- Friday August 30th, 2024
- "It Is Not A Question of Who Is Right Or Wrong But What Is Right Or Wrong That Counts."
- --Geoff Metcalf
- Providing an on line Triage of the news since 1998
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
GOP rips Harris interview, shows clip of liberal ‘values’
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
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.
Trump: IVF Costs tol Be Covered; We Want More BabiesTrump on Florida Abortion Restriction: 'Want More Than 6 Weeks'Trump Promises Revival of American DreamTrump Blasts Harris as a Great 'Flip-Flopper'Trump: Families Asked Me to Attend Arlington CeremonyABBA Tells Trump to Stop Using Its Songs
Israeli Forces Kill West Bank Hamas Commander
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,
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
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.
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/
