BREAKING: Zuckerberg’s Turning on The Deep State Signals The Globalists are in Deep Trouble
On the Tuesday show Alex Jones broke down how the Meta CEO Zuckerberg lashed out against the Deep State.
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EU Commission Chief Pressures Countries to Drop Male Nominees for Top Jobs
EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is trying to strongarm several smaller member states into changing their commissioner nominations to women so that she can have the gender-balanced cabinet she vowed to set up. But disregarding countries’ sovereign choice for a PR stunt might not only affect her relationship with the capitals but also hurt any women in her administration, whose rightful place in Brussels could be questioned from now on.
The deadline for nominating members to the second von der Leyen Commission is just days away, and all but five countries have submitted nominations. However, many have chosen to ignore von der Leyen’s request to put forward two names this year—a man and a woman—so that she could come up with a mix of candidates that is at least 50% female.
Out of the 21 nominations so far, 16 are men. There is nothing to be outraged about: there is not a single clause in the treaties that would demand gender parity in the Commission, unlike those that guarantee member states’ right to nominate whoever they see most fit for the job.
But according to a report published on Tuesday, August 27th by Times of Malta, von der Leyen has asked the Maltese government to withdraw the candidacy of Glenn Micallef, who stepped down as head of the prime minister’s secretariat earlier this year to become the country’s next commissioner.
The sources say Valletta is reluctant to comply, but the prime minister’s office neither confirmed nor denied the discussion taking place at this point, saying only that “the engagement process is ongoing and [von der Leyen] is speaking to member states.”
The confidential Brussels sources also said that instead of Micallef, von der Leyen “suggested” keeping Malta’s existing EU commissioner in the role for another five years, Helena Dalli who had been in charge of the fairly insignificant equality portfolio.
One diplomat speculated that the reason goes further than just gender parity: “Dalli has had a borderline useless portfolio. She is easy for von der Leyen to control,” he said. “Having her for a second term would just ensure Malta is effectively irrelevant within the Commission.”
The Times’ sources also indicated that there are at least two other smaller member states that von der Leyen is trying to pressure into changing their minds and dropping their male nominees. She may also be in talks with the five remaining countries who haven’t revealed their picks yet, trying to influence their choice.
The problem is that von der Leyen has all the power she needs to strongarm her way toward having a gender-balanced Commission, regardless of how unethical and undemocratic it may feel. While nominating commissioners is up to each member state, it’s entirely up to the president-elect to distribute the portfolios between them. Those who comply could be rewarded with more influential ones (those dealing with economy or security issues, for instance), while governments who defy her can expect to be ‘punished’ with weaker posts.
That’s also the dilemma that Malta and others now face. “Von der Leyen is probably promising us a better portfolio if we agree to renominate her,” another Maltese diplomat told the Times. “If that’s the case, the government must decide: stand by our nominee and look strong but get a weaker portfolio. Or swap nominee, look weak but get a stronger brief.”
Von der Leyen’s obsession with gender parity might also be the reason why Italy has not officially named its commissioner pick so far despite the choice being so obvious. Virtually everyone in Brussels expects Italy’s highly experienced EU Affairs Minister Raffaele Fitto to become one of the most experienced and influential members of the incoming College of Commissioners, but the fact Rome is holding out until the very last minute may point to a deeper discussion behind the scenes.
We know that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the biggest ‘winner’ of the EU elections, still feels cheated for being sidelined by the ‘losers’ (Scholz, Macron, and others) during the initial negotiations when they appointed von der Leyen for a second term. The only way the president-elect could make it right in Meloni’s eyes is by giving Italy a Commission vice-presidency overseeing several (preferably economic) portfolios. However now it is entirely possible that the price of claiming the desired post is dropping Fitto for a woman.
Besides the obvious sovereignty problem, several other issues with this approach are worth nothing. One is that even with a male-heavy College, no one could claim that women are powerless in Brussels: four out of the five top EU positions will be women—including the presidents of the Commission, the Parliament, the European Central Bank, as well as the foreign affairs chief—with only the European Council presidency given to a man (Portugal’s socialist ex-PM running away from the country’s biggest ever corruption scandal).
It is also worth noting that all her efforts to achieve a gender-balanced cabinet are probably just for optics. After all, it was her ‘Ursula coalition’ in the European Parliament that willfully sacrificed gender parity in the committee bureaus just to prevent the national conservative Patriots for Europe (PfE) group from taking their pre-allocated seats, despite the Parliament’s internal rules actually containing language that requires keeping the balance wherever possible.
What’s more, if von der Leyen does get her way, it could have disastrous consequences for any actually competent women in her team, who could (and probably would) come under fire for being a ‘diversity hire.’ Not that any of this would matter to ‘Queen Ursula.’ She only cares about gender when she personally profits, regardless of whether she might hurt women—along with democracy and sovereignty—in the process.
BREAKING VIDEO: Democrats Now Giving 150K to Illegal Aliens at The Expense of Veterans & The Elderly
On the Tuesday show Alex Jones covered how California Democrats are giving massive amounts of money to illegal aliens to own homes while veterans and elderly are going homeless.
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Arizona Sex Offender Who Threatened to Kill Donald Trump During His Border Visit Now in Custody
The office of the sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona has disclosed that a registered sex offender who allegedly threatened to assassinate former President Donald Trump during his visit to the southern border is now under custody.
On Aug. 22, the Daily Mail reported that Ronald Lee Syvrud, 66, allegedly made unspecified threats against Trump on two social media posts on Aug. 21 and 22. The report also stated that the planned assassination attempt was intended for his trip to the border in Sierra Vista.
Sheriff Mark Dannels stated that the nature of the threat remains unclear but clarified that they have “zero tolerance for any kind of threats or intents of violence.”
“We have zero tolerance for any kind of threats or intents of violence, so we’ll find him. He’ll go to jail,” Dannels said in a statement posted on social media. “He’s a registered sex offender here in Cochise County, and we were looking for him. He’s out of compliance as part of his violations. So we’re looking for him on that. We’re going to arrest him on that. But also the fact his pulse was obviously directed toward this event. So we want to talk to him about that.”
After a thorough investigation, Syvrud was arrested that same day.
“As part of the operations plan in place for the visit of candidate Donald Trump on today’s date, locating this subject was a priority. Intelligence developed led to a possible location in the St. David area and multiple units deployed to the location. At approximately 2:16 pm, units on the scene observed the suspect traveling outside of the identified location, and a felony stop was conducted. Syvrud was taken into custody without further incident at approximately 2:30 pm,” Dannels posted on the official Facebook page of Cochise County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office booked Syvrud into the Cochise County Jail on “a felony warrant from Graham County for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender and two counts of threatening for this case.” Dannels also added in his post that “Syvrud remains in custody pending further court adjudication.”
Trump shrugs off new death threat
The social media threat came only six weeks after the failed assassination attempt against the former president during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
In a conversation with the Daily Mail reporter, Trump admitted that he had not heard about the threat, likely because law enforcement wanted to keep it from him. However, he was still informed about a potential threat against him during a visit to the border wall.
“What are your thoughts coming down here? Some people told me it’s dangerous for you to be here,” Trump stated. “I heard it’s dangerous, but I also have a job to do. I heard it’s very dangerous. I haven’t heard about that. They probably want to keep it from me.”
He joked about leaving immediately upon hearing the news but maintained that he had a job to do despite the dangers. “Thank you for telling me, let’s get out of here right now. No, thank you very much for saying, but no,” he added.
He even expressed his respect for the Secret Service in line with the previous attempt on his life.
“And I have great respect for Secret Service, the job they do, including a month and a half ago, when they were jumping on top of me with bullets flying right at them. So, mistakes were made, and they’re going to learn from the mistakes. But I have great respect.”
Trump.news has more stories about the failed assassination attempt and other death threats on the former president.
Hardware Giant Lowe’s Pledges to End Diversity Policies to Avoid Public Backlash
(LifeSiteNews) – Hardware retail chain Lowe’s is the latest major brand to announce a retreat from “woke” policies, again driven by pressure from conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck.
Starbuck announced Monday on X that he had notified Lowe’s that he was planning another of his now-trademark exposés against the company’s left-wing corporate policies, to which Lowe’s responded by announcing multiple changes to those policies.
Specifically, the company will stop participating in the Corporate Equality Index social credit system promoted by the LGBT pressure group Human Rights Campaign (HRC), cease donations to “pride” and other divisive events, and replace identity-based employee resource groups with one for all employees. It also suggested more reforms would follow.
Big news: I messaged @Lowes executives last week to let them know that I planned to expose their woke policies. This morning I woke up to an email where they preemptively made big changes.
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 26, 2024
Here are the changes:
• Ending participation in the @HRC’s woke Corporate Equality Index… pic.twitter.com/qOUr2JLGV7
“We’re now forcing multibillion dollar organizations to change their policies without even posting just from fear they have of being the next company that we expose,” Starbuck said. “We are winning and one by one we WILL bring sanity back to corporate America.”
In recent years, left-wing activists have used “diversity, equity, & inclusion” (DEI) dogma and “environmental, social, & governance” (ESG) standards to encourage major U.S. corporations to take favorable stands on political and cultural issues such as homosexuality, transgenderism, race relations, the environment, and abortion.
Political and customer backlashes to such activism has translated to business woes for companies such as Disney, Bud Light, Target, Tractor Supply, John Deere, and Jack Daniel’s – the last three of which all dropped much of their corporate left-wing activism after exposés (or threats of them) by Starbuck.
Green Beret Colonel: The Consensus is in— The Deep State Tried to Assassinate Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania
Green Beret Colonel Ivan Raiklin joined Alex Jones on Tuesday to discuss the deep state links to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
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