Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday, 5 April 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 05 Apr 2016 09:50 AM PDT

Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has taken a 10-point lead over Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in Wisconsin in the final hours before the critical primary on Tuesday, a new poll released on Monday afternoon shows.
The bombshell new polling data, from American Research Group (ARG), show Trump’s 42 percent towering over Cruz’s 32 percent in the Badger State. Ohio Gov. John Kasich, for whom it is already mathematically impossible to win the nomination outright before the GOP convention in Cleveland in July, lurks back at 23 percent.
The poll surveyed 400 likely voters and has a five percent margin of error. It was conducted from April 1 to April 3. 54 percent of likely GOP primary voters polled in Wisconsin were men, 46 percent were women.
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza signaled this poll is a “siren” worth looking at.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2016 09:40 AM PDT

The corporate media is finally following the Ted Cruz sex scandal.
Infowars reported on the story last week.
The candidate’s phone number is reportedly included in the D.C. madam’s “black book” of clients from the 1990s. Cruz married his wife, Heidi, in 2001.
According to the Emerson College Polling Society Cruz is ahead of Donald Trump in Wisconsin, but only by a mere five points. The sex scandal story may diminish his lead and hand 18 delegates to Trump. The Wisconsin primary is less than 24 hours away.
During a town hall in Madison, Wisconsin, Cruz was asked by Megan Kelly of Fox News if he engaged in adultery.
“I have not. That attack was complete and utter garbage. It was complete lies. And it came from Donald Trump and his henchmen,” Cruz said. “Those reports, they’re not a little bit true, not slightly true.”
“It’s completely made-up nonsense. It’s simply not true. I have always been faithful to my wife. I love my wife. She’s my best friend in the world. This is the kind of garbage the Trump campaign engages in. You know why? Because they can’t debate substance,” Cruz said.
As the sex scandal emerged last week Cruz held a rally featuring the “strong women” in his life, including his wife, mother and former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina. After dropping out of the race Fiorina backed Cruz.
According to the Emerson poll, in hypothetical general election matchups Hillary Clinton beats both Trump and Cruz. John Kasich, however, beats Clinton.
Roger Stone believes Cruz is finished. He will be out of the race by April 26, according to the political consultant.
Stone also believes Cruz may be guilty of voter fraud.
“Having worked very hard to collect evidence of voter fraud and irregularities in Oklahoma, Kansas, Utah, Hawaii and Texas, frankly, they ought to put the handcuffs on him,” Stone said on Saturday, “because the Trump people can go to credentials and challenge the seating of hundreds, literally hundreds of Ted Cruz’s delegates who were fraudulently elected.”
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Posted: 05 Apr 2016 09:32 AM PDT

According to historian and professor at the Free University of Brussels David Engels, the EU is currently facing a system change comparable with that in the late Roman Republic. In his book “On the Way to Empire”, he draws historical parallels between the current changes in the EU and the fall of the Roman Empire.
In an interview with Sputnik, Engels argued that problems like populism, high unemployment, growing influx of migrants, asymmetric and economic wars as well as the decline of traditional values had already existed in the 1st century BC. Exactly these things have become major challenges for Europe in recent decades.
“Over the past few decades, corruption, social naivety and general political apathy of European citizens have sharply increased. Here you can also see clear analogies to the late Roman Republic, where citizens were even ready to accept an authoritarian government — due to poverty, unemployment, loss of values and the civil war — if this was the only way their belongings could be protected,” the expert argued.
According to Engels, such tendency could explain recent electoral successes of populist parties in Europe. Germany’s populist, right-wing party Alternative for Germany made decisive gains in the recent regional elections and won 12.5 percent in the state of Rhineland-Pfalz, 15 percent in Baden-Württemberg, and 24 percent in Saxony-Anhalt.
In particular, AfD has rapidly gained popularity amid a deteriorating situation with refugees in Germany. The party is advocating for a stricter migration policy and proposes alternative, tough, ways to resolve the current crisis.
“The refugee crisis and especially the way our society deals with it, unfortunately, totally confirms analyzes and theories that I have tried in my book. I think the refugee crisis is ultimately less important with respect to the financial or demographic influence it has on the individual countries; the most important finding, I believe, is rather the apparent inability of our political elite to deal with this crisis in a democratic way,” Engels said.
According to the expert, the inability of the EU to resolve the crisis demonstrates strong democratic deficit in European states. It also shows that Europeans are unable to engage in a dialogue and work out a common strategy, the expert argued.
“Today, as 2000 years ago in Rome, our society suffers from far too sophisticated structure of our state institutions. Our countries have made themselves so complicated that it’s become impossible to handle important issues [..]. Such endeavor would only be possible in case of a common, long-planned reform of our entire society. But that would certainly be difficult to implement given the current, very short-term thinking and mutually blocking political institutions,” the expert stated.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2016 09:26 AM PDT

The Daesh terrorist group (ISIS) has reportedly carried out a chemical attack on a Syrian military airport in eastern Syria.
“The terrorists fired rockets carrying mustard gas” and targeting the airbase in the south of Dayr al-Zawr city, Syria’s Ikhbariyah television station said in a statement late Monday.
The report did not disclose whether there were any casualties. Russia’s RIA Novosti, however, cited a military source as saying that “a number of soldiers were choking.”
Last January, the Syrian army managed to drive back Daesh from several villages near the airbase. Operations are still underway, however, to totally remove them.
Mustard gas can form large blisters on exposed skin and in the respiratory tract, severely complicating breathing. It is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Daesh earlier claimed that it had carried out an attack on Jufrah Village near the airbase. The report said two bombers rammed their explosives-laden vehicles into the army defenses and killed at least ten people.
Daesh, which is notorious for its barbarity, heinous atrocities and sacrilegious acts, has been accused of committing gross human rights violations and war crimes in the areas it has overrun, particularly in Syria and Iraq. The group has used chemical weapons in both countries.
Back in March, local Iraqi governor Najmuddin Kareem told Reuters that the group had used “poisonous substances” during an attack on the village of Taza, in northern Iraq. More than 40 people suffered from partial chocking and skin irritation after the attack.
On August 21, 2013, a chemical weapon was used in the Ghouta suburb of Damascus. Hundreds of people died in the attack. According to reports, the rockets used in the assault were handmade and contained sarin.
A report by the Syrian-American Medical Society said Daesh has carried out more than 160 attacks involving “poisonous or asphyxiating agents, such as sarin, chlorine, and mustard gas” since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011. At least 1,491 people have been killed in the chemical attacks.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 270,000 people have been killed in war-ravaged Syria; however, some reports put the death toll as high as 470,000.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2016 09:04 AM PDT
At the Trump rally in West Allis, Wisconsin, “F*ck Yo Flag” activists stomped and spit on a U.S. flag in front of veterans.
WARNING: Graphic language – viewer discretion advised
Rob Dew interviews the head activist:

A confrontation between a veteran and the activists:


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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 19:59