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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issues new orders: DoD must end and remove all DEI initiatives

Department of defense cancels dei programs
© Pete Hegseth
Issues warning against those who fail to comply

Pete Hegseth announced on X this morning that the Department of Defense will no longer tolerate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion under his leadership.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Hegseth was sworn in as Secretary of Defense on Saturday following a close vote Friday.

RINO Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) voted against Hegseth Friday, teeing up a tiebreaker vote by Vice President JD Vance, who voted in favor of Hegseth's nomination.

Hegseth showed up for work at the Pentagon immediately after the ceremony for his first day on the job.

Comment: Hegseth's gonna have to play whack-a-mole for a while. Libtards are pathologically persistent. 'Rachel' Levin and his ilk have had plenty of time to dig in.








Sherlock

Congress Investigating 'Numerous Instances' Of Banks Blacklisting Conservatives After Trump Calls Out Bank Of America CEO

James Comer
Rep. James Comer (R-KY)
The House Oversight Committee is now investigating 'numerous instances' of US banks discriminating against conservatives, after Bank of America denied a claim by President Donald Trump, who admonished Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan at the World Economic Forum.

During an appearance on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo, Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) was asked if he's investigating "whether or not US banks are debanking conservatives."

"Yes, we are," Comer replied. "We've heard numerous instances of conservatives being debanked."

"And what we want to know is, is this a process of the banks' ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) policy? Is, or is this our government stepping in like what we found with Twitter and Facebook where the government stepped in and said they wanted certain conservatives deplatformed and censored and certain conservative content removed," Comer continued, adding "We want to know, again, is this government involvement, another dirty trick by the Joe Biden administration, or this just bad liberal policy that discriminates against conservatives by the banks."

Attention

Russia must help overthrow Western Europe's dangerous political elites

President Putin
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By Professor Sergey Karaganov, honorary chairman of Russia's Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and academic supervisor at the School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow

(Note: Sergey Karaganov says the quiet part out loud, and he states the controversial subjects.)
Russia must help overthrow Western Europe's dangerous political elites.
Peace on the continent requires breaking the imperialist legacy.
Any outcome of the Ukraine conflict framed as a 'compromise' would be celebrated in the West as a victory and perceived as a failure by Russia. This must be avoided at all costs.

First, Russia must openly confront Western Europe's historical culpability. It's not the 'garden' its elites imagine but a field of fat weeds thriving on the blood of hundreds of millions it has enslaved, murdered, and robbed. Calling Western Europe out for its crimes - from colonialism to warmongering - legitimizes our potential use of nuclear deterrence as a justified response to aggression.

Second, Russia must emphasize the inevitability of nuclear escalation in any conflict between NATO and Russia. This message is essential not only to limit an arms race but also to underscore the futility of stockpiling conventional weapons that will be rendered irrelevant in a nuclear confrontation. NATO's leaders must understand that they cannot avoid the consequences of their actions.

Third, we must continue advancing on the battlefield, destroying the enemy's forces with relentless precision. However, it is equally critical to declare that Russia's patience is finite. For every Russian soldier killed, we must make clear that a thousand Western Europeans will pay the price if their governments persist in waging war against us. The public over there must understand that their elites are preparing to sacrifice them, and nuclear weapons will not discriminate between soldiers and civilians. Western European capitals will be among the first targets of our retaliation.

Arrow Up

Trump effect: LA bends the knee, will reopen Pacific Palisades to residents starting Monday

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© screenshotLA Mayor Karen Bass and US President Donald Trump disagree on the return of residents to obliterated residences.
Two days after President Trump scolded Los Angeles for refusing to allow residents affected by the recent fires to return to their homes, Mayor Karen Bass announced that Pacific Palisades will be completely reopened to residents during daylight hours, starting Monday, Jan. 27.

During a Friday roundtable, Bass told Trump that it was unsafe for residents to return. After residents at the meeting decried the slow response, Bass compromised - saying they could return "within a week."

Trump replied:
"That's a long time, a week. I'll be honest, to me, everyone standing in front of their house, they want to go to work and they're not allowed to do it. ... They're safe. They're safe. You know what? They're not safe. They're not safe now. They're going to be much safer. A week, a week is actually a long time the way I look at it."

USA

Glug Glug...

UnkSam
© 1909 Library of Congress
That's the sound of a swamp being drained. And much fetid water is still backed up over the 68.3 square miles that comprise the District of Columbia. You might be just realizing that the "Joe Biden" regime was not a government at all, but rather, a colossal racketeering operation. And let's be clear and precise: racketeering is making money dishonestly. Thus: the grubby Biden Family itself at the top of that putrid food-chain, and their smalltime harvesting of mere table-scraps. Where trillions got creamed off by the big gators, the Bidens risked all for a measly few million, like newts gorging on gnats in a drainage ditch.

Are you so cynical — as the Marxians are in their so-called "critique" of capitalism — that you think all human transactions of making-and-doing are dishonest? That is yet another misreading of reality, which the recent years of nonstop official propaganda and gaslight have catastrophically aggravated to the degree that half of America can no longer think at all.

Attention

Euroclear boss issues new warning against West seizing Russian assets

Frozenmoney
© Andrei Metelev/Getty ImagesAsset freeze
A response from Moscow could further destabilize EU financial markets, the CEO of the clearinghouse has said.

Outright confiscation of the Russian assets currently frozen by the West as part of Ukraine-related sanctions could lead to unintended consequences for the EU, Euroclear CEO Valerie Urbain warned on Friday in an interview with Bloomberg.

The Belgian-based depository holds around $213 billion (€197 billion) of nearly $300 billion of Russian central bank assets that were frozen by the US and EU shortly after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022.

"There could always be also countermeasures from Russia which could further destabilize the financial markets," Urbain told the news agency on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The Euroclear CEO said the frozen funds could be used as leverage in potential peace talks between Moscow and Kiev, while noting that some officials are interested in pushing ahead with confiscation. Urbain stressed the importance of transferring not only the funds, but the liabilities as well, in the event of expropriation by EU members, explaining that the clearinghouse should be protected from potential claims by Russia.

Comment: Turnabout is fair play:
Russian authorities are drafting a new bill allowing for the seizure of assets belonging to Western states that have illegally confiscated Moscow's property and funds, newspaper Izvestia reported on Tuesday, citing documents prepared by the government legislation commission.

The draft bill outlines the legal procedure and emphasizes that targeted foreign assets will be transferred into Russian state ownership after a ruling by a court of arbitration. The list of properties and funds subject to seizure will be compiled by the country's commission on foreign investments.

In May, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree laying the groundwork for confiscating assets of US companies and individuals to compensate for any Russian assets expropriated by Washington.

If adopted, the broader legislation will target "unfriendly" Western states and related individuals, allowing Moscow to seize assets as reimbursement for financial damages incurred by Russia from the illegal confiscation of its funds and properties, the draft legislation reads. The commission will reportedly review the draft bill as soon as next week.

Vedomosti newspaper has cited two sources as saying that the bill was drafted by the country's Ministry of Justice and was included in the commission's agenda on January 20. Izvestia noted that the document has been approved by the relevant authorities, including the Bank of Russia, the Finance Ministry, the Economy Ministry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.



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Hungary labels Polish PM 'Soros agent'

Peter Szijjarto
© Mary Altaffer/Getty ImagesPeter Szijjarto addresses the UN General Assembly • New York City • September 23, 2021
Budapest won't be coerced into supporting sanctions, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has told Donald Tusk.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has branded Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk an "agent" of billionaire liberal financier George Soros, after Tusk warned that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban would face "consequences" if he blocks renewed EU sanctions on Russia.

Tusk wrote in a post on X on Saturday:
"If Viktor Orban really blocks European sanctions at a key moment for the war, it'll be absolutely clear that...he is playing in [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's team, not in ours, with all the consequences of this fact."
Szijjarto responded to Tusk on Facebook shortly afterwards:
"It may be difficult for Soros' agent to understand, but when it comes to teams, we play for the Hungarian team. We do not want to continue paying the price for other people's wars and will not allow anyone to endanger the security of our energy supply, because Hungary comes first for us."
George Soros, the Hungarian-American billionaire, is well known for financing liberal causes and political candidates across the Western world. His support for mass immigration into Europe has placed him at odds with Hungary's conservative government.

Big Bomb

Belarus to get Russian Oreshnik shortly - Lukashenko

Lukashenko
© Gavriil Grigorov/SputnikBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko
Belarus expects the arrival of the Russian advanced intermediate-range ballistic missile system Oreshnik shortly, President Alexander Lukashenko has said, adding that it will be stationed not far from the two countries' border. Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, when Belarus is holding its presidential election, Lukashenko said that the weapon would be deployed "closer to Smolensk," the Russian city located some 60km east from the Belarusian border. He didn't rule out, however, that it could be placed somewhere else later.
"We will have the Oreshnik literally any day now. We have agreed with President Vladimir Putin that the next system will be delivered to Belarus even earlier than to Russia."
When asked to corroborate later in the conference on the delivery timeline, he acknowledged that no exact dates have been agreed yet. He went on to say the choice for the deployment location was based on the technical specifications of the Oreshnik.
"It's bad when your targets are very close. But even when they are very far away, they [missiles] can carry a smaller load."

Stop

State Dept. bans passports with 'X' gender markers after Trump order

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has scrapped US passport applications allowing Americans to designate their gender identity as "X" after President Trump issued an executive order Monday that it is now "the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female."

State Department staff were informed of the change in an internal cable sent Thursday mandating "sex, and not gender, shall be used" in official documents like passports and birth records in US embassies and consulates abroad, the Guardian reported.

Staff were specifically instructed to "suspend any application requesting an X sex marker" and to "suspend any application where the applicant is seeking to change their sex marker."

Passports already issued will not be recalled, but applicants will not be able to choose the "X" designation when renewing their travel documents.

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Trump's Golden Era Begins: Western Civilization Ends?

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Week one of Trump's second term has been a doozy! This week on NewsReal, we look at the good, the bad, and the ugly developments in Trump's 'tornado' of activity. Internationally, with his shocking insistence on returning to "100% tariffs" rather than so-called free trade, and that Denmark "hand over Greenland" to the USA while "Canada has no sovereignty so it may as well become the 51st US state," Trump appears determined to end NATO and return to 19th century 'pre-globalization' trade.

And that would be a good thing, right, given the destructive war-machine NATO has become, and the mad schemes of the internationalist Davos Set? The problem with pulling out one of the pillars of 'international order' and 'cutting loose the vassal states' is that you run the risk of causing great instability, which said internationalists could exploit to maximum effect.


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