Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday, 2 June 2014

The European Union Times


Posted: 01 Jun 2014 10:36 AM PDT

Thailand’s military junta has sent thousands of police and troops across the capital, Bangkok, in an attempt to prevent expected anti-coup rallies.
Deputy police chief Somyot Poompanmoung said on Sunday that nearly 6,000 police and soldiers were being sent to central Bangkok and rapid deployment units are prepared to halt protests that might take place elsewhere.
Several malls in the Ratchaprasong area closed or decreased opening hours and the operator of the Skytrain overhead rail network shut some stations in the central area.
“It’s a business center and we need to … avoid any damage if authorities need to break up a gathering,” Somyot said.
On May 22, the Thai army seized power following months of anti-government protests and violence in Thailand.
The military authorities have banned political gatherings of five or more people, but demonstrations against the coup have been held almost daily.
The coup leaders have constantly warned that they will take tough action against anyone opposing their authority.
In a televised address on Friday, military chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha ruled out elections for at least one year to perform what he called political “reforms”, adding that the army is trying to bring “democracy” back to the nation in the next 15 months.
Prayuth also said that in a first phase of around three months, the armed forces would concentrate on “reconciliation” in the intensely divided nation. At the next year-long stage, the country will have a new cabinet and draft constitution to implement reforms, he added.
General Prayuth further argued that restrictions on the press and social media were “necessary” to prevent more divisions in the country.
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Posted: 01 Jun 2014 10:27 AM PDT


Infowars has obtained startling footage which shows individuals inside the Marriott Hotel, site of Bilderberg 2014, engaged in a bizarre homo-erotic hotel room photo shoot which was captured on camera.
The video was shot by an independent journalist from the protest area opposite the Marriott earlier this evening.
The clip shows four unidentified individuals, possibly Bilderberg security, dressed in bath robes huddling with their backs to the hotel bedroom window posing for a photograph.
A flash then goes off in the background before the group of men turn around to face the window and realize they are being recorded. The older men then disappear from the window looking sheepish as a younger man approaches the window before becoming excited and displaying a camp gesture.
The video is strange because the Bilderberg Group itself is famously publicity shy and secrecy obsessed. The idea of anyone inside the security-obsessed location posing seductively in bath robes is odd to say the least.
Although the notion of displays of homo-eroticism may seem unbelievable on the surface given Bilderberg’s serious nature, Bohemian Grove, another secretive event at which many of the same individuals are present, is renowned for similar displays of homosexual frivolity.
In 2004, leaked audiotape emerged of former U.S. President Richard Nixon discussing what took place at the Bohemian Grove retreat, an annual summer camp in California attended by global power brokers.
“The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time… It is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine with that San Francisco crowd. I can’t shake hands with anybody from San Francisco,” said Nixon.
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Posted: 01 Jun 2014 09:13 AM PDT


Mystery continues to surround the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 despite the declaration by the Malaysian government that the ill-fated Boeing 777 ended its trip into the southern Indian Ocean.
Until the discovery and recovery of the black box, the location of the plane will remain a question mark, especially in the eyes of relatives of the grieving Chinese passengers.
The situation has led to various speculations ranging from political vendetta to terrorism to an accident.
One more question mark is added to the muddled equation is a report that four members of a patent semiconductor were in the jet, leaving the fifth co-owner of the patent the sole owner now.
And that person happens to be billionaire Jacob Rothschild, an alleged Illuminati member, sparking more conspiracy theories about the aircraft’s disappearance.
Mr Rothschild is portrayed as the alleged plotter, wrote Web site Humanarefree.com, noting that the firm, Freescale Semiconductor, launched a new electronic warfare device for military radar systems – the ARM microcontroller KL-03 – days before the plane disappeared.
The company has been creating and developing embedded processors the past five decades, which Freescale described as “stand-alone semiconductors that perform dedicated computing functions in electronic systems.”
With the four co-owners of the patents in the same flight were 20 other Freescale employees who are mostly engineers and experts deployed in their chip plants in Tianjin, China and Kuala Lumpur.
Freescale said the co-owners and staff were going to China to improve the firm’s consumer products operation.
Among the other “intriguing factors” of Freescale are that its shareholders include the Carlyle Group of private equity investors with past advisers that include former U.S. President George Bush Sr and ex-British Prime Minister John Major.
Here’s another one, Carlyle’s clients include the Saudi Binladin Group, a construction company owned by the family of Osama bin Laden.
The Web site noted that four days after the jet disappeared, the U.S. Patent Office approved the semiconductor patent which is divided into five parts.
One was held by Freescale and the four to Peidong Wang, Zhijun Chen, Cheng and Lu Ying Zhijong. All four were from Suzhou City.
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Posted: 01 Jun 2014 08:47 AM PDT

Russia has set a deadline for Kiev to pay part of its debt to Moscow or the flow of Russian gas to Ukraine will be halted.
The acting Kiev government has until June 3 to pay part of its debt or face cuts in natural gas supplies from Russia.
According to Russia’s Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller, with last month’s consumption included, Ukraine’s debt will rise to USD 5.2 billion by June 7.
Russia has stated that Ukraine should make advance payments for gas imports from June.
Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine aimed at ending the dispute over gas payments failed on May 30.
Following the talks, Ukraine’s Energy Minister Yuri Prodan said Kiev had made a payment of USD 786 million to the Russian gas giant for earlier delivered gas, without clarifying further.
If Gazprom were to receive the payment, which was scheduled to be deposited to the company’s account on Monday morning, then negotiations between the two sides would continue in Brussels later in the day. It is not clear if that would forestall a cutoff, either.
Meanwhile, a number of European countries have offered to supply Ukraine with reverse-flow gas, but the deliveries would not be enough to satisfy Ukraine’s gas needs.
The International Monetary Fund has also approved a USD 17-billion bailout package for Ukraine. Part of the IMF money is aimed to settle Kiev’s debt to Gazprom for natural gas and pay for future imports.
Russia provides about half of Ukraine’s and 30 percent of Europe’s total gas demand with major pipelines in the Ukrainian territory.
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Posted: 01 Jun 2014 08:14 AM PDT
Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) Nigel Farage gestures as he speaks during a campaign event at Kelham Hall in Newark upon Trent, central England on May 31, 2014.
Most of the over four million British voters who backed UKIP in last week’s EU parliamentary elections are determined to cast their votes for the Eurosceptic party once again in the upcoming national election in 2015, a new poll shows.
The anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) did surprisingly well in the European election, gaining 27.5 percent of the vote and outpacing the ruling Conservatives and opposition Labour party.
The survey, conducted by ComRes and published in The Telegraph on Saturday, suggests that at least 86 percent of the 4.3 million people who voted for UKIP last week will do so again in the national parliamentary election next year. This would break the previous trend which saw UKIP support in the EU election disappearing on the national ballot.
Just under 40 percent said they were “certain” they would support the party again, while 49 percent said they were “likely” to do so. Fourteen percent said they would probably vote differently. ComRes interviewed 4,078 adults between May 23-26.
According to another ComRes survey conducted for ITV News and published on May 29, nearly three quarters – 72 percent of UKIP voters at the 2014 European Parliament election – could see themselves voting for the party in the general election in May of next year.
The party calls for Britain to leave the European Union. UKIP’s leader, Nigel Farage, stands for increased border controls within the EU.
“I knew that once the British people were made aware that we had lost control of our borders and that the majority of our laws are now made in Brussels and not Westminster, there would be a seismic shift in the political landscape of Britain,” English businessman and UKIP donor Paul Sykes, who funded the latest ComRes poll, wrote in The Telegraph.
In the 2010 UK general election, UKIP received just above three percent of the vote, failing to win a single seat in parliament.
According to the Saturday poll, the largest share of those who back the anti-EU party and Farage had supported the Conservatives in the previous general election.
“A third (33 percent) of 2010 Conservative voters could see themselves voting UKIP in a general election, compared with a quarter (25 percent) of 2010 Lib Dem voters, and 18 percent of 2010 Labour voters,” the ComRes poll states.
Paul Sykes said the ruling Conservative party should draw conclusions. “At present Conservative MPs (with a few honorable exceptions) appear to be in denial about the scale of the popular uprising against our current rulers. This is despite their party finishing third in the elections,” he said.
The businessman added that Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron’s pledge “to reduce immigration to ‘tens of thousands’ is in tatters. When it comes to the EU, Britain is borderless, unlike the vast majority of the countries of the world, who rightly see the power to decide who enters their territory as an essential component of national sovereignty.”
UKIP hopes to win its first Member of Parliament (MP) at a single-seat election in the central England constituency of Newark next week. The position is currently held by the Conservatives.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 15:39