Politics

Following months of appeasement of Turkey's dictator Recep Erdogan, Europe has found itself surprised that as it yields to every incremental demand, Turkey simply asks for more and more. One such example was chronicled by the FT earlier today in "Turkey demands EU hands over €3bn for refugees" in which we read that "a row has erupted between Turkey and the EU over billions of pounds in aid for Syrian refugees, casting fresh doubt on a fragile deal to halt the flow of people towards Europe."

Submitted by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

Those who got Donald Trump totally wrong in the nomination process, still have not figured out why.

Thus, it’s no surprise they are still wrong now.

I propose,  that instead of being the demise of the Republican party, Donald Trump will be its savior.

Still Not Getting It

Let’s kick the discussion off with Nate Silver’s analysis Why Republican Voters Decided On Trump.

I was fascinated to read the now-infamous New York Times Magazine piece by David Samuels about Ben Rhodes and the Obama Administration’s foreign policy, with special emphasis on the selling of the Iran deal. If you haven’t read it already, you really ought to. It’s as elegantly brutal, nasty and underhanded as you’ve heard – and, precisely for that reason, a superb piece of writing.

An Iranian Kurdish man who pelted 90 eggs at the Home Office building in London after an unsuccessful asylum application has been ordered to pay a £405 cleaning bill. Asylum seeker Feridon Rostami, 32, also landed himself a criminal record after he was heard shouting “f***ing criminals,” at the Home Office for keeping him in limbo for 11 years. Rostami bought the eggs in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, at a cost of £7.29 before moving on to attack the building on Marsham Street, Westminster, as a show of defiance on February 2.

When it comes to Donald Trump, the mainstream media has had a habit of being repeatedly wrong in its forecasts. Most recently, in the aftermath of Trump's effective victory in the GOP primaries, the conventional wisdom was that the real estate billionaire would "never" be able to catch up to Hillary's support at the national level. This too now appears to have been a mistake.