Politics

Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

In the race for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump would seem to be in the catbird seat. He has won the most states, the most delegates and the most votes — by nearly two million.

He has brought out the largest crowds and is poised for huge wins in the largest states of the East, New York and Pennsylvania.

Yet, there is a growing probability that the backroom boys will steal the nomination from him at a brokered convention in Cleveland.

If Americans elect Hillary president, the One Percent’s control will be complete

Paul Craig Roberts

Richard C. Cook thinks that Bernie Sanders could become the next president:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/presidential-campaign-clintons-may-not-win-the-prize-bernie-sanders-could-become-the-next-president/5519809

But could Sanders make any difference?

...We felt a disturbance in the farce, as if millions of establishment GOP voices cried out in terror... and were suddenly silenced. Just minutes after we opined on "what Paul Ryan was up to" suggesting he is positioning for a 2020 run, The Hill reports the Speaker will make a statement at 1515ET "to rule himself out [of the 2016 nomination debacle] and put this to rest once and for all."

Intelligence agencies from several countries, including intermediaries of the CIA, used the services of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to “conceal” their activities, according to German media Citing leaked documents, the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) said that both “secret agents and their informants have used the company’s services” “Agents have set up shell companies to conceal their activities” the newspaper reported, adding that there were CIA mediators among them.

While many establishment Republicans would love Paul Ryan to emerge in Cleveland to rescue the party from what they think is a doomed presidential bid, as The Hill reports, some among their number recognize that any effort to take the nomination away from Trump or Cruz, if either goes to Cleveland with far more delegates than anyone else, could hurt the GOP for years.

Having surged from nowhere to "a contender" during March's fiascos, April has seen Speaker Ryan's odds of a nomination decline substantially...