Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thursday 5 May 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 05 May 2016 04:28 AM PDT

Donald Trump has “torn apart the lazy, arrogant, detached Washington elite in America” and has “left Hillary Clinton quaking in her Goldman Sachs-financed boots,” according to Piers Morgan.
The left-wing British journalist seems to be warming up to Trump, stating the maverick mogul has “electrified U.S. politics in a way nobody has ever seen.”
“He’s been very tough on the key issues about which many millions of Americans crave toughness from their current leaders but don’t feel they’re getting it: immigration, terrorism, jobs and China,” Morgan penned in an op/ed. “Trump hasn’t mucked about, he’s gone straight for the rhetoric jugular; screaming for his Wall to stop illegal Mexicans entering the country, a short-term Muslim ban ‘to figure out what’s going on’ with Islamic fundamentalists, a ‘devastating’ blitz to ‘wipe out’ ISIS, and new trade deals to stop China’s ‘rape’ of the U.S. economy and labor markets.”
“His messages are short, simple, explosive and eye-catching. That, whatever your view of his comments, is good politics.”
Trump also completely dominated both the mainstream media and social media, Morgan pointed out.
“I loved Trump’s tweets long before he ran for president because they were so outrageous, amusing and provocative,” he said. “I assumed he’d tone them down once he entered the race, but if anything he’s been even more controversial.”
“With nearly eight million followers now, Trump’s got the perfect platform to vent his wrath, humour and political beliefs.”
But here’s the most interesting takeaway from Piers Morgan’s op/ed: while he and other like-minded liberals have their differences from Trump, they’re also distancing themselves from the cult-like social justice warriors who assault Trump supporters, damage cars, block highway traffic and tear down barricades to try and prevent Trump from speaking, all while claiming the GOP frontrunner is a “fascist.”
Trump’s biggest endorsement to date isn’t a politician or a celebrity: it’s the fact his most vehement opposition are communists, social justice warriors and other authoritarians.
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Posted: 05 May 2016 04:10 AM PDT


Former Mexican President Vicente Fox has apologized to Donald Trump, who he scolded earlier this year for proposing the construction of a wall between Mexico and the US, while comparing the now-presumed GOP presidential nominee to Hitler.
“I apologize. Forgiveness is one of the greatest qualities that human beings have, is the quality of a compassionate leader. You have to be humble. You have to be compassionate. You have to love thy neighbor,” Fox told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview in Santa Monica, California.
To show his sincerity, the former Mexican leader invited Trump to come to Mexico and see the county for himself.
“I don’t think he should follow the strategy of attacking others, offending others, to get to his purpose. There are other ways and means of doing it,” Fox stressed, adding, “I invite him to come to Mexico and to see what Mexico is all about.”
In February, Fox said Trump had offended Mexicans by proposing that a wall be built along the US-Mexican border – and on Mexico’s dime to boot.
“I’m not going to pay for that f***ing wall,” Fox said in an interview with CNN.
He then went as far as comparing the Republican presumptive nominee to Adolf Hitler, saying that Trump would take the US “back to the old days of conflict, war and everything.”
Donald Trump responded to Fox via Twitter, demanding an apology.
At the time, Fox told CNN that there would be none forthcoming, but he has now clearly reconsidered, while leaving the door open for Trump to do the same.
“Love your nation. Love the world,” he said. “Yes, I’m humble enough as leadership be, [a] compassionate leader. If I offended you, I’m sorry. But what about the other way around?”
Fox has stressed that trade between the US and Mexico is important, stressing that America primarily benefits from Mexican labor.
He has called on Trump to be more responsible in his rhetoric, and even extended his hand to convince him to “think intelligently” about trade and other issues.
How did Donald Trump respond to Vicente Fox’s apology? “Get Your Money Ready Because You’re Going to Pay for the Wall”
Tonight Donald Trump told Bill O’Reilly to tell Vicente Fox to get his money ready.
Bill O’Reilly: You got any message for the former president of Mexico?
Donald Trump: Yeah. Get your money ready because you’re going to pay for the wall.

        
Posted: 05 May 2016 03:46 AM PDT

The European Commission has given its support to a visa-free travel deal with Turkey after Ankara threatened to back out of a landmark migration deal. It is proposed to lift visa requirements by the end of June, opening the flood gates of Hell to Europe where millions of undocumented Muslims, including terrorists among them, will invade and genocide white Europeans out of existence and transform Europe into Eurabia!
The decision was confirmed by European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager on Twitter.
“The European Commission is today proposing to… lift the visa requirements for the citizens of Turkey,” Vestager tweeted.
EU governments and the European Parliament still have to approve visa-free travel for Turkey.
“Turkey has made impressive progress, particularly in recent weeks, on meeting the benchmarks of its visa liberalization roadmap. There is still work to be done as a matter of urgency, but if Turkey sustains the progress made, they can meet the remaining benchmarks,” EC Vice President Frans Timmermans said.
That’s why the European Commission is “putting a proposal on the table which opens the way for the European Parliament and the member states to decide to lift visa requirements, once the benchmarks have been met,” he added.
According to the adopted document, visa-free travel will apply to all EU member states except for Ireland and the UK, who have their own visa requirements, and to the four Schengen-associated countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland).
“The exemption concerns only short stays of up to 90 days (in any 180-day period) for business, tourist or family purposes, among others. The visa exemption does not provide for the right to work in the EU,” the document said.
The EC also proposed to strengthen a “suspension mechanism” to make it easier for EU member states “to notify circumstances leading to a possible suspension and enabling the Commission to trigger the mechanism on its own initiative.”
Among entry conditions for accessing the Schengen area for Turkish citizens will be “the need to be able to prove their purpose of travel and sufficient subsidence means,” the paper added.
Turkey’s Minister of European Union Affairs, Volkan Bozkir believes the visa-free agreement can be completed by the end of June. Speaking at a news conference with Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara, Bozkir said he believed that Turkey met all 72 criteria set by EU for the deal.
According to Cavusoglu, the agreement would open a new page in Turkish relations with the EU.
“Turkey and the EU will always need each other…. The decision taken today could be a turning point in our relations,” he said.
Earlier on Wednesday Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Ankara is about to complete the work on visa-free travel to the EU for its citizens, the country’s NTV channel reported.
The news about possible visa-free travel between Turkey and EU made headlines on Monday. An EU official told Reuters that Turkey has fulfilled 65 requirements, which means the number of conditions satisfied doubled in less than two weeks. As of the end of April, Turkey had reportedly met less than half of the conditions required.
Also on Monday the Turkish cabinet adopted a bill allowing visa-free travel for all EU citizens, including Greek Cypriots. Though visa requirement will be lifted for all Greeks in Cyprus, a Turkish official stressed to Reuters that Ankara doesn’t recognize Cyprus.
“This doesn’t mean the recognition of Cyprus. If the EU abolishes visas for Turkish citizens, then we will also abolish visas for the remaining EU countries,” the official said on condition of anonymity. “Right now, Greek Cypriots can already travel to Turkey, but we are issuing their visa on a separate paper. With this new arrangement they won’t need a visa.”
In April, Turkey threatened to back out of the migration agreement with the EU, unless travel rules were eased for Turkish citizens when entering the EU. The deal went into effect on March 21.
The agreement stated that Ankara promised to accept repatriated refugees from Greece with no EU entry permits, in exchange for sending the same number of vetted Syrian refugees. In return, Turkey would be given up to €6 billion in European funding over the next five years.
Turkish authorities have repeatedly come under fire from human rights groups and activists who said Ankara placed its Syrian refugees in war zones on the border with Syria.
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Posted: 05 May 2016 03:21 AM PDT


GOP nominee Donald Trump doubled and tripled down on his Cuomo verbal trashing of Hillary Clinton Monday, calling her ‘very nasty’ in response to comments she made toward Trump saying she was used to dealing with men who go “off the reservation.”
Appearing on CNN’s New Day, Trump said “Well, she has been taking a lot of heat for that statement. Not from you, obviously, but they do call it the Clinton Network.”
“But she has taken from others a lot of heat having to do with that statement. And I think it’s a very harsh statement.” Trump added.
“If I made that statement about women, it’d be front page headlines,” he continued. “It’s a very demeaning statement.”
Chris Cuomo interrupted Trump, claiming that the billionaire candidate “basically did” make that statement when he said “all she’s got is the woman’s card.”
“Look, women want strength. They want security. They want to have strong military,” Trump said. “They want to know that our country is being protected. They want to know about women’s issues, women’s health issues. I’m going to do a better job for women than Hillary can do.”
“I won’t even bring up the fact that the Indians have gone wild on this statement, and you know this,” Trump responded. “They think it’s a disastrous statement and they want a retraction. I’m not going to get into that.”
“Well, you just did get into that,” Cuomo retorted. “I had not really heard that. You did bring it up.”
It seems that Trump’s comments did not go unnoticed by the Clinton camp, given that Amanda Renteria, Clinton’s national political director, tweeted to say Hillary “meant no disrespect to Native Americans” with the comments.
Trump shot back with a tweet of his own:
Crooked Hillary Clinton said she is used to "dealing with men who get off the reservation." Actually, she has done poorly with such men!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2016

In a separate appearance on Fox News Sunday, Trump again doubled down on the ‘woman’s card comment’, noting “Even women don’t like her. They don’t like her. It’s the woman’s card, and she plays it, and I’ll let you know in about six months, if she plays it, well. It’s true. If she weren’t a woman, she wouldn’t even be in this race.”

“I’m my own strategist, and I like what I said, and it’s true. I only tell the truth, and that’s why people vote for me,” Trump declared.
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Posted: 05 May 2016 03:10 AM PDT


Ohio Governor John Kasich dropped out of the presidential race today while in Columbus Ohio, finally ending the American National Free Food Festival 2016! He’s been on the tour for quite a while, but now that no one wants to give him free food anymore, he’s finally quitting.
Initially K-Sick said that his campaign’s strategy “has been and continues to be one that involves winning the nomination at an open convention,” Kasich stated that he “will remain in the race unless a candidate reaches 1,237 bound delegates before the Convention.” definitely hoping to get more free food and perhaps even some traveling across the country.
However the free food candidate won just one state, Ohio, his own and nobody wanted to fund him anymore and give him free food so he had to drop out. He probably also realized that he was making a fool out of himself.
In fact, a lot of people think the Ohio governor is in it for the food. Many took it to Twitter and started a huge MEME wave against K-Sick!
If not leaving now, hes staying around till the convention for the free pancakes.
Yummmy! I luv my pizza! Whaaaat? You mean I have to go home? No more free food? Kasich said: “Ohh well the Lord has a purpose for me, I have renewed faith, deeper faith that the Lord will give me more free food next time!”
Whaaaaat? Tha party iz ova? Well i’m NOT leavin!
Others felt that the continuing existence in the race of both Kasich and Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was something straight out of Hollywood.



The Wall Street Journal reported:
Mr. Kasich had planned to host a series of fundraising events in the Washington area Wednesday, but planned attendance diminished after Mr. Trump’s commanding victory in Indiana’s primary, an aide said.
This comes three hours after his campaign released a new Star Wars ad.
        
Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 18:27