Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Friday 31 October 2014

The European Union Times


Posted: 30 Oct 2014 01:03 PM PDT


A cryptic new report prepared by Aerospace Defence Forces (ADF) circulating in the Kremlin today on thesuccessful test-firing of a Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from the Borey-class Yury Dolgoruky (K-535) nuclear-powered submarine in the Barents Sea yesterday is linking this event with a mysterious “artifact” rushed to the International Space Station (ISS) deemed so critical that identical copies of it were poised to launch from both the US and Russia space agencies this week.
According to this report, the 1720 GMT launch of this SLBM was meant to directly coincide with the 1721 GMT (13:21 EDT) launching of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida [see video HERE]—both of which were contingent upon this mysterious “artifact” being “activated” while on the ISS—which was previously accomplished at 1309 GMT after its arrival by a Progress resupply vehicle (M-25M) launched 6 hours (0709 GMT) earlier.
This report notes that the necessity of having to launch the Progress resupply vehicle to the ISS was due to its “sister-ship” exploding [photo 1st right] seconds after its Tuesday 2222 GMT liftoff Tuesday (28 October) evening from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. [see BELOW or HERE]

Upon being notified by the US of its failure to launch its Antares rocket to the ISS, this report says, the Progress resupply vehicle that was on “standby” in case of such an event occurring began its countdown and was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan barely 9 hours later. [see BELOW or HERE]



One of the most astounding pieces of information in this report is it noting that between the time of the Antares rocket explosion on Tuesday evening, and the subsequent successful launches of the Progress resupply vehicle, the Atlas rocket from Cape Canaveral, and the SLBM from the Yury Dolgoruky yesterday—combined make this the most attempted, and successful, launches of rockets into space in a single 24-hour period in all of human history.
Even further to be noted, ADF experts in this report says, this historic feat was accomplished with all of these space rockets being powered by Russian origin engines—and which include the Atlas rocket being propelled by a Russian-made RD-180 engine and the Antares rocket using two AJ-26 engines refurbished in Ukraine and are variants of the NK-33 built by the Soviet Union for its ill-fated N-1 moon rocket during the height of the space race.
As to why the Antares rocket exploded upon its Tuesday (28 October) takeoff this report doesn’t say, other than to mention that a warning about this launch was posted to the Internet from Basel, Switzerland on 27 October which, in part, said:
“Come Monday night, October 27, 2014, the Antares rocket is slated to launch from the Wallops Flight Facility, in Virginia. The nighttime launch will be visible along much of the eastern seaboard. At some point during its flight, the rocket will likely suffer a so-called “cyber-attack”, resulting in a massive EMP-like explosion, knocking out electricity on the East Coast of America for good.”

The ADF does, however, note in this report that the Antares rocket was due to be launched on Monday evening, but was put off until Tuesday because a boat strayed into restricted waters southeast of the launch pad at Wallops Island, Virginia.
As to the reason(s) behind this historic Russian-US space launch event in delivering this mysterious “artifact” to the ISS, and its immediate “testing” with the near simultaneous launching of an SLBM and Atlas rocket, this report doesn’t say.
However, it is more than curious to note that the ADF experts who prepared this report are the same ones who issued the 23 October report detailing the astonishing, and still unexplained, 228 million kilometer (142 million mile) “plasma/electrical discharge” between the Sun and Mars on 19 October—and which we had reported on in our report Russia Goes On Full EMP Alert After Mars-Sun “Battle”.
And as these ADF experts are known to only be involved with what are called “critical space threats”, these events certainly show much more examination is needed to more fully find an explanation.
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Posted: 30 Oct 2014 09:14 AM PDT


Sweden has recognized the occupied state of Palestine officially, according to its foreign ministry. The Scandinavian has become the first West-European EU state to recognize the territories. Israel is not pleased.
The news follows an earlier hint by Prime Minister Stefan Lovfen in his Social Democrat manifesto, during his inaugural address in October, that this would happen. The idea was quickly met with criticism from the United States and Israel.
“Our decision comes at a critical time because over the last year we have seen how the peace talks have stalled, how decisions over new settlements on occupied Palestinian land have complicated a two-state solution and how violence has returned to Gaza,” Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom told reporters.
“By making our decision we want to bring a new dynamic to the stalled peace process.”
“Today’s recognition is a contribution to a better future for a region that has for too long been characterized by frozen negotiations, destruction and frustration,” she wrote earlier on Thursday in the daily Dagens Nyheter.
“Some will state this decision comes too soon. I am afraid, rather, that it is too late.”
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has already welcomed the “historic” move by Sweden. “President Abbas welcomes Sweden’s decision,” Nabil Abu Rudeina, the leader’s spokesman told AFP.
The reaction from Israel followed soon after: “The decision of the Swedish government to recognise a Palestinian state is a deplorable decision which only strengthens extremist elements and Palestinian rejectionism,” the Jewish state’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said.
Wallstrom rejected accusations that Sweden was taking any sides in the matter.
The troubled Muslim territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have been seeking autonomy from their Jewish occupiers for decades now, with many people having perished in one of the most prolonged and bloody confrontations in history.
The Palestinians have in this time also lobbied for foreign players to accept their claim to a sovereign state.
Those fighting for Palestine, currently Hamas, are labeled as “terrorists” by Israel, so Wallstrom thinks a voice must be given to what she sees as the more moderate part of the population.
The politician believes this will place them on a more equal footing with Israel in peace talks that historically often flounder.
“EU members confirmed in 2009 their readiness to recognize the state of Palestine when it was appropriate,” Wallstrom said.
“We are now ready to take the lead. We hope this can show the way for others.”
She added that the fact that the Palestinians don’t have full control of their land or have fixed borders should not be an obstacle to international recognition.
A vote at the UN General Assembly in 2012 secured a de facto Palestinian statehood, although a ‘yes’ vote from most EU members is still pending. While Sweden is the first EU member in Western Europe to have recognized the state, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Malta, Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic have already done so.
Iceland, the only non-EU member in the pack, has also recognized the Palestinian state.
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Posted: 30 Oct 2014 09:05 AM PDT


The Ukrainian army says fighting between Kiev troops and pro-Russia forces in the restive east regions of the country has left at least seven soldiers dead in the past 24 hours.
“Over the last 24 hours, we have lost seven servicemen, 11 were injured,” the Ukrainian military spokesman, Andriy Lysenko, said on Thursday.
The incident came following a relative calm during the weekend, when Ukraine held snap parliamentary elections. The Ukrainian government has accused pro-Russians of attacking Ukraine’s positions over the past three days.
The latest fatalities raise Kiev’s military losses to 160 since the September 5 inking of a ceasefire deal with the pro-Russia activists.
Meanwhile, the governor of the Lugansk region said assaults by pro-Russians on a village west of Lugansk claimed the life of one civilian.
According to the United Nations, more than 3,700 people have been killed during six months of battle in east Ukraine.
Ukraine’s mainly Russian-speaking regions became the scene of deadly clashes between pro-Russia protesters and the Ukrainian army after the government in Kiev launched military operations in mid-April in a bid to crush protests.
Violence intensified in May after the two flashpoint regions of Donetsk and Lugansk held local referendums in which their residents voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence from Ukraine and joining the Russian Federation.
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Posted: 30 Oct 2014 08:57 AM PDT


Back in February this year, the majority of Swiss voted to limit the number of immigrants allowed into the country.
Next month on November 30th, they will vote for the latest Ecopop initiative, called “Stop overpopulation – safeguard our natural resources“, proposes that the number of immigrants should be limited to 16,000 people a year to stop the country from being over-developed.
Simonetta Sommaruga, Socialist Federal Councillor, and Head of the Department of Justice and Police is trying to convince the Swiss to vote against this proposition.
“We, despite strong immigration, have one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe. Our economy needs immigrants.” she told 20min.ch.
In Berne, Sommaruga told journalists that “Our aging society needs people who want to come here and work. The upper limit that the initiative proposes for immigration is not only very low, it is very inflexible.”
One commenter said “They want our country becomes like France or England, disown our elites…”
Leftists from outside and inside the country have been trying to convince the public to vote for more immigration, which would could mean it would have to bring in the illegal immigrants from Italy (originally from Africa and the Middle East) given its close proximity.
Leftist globalists won’t let a small European country like Switzerland to control its own borders, if they had their way all European countries would have open borders.
        
Posted: 30 Oct 2014 06:57 AM PDT


Zambian Vice President Guy Scott has been appointed as the country’s acting head of state, following the death of President Michael Sata.
Sata, who was long said to be seriously ill, died Tuesday while undergoing medical treatment for an undisclosed disease at London’s King Edward VII Hospital.
Scott was sworn in as Zambia’s acting president on Wednesday, making him the first Caucasian leader of an African country since FW de Klerk, the last head of state of South Africa during the apartheid era.
The 77-year-old economist will take up the interim role until Zambia goes for a presidential by-election, which according to the country’s Defence and Justice Minister Edgar Lungu is likely to be held within 90 days.
Scott, who was born to Scottish parents, is not eligible to run for the presidency because of foreign parentage rules in Zambia’s 1996 Constitution.
Political analysts say Lungu and Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda are the most likely contenders for the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) party.
Outside the PF, however, the former president, Rupiah Banda, has hinted at a possible return to politics.
“I am legally eligible to stand,” Banda was quoted as saying earlier this month, citing calls from his supporters to return to the political fray.
Sata was elected Zambia’s president following a tight presidential race against Banda in September 2011.
His successor will have to tackle unemployment, poverty and corruption, which are Zambia’s main challenges.
According to official reports, Zambia’s unemployment rate stands at a staggering 65 percent. An estimated 60 percent of Zambian people also reportedly live on less than a dollar a day.
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Posted: 30 Oct 2014 03:01 AM PDT


A stunning event captured by NASA’s Hubble Telescope shows a big black eye staring back from Jupiter’s Great Red Spot storm. In reality, it is shadow play on a planetary scale.
The image was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope as it tracked changes in Jupiter’s immense Great Red Spot storm, a storm that has been raging for over 300 years. The black eye is caused by the shadow of the Jovian moon, Ganymede, sweeping across the center of the storm.
“For a moment, Jupiter stared back at Hubble like a one-eyed giant Cyclops,” a NASA spokesman told the Daily Express.
The Great Red Spot, the largest known vortex in the Solar System at 10,000 miles wide, is a persistent anti-cyclonic storm just south of Jupiter’s equator. It has been raging for between 300 and 400 years, blowing winds at 345 miles an hour, speeds that are beyond comparison with even an Earthly Category 5 hurricane, which can only maximize up to 200 miles.
Astronomers are only beginning to fully understand the complexity of Jupiter, a gas giant which has a mass 317 times bigger than Earth. The planet has 62 moons, including four large ones called the Galilean moons, first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Ganymede is the largest of these moons.
Jupiter’s atmosphere is made up of mostly hydrogen and helium gas, just like the Sun. The planet’s surface is covered in thick red, brown, yellow, and white clouds, and spins faster than any other planet, with a day only about 10 hours long.
What scientists also know is that it has an extremely powerful magnetic field. Deep under its clouds is a huge ocean of liquid metallic hydrogen, and as the planet spins, the liquid metal ocean rotates and powers the metallic field, according to NASA.
Like Earth, Jupiter experiences aurora borealis but they are hundreds of times more energetic – and they never stop.
“We see them every time we look,” said Randy Gladstone of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. “Jupiter has auroras bigger than our entire planet.”
The images are the latest remarkable pictures to be discovered by the Hubble Telescope, which was launched into orbit in 1990 and named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. It was Hubble who discovered the universe is expanding. The telescope has captured tens of thousands of images of planets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies, according to the Daily Express.


In August 2011, NASA launched Juno – a new mission to study Jupiter in detail. The spacecraft will arrive in late 2016. The goal of Juno is to help scientists understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter, and how planets form.
Juno will orbit closer to the planet than any previous spacecraft, and will use Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field, gravity field, and naturally occurring radio waves to study the planet’s interior. The spacecraft will also study its polar region and aurora borealis.
The next planned mission will be the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE), due to launch in 2022.
Like Earth, Jupiter experiences aurora borealis but they are hundreds of times more energetic – and they never stop.
“We see them every time we look,” said Randy Gladstone of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. “Jupiter has auroras bigger than our entire planet.”
The images are the latest remarkable pictures to be discovered by the Hubble Telescope, which was launched into orbit in 1990 and named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. It was Hubble who discovered the universe is expanding. The telescope has captured tens of thousands of images of planets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies, according to the Daily Express.
In August 2011, NASA launched Juno – a new mission to study Jupiter in detail. The spacecraft will arrive in late 2016. The goal of Juno is to help scientists understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter, and how planets form.
Juno will orbit closer to the planet than any previous spacecraft, and will use Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field, gravity field, and naturally occurring radio waves to study the planet’s interior. The spacecraft will also study its polar region and aurora borealis.
The next planned mission will be the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE), due to launch in 2022.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 21:13