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Austria Presidential Election Take II: Nice, Turkey Should Help Anti-Immigration Hofer On October 2
By Tyler Durden
Submitted by Michael Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
Austria presidential election take II is coming up on October 2.
It’s a rematch of the May 22 runoff that pitted anti-immigration candidate Norbert Hofer of the FPÖ party against Alexander Van der Bellen of the Greens.
In Austria, the top two candidates go to round two of the elections if no one wins a clear majority in round one.
Round two of the election was the first since World War II in which both the center-right and center-left candidates were knocked out in the first round.
Hofer vs. Van der Bellen Replay
Election evening, Hofer appeared to have won the election, but after mail-in votes were counted the next day, Van der Bellen was declared the winner.
On 1 July, the results of the second round of voting were annulled after the Constitutional Court of Austria found that electoral rules (as stipulated in federal election law) had been disregarded in 14 out of 20 contested administrative districts (from a total of 117), resulting in over 77,900 absentee votes being improperly counted, however without any indication of votes having been fraudulently manipulated.
Events Favor Hofer
Events in Nice and Turkey should help anti-immigration candidate Norbert Hofer. If so, the election will be another hair-raising event for Brussels.
The role of president is largely symbolic, with real power being held by the chancellor. However, the president can call for new national elections and it’s possible Hofer would do just that.
Source: Austria Presidential Election Take II: Nice, Turkey Should Help Anti-Immigration Hofer On October 2
‘Pokemon Go’ Bubble Bursts: Nintendo Tumbles As Indonesia Issues "National Security Threat"
By Tyler Durden
Indonesian officials have warned that 'Pokemon Go' is a “national security threat,” and military headquarters have banned personnel from playing the game while on duty, according to Jakarta Post. It appears the 'Pokemon Go' bubble is bursting, after surging 120% in 8 days, Nintendo is down over 12% today (as the bubble passes over to McDonalds Japan, which is up 12%, after reports of sponsoring 'Pokemon Go' in Japan).
As Bloomberg reports,
Indonesian Military headquarter has banned personnel from playing ‘Pokemon Go’ game while on duty, Jakarta Post reports, citing spokesman for Indonesian Armed Force, or TNI, Tatang Sulaiman.
TNI says cautious as app could encourage gamers to go to restricted military facilities, record activities and post details online.
And the bubble is bursting… tumbling 12% after doubling in 8 days…
As UBS warns the rally is “hard to explain”…
Nintendo’s market cap. expansion to more than 2t yen is “hard to explain” even when “substantial” billing rev. and reasonable vol. for Nintendo Plus is factored in, writes UBS analyst Sumito Takeda (sell) in note earlier.
Estimates Pokémon Go Plus toy may generate direct earnings when released in future.
Some expectations Nintendo may shift from hardware to software after seeing other cos. are using Nintendo IP to create popular games; believes co. should continue to invest in hardware.
Maintains sell rating, 12-month price target 15,000 yen.
But McDonalds Japan is surging…
This follows reports from The Wall Street Journal that the company will be a sponsor of Pokemon Go in Japan, participating in the game’s release in the country and making its restaurants key locations for game players.
Source: ‘Pokemon Go’ Bubble Bursts: Nintendo Tumbles As Indonesia Issues "National Security Threat"
If Trump Tries To Remove ISIS, Will He Be Removed?
By Tyler Durden
Donald Trump accused his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of enabling Islamic State’s emergence with “her stupid policies” in a joint interview with running mate Gov. Mike Pence, while pledging to “declare a war” on the terror group. “Hillary Clinton invented ISIS with her stupid policies. She is responsible for ISIS,” Trump said launching a scathing attack on Clinton’s legacy as US Secretary of State while speaking to CBS’s “60 Minutes” show host Lesley Stahl in an interview aired on Sunday. -RT
Saying that Hillary Clinton enabled ISIS, is an almost incomprehensible statement.
Doesn’t Donald Trump realize that Hillary is not alone?
She represents the most massive military and monetary forces available on this planet.
Does he not realize they can crush him?
Is he somehow doing their bidding?
We know what to think of Hillary based on her associates and history. As we wrote here, she represents corporatism and militarism – the coming technocracy, in other words.
We are less certain about Trump.
He may have decided to run for president on his own and thus opened up possibilities for personal and political manipulation.
But when Trump speaks bluntly about Hillary’s role in creating ISIS, he is basically making statements rarely heard in large – mainstream – venues before.
Mitt Romney never said anything like this.
GOP leaders, despite their supposed antagonism to Democrats, have never made such statements.
Many GOP-ers are pro-war. Any war. Just like Hillary.
Congressman Ron Paul was anti-war, and as a result he was eventually marginalized as a presidential candidate.
Some of Trump’s statements have Ron Paul-like resonances.
True, in this interview he said he would “declare a full-blown war on the group.” On the other hand, he clarified his statement.
“I am going to have very few troops on the ground. We’re going to have unbelievable intelligence, which we need; which, right now, we don’t have,” he said.
Trump also said negative things about NATO, as he has in the past, stating that the organization had an overly prominent role in the “war on terror” and that other nations should do more.
If Trump really does try to wipe ISIS out – or drastically reduce the power of NATO – will he be risking his own health and well-being?
The US is run by corporatist and military entities. Will they hesitate to intimidate or remove Trump if he tries to end ISIS?
Western war-interests always need an enemy after all.
When Russia began to bomb ISIS, its officials said that the Pentagon had been lying about its attacks on ISIS. Officials maintained that the US bombing was really aimed at Syrian infrastructure and thus at destroying the current regime rather than terrorist groups.
Russian officials also said there were no moderate “terrorists” in Syria and that the Pentagon had just made it up to justify a lack of aggression in certain areas.
This is certainly possible. After all, from what we can tell, ISIS (and Al Qaeda before it) were essentially CIA inventions, created with the help of others: London’s City, Israel and Saudi Arabia, etc.
At the center of the …read more
Source: If Trump Tries To Remove ISIS, Will He Be Removed?
Erdogan’s Staged Coup Has Resulted In A Purge Of 50,000 Teachers, Judges, Soldiers And Government Officials
Barack Obama’s “friend” in Turkey is a deeply corrupt radical Islamist dictator that has just staged a coup to consolidate his grip on power. As I have reported previously, 1,845 “journalists, writers and critics” have been arrested for “insulting” President Erdogan over just the past two years, and a couple of years ago he had a monstrous 1,100 room presidential palace built for himself that is 30 times larger than the White House. With each passing day, more evidence emerges which seems to indicate that the recent “coup” was a staged event meant to enable Erdogan and his allies to eliminate their enemies and solidify their stranglehold over the nation. At this point the number of victims of “Erdogan’s purge” has hit 50,000, but the final number will not be known for quite some time.
Of course there is a possibility that the coup was not staged, but if it wasn’t staged it was the worst military coup that I have seen in my entire lifetime. As Fox News has pointed out, not a single high level member of government was killed or detained…
Among the questions being asked are why coup plotters didn’t execute the most basic steps in seizing power, like securing Erdogan and other top officials. Not a single member of his cabinet and inner-circle AKP party leadership was detained. Nor did coup plotters effectively take control of TV, radio and internet outlets. The government TRT station and CNN Turk were for a time occupied by alleged coup plotters, who quickly retreated as the putsch fell apart.
It is being reported that soldiers that took part in the coup claimed “that they thought that they were taking part in military exercises”, and those running the “coup” allowed Erdogan’s plane to fly across the country without incident. Here is more from Fox News…
Coup plotters also failed to secure most airports and other transportation hubs, didn’t occupy or attack Erdogan’s $600 million presidential palace, and failed to intercept his plane before, during or after he flew from one of the country’s busiest and most accessible airports back to Istanbul. This despite the supposed active participation of top generals in Turkey’s Air Force, which maintains a fleet of F-16 aircraft easily capable of tracking, intercepting or – if it came to it – shooting down Erdogan’s plane.
There were opposition soldiers that did occupy Ataturk International Airport for a short time, but they suspiciously left just in time for Erdogan’s plane to land.
So much about this supposed “coup” absolutely stinks, and that includes the fact that lists of judges, teaches, soldiers and government officials to be rounded up after the coup appear to have been prepared ahead of time. This is so obvious that even the EU commissioner in charge of Turkey’s membership bid, Johannes Hahn, is commenting on it…
“It looks at least as if something has been prepared. The lists are available, which indicates it was prepared and to be used at a certain stage,” Hahn said.
“I’m very concerned. It …read more
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We Need More Borders And More States
By Tyler Durden
Submitted by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,
In the context of trade and immigration, borders are often discussed as a means of excluding foreign workers and foreign goods. In one way of thinking, borders provide an opportunity for states to exclude private actors such as workers, merchants, and entrepreneurs. On the other hand, borders can also serve a far more endearing function, and this is found in the fact that borders represent the limits of a state's power. That is, while borders may exclude goods and people, a state's borders also often exclude other states.
For example, East Germany's border with West Germany represented the limits of the East German police state, beyond which the power of the Stasi to kidnap, torture, and imprison peaceful people was far more limited than it was within its native jurisdiction. The West German border acted to contain the East German state.
Similarly, the borders of Saudi Arabia delineate a limit to the Saudi regime's ability to behead people for sorcery or for making critical remarks about the blood-soaked dictators known as the House of Saud.
Even within a single nation-state, borders can illustrate the benefits of decentralization, as in the case of the Colorado-Nebraska border. On one side of the border (i.e., Nebraska) state police will arrest you and imprison you for possessing marijuana. They may kill you if you resist. On the other side of the border, the state's constitution prohibits police from prosecuting marijuana users. The Colorado border contains Nebraska's war on drugs.
Certainly, there are ways for regimes to extend their power even beyond their borders. This can be done by cozying up with the regimes of neighboring countries (or intimidating them), or through the organs of international quasi-state organizations. Or, as in the case of the US and EU, imposing broader policies upon a number of supposedly sovereign states.
Nevertheless, thanks to the competitive nature of states, many states will often find it difficult to project their power into neighboring states, and thus borders represent a very-real impediment to a state's power. This can then open the door to greater freedom, and even save lives as certain states impoverish or make war on their own citizens.
The Case of Venezuela
This principle was illustrated yet again this week as the Venezuelan regime opened its border with Colombia to allow Venezuelans the opportunity to purchase food and other supplies on the Colombian side of the border. The Colombian regime is by no means perfect, for all its problems, the Colombian regime has not reduced the country's population to desperate poverty amidst collapsing economic and social institutions.
Thus, it is rather easy to buy food and provisions in Colombia while store shelves sit empty in Venezuela.
Fortunately for Venezuelans, Venezuela is contained by the borders of the surrounding nation states, and the ability of the Venezuelan regime to arrest small-time entrepreneurs and and shopkeepers for being “class traitors” ends where Colombian territory begins.
Perhaps not …read more
Source: We Need More Borders And More States
Trump camp gets little cover from conservative media
Donald Trump’s campaign was forced to largely fend for itself after news broke that Melania Trump had plagiaried a speech on Monday night. …read more
Source: Trump camp gets little cover from conservative media
Roger Ailes in talks to leave Fox News
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes is in talks with 21st Century Fox that will likely lead to his departure. But “there is no deal” yet, his attorney says. …read more
Source: Roger Ailes in talks to leave Fox News
