Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday, 6 October 2014

The European Union Times


Posted: 05 Oct 2014 03:22 PM PDT


At least five police officers have been killed and another three sustained injuries in Russia’s Republic of Chechnya as they attempted to detain a suspected suicide bomber. The young man detonated improvised explosive when police attempted to search him.
“According to the latest data, the blast killed five policemen, twelve others received wounds,” a police spokesman said. Four police officers died at the scene, while the fifth later died of wounds at a local hospital.
The incident happened ahead of a concert dedicated to City Day in Grozny, which is home to over 280,000 people, most of them Chechens. According to the Internal Affairs Ministry, police forces noticed a suspicious man outside a concert hall.
“Police officers who were manning metal detectors at the entrance of the concert hall noticed a suspicious young man. When the police officers decided to check the individual, the man blew himself up,” a local police officer told RIA Novosti news agency.
Arriving at the scene, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said the suicide bomber approached security forces and introduced himself as “a law enforcement staffer.” Police still proceeded to search him, Kadyrov added.
There were no immediate reports of civilian deaths or injuries, the Ministry said. The data on the injured however varies. Thus, a local hospital confirmed to RIA Novosti that a total of 10 people with wounds were admitted, but none of the injuries was life-threatening.
Despite local media initially claiming the suicide bomber survived, Russia’s National Anti-Terror Committee said the man died along with the victims of the blast. Police identified him as a 19-year old local citizen, who appears to have left home six months ago.
“Apti Mudarov’s whereabouts were not known even to his relatives,” a spokesperson for Chechnya’s law enforcement bodies told RIA Novosti adding that the suspect was supposed to have joined a gang and police were searching for him intensively.
Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has ordered to posthumously award the four police officers who “have stopped a terrorist and did not let him come to a place, where a public event was to be held.”
Russia’s southern Republic of Chechnya, along with neighboring Dagestan and Ingushetia, has been facing the continuous threat of terrorism against the civilian population.
In April 2009, Russia announced the end of its decade-long counter-terrorism operation against militants in Chechnya. However, sporadic terrorist attacks inside the region and beyond continue.
In recent years the epicenter of violence has shifted from Chechnya to Russia’s other mainly-Muslim North Caucasian republics of Ingushetia, Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria.
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Posted: 05 Oct 2014 03:16 PM PDT
Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning
A top US air force commander has expressed alarm at the growing number of dangerous midair encounters between American warplanes and those of China and Russia.
Head of US Pacific Air Forces General Herbert Carlisle particularly complained about China’s naval and air forces for “very much continuing to push” toward becoming increasingly active in international waters and airspace in Asia, the US-based Washington Post reported Saturday.
“They still talk about the century of humiliation in the last century. They still talk about this as the rise of China,” Carlisle asserted, adding, “They still talk about this as their great nation. And they want to continue to demonstrate that.”
The senior US military commander further expressed concern that American and Chinese forces were frequently encountering each other in parts of the East China and South China seas, where they rarely came into contact in the past.
Since commissioning its first aircraft carrier two years ago, Chinese naval forces have carried out numerous drills farther away from their country’s shores while patrolling disputed waters where Chinese firms are reportedly drilling for oil.
Meanwhile, US military officials have also expressed concern about confronting “a resurgent Russia,” which, they say, is conducting more long-range reconnaissance and bomber missions in the region near the American territory.
According to the report, on September 17, US warplanes intercepted a half-dozen Russian military aircraft, two fighter jets, two long-range bombers and two refueling tankers, as they were flying in international airspace near the Alaska coastline.
American authorities further stated that they have also seen an increase in Russian bombers flying near the American-held island of Guam in the Pacific.
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Posted: 05 Oct 2014 03:07 PM PDT

The strategy, if there ever was one, has obviously failed now that an infection has been identified on U.S. soil.
As Americans across the country struggle to understand what is being done to stem the possibility of an Ebola outbreak in the United States, many have come to the conclusion that the first and most effective method of prevention is to keep it out of America to begin with.
That strategy, if there ever was one, has obviously failed now that an infection has been identified on U.S. soil.
This prompted one concerned citizen to launch a petition at the Whitehouse.gov We The People web site calling for a complete ban on air travel to and from Ebola stricken countries.
WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
Have the FAA ban all incoming and outgoing flights to ebola-stricken countries until the ebola outbreak is contained
The Ebola virus has reached unprecedented epidemic proportions in West Africa, and has been joined by another unrelated concurrent outbreak in the Congo. Experts had stated it was ‘highly unlikely’ that ebola would show up on American soil.
But now it has, in the City of Dallas, Texas, brought here by an individual who entered our country from the West African nation of Liberia, where ebola is rampant.
The citizens of the US are scared. We do not want any more ebola-infected individuals bringing the epidemic to our shores. The longer we allow people to enter our country from ebola-stricken areas, the higher the chance another person infected with ebola will arrive here, putting ALL of our citizens at risk.
Please tell the FAA to ban ALL incoming flights from any/all ebola-stricken regions.
Created: Oct 01, 2014 (Petition Link at WhiteHouse.gov)
The publicly posted petition highlights growing concerns that the President, the Centers for Disease Control and medical personnel around the country have failed to develop a clear and concise strategy to prevent the virus from reaching America and isolating it should it be detected in patients on U.S. soil.
Though the CDC maintains that screening procedures for Ebola are in place at the nation’s major travel hubs, it’s clear that the only screenings being conducted are the intrusive TSA security checks that most Americans have been subjected to for several years. Insofar as screenings for those originating their travels in West Africa and arriving in the United States, nothing of the sort is happening.
Ebola Patient Zero Thomas Duncan reportedly boarded a plane in Liberia and lied on his exit questionnaire when he was asked if he had been in contact with any infected people. Duncan traveled on at least three separate airplanes and spent time on layovers during his 23-plus hour journey.
It has been noted that Duncan may have realized he had been in close proximity to the virus and chose to board an airplane so that he could seek better medical care at a U.S. hospital.
In the process, Duncan may have infected scores of others who were in his immediate area at airports, on flights, and when he arrived in the United States.
Current news reports out of Liberia indicate that hundreds of other residents are heading to the airport in the hopes that they can catch a flight out of the country, prompting fears in America that it is only a matter of time before more Ebola infections are identified.
President Obama has thus far maintained that the outbreak does not require travel restrictions.
The petition was created on October 1st and has over 2,000 signatures as of this writing. Over 100,000 signatures will be needed by October 31st before the President and administration policymakers are required to post an official public response.
You can read the publicly posted petition and digitally sign it here.
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Posted: 05 Oct 2014 03:05 PM PDT


The Zionist regime of Israel is a “false identity” who’s existence is totally contrary to the teachings of the Torah and God’s commandments, an American rabbi in New York says.
Zionist Jews have “rebelled against God” and are opposed to the true Jewish laws, said Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, who is also an activist and spokesman for the anti-Zionist Haredi Jews.
“Jews are forbidden, according to the Torah, to have one inch of Jewish sovereignty,” Weiss told Press TV in an interview on Sunday.
“Let the world know that we as Jews around the world who are true to the Torah, we cry with the Palestinians, we pray every day for the total and speedy and god help, peaceful dismantlement” of Israel, Weiss contended.
“A Jewish state is something which is impossible, there’s no such thing,” he stated.
A famous American Rabbi who recently said all Muslims are criminals and called for a global genocide against them is a “despicable person” who changed the Kosher laws in his state, Weiss noted.
“This person is not only fighting Muslims, he’s fighting the religious Jews, the ones who are true to the Torah and that is the perfect example what Zionism is all about.”
In a recent sermon, Rabbi Shalom Lewis of Congregation Etz Chaim in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, Georgia, said Muslims were guilty and should be “exterminated.”
The Rabbi fashioned his speech as a sequel to astonishingly racist remarks he made three years ago in which he compared Muslims to Nazis. “They are coming,” he warned at the time.
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Posted: 05 Oct 2014 02:37 PM PDT


Over 500,000 opponents of same-sex marriage have flooded the streets of Paris and Bordeaux to protest against medically-assisted reproduction for gay couples, rally organizers said. A previous protest for “traditional family values” gathered 100,000.
Streets of Paris and Bordeaux have been smothered in pink, blue and white as scores of demonstrators have been waving flags of the “Manif pour Tous” (Protest for Everyone) group that organized the two rallies.
The group said that “at least 500,000 attended the demonstration” in Paris alone. This is five times higher than the previous rally for “family values” back in February.
In Bordeaux, at least 7,500 people attended the rally, police said. However, organizers estimated that no fewer than 30,000 activists came.
Manif pour Tous expected a higher turnout, as a petition calling for a mandatory ban on surrogacy by French citizens had been signed by 200,000 people by Sunday morning, four days after it was put online, according to local Libération newspaper.




Generally opposing same-sex relations, the group’s Sunday march was to protest surrogacy and medically-assisted reproduction (ART) for gay couples.
“Because the exploitation of women is intolerable; because the child is not an object; because all children need a father and a mother,” the group’s announcement said as it called for people to come out and support “traditional family values.”


The group said it has been out on the streets of France “for two years with the same message” and it “continues on October 5.”
The call has been supported by tens of thousands of people in both Paris and Bordeaux, where the rallies started an hour apart – at 1pm and 2pm respectively.
In Paris the demonstrators gathered at Porte Dauphine and marched to Montparnasse, which are about 7km apart.
The president of Manif pour Tous, Ludovine de la Rochere, said that “traditional family values” must be “fought for at all costs.”
According to an exclusive research by Ifop poll for the local Atlantico website, 31 percent of French people support the “values and ideas” of Manif pour Tous.


Speaking to Catholic daily La Croix on Friday, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls assured anti-LGBT supporters that surrogacy “is and will remain banned in France.”
In September, the highest French appeals court ruled that lesbian couples in France may adopt children born via assisted reproductive technology (ART).
But while homosexual couples in France are allowed to adopt, they are barred from using in vitro fertilization.
President Francois Hollande signed the controversial marriage bill into law in May last year, making France the 14th country in the world to allow gay marriage.
The legislation was opposed by many people in France, although opinion polls at the time showed that 55-60 percent of French people supported gay marriage.
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