Army Goes After Elite Warriors- Plans to Cut Special Operation Forces by Nearly 3,000

The U.S. Army is set to make major reductions to its special operations forces, and going after the Army’s elite warriors is no accident.

In an ever increasing effort by the Biden Administration to inject the U.S. military with as much woke propaganda as possible, special forces units remain among the few areas the woke warriors have failed to gain traction.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Army plans to cut back roughly 3,000 troops, or almost almost 10%, from its special operation forces units.

The service plans to brief Capitol Hill in the coming days on the reductions. Mostly, the Army plans to cut special-operations troops in supporting roles such as psychological warfare, civil affairs, intelligence operators, communications troops, logistics and other so-called enablers, U.S. military officials said. The cuts would follow the reallocation last year of more than 700 special-operations troops from the Army and other services. In sum, the cuts to the Pentagon’s umbrella Special Operations Command would amount to about 3,700 troops since last year.

The reductions have been fought hard from within the special-operations community, but they are expected to happen, U.S. officials said. The final documents have yet to be signed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, officials said.

According to the Journal, the cutbacks would allow the Army to rebalance toward a large conventional ground force, which would be needed for any potential fight in Asia.

On Thursday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-6), a retired U.S. Army Green Beret and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Readiness, released the following statement:

“I am stunned and appalled by reports indicating the U.S. Army will cut 3,000 troops from its special operations ranks as a means to manage their worst recruiting crisis since the Vietnam War. The Secretary of the Army is trying to claim she’s only cutting support troops like intelligence analysts, psychological operations troops, and logistics personnel. In reality, these support troops are critical to our special operators success in remote locations in 60-70 countries on any given day all over the world.

“Special operators play a crucial role in training allies across the world and are needed for the most dangerous missions in times of conflict and to deter enemies. Special operations are more relevant than ever as we address threats from China, Russia, Iran, and terrorists on the march in in Afghanistan. The Biden Administration is once again dismissing the advice of senior military leaders, crippling our military at home. Rather than investing in expensive climate and DEI initiatives, the Army should focus on putting our soldiers in the best position to win the next war.”

The Army will brief congressional lawmakers in the coming days on the cutbacks.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/army-goes-after-elite-warriors-plans-cut-special/

Giuliani's Entire Fulton County Legal Team Withdraws

Former New York City Rudy Giuliani was indicted in Fulton County, Georgia, alongside former President Donald Trump and 17 others for their actions in challenging the 2020 election results, and now his entire legal team has withdrawn from his case.

Last week, attorney David Wolfe filed a motion to withdraw as counsel, and on Tuesday attorney Brian Tevis filed a motion to withdraw as well. It is unclear who will take the lead in Mr. Giuliani's legal team in Georgia.

On Wednesday, Mr. Giuliani was in Concord, New Hampshire, where he told the press he would make a "major announcement." He told reporters he was bringing a lawsuit against President Joe Biden, who he claimed was corrupt on several counts in his 10-minute speech, and did not take questions, instead referring the reporters to his legal counsel.

Fulton County

On Aug. 14, a grand jury handed up a 98-page, 41-count indictment accusing the 19 defendants of violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act as well as other laws.

Mr. Giuliani and President Trump were both charged with 13 counts, the most of all defendants, albeit different charges on several counts.

Mr. Giuliani had been involved in helping the then-president investigate potential election fraud in multiple states, and had been in contact with several other lawyers who were indicted as co-defendants.

He was charged with violating RICO, three counts of solicitation of violation of oath by public officer, three counts of false statements and writings, conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer, conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree, conspiracy to commit false statements and writings, two counts of conspiracy to commit filing false documents, and conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree.

Several of the acts of racketeering naming Mr. Giuliani were regarding meetings in Pennsylvania.

He has pleaded not guilty to all charges and sought to dismiss the case.

Mr. Giuliani still faces several other legal cases.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/giulianis-entire-fulton-county-legal-team-withdraws

"Deplorable Moment Times 10": Hillary Clinton Floats 'Formal Deprogramming' Of Trump Supporters

Hillary Clinton, who for years denied that Donald Trump won the 2016 US election, thinks that "MAGA Extremist" Trump supporters need 'formal deprogramming' because they're in a cult.

Clinton, who paid a former British spy to frame Trump as a Russian asset and calls black kids "superpredators," told CNN:

"Maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members," Clinton said in a clip released late Thursday.

"And sadly, so many of those extremists, those MAGA extremists, take their marching orders from Donald Trump, who has no credibility left by any measure," Clinton said, adding that Trump is "only in it for himself."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/deplorable-moment-times-10-hillary-clinton-floats-formal-depropgramming-trump-supporters

Mayorkas Walks Back His Comments on an “Immediate Need” for a Border Wall After Backlash, Says His Statement Is “Being Taken Out of Context”

Department of Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas tried to walk back his comments on the urgent need for a border wall after open borders zealots attacked Joe Biden for building a border wall in South Texas.

Joe Biden waived 26 federal laws to expedite the building of the border wall in the Rio Grande Valley.

As Joe Biden’s first act as president, he signed an executive order to stop the construction of the Trump border wall. Biden opened the US border to illegal aliens.

Under Joe Biden’s watch, more than 7 million illegal aliens have poured over the US border.

In August Maria Bartiromo announced that the Biden regime sold the Trump border wall parts worth $300 million for $2 million.

Now, just two months later Joe Biden is building more border wall in Texas. It took the regime two-and-a-half years of open borders and 7 million illegal aliens flooding into the country to admit that President Trump was right.

Biden is getting slammed by far-left open borders zealots for his decision to build a border wall in South Texas.

White House reporters also piled on. At least 7 reporters repeatedly grilled Karine Jean-Pierre on Biden’s 180 on construction of the border wall.

Mayorkas’s statement on the border wall directly contradicted Joe Biden’s statement on the border wall.

“There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas,” Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS secretary, said in an announcement.

Biden blamed Congress for the border wall construction.

“The border wall money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to reappropriate – to redirect the money – they didn’t. They wouldn’t. And in the mean time there is nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated. I can’t stop that!” Biden said.

Mayorkas is now backtracking.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/mayorkas-walks-back-his-comments-immediate-need-border/

Massive Pedophile Child PORN Trader Panics When His Daughters Are Brought Up! Arrested!

https://www.bitchute.com/video/tqnAd5PE96UT/

Define ‘Nazi’: Western media muddies history to cover up Canada’s SS scandal

“Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi,” Politico says. Maybe. But Yaroslav Hunka definitely was one

Historical revisionists are now trying to argue that actual Nazi soldiers were just anti-Soviet resisters.

We knew that it was coming. It was only a matter of time. And now attempts to whitewash the actions of actual Nazis from WWII have begun – all because a bunch of ignoramuses in the Canadian parliament cheered one alongside Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, and it all just makes Ukraine and its Western supporters look bad.

It also makes Western lawmakers look like they have no clue when it comes to Nazism in Ukraine – either past or present. So instead of asking questions about their judgment, it’s time to ask whether you’ve just misunderstood Nazis.

The newly-resigned Canadian House Speaker introduced Ukrainian one-time Waffen-SS soldier Yaroslav Hunka as a Ukrainian (and naturalized Canadian) who fought Russians back in the day, yet apparently no one bothered to do the math. The Soviet Union was allied with the West against Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany was who fought against the Russians. Okay, it wasn’t the only one – there were others, like the Polish Home Army, which fought against both the Soviets and the Germans. So maybe Hunka was part of that? That’s the theoretical explanation the German Foreign Office offered when it emerged that the German ambassador to Canada was also present at the standing ovation in parliament. Yeah, that must have been it. A Ukrainian going to war to protect Ukraine from the Soviet Union by joining the Polish Home Army. Sounds plausible.

Oh, no, wait, he was actually in the Waffen SS, namely the First Galician Division – a unit that mostly consisted of Ukrainians and killed Poles and Jews. He joined it voluntarily and later described his decision in an essay published by an American online magazine. And now Poland wants him extradited for alleged war crimes.

Leaving aside convoluted historical revisionism, those who don’t acknowledge the nuance in this Nazi’s service are just feeding Russian propaganda, according to some Western commentators. “This history is complicated,” one wrote recently in POLITICO. “Because fighting against the USSR at the time didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi, just someone who had an excruciating choice over which of these two terror regimes to resist.”

It's pretty safe to say that someone who volunteered for the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organization is an actual Nazi – unlike Canadian Freedom Convoy truckers and their supporters who were treated like Nazis by this same Canadian government, which went as far as to even block some of their bank accounts. Have Hunka and the actual Nazis who were welcomed to Canada in the wake of the war ever had their bank accounts blocked? Or is that just for people who honk too loudly in protest? Who’s more embarrassing to Canada: naturalized Nazis, truckers, or the parliament?

https://www.rt.com/news/584101-western-media-nazi-canada/

King Charles III Reportedly Considered Britain’s Infamous Pedophile Jimmy Savile for Godfather of Prince Harry

As British King Charles III kicks off his reign, he goes about implementing the ideas that he has been nurturing during the decades he waited for this moment.

As he does so, he deals with the constant PR nightmare that is his brother, Prince Andrew, due to his long relationship with the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

But the new King regularly uses the trouble brother as a shield to any troubles that can come his way – so, if a new scandal erupts in his charitable foundation, you bet a new scandalous revelation about Andrew will pop up just in time to take all the air of the news cycle.

One is left wondering at how unfair this is, in a way since the King himself had a decades-long with the UK’s most infamous pedophile and alleged rapist, BBC star Jimmy Savile.

Now, one of Britain’s biggest newspapers breaks a story about this most questionable relationship.

Daily Mail, reported:

“King Charles’s friendship with Jimmy Savile is further confirmed by my disclosure here that after Prince Harry’s birth in 1984 he had been included in a long list of names of potential godfathers.”

The selection of possible Godfathers was written by Charles and seen by his then private secretary, the late Edward Adeane.

“Adeane was aware that Charles would not listen to any argument against Savile. Having a fractious relationship with Diana, he felt he could not approach Harry’s mother.

He did discuss it with Sir Alastair Aird, the Queen Mother’s comptroller, who was duly horrified and assured Adeane that the matter would be ‘dealt with’. Savile didn’t make the final six.”

The details of Savile’s crimes emerged to the general public following his death in 2011, but it was widely known in the corridors of power.

while the Mail story hasn’t been corroborated by other news vehicles yet, if we look at Honorable George Edward Adeane, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, we find that the barrister and royal advisor served as Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales from 1979 to 1985, coincidently or not, a year after he reportedly worked to keep Savile from becoming Prince Harry’s Godfather.

While the story about Jimmy Savile as Harry’s Godfather is still perhaps a bit thin, the scope of then-Prince Charles and Jimmy Savile’s friendship has been very well established, as is the case of a last year’s Netflix Documentary.

Charles repeatedly sought the advice of Savile, who allegedly spent decades sexually abusing women and children – even going so far as to take this monster’s suggestions to the Queen.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/king-charles-iii-reportedly-considered-britains-infamous-pedophile/

Venezuela issues arrest warrant for failed coup leader

Juan Guaido fled to Miami earlier this year after three of four Venezuelan opposition factions deserted him

Venezuela issued an arrest warrant for failed coup leader Juan Guaido on Thursday, accusing Washington’s hand-picked opposition leader of treason, usurping state functions, and embezzling state money.

Attorney General Tarek William Saab announced that Caracas has also sought an Interpol red notice against Guaido, who stands accused of mismanaging public funds under control of his “interim government,” specifically the formerly state-run fertilizer company Monomeros and formerly state-owned oil company Citgo Petroleum.

His cabinet’s irresponsible financial decisions cost Venezuela $19 billion, according to Saab, who claimed Guaido had used state oil money for his own benefit, including to pay his legal bills. A federal appeals court in Delaware earlier this year appeared to confirm those claims, finding Guaido’s interim government had used money from state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA to finance its own debts.

Currently living in exile in Miami, Guaido denounced the warrant on Thursday as part of a “machine of promoting lies of the dictatorship” in a post on X (formerly Twitter), claiming he was being “physically and morally persecute[d].”

After he was elected president of Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly in 2019, Guaido declared President Nicolas Maduro’s own reelection fraudulent and anointed himself interim president of the country. Enjoying the full support of the US and several of its allies in the Western Hemisphere and Europe, he gained control of Venezuela’s international bank accounts, including those of some state-run industries. However, multiple subsequent attempts to trigger a popular uprising and dislodge the socialist government failed, costing Guaido most of his political support at home and his credibility abroad.

A coalition of Venezuelan opposition parties voted in December to dissolve the would-be coup leader’s “interim government” and form a committee to run new candidates in next year’s elections, for which primaries begin this month. Washington quietly withdrew its support for Guaido’s claim to the presidency in January, though the State Department has reportedly continued to include him in policy discussions.

The erstwhile opposition leader fled to the US in April when Colombia declined to shelter him in defiance of a court-imposed travel ban. Guaido, who said he was attempting to attend an international conference in Bogota, was placed on a flight to the US by immigration officials as Colombia’s Foreign Ministry complained he had arrived in an “irregular manner” and pointed out he had not been invited to the summit in question.

Last month, Guaido was hired as a visiting professor and senior leadership fellow at Florida International University’s Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom. For conducting eight study group sessions, mentoring students, and making appearances at the school’s public conferences and seminars during the fall semester, he will receive $40,000.

https://www.rt.com/news/584189-venezuela-arrest-warrant-guaido-embezzlement/

First Amendment Free Speech Fight of the Decade: Govt Files ANOTHER Response in Missouri v. Biden case Asking Supreme Court to Stop This Week’s Decisions, ‘PLEASE LET US SILENCE CONSERVATIVES’

During the COVID regime, the government assumed the power to dictate to social media companies which messages could get out and which ones could not. To facilitate this, they set up ‘disinformation’ offices in many government departments, including ones that would not normally be involved in policing speech like the Treasury Department and the U.S. Census.

This free speech suppression apparatus worked to flag posts, tweets, messages, for deletion, ‘shadow banning’ and outright suppression and deletion. The government had a regular meeting and email traffic with leaders from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google, where they decided what was acceptable for Americans to think and say in the digital world.

The deep state abused this power to silence dissent on topics like the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell, 2020 Election Integrity, COVID-19 origin and extent skepticism, COVID-19 vaccine skepticism, among other issues.

Very minor comments and accounts were targeted. Accounts with very low ‘reach’ were subject to suppression. The government went after accounts with large followings like Emerald Robinson and even deleting interviews with dissidents like Dr. Robert Malone, but they also went after people who had few, if any, followers.

On behalf of the Ukrainian government, the United States government even directed social media companies to suppress criticism by Americans talking to one another on social media of the war in Ukraine.

To fight back, Gateway Pundit Publisher Jim Hoft and others, working alongside the Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, filed suit to stop the government from exercising this power. The government claims it is simply policing “misinformation” and “disinformation” and contends that it can be trusted to responsibly wield this power. The government also claims that thoughts and ideas are battlegrounds where it is authorized to fight, a frightening argument.

“If the government gets to have this power, there is no first amendment,” said TGP Publisher Jim Hoft. “The scope and scale of what this entails, being able to pick and choose which facts, news, stories, narratives, gets to exist is the worst nightmare come true from all of our science fiction warning of this day. We’re witnessing the death of the first amendment in real time.”

This is the most important first amendment case in a decade.

The case was filed by the courageous Attorney Generals of Missouri Andrew Bailey and Louisiana‘s Jeff Landry, in May 2022. By June 2022, the case was involved in discovery and the revelations started coming out that the first amendment was being daily dissected by the deep state. By August 2022, TGP Publisher Jim Hoft became the lead Plaintiff in the case, joined by a wide variety of free speech advocates filing as amici friends of the Plaintiff.

Then in November 2022, the government filed a Motion to Dismiss the case. Then in late March 2023, the trial court gave the Plaintiffs a win by surviving a summary judgment motion by the government.

And in an explosive and symbolic ruling, the trial court issued an injunction on the 4th of July stating that since the Plaintiffs were likely to prevail at trial, the court was hereby ordering the government to stop silencing speech on social media.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/first-amendment-free-speech-fight-decade-govt-files/

Hunter Biden asks for federal gun charges to be dismissed, claims he has immunity

First son Hunter Biden is asking for federal gun charges he pleaded not guilty to earlier this week to be dismissed, claiming he has immunity against the indictment stemming from an earlier plea agreement with prosecutors.

Defense attorneys Abbe Lowell and Richard Jones said a July diversion agreement “that both parties signed remains in force, and he will seek to dismiss the Indictment against him pursuant to the immunity provisions of that Agreement,” according to a Friday court filing.

The attorneys argued the “only charge” special counsel David Weiss “was permitted to bring” as part of the diversion agreement were tax charges that have since been dismissed after the first son’s plea deal blew up in court.

“If the Special Counsel no longer wishes to pursue that charge, it has the right to do that,” Lowell and Jones wrote.

Weiss indicted Hunter Biden last month on three counts of making false statements about his drug use when purchasing a gun in 2018.

The first son faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted on all charges.

Hunter’s defense team accused federal prosecutors in August of having reneged on the original plea agreement, which they said remained “valid” and “binding” despite its spectacular implosion on July 26 in Delaware court.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/06/hunter-biden-asks-for-federal-gun-charges-to-be-dismissed-claims-immunity/

Gates Foundation Wants Help to Create Digital ID and Payments System

Gates is looking to raise funds for the controversial technology.

“Financial inclusion” seems to be the buzzword that proponents of digital IDs, payments, and data exchange have picked for their PR sloganeering in favor of something that is, objectively, very controversial.

And where better to “test” something of that kind than among those who due to their economic circumstances don’t have much of a say – like a number of African countries.

But don’t expect those behind the effort, juggernauts like Mastercard or the (Bill) Gates Foundation, to ever spell it out in those stark terms. After all, it’s genuine concern for other humans, equity, equality, and kindness that’s been behind the billions, if not trillions of dollars they have amassed thus far, right?

Clearly not.

But what are they up to now?

“Stakeholders” they call themselves – self-appointed though, and their goal – other than, ostensibly, to keep the “global south” in check – is to make sure that digital public infrastructure projects, “including digital IDs,” get as much traction as possible in developing countries (first).

Both Mastercard, and the Gates Foundation, are telling us this is part and parcel of their selfless global fight against poverty and other ills plaguing humankind.

Their resume, though, these last couple of years/decades, does speak for itself – specifically, otherwise.

Right now, Mastercard, that little person’s best friend /s, has come up with something called Community Pass. “Farm Pass” – apparently a “sub-project,” is another term being thrown around.

Reports say it’s “a platform for digital IDs aimed at individuals such as business owners and farmers.”

And wouldn’t you know it, it’s one that happens to focus on African countries.

There’s no lack of ambition here, of course: Mastercard wants to register 15 million people in Africa by 2027. And Asia-Pacific region should not rest on any independence or self-determination laurels, either. Mastercard is after you as well – the same number of people, by the same date, is the stated goal.

In Africa – Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritania – 2.5 million people are said to be on board, and Ghana and Ethiopia might easily be next, as the global payments behemoth tests the levels of these farmers’ financial desperation.

Ostensibly – for testing comprehensive Digital IDs, for the whole world.

Are you excited? Michael Wiegand, director of Financial Services for the Poor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, suggests he is.

“It’s time for a new approach to financial inclusion (to) to move beyond basic banking services (…) One of the most exciting advancements in global development is the expansion of financial services.”

Enter “digital public infrastructure (DPI),” as per Wiegand.

“This concept (…) underpins inclusive financial systems. Foundational DPI is based on three core, interoperable components: digital identity (ID), payments and data exchange. In practice, this gives countries and people the ability to digitally verify identities, securely and instantly send and receive money, and safely exchange information.”

Tl;dr: Good luck to us all.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/technology/gates-foundation-wants-help-to-create-digital-id-and-payments-system

Ex-EU Prez Says Ukraine Shouldn’t Join Bloc, Is ‘Corrupt at All Levels of Society’.

Jean-Claude Juncker, the previous President of the European Commission, has said there is no chance of Ukraine joining the European Union in the near future, as “[a]nyone who has had anything to do with Ukraine knows that this is a country that is corrupt at all levels of society.”

Juncker, an old rival of Brexit champion Nigel Farage, urged European leaders not to “make false promises to the people in Ukraine who are up to their necks in suffering.”

“I am very angry about some voices in Europe who are telling Ukrainians that they can become members immediately,” he said. “That would be neither good for the EU nor for Ukraine,” he said, referencing its issues with endemic corruption and stating flatly it is “not eligible to join and needs massive internal reform processes.”

Internal EU assessments have indicated Ukraine would be an enormous financial burden to the bloc, sucking €186 billion (~$195 billion) out of its budgets over seven years and depriving existing members, particularly relatively less-developed former communist countries, of substantial funds.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/10/06/ex-eu-prez-says-ukraine-shouldnt-join-bloc-is-corrupt-at-all-levels-of-society/