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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 Israel dispatches rescue planes to Amsterdam after 'very violent incident' in Europa League tie Israel has dispatched rescue aircraft to Amsterdam following a "very violent incident" with "three people missing" after a football match last night. Israeli and Dutch leaders have slammed the antisemitic assaults on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans before and after their Europa League game against Ajax. Despite Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema's ban on a pro-Palestinian rally near the stadium to prevent clashes, violence broke out Thursday. Israel's Foreign Ministry reports ten Israelis injured and three unaccounted for. Shocking videos on social media show supporters being attacked and fleeing from knife-wielding assailants. One clip captures a man being kicked while down and Israelis leaping into canals to escape the aggressors. Middle East Latest: Israeli Defense Minister Officially Steps Down Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant officially stepped down Friday in a ceremony that replaced him with Israel Katz, the former foreign minister, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Gallant earlier this week. Israel has been rocked by Gallant’s dismissal, with the news setting off mass protests across the country. Many in Israel view Gallant as the sole moderate voice in a far-right government, and see his removal as a sign that the far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu has lost interest in returning hostages still held in Gaza. Israel Katz, his replacement, currently serves as foreign minister and is a longtime Netanyahu loyalist and veteran Cabinet minister.
Zelensky confirms deadly clashes with North Korean troops as Putin says he’s willing to talk with Trump North Korean troops deployed to Russia’s Kursk region have fought Kyiv’s forces on the battlefield, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday, adding that the clashes resulted in fatalities. Zelensky said 11,000 North Korean soldiers are in the region, where Ukraine’s three-month military incursion into Russian territory has stalled. “Eleven thousand North Korean soldiers or soldiers of the North Korean army are currently present on the territory of the Russian Federation in the border with Ukraine on the north of our country in the Kursk region,” Zelensky told reporters at the European Political Community summit in Budapest, Hungary, on Thursday. Putin sees red as civil war nears Russian rebels have sabotaged a railway line, causing the derailment of around twenty train cars. The incident took place on November 3 in the Bashkortostan region, along a route connecting the towns of Demay and Chernikova. The train, which was transporting food supplies and coal, exploded after one of its cars was rigged with an explosive device. As a result, 22 cars derailed, bringing rail traffic to a halt for several hours. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, many railways have been targeted by opponents of the Russian government aiming to weaken its military operations. Who is Susie Wiles, Trump's White House chief of staff? 5 things to know Wiles is a longtime GOP operative who is deeply respected President-elect Donald Trump made history twice this week, first by winning the White House for a second time as a former president, and then by naming Susie Wiles to be his chief of staff. Wiles, a longtime GOP operative and advisor to Trump, will be the first woman to hold that coveted position in American history. By all accounts, she has earned it. Wiles is credited with tightening up Trump's campaign operations after his 2020 loss and helping him win both the Electoral College and national popular vote in 2024 – an achievement that has eluded Republican candidates for president for 20 years. "Susie is tough, smart, innovative, and is universally admired and respected. Susie will continue to work tirelessly to Make America Great Again. It is a well deserved honor to have Susie as the first-ever female Chief of Staff in United States history. I have no doubt that she will make our country proud," he said. Democrats Push Sotomayor to Resign From Supreme Court Democrat U.S. senators and other party members are mulling convincing Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign so President Joe Biden can replace her with another leftist judge before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. The 70-year-old Sotomayor, nominated by then-President Barack Obama in 2009, is the oldest Democrat-appointed justice on the court. She's also a life-long diabetic. In 2018, paramedics were called to her home after the justice suffered "symptoms of low blood sugar." Lawmakers long have known about Sotomayor's health issues, but as with Biden's cognitive issues, Democrats refrained from admitting potential problems caused by the condition. Trump Boosted His Level of Support From Catholic Voters Among several blocs of religious voters, including his loyal evangelical base, Donald Trump fared roughly as well in his victory over Kamala Harris as he did in his loss to Joe Biden four years ago. One notable difference: He did better this year among Catholic voters, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters. In 2020, the Catholic electorate — one the biggest religious blocs in the nation — was almost evenly split, with 50% backing Trump and 49% favoring Biden, a longtime member of the faith. This year, according to VoteCast, 54% of Catholic voters supported Trump and 44% backed Harris — a shift that was particularly notable in North Carolina, Florida, and Texas.
North Korea threatens the world NATO Secretary General warned that North Korea’s involvement in the Ukraine conflict is a "deeply dangerous" move that threatens global stability. Earlier this week, Kyiv reported that Ukrainian forces had, for the first time, struck North Korean soldiers, with an estimated 12,000 North Korean troops allegedly sent to Russia to support the Kremlin. "These deepening military and economic ties between a reckless Russia and an emboldened North Korea don’t just threaten Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific security, they are deeply dangerous for global security," he wrote in an opinion piece for Politico this week. The new leader of the military alliance also warned that North Korean assistance would inevitably prolong the conflict between the neighboring nations, which began in February 2022 with Russia’s invasion. Biden biographer torches president after Harris loss: Trump victory is Biden’s ‘legacy’ 'Everything else is an asterisk," Franklin Foer wrote, noting how Biden's accomplishments will pale in comparison to not stopping Trump The Atlantic staff writer and biographer of President Biden, Franklin Foer, wrote a searing indictment of Biden following Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to President-elect Donald Trump earlier this week, saying her loss is Biden’s "legacy." Foer, who wrote the 2023 book "The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future," argued that Harris’ failure is his own, and he might feel it more than she will. "Joe Biden cannot escape the fact that his four years in office paved the way for the return of Donald Trump. This is his legacy. Everything else is an asterisk," Foer wrote in an Atlantic article published on Thursday. Foer opened his piece by noting how some people on Biden’s team were aware that a Harris loss would be brutal on the president’s legacy, who was elected in 2020 on the promise that he would end Trump’s agenda. Trump ally floated as possible AG has harsh warning for Letitia James: 'We will put your fat a-- in prison' New York Attorney General Letitia James ordered Trump to pay a $454 million bond payment earlier this year as part of a civil fraud case Mike Davis, a staunch ally of President-elect Donald Trump, had some harsh words for New York Attorney General Letitia James during an appearance on "The Benny Show" podcast on Thursday. "Let me just say this to Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General … I dare you to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term," the founder of the Article III Project said. "Because listen here sweetheart, we’re not messing around this time. And we will put your fat a-- in prison for conspiracy against rights and I promise you that." Davis warned James to "think long and hard before you want to violate President Trump’s constitutional rights or any other American’s constitutional rights." Mike Bloomberg slams Democrats for concealing Biden’s decline: ‘Probably wasn’t great to cover up infirmities’ Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg took aim at the Democratic Party for concealing President Biden’s condition all the way through the middle of this year before tapping Vice President Kamala Harris as a replacement White House candidate just months before Tuesday’s election. Bloomberg wrote an op-ed in his eponymous media outlet on Thursday analyzing a second Donald Trump presidency following Trump’s resounding victory over Harris on Tuesday. The former mayor suggested that Democrats “might ask themselves how exactly they lost to Trump,” whom he called “an ailing 78-year-old who much of the country despises.” “It probably wasn’t great to cover up President Joe Biden’s infirmities until they became undeniable on live TV,” Bloomberg wrote in the op-ed. 10 things Trump can do to clean up Biden’s messes abroad Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday was so overwhelming that even his opponents seem to have gone quiet for a bit. Relatively speaking. No doubt they will soon start constructing a whole new set of roadblocks to throw in his way. But there is no doubt that the president-elect now has an opportunity to reshape not just America, but the world. The free world is desperately in need of strong leadership. And the un-free world is in desperate need of containment. With Trump’s win, ‘ordinary’ Americans declared independence from the elites “You are not ordinary!” That’s what Donald Trump told a voter who described himself as an “ordinary American” while the former president served fries at a McDonald’s in Bucks County, Pa. Two weeks later, President-elect Trump has achieved a historic victory, marking the first time since Grover Cleveland’s win in 1892 that a president has served two non-consecutive terms. This was not an ordinary election. Trump overcame four clown-court criminal indict 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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