Gornald Grulk, Orc King of Mordor, Slayer of Protestors and Diddler if Children is PURGING his military ranks! He is PURGING SS-Oberfuhrer Greg Bovino, senior colonel of the Fascist Secret Police and replacing him with a crony

Delicate chud-women happily accept the boot down their throats
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/just-in-controversial-border-patrol-commander-greg-bovino-reassigned-out-of-minneapolis/
JUST IN: Controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino Reassigned Out of Minneapolis

CNN reported Monday that controversial Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino will be leaving Minneapolis, where he has been overseeing operations and vehemently defending officers following the shooting death of 37-year-old Alex Pretti.

Anderson Cooper broke the news Monday afternoon, saying, “Sources tell CNN that top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis tomorrow,” before tossing to reporter Priscilla Alvarez.

“This really is a major shift in strategy here by the Trump administration,” Alvarez began. “Recall, Gregory Bovino has been a key player in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and became, in many ways, the public face of that crackdown across cities in the country. Most recently, of course, in Minneapolis.”

“We are now being told by sources that he is going to be departing Minneapolis with some of his Border Patrol agents tomorrow and going back to their respective sectors,” Alvarez said. “Now, we’re also told that part of this has been influenced by the frustrations within the administration over the handling and the public response of Saturday’s shooting.”

https://nypost.com/2026/01/24/us-news/virginia-dems-propose-law-to-drop-mandatory-prison-time-for-rape-manslaughter/

A new bill proposed by Democrats in the Virginia state legislature is raising concerns regarding the removal of minimum prison sentences for various violent felony crimes.

Within days of Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger being sworn in, members of her party introduced a flurry of amendments looking to end mandatory minimum sentences for various crimes within the state.

According to Jason Miyares, the former Republican attorney general, House Bill 863 includes proposals to effectively eliminate minimum sentencing for manslaughter, rape, possession and distribution of child pornography, assaulting a law enforcement officer and other repeat violent felonies.

Additionally, Democrats are also looking to remove the mandatory five-day minimum sentence for certain first-time DUI offenders.

“HB 863 is a common-sense proposal that eliminates the requirement for one-size-fits-all minimum sentences for certain crimes,” Delegate Rae Cousins, who sponsored the bill, said, according to ABC 7.

https://www.rt.com/russia/631364-us-tanker-crew-release/

After Russia realized that Venezuela was no longer a safe place to launder their oil, their tanker "Marinera" turned for home, and as the Hegemonic forces closed in on them, they even panicked and changed the flag of the vessel from whatever tax dodge island nation it was ostensibly sailing under, to that of Russia.

American forces afforded that desperate subterfuge all of the respect it deserved (zero), and promptly boarded and seized the vessel without caring that it was now legally a Russian vessel.

Russia has since limited its response to begging, not for the return of the ship and its cargo, but for the return of the entire crew. Now, they have rewritten their "demand" to make it only 2 Russian nationals, who are likely skilled operatives of some sort and even more likely being worked over in a blacksite by the CIA right now.

Are y'all ready to realize that Russia's limp language and ineffectiveness in securing their countrymen's return demonstrates a new strategic reality, one in which Russia is largely irrelevant?

Keep in mind, this article is Russian state propaganda, and yet even it quotes Lavrov like he's a kicked puppy "waiting for Washington to live by its promise".

Moscow says they're "puzzled and disappointed". No world power talks like that.

*The picture is from the latest to be seized, the Sagitta. That seizure is discussed in the Russian state piece below.
https://www.rt.com/news/631244-us-seizes-foreign-oil-tanker/

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/politics/fema-ice-storm-memes
Homeland Security officials have urged disaster response staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to avoid using the word “ice” in public messaging about the massive winter storm barreling toward much of the United States, according to two sources familiar with the directive.

The concern is that the word could spark confusion or online mockery, given the ongoing controversy surrounding US Immigration and Customs Enforcement — also known as “ICE.”

The guidance, informally delivered to a group at FEMA Thursday by officials from the Department of Homeland Security – which oversees both FEMA and ICE – comes as states across the South brace for potentially devastating ice accumulations, with some areas expecting a quarter -inch or more.

Officials told staff they worry that certain phrasing – like “watch out for ice” – could be misinterpreted or quickly turned into internet fodder, especially as ICE operations remain a flashpoint in cities like Minneapolis and beyond. That would take away from the purpose of the messages, meant to protect people in danger over the next few days, the officials said.

“If FEMA says, ‘Keep off the roads if you see ice,’ it would be easy for the public to meme it,” a source with knowledge of the guidance told CNN. “I think it’s a dangerous precedent to set. If we can’t use clear language to help prepare Americans, then people may be left vulnerable and could suffer.”

Instead, FEMA staff have been encouraged to use terms like “freezing rain” in their public messaging, the sources said.

A statement to CNN Friday, attributable to a FEMA spokesperson, said: “Reporting’ like this reads like a desperate ploy for clickbait rather than real journalism that actually gives Americans disaster preparedness information that could save lives. FEMA will use correct and accurate descriptors of weather conditions to communicate clearly to the American people.”

https://apnews.com/article/nato-europe-us-nuclear-trump-defense-security-c1575be708cbd813f1c7d97c87628ff6

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte insisted on Monday that Europe is incapable of defending itself without U.S. military support and would have to more than double current military spending targets to be able to do so.

“If anyone thinks here … that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the U.S., keep on dreaming. You can’t,” Rutte told EU lawmakers in Brussels.

At NATO’s summit in The Hague in July, European allies — with the exception of Spain — plus Canada agreed to Trump’s demand that they invest the same percentage of their economic output on defense as the United States within a decade.

They pledged to spend 3.5% of gross domestic product on core defense, and a further 1.5% on security-related infrastructure – a total of 5% of GDP – by 2035.

“If you really want to go it alone,” Rutte said, “forget that you can ever get there with 5%. It will be 10%. You have to build up your own nuclear capability. That costs billions and billions of euros.”

France has led calls for Europe to build its “strategic autonomy,” and support for its stance has grown since the Trump administration warned last year that its security priorities lie elsewhere and that the Europeans would have to fend for themselves.

Rutte told the lawmakers that without the United States, Europe “would lose the ultimate guarantor of our freedom, which is the U.S. nuclear umbrella. So, hey, good luck!”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7mmpljze7o

The US has unveiled its plans for a "New Gaza" that would see the devastated Palestinian territory rebuilt from scratch.

Slides showed dozens of skyscrapers stretching along the Mediterranean coast and housing estates in the Rafah area, while a map outlining the phased development of new residential, agricultural and industrial areas for the 2.1 million population.

They were presented during a signing ceremony at the World Economic Forum in Davos for President Donald Trump's new Board of Peace, which is tasked with ending the two-year war between Israel and Hamas and overseeing reconstruction.

"We're going to be very successful in Gaza. It's going to be a great thing to watch," Trump declared.

"I'm a real estate person at heart and it's all about location. And I said: 'Look at this location on the sea. Look at this beautiful piece of property. What it could be for so many people.'"

In his latest outlook for 2026, Zandi wrote that while the US economy is expanding, the growth is fragile. Zandi said there are several reasons to believe the likelihood of a recession is high.

The economy isn't growing fast enough:
The economy may look strong, but Zandi said that the numbers look misleading. Accounting for the six-week government shutdown, he estimates that real GDP growth in the fourth quarter will be 2%. That's short of the growth rate needed to employ everyone entering the labor force, and continued growth below potential will ultimately be a hindrance to further expansion.

The deteriorating labor market is a recession indicator:
Zandi has repeatedly flagged problems in the labor market as an indication of an oncoming downturn. For 2026, he is still deeply concerned about cracks in the labor market, as the economy isn't able to absorb new labor supply fast enough.

"That unemployment is definitively on the rise is evidence that the economy's 2% underlying growth rate is falling short of its potential rate of growth—the rate at which it needs to grow to employ all those entering the labor force," he noted.

Zandi added that hiring has fallen to levels historically in line with other economic downturn cycles, something that often precedes a recession.

Stock market risk remains high:
Zandi has cautioned against relying on the stock market as an economic scorecard, and has said the wealth effect of rising asset prices could be clouding the broader picture of consumer health.

"If the stock market is a bubble and it bursts, wiping out this wealth, consumer spending will suffer a significant blow, triggering a recession," he stated. "This is precisely what happened in the wake of the bursting Y2K bubble."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/3-reasons-the-us-is-closer-to-a-recession-than-gdp-suggests-according-to-a-top-economist/ar-AA1UKkvv?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds