government reveal that the federal government flagged terms like “MAGA” and “TRUMP” for financial institutions if Americans used those phrases when completing transactions. Individuals who shopped at stores like Cabela’s or Dick’s Sporting Goods, or purchased religious texts like a bible, may also have had their transactions flagged. This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans’ private transactions is alarming and raises serious concerns about the FBI’s respect for fundamental civil liberties. -Judiciary.house.gov

“The Committee and Select Subcommittee have obtained documents indicating that following January 6, 2021, FinCEN distributed materials to financial institutions that, among other things, outline the ‘typologies’ of various persons of interest and provide financial institutions with suggested search terms and Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement,” the letter reads.

“These materials included a document recommending the use of generic terms like ‘TRUMP’ and ‘MAGA’ to ‘search Zelle payment messages’ as well as a ‘prior FinCEN analysis’ of ‘Lone Actor/Homegrown Violent Extremism Indicators,” the letter continues. “According to this analysis, FinCEN warned financial institutions of ‘extremism’ indicators that include ‘transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel to areas with no apparent purpose,’ or ‘the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views.’ In other words, FinCEN urged large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression.”

The Committee declared that senior intelligence officials, including Bishoff, are to be interviewed.

Biden’s DOJ Verifies the Authenticity of Hunter Biden’s Laptop
After years of censorship, the Biden DOJ admits that the Hunter Biden laptop was not Russian disinformation.

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In a court filing on Tuesday, the Justice Department (DOJ) vindicated the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop, an undisclosed fact that had the potential to disrupt the 2020 presidential election.

It is worth noting that, according to polling, an astonishing 71% of Americans believe that factual coverage of Hunter’s “Laptop from Hell” could have influenced the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

The DOJ established Hunter’s ownership of the laptop by verifying two conditions: he did, in fact, leave the laptop at a computer store, and the contents of the device matched information obtained by authorities through a search warrant of Hunter’s iCloud.

“Investigators also later came into possession of the defendant’s Apple MacBook Pro, which he had left at the computer store,” prosecutors wrote:

A search warrant was also obtained for his laptop and the result of the search warrant were largely duplicative information also obtained for his laptop and the result of the search were largely duplicative of information investigators had already obtained from Apple.

CNN hack-reporter Natasha Bertrand penned the infamous and now-discredited Politico article shortly after the New York Post broke the laptop story. Bertrand used “dozens of former intelligence officials” (aka the dirty  to promote a false and misleading narrative regarding the provenance of Hunter’s laptop.

Over a year passed before the establishment media acknowledged the story’s inaccuracy. The Washington Post eventually conceded that Hunter’s laptop contains “authentic communications that can be verified” after devoting 532 days to investigating the matter.

Even CNN now has ultimately acknowledged the authenticity of Hunter’s “laptop from hell” subsequent to the initial story’s October 24, 2020 release, where the network notably labeled it “fabricated” and “Russian disinformation.”

It only took the New York Times two years to admit that the communications on the laptop indeed belonged to Hunter Biden. Naturally, independent media got it right much sooner.

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Our Take:

The “dirty 51” refers to the 51 compromised DS intelligence officers who willfully lied about the laptop in the days preceding the election. These individuals are currently commentators on legacy media outlets such as MSNBC, FOX, and CNN or are still employed by the various alphabet agencies.

Every outlet in the world, including ours, had access to the laptop’s contents. Upon the affixation of that letter, the aforementioned intelligence assets coerced Facebook and others into eliminating accounts that were sharing the laptop on the grounds that it contained “Russian disinformation.”

Beyond F-book, we were de-platformed by PayPal and other platforms we relied on financially. The publication I worked for at the time never fully recovered from this.
Honestly, it feels strange to even behold the photographs of HB smoking cocaine and interacting inappropriately with prostitutes; I don’t give a damn about them. However, what is crucial is the mountain of evidence demonstrating that Joe Biden, a career politician who is presently destroying this nation by radicalizing his followers to believe that their family and friends are the new Nazis, funding genuine Nazis in Ukraine with an endless stream of unconditional taxpayer dollars, and involving us in a serious conflict in the Middle East, made a great deal of money by selling his influence to the burgeoning deep states, made a lot of money.
The DOJ, years later, has now confirmed to be true what lives were ruined over three years ago. This is the danger of the censorship regime.

The Gateway Pundit Files FOIA Request to Ascertain Victoria Nuland’s Involvement in the Tragic Death of Gonzalo Lira

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Intrepid conservative news outlet The Gateway Pundit has officially filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the U.S. State Department to determine the role Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland had in the recently reported death of Chilean-American journalist and dating coach Gonzalo Lira.

It is worth noting that Nuland, a notorious neocon and representative of the Military Industrial Complex, currently holds the second most powerful position in the State Department; and, given her clout with the DC elite, likely holds more sway than Secretary of State Anthony Blinken himself.

For a comprehensive deep-dive into the career of Victoria Nuland, we recommend reading her Deep-State Spotlight over at Badlands Media.

Today, The Gateway Pundit submitted the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) petition to the State Department:

What communication was there since Feb. 24, 2022 between the US State Department and the US Embassy in Kiev regarding US citizen Gonzalo Lira?

Specifically, what communication was there since Feb. 24, 2022 between Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador in Kiev Bridget Brink regarding US citizen Gonzalo Lira?

What communication was there since Feb. 24, 2022 within the US Federal Government, and between the US Federal Government and the Ukrainian Government, specifically with the Ukrainian Security Service SBU, regarding US citizen Gonzalo Lira?

Read more at The Gateway Pundit.

Zelensky to Join Klaus Schwab On Stage for Special Address to Davos Elites

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On Tuesday, during the annual gathering of the globalist elites, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky will co-appear on a special stage with Klaus Schwab, executive chairman and founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

The title of their discourse before the audience by invitation only is “Achieving Security and Cooperation in a Fragmented World.”

Already in Davos for the four days of discussions, cocktails, canapés, and backslapping are tens of thousands of distinguished guests.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Chinese Premier Li Qiang, President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission, President Emmanuel Macron of France, President Javier Milei of Argentina, and Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of the United Nations are all listed as individuals who intend to be present at Zelesnky’s event.

Climate czar John Kerry, who is also in attendance, is arriving via personal aircraft to honor the event, in a move that many see as supremely hypocritical.

It will be the first time since February 2022, when Russia attacked Ukraine, that Zelensky visits Switzerland. The last time Zelensky visited Switzerland was for WEF in 2020, before the invasion. Since then, he has not returned, contenting himself with an appearance by videoconference.

His most recent sojourn at the prestigious WEF conclave concludes a far-reaching tour of Europe in search of financial resources and support for the ongoing conflict with Russia. He will undoubtedly be assuring the attendees that Ukraine lacks the resources needed repel the Russian forces.