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 My son has narrated the last book I wrote. Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click HERE) World & Nation Trump: Govt Shutdown a 'Biden Problem'  President-elect Donald Trump said the current need to pass a spending bill is "a [President Joe] Biden problem," and added it would be better for a government shutdown to occur now than after he takes office. Congress was scrambling to avert a partial government shutdown Friday, hours after more than three dozen Republicans rejected a demand by Trump to use a spending bill to lift the nation's debt ceiling. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was trying to plot a course that could pass both his chamber, with narrow Republican control, and the Democrat-led Senate, as a midnight deadline loomed. NBC News: Trump Rethinks Firing Joint Chiefs Chairman  One conversation between Donald Trump and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reportedly may have convinced the president-elect not to fire the general despite previously vowing to remove military leaders who seem to have been too focused on diversity initiatives. Trump and Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., met during the second quarter of Saturday's Army-Navy football game in Landover, Maryland. The two men spoke one-on-one for about 20 minutes in the owner's box and the conversation went well, sources told NBC News. The outlet said the president-elect is "changing his tone" on the general. It now appears Trump will not fire Brown immediately after taking office.
House Republicans reach new plan to avoid government shutdown after back-to-back defeats This is the third plan to avert a shutdown presented this week  House Republican negotiators have tentatively reached an agreement on averting a partial government shutdown at the end of Friday, sources told Fox News Digital. Two people familiar with discussions told Fox News Digital that the deal would include a short-term extension of this year's federal funding levels, disaster aid funding, and agricultural support for farmers – but under three separate bills. It would also involve an agreement to act on the debt limit next year as part of Republicans' planned massive conservative policy overhaul via a process called reconciliation. The new strategy comes after President-elect Trump and his allies torpedoed Congressional lawmakers' initial plans to avert a partial shutdown ahead of the holidays. Top House Dem says ‘lines of communication have been reopened’
TSA warns partial government shutdown could impact holiday travelers DEBT: $36,167,604,149,955.61 WATCH: Schumer pushes return to 1,547-page spending bi Trump files amicus brief to ‘immediately’ stop Biden sale of border wall, says conduct is ‘possibly criminal’ Texas and Missouri are asking a district court to investigate whether the Biden administration has violated a court order  President-elect Donald Trump filed an amicus brief late Thursday in support of a legal effort by Texas and Missouri to "immediately" stop the Biden administration’s sale of border wall materials, saying the action is "possibly criminal." Texas and Missouri filed a motion earlier this week in a district court in the southern district of Texas to hold a status conference to determine if the government is in breach of the court’s permanent injunction from earlier this year. That injunction barred the Biden administration from using funds obligated for wall construction for anything other than that purpose. "The Court should issue an order directing the Defendants to immediately stop any ongoing sale of border-barrier materials to private parties pending the Court’s review of Defendant’s conduct, and the Court should swiftly conduct a searching examination of the Government’s conduct, by formal discovery if necessary, to examine the Government’s compliance with the law, the Constitution, and the Court’s injunction," Trump’s amicus brief states. Ex-CNN pundit Chris Cillizza offers ‘confession’ after explosive report on Biden’s mental decline from Day 1  Former CNN reporter Chris Cillizza says he should've 'pushed harder' for information on President Biden's health Former CNN reporter Chris Cillizza says he should've 'pushed harder' for information on President Biden's health A former top journalist at CNN offered up a “confession” and an “apology” on Thursday by admitting that he should have “pushed harder” on covering President Biden’s mental decline. Chris Cillizza, the former Washington Post political reporter who later joined CNN as editor-at-large before leaving the network in 2022, posted a video on his YouTube page Thursday acknowledging that he failed to adequately cover signs of Biden’s slippage even though Republicans prodded him to do so. “As a reporter, I have a confession to make,” Cillizza said in the video clip on Thursday.“I should have pushed harder earlier for more information about Joe Biden’s mental and physical well-being and any signs of decline.” According to Cillizza, Republicans would “regularly ping me” during his tenure at CNN to quiz him as to why he didn’t address obvious signs of the 82-year-old president’s deterioration. US Air Force Responds After Videos Show Multiple Take Offs at NATO Base  The U.S. Air Force has responded after videos showing up to a dozen jets taking off from a NATO base circulated on social media. Videos shared on X, formerly Twitter, purportedly show F-35 fighters taking off at RAF Lakenheath in England. The posts quickly amassed hundreds of thousands of views and triggered speculation over the activity. However, the U.S. Air Force has quashed suspicions, telling Newsweek that the footage showed standard training operations. The videos come amid a flurry of mysterious drone sightings at U.S. military bases at home and abroad that have taken the internet, and mainstream politics, by storm. The USAF told Newsweek via email that there had been no recent unmanned aircraft system (UAS) activity at Lakenheath and the videos show standard night flying operations for training purposes. Vivek Rewrites 1500-Page, Pork-Filled Budget Bill Using Just 75 Words Dems and RINOs Will Despise  On Wednesday, those who frequent the social media platform X witnessed one of the most heartening spectacles in American history. Led by X owner Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to co-direct the new waste- and bureaucracy-slashing "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), ordinary Americans conducted a massive pressure campaign that helped kill a ghastly federal spending bill, more than 1,500 pages in length, thereby preventing big-government Democrats and their Republican allies in Congress from enjoying the ill-gotten fruits of business as usual. Amid that campaign, Ramaswamy posted on X a 75-word example of a proper, pork-free continuing resolution. "Yes, it *is* possible to enact a simple 1-page Continuing Resolution, instead of 1,500+ page omnibus pork-fest. Here it is," Ramaswamy tweeted. Fani Willis was 'terrified' because her case against Trump was 'weak,' attorney says Willis was disqualified from prosecuting her election interference case against Trump  Fani Willis was 'terrified' because her case against Trump was 'weak,' attorney says Georgia attorney Ashleigh Merchant reacted to news that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had been disqualified from her "weak" election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday. A Georgia court of appeals filing declared that the "appearance of impropriety" stemming from an affair Willis had with Nathan Wade prior to hiring him to prosecute the case required her disqualification from the case. Merchant, who exposed the improper affair months ago, told "Fox & Friends" on Friday that she believed Willis stuck to the case despite the scandal because she didn’t want anyone else to know how "weak" the case was. Biden Cancels $4.28B More in Student Loans The Biden administration on Friday canceled another $4.28 billion in student debt for nearly 55,000 public service workers, the U.S. Department of Education said in a statement. Friday's action brings the total public service student loans forgiven to about $78 billion for nearly 1.1 million workers, the department said. The White House said separately that this brings the total number of all individuals who have been approved for student debt relief under President Joe Biden to nearly 5 million people. Spending mess shows Dems will try to stop Trump every step of the way — which is why he must act fast The worst thing any government can do is to fail to act on its promises. Across the world, there are governments of all stripes suffering for doing just that. In Britain, the Labour government is already sinking in the opinion polls because it promised things it hasn’t been able to do. And it has also done things it promised not to do — like raising taxes. It´s the same in Germany, Italy and other European countries, where governments promised to deport illegal asylum seekers and have so far failed to get almost anyone out of their countries. But before the Trump administration has even taken office, there is a political problem that should have easily been avoided. Trump awarded PolitiFact's 'Lie of the Year,' but site skips Biden's Iie of the century Over and over again, were assured by the White House that behind closed doors Joe Biden had the stamina of a 20-year-old According to readers and editors at PolitiFact, an organization which claims to be a neutral arbiter of truth in politics, the biggest lie of 2024, surely a competitive category, was Donald Trump suggesting that cats and dogs were being eaten by Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio. But I think we can all remember a much, much bigger one. On Thursday, June 27th of this year, Joe Biden and Donald Trump participated in a presidential debate that not only changed the fate of the country, but exposed the lie of this century, namely that octogenarian Biden was fit as fiddle. It was with pure shock that America watched its sitting president, life all but drained from his cold visage, barely capable of coming up with words. And at that moment, years of lies about Grandpa Joe’s mental fitness utterly collapsed. From the Archive.... TO KILL OR FEED A MOCKINGBIRD By Geoff Metcalf July 29, 2002 Two mutually exclusive and under reported stories have been troubling me. * The apparent penchant for political operatives to leak classified information that jeopardizes national security. * The generational control of information dissemination by powerful controllers. So we have another ‘Catch-22’. The complicity of the mainstream media to spin, cover, and obfuscate government abuse of power under the color of authority was not unique to the Clinton administration. It may have been more ubiquitous, and at times even clumsy, but it was not unique. It has been reported that in June 1991 David Rockefeller allegedly told a Bilderberg meeting in Baden Baden German, "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years." He went on to explain: "It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries." Some argue that quote is apocryphal urban legend. However, although I have never been able to find three corroborating independent sources for it, it IS consistent in content and tone with other Bilderberg quotes I HAVE been able to confirm. “If we had been subjected to the light of publicity….” Indicates the one world, globalist, wannabe controllers were/are successful in managing the message. Operation ‘Mockingbird’ was a program supposedly conceived by a brilliant Machiavellian State Department official, Frank Wisner. Wisner selected Philip Graham, then publisher of the Washington Post to manage the program. According to Deborah Davis, author of ‘Katharine the Great’, "By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all, according to a former CIA analyst." Over twenty five major newspapers and wire services became willing house organs for the CIA media manipulation. Investigators digging into MOCKINGBIRD have been flabbergasted to discover FOIA documents in which agents boast (in CIA office memos) of pride in having placed "important assets" inside every major news publication in the country. I know, this is the stuff of Ludlum novels conspiracy wackos, but not until 1982 did the ‘Company’ finally concede that reporters on the CIA payroll have been case officers to field agents. I have too often observed, “Some people don’t like to be confused with facts that contradict their preconceived opinions.” I have also noted (and struggle to maintain) “It is not WHO is right or wrong…but WHAT is right or wrong.” Anyone with almost ‘any’ military experience has no doubt seen the once ubiquitous posters cautioning “Loose Lips Sink Ships”. It is a left over phrase from WWII and among “lessons learned”. In the complex world of intelligence loose lips can and have cost lives. Once upon a time, not so long ago, Senator Patrick Leahy (currently the Senate Judiciary committee’s lead obstructionist) used to be the Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the mid 80s. Leahy allegedly ‘inadvertently’ exposed a top-secret intercept of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak that led to the capture of the Achille Lauro terrorists. That supposed slip of the tongue “cost the life of at least one Egyptian operative.” http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2001/1/31/85757 Loose Lip Leahy was forced to resign in disgrace 14 years ago in the wake of having to acknowledge he leaked secret intelligence to the press. However today he lords his power over the Senate Judiciary committee. Congress’ institutional memory must be as short as some of Jennifer Flowers former paramours. In our contemporary environment in which whistleblowers have become in many cases heroes it is important to make the distinctions between the appropriateness of corporate and political whistleblowers and the idiot or miscreant who leaks information with genuine national security implications. Currently the FBI is investigating national security leaks from specifically the House and Senate Select Intelligence committees. This is serious stuff. Defenders of the indefensible will argue it is a political witch-hunt by politicians in a heavy C.Y.A. mode. That is not true but a convenient political spin job. Sure it is true the white house is p.o.-ed over media reports that the National Security Agency had received but not acted on two early warning messages to 9/11. Dick Cheney reportedly went ballistic and ripped congressional leaders. Both House and Senate Select Intelligence committees asked the Attorney General to conduct an investigation (and no doubt quietly prayed it would be botched). Justice said in a statement, “…the appropriate department officials will expeditiously review this matter and take any appropriate action.” Not if congress has anything to say about it. Don’t expect anything fast. Remember Leahy resigned in disgrace 14 years ago and today has the chutzpah to pontificate ad nauseum to the Judiciary committee and stall any and all Bush judicial appointments. More on Operation Mockingbird http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/ |
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