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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 Election Officials' Warning: Widespread US Mail Woes May Disrupt Voting  State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation's mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service that it hasn't fixed persistent deficiencies. In an alarming letter, the officials said that over the past year, including the just-concluded primary season, mailed ballots that were postmarked on time were received by local election offices days after the deadline to be counted. They also noted that properly addressed election mail was being returned to them as undeliverable, a problem that could automatically send voters to inactive status through no fault of their own, potentially creating chaos when those voters show up to cast a ballot. The officials also said that repeated outreach to the Postal Service to resolve the issues had failed and that the widespread nature of the problems made it clear these were “not one-off mistakes or a problem with specific facilities. Instead, it demonstrates a pervasive lack of understanding and enforcement of USPS policies among its employees.” Harris campaign avoids specifics, gambling that good vibes will propel her to the White House  Vice President Kamala Harris emerged from her debate with former President Donald Trump confident that she could win the White House with an aspirational message that was light on specifics. In the weeks since becoming the Democratic Party nominee, Ms. Harris has talked about joy, vision and values but has been bereft of policy ideas. Instead, she has called for a broad range of standard proposals embraced by mainstream Democrats. She added policies to her website this week, more than 50 days after President Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her. Ms. Harris’ policy page is vague and dedicates nearly as much space to criticizing Mr. Trump’s proposals as it does detailing hers.
Trump, Harris Jockeying for Battleground States  Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are making a beeline for swing states that they hope to flip in their favor this year, both of them trying to expand their narrow paths to victory in a closely fought presidential campaign. Harris has her sights set on North Carolina, where she's scheduled to hold rallies in Charlotte and Greensboro on Thursday, her first political event after she buoyed supporters with her performance in Tuesday’s debate. Trump is heading west to Tucson, Arizona, as he looks to stabilize his campaign, which continues to recalibrate nearly two months after Harris replaced President Joe Biden at the top of the Democrat ticket. Although Harris' team said she's willing to do another debate, the Republican candidate has waffled.
Megyn Kelly: 'Disgusted,' 'Ashamed' of ABC's Muir, Davis Megyn Kelly says she’s "disgusted" and "ashamed" of ABC news journalists David Muir and Linsey Davis, who moderated Tuesday’s presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. "They did exactly what their bosses wanted them to do," Kelly said on her YouTube channel. "The person who runs ABC News is a close, personal friend of Kamala Harris. … They did Dana Walden’s bidding tonight. It was 3 against 1," she said. Company says Kamala Harris’ debate earrings strikingly similar to its Bluetooth device, offers to make ones for Trump A tech company has added fuel to the Kamala Harris earrings conspiracy theory after quipping that her debate night jewelry is strikingly similar to the Bluetooth devices it makes — and has even offered to design “orange” ones for Donald Trump. Claims that Harris, 59, was fitted with clip-on audio headphones disguised as pearl earrings for her showdown against the former president, 78, have been spreading like wildfire on social media in the wake of Tuesday’s presidential debate. Now, Germany-based company Icebach Sound Solutions has weighed in on the viral saga after conspiracy-minded Trump supporters claimed the vice president was wearing a pair of its Bluetooth devices — the Nova H1 Audio Earring. How do consumer prices compare in the Biden era with the Trump era 4 years ago? Prices are up nearly 21% since August 2020 The economy is the top issue for voters as Election Day on Nov. 5 draws near and Americans continue to deal with the economic impact of inflation on the cost of living. The presidential debate led off with ABC News moderator David Muir asking Vice President Kamala Harris whether Americans are better off than they were four years ago when it comes to the economy. Harris opted against directly answering Muir's question and instead discussed her background and elements of her economic plan. Compared with four years ago, in August 2020, when the country was in the midst of the pandemic and before inflation accelerated, prices are up just shy of 21%, according to FOX Business calculations. * Overall, food prices have risen about
22.8% in the last four years, based on a FOX Business analysis. That
figure is roughly in line with the rise in meat prices in that time
span, which are up nearly 22.6% since 2020.
* Egg prices have skyrocketed more than 60.7% since August 2020 — due in part to an outbreak of avian influenza that impacted production in 2022, as well as rising costs for feed, energy and labor. * Other food categories have seen more modest price growth in the last four years, as dairy products are up 16% while fruits and vegetables are up about 13.8%. * Gas prices have risen by more than 50% in the last four years. * Shelter prices have increased nearly 23.4% since August 2020, with rents for primary residences up by a similar amount. * Overall energy costs have increased about 42.4% over the past four years, with fuel oil spiking 70.3%. * New vehicles are up 19.5%, while prices for used cars and trucks have risen over 17.9% since August 2020. Auto insurance prices have surged by nearly 52.4% since that time. * Overall price increases for gasoline have risen nearly 52.9% in the last four years. You heard correctly: Kamala Harris owns a gun She wants new limits on firearms, though backtracks off mandatory buybacks Vice President Kamala Harris surprised many viewers during Tuesday’s presidential debate when she mentioned, almost in passing, this tidbit: She’s a gun owner. Ms. Harris defended her Second Amendment position after former President Donald Trump suggested she was a radical who wanted to confiscate Americans’ guns. “Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We’re not taking anybody’s guns away,” Ms. Harris said, referring to her running mate, the governor of Minnesota. “So stop with the continuous lying about this stuff.” While Mr. Walz speaks openly about being an avid hunter, Ms. Harris’s acknowledgment had online commenters saying: Wait, what? Kirby: 'No use in responding' to a 'handful of vets' on Biden's botched Afghan withdrawal On the anniversary of 9/11, White House National Security Council communications adviser John Kirby dismissed the concerns of military veterans critical of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, writing in response to a Fox News Digital press inquiry that there's "no use" weighing in on the veterans' views. "Obviously no use in responding. A ‘handful’ of vets indeed and all of one stripe," Kirby said in a "reply all" email chain Wednesday afternoon that appeared to be intended for White House staffers, but which also included Fox News Digital. Fox News Digital had reached out to the White House earlier Wednesday afternoon regarding critical comments from four veterans, including Florida Rep. Cory Mills, who blasted Kirby for his Monday press conference that they said provided "cover" for the Biden administration's 2021 withdrawal. Included in that initial reachout were quotes from the four veterans, and Fox News Digital asked the White House if it had any comment to include on the vets' blistering criticisms of Kirby and the White House's handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. The email chain was forwarded to White House staffers on the National Security Council, before Kirby replied to all on the chain that there's "no use in responding." Morning Glory: The worst debate in the history of presidential debates ABC and Disney disgraced and exposed themselves. Republicans and fair-minded independents will never forget. Not one question Tuesday night about the execution of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other hostages two weeks ago, or about any of the Americans murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7? Not one question on Iran, which is within weeks of acquiring a nuclear weapon and which is paying and perhaps precisely directing repeated attacks by its proxies on American forces in the Gulf or Arabia, the Red Sea, Iraq or Jordan? Not one question about the capacity of President Joe Biden to continue as president? And not one, single fleeting question about the People’s Republic of China, and its genocide against the Uyghurs, its oppression of Hong Kong, its threat against Taiwan or the Philippines, or its military buildup, the largest, most expensive peacetime military buildup in history? Kamala Harris wants to have it both ways on crime. No wonder Americans don't feel safe Isn’t it curious that mass shootings that have taken place in Memphis, Philadelphia and Baltimore haven’t gotten any acknowledgement from the VP? In a rare venture off her carefully crafted "script," Vice President Kamala Harris commented on this week’s tragic school shooting in Winder, Georgia which left four dead and nine hospitalized. At her campaign rally in New Hampshire, Harris called the incident "a senseless tragedy," and went on to lament that students have to be "concerned about a shooter busting through the door of the classroom," and "that parents have to send their children to school worried about whether or not their child will come home alive." In an appropriately exasperated tone, Harris implored the crowd, "We’ve got to stop it." The "it"? That would be "this epidemic of gun violence in our country," in Harris’s words. 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. 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