News Dump 2/10/2016

New York Times - Inside the Billion-Dollar Battle for Puerto Rico’s Future.

Fox - Cruz campaign criticized over mailers sent to potential Iowa voters. 

BBC - London's first driverless cars based on Heathrow 'pods'. 

Fox - Satanic group set to lead Phoenix City Council in prayer. 

Wired - Startups Can Escape Their Cash Crunch by Going to Mexico. 

Trump and Sanders Win New Hampshire Primary

Both Trump and Sanders easily took New Hampshire with about 20 points more than second place. If Trump and Sanders take South Carolina and Nevada, this race will be grim for the other candidates. This fact is even more striking for the Republican field. The funniest thing is that the mainstream media cannot accept the fact that either won. At what point does the establishment of either party recognize that they are no longer in control of their parties. It should be obvious seeing as how congress has less than a 10 percent approval rating, business as usual is not working and everybody knows it. The Republicans may want to blame Obama; but, the reality is that both parties are despised and have lied to us by selling this country out and we all know it.

People do not believe we should give tax breaks to companies that outsource American jobs to China. People believe that the big banks have rigged the system and the fact that those companies have had to pay tens of billions of dollars because they were caught rigging the markets is proof that they did. People are tired of a congress that only supports the rich.

I Love Media Lies and Spin

Go back and read any of my posts about this election. I stated multiple times that I thought Trump would come in second in Iowa. I wrote about how caucuses favor party stalwarts. Nothing has changed. The media is saying Trump has lost because he cannot get votes, that he cannot win elections, that his supporters are fools and don't vote. I predicted their response, read the posts. He came in second in the Iowa caucus. A man who has never run for office beat a field of politicians including the bother and son of former presidents. He beat governors and congressmen. The person who barely beat him won with conservative Christians, how do you figure that will work with the rest of the nation?

Iowa Caucus Today

Today people in the first state to effect the presidential primaries vote. For the Republicans Trump has a slight advantage in the polls over the others. I still say he may not win the caucus. In fact, if he does win it will likely mean he gets the nomination and that the Republican party "leaders" (the rich and powerful) lose. It is the only type of vote where the party has the advantage over the party voters. The polls are so good for Trump in the rest of the nation that even in Florida (where Jeb Bush was elected governor and Rubio was one of their congressman) Trump has a commanding lead. In Florida Trump has 48%, Rubio 11% and Bush only has 9.5%. He is dominating his opponents in the states that they are from, this is incredible.

If the Republican party leaders are able to put Trump in a second or third place finish in Iowa it won't matter. He will destroy them in the first real primary in New Hampshire. What happens when Trump takes Florida and New York? What happens if Trump takes California? Those few states alone can determine the election. Do you understand that everyone of the candidates knows who is leading the polls in their party in each of those states and it is not being discussed by the media.

The media and the political hack class  all want to get you to focus on abortion, gay marriage and marijuana laws. They are all meaningless issues that you cannot effect. Do you believe that while there are pills that will cause babies to be aborted that a law will stop them from being used? If billions of dollars in drugs like heroin and cocaine can be brought into this country each year that abortion pills could be prevented from coming here? Do you really believe any law will prevent homosexuals from engaging in homosexual acts, death penalties did not. Do you really believe that Marijuana was used less when it was illegal in the United States or that alcohol stopped being sold in the United States during prohibition? If we changed all those laws would it bring jobs back?

I recently heard someone say that we spent more on education and health than most other western countries, yet, we are failing to provide universal healthcare or quality educations. If our taxes are higher than other nations then shouldn't we better in those areas than the Scandinavian countries and the European nations? Why do we give government loans to people attending private colleges when we have state colleges that we could fully fund and people could attend for free and it would cost less. You know, our children.

Fox and the Debates Without Trump

Much has been said about the fact that Trump did not show up for the recent Republican debate. A couple things people should remember. Firstly, the last debate was supposed to be the last debate before the caucus in Iowa as it was the sixth debate. It matches how many the Democrats have held. Secondly, debates are not a requirement for anyone running for office.

I wrote a little about this not long ago; but, I want to be a little more specific. There is absolutely no reason for the federal governments or states to hold primaries for national office, it is not required by the Constitution. The primaries are held for the benefit of the parties and political parties are not recognized by the Constitution. In fact many of the founding fathers thought that political parties were a bad idea. Political parties are private non-profit companies. Political parties used to have their "leaders" (the rich and powerful in their party) pick their candidates in smoky backrooms where deals were cut by old white men. After the progressive movement people started looking for the selection of party candidates to reflect the voters rather than the elites. The rift this year is between the voters and the party elites, this is occurring in both parties and both parties are using their organizations to benefit the candidate that they believe will best represent the wealthy and powerful interests within their parties.

Donald Trump chose not to attend the Republican debate on Fox News. He didn't ask his parties permission because he doesn't. He doesn't need to ask Fox News permission because he doesn't. The man is running for office and should do whatever he things will best help him win that office and he did. It was a brilliant move because it was. Talking heads on television were putting out reports saying it was a big risk and that he might lose votes for not doing the debate. That was just silly and he gained in the polls. It used to be a big thing when presidential candidates held one debate.

So Trump didn't go to the debate and the next day Fox News posted this article - GOP debate second highest rated show in FOX News history.  They said they had 12.5 million people watch the debate and that it was their second highest rating in history. CNN posted this article - Who won the ratings race: Fox News or Donald Trump? They point out that the first debate on Fox with Trump garnered 25 million viewers. Double the number of viewers. Fox didn't mention that in their article, they didn't mention what had beat out the last debate in ratings on their own network. When Fox Business News channel held the Republican debates it only drew 11 million viewers and Trump was at that. What they have left out in their analysis is that the debate was probably the highest rated show in the history of Fox Business News channel. The fact is that without Trump 12 million viewers cared about the debates. The bigger issue is why did Fox care if more or less people watched when Trump was gone and why discuss it at all? Do you really believe that they don't know that shows get ratings based on who is there? When the President is on the Tonight Show ratings go up, when some unknown congressional candidate goes on the ratings do not go up.

Why was and is there so much press over whether or not Trump should attend the debates or what the ratings were. Trump knows he didn't need to attend a seventh debate. Heck, he didn't have to attend the first six. I doubt the media is seriously attempting to convince Trump that he needs them at this point, he has demonstrated he doesn't care and that he does not need them. Sanders has proven this too as they attempt to report on him not at all. The people these reports are aimed at are you and me. The media is attempting to manipulate you and me into believing that they can determine who we elect, that without their permission we will not vote for candidates that they do not like. And the media is owned by six companies. My conservative friends are beginning to see this. While most liberals are just laughing at the Republican primaries and their candidates, it is the Republican voters that are figuring out how their party and the conservative media has taken them for granted and doesn't think their opinion matters. That is why they are ridiculing Trump supporters as stupid and refer to Trump as populist and nationalist as if those were bad things in a democracy or a nation. Most of the people who die in wars for this country are nationalists. Ask them if they are fighting for globalism or nationalism, I know the answer. Americans do not go to war for the right of Billionaires to outsource jobs to Communist China. They do not go to war for the right of the wealthy to get tax breaks. The people who died during World War II did not fight so that American companies could build manufacturing plants in China and sell the cars here in the United States of America. Why can't wealthy Americans fight for the prosperity of the people of the nation that fought for them?

Paul Kantner Died.

Paul Kantner was one of the founding members of the Jefferson Airplane. He died. They were special to me and I had the good fortune to see them in Boston decades ago.

YouTube - Jefferson Airplane - Wooden Ships. 

YouTube - Jefferson Airplane - Comin' Back To Me.

YouTube - Jefferson Starship - Miracles. 

Election articles and a fun science article at the end.

Yahoo - Mic - Latest Iowa Caucus Polls 2016: Here's Who's Leading for the Republicans and Democrats. Sanders and Trump are leading in the polls for Iowa.

The Fiscal Times - Trump vs. Sanders? Get Ready for a Populist Disaster. I like this quote from the article, " Now, a Trump-Sanders showdown in November isn’t just possible, it’s one of the more likely outcomes. That would guarantee a populist, anti-establishment outcome and could even become the greatest shock to the American political system since the advent of the two-party system in the mid-nineteenth century." I want you to read the quote twice. What the financial world fears more than anything is not Trump's temporary Muslim ban or his wanting to kick out illegal aliens, they are also not as afraid of Sanders "socialism" as much as they are afraid that for the first time in since the early 1800s the popular vote, the people would pick their leader. They are afraid of a "populist" movement, that means the average citizen.

Fox - Roger Stone: Why conservatives should back Trump. 

Fox - 'The Five' Co-Hosts React to Sarah Palin Endorsing Donald Trump.  Basically as it happened the conservative media was shocked by him getting Palin to endorse him. They then spent their time trying to figure out how they could make her endorsement lose meaning.

Yahoo - Mic - Nobody Is Happy With Disney's No-Fly Zone Anymore — Not Even Disney.  Disneyland has a no fly zone over it. Disney asked for it; but, they want to be allowed to fly drones over their property and that violates the no-fly zone. Do you have a no fly zone? I don't have a no fly zone. If you or I asked for a no fly zone should we then be able to secure it for us to fly only? Obviously no fly zones make it tough on air traffic and that is sort of important. Are drones important? Not to me. Maybe we should have two types of no fly zones. The first that restricts all flights except authorized  flights and the other that allows for drones. The drones fly at a much lower level. If we are going to allow for no fly low flying zones then I should be able to have one and not just Disney. Why should someone be able to fly a $300 drone with a camera a hundred feet over my head taking pictures of me sunbathing?  Look, Disney does not have an emergency need to fly drones over it's property, they just want to do it and film it. They need to pick between having a no fly zone and not having one and if they can fly a drone over my house then I should be allowed to fly one over theirs.

Business Insider - The Fiscal Times - Lindsey Graham just changed the game for presidential hopefuls.  Lindsey Graham, the man that had been running for president and dropped out has just proposed a bill that would allow the president to send troops into any country he chooses if they are fighting the war on terrorists. We could theoretically invade England if we discovered they had a terrorist in their country. It violates the Constitution and eliminates any congressional control over war and it includes our own country. Mr Graham is a traitor. We already have the Constitution that allows us to go to war with anyone so long as the Congress approves it not the President.

Huffington Post - Money Men Say, Voters Move Over, It's Not Your Election! It is an article about the "donor class" (that means the wealthy people that buy politicians and elections through the party system) needing to stop the voters from determining the outcome of the race.

Yahoo - Reuters - Michael Bloomberg may launch independent U.S. presidential bid: source.  Here is the donors thinking on Trump at the moment. They want to have Bloomberg or Romney run against Trump to cut down on his votes so that the convention can be brokered. Bloomberg could not win if he hat to and he knows it. There are deadlines for running in state primaries and he has met none of them.

Yahoo - Business Insider - One of America's most respected former military officials is worried about the 2016 presidential field. You can always tell when you are being manipulated, it is when they use an expert in one field to talk about a different field. They picked a military person to attack the national policies of Donald Trump rather than an expert on national policy, specifically he spoke about the wall between the US and Mexico. You pick people in their field to discuss their field unless you are creating pure propaganda.

Yahoo - The Fiscal Times - Here’s Why the Republican Populist Revolt Will Backfire.  Simply put and article about why the donor class will win and the voters don't deserve to be heard.

Yahoo - GOP finger pointing over Trump rise finds many targets.  The donor class is trying to figure out how the media and the attacks by political hacks has failed to destroy Trump and the people involved are blaming each other. If you have read this blog for a long time, listen to the whole video. In the end you should be able to read behind the lines. He says that Populists are not Republicans. He means that the majority is not conservative because they are also nationalist and believe in this country first. He later chastises them for being working class and implies that they are stupid and don't know that they should listen to their superiors. If you will listen to the interviewee, he was also against the Tea Party conservatives who he also considered stupid.

Huffington Post - Chinese Scientists Engineer 'Autistic' Monkeys.  My, my , my, why did the Chinese genetically engineer monkeys to be autistic? They claim to better understand autism. Why couldn't they just study people who were autistic? LOL. It is all a joke. It is said that 1/3 of all autistic people may have special abilities. Those that do used to be referred to as having Asperger's Syndrome. Asperger's people can see things quicker and clearer than a computer or a think tank. The Unabomber had Aspergers. He entered college at like 13 or so and was a brilliant student. He was then put under some stress tests, emotional stress tests, without his knowledge. He was part of an illegal CIA program called MKUltra and you can read about it in the congressional record. This is the same program that used to slip LSD to businessmen who were visiting hookers to see how it effected them. Read up on the program. The Unabomber was studied because he was one of those unique geniuses, the ones with Aspergers who understand something without having to figure it out. Scientists are not interested in creating more people who are autistic and smash their heads into walls, they are interested in creating more autistic people like Einstein.