Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday, 19 August 2014

The European Union Times


Posted: 18 Aug 2014 12:33 PM PDT

A new report by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Barack Obama “ordered and personally oversaw” from the White House a brazen attack conducted by US Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) commandos against an 11 vehicle Saudi Arabian convoy last night nearing Porte de la Chapelle in northern Paris as it was heading for Le Bourget airport after leaving the Saudi Embassy.
According to this report, and as confirmed by various media sources, the attacked convoy was protecting an as yet unnamed Saudi prince who was briefly detained by these highly-trained DEVGRU commandos, and who were able to not only conduct their mission without firing a shot, but were also able to secure the “sensitive documents” they were after.
A French police source talking to the AFP news agency about this US commando attack further stated “It’s quite an unusual attack. They were obviously well-informed. It’s true that it’s quite a rare way of operating,” and said that “If they were looking for sensitive documents, that changes the nature of the crime. It will no longer be an armed robbery, but something more complicated.”
To how “complicated” this attack really was in fact, this report notes, SVR intelligence operatives in the US had previously warned that Obama wasmysteriously returning to the White House this past weekend from his scheduled vacation due the United States facing an “apocalyptic attack” from an estimated 3,000 “Ebola Martyrs” who are already in America and warned are “ready to strike”.
As we had, likewise, reported on after the issuance of last weeks SVR report, of the estimated 111,000 Saudi Arabian students currently in the United States, 8,000 have been identified as being Islamic State (IS) [also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)] terror members, of which nearly 3,000 of them have become “Ebola Martyrs” willing to die in their “mission” of infecting as many Americans as they can before their stated deadline of October.
[Note: The full details about these Saudi Arabian “Ebola Martyrs” as compounded by SVR and other intelligence sources can be read HERE.]
The “sensitive documents” obtained by these DEVGRU commandos, this report continues, were related to these “Ebola Martyrs” who are under the “direct control” of Saudi Prince Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud who heads that nations top spy agency, the General Intelligence Presidency (GIP).

This SVR report further details that this Saudi convoy was attacked by DEVGRU commandos on Obama’s orders based upon information obtained from nearly 25 of these “Ebola Martyrs” detained during the past week in Albania, Montenegro and Bulgaria showing symptoms of this disease, and all of whom stated that their destination was Paris where they would “receive further orders and travel documents”.
The SVR in their new report reiterates from their previous report that Saudi Arabia is using IS and Boko Haram terrorists to target the United States with these “Ebola Martyrs” due to the US$100 million15-acre mega-mosque due to be opened in October outside of Washington D.C. in October, and at which time it will become the largest and most striking example of Islamic architecture in the Western hemisphere.
Of Saudi Arabia’s “greatest fear”, this report says, is the “center of Islam” being removed from Mecca and supplanted in Jerusalem (which the mega-mosque outside Washington D.C. will be a part of) which would, in effect, destroy their nation and the other monarchies of the Gulf region.
Important to note, SVR analysts in this report say, is that Obama has long championed the Muslim Brotherhood organization that took power in Egypt after the 2011 revolution and whose forces toppled the long serving dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Enraged by Obama’s “betrayal” of Mubarak, however, this report continues, Saudi Arabia provided Egypt’s military with over US$5 billion to topple the Muslim Brotherhood, sentence all of its top leadership to death, and install another dictatorial regime.
Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, this report further notes, said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, in which thePresident told him that he was still a Muslim, and in two separate criminal complaints, Egyptian lawmakers this past June charged both Obama and Hillary Clinton with conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood, charges which stated that they had:
“…cooperated, incited, and assisted the armed elements of the Muslim Brotherhood in the commission of crimes…”. Some of the crimes include murder, rape, torture, extortion, bribery, enslavement, and the ethnic cleansing of Egyptian Coptic Christians.” According to one of the criminal charges, Hillary Clinton was, also, found to be working with ousted Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi’s wife, Naglaa Mahmood, in attempting to overthrow the current leader of Egypt, General Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi.
US ally Great Britain, this report continues, is, likewise, being caught in this maelstrom as its long delayed Whitehall report on the Muslim Brotherhood is set to find that this organization (which is contending with Saudi Arabia for the leadership of the Sunni Muslim world) to be “INNOCENT of any wrongdoing”…and which, also, enables them to omit Obama and Clinton’s ties to them.
And, perhaps, most grimly, this SVR report concludes, Obama does, in fact, appear to not only be in a “deadly struggle” with Saudi Arabia for the control of the Sunni Islam world, but has gone even further by waging a de facto war against all of Christianity too, an observation not only made by Russian intelligence analysts, but also by US Senator Rand Paul who this past June warned the American people:
“Christians are being attacked around the world, but you won’t hear much about it on the evening news because the answer’s not convenient. It doesn’t fit the narrative we have been told about radical Islam. The president tries to gloss over who’s attacking and killing Christians. The media describes the killings as sectarian. But the truth is, a worldwide war on Christians is being waged by a fanatical element of Islam.”
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Posted: 18 Aug 2014 04:41 AM PDT

A nationalist party MP is suggesting the Russian government introduce more restrictions on food imports, covering nations that have an association agreement with the EU, including Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.
Roman Khudyakov of the Liberal Democratic Party caucus of the State Duma has said that, since the association agreement with the European Union prepares the conditions for a free trade zone with the bloc, countries that have signed the document would soon be flooded with European goods, including foodstuffs banned in Russia.
“We must completely ban imports from Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine. We have to protect our markets from cheap, low-quality European goods that are now massively entering these countries. They have made their choice and will have to solve the demand problems for their products by themselves as well,” Khudyakov said in an interview with popular Russian daily Izvestia.
He added that Russian state control agencies had repeatedly registered and rejected goods of unacceptable quality coming from the three countries.
Ukraine Moldova and Georgia signed association agreements with the EU in June this year at the union’s summit in Brussels. Russia has repeatedly warned that the move would lead to restrictions on trade with the former Soviet Republics, as markets there would soon be flooded with cheap European imports and local producers would attempt to on-sell their low quality goods to Russian consumers.
Last year’s warnings from Russia made then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich suspend the signing of the EU association agreement, which caused a surge in street protests in Kiev and eventually led to Yanukovich’s demise and the installation of the current EU-friendly regime in Ukraine.
Russia has already banned the imports of Ukrainian sweets produced by the Roshen company, owned by current President Petro Poroshenko, as well as all Ukrainian alcohol. Representatives of the Russian consumer rights agency Rospotrebnadzor have earlier said that other foodstuffs and beverages from Ukraine could also be blacklisted due to quality problems.
However, MP Viktor Zvagelskiy of parliamentary majority caucus United Russia opposed the new trade restrictions. The politician, who is a deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for Economic Policy said the move would only lead to an artificial destruction of competition. Proper work of customs and state watchdogs will be enough to protect the Russian consumers, he added.
The European Union, United States and several of their allies have imposed economic sanctions on senior Russian officials and some larger companies over Russia’s alleged role in the current crisis in the east and southeast of Ukraine. Last week Russia took some reciprocal steps, with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signing a one-year ban on imports of meat, fish, cheese, milk, vegetables and fruit from Australia, Canada, the EU, the US and Norway.
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Posted: 18 Aug 2014 04:37 AM PDT

The Western media have proved for all to see that the Western media comprises either a collection of ignorant and incompetent fools or a whorehouse that sells war for money.
The Western media fell in step with Washington and blamed the downed Malaysian airliner on Russia. No evidence was provided. In its place the media used constant repetition. Washington withheld the evidence that proved that Kiev was responsible. The media’s purpose was not to tell the truth, but to demonize Russia.
Now we have the media story of the armored Russian column that allegedly crossed into Ukraine and was destroyed by Ukraine’s rag-tag forces that ISIS would eliminate in a few minutes. British reporters fabricated this story or were handed it by a CIA operative working to build a war narrative. The disreputable BBC hyped the story without investigating. The German media, including Die Welt, blared the story throughout Germany without concern at the absence of any evidence. Reuters news agency, also with no investigation, spread the story. Readers tell me that CNN has been broadcasting the fake story 24/7. Although I cannot stand to watch it, I suspect Fox “news” has also been riding this lame horse hard. Readers tell me that my former newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, which has fallen so low as to be unreadable, also spread the false story. I hope they are wrong. One hates to see the complete despoliation of one’s former habitat.
The media story is preposterous for a number of reasons that should be obvious to a normal person.
The first reason is that the Russian government has made it completely clear that its purpose is to de-escalate the situation. When other former Russian territories that are part of present day Ukraine followed Crimea, voted their independence and requested reunification with Russia, President Putin refused. To underline his de-escalation, President Putin asked the Russian Duma to rescind his authority to intervene militarily in Ukraine in behalf of the former Russian provinces. As the Russian government, unlike Washington or EU governments, stresses legality and the rule of law, Russian military forces would not be sent into Ukraine prior to the Duma renewing Putin’s authority so to do.
The second reason the story is obviously false is that if the Russian government decides to invade Ukraine, Russia would not send in one small armored group unprotected by air cover or other forces. If Russia invades Ukraine, it will be with a force capable of rolling up the rag-tag Ukrainian forces. The “war” would last a few hours, after which Ukraine would be in Russia’s hands where it resided for hundreds of years prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Washington’s successful efforts in 1991 to take advantage of Russian weakness to break apart the constituent provinces of Russia herself.
The third reason that the story is obviously false is that not a single Western news organization hyping the story has presented a shred of evidence in its behalf.
What we witness in this fabricated story is the total lack of integrity in the entirety of the Western media.
A story totally devoid of any evidence to support it has been broadcast world wide. The White House has issued a statement saying that it cannot confirm the story, but nevertheless the White House continues to issue accusations against Russia for which the White House can supply no evidence. Consequently, Western repetition of bald-faced lies has become truth for huge numbers of peoples. As I have emphasized in my columns, these Western lies are dangerous, because they provoke war.
The same group in Washington and the same Western “media” are telling the same kind of lies that were used to justify Washington’s wars in Iraq (weapons of mass destruction), Afghanistan (Taliban = al Qaeda), Syria (use of chemical weapons), Libya (an assortment of ridiculous charges), and the ongoing US military murders in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia.
The city upon the hill, the light unto the world, the home of the exceptional, indispensable people is the home of Satan’s lies where truth is prohibited and war is the end game.
After pretending that the Russian humanitarian truck convoy contained a hidden invasion force, the stooge Kiev government was forced by facts on the ground to officially acknowledge that the trucks only contained aid for those that the Kiev stooge government has been bombing and attacking with artillery.
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Posted: 18 Aug 2014 04:16 AM PDT

Here is simple math which shows that methane is weaker than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. In fact, none of the greenhouse gases can produce heating, because the distance between unsaturated molecules is extreme like one inch between each methane molecule which supposedly does the heating, and almost one millimeter between each carbon dioxide molecule.
Climatology is so fraudulent that the claims are often the opposite of the obvious truth. The claimed “potency” of methane is an example.
The fake logic is that since methane absorbs more radiation than CO2, it is a stronger (more potent) greenhouse gas. Adding real numbers shows the opposite.
Throughout this subject, fakes use a rudimentary logic which does not account for numerous factors. Here, saturation was not accounted for, even though the IPCC says saturation does occur, but the shoulders of the absorption peaks do not saturate. In other words, a small percent of the molecules actually do the heating. Because of saturation, those supposed molecules get thinner, as absorption strength increases.
In 2001, the IPCC (AR3) stated that saturation exists in these terms: “Carbon dioxide absorbs infrared radiation in the middle of its 15 mm band to the extent that radiation in the middle of this band cannot escape unimpeded: this absorption is saturated. This, however, is not the case for the band’s wings. It is because of these effects of partial saturation…”
Carbon dioxide absorbs all radiation available to it in the center of its 15 µm band by the time the radiation travels 10 meters near the earth’s surface (Heinz Hug). (http://nov79.com/gbwm/hnzh#ten) Where then is the non-saturation occurring? Let’s say non-saturation occurs when the radiation goes beyond the top of the troposphere. (The fakes never explain a word of this, or the obvious truth would expose their frauds.) The top of the troposphere averages around 17 km. The density of the shoulder molecules must be 10/17,000 times that of the center of the absorption peak. This is 0.06% as much as the center molecules (0.00059).
Consider how far apart these molecules are. A CO2 molecule is about 200 picometers across, and nitrogen about the same. The atmosphere is now about 400 ppm CO2 (molar, molecule for molecule). This means there is 500 nm of distance between each CO2 molecule (1/400 ppm x 200 pm = 500 nm). The 0.00059 which does not saturate would have a spacing of 1,700 times that amount (1/0.00059 = 1,700), which is 0.85 mm. The CO2 molecules which absorb more radiation for supposed global warming are 0.85 mm apart. This distance is visible with the naked eye.
Compare these numbers for methane. Methane is said to have a “potency” of something between 20 and 120 times that of CO2. (Residence time reduces it to about half.) Lets calculate a radiation effect of 30 times that of CO2. Instead of the peak molecules absorbing all radiation in 10 meters, it will be 74 meters (10 ÷ 30 x 400 ÷ 1.8 = 74). The shoulder molecules which absorb all radiation in 17 km would be 0.0044 times total methane (74 m/17 km = 0.0044).
The size of a methane molecule is about 400 pm, but only the nitrogen size is relevant at 200 pm. The atmosphere is about 1.8 ppm methane. The distance between each methane molecule is about 111 microns (1/1.8 ppm x 200 pm = 111 µm). The 0.0044 which does not saturate would have a spacing of 230 times that much (1/0.0044 = 230), which is 26 mm (1 inch). Does one inch between each molecule which adds heat create a potent greenhouse gas?
Even though these gases are uniformly distributed in the atmosphere, the ones which absorb at edge wavelengths have unusually stretched bonds.
The reason for this absurd result is that there are very few methane molecules in the atmosphere. Since they absorb infrared radiation strongly, very few of those molecules are going to be unsaturated. Very few molecules out of very few molecules results in a lot of space between each one.
The fakes didn’t notice this, because they use word salad in place of science.
For “potency” test compare 1 x 1019 molecules for CO2 and methane. In one gram of air there are 2.10 x 1022 molecules (80% N2 at 28 mw and 20% O2 at 32 mw). CO2 and methane each are 476 ppm (1 x 1019 ÷ 2.10 x 1022 = 476 ppm). The distance between each molecule of CO2 or methane is 420 nm (1/476 ppm x 200 pm = 420 nm).
The saturation distance for CO2 is 8.4 meters (400 ppm ÷ 476 ppm x 10 m = 8.4 m). The effective shoulder molecules for CO2 is 8.4 m ÷ 17 km = 0.00049 times the center molecules. The distance between shoulder molecules is 1 ÷ 0.00049 x 420 nm = 0.85 mm.
The saturation distance for methane is 8.4 m ÷ 30 = 0.28 m. The effective shoulder molecules for methane is 0.28 m ÷ 17 km = 1.65 x 10-5 times the center molecules. The distance between the shoulder molecules is 1 ÷ 1.65 x 10-5 x 420 nm = 26 mm.
This potency test shows that the rate analysis for adding each molecule of the greenhouse gas is exactly the same as the original distance analysis, which is 0.85 mm between each CO2 molecule on the assumed effective shoulders and 26 mm for methane. Methane shows a distance 31 times greater between molecules than CO2, even when the same amount of increase is made for both and starting with the same concentration for both. More distance between effective molecules of methane means less heat is added to the atmosphere as the concentration of methane increases. So methane is not a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
Even though methane absorbs radiation more strongly than CO2, there are less effective molecules supposedly unsaturated on the shoulders, which results in less supposed heat increase upon additions.
Even when the unsaturated distance is considered to be the 17 km to the top of the troposphere, doubling the amount of greenhouse gas reduces the distance of absorption by half, which is 8.5 km. Reducing the distance is not increasing the heat.
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Posted: 18 Aug 2014 03:30 AM PDT

Russia will reportedly consider tightening tit-for-tat sanctions against the Western states if the United States and the European Union (EU) impose more bans on Moscow.
On Monday, Russia’s Vedomosti newspaper cited unnamed sources as saying that Moscow may “fully or partly” ban car imports should Washington and its EU allies adopt fresh sanctions against the country over its alleged role in the Ukraine crisis.
According to the report, the new retaliatory bans would not apply to the production of foreign automakers operating inside Russia.
Earlier this month, Russia imposed year-long food bans on the US, the EU, Australia, Canada and Norway in retaliation for their embargoes on Moscow. The ban is estimated to cost European agricultural industries millions of dollars.
Over the past months, the Western states have placed sanctions on Russia, including on its financial and energy sectors, putting a number of Russian nationals close to President Vladimir Putin on a sanctions list.
The sanctions also include an arms embargo and restricting sales of sensitive technology as well as the export of equipment for Russia’s oil industry.
The Western powers accuse Moscow of playing a role in the crisis in eastern Ukraine, which erupted when Kiev launched military operations in April to silence pro-Russia protests, but the Kremlin denies the accusation.
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Posted: 18 Aug 2014 03:21 AM PDT

Julian Assange plans to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in the near future, he told a press conference at the embassy’s London compound, where he’s been holed up for two years. The WikiLeaks founder gave no further details.
“I am leaving the embassy soon, but perhaps not for the reasons [reported],” he told journalists, refusing to clarify what his reasons are.
Speaking at the conference, he recounted the ordeal of having to hide from prosecution in a case where for four years no charges have been leveled. This has led to a serious deterioration of his health, including heart problems.
He listed a host of reasons he believes to be at the center of the injustice taking place in his situation.
“Throughout this entire time I have not been charged,” he spoke. “Europe is meant to be a place where the rule of law is respected, where basic rights are respected… but somehow a situation has developed where basic rights that we have previously universally accepted are no longer respected.”
The whistleblower continues to flatly deny any rape allegations, which have not been backed up by any formal charges.
Ecuador’s Foreign Minster Ricardo Patino was also present at the conference to defend Assange. He spoke of the continuing efforts on the part of Assange’s legal team and the government of Ecuador to bring the situation to a close in a manner that satisfies both the Ecuadorian and the Swedish legal systems. However, they have not come to fruition.
He saw Assange’s stay at the embassy as “two years of great uncertainty and lack of justice for everyone,” because, while “the effective legal protection of [the whistleblower] has been breached” and no progress was made in the case, the same was true for the Swedish women who are the alleged victims at the other end.
“We continue to be ready to talk to the British and Swedish governments,” Patino said. But “It is time to free Julian Assange, it’s time for his legal rights to be respected.”
One of the whistleblower’s closing remarks was to question exactly what kind of legacy US President Barack Obama would like to leave.
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Posted: 17 Aug 2014 03:10 PM PDT

Germany’s foreign intelligence agency eavesdropped at least one telephone conversation of US Secretary of State John Kerry and spied on NATO ally Turkey since 2009, Der Spiegel newspaper revealed on Saturday.
Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) picked up the phone call “by accident” in 2013, the weekly newspaper reported in a pre-publication citing unnamed sources. Kerry was discussing the Middle East tensions between Israelis, Palestinians and Arab states in a satellite link, according to Der Spiegel.
The new revelation comes after German media – Daily newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and regional public broadcasters NDR and WDR – reported on Friday that BND intercepted at least one phone call made by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The date of the call was not given and the media said that it was also picked up “by accident”.
The German media retrieved the information of the hacking from documents that were passed to the CIA by one of its moles inside the BND.
On Saturday Der Spiegel reported that Clinton’s call recorded was intercepted in 2012. Clinton was in talks with former UN chief Kofi Annan, who had just returned from negotiations in Syria and wanted to brief the former Secretary of State.
The NDR added on Friday that Clinton wasn’t the only one spied on as “apparently, phone calls by US politicians and from other friendly nations have been repeatedly recorded and submitted to the respective BND President as instructed”.
“The fact that the recording wasn’t deleted immediately was called ‘idiocy’ by a member of the government in Berlin,” NDR reported.
In another leak, Der Spiegel also learned that BND has been spying on its NATO ally Turkey since 2009. No further details on the scale of surveillance were given. Sources confirmed the wiretapping to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, saying that it was essential for national security as there are many Turkish people living in Germany.
The government in Ankara says it intends to carefully investigate the Der Spiegel report.
“I am of the opinion that this needs to be taken seriously… Definitely, our government and foreign ministry will carry out the necessary research about the allegations in the magazine,” Mehmet Ali Sahin, deputy chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), was quoted as saying by Agence France Presse.
According to Der Spiegel, the German government reviews its espionage program every four years but did not modify its priorities after the NSA scandal that deeply strained US-German relations last year.
The full version of the report will be published by Der Spiegel on Sunday.
In October, US whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked information that Washington had conducted intensive spying operations including tapping phones of at least 35 heads of state, including Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Merkel called US President Barack Obama over the issue, saying that if the revelations were proven to be true it would be “completely unacceptable” and represent a “grave breach of trust,” Steffen Seibert, a German government spokesman, said at the time.
The issue was brought up again in July when two US agents were unmasked, suspected of acting as double agents within the state security apparatus, and passing secrets to US intelligence contacts. In response to the espionage scandal Germany promptly expelled the Berlin CIA chief.
The new reports may escalate the growing political tension between the two states, key partners in the NATO military alliance.
Last month in an interview to German broadcaster ZDF Germany’s Chancellor said that Washington and Berlin have different perceptions of the role of the intelligence service.
“For me it is a sign that we have fundamentally different conceptions of the work of the intelligence services.”
“I can’t say in advance if [the measures we took] will have an effect, of course I hope something will change. But the important thing is to show how we view things… and it is not a co-operative partnership when such things take place.”
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Posted: 17 Aug 2014 02:58 PM PDT

The death toll from the Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip has exceeded 2,000, medical authorities in the blockaded area say.
According to the authorities on Sunday, at least 2016 Palestinian people have lost their lives and as many as 10,193 others have suffered injuries since the Israeli military unleashed merciless attacks on the densely-inhabited Gaza Strip on July 8.
The officials reported that more bodies are being recovered from the rubble and more injured Palestinians die from their wounds. Nearly 540 children are reportedly among the dead.
Local reports indicate that some of the fatalities occur due to lack of necessary medical equipment and life support machines in hospitals in the blockaded area.
Gaza medical staff say hospitals in the blockaded coastal enclave are suffering from the lack of electricity.
Palestinian officials have warned that a health crisis is imminent in the Gaza Strip unless serious measures are taken to stop it.
Years of Israeli blockade as well as frequent military campaigns by the Tel Aviv regime have already shattered Gaza’s health care system.
A panel appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council is expected to start investigating the crimes committed by Israel in its war on Gaza.
Human rights groups say Israeli forces are systematically killing Palestinian children and youths.
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Posted: 17 Aug 2014 02:53 PM PDT

Has the world come to the point, beyond which it is expected to disappear as a civilization? Yet, the recipe for the salvation of our civilization was proposed two thousand years ago. The helplessness of religion in implementing the ideas of Christ is evident. The leader of the new Russia took on those functions. The convoy, which now travels to Ukraine is the convoy of love.
Yesterday’s news reports were focused on two main topics. The first one of them was about the white column of trucks carrying humanitarian aid. Moving in the dark, the white column appears like a ray of light. The second one was the speech from the prime minister of Ukraine, Yatsenyuk, at the parliament, where he, with foam at the mouth, was demanding the imposition of sanctions on the Russian Federation.
As for the convoy, the media discuss several reasons of why Russia has taken on such an unprecedented step. It is quite obvious that the probability for the cargo to reach the point of destination is extremely small. It is highly likely that the cargo will be plundered or used for the needs of Kiev. Some say that the convoy is a version of the Trojan horse. Some believe that after the convoy crosses the border, it will deliver an absolutely different cargo to Luhansk and Donetsk. This is the point of view of Ukrainian bloggers and also, for example, of former adviser to President Vladimir Putin, Andrei Illarionov, who appeared on the air of a Ukrainian TV channel. “Right now, the attention is focused on the column, which is routed through Voronezh in the Kharkov region. Nobody knows anything about similar columns that may now be traveling to Luhansk and Donetsk regions,” Illarionov presumed. According to him, the agreement to receive “humanitarian aid” from Russia legalizes an opportunity for trucks “loaded with something else” to penetrate on the territory of Ukraine.
Other, more intelligent writers, such as Simon Schuster suggested on the pages of Time that the convoy was, of course, a humanitarian one. According to him, Russia sent the convoy to Ukraine’s Donbass over Putin’s preoccupation with his own rating, rather than people’s pain and grief. In addition, he wrote, if Putin wanted to attack Ukraine, he would not have to resort to such a complex and risky scheme. Russia can go on the offensive in several hours , while maintaining an element of surprise, Schuster believes.
Western writers claim that Putin has lost the sense of reality, and his “increased appetite” threatens not only the entire so-called “post-Soviet space”, but also the whole of Europe and even the world. The West and its henchmen in Kiev can not understand what the Russian president was guided with in coordinating the issues of humanitarian assistance through humiliating talks with the “enemy of the Russian world.” But, as a classic said, “you can not understand Russia with your mind.” The president was not shuffling conscious calculations – he was guided with compassion when he was sending the column to Ukraine. Consciousness is the support of the Catholic and Protestant faiths, were the postulate is: “the richer you are, the more love from God you receive.” Orthodoxy has a different message: “The more you suffer, the more purified your soul gets.” Soul is the basis of Orthodox faith.
How can one co-exist in the scale of civilization? Russia, though many years of existence and suffering has earned the leader, who thinks dialectically. He does not trust the completely utopian idea of communism, nor does he worship the liberal material idea: the greater the consumption, the greater the state. He had lived in the West for long and understands the Western way of thinking, but he is an Orthodox believer. For him, it is soul and its quality – love – that comes first. In Christianity, this quality is the main driving force behind the development of the universe. This is what Christ was preaching, when he was trying to preserve love, when he was expelling traders from the temple, when he suffered humiliation, abuse, betrayal and when he died on the cross.
Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ gave a recipe for the salvation of our civilization, but the main conductor of the idea – the church – has not coped with the implementation of this idea in the mind of man. Is it the voice of church that we can hear today in the media? Is it not blasphemy when Patriarch Filaret (the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church) calls for a murderous war? “Ukraine must close the border and eliminate all terrorists. Invaders have broken into our home, and we must kick the enemy out. If there are sincere believers among residents of Donbass, they should not kill their own citizens. Those who came from abroad for the money to kill Ukrainians should be eliminated,” Filaret said.
The Ukrainian crisis shows that the world is standing on the brink of disaster and extinction. The failure to understand each other’s positions has reached its climax. The principle of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” manifests itself in its broadest embodiment. People have completely forgotten that one of the basic laws of the universe is unity in the struggle of opposites.
Russia saves Ukrainian servicemen and sends humanitarian cargo, which may not reach its destination. Many prophets predicted that Russia would save the world and civilization. It appears that the beginnings of this new civilization we can now see on the example of the Russian humanitarian aid convoy, which, like a white angel, is traveling through the darkness of hatred.
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Posted: 17 Aug 2014 02:43 PM PDT
Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF) medical workers disinfect the body bag of an Ebola victim at the MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, on August 14, 2014.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders says the Ebola epidemic is moving faster than authorities can handle and it could take six months to bring under control.
“It is…moving faster than we can respond to,” Joanne Liu, the chief of the humanitarian aid organization, told reporters in Geneva on Friday, adding that it could take six months to get the upper hand.
“It is like wartime,” she said a day after returning from West Africa, adding, “I don’t think we should focus on numbers. To really get a reality check, we’re not talking in terms of weeks, but months to control the epidemic.”
Meanwhile, Elhadj As Sy, the new head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said he agreed with MSF’s six-month timeline for bringing the outbreak under control.
The warning comes shortly after the World Health Organization (WHO) said extraordinary measures are needed to tackle the outbreak.
Meanwhile, the United Nations is going to provide food aid to one million people in affected countries.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says the death toll from the worst outbreak of Ebola in four decades has now climbed to 1,145.
There is currently no known cure for Ebola, which is a form of hemorrhagic fever with diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding as its symptoms.
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are grappling with Ebola, which has also spread to Nigeria. The virus can be transmitted through direct contact with infected blood, feces or sweat.
The transmission of the virus can happen through sexual contact or unprotected handling of contaminated corpses.
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