Earlier today Governor Mike Pence gave a speech in Council Bluffs Iowa:

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Because you’re worth it !

Yesterday the New York Times posted a story titled: “Researchers or Corporate Allies? Think Tanks Blur the Line”.

[…] Think tanks, which position themselves as “universities without students,” have power in government policy debates because they are seen as researchers independent of moneyed interests. But in the chase for funds, think tanks are pushing agendas important to corporate donors, at times blurring the line between researchers and lobbyists. And they are doing so while reaping the benefits of their tax-exempt status, sometimes without disclosing their connections to corporate interests.

Thousands of pages of internal memos and confidential correspondence between Brookings and other donors — like JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank; K.K.R., the global investment firm; Microsoft, the software giant; and Hitachi, the Japanese conglomerate — show that financial support often came with assurances from Brookings that it would provide “donation benefits,” including setting up events featuring corporate executives with government officials, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. (link)

As a person who has floated though the disconcerting world of Think Tank politics, the Times article was a worthy notation not only because of the substance within it, but also -and perhaps more aptly- because in the world of intellectual property amalgamation such a news article (research proposition) doesn’t just happen organically as a matter of happenstance.

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Today Donald Trump will deliver remarks at the Cobo Center in Detroit Michigan.  The speech is anticipated to outline Trump’s economic policy agenda.  Live stream coverage begins at 11:30am EDT:

Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream #1

Transcript Added: 

Thank you for the invitation to speak to you today. It’s wonderful to be in Detroit.

We now begin a great national conversation about economic renewal for America. It’s a conversation about how to Make American Great Again for everyone, and especially those who have the very least. (more…)

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “2016 Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Presidential Race and/or any of the candidates therein.

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Anyone thinking Donald Trump is not intensely serious about America-First economics received a massive dose of reality when they realized Donald Trump put reinstatement of Glass-Steagall into the Republican Platform:

“We support reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 which prohibits commercial banks from engaging in high-risk investment,” said the platform released by the Republican National Committee. (link)

CONTEXT – Beyond the larger context of Globalists VS Nationalists (Americanism), the internal opposition to Common Sense economic conservatism (Americanism) can be broken down into two categories:

♦ The first group are those who are fundamentally naive about large and historic economic issues; and how the economy was changed, forced to change through the past forty years, by financial interests who created a second, “false“, paper economy. (more…)

If this report and article is accurate; and if Donald Trump has actually hired Cambridge Analytica, then there’s another dot of clarity within the campaign matrix.  When you cut through the chatter, noise and obfuscation, Cambridge Analytica is Robert Mercer.

Without the existence of billionaire Robert Mercer -and the millions he pours into it- Cambridge Analytica would not exist.

So what is Cambridge Analytica?  You can use google, and look at the presented framework (identify how others define the psychological targeting operation) and their explanations behind  behavioral science of social media profiling/marketing and analytical tools.

It would be far too cumbersome for this discussion for us to outline the “intended” definition of the psy-ops program; and, incidentally, we abhor it – we dislike everything about it.  Taken to it’s logical conclusion, behavioral science exploited is dangerous.

The rather eccentric billionaire Robert Mercer funded/created C.A. as a social tool to target behavior.  However, the behavioral analytics tool itself is intended much less to identify behavior, and much more to shift the action of the entity being targeted.

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This is a modified and updated repost from an early January ’16 outline which collected data from all of the various Donald Trump interviews, position papers, and historical outlines. Candidate Trump has been speaking about broad U.S. economic issues for decades. Trump approaches the challenges by focusing on “Main Street”, not Wall Street.

For the sake of brevity, we’re going to accept that most readers here are familiar with who funds and directs Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, John McCain, Mitch McConnell, and in larger more consequential measures –  the DC UniParty legislative team in charge of U.S. Policy, ie. Wall street.

During the January 2016 South Carolina debate, and in response to Trump pointing out a necessary shift in trade position (a shift to put American interests first – a shift to stop the dependency on cheap import goods – a shift to use China’s dependency on access to our market to OUR advantage), Jeb Bush came back with an example of Boeing manufacturing.

Donald Trump, responded to Jeb’s Boeing example, and pointed out China is forcing Boeing to open a manufacturing plant in China. As would be typical from a candidate who is unfamiliar and poorly briefed on the issue, Jeb Bush looked back incredulously and said:

“C’mon man”…

There we saw it.

Right there was the disconnect. (more…)

Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort discusses the current state of the presidential race and the upcoming expanded economic platform:

• Donald Trump Economic Plan – America First
• Donald Trump American Solutions Part I
• Donald Trump American Solutions Part II
• Donald Trump “America First” Conservative Solutions Part III
• Donald Trump “America First” Conservative Solutions Part IV

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A young lady apparently attending Boston University (engineering) in Massachusetts wants to be famous for stealing Donald Trump signs.  Katia Checkwicz of Springfield, Mass.

Apparently Katia Checkwicz also wants to be famous for being arrested, losing any possibility of advanced degree educational scholarship, losing access to graduate school admission, and losing any possibility of having a job with a decent career…..

But hey, she’ll always be famous for stealing Donald Trump signs.

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