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Donald Trump set to axe thousands of jobs at CIA, NSA and other agencies

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The White House is planning to axe thousands jobs at the CIA and other intelligence agencies, officials told members of Congress per The Washington Post.

A person familiar with the plan but not authorized to discuss it publicly also confirmed the changes to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

The administration plans to reduce the CIA workforce by 1,200 over several years, and cut thousands of positions at the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies. 

The Post reported that the reductions at the CIA include several hundred people who have already opted for early retirement. 

The rest of the cuts would be achieved partly through reduced hiring and would not likely necessitate layoffs.

In response to questions about the reductions, the CIA issued a statement saying CIA Director John Ratcliffe is working to align the agency with Trump’s national security priorities.

‘These moves are part of a holistic strategy to infuse the Agency with renewed energy, provide opportunities for rising leaders to emerge, and better position CIA to deliver on its mission,’ the agency wrote in the statement.

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This is going to be interesting. Does Trump have the courage and power to dismantle the Deep State, which most of us believe is centered in or behind or around the CIA and NSA? The whistleblower in this video claims USA has been infiltrated by a ‘powerful international group’, which controls our government — and that is the reason he is going public with his claims. Some say the powerful group is aliens but others say the whistleblower says outright it’s an international group, not interplanetary or interdimensional. The whistleblower looks and sounds credible but who knows if he is just another Deep State mind-control plant, of which there are many. Others believe the powerful group is some form of international Jewry or that Jews are running cover for an even deeper group. It is a remarkable feature of our time that we still have no idea who was running the Biden administration. Nor do we know how much Ratcliffe or Trump knows about who was running Biden’s admin, or who might be controlling them. How Trump’s actions against the CIA and NSA proceed will be very revealing. They may be nothing more than a psyop cover designed to assuage conspiracy theorists like me. Or they may be real moves by a real president who has real power and knows how to use it. ABN

Trump holds Cabinet meeting at White House

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RFK clip on child trafficking and HHS

Full video: Trump holds Cabinet meeting at White House

UPDATE: This is long but you can jump ahead. I listened to maybe one-half of it, focusing on what I wanted. It provides a good view of what Trump and his people are doing and why, and how successful they are and expect to be in the future. Much better to listen to them instead of what media says about them; and necessary to do that at least sometimes. I believe Trump is the only president to ever hold cabinet meetings in public. ABN

Meeting with Norwegian PM Jonas Store in White House, President Trump Delivers Remarks on Ukraine/Russia Conflict

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President Trump hosted Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in the Oval Office and took questions from reporters on Thursday.  The majority of the question from both the U.S. and Norwegian media encompass the current effort to negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine.

One of the ceasefire ‘sticking points’ per se’, is that immediately following the breakout of the conflict the government of President Zelenskyy changed many of their constitutional rules to include the legal elimination of opposition parties in the country, removal of religion or faith-based social influence that runs counter to the Ukrainian Nazi mindset, the cessation of elections in Ukraine, and other “emergency measures” intended to assist the stability of Zelenskyy’s government as they entered a war footing.

The results of the legal changes and constitutional framework, which included non-recognition of any lost territory, is now being leveraged by Zelenskyy in negotiations for a ceasefire.  President Zelenskyy is now saying the ceasefire terms proposed, which include accepting regional losses of geography to Russia, are not constitutionally possible and he has no power to agree to them.

In essence, Zelenskyy’s emergency government changed the constitutional power of the President, cemented a new constitutional status during war, and now says those previous changes make it impossible to accept proposed terms.  This self-fulfilling creation, intentionally done with forethought for exactly this kind of current scenario, is the baseline for frustration toward the Ukraine position.  President Trump notes this Ukraine position is frustrating, while thousands die weekly in the process. WATCH:

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UPDATE: I do not consider Zelensky to be a Ukrainian or working for the benefit of Ukraine. Crimea is old Russian territory and vital to their access to the Black Sea. Much of Ukraine was always part of Russia, so a lot of the back and forth on territory lost or gained is, sadly, nonsense. Here is a map of languages spoken in the territory in question. It’s a very telling map and ridiculous to pretend the history of this region is not very Russian. Crimea was ‘given’ to Ukraine by Khrushchev at the stroke of a pen. Odessa became a Russian navy harbor in 1794 by decree of the Russian Empress, Catherine the Great. ABN

‘What is going on with our Courts? They are totally OUT OF CONTROL’ — Donald J Trump

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UPDATED: All American laws are ultimately pragmatic. This includes SCOTUS rulings on the Constitution as well as district prosecutors deciding how to work a case. Legal pragmatics include ethics and precedents, while also recognizing the urgency of, say, removing millions of illegal immigrants in USA. The legal remedy in this case properly must fit the crime, which was treasonous importation of millions of illegals. Sending a plane-load of violent illegals to El Salvador was a pragmatic decision as it removed some of the worst and also sends a strong message to others of their ilk to get out of the country. It’s a pragmatic application of the law. ‘Legal’ objections to it are absurd in the face of the massive offense (treason) and massive harm (tens of millions of illegals ushered in to USA under Biden). Below is an illustration of the problem. ABN

Catholic priest on why ‘a practicing Catholic’ cannot be a member of the Democrat Party

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How does this same religion not only not oppose mass illegal immigration but actually supports and funds it? Mass illegal immigration without question causes increased crime, including murders of innocents. Moreover, mass migration in the numbers we are seeing throughout the West is causing civilizational murder. I believe their answer will be it’s God’s will that mass illegal immigration is happening; and thus the Church approves of Catholic immigration ‘charities’ that openly fund mass illegal immigration. Abrahamic religions and sects all have the same flaw — rigid adherence to supposed sacred texts with greatly varying interpretations of those texts and their applications. ABN