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GOP rips Harris interview, shows clip of liberal ‘values’

Kamala Harris defends her policy ...

Republicans reacted to Vice President Kamala Harris’ claim that her “values” haven’t changed by posting a video montage on X of a litany of progressive ideas she has supported throughout her career.

In her first sit-down interview as the Democratic presidential candidate, Ms. Harris defended backing away from her more liberal positions by saying her virtues are steadfast.

“I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and my decisions is my values have not changed,” Ms. Harris told CNN in the interview.

The official GOP X account compiled the montage while saying Ms. Harris’ values are “dangerously liberal.”


Trump Team Tries to Clarify Florida Abortion Comment
Trump Says Abortion Ban DeSantis Signed ...

Former President Donald Trump's team is insisting that even though he says he might support a Florida ballot initiative that would expand abortion rights, he has not yet said whether he will vote in November for the measure.

"He simply reiterated that he believes six weeks is too short," Karoline Leavitt, the Republican nominee's national press secretary, commented Thursday night, adding that he "has not yet said how he will vote on the ballot initiative in Florida, reports The New York Times.

Trump, during an interview with NBC News on Thursday, stopped short of a full endorsement of Florida's Amendment 4, which would guarantee the right to an abortion "before viability," at around 24 weeks of pregnancy. Current Florida law prohibits abortion after six weeks.

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  • Israeli Forces Kill West Bank Hamas Commander

    Israeli forces kill local Hamas ...

    Israeli forces killed a local commander of the Islamist movement Hamas in the flashpoint city of Jenin on Friday as they pressed a major operation in the occupied West Bank for a third day, the Israeli military said.

    The military said Border Police forces had killed Wassem Hazem, who it said was the head of Hamas in Jenin and was involved in shooting and bombing attacks in the Palestinian territory.

    Two other Hamas gunmen who tried to escape the car they were all traveling in were killed by a drone, it said, adding that weapons, explosives and large sums of cash were found in the vehicle.



    Ukraine ready to talk peace as Russia fumes; Zelenskyy to brief Biden, Harris, Trump on proposal

    Ukraine presses on the diplomatic front ...

    Ukraine, having seized the initiative on the battlefield against Russia with its recent sortie deep into enemy territory, is looking to go on the diplomatic offensive as well.

    The government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans multiple briefings with the White House and the campaigns of the two presidential contenders in the coming days on a proposed agreement that would halt the fighting that began when Russian forces invaded in early 2022.

    Russian officials have dismissed out of hand the idea of peace talks now, but the pressure may grow on President Vladimir Putin to at least respond as his forces struggle to evict Ukrainian troops from the widening swath of territory they hold in the Kursk border region.



    Army says Arlington employee’s competence ‘unfairly attacked’ by Trump team

    Army says Arlington employee's ...

    The Army came out in defense of Arlington National Cemetery over an incident involving the Trump campaign this week where an official was “abruptly pushed aside” at a wreath-laying ceremony.

    “An ANC employee who attempted to ensure adherence to these rules was abruptly pushed aside,” an Army spokesperson said in a statement Thursday. “Consistent with the decorum expected at ANC, this employee acted with professionalism and avoided further disruption.”

    The spokesperson said the unnamed female employee decided not to press charges, so the Army “considers this matter closed.”



    Harris’ problem: She’s a complete phony

    San Francisco liberal now pretends not to be one

    If you’re a candidate for president of the United States and you avoid the media for a week or two, you can reasonably call it a strategy. If you avoid them for almost six weeks, it’s a problem. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, has a problem, even after she was finally shamed into breaking down and talking to CNN.

    It’s not like the difficulties that President Biden had that led his team to keep him away from cameras as much as possible; his problem was clearly his advancing decrepitude. But now that the current holder of the office of president has been shoved out of view, his vice president is seeking a promotion, and her handlers have a different concern: She’s a complete phony.

    And so they conspired to keep her away from the media until her CNN appearance on Thursday with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, 39 days from the day she became the presumed Democratic nominee for president. They likely did this for two main reasons: They needed time to begin to erase her radically leftist record, and they didn’t trust her to go out and help build her own new fake persona.



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    CNN's Kamala Harris, Tim Walz interview can be summed up in just two words


    Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sat down for her first interview as the 2024 Democratic ticket on Thursday and only two words come to mind:

    Dishonest.

    Trainwreckalicious.

    The second word may not be an actual word, but it's appropriate.

    The edited and packaged interview, which was taped earlier in the day on Thursday, was also an example of missed opportunities for CNN anchor Dana Bash.

    To her credit, Bash did (gently) challenge Harris on her Etch-a-Sketch positions on the border and domestic energy, for example, but the answers from the Democratic nominee were on a Baghdad Bob level of lying.



    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/