Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thursday, 17 March 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 17 Mar 2016 08:14 AM PDT

An interesting Federal Security Service (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that two “high-level directors” of the American FBI Cyber Task Force were granted permission this past week to hold a video conference call with their computer security expert counterparts at Moscow Metro (the busiest metro system outside of Asia and the 5th longest in the world) after “sustained and crippling” attacks were made against the Metro Rail system in Washington D.C. and the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in San Francisco.
According to this report, the “urgent appeal” issued for this video conference by the FBI Cyber Task Force was due to their needing “assistance/guidance” on the “closed access” subway transit software used by Moscow Metro, versus the “open access” software used by US transit systems.
The issue of “open access” versus “closed access” transit system software, this report explains, first arouse in 2014 when, between March and August, Seoul Metro (South Korea) came under a “sustained and crippling” attack from a virus believed to have been installed on at least 60 of their computers by North Korea.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) in their analyzing of this believed to be North Korean virus, this report continues, then shared their findings with the FSB (as well as others) who then ordered Moscow Metro to close off remote access to their software due to how potentially dangerous it could be—unlike the Americans who choose to keep the remote access to their systems intact.
The dangers of keeping the American transit system software open, though, this report says, was evidenced in 2015 when this virus struck the Metro Rail system in Washington D.C. killing one, and had became so pervasive throughout their computer systems that this week they had to initiate an emergency, and historic, 29-hour shutdownto change their entire transit software from “open access” to “closed access”—which Moscow Metro, and FSB security experts “guided/assisted” them in doing.
Likewise in the US, this report continues, San Francisco’s BART system, which remains an “open access” one, iscontinuing to see disruptions due to this virus too.
With the US and South Korea having previously announced, and are currently carrying out, their “largest ever” military drill, this report concludes, the Obama regime has, for reasons “unknown/unstated”, chosen not to fully protect themselves from North Korean attacks such as this—which seems foolish as this hermit kingdom has 6,000 trained military hackers that many experts have already warned are capable of attacks to destroy critical infrastructure and even kill people.

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Posted: 17 Mar 2016 06:51 AM PDT

Soros has spent or committed more than $13 million to support Hillary Clinton and other Democrats this election cycle.
Following MoveOn.org’s “success” last Friday, George Soros is back on the lips of an increasing number of Americans as Bloomberg reports, the liberal billionaire, whose effort to unseat President George W. Bush in 2004 shattered political spending records, is returning to big-ticket activism after an 11-year hiatus.
Soros has spent or committed more than $13 million to support Hillary Clinton and other Democrats this election cycle and has warned Donald Trump (and Ted Cruz) of “consequences” for their words and actions. Welcome to the Oligarchy.
Having already already donated more than his total disclosed spending in the last two presidential elections combined, Bloomberg reports,
Soros has expressed alarm over the past few months at the candidacies of Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. In a statement last week about a new group he’s funding to increase voting by Latinos and immigrants in the election, he again mentioned the two candidates by name.
“The intense anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric that has been fueled by the Republican primary is deeply offensive,” Soros said in the statement. “There should be consequences for the outrageous statements and proposals that we’ve regularly heard from candidates Trump and Cruz.”
Michael Vachon, a spokesman and political adviser to Soros, said there was no single cause for the increase in spending. “His support of Clinton is one reason. The tone of the other candidates is the other,” Vachon said. The Clinton, Cruz and Trump campaigns, which face crucial primary contests in Ohio and Florida today, didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Soros’s importance to Clinton goes beyond the checks he writes, since other major Democratic donors sometimes follow his lead.
At the same time, it’s likely that in a general election, Trump would pillory Clinton for her reliance on Soros and other wealthy hedge-fund managers. The billionaire real-estate developer has spent months portraying his Republican rivals as the tools of their donors.
Soros’s personal fortune stands at about $24 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Soros spent an unprecedented $27 million trying to defeat Bush’s re-election in 2004, much of it through independent groups known as 527s that could accept donations of unlimited size. While the groups Soros funded knocked on doors and tried to boost voter turnout, a conservative 527 group aired a powerful series of ads questioning Democrat John Kerry’s war record, helping Bush win a second term.“They were in-your-face distortions of the truth,” a frustrated Soros told the New York Times Magazine in 2006. “People don’t care about the truth.”
Soros signed on as an early backer of Obama during the 2008 campaign, but spent only about $5 million on political causes that cycle, according to a tally by Bloomberg that doesn’t include undisclosed donations to political nonprofits. He spent even less in 2012, even though the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling prompted a flood of new seven-figure contributions that year.
A few months later, Soros told a Clinton confidant that he wished he hadn’t backed Obama in the primary four years earlier.
“He said he’s been impressed that he can always call/meet with you on an issue of policy and he hasn’t met with the president ever,” Neera Tanden said in a 2012 e-mail to Clinton, who was then serving as Obama’s Secretary of State. “He regretted his decision in the primary — he likes to admit mistakes when he makes them and that was one of them.”
The e-mail was one of thousands of Clinton’s messages that the State Department later made public, several of which show what a warm reception Soros got from her office.
At Davos in January, Soros remarked that Trump and Cruz are engaging in “fear mongering.” But he predicted that neither of them would prevail in the November election. “Here I have to confess to a little bit of bias, so take that into account,” he told Bloomberg Television. “I think it’s going to lead to a landslide for Hillary Clinton.”
Can The GOP stop Soros? “Trump and Cruz doing the work of ISIS”

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Posted: 17 Mar 2016 06:33 AM PDT


On Monday Infowars reported on remarks made by Curly Haugland of the Republican National Committee. He said delegates may “vote according to their personal choice in all matters to come before the Republican National Convention, including the vote to nominate the Republican Candidate for President” and disregard voters.
On Wednesday Haugland expanded on his remarks.
He told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” voters are irrelevant when it comes to selecting a candidate for the presidential nomination.
“The media has created the perception that the voters choose the nomination. That’s the conflict here,” the North Dakota Republican said.
Haugland also questioned why primaries are held.
Despite Donald Trump’s huge delegate lead in the race, CNBC questions if he will ultimately receive the 1,237 delegates required to claim the GOP nomination before the convention.
“This could lead to a brokered convention, in which unbound delegates, like Haugland, could play a significant swing role on the first ballot to choose a nominee,” writes Matthew J. Belvedere.
“It could introduce Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, or it could be the other candidates that have already been in the race and are now out of the race [such as] Mike Huckabee [or] Rick Santorum. All those people could eventually become candidates on the floor,” said Gary Emineth who is, like Haugland, an unbound delegate from North Dakota.
“The rules haven’t kept up,” Haugland added. “The rules are still designed to have a political party choose its nominee at a convention. That’s just the way it is. I can’t help it. Don’t hate me because I love the rules.”
Emineth warned party officials may pull ”some shenanigan” within the rules committee. “You have groups of people who are going to try to take over the rules committee,” he said. “[That] could totally change everything, and mess things up with the delegates. And people across the country will be very frustrated.”
He said that frustration may discourage Americans from voting Republican.
Trump: Riots if Establishment Rigs Nomination
Donald Trump predicted there will be large scale riots if the establishment prevents him from becoming the Republican nominee.
“I don’t think you can say we don’t get it automatically,” he said. “I think you’d have riots. I think you’d have riots. I’m representing … many, many millions of people, in many cases first-time voters … Many Democrats, many independents coming in. That’s what the big story is really.”
“The really big story is how many people are voting in these primaries. The numbers are astronomical,” Trump added.
“Now, if you disenfranchise those people, and you say, well, I’m sorry, you’re 100 votes short, even though the next one is 500 votes short, I think you would have problems like you’ve never seen before… I think bad things would happen, I really do. I believe that. I wouldn’t lead it, but I think bad things would happen.”
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Posted: 17 Mar 2016 06:12 AM PDT

The people of Ohio voted for a man for whom it is mathematically impossible to get the nomination.
After what has been basically dubbed as Super Tuesday 2, John Kasich ended up with 143 delegates. The required number of delegates is 1237 while the available number of delegates is 1061. Even if John Kasich would somehow magically win all the remaining 1061 delegates it would still be mathematically impossible for him to reach the required number of 1237 because 1061 available delegates + 143 Kasich delegates = 1204
Furthermore in order to be allowed to become the Republican nominee you have to win at least 8 states. During the 2012 Republican National Convention, the delegates approved a little-known and very obscure rule change that could potentially give Donald Trump a boost at the 2016 convention and hurt his opponents. The rule requires a candidate to win the majority of the delegates from eight different states in order to win the nomination. Without going into too much detail, the reason for the rule change was to keep Ron Paul from getting his name called on the convention floor.
John Kasich just won his first and last state. After Ohio he won’t win a single other state. The battle is now between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Kasich is now the O’Malley buffoon of the Republican party.
There are a ton of idiots in Ohio who voted for Kasich just because he is from there without knowing a single other damn thing about him.
At this point it should be obvious to any low-IQ imbecile that Kasich was solely in the race to take the Ohio delegates away from Trump. That was his only purpose. That’s why Rubio was also in the race until Florida. The GOP wants a brokered convention and Kasich is their little soldier boy. John Kasich could also be in the race just because he’s after a Vice President job and he might want to use his delegates to whoever needs them as a bargain. However Kasich just declared a few hours ago: “There’s no way I would team up with Donald Trump. No Way. Forget It.”
It would have been nice if the media would have made this clear to the math-challenged people of Ohio. If they’d been aware of the mathematical impossibility, Trump could have bridged the gap.
People just don’t naturally expect this level of trickery. The media is interviewing this guy and he’s like “yeah, well, we think we’re gonna turn things around…” – turn things around how? By breaking the laws of mathematics?
It was an attempt to screw Trump and sadly, due to the lack of math skills among Ohioans, it worked. Ohioans voted for the candidate with the lowest chances of becoming the nominee, thus creating a chaos and an almost certain brokered convention but Trump will win now. In fact it’s over, Trump already won and no one can stop him now, while the Republican Establishment still thinks it has the power and threatens to APPOINT whoever they want and ignore the people’s votes, Trump himself has issued a threat to the establishment: RIOTS!
Ted Cruz is also finished, he lost support from many conservatives after siding with the Black Lives Matter rioters in Chicago. Cruz has been exposed as a total establishment fraud a long time ago but now people have finally started to wake up and see that Trump is the ONLY real anti-establishment candidate in the race. Cruz just lost 300.000 followers on Twitter overnight after siding with the Black Lives Matter rioters. He also lost support from prominent conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh, Jan Morgan and Walter Block among many others. Kasich was never in the game to begin with and Cruz’s game is almost over.
Bernie Sanders is also finished. He has no chance now so he might just drop out because he can’t stop Clinton now no matter what he does. What’s really interesting though is that its estimated for at least 3 out of 10 democrats who supported Bernie Sanders to jump ship to Donald Trump. Despite being in different parties and having different ideologies, the two are still very similar in many ways and they are both anti-establishment.
With that in mind, a new battle is now about to start: Trump vs Clinton, with the two candidates already starting to throw a few insults at each other. The battle between Trump and Clinton is not something to be taken lightly. Clinton is probably the fiercest opponent so far. She has an ace up her sleeve. She has the woman card and she will play it out against Trump or any other Republican fiercely. She already attacked Trump with that ace, calling him a “sexist”. She will try to divide genders and make it all about what you have in your pants instead of policies or anything else and since most people are already gender divided due to constant media brainwashing, she might have a chance at it. Trump will probably use the emails against her. So, expect a fierce battle between the two.
        
Posted: 17 Mar 2016 04:40 AM PDT

Fox News announced that it has canceled the final GOP debate, which it was set to host in Salt Lake City, Utah on Monday. Donald Trump told the network today that he would not participate, which prompted John Kasich to also withdraw.
The debate would clash with a “very important speech” he is due to give, Trump told ‘Fox and Friends’. The Republican front-runner is set to speak to the annual conference of the pro-Israel lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an event he said “was scheduled a week ago.”
“I was very surprised when I heard that Fox called for a debate. Nobody told me about it and I won’t be there,” Trump said in a live telephone conversation on air, adding that he thinks the party has had enough debates.
Dan Senor, who served as an adviser to Florida Senator Marco Rubio, said that Trump could have attended the debate because AIPAC offered him a choice of multiple slots over two days. Rubio dropped out of the race Tuesday, after losing his home state of Florida to Trump in the primaries.
All candidates were invited to speak at the AIPAC conference, which will be held in Washington DC from March 20 to 22. Only Trump and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton accepted.
Trump has been involved in an ongoing feud with Fox pundit Megyn Kelly since January, when the network hosted its first GOP debate. During that event, Kelly questioned Trump over remarks he made about women. The Republican frontrunner then skipped a Fox-moderated debate in Des Moines, Iowa later that month. Trump admitted his absence may have been a factor in his second-place finish in the state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.
Earlier this month, Trump did take part in a Fox-hosted debate in Detroit, Michigan that Kelly moderated. He avoided confrontation but has continued to make comments about her online.
After Trump’s withdrew from Monday’s debate, Ohio Governor John Kasich also declined to attend.
“We had hoped to contrast Governor Kasich’s positive inclusive approach to problem solving with Trump’s campaign of division,” a spokesperson said in a statement.
With only Texas Senator Ted Cruz left on stage, Fox opted to cancel the debate. Monday’s event was to be the final such event for the Republican Party during the primary season.
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Posted: 17 Mar 2016 03:35 AM PDT


GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has predicted that there will be large scale riots in the US should the establishment prevent him from becoming the Republican nominee.
Appearing on CNN, Trump said that a brokered convention would spell bad news.
“I don’t think you can say we don’t get it automatically,” Trump said, adding“I think you’d have riots. I think you’d have riots. I’m representing … many, many millions of people, in many cases first-time voters … Many Democrats, many independents coming in. That’s what the big story is really.”
“The really big story is how many people are voting in these primaries. The numbers are astronomical.” Trump added.
“Now, if you disenfranchise those people, and you say, well, I’m sorry, you’re 100 votes short, even though the next one is 500 votes short, I think you would have problems like you’ve never seen before.” Trump added, referring to the convention delegate count.
“I think bad things would happen, I really do. I believe that. I wouldn’t lead it, but I think bad things would happen.” Trump predicted.
Last night, Trump increased his lead by scoring big wins in Florida, Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri.
The frontrunner also announced that he will not take part in the next GOP debate on Fox News, after saying that he has had enough of debates.
Instead, Trump will speak at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference.
“You know, I’ll be honest, nobody even told me about it,” Trump said on “Fox and Friends” Wednesday.
“Nobody told me about the debates, and as you saw, the last debate on CNN was the last debate. That was going to be it.” Trump added.
“I’m doing a major speech … that night,” Trump said, referring to the speech at AIPAC. “It was scheduled a while ago, and nobody told me there was going to be more debates.”
The billionaire candidate has been under attack all week following the break out of violence, stemming from leftist ‘protesters’ attempting to shut down Trump rallies ahead of voting. Despite this, the media has continued to blame Trump for the violence in almost all cases.
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Posted: 16 Mar 2016 02:14 PM PDT

One news article reports “Donald Trump won a decisive victory in Florida’s primary Tuesday night, forcing home-state Sen. Marco Rubio to abandon the race for the Republican presidential nomination. The brash billionaire also picked up North Carolina, Illinois and Missouri, but faltered in Ohio.”
“Ohio Gov. John Kasich notched his first and only victory of the primary season by carrying his home state, but he has the fewest delegates of anyone still in the running and had virtually no electoral path to the nomination.”
Not only did Trump win the biggest prize, Florida by a decisive margin and all its 99 delegates as well as North Carolina, Illinois and Missouri, Trump received 53 percent in a poll of Republican voters nation-wide as noted here.
The fact that Kasich is still in the race is part of a plot by System Republicans to keep Trump from getting Ohio’s 69 delegates. Even with Kasich, there’s strong circumstantial evidence that the System Republicans resorted to vote fraud.
There were reports of votes for Trump being switched to other candidates in Texas, and in Florida Trump’s name didn’t even appear on some of the ballots there. Would the System Republicans resort to fraud in Ohio so that Kasich would edge out Trump? Absolutely.
Here’s a poll (below) from March 9th, where Trump was leading by six percent in two polls for Ohio. A day before the primary, several polls were released with two showing a tie between Trump and Kasich and at least two polls showing Kasich well ahead of Trump. How the heck could the polls change direction so radically in five days? Well, someone from the RNC could show up at the polling firm with a big bag of cash and buy a bogus poll.
The only big things to happen between March 9th and March 15th were: (1).Rubio encouraging his people to vote for Kasich, which at best may have helped Kasich tie Trump and (2).Kasich declaring his love and support for illegal aliens which should have made normal conservative voters go even more for Trump. Are we supposed to believe that 43 percent of the Republicans in Ohio want someone who is pro-Amnesty?

Even if you go with the suspicious official numbers from the Ohio primary, Kasich failed to get a majority in his home state, and Trump placed second well ahead of Cruz in Ohio. (The one major bad thing is that the System Republicans have kept 66 Ohio delegates from Trump.) I strongly believe that the RNC had to resort to some moderate-level vote stealing to get even that result.
Trump is still the front-runner by an even bigger margin now. Marco Rubio has dropped out, and Trump is at 53 percent in a national poll of Republican voters. It would be nice if the System Republicans dropped the dirty tricks, spoiler candidates and vote fraud because Trump is going to be the dominant candidate by a huge margin, and their schemes to get a brokered convention have no realistic chance now.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 19:05