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Worldwide News With Ray February 9, 2016
They are off and running again. The New Hampshire primary is going strong following the Iowa Caucus eight days ago. Since I plan to do another post covering the candidates, I’ll cut this short. Don’t look for Doctor Ben Carson or Carly Fiorina to do anything but sputter in this primary. The biggest question mark is Marco Rubio. If he finishes way back in the pack it will be very hard for him to come back. Jeb Bush, John Kasich, and Chris Christie, know that they are running for their lives. The one who finishes first among those three will continue. Jeb Bush has so much money from his PAC supporters that he could buy New Hampshire if they don’t vote for him, so he has the power to go on however the race turns out.
Again, I will be covering the New Hampshire race on a different post. Watch for it today.
Speaking of candidates, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is waiting to see what will happen after the March 1 blowout with at least a third of the states holding primaries that same Tuesday. Bloomberg is reportedly ready to spend a billion dollars (that’s billion with a B) to form a third-party candidacy. With close Wall Street ties and liberal socialist views, he says that if it becomes obvious Ted Cruz will be the Republican nominee and Bernie Sanders the Democrat nominee, he will jump in and save the day.
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan Sunday and search and rescue crews there believe there are more than 100 people still buried under the rubble. Authorities say they have rescued 170 people till now. In 1999 a magnitude 7.6 quake in central Taiwan killed more than 2300 people.
A violent trainwreck in the Bavarian Alps today has left ten people dead and 17 critically injured. One person is missing and sixty-three people have been less critically injured. Two trains collided head-on in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria. Authorities said there were about 150 passengers on board the trains.
Top U.S. intelligence officials said today that ISIS is likely to attempt direct attacks on the U.S. this year and that the group was infiltrating refugees escaping from Iraq and Syria to move across borders. ISIS “will probably attempt to conduct additional attacks in Europe, and attempt direct attacks on the U.S. homeland in 2016,” Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, testified on Capitol Hill.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who was also at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, estimated that violent extremists were active in about 40 countries and that there currently exist more terrorist safe havens “than at any time in history.” Clapper also raised cybersecurity as a major concern, saying, “China continues cyberespionage against the United States,” and warning that non-state actors like ISIS are developing a cyber capability.
While the assessment calls ISIS the “preeminent terrorist threat,” Clapper also said that “al Qaeda affiliates are positioned to make gains in 2016 too.”
President Barack Obama has submitted his final budget proposal to Congress. The modest $4.1 trillion annual budget plan — “dead on arrival” to the Republican-controlled Congress. Lame-duck president Obama’s a budget that includes combating climate change and greatly expanding Obamacare coverage. Those aren’t the favorite subjects among Republican leaders.
Utah lawmakers are serious about shutting down pornography. They recently passed a resolution declaring pornography a serious public health crisis.
State Senator Todd Weiler was a major supporter of the resolution, contending that pornography’s increased accesibility has damaged the nation. Weiler cited a recent study from the United Kingdom that found that people who regularly view pornography show the same brain activity as someone addicted to drugs.
Enough Is Enough President Donna Rice Hughes says ” “A shared responsibility between the public, corporate America and government is necessary to curb the continuous flood of Internet pornography in our nation. Now that science backs up the reality of Internet pornography’s harm to children, adults and cultures, we are hopeful that other states will address this serious issue very soon.
Last night a Prince George County elementary school volunteer was arrested for manufacturing, producing, and possessing about 40 pornographic videos and images of students between the ages of 9 and 13. The elementary school volunteer was charged with 10 counts of sexual abuse of a minor and a second degree sexual offense.
Donna Hughes said “This case shows that pornography can do more than just affect the individual, but can lead the abuser to abuse others.”
Donald Trump said his shoot-from-the-lip style is not an act. But he conceded in an interview yesterday that he would act very differently as president. “Much different, much different,” he answered.
Authorities in Florida have arrested a man accused of throwing a live 3 1/2 foot alligator through a Wendy’s drive-through window.
Investigators identified Joshua James, of Jupiter, Fla., as the man who tossed the 3 1/2-foot reptile into a Wendy’s last fall, according to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission incident report.
Joshua James, 24, was taken into custody and booked into the Palm Beach County Detention Center yesterday.
The driver, wearing a backwards baseball hat, arrived at the drive-through window and ordered a large drink just before 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 11
A judge on Tuesday ordered James to stay away from all Wendy’s restaurants, to avoid possessing any weapons, to get a mental health evaluation and to limit his contact with animals to his mother’s dog.
Ed and Linda James, Joshua’s parents told the station that their son was pranking a Wendy’s employee that he knew.
Since 1948, those “unprovoked bites” have resulted in 22 deaths in Florida. And Joshua’s alligator might easily have ended up taking a bite of crime.
Pranks aren’t limited to Wendy’s. Many homeowners in quiet St. Cloud, Florida, have reportedly found catfish in their mailboxes and yards, raising suspicion that something fishy is going on.
Who’s that knocking at my door? A lock of John Lennon’s hair has gone on sale at a Dallas auction house, with bids for the souvenir topping $12,000 with 11 days left to bid. The four-inch chunk of hair was kept by a hairdresser in Hamburg, Klaus Baruck, who is said to have repeated the old saying, “Hair today, gone tomorrow.”
Worldwide News With Ray February 9, 2016
Worldwide News With Ray February 9, 2016
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