Winners in for rude awakening when they hit the Granite State

Howie Carr Tuesday, February 02, 2016

Savor the moment, Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton, because this morning, the presidential campaign doesn't just enter a new time zone, it enters a whole new world.

Welcome to New Hampshire.

Enjoy your victories in last night's caucuses, because it's going to be a little different a week from tonight. Bernie Sanders wins for sure, and as for Donald Trump, how did he describe New Hampshire last night?

"I think we're going to be proclaiming victory," he said, sounding subdued for once. "I hope."

As for Hillary, did she really screech that she "stands in the long line of American reformers" or that she would defend women's rights, as her misogynist husband stood behind her, slack-jawed, looking as ancient as Bob Dole?

"I stand here tonight breathing a big sigh of relief," she said. That's the spirit — of someone who just walked away from a car wreck she herself caused, and who is about to get into a new vehicle … with no brakes.

So now the candidates head back east, for a final sprint in New Hampshire. Here are a few predictions about the next few days:

At the last moment, Hillary's campaign will cancel an event in Goffstown, after realizing that it's where the N.H. women's state prison is located.

Marco Rubio will campaign door to door in Londonderry with his celebrity surrogates — the Fox News anchors.

Sid Blumenthal will arrive, and immediately be assigned a designated driver, who will be instructed to drive around Nashua if necessary.

Hillary will weep — 
especially when she gets her overnight tracking poll numbers against Bernie.

Bernie Sanders will use the "w" word — working, as in working-class, even though practically none of his supporters actually work.

Jeb Bush's handlers will be hampered by their inability to find the right-sized venues for their campaign rallies — phone booths.

Cruz will shake hands with hundreds of voters, and say to each one, "God bless, my friend."

On Saturday, Chris Christie will hit six all-you-can-eat school pancake breakfasts in Hillsborough County, before repairing to the Red Arrow Diner for King Moe's Breakfast and a Maple Sausage Patti Benny — at all three locations!

The Seabrook tattoo-parlor owner offering free Donald Trump tramp stamps will get his 15 minutes of fame, and then some.

John Kasich will brag about his endorsement by the Union Leader, to which most voters will reply, "What's that?"

The Hearst family, which owns Channel 9 WMUR, will make so much money this week from the anti-Rubio TV spots bought by Jeb Bush's super PAC that they will be able to buy not one, but two, new San Simeons.

Bill Clinton will map out his campaign itinerary by googling the words "New Hampshire" and "gentlemen's clubs," after which he will announce to Hillary's advance man, "Y'all ever been to this here 'Gold Club' in Bedford?"

As she concedes to Bernie Sanders a week from tonight, Hillary will shout, "On to South Carolina!" — in a Southern 
accent.

Winners in for rude awakening when they hit the Granite State

‘This was all planned’: Former IG says Hillary, State Dept. are lying

This article will make you sick. On its face, the fact she deleted 31,000 emails after served with a subpoena, to me, is an obstruction of justice charge right there. If the emails she’s releasing now are this incriminating imagine what was on the 31,000 she deleted! Can’t understand why the FBI, or some other agency, didn’t secure her emails when the story first broke.

PS: Corruption in spades.

 Imagine if Trump or Cruz was currently under investigation by the FBI.

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The State Department is lying when it says it didn't know until it was too late that Hillary Clinton was improperly using personal emails and a private server to conduct official business — because it never set up an agency email address for her in the first place, the department's former top watchdog says.

"This was all planned in advance" to skirt rules governing federal records management, said Howard J. Krongard, who served as the agency's inspector general from 2005 to 2008.

The Harvard-educated lawyer points out that, from Day One, Clinton was never assigned and never used a state.gov email address like previous secretaries.

"That's a change in the standard. It tells me that this was premeditated. And this eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private email server until later," Krongard said in an exclusive interview. "How else was she supposed to do business without email?"

He also points to the unusual absence of a permanent inspector general during Clinton's entire 2009-2013 term at the department. He said the 5½-year vacancy was unprecedented. 

"This is a major gap. In fact, it's without precedent," he said. "It's the longest period any department has gone without an IG."

Inspectors general serve an essential and unique role in the federal government by independently investigating agency waste, fraud and abuse. Their oversight also covers violations of communications security procedures.

"It's clear she did not want to be subject to internal investigations," Krongard said. An email audit would have easily uncovered the secret information flowing from classified government networks to the private unprotected system she set up in her New York home.

He says "the key" to the FBI's investigation of Emailgate is determining how highly sensitive state secrets in the classified network, known as SIPRNet, ended up in Clinton's personal emails.

"The starting point of the investigation is the material going through SIPRNet. She couldn't function without the information coming over SIPRNet," Krongard said. "How did she get it on her home server? It can't just jump from one system to the other. Someone had to move it, copy it. The question is who did that?"

As The Post first reported, the FBI is investigating whether Clinton's deputies copied top-secret information from the department's classified network to its unclassified network where it was sent to Hillary's unsecured, unencrypted email account.

'It tells me that this was premeditated. And this eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private email server until later.'

- Howard J. Krongard on the State Department never giving Hillary an agency email address

FBI agents are focusing on three of Clinton's top department aides. Most of the 1,340 Clinton emails deemed classified by intelligence agency reviewers were sent to her by her chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, or her deputy chiefs, Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan, who now hold high positions in Clinton's presidential campaign.

"They are facing significant scrutiny now," Krongard said, and are under "enormous pressure to cooperate" with investigators.

He says staffers who had access to secret material more than likely summarized it for Clinton in the emails they sent to her; but he doesn't rule out the use of thumb drives to transfer classified information from one system to the other, which would be a serious security breach. Some of the classified computers at Foggy Bottom have ports for memory sticks.

Either way, there would be an audit trail for investigators to follow. The SIPRNet system maintains the identity of all users and their log-on and log-off times, among other activities.

"This totally eliminates the false premise that she got nothing marked classified," Krongard said. "She's hiding behind this defense. But they [emails] had to be classified, because otherwise [the information in them] wouldn't be on the SIPRNet."

Added Krongard: "She's trying to distance herself from the conversion from SIPRNet to [the nonsecure] NIPRNet and to her server, but she's throwing her staffers under the bus."

 "It will never get to an indictment," Krongard said. 

For one, he says, any criminal referral to the Justice Department from the FBI "will have to go through four loyal Democrat women" — Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, who heads the department's criminal division; Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates; Attorney General Loretta Lynch; and top White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.

Even if they accept the referral, he says, the case quickly and quietly will be plea-bargained down to misdemeanors punishable by fines in a deal similar to the one Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, secured for Gen. David Petraeus. In other words, a big slap on the wrist.

"He knows the drill," Krongard said of Kendall.

‘This was all planned’: Former IG says Hillary, State Dept. are lying

Flush with cash and free of sanctions, Iran's Rouhani mounts international shopping spree

It was retail therapy that would make the most ardent shopaholic’s head spin, but Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Ferragamo weren't on the list.

Liberated from crippling international sanctions and flush with newly unfrozen assets, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani this week inked a flurry of lucrative deals with European companies during the first such tour for an Iranian leader since 1999.

In Italy, Rouhani signed some $18 billion worth of deals, including shipbuilding, steel and energy contracts. Next, Rouhani moved on to gay Paris for another staggering round of shopping: 

- $24 billion for 118 Airbus planes. Check.

- $400 million for a manufacturing deal with carmaker Peugeot. Check.

- A deal with energy giant Total to buy up to 200,000 barrels of Iranian crude per day. Double check.

(What did we get out of it?)

The dizzying dealmaking was made possible by the lifting of international sanctions on Iran following an agreement/accommodation with the West to dismantle much of its suspect nuclear infrastructure.

Buy one get one free sale

  

The flurry of contracts overshadowed a few culture clashes along the way, including the “coverup” in Rome of statues deemed too immodest for the Iranian guests. One Italian complained of “cultural submission,” and in France, a lunch meeting was scuttled when the local party refused to give up their beloved wine at the table.

While Iran was spreading around much of its newfound wealth, fears remain that some of the money will be spent further destabilizing the Mideast region. Iran has forces or proxies at work in Syria, Yemen and Iraq, and Sunni nations believe Tehran's burgeoning pockets make it an even bigger threat. 

“It will give them more money," said Emma Ashford, of the Cato Institute. “They could use that money to fund various nefarious ends.”

Ashford, a supporter of the controversial nuclear deal, and others hope Iran will instead pour the money into the country’s beleaguered economy. She also sees the agreement as an opening for a larger thaw in relations between Washington and Tehran.

“We have to move past problems [with the U.S.] step by step,“ Rouhani said in Paris. “Both sides realize that a better future could benefit both countries.”

But while Rouhani's delegation huddled and shook hands with its new economic partners inside restaurants and offices, protesters were outside, calling attention to Iran's troubling human rights record.

A member of Femen, a French-based, largely female protest group known for topless demonstrations against sex trafficking and homophobia, dangled from a Paris bridge in a mock hanging to dramatize human rights abuses. The French-based anti-regime National Council of Resistance of Iran was out in force, too.

How long Iran and its nascent economic clout will be welcome at European power lunches remains to be seen. Despite signing the deal promising transparency and to forgo efforts to pursue nuclear weapons, Iran has in recent weeks sent mixed signals to the west.

Earlier this month, Iran briefly detained 10 U.S. Navy sailors, even publicizing humiliating footage of the Americans being forced to kneel and apologize for straying into Iranian-claimed waters in the Straits of Hormuz. That followed an incident in December in which an Iranian gunship fired rockets within 1,500 yards of a U.S. ship.

On Friday, it was reported that Iran flew an unarmed drone over a U.S. aircraft carrier. Finally, the U.S. this month announced new sanctions against Iran stemming from Iran's October testing of a precision-guided ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, in defiance of a UN ban. 

Flush with cash and free of sanctions, Iran's Rouhani mounts international shopping spree

Sanders epidemic spreads to Switzerland

Swiss Plan To Pay All Citizens $2,500 A Month 

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Imagine getting a check for almost $2,500 a month, for life, for doing absolutely nothing.

(Probably another good reason for getting rid of their Muslim invaders)
http://hemingwayreport.blogspot.com/2016/01/sweden-to-deport-80000-asylum-seekers.html

No scratch-off ticket or winning numbers needed: It turns out you just have to be Swiss. The best part? The only people who can block the Swiss from gifting the "basic guaranteed income" to themselves are...the Swiss!

Voters in the historically wealthy country, who already enjoy a high standard of living, will head to the polls on June 5 to decide whether to gift themselves the monthly payments, described as enough to enjoy a "modest" living in Switzerland if beneficiaries decide the money is enough to stop working.

And there's the rub: The group that proposed the basic guaranteed income idea says most Swiss won't choose to stop working despite receiving the payments, although it's not clear how they're able to predict that. The group, described as a coalition of "intellectuals," is headed by a former government spokesman and a Zurich-based rapper who calls herself Big Zis, according to The Local, an English-language site that reports Swiss news.

Some regular voters don't agree that people will keep their jobs: A poll by Switzerland's Demoscope Institute found a third of responses believed "others would stop working."

Politicians aren't too keen either.

Liberal party spokesman Daniel Stolz called the plan a "cocked hand grenade that threatens to tear the whole system to pieces." The Centrist party's Sebastian Frehner called it ""the most dangerous and harmful initiative that has ever been submitted," according to the Basic Income Earth Network.

And yet, amusingly, Switzerland's politicians can't really do anything about it. Since the initiative received the requisite 100,000 signatures, it must go to a referendum. Swiss voters are the only people who decide now.

An online poll -- which is by nature self-selecting and not scientific -- by Swiss-language site Tagesanzeiger.ch found that 49 percent of Swiss say they'll vote for the initiative, while 43 percent say they won't, and an additional 8 percent are undecided.

So now Switzerland will become the first country to ever hold a national referendum on guaranteed income, the country's politicians can't do anything about it, and the best hope for sanity is that the majority of Swiss don't vote to give themselves money. It turns out that American conservatives' nightmare situation has become reality, just in a different country.

Of course, there's no such thing as free money. If the referendum passes, about 75 percent of the "free money" will come directly from taxes, the Daily Mail notes, while the rest would be financed via social insurance and social assistance spending, which of course is also tax money.

That means if the Swiss vote for the referendum, they'll likely end up in a scenario that involves paying the government more money so they government can pay them money, minus all the processing fees. In other words, it's a fantastic way to waste money. "Cocked hand grenade" indeed.

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Tomorrow's Headline:

DETROIT POPULATION DROPS BY 75%

Sanders epidemic spreads to Switzerland

Siri recommends where to get an abortion

 No kidding. I just said 'abortion' on my iPhone and Siri gave me a PP office 8 miles away. So much for the ruse.. Healthcare Clinic.

Notice the ACLU had to get involved because dead baby part production was being impeded. Of course, the article below addresses it as a technical flaw, not a moral one.

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Apple correcting Siri "abortion" search issue uncovered in 2011

More than four years after the discovery of a purported Siri flaw that led users searching for abortion clinics to adoption agencies and fertility clinics, it seems Apple and its data providers are slowly working to correct the issue.

In 2011, Apple was met with a flurry of negative press, and pressure from rights groups like the ACLU, after it was discovered that its Siri virtual assistant was incorrectly processing requests for information about abortions. At the time, Apple blamed a glitch for the apparent omission of results relating to abortion clinics and birth control, though the company has been slow to resolve the situation.

Over the past month, Fast Company revisited the issue, querying Siri and Apple Maps with pointed searches like, "Where can I find an abortion provider?" Early results still lacked information for nearby abortion clinics in the publication's search area of San Francisco, but things have changed during the past week.

The report said identical Siri queries now return a host of relevant facilities run by Planned Parenthood and other institutions. Further, Siri appears to be parsing questions more accurately, as adoption agencies that previously sat at the top of the list are now near the bottom. 

While the publication did not receive comment from Apple, it theorizes iOS 9 Maps' new location-based Nearby point of interest feature is at least partially responsible for the change. That Apple is constantly building out its Maps product with new data providers and better search algorithms likely helped as well.

A non-profit organization called Sea Change Program has been working with UC San Francisco personnel to put pressure on Apple to clear up the issue, going so far as to write a letter to CEO Tim Cook in November, the report said. 

Fast Company notes Apple's recent search optimization came prior to the article's publication on Friday, which would suggest media coverage did not play a role in the change. However, in a separate report from TechCrunch that cited the same sources but was published hours later, Sea Change Program communications manager Lauren Himiak called the timing "suspect."

Whatever the case, Siri is now providing accurate Maps directions and data for abortion related searches across the U.S. AppleInsider confirmed Planned Parenthood and other pertinent agencies are showing up in search results within major metropolitan cities from New York to Honolulu.

Siri recommends where to get an abortion