Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Sunday, 26 October 2014

The European Union Times


Posted: 25 Oct 2014 06:42 AM PDT


Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party is being forced to adjust its political sails to the success of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which is campaigning for Britain to end its relationship with the European Union.
Opinion polls in the lead-up to next month’s by-elections indicate UKIP, with its pledge to tame immigration and exit the EU, winning the support of some 25 percent of voters.
In the ComRes survey, for example, UKIP came out ahead of the Conservatives among residents of Rochester, southeast of London, with some 40 percent of people who supported Cameron in 2010 saying they would now vote for UKIP.
The Euroskeptic party, under the leadership of Nigel Farage, surprised political observers in early October when Tory-defector Douglas Carswell won UKIP its first seat in parliament.
In response to the shakeup in British political sentiments, Jean-Claude Juncker, the incoming president of the European Commission, said he would not compromise in an “irresponsible way” on the question of “freedom of movement” on migrant workers from other EU member states.
“As far as [that] is concerned… I do think this is a basic principle of the EU since the very beginning and I am not prepared to change this because if we are destroying the freedom of movement other freedoms will fall in a later cause,” Juncker told a press conference on Wednesday at the European parliament in Strasbourg.
Meanwhile, another poll has shown that UK citizens may not be quite ready to abandon their relationship with the EU.
According to the Ipsos Mori poll, organized by the London Evening Standard, a hefty 56 percent of individuals polled said they would support UK membership, while 36 percent would opt to leave.
The results indicate Cameron’s efforts to address the question of immigration and EU membership, to be resolved by possible referendum, is working. Whether this will be enough to protect the Conservatives from the UKIP threat remains to be seen.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 06:25 AM PDT


Activists in Saudi Arabia are set to defy a no-women driving law by getting behind the wheel amid warnings of punishment by officials.
Saudi activists are encouraging women to drive themselves in public on Sunday on the anniversary of an October 26 campaign last year by female drivers in defiance of a driving ban in the kingdom.
In recent weeks, campaigners have been pushing on social media for women to get behind the wheel and post pictures or films online.
The call is part of a renewed right-to-drive campaign which is scheduled to culminate this weekend.
Saudi authorities have strongly warned women against any move which would violate the female driving ban.
In a statement on Thursday, Saudi Interior Ministry warned women against any move which violates the kingdom’s controversial ban on female driving and said it will “strictly implement” measures against anyone who “contributes in any manner or by any acts, towards providing violators with the opportunity to undermine the social cohesion.”
Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are prohibited from driving. The medieval ban is a religious fatwa imposed by the country’s Wahhabi clerics. If women get behind the wheel in the kingdom, they may be arrested, sent to court and even flogged.
Saudi authorities have defied calls by international rights groups to end what has been described as its violation of women’s rights.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 06:18 AM PDT


USAToday has put out a new article which maps the “Diversity Index” of the various States in America, from 1960 to 2010, with what they are predicted to become by 2060.
“This is just the beginning. Barring catastrophe or a door-slam on immigration…” the USAToday reporter wrote, “For the first time, non-Hispanic White students are in the minority…”
“We should be really happy that we have this large minority growth in the United States,” said a demographer from the Brookings Institution. Why should whites be “happy” with their own replacement in America, remains a mystery though…
William Frey, author of the unreleased book: “Diversity Explosion” said “This is everybody’s business to make sure we have a productive multi-ethnic population in the United States,”
“And we should be so thankful that they’re here, because if we didn’t have the immigration and the fertility of these groups in the last 20 years, we would be in the same situation as Japan or a lot of European countries, which are facing a declining labor force and an aging population.”
The US had been a majority white nation for many decades, but that started to change around 1970 when the white population was gradually pushed out of certain areas with massive immigration mostly coming from Mexico.
In 1950 the US was 90% white, today it is about 65%. The trend towards a White minority in America, and indeed many other European countries is not a coincidence, it’s a policy. It’s called “diversity” by the globalists but this policy is described as “genocide” according to the UN definition of genocide. By 2060 there will be states in the US that will have as much as 93% non-white population and only a tiny 7% non-Hispanic White population.
        
Posted: 25 Oct 2014 04:58 AM PDT
Italian demonstrators protest at government’s austerity measures in Rome.
Workers in Italy have staged a nationwide strike to protest against the government’s economic policies including cuts to public services and labor reforms.
On Friday, the USB union called the 24-hour walkout that so far has disrupted train services and local transport in several cities across the country including the capital, Rome.
The demonstrations are to express discontent with a new labor reform package presented by the administration of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
Under the initiative, procedures in Italy’s labor system will be simplified with aims to boost employment.
The new measures will also reduce a variety of job contracts and layoff benefits.
Proponents have applauded the approach, saying companies hiring young workers on a full-time basis will benefit from lighter taxation and will have a better chance to dismiss workers.
Meanwhile, opponents of the reform package say the move undermines the rights of the workers and fails to address the underlying causes of decades of economic stagnation.
Although official statistics indicate that the unemployment rate in Italy hovers over 12 percent, labor market experts insist that the situation is much more alarming.
Italy’s inactivity rate among those aged between 15 and 64 years has recently been recorded at nearly 40 percent.
Over the past decade, Italy has been the slowest growing economy in the eurozone as tough austerity measures, spending cuts, and pension changes have stirred serious concerns for many people already grappling with the European country’s ailing economy.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 02:40 AM PDT


After calling on Catholic Church to change and love homosexuality and divorce because God changed and he now loves them too, just a few days ago, now Pope Satan wants the world to end life in prison sentences! YES! You that’s right Pope Satan, oops Pope Francis wants to free all terrorists, serial killers, rapists, pimps, kidnappers, drug lords, ponzi scheme robbers who make billions of dollars from people and all sort of thugs! Yes no more life in prison, just give em a few years then set them free so they can freely rape and kill again! What the heck? Why not? They are human too, they have rights! It’s their right to kill whenever they want to… according to the Pope!
Not even the most disgusting and vile so-called Human Rights activists which advocates for breaking up families (divorce), men and women conflicts (feminism), baby murder (abortions), sexual abnormality (homosexuality), sexual abominations (transgender, gender change) and all sort of sick shit, would support such an imbecilic desire, to end life imprisonment.
Pope Francis has renewed the Catholic Church’s call to eliminate the death penalty, going one step further to blast life sentences and urge countries to prohibit the practice of transferring prisoners to torture centers.
Speaking to the International Association of Penal Law, Pope Francis called on countries to improve prison conditions, but also condemned the use of extraordinary rendition, in which individuals from one country are detained and transferred to another. Oftentimes, detainees are held in secret prisons and could be subjected to torture.
This practice was infamously employed by the CIA in the wake of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks, with the help of key allies. Francis also criticized those who helped facilitate the practice.
“These abuses will only stop if the international community firmly commits to recognizing… the principle of placing human dignity above all else,” he said.
The Pope added that people should continue the fight to end capital punishment.
“All Christians and men of good faith are therefore called upon today to fight, not only for the abolition of the death penalty – whether it is legal or illegal and in all its forms – but also to improve the conditions of incarceration to ensure that the human dignity of those deprived of their freedom is respected.”
Francis went on say that sentencing individuals to life in prison wasn’t any better, calling such penalties “a hidden death penalty.”
While his comments repeated well-established principles of the Catholic Church, the death penalty has generally received majority support in the United States. A new Gallup poll released Thursday showed that 63 percent of Americans support the sentence for people who are convicted of murder. While that is three points higher than it was in 2013, it is generally consistent with Americans’ view on the practice since 2008. Still, last year’s 60 percent support for execution was the lowest recorded in the US since 1972.
Finally, Francis questioned the practice of using prison time to punish children and others, saying jail cannot be a prescription for society’s problems.
“In recent decades a belief has spread that through public punishment the most diverse social problems can be resolved, as if different diseases could all be cured by the same medicine,” he said.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 20:15