HAGATNA, Guam — A new report from Guam’s public auditor says the island received more than $550 million from the federal government in fiscal year 2015.

The Pacific Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/29gHVay ) that the report was released Friday, weeks before officials are set to discuss whether island residents should be able to reconsider Guam’s relationship with the U.S. If put on the November ballot, voters would decide whether the island should seek statehood, free association with the U.S. or exit from the U.S.

Public Auditor Doris Flores Brooks says an independent Guam would have trouble affording all the public services it’s expected to provide without federal assistance.

Victoria Leon Guerrero counters that Guam could provide those services on its own and expand its economy by opening up shipping, tourism and other trade sectors.
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Are you for the 51st state or Independence?

They are afraid one that he can’t win when they feel Hilary will be an easy target to beat. The feel that if they steal enough votes and do their usual manipulation of the count, and voter suppression no one will make a big stink because it is plausible that Hilary could lose.

But that scenario will not work with trump as the candidate.

Second a donald trump loss could cost the republicans the Senate. That could mean a SCOTUS willing to strike down the serious gerrymandering that has given the GOP the House.

Without gerrymandering republican candidates for the House will have to get votes from a more diluted pool. The next census is coming so they need to control who gets appointed to SCOTUS. Losing the Senate would be a death knell to that.

So they leaked this story to give them a “reason” to promote a different candidate. The bets are on romney, a governor or a sitting Senator.

The GOP convention will be a huge surprise to many.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html

China eyes hunt for alien life with giant telescope

China on Sunday hoisted the final piece into position on what will be the world’s largest radio telescope, which it will use to explore space and help in the hunt for extraterrestrial life, state media said.

The 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, is the size of 30 football fields and has been hewed out of a mountain in the poor southwestern province of Guizhou.

Scientists will now start debugging and trials of the telescope, Zheng Xiaonian, deputy head of the National Astronomical Observation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which built the telescope, told the official Xinhua news agency.

“The project has the potential to search for more strange objects to better understand the origin of the universe and boost the global hunt for extraterrestrial life,” the report paraphrased Zheng as saying.

The 1.2-billion yuan ($180 million) radio telescope would be a global leader for the next one to two decades, Zheng added.

A suicide gun and bomb attack targeted Istanbul airport on 28 June, killing 45 people.
Attackers struck a cafe in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, last Friday night. Twenty hostages and two policemen were killed.
A massive truck bomb in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, on Sunday left at least 165 people dead.
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I decided to just stay home.