[MAIL] Most amusing snippet: "The insiders described what they perceive as Hegseth's extreme distrust of the military and civilian personnel who work in the Pentagon, especially senior staffers who speak out when best practices are sidestepped or institutional memory ignored."
Either salute or step down. This is the US military of Trump 47, not a PTA kaffeeklatch.
An effort is under way among some Pentagon officials to denounce Pete Hegseth as unfit to serve as Defense Secretary, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Since May, drafts of a letter have been circulating among high and mid-level military brass and civilian workers to 'Let the American public know this guy has no clue what he's doing,' one of them told DailyMail.com.
Insubordination and a pretty strong signal that these are not the DOD’s best. In fact if there are any clues to the participants’ identities, it’s time to make lists for the next round of cutting the deadwood.
Sean Parnell, the department's chief spokesman, came to his boss' defense characterizing the letter as 'palace intrigue' or 'sensationalized mainstream media gossip' that he said Americans 'don't care about.'
'They care about action,' reads his statement.
Three Pentagon officials — two military and one civilian, and each with at least 20 years in the department — spoke on the condition of anonymity. All assigned to B-Company: "They'll be there when you get here. They'll be there when you leave."
Aside from losing their jobs, they fear prosecution by Donald Trump's administration, and being replaced by people with less experience who would be less apt to challenge some of Hegseth's decisions.
”They simply aren’t people like us, dear.”
Each said the letter calling for his ouster won't be made public until next week at the earliest.
They described its contents in the meantime - with complaints ranging from politicized decision-making to department-wide dysfunction, low morale, and a climate of paranoia driven by what they describe as Hegseth's obsession with rooting out dissent.
They said the letter decries the Defense Secretary for issuing orders and setting policies without considering — or even hearing — input from intelligence, security and legal advisors.
As all three insiders told us, the letter also cites dysfunction and chaos in the department due to what they said are Hegseth's inattention to, indecision on, and inconsistencies regarding several military matters, big and small.
Those include defining the role the U.S. military should play in space and setting a realistic timeline for building the 'Golden Dome' missile defense system, a top military goal for Trump.
They also include clarifying the channels by which Pentagon personnel should and should not communicate with each other.
One insider said Hegseth's top aides are clamping down on contact between workers, even when there's no security, professional or ethical reason to do so.
The insiders described what they perceive as Hegseth's extreme distrust of the military and civilian personnel who work in the Pentagon, especially senior staffers who speak out when best practices are sidestepped or institutional memory ignored.
They said Hegseth's preoccupation with sussing out leakers and critics in the department has caused bureaucratic logjams, brought some basic, but essential military business to a standstill and triggered a sense of paranoia throughout the building.
One of the officials said that some Pentagon personnel feel pressured to attend the Christian prayer services Hegseth has arranged during work hours, even though they're supposed to be optional.
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Good for Pete! A sense of paranoia is a pretty obvious clue that he is getting the job done and in an effective manner!
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This is just the beginning. The swamp is going to attack every Trump staffer and their families. They are in a fight for control of this nation and will stop at nothing to defeat Trump.
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Good in-line comments, TW. I
And agree with comments #1 and #2, wholeheartedly.
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I suspect Hegseth is well aware of the loyalties and actual 'shadow' assignments of more than a few. He must step carefully.
The recipe for foreign instability and regime change usually begins with US assistance to the military. Yes, there is a well established pattern. Control the military and you control the action.
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In other words, he's tearing up their shit and they don't like it one bit.
Why should he listen to the very swamp monsters he's been hired to exterminate?
This is them fighting back as hard as they can.
A letter.
Hegseth is going nowhere, and may God see his work finished and all these deep state traitors cast out and replaced with America firsters.
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Hegseth loves the military and he loves good leadership. Having served myself and then worked as a DoD contractor, I can confirm the middle to high up civilians and military personnel are dogshit garbage 90% of the time.
You only catch flak when you are over the target Mr. Hegseth. Keep going.
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Pentagon weenies are only there to support the warfighter. The new boss in town is a warfighter. So shut up, do your job or find one more to your liking.
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*Blush* It was a team project. Skidmark thought the article worth posting, Besoeker served the first volley — his pull quote nailed it — and I returned serve. A good time was had by all, :-)
[GatewayPundit] These actions against Petr Bystron make it unmistakably clear that the rule of law in Germany is rapidly eroding. Lacking answers to the mounting concerns of ordinary working- and middle-class Germans, the ruling coalition has instead resorted to any means necessary to attack the opposition—the very force offering the solutions and accountability citizens increasingly demand.
German authorities have also signaled they will act against their nation’s interests by undermining politicians who seek favorable relations with Donald Trump’s administration.
Bystron was targeted on the very day Germany’s highest administrative court—widely regarded as leaning left-liberal and hostile to anti-establishment parties such as the AfD and Sahra Wagenknecht’s BSW—upheld the designation of the AfD as a "suspected extremist group."
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Shed no tears for antisemitic white supremacists.
In Germany, no less.
Ask any Jew what happened the last time this was allowed to get out of control. Democratically, even. People will vote for stupid shit.
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To hell with what the voters want, the BfV will start tapping phones and using informants. If that doesn't work they'll find someone from his high school to accuse him of rape.
[MSN] A decision by the White House to trot out Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard in the middle of a press conference on Wednesday earned the Donald Trump administration a thrashing on MSNBC on Thursday morning. 23 people saw it!
With the White House trying to put out the Jeffrey Epstein firestorm, press secretary Karoline Leavitt turned over the lectern to Gabbard who proceeded to spin a tale about Russia having information on Hillary Clinton that indicated she had "psycho-emotional problems" which were being treated with medication going into the 2016 election. She also repeated allegations that Barack Obama was part of a group that plotted a coup in 2016, and that he should be prosecuted. I thought Gabbard had documents. Are they available for the media to review?
Scarborough began, "What's on the front page of the Wall Street Journal this morning? DOJ told Trump his name is among those in the Epstein file. Some would say Tulsi Gabbard —— and what was that yesterday? Seriously? Talk about playing down to the lowest of low expectations, Tulsi."
"Tulsi Gabbard you are the winner of actually meeting the lowest of the low expectations that were laid out for you," he added. "But all of this stuff is just leading to chaos. Maybe, maybe, the president thinks, 'Hey, let's throw as much against the wall as we can throw against the wall.'" Just in case you were wondering how the media would respond to Gabbard's news.
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The media arm of the deep state is going to come out swinging. Gabbard kept asking reporters if they read the documents, no one in the room had. They are going to go after every official in the Trump admin. Now is the time to discount and not believe a thing from MSDNC...
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Whatever happened to "Believe All Women"?
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BREAKING: DNI TULSI GABBARD IS NOW LIVE AT THE WHITE HOUSE HOLDING A PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE DECLASSIFICATION OF THE RUSSIAGATE DOCUMENTS https://t.co/e27Xv7fXc6
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Ol'ga Kuznetsova
[REGNUM] A few days ago, Adolfo Macias, nicknamed Fito, one of Ecuador's most notorious drug traffickers, was extradited to the United States.
Not only is Fito the first Ecuadorian in recent years not to be tried in his home country, but the Trump administration is planning to use the trial of a foreign criminal as a publicity stunt.
He is accused of drug trafficking and selling American weapons to Latin American armed gangs, which American security forces have been vigorously fighting in recent months.
Fito's trial will take place in New York, where drug traffickers are most often sentenced. And local experts have already begun to speculate about what dividends the Ecuadorian's conviction will bring to Trump's team.
As it turns out, more serious achievements are needed than just “fighting drug trafficking,” since recent security initiatives – mainly in prisons – have already begun to raise questions among the public.
CAMP IN THE SWAMPS
In July, Trump's team gave his rivals a new excuse to talk about the "atrocities of the regime." The American president pompously attended the opening of a new temporary detention center for migrants in Florida.
The center is like a center, but with a twist.
The establishment is located in the Everglades National Park, famous throughout the United States for its swamps, as well as the alligators and snakes teeming in them.
The trick is that the detention center is located on the territory of an abandoned airfield in the middle of the swamps. Anyone who wants to escape will be forced to make their way through the "natural environment", risking becoming a meal for crocodiles.
The camp is designed for migrants who will await deportation here. It can accommodate about five thousand people, but knowing the ability of the American administration to pack prisons to capacity, one can safely assume that there may be more people here.
However, the Everglades center, dubbed “Alcatraz with alligators” by journalists, plays more of a media role and is intended to show that the authorities are ready to resort to abstract “extreme measures” at any moment and will keep everyone they can in suspense.
EMPTY GUANTANAMO BAY BASE
Amid stories about alligators and Trump's chuckles about how "migrants are better off escaping the Everglades by taking a curveball," the story of another detention center comes to mind: Guantanamo Bay.
At the US military base - the very place where the world-famous terrorist prison is located - in January 2025, a large-scale expansion of the temporary detention center for migrants, which had previously been there (refugees from Haiti were sent there), was carried out.
According to a memorandum signed by the president, the base was planned to open a facility with 30,000 places for holding migrants with a criminal past (and an intriguing present).
The focus was primarily on illegal immigrants with criminal records or suspected of having links to criminal groups. The order noted that the measures were being taken "to stop the invasion, dismantle criminal cartels and restore national sovereignty."
However, by May it was already clear that the stated goals had not been achieved. The deportations were proceeding too quickly, and at one point there were fewer than five hundred migrants in the temporary detention center.
Then their number approached almost zero, but additional soldiers for security, tents, and at the same time funds from the budget in Guantanamo continued to arrive regularly.
Against the backdrop of the empty Guantanamo, attention is drawn to the squabble that occurred in late May in the US Congress during the defense of the Department of Homeland Security budget for the 2026 fiscal year, which is scheduled to begin on October 1.
The White House has requested an additional $44 billion to implement measures to combat illegal immigration.
At the same time, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was unable to answer the question of how much it actually costs American taxpayers to keep one illegal immigrant in Guantanamo.
Initially, the talk was about $165 per person per day, but congressional Democrats, having quickly estimated the potential costs associated with delivering migrants to the base and then deporting them from there to their countries of origin, named completely different figures.
About a hundred thousand dollars a day. Maybe more.
BILLIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION
All of the above seems like a piece of cake compared to the potential revival of the legendary prison complex on Alcatraz Island, which Trump has already announced several times.
According to the latest reports, the current buildings - both prison buildings and those intended for staff accommodation - are planned to be torn down and a super-modern and highly secure prison will be built in their place. As in the past, it is proposed to bring here members of mafia groups, especially dangerous murderers and repeat offenders.
At the moment, two financial scenarios for such construction are being considered. One is “positive”, with a total cost of two billion dollars. This amount is planned to include the construction of a new pier, a helipad, full automation of the surveillance system and the introduction of digital control.
Another option, from the "economy" category, provides for the conservation of historical buildings, major repairs of life support systems, automation of the security system. In this case, it is planned to spend one billion.
At the same time, the most desired news right now is not at all the information about which drug lords or terrorists will go to the renovated Alcatraz. It is much more interesting who will be chosen as the contractor for the revival of the iconic prison.
PUNISHMENT FOR THE TAXPAYER
All of the above stories, from Fito's extradition to the revival of Alcatraz, strike the eye primarily as media-driven and frankly expensive stories.
The effectiveness of all the declared measures has not been proven by anyone and does not justify the gigantic expenses allocated from the federal budget for Trump's prison games. There is still no clear result - except for the seasonal emptiness in the border region.
Drugs continue to flow into the United States, American weapons appear in Latin American gangs, and the population begins to become even poorer. The latter, by the way, correlates well with the sharp increase in crime, for which illegal immigrants are not the only ones responsible.
Thus, the White House's tough measures are now punishing the ordinary American taxpayer first and foremost. What this will lead to in another six months, when the real costs of this entire "festivity" become clear, remains to be seen.
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[REGNUM] For ten years now, the US has not let go of the topic of “sinister Russian interference” in the American elections, the so-called “Russiagate”. It was launched into the public space in the fall of 2015, and then used to the fullest extent in the subsequent election campaign.
But now they are approaching it from a new angle: uncomfortable questions are being asked of those who actively imposed this agenda on all of America.
Democrats in the United States first began talking about Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia after the latter complimented Vladimir Putin in an interview at the start of his presidential campaign.
But Russiagate came into full swing in the summer of 2016, when the servers of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton were hacked. Auditors hired by the Democratic Party investigated the hacker attack, but the FBI was forbidden from doing so.
Investigators very quickly began to blame Russia for everything, although there were no real facts to support the theory of a “Russian hack”.
Later, Clinton's political strategists used the situation to build a very primitive but working scheme in the media space - that Trump had conspired with Russia to undermine the Democrats' position.
The investigation simultaneously involved firms financed by the Clinton campaign and representatives of the American intelligence services. By the end of 2016, they had all joined in trying to portray Trump as a “Russian agent,” even though it was a clear conflict of interest.
Liberal journalists were leaked the notorious dossier of British spy Christopher Steele, which portrayed Trump as both a Russian sympathizer and a victim of blackmail. It was there that the salacious details of Trump's alleged amusements with women of low social responsibility in a Moscow hotel were published.
However, quite quickly all these hot facts began to be refuted.
It was later revealed that the author of the dossier was Igor Danchenko, a native of Perm, who moved to the United States and got a job at the democratic Brookings Institution.
He was tasked with digging up dirt on Trump, and without thinking twice, Danchenko simply came up with some ideas, some of which were given to him by liberal journalists from Moscow.
Later, he had to give testimony under oath, but he still avoided a criminal case for slander and misleading law enforcement officers.
Russiagate played the role of a bombshell and effectively undermined Trump's entire first presidential term. He had to constantly fight off accusations of ties to Russia and lose one of his allies after another.
Take Trump's first national security adviser, Mike Flynn, a proponent of normalizing relations with Russia. He was accused of giving false testimony to the FBI under a false pretext and forced to resign from his post - for just one phone call with the then Russian ambassador to the United States.
“Russiagate” hung over Trump like a sword of Damocles for more than two years. The endless investigation into “Russian interference” in the American elections was completed only in the spring of 2019. It found no interference or connections between Trump and Russia. But the deed was already done – Congress introduced a slew of new sanctions against Moscow.
Trump's team had no chance to reach an agreement with Russia at that time. And in domestic politics, the Republicans lost a lot of time and energy fighting off all the fictitious accusations.
In 2020, the Russiagate story repeated itself and cost Trump the election. Social media and mainstream media desperately blocked mentions of scandals involving the president’s son Hunter Biden, calling them “Russian disinformation.”
It later turned out that all these stories were actually more than true. Trump, at the end of his first term, decided to investigate the origins of Russiagate, for which he appointed special prosecutor John Durham.
Durham didn't get very far: he was hampered by the entire liberal prosecutorial staff of the US Department of Justice under Joe Biden. Durham put several apparatchiks on trial, but they were all acquitted. And the Clinton campaign got off with a small fine for promoting fake stories about Trump's ties to Russia with its own money.
It would seem that the Democrats have gotten away with it after staging the largest witch hunt in the US since McCarthyism. However, as we know, revenge is a dish best served cold: after his second inauguration, Trump returned to Russiagate.
He ordered the appointed heads of the special services to dig into documents from the initial stage of the scandal. And sensations quickly emerged.
For example, in December 2016, as part of Barack Obama's presidential briefing, a report was released that stated in black and white that no real evidence of Russia's interference in the US elections had been found. Obama then banned the publication of this document and ordered a new one to be drawn up, which vaguely spoke of suspicions against Russia.
Current National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, who was herself fiercely accused by Democrats of having ties to Moscow, has now prepared recommendations to open criminal cases against top Obama-era intelligence officials, including John Brennan, James Comey, James Clapper and others.
They were the ones who secretly launched the Russiagate investigation in the summer of 2016. Now karma is catching up with all the organizers of the fake scandal, they may well be dragged through the courts. And they face a very long sentence, because they are accused of conspiracy to commit treason.
Trump's team is also taking aim at a bigger target: Obama himself. He is currently playing the role of the Democratic Party's unofficial patriarch, trying to help Democrats in the next elections in 2026 and 2028.
And the Republicans would not be at all against creating problems for Obama, for example, forcing him to testify in Congress on "Russiagate." It is unlikely that the ex-president will be jailed, but his lower-level apparatchiks may well be sent to jail or under house arrest.
And there is still a lot of interesting things ahead: the White House is announcing a major investigation into the falsifications in the 2020 elections. And there it will be possible to “accept” Biden’s political strategists.
The Democrats don't really know how to react to the rapidly unfolding events. Although it was they who opened Pandora's box with the beginning of politicized trials against their opponents. So it is not surprising that the flywheel of repression eventually caught up with the liberal elites of the USA, who are used to being above any law.
The Russiagate investigation is a strong blow to the Ukrainian lobby as well. After all, as we know, although there was no Russian interference in the American elections, there was Ukrainian interference.
Kiev lobbyists actively helped the Democrats collect dirt on Trump's campaign in 2016, in particular on his political strategist Paul Manafort, who had worked in Ukraine. Kiev, represented by then-President Petro Poroshenko *, was obviously betting on Clinton's victory, which ultimately did not happen.
For Russia, the requiem for "Russiagate" brings at least moral satisfaction - truth and justice do not often win in the modern world. But we would like something more. After all, in connection with "Russian interference" a huge number of sanctions were introduced, the reason for which is now being denied in the US at the official level.
Russian consulates were closed, many diplomats were expelled from the States, and some of our fellow citizens had their lives ruined because of accusations of espionage. Now, to be fair, sanctions should be lifted and relations restored.
Whether there is political will for this in the White House, time will tell. But now at least there is a chance that Russia will no longer be so fiercely demonized in the domestic American discourse. Even if Moscow remains Washington's opponent on the external front.
Now Trump no longer has “Russiagate” hanging over him, so it will clearly be politically easier for him to normalize contacts with Russia under the current conditions.
#1
There was no DNC hack. A DNC staffer named Seth Rich leaked the emails to Wikileaks and they were published by Julian Assange, a known traitor.
Rich was a Bernie bro who was outraged that the DNC favored Hillary. He got a traitor's reward on the streets of DC not long after.
[Daily Caller] Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York admitted in comments that resurfaced Tuesday that she was eager for immigrants to enter the United States to help Democrats with redistricting.
Clarke initially made the comments during an Oct. 7, 2021, House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, which were previously resurfaced in a January 2024 post on X from the EndWokeness account before resurfacing again. During the 2021 hearing, Clarke took aim at Republicans who were objecting to Haitian migrants.
"I’m from Brooklyn, New York," Clarke said during the hearing. "We have a diaspora that, that can absorb a significant number of these migrants and that, you know, when I hear colleagues talk about, you know, the, the, the doors of the inn being closed [and] no room in the inn, I, I’m saying, you know, I, I need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes."
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🚨 BREAKING BOMBSHELL: Sen. Mark Warner is calling for Tulsi Gabbard’s removal as DNI after she exposed shocking details about the Russian Collusion Hoax! What are they trying to hide? pic.twitter.com/GjWhNwnGjv
[BREITBART] The Trump administration directed the National Park Service (NPS) to remove signs that were critical of American history and instead promote the ''progress of the American people.''
The order directed as many as 433 NPS sites to remove critical signs meant to ''inappropriately disparage Americans'' while insisting on messages to promote the ''progress of the American people'' and the ''grandeur of the American landscape.'' A deadline was set for September 17, 2025. Certain messages that were erased pertained to climate change, past racial divisions, Native American history, and slavery. Per the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
At Cape Hatteras National Seashore, for instance, the internal documents show that a Park Service employee asked the Trump administration to review a sign that explains how rising seas are threatening the habitat of wild horses.
At the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, park employees flagged an exhibit panel that discussed the bell's travels across the country during the post-Reconstruction period. The panel ''calls out the systemic and violent mostly peaceful racism and sexism that existed at the time,'' employees noted.
And at the nearby Independence National Historical Park, where the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were debated and signed, park staff raised concerns about an exhibit that memorializes nine slaves whom George Washington had brought from Mount Vernon. One panel emphasizes the intentional brutality of slaveholders, which included whippings, beatings, torture and rape.
Dan Wenk, a former superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, accused the administration of covering up ''things in our history that we are not proud of anymore.''
''The national parks were established to tell the American story, and we shouldn't just tell all the things that make us look wonderful,'' said Wenk. ''We have things in our history that we are not proud of anymore.''
Kristen Brengel, senior vice president of government affairs at the National Parks Conservation Association, said Park Service employees disagree with the order.
''Park staff are in a bind here,'' Brengel said. ''If they don't comply with this directive, they could lose their jobs.''
Elizabeth Peace, a spokeswoman for the Interior Department, the parent agency of the Park Service, said the Trump administration's order does not aim to whitewash history or rewrite the past.
''Interpretive materials that disproportionately emphasize negative aspects of U.S. history or historical figures, without acknowledging broader context or national progress, can unintentionally distort understanding rather than enrich it,'' Peace said in a statement. ''Our goal is to foster honest, respectful storytelling that educates visitors while honoring the complexity of our nation's shared journey.''
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We SHOULD tell all the things that make us look wonderful.
Nobody else will.
The whole world hates us.
77 million of us against the entire planet. You bet damned well we're going to look good at our own national parks.
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History is history. It is ok to commemorate the Trail of Tears, but tell whole tales not half. Present the man made climate change as a theory not as fact. Propaganda is less interesting than truth. Also, tell about heroes. Desmond Doss is a hero. No need to always discuss gender and racial inequality. There can be heroes without disparate agenda impacts.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[MSN] A decision by the White House to trot out Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard in the middle of a press conference on Wednesday earned the Donald Trump administration a thrashing on MSNBC on Thursday morning.
[Daily Caller] Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York admitted in comments that resurfaced Tuesday that she was eager for immigrants to enter the United States to help Democrats with redistricting.
