Trump triumphs over Clinton in stunning White House upset
ricky l2 seconds ago
This result is not due to unhappiness against Democrats or against Hillary.
It is the manifestation of the underlying anger of Raw Capitalism - not benefiting everyone - a syndrome of 99% against against the 1%.
This is the turning point of Capitalism ---- Brexit in UK and Occupy Wall street in USA.
Unless the a new Economic Model evolves to replace Raw Capitalism - else more casualties in the Developed Countries will be anticipated.
ricky lnow
The Universal Law of Karma against the adverse impact of Raw Capitalism has ripen and is taking effect.
Arab Spring in Middle East countries.
Brext in EU.
Occupy Wall Street in USA.
ricky l1 second ago
Disruptive technologies & robotics take away jobs :-
(1) Fintech - take away bank jobs
(2) Online shopping - take away retail jobs
(3) Robotics, drones - take away manufacturing jobs, waitress jobs, chef jobs
(4) Cloud computing - take away IT infrastructure jobs
(5) IoT - such as driverless car take away cabbie jobs, truck drivers, bus driver jobs.
etc
Thus a new Global Economic Model (to be collectively decided by United Nation) must evolved to replace the current Capitalism Economic Model - that is removing jobs due to the above development.
Else no Government in the World can create sufficient jobs for their people nor solve the 1% versus 99% capitalist economic model.
Trade and trade agreement is not posing problem - in fact it help to grow wealth.
Must focus on the right root cause and come out with the right solution - not the wrong root cause with the wrong solution.
Fed up with Washington, Trump's 'deplorables' shake up the elite
By Luciana Lopez and Michelle ConlinNovember 9, 2016
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Donald Trump supporters in Phoenix, Arizona, watch the U.S. president-elect give his acceptance speech early November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Nancy Wiechec More
By Luciana Lopez and Michelle Conlin
MIAMI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fed up with Washington and feeling left behind, supporters of Republican Donald Trump upended the U.S. presidential race, electing a political newcomer they say offers the country a shot at dramatic change.
Once dismissed by Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as "deplorables," supporters interviewed on Tuesday shrugged off his late-night tweeted insults, allegations against him of sexual misconduct and dire warnings from many in the Republican establishment that the businessman-turned-reality-television-star would throw U.S. economic and foreign policy into disarray.
"The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer," Trump said in his acceptance speech after Clinton conceded.
The economy, terrorism and healthcare ranked as the top three concerns facing Americans casting ballots in Tuesday's election, according to an early reading from the Reuters/Ipsos Election Day poll of about 35,000 people.
"The freedom-loving Americans pushed back against the elites and the globalists. They might win in the long run, but we're not dead yet," said Andrew Dye, 48, of Dexter, Michigan.
"I think this big country is getting a little too far left a little too quickly and some people finally woke up and said enough," said Dye, a partner in a small management consulting firm.
Cuban-American Sarah Gird, 67, described herself as an independent who had felt let down after twice voting for Democratic President Barack Obama.
“I’m not conservative at all,” she said. But Obama “didn’t produce anything.” In contrast, she said she trusted Trump would fix the economy.
"I think he’s sincere, he’s truthful, he means what he says,” said Gird, adding she thought Trump would address poverty and jobs in African-American neighborhoods.
For many, the vote was a rejection of Clinton, whose use of a private email server during her time in government came to symbolize what is wrong with Washington.
"All the corruption. I'm tired of business as usual, being sold out all these years," said Kevin Barrett, 57, in Nashville.
Tom Kipp, 53, an architect also of Nashville, said he voted for Trump because "we need somebody in there not beholden to anyone."
"Our checks and balances system is beyond being compromised. I don't say he's my prime candidate, but he's my best option," Kipp said.
Others found Trump's promise to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico appealing.
"Last-minute decision: I changed my mind to Trump," said Lisa Ciafone, 48, of Madeira Beach, Florida, citing her concerns about illegal immigration and the rising costs of health insurance. “It made me lean towards Trump.”
Vicki DeLira, 54, a dental hygienist from Schererville, Indiana, grew up a Democrat but voted for Trump because it was time for change even if it means "a little bit of chaos."
"It will be a little different atmosphere for a non-politician to be in the White House," DeLira said. "But I think there’s enough politicians around him to help round them out.”
Todd Recknagel, managing partner of private equity firm Three20 Capital Group, said the caricature of Trump as a "monster" was overdone.
"He is an effective business man at the end of the day. So things are never quite as good as they appear and things are never quite as bad as they appear in life and I think he can make a decent president," said Recknagel, 52, from Panama City Beach, Florida.
As Trump became the projected winner in state after state, fans from Arkansas, Texas and Virginia sitting on velvet sofas in the lobby of his new Washington luxury hotel just down the street from the White House celebrated as waiters popped champagne.
Preston Parry, 20, had bet all along that Trump would defy the pollsters who predicted a Clinton victory.
"These were shadow voters, people who had never, ever voted before that the polls didn't pick up. Unlikely voters. Like him or hate him - look, he did something right."
(Reporting by Emily Flitter in Ohio, Luciana Lopez in Miami, Michelle Conlin in Washington, Timothy Reid in Las Vegas, Ben Klayman in Detroit, Emily Stephenson in New York, Letitia Stein in Tampa Bay, Renita Young in Indiana, David Schwartz in Phoenix, Tim Ghianni in Nashville, Kim Palmer in Cleveland, Keith Coffman in Denver; Writing by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Howard Goller)
After Trump and Brexit, populist tsunami threatens European mainstream
By Noah BarkinNovember 9, 2016
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By Noah Barkin
BERLIN (Reuters) - Back in May, when Donald's Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election seemed the remotest of possibilities, a senior European official took to Twitter before a G7 summit in Tokyo to warn of a "horror scenario".
Imagine, mused the official, if instead of Barack Obama, Francois Hollande, David Cameron and Matteo Renzi, next year's meeting of the club of rich nations included Trump, Marine Le Pen, Boris Johnson and Beppe Grillo.
A month after Martin Selmayr, the head of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's cabinet made the comment, Britain shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. Cameron stepped down as prime minister and Johnson - the former London mayor who helped swing Britons behind Brexit - became foreign minister.
Now, with Trump's triumph over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, the populist tsunami that seemed outlandish a few months ago is becoming reality, and the consequences for Europe's own political landscape are potentially huge.
In 2017, voters in the Netherlands, France and Germany - and possibly in Italy and Britain too - will vote in elections that could be coloured by the triumphs of Trump and Brexit, and the toxic politics that drove those campaigns.
The lessons will not be lost on continental Europe's populist parties, who hailed Trump's victory on Wednesday as a body blow for the political mainstream.
"Politics will never be the same," said Geert Wilders of the far-right Dutch Freedom Party. "What happened in America can happen in Europe and the Netherlands as well."
French National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen was similarly ebullient. "Today the United States, tomorrow France," Le Pen, the father of the party's leader Marine Le Pen, tweeted.
Daniela Schwarzer, director of research at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), said Trump's bare-fisted tactics against his opponents and the media provided a model for populist European parties that have exercised comparative restraint on a continent that still remembers World War Two.
"The broken taboos, the extent of political conflict, the aggression that we've seen from Trump, this can widen the scope of what becomes thinkable in our own political culture," Schwarzer said.
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Early next month, Austrians will vote in a presidential election that could see Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party become the first far-right head of state to be freely elected in western Europe since 1945.
On the same day, a constitutional reform referendum on which Prime Minister Renzi has staked his future could upset the political order in Italy, pushing Grillo's left-wing 5-Star movement closer to the reins of power.
"An epoch has gone up in flames," Grillo said. "The real demagogues are the press, intellectuals, who are anchored to a world that no longer exists."
Right-wing nationalists are already running governments in Poland and Hungary. In western Europe, the likelihood of a Trump figure taking power seems remote for now.
In Europe's parliamentary democracies, traditional parties from the right and left have set aside historical rivalries, banding together to keep out the populists.
But the lesson from the Brexit vote is that parties do not have to be in government to shape the political debate, said Tina Fordham, chief global political analyst at Citi. She cited the anti-EU UK Independence Party which has just one seat in the Westminster parliament.
"UKIP did poorly in the last election but had a huge amount influence over the political dynamic in Britain," Fordham said. "The combination of the Brexit campaign and Trump have absolutely changed the way campaigns are run."
UKIP leader Nigel Farage hailed Trump's victory on Wednesday as a "supersized Brexit".
As new political movements emerge, traditional parties will find it increasingly difficult to form coalitions and hold them together.
In Spain, incumbent Mariano Rajoy was returned to power last week but only after two inconclusive elections in which voters fled his conservatives and their traditional rival on the left, the Socialists, for two new parties, Podemos and Ciudadanos.
After 10 months of political limbo, Rajoy finds himself atop a minority government that is expected to struggle to pass laws, implement reforms and plug holes in Spain's public finances.
The virus of political fragility could spread next year from Spain to the Netherlands, where Wilders's Freedom Party is neck-and-neck in opinion polls with Prime Minister Mark Rutte's liberals.
For Rutte to stay in power after the election in March, he may be forced to consider novel, less-stable coalition options with an array of smaller parties, including the Greens.
WATERSHED MOMENT
In France, which has a presidential system, the chances of Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front, emerging victorious are seen as slim.
The odds-on favourite to win the presidential election next spring is Alain Juppe, a 71-year-old centrist with extensive experience in government who has tapped into a yearning for responsible leadership after a decade of disappointment from Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy.
But in a sign of Le Pen's strength, polls show she will win more support than any other politician in the first round of the election. Even if she loses the second round run-off, as polls suggest, her performance is likely to be seen as a watershed moment for continental Europe's far-right.
It could give her a powerful platform from which to fight the reforms that Juppe and his conservative rivals for the presidency are promising.
In Germany, where voters go to the polls next autumn, far-right parties have struggled to gain a foothold in the post-war era because of the dark history of the Nazis, but that too is changing.
Just three years old, the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), has become a force at the national level, unsettling Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, who have been punished in a series of regional votes because of her welcoming policy towards refugees.
Merkel could announce as early as next month that she plans to run for a fourth term, and if she does run, current polls suggest she would win.
But she would do so as a diminished figure in a country that is perhaps more divided than at any time in the post-war era. Even Merkel's conservative sister party, the Bavarian Christian Social Union, has refused to endorse her.
(Additional reporting by Crispian Balmer in Rome, Anthony Deutsch in Amsterdam; editing by David Stamp)
For many supporters, Trump is a thing called hope
AMY FORLITI and CLAIRE GALOFARONovember 11, 2016
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MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — On election night, when Donald Trump claimed victory in her home state of Wisconsin, Shay Chamberlin was so excited she screamed and fell over.
Chamberlain believes Trump is her savior, sent by God to save America from ruin. She owns a women's clothing store in this modest town; her husband runs a construction company. They have two children and barely get by on $44,000 a year, living paycheck to paycheck.
In his victory speech, Trump called people like Chamberlain and her family America's "forgotten men and women" — the blue-collar workers in the manufacturing towns of the Rust Belt and the hollowing coalfields of Appalachia who propelled him to an improbable victory. They felt left behind by progress, laughed at by the elite, and so put their faith in the billionaire businessman with a sharp tongue and short temper who promised to Make America Great Again.
When Trump first ran, Chamberlain thought to herself: "That's the man everybody has been praying for." And she now feels vindicated by his victory.
"This is a movement," she said. "This isn't a candidate anymore. This is a movement."
Not all of Trump's support came from the blue-collar downtrodden. But the Republican's overwhelming backing among whites with less than a college education is at least partly a reflection of how little the economic recovery since the Great Recession has benefited them. Their job opportunities have dwindled and their incomes have fallen, even as broader measures of the nation's job market show improvement. But they also turned to him to hold back the tide of social change: same-sex marriage, transgender rights, a society growing more racially diverse.
The white working class, long ignored, found an unlikely spokesman in Trump. He promised to build the wall to keep out immigrants. He promised to tear up trade deals that have ushered American factory jobs overseas. He promised to put blue-collar America back to work and restore the country to a time when white workers felt appreciated and fulfilled.
"I feel like, not just most, but all Trump supporters are true patriots," said 59-year-old Ginger Austin, who owns a graphics company in a tiny town in Jones County, one of the poorest places in North Carolina. "They love this country. But they're taking our country away, and they're changing it. They're just changing everything. All our rights are just slowly being dwindled away."
She's angry at the Republican Party she has supported all her life. She is angry at Barack Obama and the Affordable Care Act. She is angry that America is changing, and worried that her grandchildren are growing up in a world too liberal and too politically correct.
The nation awoke Wednesday morning to learn just how starkly divided it has grown: Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by less than 200,000 ballots. But Trump won battleground states that had voted for Obama twice. Thousands of registered Democrats, including many former union workers from the mines and factories, crossed party lines and sided with Trump.
For example, in Dunn County, where Shay Chamberlin lives, Obama beat Mitt Romney 53 percent to 46 percent in 2012, and John McCain 57 percent to 42 percent four years earlier. But it flipped to back Donald Trump, 52 percent to 41 percent, over Clinton.
Scott Hiltgen, a 66-year-old small business owner in Wisconsin, called Washington a "cesspool" of career politicians, aware of and indifferent to the plight of the American worker.
"We are considered flyover country, as you well know, and they don't care about us," he said. "And I think it was the silent majority that finally said, 'Enough's enough. We want a change. We don't like the way things are going.'"
Middle-aged white men with only high school degrees — the core of Trump's support — saw their inflation-adjusted incomes plummet 9 percent from 1996 through 2014, according to Sentier Research, a data analytics firm founded by former Census Bureau officials. White male college graduates in the same age bracket, by contrast, saw their incomes jump 23 percent.
The Great Recession wiped out millions of middle-income jobs in manufacturing, office administrative work and construction, and those jobs haven't returned, even as the nation now has 6.5 million more jobs than it did before the recession began. In many parts of the country, they have been replaced with lower-income work in restaurants, hotels, and in home health care.
This "hollowing out" of the nation's economy has left many Americans with high school degrees feeling shut out of the middle class.
Jerry Blackburn, a retired county official in rural Virginia, said he feels like people from someplace else took all they could from him and his neighbors and then left them with nothing.
"They took our coal out of here and everybody got rich on it. And what did we get?" he asked. "We got black lung. We don't have good water to drink, we don't have roads, we don't have anything except a bunch of broken down old coal miners that's forgotten. But everybody else got rich on us."
On Wednesday morning, miners streamed into a convenience store on a highway between one struggling, West Virginia coal town and another. From behind the counter, manager Mary Jones recognized something she hadn't heard in years: hope.
They talked about jobs returning to this broken-down county. They talked about a chance at a brighter future. They talked about Donald Trump.
"I think we sent a message to Washington that we're tired of them sitting up there doing nothing to help the working-class people," said Jones, a native of Wyoming County, where the collapse of the coal industry has left behind a string of tumbledown houses and a quarter of families in poverty.
Coal trucks used to barrel by all day and the parking lot stayed full. No trucks come by anymore. The store is for sale. She's not sure she'll have a job much longer and is certain she won't find another. They struggle to make enough money to pay the bills and write the paychecks.
She considers the ballot she cast for Trump as a protest against Clinton and every other member of the political elite.
"Working-class people built this country and now the working class people have been forgotten," she said. "It's about time they paid attention."
But in West Virginia, Jones worries that the working class is too far gone to be saved.
"There's some things you can do as a president. And there's something you can't. They all make promises, I just don't know how he can keep all those promises," she said. "I feel more hopeful today than I have in a long time. But I'm still scared for the future."
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AP Economics Reporter Chris Rugaber contributed from Little Rock, Arkansas, Alex Sanz from Maysville, North Carolina, Pauline Arrillaga from Phoenix and Claire Galofaro from Pineville, West Virginia.
French Far-right leader hopes for Trump-like win in 2016 election
Posted 13 Nov 2016 18:35
Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader, delivers a statement on U.S. election results at the party headquarters in Nanterre, France, November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
LONDON: Donald Trump's election win was a victory of the people against the elite, France's far-right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen said on Sunday, adding she hoped the French people would follow suit next year.
Opinion polls show Le Pen likely to win the first round of French presidential elections next April but lose the runoff round in May to whoever should be her opponent.
Asked during an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr show if Trump's victory in the United States made her own election win more likely, Le Pen said: "He made possible what had previously been presented as impossible so it is really the victory of the people against the elite."
"So if I can draw a parallel with France then yes I wish that in France also the people up-end the table, the table around which the elites are dividing up what should go to the French people," she said, according to a translation into English provided by the BBC.
(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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Trump a 'wake-up call,' says Europe's Moscovici
Posted 15 Nov 2016 04:09
Updated 15 Nov 2016 04:10
European Union Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici said that income inequality and flagging economic growth, terrorist attacks and war in the Middle East had undermined the value of Europe in many voters' eyes. (AFP/Thierry Charlier)
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump's capture of the White House should serve as warning to policymakers responding to similar populism in Europe, European Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said on Monday (Nov 14).
"We need to turn this painful awakening into a political wake-up call," Moscovici said in an address at Harvard University, adding that discontented voters on both sides of the Atlantic now distrusted the state institutions built to serve them.
Moscovici said that income inequality and flagging economic growth, terrorist attacks and war in the Middle East had undermined the value of Europe in many voters' eyes, while the gulf separating them from political elites had widened.
"We have a huge lesson to learn from last week's election here in the US. The fact is that a growing part of our populations can no longer relate to the existing systems," he said.
"These people consider themselves the losers of globalisation. We should not misunderstand the meaning of their vote. Even if driven by anger, it is completely rational."
Moscovici called for a "more political Europe" which could counter what he called populist narratives.
"Europe needs to be able to prove to all parts of its population, who are feeling the effects of globalisation in very different ways depending on where they live and what their skills are, that it is still able to offer them protection," he said.
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