Now unlike Jones, Bridgegate is a serious matter in which the governor may have abused his power for the most petty of reasons. Not exactly the kind of person you would want in the White House and a fact that will dog him through the primaries, should his political career survive that long. Many have said that it is incomprehensible that he didn't know what was going on, meaning he was either stupid or evil. Again, not a big win for him this week no matter what he said.
But now, other scandals may be coming to light. Several NJ mayors who received a pittance of the money allocated by the Federal Government are wondering if the reason why is because they were Democrat and not Republican. While no hard proof has surfaced as of yet, you can bet some will be looking into this closely.
Worse for the governor is news that the Feds are now investigating Christie for misuse of funds that was supposed to go to Sandy survivors and may instead have been used for tourism commercials, which is very illegal. The company that did the commercial is also being investigated as its bid was $2 million higher than the lowest bid and many are wondering if some sort of cronyism was in action as well. Ouch. The fact that the ones used featured Christie makes a compelling point that some sort of tit for tat was in play. If it comes out that he did misuse funds that should have gone to people who need it and used for his own gain, he won't last to the end of his term let alone a presidential run. His career may be just about over if this gets any worse.
As bad as Christie's week has been, the situation in the Pacific is actually much, much worse. Not that you've heard about any of this on the nightly news as the Christie scandal, the WV water issues and less important, near pointless stories, are all we get. No stories on the TPP which is NAFTA on steroids. Thankfully, many House democrats have signaled they were ready to shoot this thing down as well as some Senate ones as well. But in the background of deals with Iran (which isn't as horrible as the GOP is making it out sound) and peace talks with Israel and the Palestinians (never going to happen) comes word that a real war may be brewing the Pacific between China, and the rest of the world over disputed islands in the Philippines and Japan. Reports have surfaced that China is readying to take by force disputed islands that the US and the Philippines claim as their own. The Philippines have said they will be increasing their forces on Zhongye Island, which the Chinese have said is a direct insult and will lead to war.
Meanwhile, Japan has said that 280 islands will be nationalized, a slap in the face to China's new claimed air space that few seem to be recognizing. Recent articles in Chinese newspapers have talked about turning the moon into a death star from which missiles could be launched at Earth targets (with one picture showing a mushroom cloud over Europe), and articles about how a Chinese attack may go down against Western forces, which included a map of major US cities and how they would be impacted by a nuclear war. Are you kidding me? The US will take a dim view of this and no matter how powerful China is, they are not in the same league as the US yet in military ability. If they want a war, no one will win, least of all China. This scenario lately is madness and one of the reasons I do not want any more countries getting nukes as we can barely contain the ones we have now.
Any attack on any island right now, will cause a major dust up and possibly WW3. The world is pissed. We're pissed because we are broke. We are pissed because everyone and everything is lying to us lately. We're pissed because 99% of our politicians suck and corporations are raping us blind. The point is if anyone so much as farts in the wrong way and the world is going to detonate. Any history buff will tell you the world looks just like 1914 where any major issue could blossom into all out war. Gavic Princip killed one man, Archduke Ferdinand, and two world wars happened because of it. One man changed human history. Without Princip, there would have been no Hitler, no death camps, no wars. Think what would happen if one Muslim nutbag killed the Pope right now. It would be Armageddon for sure. China is also dialing up the belligerence to epic levels. We all better pray no other shoe drops anytime soon.
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