The Future President, Donald Trump

Too many people vote for the person they are led to believe is just like them.. Like the folks who thought they would enjoy sharing a beer with Bush, a recovering alcoholic.

He simply meant that he didn't think there were enough people that like Trump to get him into the white house with their votes. What part confused you?

snood wrote:

He simply meant that he didn't think there were enough people that like Trump to get him into the white house with their votes. What part confused you?

does the 1% vote?

In the vast majority of the world, power (or the perception of power) is what matters. In America, President Obama's brand of metrosexual coolness works well.He mocked Mitt Romney, for example, as a Neanderthal stuck in the 1980s for suggesting in 2012 that Russia was still our main geopolitical foe.
Mr Obama's mix of cool insouciance and biting sarcasm plays much better with the latte-sipping crowd than it does with former KGB operatives, where his style and rhetoric suggests weakness, softness, and a lack of commitment and moral clarity.
Today, it looks like he's allowing Russia to push America around, and dictate the terms of our being pushed around.
One can only imagine that this might impact the 2016 presidential race. My theory is that it helps Donald Trump. He's perceived as a "winner" who could stand up to Mr Putin

The top strategist to 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney doesn't think 2016 front-runner Donald Trump will even be in the race when the first votes are cast.

Stuart Stevens, an unaligned strategist who spearheaded Romney's successful bid for the GOP nomination, said Monday that Trump is likely scared of losing.

"I don't think he's going to be on the ballot by February 1," Stevens told CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead." "The greatest sin in his value system is to be a loser, and most people who run for president lose. I don't think he'll risk it."

Trump enjoys a solid, but shrinking, lead nationally and in early voting states. But he said last week, "If I fell behind badly, I would certainly get out."

On Monday evening, Trump tweeted, "Political strategist Stuart Stevens, who led Romney down the tubes in what should have been an easy victory, has terrible political instincts!"

Donald Trump's challenge to a planned offshore wind farm is being heard at the Supreme Court.

Developers intend to site the large turbine structures close to Mr Trump's golfing development on the Aberdeenshire coast.

The US businessman has taken on the Scottish government, which approved the plan.

Mr Trump began his challenge to the decision to grant planning permission more than two years ago.

He was furious when the Scottish government approved plans for the renewable energy development within sight of his multi-million pound golf development on the Menie Estate in the north-east of Scotland.




Spoil the view

He said the 11 turbines would spoil the view.

Mr Trump made a series of legal challenges in the Scottish courts and has now taken the fight to the UK's Supreme Court in London.

He has argued that planning consent for the wind farm was so imprecise as to make it legally invalid.

Following Mr Trump's earlier unsuccessful actions in the Scottish courts, the Scottish government said its decision-making process had been vindicated and that the "painstaking work" of Marine Scotland staff who advised it was both fair and reasonable.

The Supreme Court judges are expected to deliver their verdict at a later date.

Wind energy projects that could power 1.2 million Scottish homes have been put at risk after a cut in subsidies by the UK Government caused an "investment hiatus" in the industry, a major new report has found.

Investment in Scottish wind farms has stalled after UK ministers announced in June that any new wind projects would be excluded from a subsidy scheme for renewable energy from April 2016.

Ministers cuts the scheme after complaints, mainly from England, about the impact of wind farms on the countryside. At the time Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that as 70 per cent of planned wind farms are set for Scotland, the country would be disproportionately affected.

PROTESTERS have been victorious in their fight against wind farms and pylons.

The County Times ran an extensive campaign against new wind farms at Llanbadarn Fynydd, Llaithddu, Llanbrynmair and Carnedd Wen which were all refused today after a lengthy public inquiry.

MP for Montgomeryshire Glyn Davies labelled today a victory for local protestors after also opposing the development.

Consent was granted for the repowering at Llandinam but the Llandinam to Welshpool substation overhead power line connection was also refused.

A Department for Energy and Climate Change Spokesperson said: “Careful consideration has been given to each application, and the planning and energy issues involved.”

Mr Davies said: "Today's decision to refuse all but one wind farm planning application appealed by developers is really good news for Montgomeryshire.

“Our wondrous landscapes have been saved from wanton desecration. We have protected the legacy which we have enjoyed, for our children to love in the way we do. Today is a very good day indeed for Montgomeryshire.

"I am pleased that DECC Ministers have listened to the inspirational protest movement that rose up against the plans of the Welsh Government to desecrate mid Wales with pylons and several hundred additional turbines.

“It was a wholly unreasonable and insensitive proposal. If only the Welsh Government had listened to the people before coming up with their hideous plans, letting loose the unfettered pursuit of profit by developers, Scottish Power and National Grid.

"I very much hope that National Grid will quickly withdraw its proposal for its disfiguring 400kv line and massive substation. The money wasted is an utter scandal. The divisions and worries caused to the people I represent have been deeply traumatic. Lift the dark cloud that has been hanging over the people of Montgomeryshire for the last ten years.

New onshore windfarms are now the cheapest way for a power company to produce electricity in Britain, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).

Costs have dropped to $85 (£55) per megawatt hour (MWh) compared with the current costs of about $115 for constructing coal or gas-fired plants, its analysis found.

The price of wind, which has fallen from $108 just 12 months ago, compares with nuclear which Bloomberg assesses at $190 – the latter up on a year ago as project delays are factored in to developments.

The positive picture for renewable power in Britain is mirrored across the world with wind and solar technologies fast falling in price while fossil fuel costs continue to move upwards.

“Wind is now the cheapest technology in the UK and this means that old rules of thumb, such as ‘renewables are expensive’ or ‘unreliable’, need to be updated,” said Seb Henbest, head of Europe for BNEF.

“Some people still think that wind or other renewables are a luxury that we cannot afford in difficult economic times but costs have been falling fast and they are now competitive (to a greater or lesser extent) worldwide.”

The numbers drawn up by Bloomberg are a “levelised cost of energy” (LCOE) which takes into account financing, intermittency and other issues, so that different technologies can be fairly compared. However LCOE does not account for the cost of managing intermittent power in the national grid electricity system.

The figures are assessed in dollars to allow international comparisons, however the figures are influenced by a range of costs including currency exchange rates. Fossil fuel technologies have been increasing in cost, partly due to new estimates on likely higher future carbon prices.