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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 on Book Cover) World & Nation Some House Dems Won't Commit to Certifying a Trump Win  Several Democrats have suggested they could challenge certification of a victory by former President Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election. Last month, Politico reported that some Democrats are concerned that, if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election, a GOP-controlled House could obstruct the counting of electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2025, and possibly throw the election to the whole chamber under the constitutional provisions of the 12th Amendment. Now, some Democrats are speaking cautiously when asked about a potential Trump win. House Oversight Committee ranking member and former Jan. 6 committee member Jamie Raskin said he would accept the decision if Trump "won a free, fair and honest election"; however, he "definitely" doesn't assume that Trump would use free, fair, and honest means to secure a victory. Florida Begins Cleanup, Recovery From Milton's Devastation  Florida residents repaired damage from Hurricane Milton and cleaned up debris Friday after the storm smashed through coastal communities and tore homes to pieces, flooded streets and spawned a barrage of deadly tornadoes. At least eight people were dead, but many expressed relief that Milton wasn’t worse. The hurricane spared densely populated Tampa a direct hit, and the lethal storm surge that scientists feared never materialized. Arriving just two weeks after the devastating Hurricane Helene, the system flooded barrier islands, tore the roof off the Tampa Bay Rays ' baseball stadium and toppled a construction crane.
CBS News in turmoil as multiple controversies erupt at the network  CBS News is in disarray, facing multiple controversies irking everyone from former President Trump and his supporters to pro-Israel viewers and media professionals in the process. CBS first sparked confusion by airing two different answers to the same question about Israel in its "60 Minutes" interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, replacing a clip from the Democratic nominee that aired on "Face the Nation" Sunday when the interview package aired in a primetime special on Monday. That same day, CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil was shamed by colleagues for being too tough on a pro-Palestinian author during an interview that reportedly didn’t sit well with the network’s The two issues have resulted in negative attention for the network, but Fox News contributor Joe Concha feels at least the editing controversy can be quietly put to bed if CBS chooses. Israeli Forces Fire at UN Position in Lebanon, 22 Killed in Beirut Strike  Israeli forces fired at a watchtower used by UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, injuring two, a UN source said, the third day in a row peacekeepers have reported Israeli fire at their positions as Israel wages war on Hezbollah. An Israeli strike late on Thursday in the heart of Beirut killed 22 people and injured more than 100, Lebanese authorities said. The target was a senior Hezbollah official - Wafiq Safa - who survived, according to three security sources. In northern Israel, a Thai worker was killed when Hezbollah fired an anti-tank missile at a farming area, the national ambulance service said. The Israeli airforce killed a Hezbollah commander responsible for attacks with anti-tank missiles into the area of Ramot Naftali in northern Israel, the military said.
Doug Emhoff does not deny he struck ex-girlfriend while brushing off report as a ‘distraction’ in response to allegations  Second gentleman Doug Emhoff did not deny allegations that he “forcefully” struck an ex-girlfriend more than a decade ago following a booze-filled evening in France, instead calling the claim a “distraction.” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough asked Emhoff to respond to several “tabloid stories about your personal life,” in apparent reference to accusations from Daily Mail sources that he slapped his former flame and hiring a “trophy secretary” at his high-powered Los Angeles law firm. “We don’t have time to be pissed off,” Emoff said in response. “We don’t have time to focus on it. It’s all a distraction. It’s designed to try to get us off our game.” Scarborough said former President Donald Trump was needlessly amplifying the stories, while making “incredibly crude and lewd” suggestions about Vice President Kamala Harris’ past. 'Will Attack Saudi Arabia': Iran Shocking Threat | Middle East On Verge of All-Out Regional War Iran has warned US allies in the Middle East against assisting Israel in potential attacks, following Iran's recent missile strike on Israel. Gulf states, concerned about their oil facilities, have refused to allow Israeli jets to use their airspace. Iran claims readiness for proportionate retaliation, threatening to strike Israeli infrastructure if targeted. The US aims to limit escalation, while Israel considers severe retaliation. Tehran warns against disproportionate action, asserting it only targeted military facilities in its recent attack. The takeaways from Kamala Harris' town hall with Hispanic voters Vice President Kamala Harris was put in the hot seat by a group of undecided Hispanic voters in Nevada on Thursday where she was pressed over a series of key issues from immigration to health care. But as the vice president looks to lock in support from this key voting bloc with just 26 days to be before Election Day, she played it safe, sidestepping on some hot button issues and resorting back to talking points she often uses on the campaign trail. The hour-long town hall was tapped at the University of Nevada Las Vegas to air nationally on Univision on Thursday night. Journalist Enrique Acevedo moderated the program where at times he also played translator as questions were posed both in Spanish and English by the voters. Former President Donald Trump will also participate in a Univision town hall with undecided Hispanic voters next week after a taping earlier this week was delayed due to Hurricane Milton. Here are the takeaways from the vice president's town hall: Walz weighs in on Biden's term when pressed on 'GMA' Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said that he wasn’t sure anyone does “everything right” but that President Joe Biden has “done everything in the best interests of the American public” when pressed on whether he’d change any actions the Biden administration has taken over the last term. “Look, I don't know if any of us do everything right. But I can tell you he's done everything in the best interests of the American public," Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, said in an interview that aired Friday on "Good Morning America." The governor was initially asked by "GMA" co-anchor Michael Strahan whether he’d have led the country differently from Biden on any points. His running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, was not able to identify a decision where she would have gone another way when posed a similar question on “The View” earlier this week. Hypocrite Kamala Harris is using deadly storms for political gain, and it’s gross Hurricane Milton tore through the west coast of Florida, ripping the roof off Tropicana Field — and doing serious damage to the floundering Kamala Harris campaign. With her gale force winds of desperation, the veep has tried so hard to appear presidential by inserting herself into the storm effort this week. But she’s come across like a party crasher trying to get into the VIP section of an A-list soiree. A political interloper. A useless limb. Or, as Florida governor Ron DeSantis said more bluntly this morning on “Squawk Box”: “She has no role in this process.” Still, Harris worked the phones as Milton blew in, calling in to the Weather Channel and CNN to blast Donald Trump and DeSantis for politicizing the disasters. Oh, the hypocrisy. Entitlements are spiraling us into a bipartisan spending suicide pact The greatest moral hazard in American life is politics. Many of you probably remember 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney being secretly recorded by a Democratic operative telling donors about “47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what” because they are “dependent upon government . . . believe that they are victims . . . believe the government has a responsibility to care for them . . . these are people who pay no income tax.” Even I could have told you that accusing half the electorate of being a bunch of moochers was a bad idea. Coming from a fat cat like Romney, it reeked of snobbery. 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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