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Chris Nesi and Olivia Land at the New York Post are reporting that The Washington Post has apologized for its misleading front page on Monday morning, which juxtaposed a photograph showing mourners of an 11-year-old killed in a Hezbollah rocket strike on a soccer field next to a headline that said "Israel hits targets in Lebanon." The headline "did not provide adequate context,” the paper admitted in an editor’s note Tuesday. “The headlines should have noted that the Israeli strikes were a response to a rocket strike from Lebanon that killed 12 teenagers and children in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.”  WaPo publishes editor’s note in today’s paper admitting not “providing adequate context” in its coverage of Israel’s response to Hezbollah’s attack that killed 12 children in the Golan Heights. pic.twitter.com/sS7LphONGu — Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) July 30, 2024 The WashPost was roundly criticized online over its gaffe, including by the Israel Defense Forces, which posted on Twitter/X: “You can see the grieving family members burying children murdered by Hezbollah in the Madjal Shams massacre. If by chance you understood anything else from their headline, you might not be the problem.” Other accounts echoed it:  “That’s an image of a funeral of a girl KILLED IN ISRAEL BY A HEZBOLLAH ROCKET FROM LEBANON, so why is the Washington Post headline backwards?” Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy added on X alongside a screenshot of the front page. Pro-Israel Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) also questioned the paper’s decision to frame Israel as the “aggressor” underneath an image of a child killed by the terror group. This isn't the first apologetic Editor's Note that the Bezos property has been forced to post since last October 7. The Jewish Insider noted in January that they published a factually challenged front-page story, published in mid-November, that detailed the struggles of premature Palestinian infants born in the West Bank and Israel who were separated from their parents amid Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza. In an extensive editor’s note added to the story last week after more than a month’s delay, the paper listed multiple inaccuracies in the original article, effectively undermining its core thesis — that Palestinian mothers were required by the Israeli government to return to Gaza when their travel permits had expired. Meanwhile, the note also acknowledged that the triple-bylined feature had not initially sought comment from Israeli officials, “an omission that fell short of the Post’s standards for fairness.”

As a scientist, Dr. Chris Martenson knows better than to just take the official narrative of any large event in America at face value. “I’ve looked into Oklahoma City, 9/11,” Martenson tells Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed.” “I’m a scientist, and if you have pieces of the story that don’t fit, it drives me nuts.” Regarding 9/11, Martenson couldn’t get past building 7 free falling for two and a quarter seconds. “I don’t need to talk about who might have done it or how, I’ve got to explain that fact. And it’s impossible, right? Using the official story. So, we have to come up with a different story,” he explains. The assassination attempt against Trump is no different, and while it warrants a thorough investigation to uncover the full scope of the incident, Martenson believes incredibly important details are being overlooked. “I find out on CNN, of all places, that an audio expert concluded that there were two shooters,” Martenson says. “There were the sounds from the guns. One, two, and three were inconsistent with those from four, five, six, seven, eight.” But the story then was memory-holed and forgotten. “As soon as I see that silent space, I say, ‘Well, I got to dig into this.’ So, that’s what kicked me off,” he tells Gray. Martenson then plays the audio from the shooting, where it sounds as if the shots are from completely different guns. “Dramatically different,” Gray comments, stunned. “We now have resolved that the first one obviously was the one that nicked Trump’s ear and splashed off a railing in the back,” Martenson says. “I was actually getting ready to go to the fairgrounds as soon as the FBI was going to release the tape, because I wanted to go stand on that back railing and look down and have a 6'3'' guy standing down on the stage.” The point of this would be to figure out precisely where the first shot came from. “Unfortunately, the FBI dismantled the stands and had them taken away within days. So, interesting,” he adds. Want more from Pat Gray?To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

With House Republicans heading out for six weeks of vacation, it’s a good time to reflect on the most pathetic GOP-controlled Congress ever. More ominously, they have refused to cut even a penny of spending and have, in fact, increased the budget from its record levels during their tenure. Clearly, they have no appetite to cut spending even if Donald Trump retakes the White House. Republicans should stop talking about curbing inflation because it’s not happening.Every Republican running for re-election decries “Bidenflation.” Household wealth, measured in U.S. dollars, has declined by 25% since COVID. However, they fail to mention that many of them actually increased spending from COVID levels instead of cutting it.Republicans took a record baseline of spending that has triggered a crisis-level debt and inflation bubble and raised the bar even higher.The reason we have record inflation is that the Federal Reserve is printing money to service the debt. Interest on the debt now averages over $1 trillion a year, leading to a record level of treasury auctions at increasingly higher interest rates to service swelling deficits. At the current rate, we will spend $3 trillion a year in interest on the debt by 2030, nearly as much as we’re projected to take in from all income tax revenue. Without a commitment to reduce spending, any talk of shrinking inflation is futile and dishonest.After the greatest spending binge and the worst year of inflation in American history, House Republicans gained power in 2023 with a mandate to cut spending and roll back the Green New Deal. Conservatives were concerned that Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), known for giving Democrats everything they wanted on must-pass bills even when Republicans controlled the trifecta, would squander their leverage. They launched a rebellion to replace him as speaker but were pressured to back down before finishing the job. This led to the debt ceiling sellout, where McCarthy gave Biden a blank check for the remainder of his presidency.The result? The debt has increased by $3.5 trillion since May 2023, topping $35 trillion this week, all without an official recession.One silver lining to the debt ceiling bill was its creation of a dynamic where, if a full budget was not passed into law by April 2024, an automatic $72 billion in spending cuts to non-defense discretionary spending would occur. In other words, Republicans didn’t have to fight for extraneous policy riders to cut spending. Simply passing a continuing resolution for fiscal year 2024 — a clean bill — would have resulted in free spending cuts. Instead, in a series of sellouts on important bills, the new House speaker, Mike Johnson (R-La.), gave Democrats everything they wanted and canceled the impending cut he would have gotten for free.After selling out on the budget, including on border issues, Johnson proceeded to give Democrats everything they wanted with the National Defense Authorization Act and everything Biden demanded on FISA reauthorization. Once Johnson gave Democrats everything they desired on those critical bills, what was left to do? He gave away the store on a supplemental spending bill that never needed to pass. Johnson passed more than $100 billion in foreign aid, mainly for Ukraine but also for Hamas (in addition to Israel). Did he at least demand border security as the price for passing the Democrats’ priority? Of course not. We got absolutely nothing in return.Republicans took a record baseline of spending that has triggered a crisis-level debt and inflation bubble and raised the bar even higher.Apologists for Johnson, Trump, and the current iteration of the GOP defend their record as the best we can do with “a slim majority.”Which brings us to the appropriation bills for the 2025 fiscal year, which percolated through Congress before they decided to leave town. Last week, the House voted on the energy and water appropriations bill, which actually increased spending by $1 billion, and the interior and environment bill, which only cut 0.2% from record spending levels. Conservatives attempted to cut small, wasteful programs, including market-distorting green energy programs. In a series of votes, a consistent 60 to 80 Republicans voted against even these minor spending cuts.It’s quite evident we will never have a majority large enough to actually cut a dime from the federal government, much less to downsize government to the point of making a dent in the inflation leviathan. Take the arts and humanities, for example. These are programs Republicans promised to cut since the Contract with America in 1994. Yet, 68 Republicans felt it was too extreme to even trim those programs back to 2019 levels!Republicans are never as righteous as when they are locked out of the White House. These bills are never going anywhere, and these are tiny programs nobody cares about. If Republicans can’t muster more than 150 votes to trim these programs, do you really think they are going to trim welfare programs and abolish entire agencies when they are on the hook to govern for real? Republicans will not change because we have failed to change the Republican Party. On that list of Republicans voting for all spending at all costs are members who were up for re-election but breezed through their primaries, often (unfortunately) with Trump’s endorsement. And remember, Senate Republicans are even more liberal.So, good luck getting any meaningful spending cuts passed even through budget reconciliation. That is the one chance to pass legislation without facing a filibuster, but Republicans are unlikely to win more than 51 or 52 seats. There are easily anywhere from 15 to 20 Republicans who would never support spending cuts, and this is after they plan a series of tax cuts and increases in military spending, which, policy prudence aside, will only further aggravate the debt-driven inflation.It’s now understandable why Republicans purged any mention of the debt from their new party platform. Maybe they should just be honest and remove it from their campaign rhetoric as well.

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