Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thursday 4 December 2014

The European Union Times



Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:48 PM PST
Zaporozhskaya nuclear plant
There has been an accident at a nuclear plant in the southeast of Ukraine, Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk has revealed during the first session of his new Cabinet.
A minor accident occurred at Zaporozhskaya nuclear plant, the largest in Europe, last Friday, according to the facility’s website. A reactor was switched off and put to maintenance as a result.
The incident was not made public until Wednesday, when PM Yatsenyuk asked the energy minister to report on what happened and how the ministry is handling the situation.
Ukraine’s energy minister, Vladimir Demchyshyn, said that the accident posed no risk.
“There is no threat … there are no problems with the reactors,” Demchyshyn said at briefing, adding the accident affected the power output system and “in no way” was linked to power production itself.
Demchyshyn said that the reactor would be restarted December 5.


The accident left several dozen towns and villages without electricity, Russian media reported, citing local officials.
Four more reactors at the plant remain operational, according to the facility’s website. One is undergoing planned repairs.
Zaporozhskaya first reactor came on line in November 1984. Within the course of the next 10 years, five more reactors were brought into operation. The plant currently produces one-fifth of Ukraine’s electricity.
The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told Reuters it had no comment to make on the Zaporoshskaya accident so far.
An international convention, adopted after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, obliges countries to notify the IAEA of any nuclear accident that can affect other countries.
On verge of energy crisis
The accident at Zaporozhskaya nuclear plant has contributed to the energy shortage Ukraine is currently witnessing, as its fossil power plants are running out of coal.
National energy company Ukrenergo has recently launched emergency power cuts all over the country to help sustain energy. The company reported that current coal stockpiles in the east are only enough for four more days.
The Ukrainian energy minister has announced the country’s consumers could experience two-hour blackouts. He has though admitted he would prefer Ukrainian enterprises to voluntarily limit their energy consumption and to switch to night production, if that is possible.
“We will try to do our best to smoothen the schedule of energy use,” Demchyshyn said.
Dozens of coalmines have been closed in the Donetsk and the Lugansk Regions due to continued fighting between Kiev troops and anti-government forces there.
Demchyshyn has acknowledged the country needs to start buying energy from Russia.
“I know negotiations are under way on the import of energy,” he said. “I am certain that… this is a necessary step. However difficult it might be politically, this is a necessary step.”
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Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:27 PM PST
Ali al-Hasanat, a Jordanian man, has been put in prison for threatening to blow up the Australian embassy in Amman.
A Jordanian man has been put in prison for threatening to blow up the Australian embassy in Amman and kill tourists from Australia.
The charge sheet said that in January, Ali al-Hasanat, posted a message on his Facebook page addressed to the Australian embassy in Amman, “threatening to blow it up.”
The 37-year-old was accused of using the Internet “to carry out activity that could expose Jordan to acts of aggression.”
He was deported from the Gold Coast in August last year. While in Queensland, he received more than 30 criminal convictions for reasons including drug dealing and breaching court orders.
His Facebook profile has shown him making threats against the Australian government and posting pictures of himself showing young children how to hold machine guns and pistols.
Jordan recently jailed a number of people for having joined the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group or spreading propaganda in its favor.
In November, a court in the country handed down jail terms to five people for being members of the group and promoting it on the Internet.
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Posted: 03 Dec 2014 01:44 PM PST


A white male was attacked in his car around 1:15 AM Sunday morning in the south side of St. Louis by black teenagers. They began damaging his car. When he got out of his car they smashed his face in with a hammer and killed him. Police nabbed two black teens aged 15 and 16. Two more suspects are being sought. Police say one of the remaining suspects may be Latino.
The victim was hit in the face multiple times and also the abdomen. Police say two different hammers were used. He died of his wounds in the hospital.
The victims is Zemir Begic, 32, a Bosnian who had just moved to the city. St. Louis has one of the largest Bosnian communities in the US. The media originally reported he was visiting from Miami. It appears he recently moved to the Bevo Mills neighborhood from Iowa.
Begic appears to have been attacked solely because he is white. Young blacks in Ferguson are being encouraged to commit racial violence by national organizations, including the Nation of Islam.
The media is treating this as “hush crime.” If the races had been reversed, it would be the single biggest news story in the USA right now. Instead, the media is not even reporting the race of the violent, at-large suspects. Political correctness take precedent over public safety in the media.
One thing that should be pointed out. In Minneapolis, Mike Brown supporters climbed onto an occupied SUV on a busy road. They started smashing windows and beating on the car. The driver took off to get away. The “mainstream” media then claim the driver “hit protesters with his car on purpose.” Well, this is what happened when someone didn’t hit the gas and speed off!
Brutal racist murder, the attackers were shouting “kill the white people” while beating Zemir Begic

St. Louis Mayor Slay once witnesses a racially motivated black on white mob attack and probably saved the victim’s life. However, now he is shamelessly downplaying the horrific lynching murder of Zemir Begic to curry favor with the media.
witness filmed Begic being taken away by paramedics. The witness saw the perps were yelling “f**k the white people” and “kill the white people” right before the attack. The chief of police would have known about this when he lied to the public and claimed the attacks were not racially motivated.
There were four white victims total. Zemir Begic’s aunt and wife were with him during the attack. Another white victim was attacked with hammers an hour earlier, but fought the attackers off. He only had cuts on his neck and arms.
Hours later a third suspect has been arrested. The suspects are all black males aged 15, 16 and 17.
Bosnian community in St. Louis comes out to protest


Over fifty members of the Bosnian Community gathered at the site of the murder this evening (Sunday). The crowd included Arijiana Begic, the victim’s wife. Police shut down traffic on Gravios Avenue because of the crowd. The murder took place near Bevo Mill, the main Bosnian area of St. Louis. In an attempt to diffuse tempers in the Bosnian community, St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson made the remarkably naive comment that there was no evidence to indicate the victim was chosen because he was Bosnian. Well, you don’t say! Does any reasonable person seriously think the perps checked the victim’s ethnicity any further than to notice that he was White! Mourners said they fled Bosnia to escape genocide in the 90s, and are now being killed by blacks. A 19 year old Bosniak was murdered in a racial hate crime by blacks last year.
        
Posted: 03 Dec 2014 10:49 AM PST


The US Army plans to bolster US armored presence and keep rotations of American troops in Eastern Europe to provide “deterrence against Russian aggression.”
Lt. Gen. Frederick “Ben” Hodges, the new Army commander in Europe, said that 100 Abrams tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles would be deployed into Eastern Europe.
“We are looking at courses of action for how we could pre-position equipment that we would definitely want to put inside a facility where it would be better maintained, that rotational units could then come and draw on it and use it to train, or for contingency purposes,” Hodges said in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Besides Lithuania, the United States is looking to position its armored vehicles in Estonia and Poland.
Hodges accused the Russian leaders of seeking to “plant the seeds of uncertainty so that [NATO] members lose confidence that the rest of the alliance would come to their aid if they were, in fact, attacked.”
The US officer, however, said that he did not believe Russia would launch “a conventional attack” into NATO territory because it would draw “an Article 5 response.”
Article 5 is a NATO treaty article that calls on all member states to respond to an attack on any member of the alliance.
During a visit to Kiev last week, NATO’s top military commander Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove raised the specter of “additional rotational presence” in Eastern Europe to help reassure NATO allies in the face of Russian operations in Ukraine.
“Additionally I’m having discussions with the service chiefs about the possibility of forward-based equipment and supplies, as the Army calls, them ‘activity sets’, in order to give us a more responsive capability if we were to need it in the future,” Breedlove stated.
Military tensions between NATO and Moscow have escalated steadily since April, when the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea reunited with the Russian Federation following a referendum a month earlier.
The United States accuses Russia of arming and supporting pro-Russian forces fighting in the predominantly Russian-speaking areas in eastern Ukraine. Moscow calls the accusations “groundless.”
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Posted: 03 Dec 2014 09:12 AM PST


Power is slowly returning to Detroit, Michigan, after a massive power outage on Tuesday morning left much of the Motor City in the dark.
As of 2:15 p.m., about 33 percent of the power outages had been restored, according to the Detroit Free Press, while the majority of city buildings should have electricity back by the evening. In a statement, the city said the power grid was shut down following a “major cable failure.”
“The city’s public lighting grid suffered a major cable failure that has caused the entire grid to lose power at approximately 10:30 this morning,” read the statement. “The outage is affecting all customers on the PLD grid. We have isolated the issue and are working to restore power as soon as possible.”
Spokespeople for the city and DTE Energy confirmed at around 11:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday that most of Detroit’s municipal grid is offline, preventing power from being delivered to police stations, schools, traffic lights and other city-run facilities and services.
Municipal buildings were being evacuated, WXYZ Radio anchor Alicia Smith tweeted early Tuesday, although eyewitnesses on the ground told her shortly after 11 a.m. that people were reportedly becoming stuck in elevators.
According to Smith, a spokesperson for the city of Detroit confirmed that most of the municipal power grid was down. Residential structures are apparently unaffected, and some of the emergency facilities — like fire stations — have back-up generators, a local Fox News affiliate reported.
“It looks like the entire Detroit Public Lighting system is down. Affecting about 100 buildings, places like The Joe, Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, fire stations, schools. We were notified about 10:30 a.m. We’re working with them to help resolve the situation. We’ll help investigate the problem and make repairs. It’s too early yet to determine what has caused the shutdown,” Scott Simons of DTE Energy Co. told the Detroit News.
Detroit Fire Chief Jack Wiley added to Fox 2 that every one of the city’s firehouse was experiencing outages early Tuesday. Around 50 buildings on the local Wayne State University campus were impacted as well, according to the college, and grade schools in the city were shutting down for the day.
“We have crisis plans in place. There are backup generators running in buildings, especially buildings with labs,” Tom Reynolds, associate director of public relations for Wayne State University, told Detroit News journalist Holly Fournier.
According to the paper, a high-profile murder-for-hire trial was interrupted due to the outages.
“This is unusual … it’s cold. They don’t own a generator? They should look into that,” one attendee at the proceedings told the News.
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