Palantir Plunges After Hegseth Memo Calls For Sweeping Cuts To Pentagon Budget

US defense stocks faced pressure in late afternoon trading after The Washington Post reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had directed senior Pentagon leaders to prepare for an 8% budget cut over the next five years.

Here's more from WaPo's report:

Hegseth ordered the proposed cuts to be drawn up by Feb. 24, according to the memo, which includes a list of 17 categories that the Trump administration wants exempted. Among them: operations at the southern US border, modernization of nuclear weapons and missile defense, and acquisition of one-way attack drones and other munitions.

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The memo calls for continued "support agency" funding for several major regional headquarters, including Indo-Pacific Command, Northern Command and Space Command. Notably absent from that list is European Command, which has had a leading role in executing US strategy during the war in Ukraine; Central Command, which oversees operations in the Middle East; and Africa Command, which manages the several thousand troops the Pentagon has spread across that continent.

"President Trump's charge to DoD is clear: achieve Peace through Strength," Hegseth wrote in the memo, dated Tuesday. "The time for preparation is over — we must act urgently to revive the warrior ethos, rebuild our military, and reestablish deterrence. Our budget will resource the fighting force we need, cease unnecessary defense spending, reject excessive bureaucracy, and drive actionable reform including progress on the audit."

WaPo's report was enough to erase early morning gains in major defense stocks.

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/palantir-clubbed-after-wapo-report-trump-admin-planning-pentagon-budget-cuts

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Ex-Brazilian president charged with coup attempt

The general prosecutor has accused Jair Bolsonaro of involvement in a plot to assassinate a rival after the 2022 election

Brazil’s prosecutor general has charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in power after his election defeat in 2022. The charges include a plot to kill his successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Lula returned as Brazil’s president in January 2023 for a third, non-consecutive term after narrowly defeating Bolsonaro in October 2022. Following the vote, Bolsonaro argued that the race had been stolen from him, claiming that a “malfunction” had affected thousands of electronic voting machines.

Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet said on Tuesday that the former president and his running mate, General Walter Braga Netto, who was arrested on Saturday, were leading a “criminal organization” that was planning to seize control of the country, AP reported. The charges also include plotting to poison the current president and assassinate Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

“The plan was conceived and taken to the knowledge of the president [Bolsonaro], and he agreed to it,” according to Gonet’s 272-page indictment, as seen by the news agency.

A total of 34 individuals were reportedly charged in the plot, including several military officials, such as Bolsonaro’s former national security adviser, retired General Augusto Heleno, and former Navy Commander Almir Garnier Santos.

Bolsonaro’s lawyers denied the charges, saying they viewed the accusations with “dismay and indignation.” They also insisted that the former president “has never agreed to any movement aimed at deconstructing the democratic rule of law or the institutions that underpin it.”

The latest charges followed a two-year police probe into the election-denial movement that led to riots by Bolsonaro’s supporters in the capital in early 2023, a week after President Lula took office.

At the time, Bolsonaro was in the US but later called for an end to the unrest and endorsed the transition to Lula’s government. He has since been banned from holding public office in Brazil until 2030.

In November, the federal police released a report accusing Bolsonaro of playing a central role in planning and organizing an attempted coup – allegedly proposing the idea to key military figures – in an effort to prevent Lula from taking office.

According to analysts as cited by Reuters, Bolsonaro is not likely to be arrested before the trial, unless Supreme Court Justice Moraes, who is overseeing the case, deems the former president a flight risk.

https://www.rt.com/news/613019-bolsonaro-charged-coup-poison-lula/

"The Zionists want to rule the earth. To achieve their ends they use black magic and satanism. They regard satan-worship as a means to gain the strength they need to carry out their plans. They want to rule the earth using satanic power." -Saint Paisios

"And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas. Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ? …But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus…And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified…Then answered ALL THE PEOPLE and said, His blood be on us, and on our children." -The Bible, Matthew 27:16-25: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2027%3A16-25&version=KJV

"…If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but He sent me…Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." -The Bible, John 8:42-44: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%208%3A42-44&version=KJV

Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann is ARRESTED as she touches down in the UK

A Polish woman who claims she is Madeleine McCann has tonight been arrested moments after landing in Britain.

Police swooped on Julia Wandelt at Bristol Airport and held her on suspicion of stalking and harassing Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann.

The 23-year-old - who had just flown in from Wroclaw in Poland - had been due to meet a friend, who lives in Cardiff, when she was surrounded by officers in front of stunned passengers.

The friend - who is thought to be aged in her 60s - was also arrested and taken away.

Wandelt believes she is Madeleine and says she has recently taken a DNA test which has been examined by a specialist in America and linked her to Kate and Gerry.

Also known as Julia Wendell, she became an internet sensation in February 2023 when she posted to Instagram under the account name '@IAmMadeleineMcCann'.

She has appeared on U.S talk show 'Dr Phil' to discuss the far-fetched possibility that she is Madeleine, who vanished aged three after being snatched by an intruder who broke into her family's holiday villa in Praia de Luz in Portugal in 2007.

She this week took to her new social media account, '@AmIJuliaWandelt', to share the 'results' of a fresh DNA test that she said Kate and Gerry 'refused' to participate in.

She this week took to her new social media account, '@AmIJuliaWandelt', to share the 'results' of a fresh DNA test that she said Kate and Gerry 'refused' to participate in.

The results, she said, were submitted to a 'world expert' who compared them to the crime scene following Madeleine McCann's 2007 disappearance in Portugal.

She alleges experts have also matched her eyes, teeth and voice with those of the missing girl.

Clair, confirmed news of the arrest this evening and said: 'I'm trying to find out what's happened but it appears Julia has been arrested at Bristol Airport this evening just after she got off the plane.

'The police have reportedly arrested her on an allegation of stalking and harassing the McCanns.'

In her numerous posts to Instagram last week, Wandelt said her 'source' believes the genetic evidence 'strongly supports that Gerry McCann could be Julia Wandelt's biological father'.

Supported by 'experts' in the analysis field, Wandelt posted the first part of the DNA results which had proven her to be 'part British and part Irish', and not 100 per cent Polish.

This particular announcement refutes the claims previously made by private investigator Dr Fia Johansson, who in 2023 shared Wandelt's DNA results that said she was, in fact, fully Polish.

Wandelt said she had previously been 'struggling to understand' those results from almost two years ago, and claimed Dr Johansson was not telling the truth - which the investigator categorically denied.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14414795/woman-claiming-madeleine-mccann-arrested-uk.html

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