Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday, 21 October 2014

The European Union Times


Posted: 20 Oct 2014 05:33 AM PDT

It may seem that we know a lot more about the Moon than we do about any other celestial body. However, our natural satellite still hides many mysteries.
There was time on Earth, when there was no Moon in the sky
In the V century BC, Greek philosopher and astronomer Anaxagoras of Clazomenae wrote that according to his sources, the Moon appeared after the Earth was born. In the III century BC, Apollonius of Rhodes, in his “Argonautica,” referred to the famous Aristotle, who, in turn, a century earlier, had described inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Arcadia, a region on the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Those people ate acorns and lived at the time, when there was no Moon in the sky. Writer and historian Plutarch told of the ruler of Arcadia, whose name was Proselenos, which means “pre-lunar.”
Modern scholars do not deny the possibility that in the early days of human existence, the Moon was absent in the sky above our planet. One of the theories says that the Moon was originally a planet of the solar system, which, as a result of a space cataclysm, descended from orbit and became a satellite of the Earth. Over time, the Moon formed the system of ebbs and flows, and cycles of our life became dependent on the Moon.
The moon is not as it seems
Perhaps, you have noticed that on the horizon, the lunar disk appears larger. In ancient times, Aristotle tried to solve this mystery. It was thought that such an optical effect was associated with the Earth’s atmosphere. As a matter of fact, the atmospheric refraction (the bending of light rays in the atmosphere) makes the Moon optically smaller than its actual size.
The effect is based on the optical illusion (Ponzo illusion) that appears only because of peculiarities of our brain, some researchers believe. When the moon is hanging on the horizon, our brain compares it with other objects on the foreground, such as houses or trees, and mistakenly identifies it as a more distant object. The farther an object, the bigger it should be. If the Moon is hanging above the horizon, then we have nothing to compare it with, and the Moon appears smaller.
In addition, the Moon is not round, as we usually believe, but of an egg-shaped form. Yet, as long as only one side of the Moon faces the Earth, we can not see its true form.
Americans were going to conduct a nuclear explosion on the Moon
This shocking information was provided by Newsweek Magazine on the basis of declassified archival materials of the White House. According to the documents, in the 1950s of the last century, when the Cold War was in full swing, the United States government was harboring plans to build military bases and nuclear reactors on the Earth’s satellite. Moreover, America was going to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon.
The explosion was supposed to trigger a “moonquake” – vibrations of the lunar surface. For the lunar project, six billion dollars were assigned. It was planned to deliver a nuclear warhead to the Moon. A lunar base was supposed to be constructed by 1966. All the necessary components for the base could be delivered to the Moon on board Saturn rockets.
The publication also wrote that during the 1960s, the Americans managed to come into possession of Soviet interplanetary station “Luna”. They bribed a truck driver, who was transporting the station from one city to another, and took photographs of the equipment. The spacecraft was then delivered safely to its destination, and the Russians had not known anything up until today, the magazine wrote.
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Posted: 20 Oct 2014 05:15 AM PDT


A group of Caribbean countries have announced bans on entry to foreigners who have travelled through the three West African countries most affected by Ebola.
Jamaica said it would not accept travellers from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone for the time being.
Guyana, the island of St Lucia, Haiti and Colombia also introduced a ban.
In the United States, President Barack Obama has resisted pressure to put similar bans in place.
Jamaica’s travel ban extends to “persons ordinarily resident in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as well as persons who have travelled to or transited through Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, within 28 days of having departed from these countries”.
The government said Jamaican citizens and residents would be quarantined for 28 days and that it was a temporary measure.
St Lucia’s Prime Minister Kenny Anthony said his country was a poor small national that did not have the capacity “to manage any crisis that lands on our doorstep, any crisis of that kind”.
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Posted: 20 Oct 2014 03:43 AM PDT


A German politician has called for a new law to be put in place which would allow German citizens to give immigrants free lodging in their own homes, rather than the German government building new homes.
Martin Patzelt, a lawmaker and member of the Christian Democratic Union, said moving immigrants (claiming to be refugees) into private homes, would mean immigrants cost the state less money, with the German government only having to pay the immigrant’s cost of living and healthcare.
“In times of crisis, we have to stay together and accept that the problem of the refugees is a common one,”Patzelt said.
“I am receiving more and more letters from people offering to host refugees, and a poll by RTL television showed that 30 percent of people, particularly younger generations, want to help,”
Hans ten Feld a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) supports Patzelt’s plan.
“The responsibility to accommodate these refugees ultimately lies with the German government, but citizens also taking them into their homes would be a positive signal from civil society,” ten Feld said.
Germany is the preferred destination of immigrants who claim to be refugees, with 65,700 asylum claims in the first half of 2014, and France was the second preferred destination.
However Germany and France took in fewer refugees that Sweden, which has taken 21.3% of all “refugees” in Europe.
This may get made law in Germany, but there are very, very, few Germans who would actually move a complete stranger into their own homes.
The massive influx of non-European immigrants into European countries is gradually turning European natives into minorities into their own countries. They are unaware of the United Nations genocide laws which criminalizes any action or policy which deliberately causes “harm or destruction” of a group “in whole or in part”.
       
Posted: 20 Oct 2014 03:24 AM PDT


“I the LORD do not change!” said God as quoted from the Bible, Malachi 3:6, yet Pope Satan, oops Pope Francis says “God is not afraid of new things. The Catholic Church should not fear change.” And God said not once but many times in the Bible that Homosexuality is an “ABOMINATION” punishable by the death penalty: Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13, Genesis 19:1-11, Corinthians 6:9-11, 1 Timothy 1:8-10, Jude 7, Romans 1:18-32, etc
The Pope yesterday accused both traditionalists and liberals in the Roman Catholic Church of falling prey to temptation.
Pope Francis spoke of the failings of opposing wings of the Church following the end of the Rome synod on family life which left supporters of gay rights and divorcees disappointed.
In a speech delivered at the close of the gathering of 200 bishops he spoke of ‘moments of desolation, of tensions and temptations’ over the course of the two-week meeting.
The Pope’s hint of anger followed the failure of the synod to agree to acknowledge the ‘positive aspects’ of gay relationships or that homosexuals have ‘gifts and qualities’ to offer to Christians.
Liberal reforms to church doctrine which fell short of the two thirds majority needed for success in the meeting would also have opened the way for Catholics who are divorced and remarried to receive communion, the central sacrament of the church.
Traditionalists, the Pope said, risk a temptation of ‘hostile inflexibility’.
This meant ‘wanting to close oneself within the written word, and not allowing oneself to be surprised by God, by the God of surprises; within the law, within the certitude of what we know and not what we still need to learn and to achieve.
‘From the time of Christ, it is the temptation of the zealous, of the scrupulous, of the solicitous and of the so-called today traditionalists and also of intellectuals.’
But liberals, Pope Francis said, could fall into a temptation of a ‘destructive tendency to goodness’.
He said this ‘in the name of a deceptive mercy binds the wounds without first curing them and treating them; that treats the symptoms and not the causes and the roots.
‘It is the temptation of the do-gooders, of the fearful, and also of the so-called progressives and liberals.’
The Pope said the church must not be discouraged by temptation, adding: ‘Personally, I would be very worried and saddened if it were not for these temptations and these animated discussions.’
The attempt at liberal reform of the church’s teachings are part of Pope Francis’s attempt to steer the Vatican towards new thinking on gay rights and doctrine on marriage and the family.
Francis first made his direction clear in July, when he said that the church should regard homosexuals as ‘brothers’ and added: ‘If a person is gay and seeks God and has goodwill, who am I to judge him?’
A draft document produced by the synod said the church should ‘accept and value’ homosexuals. But this language disappeared from the final document approved by the bishops.
Instead, it said: ‘Men and women with homosexual tendencies should be accepted with respect and sensitivity. Any sign of unjust discrimination in their regard is to be avoided.’
The final paper also emphasised strongly that there was no change in the church’s attitude to gay relationships.
‘No grounds whatsoever exist for assimilating or drawing analogies, however remote, between homosexual unions and God’s design for matrimony and the family,’ it said.
Divorced and remarried Catholics were denied hopes of a reform that would approve their taking communion without any annulment of their first marriage.
The synod said ‘greater theological study’ and ‘further consideration’ were required.
The church does not recognise divorce so remarried Catholics are regarded as adulterers.
The route to approval of a remarriage is through annulment of the first, but the church’s procedures for allowing an annulment can be slow and complicated.
The bishops are to gather again at the Vatican next year to renew their deliberations. Pope Francis said the next synod would try ‘to find concrete solutions to so may difficulties and innumerable challenges that families must confront.’
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Posted: 20 Oct 2014 02:06 AM PDT


Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency (something similar to America’s CIA) says a local militia shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine in July, Der Spiegel reports. The BND is said to possess “ample evidence,” though none of it has been made public.
The statement was made on October 8, when Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) president Gerhard Schindler was holding a secret meeting with members of the parliamentary control committee, the German daily reported on Sunday.
He claimed the militia fired a rocket from a BUK defense missile system which it had captured from a Ukrainian base. It then exploded next to the plane, according to the report.
“Schindler provided ample evidence to back up his case, including satellite images and diverse photo evidence,” the report added.
However, no “evidence” has yet been made public, and the BND has not made any official statements on the matter.
At the same meeting, Schindler reportedly said that certain intelligence on the crash provided by the Ukrainian side was false, adding that “this can be explained in detail.” However, he did not give much credit to Russia’s evidence either.
The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office told the newspaper that an investigation has been launched into unknown perpetrators under the possibility that the downing had been a war crime.
First deputy prime minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Andrey Purgin, refuted claims made by the German intelligence agency. He told Interfax that Kiev forces could have downed the plane, mistaking it for a spy jet.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was heading from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was downed over eastern Ukraine on July 17, killing all 298 passengers and crew. Nearly two-thirds of the passengers were from the Netherlands.
The ongoing international probe led by the Dutch has not yet established who the perpetrators were. A preliminary report issued in September said only that the plane crashed as a result of structural damage caused by a “large number of high-energy objects” that struck from outside.
Political analyst Aleksandar Pavic told RT that he believes Berlin is trying to influence the Dutch investigation – the results of which are to be released next year.
“Germany has now the obligation to show the evidence to the official investigation,” he said. “This is like during trial: if you release bits and pieces of evidence before while the trial is still ongoing, you are trying to influence the outcome of the trial.”
Russia has been repeatedly denied accusations, mostly from the US, which claim that Moscow was connected to the tragedy in some way or another. The Russian Foreign Ministry has called Washington’s accusations “unsubstantiated innuendos.”
The US State Department has accused Russia of firing artillery across the border into Ukrainian territory after the plane crash.
“We have new evidence that the Russians intend to deliver heavier and more powerful rocket launchers to the separatist forces in Ukraine, and have evidence that Russia is firing artillery from within Russia to attack Ukrainian military positions,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters during a briefing in July. But she refused to provide any evidence when grilled by an Associated Press reporter.
Meanwhile, Moscow has posed a series of questions to the US that have been left unanswered. Russian military officials urged their US colleagues to release satellite images that prove their claims.
“If our US colleagues have imagery from this satellite, they should release it for the international community to examine it in detail. This may be a coincidence, but the US satellite flew over Ukraine at exactly the same time when the Malaysian airliner crashed,” a ministry spokesman said in a July statement.
The US has accused local militia forces of shooting down the plane. However, it has provided little to no evidence in support of such claims.
Following the crash, Harf was asked at a press briefing if the US could back up its claims regarding the role of such militias in the tragedy. Harf responded that she “can’t get into the sources and methods behind it” and “can’t tell you what the information is based on.”
In late July, the US State Department released satellite images via email, claiming the pictures acted as “evidence” that Russia was firing rockets at Ukrainian troops across the border. The images were posted on Twitter by the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the authenticity of the images was impossible to prove.
Meanwhile, Russia has said that its military detected a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter jet gaining height towards the MH17 Boeing on the day of the catastrophe. No explanation was given by Kiev as to why the military plane was flying so close to a passenger aircraft.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 08:33