The European Union Times |
- US Fires Nuclear Missiles As Saudi Secret Deal Backfires
- Thousands evacuated as heavy flooding hits Gaza Strip
- New radiation belt protects Earth from Killer Electrons
- New graphene discoveries can lead to green energy revolution
- DNA discoverer James Watson forced to sell Nobel Prize medal
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Posted: 29 Nov 2014 02:37 PM PST
 An interesting Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report circulating in the Kremlin today on Moscow’s agreement to follow the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decision not to cut oil output says this action was met by an Obama regime “temper tantrum” resulting in the launching of three US Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBM) towards the Federations far eastern Pacific regions. According to this report, Aerospace Defense Forces (ADF) detected the launching of two of these US SLBM’s on Thursday following the conclusion of OPEC’s meeting in Vienna (Austria) where the decision not to cut oil production was made on that same day. Likewise, the ADF reports, a third US SLBM was launched earlier today just hours after First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov affirmed Moscow’s support of OPEC’s decision.  Major General Anatoly Nestechuk, the Deputy Chief of the ADF, this report continues, did report to the MoFA that the Obama regime gave a few hours notice prior to the launching of these SLBM’s, and further noted the fact that they were successfully detected illustrates the high combat readiness level and professionalism of his forces. To the true cause of the Obama regimes “temper tantrum” in launching these three SLBM’s [at a cost of over $130 million] against the Federation, MoFA analyst in this report say, was due to both US and EU oil companies losing over $100 billion of their value this past week because of OPEC and Russia’s decision not to cut global oil supplies.  But, this report states, the Obama regimes “childish anger” is entirely misdirected as the Americans have no one else to blame but themselves for the collapse of global oil prices due to the secret agreement they made with Saudi Arabia this past fall backfiring on them. As background for the US-Saudi secret agreement, this report notes, it began this past September when Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Saudi Arabia to make a deal for the American bombing of Syria, but which the Saudis would not consent to unless the Syrian regime of Assad was toppled too. Even worse, this report confirms, another part of this US-Saudi secret agreement was for the Saudis toincrease their output of oil to put political pressure on both Russia and Iran. The Saudis were at first stunned by this part of the US secret agreement, but became “quickly overjoyed” to comply with the US in increasing their oil output, MoFA analysts in this report point out, as it provided them with a solution to counter one of their largest competitors…the United States. As to how foolish the Obama regime was to use oil as a weapon against Russia via their secret agreement with Saudi Arabia can, perhaps, be best explained by the Zerohedge News Service who in their report on this American debacle wrote: “Who could have seen this coming? With oil prices holding at 4-year lows, heavily pressuring around half of US shale production economics, the “secret” US deal with Saudi Arabia to crush Russia via oil over-supply in a slumping demand world appears to be backfiring rapidly for John Kerry and his strategy team.Even worse for the Americans, this report warns, with global oil prices crashing below the production costs needed for their oil companies to profit from their Bakken shale oil reserves estimated to hold 24 billion barrels, Western Siberia’s Bazhenov shale oil reserves holding 1,920 billion barrels would then be able to expand and capture global market share well into this century, and beyond. With the US now standing to lose hundreds-of-thousands of good paying jobs in their oil industry due to their secret agreement with Saudi Arabia backfiring on them, this report says, Russia, on the other hand, with its billions of foreign exchange and gold reserves, combined with low debt, stands ready to except even the most brutal blow from the crashing price of oil. The same, however, cannot be said of the US, this report concludes, who just in the past 8 weeks had to borrow the staggering sum of over $ 1 Trillion in order to keep their ponzi scheme of an economy from outright collapsing. Source           |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2014 02:35 PM PST
 Among those affected on Saturday were families who had lost their homes during Israel’s 50-day summer war against the Palestinian enclave. “We have been homeless for more than three months. Now our suffering increased due to the heavy rain,” Na’eem Jendeya, a resident of Gaza City’s eastern neighborhood of Shuja’iyya, said. The Israeli war ended on August 26 with a truce that took effect after indirect negotiations in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. The onslaught killed nearly 2,140 Palestinians and injured thousands of others. According to initial figures, nearly 89,000 Palestinian homes have been damaged in the Israeli military campaign against the Gaza Strip. A total of 15,000 homes have been either leveled to the ground or badly damaged that are no more habitable. On November 27, The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a statement that hundreds of residents in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City had been evacuated due to the rise of a “storm water lagoon” in the area. It further said the flooding had caused the closure of 63 schools across Gaza City and 43 schools across the northern Gaza Strip. “The flooding is exacerbating the already dire humanitarian situation in Gaza caused by blockade and the unprecedented destruction from the latest Israeli offensive,” the UN agency said. The agency further noted that it was “providing emergency fuel to supply back-up generators for pumping stations, portable pumps, municipalities, water, sanitation and health facilities.” Source      |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2014 02:34 PM PST
 Surrounded by radiation belts, Earth is being protected by an invisible shield that stops high-speed “killer electrons,” scientists have found after taking a closer look at the Van Allen belt 7,200 miles above our planet. “Somewhat like the shields created by force fields on Star Trek that were used to repel alien weapons, we are seeing an invisible shield blocking these electrons,” the study’s lead author, Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics explained. “It’s an extremely puzzling phenomenon.” This previously unknown phenomenon has been discovered by probes aimed at examining the so-called Van Allen belts, zones of donut-shaped rings around our planet. Until March 2013, scientists assumed there were only two belts, filled with high-energy electrons and protons, surrounding Earth. However, a NASA-launched probe detected that there was a third belt in between the two. The outer Van Allen belt is about 25,000 miles (40, 000 km) above the Earth, while the inner one can dip as low as 600 miles, close to the plasmasphere. The newly discovered barrier is 7,200 miles or 11, 500 km above Earth. But it seems to fluctuate in response to space weather. These “killer electrons” travel at near light-speed of around 100,000 miles per second and are capable of damaging space electronics and can put astronauts in danger. But this third belt stops them from moving towards Earth’s atmosphere. “It’s almost like these electrons are running into a glass wall in space,” Baker said. Previously the team thought the electrons drifted into Earth’s upper atmosphere, where they were wiped out by air molecules. Baker’s colleague on the study, co-author and associate director of MIT’s Haystick Observatory, John Foster, says: “It’s like looking at the phenomenon with new eyes, with a new set of instrumentation, which give us the detail to say, ‘Yes, there is this hard, fast boundary.’” Scientists have also looked at a number of scenarios that could create and maintain such a barrier. The team initially thought that the barrier was created by the Earth’s magnetic fields, which exist to send protons and electrons back and forth from one magnetic pole to another. It was mooted that Earth’s manmade communications could be creating some type of scattering effect. Baker believes both explanations don’t hold any water and that the key to understanding the barrier will lie in closer, thorough studies of the Van Allen belts. “I think the key here is to keep observing the region in exquisite detail, which we can do because of the powerful instruments on the Van Allen probes. If the sun really blasts Earth’s magnetosphere with a coronal mass ejection (CME), I suspect it will breach the shield for a period of time,” Baker adds. His work was published in the November 27 issue of the journal Nature. Atheists in their ignorance can believe that the Earth “evolved” these belts by itself just to protect us. That’s why the existence of these belts specifically built to protect life on Earth, is “puzzling” to them. Scientists always study things from an evolutionist perspective because should they dare to study and research from a neutral perspective, their careers will end immediately. Today’s so-called science is pre-set, almost like a template based on anti-Creation prejudiced ideas. Source      |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2014 02:33 PM PST
 Positively charged hydrogen atoms or protons are allowed to pass through graphene although it remains totally impermeable to all other gases, including hydrogen itself, said a report by The Independent on Wednesday. The new finding could significantly increase the efficiency of fuel cells that generate electricity directly from hydrogen. The discovery means hydrogen fuel could probably be extracted from air and burned as a carbon-free source of energy in a fuel cell so as to produce electricity and water with no harmful waste products. “In the atmosphere there is a certain amount of hydrogen and this hydrogen will end up on the other side [of graphene] in a reservoir. Then you can use this hydrogen-collected reservoir to burn it in the same fuel cell and make electricity,” said Professor Sir Andrei Geim of Manchester University. Grapheme is the thinnest known material, a million times thinner than human hair, yet it is more than 200 times stronger than steel. The one-atom thick material has astounded scientists multiple times since its discovery 10 years ago. Allowing protons through is not a practical possibility, yet its formation of an impenetrable barrier to other atoms and molecules is considered the breakthrough. “There have been three or four scientific papers before about the theoretical predictions for how easy or how hard it would be for a proton to go through graphene and these calculations give numbers that take billions and billions of years for a proton to go through this same membrane,” Geim said. “It’s just so dense an electronic field it just doesn’t let anything through. But it’s a question of numbers, no more than that. This makes a difference between billions of years and a reasonable time for permeation. There is no magic.” Source      |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2014 02:28 PM PST
 “Because I was an ‘unperson’ I was fired from the boards of companies, so I have no income, apart from my academic income,” said the scientist of the aftermath of the incident seven years ago, which forced him to retire from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he had worked for four decades. “No one really wants to admit I exist,” he told the Financial Times. Despite his reduced circumstances, Watson has not been invited to give public lectures since 2007, the American scientist is not living his life out in poverty. He said he plans to donate some of the proceeds of the sale of the medal to the “institutions that have looked after me,” including his alma mater, the University of Chicago, and Cambridge, where he met laboratory partner Francis Crick, with whom he shared the Nobel Prize. The 86-year-old Watson also plans to purchase art. “I really would love to own a [painting by English painter David] Hockney.” The reserve price for the medal, which will be auctioned off at Christie’s in New York on Thursday, is $2.5 million, and there has been speculation that the final value could easily surpass $3 million. Crick’s medal – auctioned off last year to Jack Wang, a relatively obscure Shanghai biotech entrepreneur – fetched about $2.3 million.  “I think the guy is the greatest living scientist. There are a lot of personalities in history we’d find fault with – but their discoveries transcend human foibles,” Wahlgren added. The sale of Nobel Prizes is a recent phenomenon, with Watson’s being only the fourth to go on sale – and the first while the recipient is still alive. The medal awarded to Aage Bohr, the son of Niels, in 1975, attracted a winning bid of about $50,000 in 2012. Notably, American writer William Faulkner’s 1950 medal failed to pass the reserve price at an auction last year. But for Watson, this is not just a chance to acquire money, but also to “re-enter public life.” “I’ve had a unique life that’s allowed me to do things. I was set back. It was stupid on my part. All you can do is nothing, except hope that people actually know what you are.” Despite a long-standing reputation as an outspoken scientist who sometimes professed eccentric views, such as those linking sunlight and libido, Watson’s downfall was swift. In October 2007, Watson said to the Sunday Times that he was “gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says not really.” He later waded into even more dangerous territory, suggesting that anecdotal reports said that black employees were less intelligent, and that there were no talented black scientists who could be recruited to work in his laboratory. While Watson’s racial theories of IQ have some academic support, such as in Richard J. Herrnstein’s and Charles Murray’s controversial book ‘The Bell Curve,’ this remains one of the most contentious areas of scientific research. Following Watson’s crude remarks, most of the scientific community turned on him, accusing him of prejudice. It is a charge he rejects to this day. “I am not a racist in a conventional way,” he told the Financial Times. “I apologize…the [Sunday Times] journalist somehow wrote that I worried about the people in Africa because of their low IQ and you’re not supposed to say that.” Source     |
