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Major disconnect between record votes for, and media opposition to, Trump

April 27, 2016

There are very few (if any) media outlets which support Donald Trump’s candidacy. Most are quite scathing about him. Yet he seems to be getting more Republican votes than any other candidate ever has. With the numbers actually turning out for Trump, it is impossible that many of his supporters are not also consumers of the media denigrating him. The media, every time they attack Trump, are also saying that all his supporters are imbeciles.

This is only a reminder of the basic truth that the media are not representative of anything other than themselves. Which raises the question whether having a one-sided and unrepresentative representation of the population – as is apparent with the media and the US electorate – enhances or degrades democracy? But Trump’s successes in the face of virulent media opposition demonstrates a disconnect of massive proportions between the US electorate and their media.

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Politico:

With his five blowout wins Tuesday night, Donald Trump has passed Mitt Romney’s popular vote total from four years ago and is on a trajectory that could land him more Republican votes than any presidential candidate in modern history – by a lot.

Trump surged to 9.9 million votes, according to totals that include Tuesday’s preliminary results across the northeast and could rise further as the final votes are counted. That’s already more than 100,000 more than Romney earned in the entire 2012 primary season and tens of thousands more than John McCain earned in 2008.

Trump is certain to pass McCain’s total next week in Indiana, but more importantly, he’s positioned to easily pass the modern record-holder George W. Bush — who collected 10.8 million votes in 2000.

That presents an uncomfortable reality for anti-Trump forces: they’re attempting to thwart the candidate who is likely to win more Republican primary votes than any GOP contender in at least the last 36 years, and maybe ever.

In an email to POLITICO, University of Minnesota political science professor (and Smart Politics blogger) Eric Ostermeier noted that only eight candidates have won more than 7.5 million Republican primary votes since the advent of the modern primary and caucus system. Ronald Reagan won about 7.7 million votes in 1980, the fewest other than George W. Bush’s 7.6 million in 2004, when he didn’t face a primary challenge.

George H. W. Bush clocked in at 8.2 million votes in 1988 and 9.2 million in 1992, while Bob Dole earned 8.4 million in 1996.

I am more than a little cynical about the media. So I suspect that we shall see them beginning to start backing away from their vicious opposition to Trump as his chances of becoming the Republican nominee increase. That should be by June this year. We shall then see them even beginning to become mild supporters by about September or October. It is a little too risky for any media outlet to openly court IRS investigations under a future President Trump. After all, there is not a single media outlet without reported losses. And all those “apparent losses” are always a tax offset for the owning entity.

 

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7-8 IS terrorists have entered Sweden – warns Iraq

April 26, 2016

Next to Belgium, Sweden has sent most radicalised muslims from Europe to join IS. And many are coming back – with murderous intent.

BBC: Swedish intelligence service Sapo is investigating a possible terror threat to the capital, Stockholm …… Iraqi authorities had informed Sweden that seven or eight militants from the so-called Islamic State group had travelled to Sweden, newspapers reported.

According to Swedish newspapers, soft, civilian targets in Stockholm are the object of the terrorist missions. Seven or eight IS terrorists are said to already have entered Sweden. The security service are in a state of heightened readiness though the terror alert level has not been increased from its current level of 2 (on a 5 point scale).

Just a month ago a NATO general warned of the terrorists returning to Europe masked by the refugees.

…. In testimony to the Senate armed services committee, US general Philip Breedlove said that the Islamic State terror group is “spreading like a cancer” among refugees. The group’s members are “taking advantage of paths of least resistance, threatening European nations and our own”, he added. …. Breedlove distinguished between “criminality, terrorist and foreign fighters”, and said that he has seen news reports saying as many as 1,500 fighters have returned to Europe.

……. congressional estimates of how many foreign fighters have traveled to Syria vary widely, with 1,500 toward the higher end of numbers of fighters reported to have returned to western nations.

The IS goal of bringing Europe into the caliphate is by creating muslim societies which can be isolated from and run in parallel with the societies where they exist. Establishing no-go areas within isolated ghettos where Sharia law can be imposed is part of that. Effective no-go areas are already  evident in many large European cities (Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm and Malmö to name just a few). The liberal, left promotion of multiculturalism – rather than integration – over the last 4 decades has only helped IS in this goal of creating separated, isolated, parallel societies where their word can hold sway. The sudden focus on integration – rather than multiculturalism – is welcome but has come far too late. It may be too little. One of the key elements of integration is in providing immigrants and refugees with gainful employment rather than living on social handouts. And the trade unions are the biggest obstacle not only to recreating the thousands of “low-paid” jobs which don’t exist any longer, but also in hindering small employers from taking on non-unionised labour.

 

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With Obama as a declared “friend”, the UK better watch it’s back

April 22, 2016

Barack Obama has not distinguished himself regarding strategy or actions in 8 years of trying.

Now he has inserted himself into the UK Brexit process. Since he has selected to support the anti-Brexit camp, it gives the Brexit campaigners a real boost to their credibility.

David Cameron must have asked for the support from his special friend, but he may well find that this is the most counterproductive move he could have made.

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“I have no strategy” Obama on Brexit

 

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Norwegian immigration minister plays like an idiot

April 22, 2016

There are some unfortunate people born idiots and some who become idiots and then there are politicians.

Is it a fish, a shark, a submarine?

No it’s the Norwegian Immigration Minister Sylvi Listhaug, playing an idiot stunt to “be like a refugee”. She donned a survival suit and jumped off a Norwegian rescue boat into the Mediterranean and was then immediately fished out. The ridiculous PR stunt was so she could say that she knew it was like to be a refugee dumped into the Mediterranean. For her next trick she will close her eyes for a whole minute to know what it is like to blind.

Norway integration minister's Mediterranean stunt backfires

Listhaug’s idiot ‘rescue’ Photo: Tore Meek / NTB scanpix

The Local:

Images of Immigration Minister Sylvi Listhaug floating in the Mediterranean Sea in a survival suit have sparked a social media backlash. 

Listhaug, a Progress Party member known for her hard-line stance, pulled off the stunt off the coast of Lesbos as a way to familiarize herself with the rescue work carried out by the crew of the Norwegian ship ‘Peter Henry von Koss’. 

She said that by floating in the sea she would also get a chance to se things from the perspective of migrants who risk their lives crossing the sea to Europe. 

“You can’t put yourself into the same situation as the refugees but you can see it from that perspective [and experience] how it is to be in the water that way,” she told NTB. 

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Norwegian court mollycoddles Breivik, the monster

April 20, 2016

The European convention on human rights defies common sense. It is yet another experiment of Europe which has gone wrong.

Breivik has won part of his case against the Norwegian State and has been awarded 330000 kronor in damages. A district court found that his “rights” under Article 3 have been breached. But the court found that rticle 8 had not been breached.

Swedish Radio: According to the judgment, The terrorist has been exposed to so degrading a treatment in prison that it involves a violation of article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits torture and degrading treatment as punishment.
The ruling was that Breivik has been isolated for so long, for over four and a half years. According to the district court Breivik’s mental health condition had not taken sufficient account of when his restrictions in prison were decided.
The extensive strip searches and nightly checks Breivik is subjected to can not be adequately justified from a safety perspective in law. ….. Oslo District Court however acquits the Norwegian government from allegations of breach of the European Convention, article 8, dealing among other things, with the right to correspondence with people in the outside world.

Breivik’s 77 victims are spinning in their graves and the European Convention on Human Rights is proving to be a donkey.

 

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Swedish Green Party leader more concerned about the effect on Muslims after 9/11 “accidents”

April 19, 2016

The Swedish Green Party is living in some fantasy dream world of its own. The 9/11 atrocities were merely “accidents” and their concern is more for Muslim communities who felt the backlash after the attack than for the 3,000 victims of the Islamic terror attacks.

"An accident" according to Åsa Romson

“An accident” according to Åsa Romson

Their leader, Åsa Romson, euphemistically called a “spokesperson” (in Swedish literally a “mouthpiece”!), was on TV this morning defending her party member Mehmet Kaplan who resigned yesterday as Housing Minister. He resigned (actually was fired) because it was revealed that he was in the habit of hobnobbing with Islamic extremists and neo-fascists and for his rather stupid comparisons of Israelis to Nazis. Åsa Romson, this morning, was still in admiration of his “values” and then revealed her own mind-set when she applauded him for helping the Muslim community during the backlash after the “9/11 accidents”.

It was almost unbelievable that she could so nonchalantly dismiss the almost 3,000 people who were murdered by islamic terrorists (Al Qaida) on that day as being the victims of an accident. She later defended her ridiculous statement by saying that she was focusing on the travails of the Muslim community and their isolation and on the difficulties of integration.

In her warped and twisted world, it seems the backlash against Muslim communities was more important than the terrorist atrocity that claimed  3,000 victims and the effects on their families. That Muslim communities (not all but many) celebrated the 9/11 atrocities was of little concern.

She also has the dubious distinction of claiming that the plight of refugees to Europe was to be compared to Auschwitz (but she actually thought that Auschwitz was somewhere in southern Germany). Even for a Green politician – who all lack common sense – she is/was remarkably uninformed, callous and insensitive. The terrorists and extremists can never be challenged with the Åsa Romsons of this world sitting in government.

Stefan Löfven and the ruling Social Democrats in Sweden do not have the courage to dump the Greens from the coalition government – though many would like them to. Unfortunately the Moderate Party in opposition does not either have the courage to do what they are supposed to  – oppose.

And so we are left with the Greens continuing in government while inhabiting their own rose-coloured, fantasy world. And Sweden’s reputation for being a place where extremists and terrorists are not jut tolerated, but actively protected by politicians in government, grows. Åsa Romson is Deputy Prime Minister and her stupidities cannot be construed as anything but being a representation of the Government’s views.

Her position is untenable. She really does have to go.

 

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Obama “has been the world’s best gun salesman”

April 19, 2016

The US gun industry has prospered as never before under Barack Obama’s watch. With Obama as their enemy they have needed no friends. The industry has added 120,000 jobs while he has been in office.

On Obama's watch

On Obama’s watch

Infowars:

Record-breaking gun sales under Obama’s watch have created tens of thousands of jobs with good wages.

Jobs related to the manufacturing and sale of guns increased 73% since 2008 to a nationwide total of 287,986, the National Shooting Sports Foundation revealed.

“These are good jobs, paying an average of $50,180 in wages and benefits, and today every job is important,” the foundation reported. “Not only does the manufacture and sale of firearms and hunting supplies create good jobs in the United States but the industry also contributes to the economy as a whole.”

“In fact, in 2015 the firearms and ammunition industry was responsible for as much as $49.29 billion in total economic activity in the country.”

Ironically, California is second only to Texas in firearm job growth, and another anti-gun state, Illinois, is also in the top 10.

And considering that the surge in gun sales resulted from President Obama’s war on the Second Amendment, the president can finally claim he has indirectly created jobs in the U.S. – although that wasn’t his intent.

“He’s been the world’s best gun salesman,” said Michael Cargill, owner of Central Texas Gun Works. “Everything’s up compared to last year due to the threats of executive actions President Obama has made.”

“When he steps up to the microphone to talk about gun control and the legislation he thinks Congress should approve, gun sales actually soar.”

 

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Obama caves to Saudi pressure (what else?)

April 19, 2016

It was only to be expected.

Saudi Arabia did not like proposed legislation which would have allowed the government of Saudi Arabia to be sued in US courts for possible 9/11 involvement and would, in turn, have allowed US courts to attach Saudi accounts and assets in the US. So they made some threats of selling off their US assets. And the President of the United States, in good democratic style, caved in to the demands of a dictator. President Obama wasted no time in telling the legislators that he would veto any such legislation.

The Hill: The White House on Monday signaled President Obama would veto legislation to allow Americans to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for any role officials played in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. ……

The legislation drew widespread attention after Saudi officials reportedly informed the Obama administration that they would sell off $750 billion in U.S. assets if the bill became law, a threat that carries widespread economic consequences if the Saudis follow through.

Earnest appeared to strongly caution the Saudi government against taking such a step.

“A country with a modern and large economy like Saudi Arabia would not benefit from a destabilized global financial market, and neither would the United States,” he said.

The fierce debate over the legislation has bubbled up at a precarious time for Obama, who is set to land in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to meet with King Salman.

 

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Monday morning funnies

April 18, 2016

Baltic Face-off: The US is protesting that one of their spy planes (RC-135) flying over the Baltic Sea and spying on Russia was subjected to acrobatics (a barrel roll) by a Russian fighter jet (Su-27). That a peaceful plane going about its normal spying duties be threatened by irresponsible aerobatics is quite shocking.

Baltic face-off

Baltic face-off

 

Socialist elitism: The lower house in Brazil voted by a two-thirds majority to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff, who is the darling of her Worker’s Party. She now faces a vote in the Senate in early May where a simple majority could set off formal impeachment hearings. The political maneuvering by those opposed to worker’s enjoying some of the fruits of power is quite shocking.

rousseff lula (reuters)

rousseff lula (reuters)

 

Saudi demands rejected by Iran: After starting the oil wars by recklessly increasing their oil output over the last 18 months, Saudi Arabia now wants all oil producers to freeze production. The Iranians who are ramping up their production and their exports after years of sanctions, refused to listen and indicated (though they were not even present) their intention to keep increasing their production at a meeting of oil producers. This irresponsible behaviour by Iran when Saudi Arabia and other innocent oil producers are facing economic difficulties is quite shocking.

 

Speaking in tongues is a dangerous pastime: It could only happen in the US. “A college student who came to the United States as an Iraqi refugee was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight in California earlier this month after another passenger became alarmed when she heard him speaking Arabic.” The airlines made no comment.  It is an absolute right to refuse service to anybody (except if they are black, or too fat, or female, or gay, or transgender, or a politician) and it is quite shocking that the airline could be criticised for an exercise of this right.

 

A christian God may be gay or female or transgender or black but he is certainly not male. It all makes sense if Mary had IVF and was just the surrogate mother of Jesus. A straight, male, god? Shocking.

 

Monica Lewinsky is still being subjected to public shaming while her boss at the time Bill Clinton, gets away with “murder”. He has been trashing Obama lately but Obama is still supporting Hillary.

lewinsky clinton (NYdailynews)

lewinsky clinton (NYdailynews)

 

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Kaplan in deep s**t as film emerges of him equating Israelis to the Nazis

April 17, 2016

UPDATE 2: Well, he resigned.

But the Green Party have not distanced themselves from him. He remains in parliament and in the Party. Their “principles” are fundamentally compromised.

The Prime Minister reacted very late and not very decisively. He too refrained from condemning Kaplan’s thoughtless language and his hobnobbing with extremists.

 

UPDATE to previous post on Green Party and antisemitism:

Today Sunday 17th April, SvD reported that Kaplan has been caught on film from 2009 on Somali Star TV where he equates the Nazi treatment of Jews in the 1930s to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.

His position is untenable and he will have to go.

He does not have any good options left.

  1. He can resign as Minister and from parliament and resign from the Green party — this is the best outcome for the Greens who will still be tarred by the anti-semitism brush.
  2. He can resign as Minister and remain in Parliament as a Green representative – which will only prove the Green indecisiveness and their unsuitability for government.
  3. He can be sacked by Stefan Löfven which will win Löfven some brownie points.

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The critical thing is that both the Greens and the Social Democrats need to distance themselves – fast – from Kaplan. The longer the Greens remain supporting him the greater the hit they will take. The longer Löfven does not speak out publicly against Kaplan the more indecisive and weak he will appear. The Greens and the Social Democrats have to wake up to the fact that the damage has already been done. Now it is how good they are at damage control which is the question.

But Mehmet Kaplan is toast.

Good riddance (one, because he is an apologist for islamist extremism; two, because he is apparently incompetent: three, because he is a token of multiculturalism with the Greens; and four, because he is a Green).

 

 

 

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