Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thursday, 12 May 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 12 May 2016 09:02 AM PDT

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan met today in Washington DC. Just like Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan did not specifically say the words “I endorse Donald Trump”, BUT the two released a joint statement after the meeting saying that: they had a “great conversation” and they recognize “there are important areas of common ground.”
The two men issued a joint statement calling for Republicans to “unite around our shared principles, advance a conservative agenda and do all we can to win this fall.”
“With that focus, we had a great conversation this morning. While we were honest about our few differences, we recognize that there are also many important areas of common ground. We will be having additional discussions, but remain confident there’s a great opportunity to unify our party and win this fall, and we are totally committed to working together to achieve that goal,” Trump and Ryan said.
“This was our first meeting, but it was a very positive step toward unification.”
With the above statement from Paul Ryan, who is now seeking party unity, advancement of conservatism and recognizes that there are many important areas of common ground, Speaker Ryan basically endorsed Donald Trump.
Paul Ryan’s endorsement came after tremendous pressure from House Republicans who have warned Paul Ryan to get behind Donald Trump, warning his resistance could lead to the party fracturing rather than uniting if he withholds his endorsement. As said before, Marco Rubio has also recently endorsed Donald Trump, though not with a full mouth, its still an endorsement, saying that he will honor the pledge and that he has always said that he will endorse and support the Republican nominee no matter who that may be.
The Republican presidential candidate then met with Ryan for a second time. The meeting included members of the House Republican leadership team.
Trump’s visit to Washington brings him face-to-face this morning with Ryan, the nation’s top Republican elected official who has yet to offer his support for the real estate mogul’s candidacy.
The two men have only met one other time, crossing paths backstage at a 2012 fundraising event for the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney, who like a pharisee is now one of the most vocal critics of Trump’s run for the White House.
Paul Ryan also hinted of support for Trump’s wall plan, declaring in a press conference: “Right now more Americans die every year from drug overdoses than they do on car accidents.”
When Ryan was asked about Trump’s personality, Ryan said: “Trump is a very warm genuine person, I actually had a very pleasant exchange with him.”
Paul Ryan further said: “Trump is bringing a whole new ring to it, he’s bringing new voters that we never had for decades, that’s a positive thing. There might be policy differences but then again Romney and I didn’t agree on everything in 2012. I’m not interested in litigating the past, I’m interested in going forward… It’s really kind of unparalleled if I think, he has gotten more votes than any Republican primary nominee in the history of our country and this isn’t even over yet, he hasn’t even gone to California yet, its really a remarkable achievement!”
Ryan then went on to bash Hillary Clinton, saying: “Look, Hillary Clinton presidency would be a disaster for this country, its effectively a third Obama term!”
GOP chairman Reince Priebus Tweeted just a few minutes ago: The meeting was great. It was a very positive step toward party unity.
There are now only a handful of sellouts who are still denying the new GOP leader, such as Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham and the Bush family. The vast majority of Republicans have already finally united behind Donald Trump. The team just got stronger, Hillary (or Bernie) watch out!
        
Posted: 12 May 2016 08:34 AM PDT


Former Bush Vice President Dan Quayle broke with the Bushes and Romneys and endorsed Donald Trump Thursday morning on the Today Show.
The former vice president said Donald Trump is a winner and has great political instincts.
Today reported:
“He’s a winner. He’s unusual. He’s obviously very different, he’s not going to play by the rules. It’s a different situation, but I think that he can win,” he said.
Quayle served as vice president under George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1993. Both Bush and his son, former President George W. Bush, said recently through their spokesmen that they do not plan to endorse Trump.
Quayle said he found it amusing that Republicans know who their nominee is far before Democrats do, although he said he believes Hillary Clinton will ultimately be the candidate running against Trump.
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Posted: 12 May 2016 05:22 AM PDT
“If we were to listen to Clinton who has clearly been bought – lock, stock and barrel — by Haim Saban and the pro-Israel corporate sector, then Palestinians would not only be denied their lawful right to armed resistance but would also be denied access to all peaceful avenues of resistance,” international lawyer Barry Grossman says.
The US homeland is in ruins but, unlike Bernie Sanders and even Donald Trump, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is almost entirely focused on corporate and Zionist foreign interests, says Barry Grossman, an international lawyer who has years-long interest in political affairs.
While boycotting all of Israel is commendable, Grossman says the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is yet another effort by “soft Zionists” to dominate the narrative and legitimize their “putative state,” while preventing Palestinians from asserting their inalienable rights through legitimate armed resistance.
If we were to listen to US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Grossman told Press TV on Tuesday, “then Palestinians would not only be denied their lawful right to armed resistance but would also be denied access to all peaceful avenues of resistance as well as recourse to any legal or diplomatic remedies.”
According to Grossman, the message being sent by the US, Israel and Hillary Clinton is that the only way left to oppose Zionist brutality and the illegal occupation is to embrace armed resistance and use sabotage, much the way the French were lionized for doing during their occupation by Nazis during the Second World War.
In recent years, the BDS movement against Israel over its apartheid policies toward the Palestinians has gained momentum globally in its quest to end the Israeli occupation and colonization of Palestine.
Clinton on Sunday reaffirmed her commitment to combat the BDS campaign if elected president in November, saying, “I believe that BDS seeks to punish Israel and dictate how the Israelis and Palestinians should resolve the core issues of their conflict.”
The former US secretary of state made the remarks in response to an appeal from the Israel Action Network, an affiliate of the Jewish Federations of North America.
American heartland lies in ruins
“Let’s put this neoconservative Jezebel’s latest comments about Palestine into perspective with a little context,” said Grossman. “The American heartland lies in ruins after being ravaged by a firestorm of corruption, greed and corporate crime that has changed the face of US politics and fundamentally changed the way government functions.”
“Once thriving cities and entire states teeter on bankruptcy. Law enforcement has embraced the fascist tactics of storm troopers to target ordinary individuals and dissenters, while turning a blind eye to out of control crime and corruption in the corporate sector,” he added.
“The middle classes have been all but wiped out, with many people who did everything ‘right’ nevertheless joining the ranks of the ‘working poor.’ And they are the lucky ones,” he stated.
“Vast swaths of the working class have lost their homes, pension entitlements, and life savings to catastrophic events of political making that were completely beyond their control; yet — using still more money grabbed from the working classes — the government bailed out the perpetrators and sold-out their victims,” the commentator continued.
“Many of those who have lost their jobs wander the urban landscape where their very existence and even just giving them assistance have both now been defined as crimes,” he noted.
An economy running on credit and spoils of war
“Unemployment – whatever the contrived numbers say – has reached absurd levels in an economy that has effectively been transformed into a war economy that runs on credit and the spoils of war,” Grossman pointed out.
“People who have somehow still managed to hold jobs have been saddled with more and more tax obligations which they must pay from declining incomes. Meanwhile, the speculators and bandits who pose as professionals, executives and entrepreneurs have been ‘gifted’ ever decreasing tax rates by the political apparatus, and have grown fabulously wealthy using ‘other people’s money,’” the analyst observed.
“Crime, drugs, and corruption are raging unchecked as the once proud nation which rose to prominence on the strength of massive profits it reaped from leading the allied effort during World War 2, is being dragged into a downward spiral by elite and corporate interests who have hitched their fortunes to more promising international prospects, while abandoning ordinary Americans who they see as high maintenance, too expensive, and ungrateful,” he stated.
“Against this backdrop, the nascent supremacy of ‘policy’ over the Rule-of-Law stands as irrefutable proof that the political process has been completely corrupted by money from special interests,” the pundit argued.
Clinton trying to counter two ‘outsiders’
“The troglodyte Donald Trump has managed to address the concerns of many Americans and win massive support by saying he will make America great again, by resorting to Cold War tactics and projecting America’s commercial and military power globally. Bernie Sanders proposes to focus on domestic issues and social justice, while promoting a principled and far less interventionist stance in foreign affairs,” Grossman said.
“So with two ‘outsiders’ who could not be more different overwhelmingly winning the public’s support, what does the ‘progressive’ pretender Hillary Clinton focus on? Foreign policy and, more to the point, Israel and its agenda,” he stated.
“Just how out of touch is she about such matters?” he wondered.
BDS is yet another ‘soft’ Zionist trick
“Well, to be clear, I am entirely supportive of a movement to boycott Israel and any corporations which support it. That said, I am fundamentally opposed to BDS which, by virtue of denouncing armed resistance and presuming on behalf of Palestinians to recognize Israel’s legitimacy within borders set by the 1967 Green Line, is in fact yet another effort by soft Zionists to dominate all sides of the issues,” Grossman emphasized.
“But leaving that conundrum aside, what does Clinton’s position tell us about her?” he asked.
“If we were to listen to Clinton who has clearly been bought – lock, stock and barrel — by Haim Saban and the pro-Israel corporate sector, then Palestinians would not only be denied their lawful right to armed resistance but would also be denied access to all peaceful avenues of resistance as well as recourse to any legal or diplomatic remedies,” he said.
Clinton’s Palestine policy is unjust, impractical
The analyst said Clinton’s “policy on Israel and Palestine, apart from being fundamentally unjust, is both impractical and incoherent, while at the same time it reinforces the broader message that she supports the supremacy of policy over the Rule-of-Law, as long as the policy making machine is controlled by the same interests she is beholding to.”
“What we know is that it has been the United States’ long standing policy that Zionist settlements in Occupied Territory and the Zionists appropriation of Jerusalem [al-Quds] as the capital of its putative state are illegal,” the lawyer noted.
“The international community, for its part, has always overwhelmingly recognized not only those settlements are illegal but that many of the violent and oppressive tactics employed by the occupiers in Palestine are contrary to international law. Indeed, even in the US and among its most steadfast, pro-Israel allies, the illegality of settlements and the occupiers war crimes are scarcely contested,” he stated.
“The problem is that the US – supported by its allies – insists that any solution to the problem in Palestine must be agreed through bilateral negotiations, thereby denying Palestinians all recourse to the legal and diplomatic mechanisms the US itself routinely uses to bring foreign sovereign states into line,” he said.
No judicial forum to hold Israel accountable for its actions
“On the other hand, there is no uncorrupted, international judicial forum which other nations can ask to judge the occupiers’ actions in accordance with international law, custom and convention,” the lawyer stated.
“The United Nations General Assembly is a poor, ineffective cousin to the Security Council in which Palestinians have little or no representation and the US, the UK and France – all pro Israel states – each wields the power to veto any proposed resolution. The US and Israel, moreover, have made their unqualified opposition to the very existence of the International Criminal Court patently clear,” he observed.
“Insisting that the issue of Palestine must be resolved only by direct negotiation between Palestinians and their occupiers is no less absurd than suggesting that the plight of European Jews in the 1930’s and 40’s should have been resolved by negotiations between Jews and the Nazis, without outside intervention,” the analyst pointed out.
“Moreover, the US position on Palestine entirely ignores the unrelenting efforts made by Zionists to de-legitimize, corrupt, eradicate and criminalize any organization that represents the aspirations of Palestinians. The simple fact is that there is no uncorrupted process or mechanism for holding such negotiations, and the occupiers will not negotiate with any organization that actually represents Palestinians. Indeed, when they and their US enablers refer to the need for negotiations, what they are really calling for is discussions about terms for nothing less than a complete capitulation by Palestinians,” he stated.
Armed resistance only option for Palestinians?
“All of this should leave Palestinians with no doubt that the only way left to assert their inalienable rights is to stand firm in the face of occupation and exercise their lawful right to resist,” Grossman said.
“Palestinians gave peace a chance when during the 10 years following the Second Intifada; they reduced the incidence of lethal attacks on their occupiers by more than 90% from that which prevailed during the Intifada itself. The occupiers’ response was to expand illegal settlements at an ever expanding rate, while launching a series of US-backed, brutal military assaults on the civilians of Gaza,” he stated.
“The message being sent by the US and Israel alike is that the only way left to oppose the Zionist brutality and illegal occupation is to embrace armed resistance and use sabotage, much the way the French were lionized for doing during their occupation by Nazis during WW2,” he noted.
“Meanwhile, if so-called American progressives are willing to install Hillary Clinton as President and leader of the Empire, then all Americans had best stop moaning about the sorry state of affairs in the homeland,” the international lawyer said in his concluding remarks.
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Posted: 12 May 2016 04:54 AM PDT

Indian activists lit a ritual fire and and chanted Hindu mantras to help Donald Trump win the US elections.
Members of the group gathered on a blanket spread out at Jantar Mantar, along with a collection of statues depicting gods including Shiva and Hanuman – as well as photos of a shouting Trump.
Deccan Chronicle reported:
Around a dozen members of right-wing Hindutva group Hindu Sena lit a ritual fire and chanted mantras Wednesday asking the Hindu Gods to help Donald Trump win the US presidential election.
While Trump has dominated the Republican primary race to decide the party’s candidate for the November election, his calls for temporarily banning Muslims from America and cracking down on terrorist groups abroad have earned him some fans in India.
“The whole world is screaming against Islamic terrorism, and even India is not safe from it,” said Vishnu Gupta, founder of the Hindu Sena group. “Only Donald Trump can save humanity.”
Members of the group gathered on a blanket spread out at Jantar Mantar, along with a collection of statues depicting gods including Shiva and Hanuman – as well as photos of a shouting Trump.
Only Trump is speaking the truth on Islam.
And his words are reverberating as far away as India.
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Posted: 12 May 2016 03:46 AM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been invited to attend the 2016 Bilderberg conference in Dresden, Germany, the annual meeting of elitists which some accuse of being a secret cabal that manipulates world events.
According to a German language Huffington Post report, which cites the Die Tageszeitung newspaper, Angela Merkel herself is on this year’s guest list and will meet with over 100 globalists from business, banking, media and academia.
Germany’s Federal Minister of Defence Ursula von der Leyen will also attend the confab alongside Federal Minister for Special Affairs Peter Altmaie and Sigmar Gabriel, the Vice-Chancellor of Germany. They will be joined by Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s Foreign Affairs Minister.
Left-leaning German economist Axel Troost criticized Merkel’s involvement, accusing her of being at the mercy of lobbyists and insisting that, “Government officials should not as a matter of principle” be allowed to participate.
Condemnation also came from the right, with publisher Jürgen Elsässer revealing that he would support protests against Bilderberg.
The right-wing populist AFD Party, which is now the third biggest political party in Germany, also expressed its opposition, asserting that Bilderberg was pushing a “neoliberal globalization agenda” that seeks to eliminate nation states and “undermine the democratic participation of national parliaments.”
Merkel’s attendance is notable given that she has overseen a policy which has led to a huge migrant influx into Germany. A new poll finds that two-thirds of Germans think she should not run for re-election in 2017.
Although the mainstream media habitually dismisses Bilderberg as a mere “talking shop” with no actual power, there are innumerable examples of the group exerting its influence over world affairs.
In 2010, former NATO Secretary-General and Bilderberg member Willy Claes admitted that Bilderberg attendees are mandated to implement decisions that are formulated during the annual conference of power brokers. If this is the case, it would violate laws in numerous countries that forbid politicians from being influenced by foreign agents in secret.
In 2009, Bilderberg chairman Étienne Davignon even bragged about how the Euro single currency was a brainchild of the Bilderberg Group.
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Posted: 11 May 2016 02:54 PM PDT

Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump labeled Hillary Clinton “crooked” and Bernie Sanders “crazy” in an interview Wednesday when asked about his Democratic presidential rivals.
“I call him crazy Bernie because he’s not very good,” Trump said, adding “Who’s going to run against a socialist and lose?” referring to the fact that Hillary Clinton is likely to take the nomination.
Trump was speaking following wins in the Nebraska and West Virginia primaries, where no challengers remained to go up against the presumptive nominee.
“I don’t want to hit Crazy Bernie Sanders too hard yet because I love watching what he is doing to Crooked Hillary. His time will come!” Trump tweeted after the interview.
Trump was reacting to Sanders edging a victory in the West Virginia primary over Clinton on Tuesday. While Sanders picked up more delegates, the win does little relatively to close the gap between him and Clinton.
A new poll out of Quinnipiac University, however, shows that Trump is significantly reducing the gap between himself and Clinton in the race for the White House.
The poll finds that the two candidates are now neck and neck in the three key swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Previous polls suggested that Trump was trailing Clinton by double figures.
“Six months from election day, the presidential races between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the three most crucial states, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, are too close to call,” said Peter A. Brown, the Quinnipiac Poll’s assistant director.
“At this juncture, Trump is doing better in Pennsylvania than the GOP nominees in 2008 and 2012. And the two candidates are about where their party predecessors were at this point in Ohio and Florida.”
Trump also hit on several other subjects during this morning’s interview.
Noting that the FBI investigation into Clinton’s email server appears to be winding down, Trump slammed Hillary, noting “Everything really about Hillary is rigged. She looks like she’ll be able to run.”
Trump also indicated that there may be a role for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, in the context of countering radical Islamists.
“We have a president that won’t even use the term ‘radical islamic terrorism.’ He won’t use the term. He refuses to say the term, even after Paris where 130 people were killed or San Bernardino or any other place…. It’s a real problem.” Trump said.
“So we’ll figure it out, and we will get it going. But we have to be extremely careful. In fact, I’m thinking about setting up a commission perhaps headed by Rudy Giuliani to take a very serious look at this problem. But this is a worldwide problem, and we have to be smart.” he added.
Trump also commented on the Bushes ‘sitting out’ the election, saying he understands because he “hit Jeb really hard.” Despite this, Trump added that it was “dishonorable” of former president Bush to back out of a pledge to support the party’s nominee.
Trump also spoke of the allegations that Facebook has been censoring ‘Conservative’ news posts, noting “I’m hearing more and more that they’re doing that.”
“They deny it, or they’re trying to deny it, but I’ve heard from many people that they’re doing that, that would be terrible,” Trump added, clarifying that he is yet to personally see evidence of it happening.
The full interview can be viewed below:

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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 18:45