Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Sunday 11 January 2015

The European Union Times


Posted: 10 Jan 2015 05:39 AM PST


A new lawsuit has revealed more details about former President Bill Clinton’s friendship with a fundraiser who was later jailed for having sex with an underage girl, including the fact that Clinton’s name was listed in the man’s phone book 21 times.
In the civil lawsuit complaint, Virginia Roberts alleges that she was used as a sex slave by Jewish billionaire hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein. She claims Epstein made her have sex with his political and business contacts, including on three occasions with British royal, Prince Andrew. The lawsuit also reveals Clinton took multiple trips between 2002 to 2005 to the billionaire’s private island in the Caribbean, where underage girls were reportedly kept hidden away.
Clinton severed his connections with Epstein once allegations over his illegal behavior surfaced and he was arrested back in 2005. Court documents indicate numerous phone numbers leading back to Clinton and his adviser Doug Band, though there is nothing to suggest the former president is linked to Epstein’s crime or that he did anything wrong.
RT asked Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel in Nevada, who knows Clinton, if there was any way the former president was unaware of what Epstein was doing.
“I don’t believe it’s possible,” Hof told RT’s Ben Swann. “It’s amazing this happened and came to light. I don’t think Bill Clinton would ever want to be involved with any underage girl, but the fact that it is happening in front of his eyes – and the Secret Service guys didn’t do anything about it – is shocking.”
The new complaint seeks to expand an ongoing lawsuit related to the prosecutor’s handling of Epstein’s case, and lawyers for Virginia Roberts floated the possibility of subpoenaing Clinton because he “might well be a source of relevant information” about Epstein’s activities.
The rape allegations first came to light in 2005, when Palm Beach police acted on a complaint from the parents of a 14-year-old girl who told them that a wealthy older man might have had inappropriate sexual contact with her. The girl – and other teenage girls as well – said a friend had arranged for them to visit the home of the man, identified as Epstein, and give him massages, usually in their underwear. In exchange, the girls received cash. Most the girls said Epstein masturbated during the massages and a few said he had penetrated them with his fingers or penis. The girls were paid $200 or more.
Those allegations – after attempts by Epstein’s lawyers to discredit the girls and a reluctance to pursue the case on the part of the local district attorney’s office and the Justice Department – eventually led to Epstein’s conviction. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution. He served 13 months in jail, and his name was added to the list of registered sex offenders.
Epstein also settled dozens of lawsuits brought by underage girls. At least seven girls received $1 million each.
While Clinton was never asked for a statement on the matter, lawyers obtained Epstein’s computerized phone directory, which included “e-mail addresses for Clinton along with 21 phone numbers for him, including those for his assistant (Doug Band),” according to a court filing.
“I give Bill Clinton a little bit of a pass,” Hof said, “because [Epstein] had other parties after this all happened, and who went to them? [George] Stephanopoulos, Katie Couric, Woody Allen – which is not a good sign, I guess – [and] Chelsea Handler. So it could be possible that Clinton did not know about this, but it’s hard to believe.”
Epstein’s own lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, who fought the original lawsuit, is also named in the new suit for allegedly sleeping with underage girls. Dershowitz who is also Jewish has denied his involvement and has threatened Roberts’ lawyers, Paul Cassell and Bradley Edwards, with disbarment.
“How does a lawyer rely on the statement of a woman who is a serial perjurer, serial liar, serial prostitute, and bring charges against somebody with an unscathed reputation like me without even checking?” Dershowitz said, according to CNN.
Dershowitz also dared the now-30-year-old plaintiff to make a public statement so that he could sue her for defamation.
Journalist Kambiz Shabankare, who has covered sex trafficking around the world, told RT that Dershowitz’s behavior is troublesome.
“What is bothering me about this case is blaming the victim,” he said. “We see that a lot. They’re starting to bully this woman. Ms. Roberts is an example of many of those victims. They can’t step forward. They can’t talk about their abusers. They can’t talk about what happened to them because they’re afraid.”
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Posted: 10 Jan 2015 03:29 AM PST



Just hours after a weird French Leftist publication was attacked by agitated Muslim terrorists, Britain’s Nigel Farage took the time to denounce the blatant failure of “multiculturalism” to win over the unwanted and uncontrollable aliens who have flooded into the West.
Featuring brief discussions on the insanity of open borders, and the ridiculous concept of a forced union of culturally-different countries, Farage then went further, blaming the Paris shootings, and other strikes within European nations, on a dangerous “fifth column” of traitors and subversives dwelling inside European confines, enabled by gross policies of tolerance to threaten the very existence of our societies.
While not particularly groundbreaking to those of us who fully comprehend the danger in our midst, the usual suspects, members of the above described fifth column, rapidly described Farage’s comments as being an example of “racism,” and sickening to “law-abiding and patriotic British Muslims,” an oxymoron if there ever was one.
Again, despite the seemingly watered down message contained within the words of Farage, and UKIP as a whole, to regular folks lacking an understanding of the issues, such remarks fall under the definition of “extremely hardcore” and revolutionary.
By addressing the obvious, we can gradually push the tide of conversation further, and by stopping the fatal hemorrhaging within the cities and towns we can buy ourselves enough time and space to deal with long-term problems.
Anything that advances even a small portion of our survival ideas is at this point a positive sign in the grand scheme of things. Like a dam that has sprung multiple leaks in its superstructure, our Western civilization is in dire need of patching if we intend it to survive for more than a few more decades.
        
Posted: 10 Jan 2015 02:52 AM PST


Russia has banned transsexual and transgender people from driving as they are deemed to have mental disorders which make them more likely to crash.
Also on the list of those prohibited from obtaining licences are exhibitionists, fetishists and voyeurs, with the government claiming it is tightening up controls to cut the number of accidents on the roads.
The shocking announcement follows international outrage at Russia’s position on homosexuality and its harassment of gay-rights activists prior to the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Russian psychiatrists and human rights lawyers have condemned the move, which also puts ‘pathological’ gamblers and compulsive thieves on the banned list.
Speaking to the BBC Russian Service, Valery Evtushenko at the Russian Psychiatric Association, voiced concern about the restrictions.
He claimed that some people would avoid seeking psychiatric help for fear of losing their licence.
And Mikhail Strakhov, a Russian psychiatric expert, said the definition of ‘personality disorders’ was far too vague, with many disorders listed not affecting a person’s ability to safely drive a car.
The Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights labelled the new law ‘discriminatory’.
It said it would demand further clarity from the Russian Constitutional Court while also seeking support from international human rights groups.
But the Professional Drivers Union supported the move, with the group’s chief Alexander Kotov, saying: ‘We have too many deaths on the road, and I believe toughening medical requirements for applicants is fully justified.’
Russia’s attitude to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens recently garnered fierce international criticism in the run up to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The world speculated as to how the country’s controversial ‘gay propaganda’ law would affect foreign athletes participating in the games and fans in attendance.
Human Rights First condemned the driving ban and put a statement on their website which read: ‘Banning people from driving based on their gender identity or expression is ridiculous and just another example of the Russian regime’s methodical rollback of basic human rights for its citizens.
‘Beyond the denial of basic freedoms, this provision may deter transgender people from seeking mental health services for fear of receiving a diagnosis that would strip them of their right to drive, and leaves the door open for increased harassment, persecution, and discrimination of transgender people by Russian authorities.
‘We urge the United States to immediately condemn this provision and to press the Russian government to repeal this decision.’
The resolution, which was developed by the Russian Ministry of Health, is the first of its kind to include these ‘mental disorders.’
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Posted: 10 Jan 2015 02:41 AM PST


Scientists have taken crucial steps in their quest for finding a remedy for HIV by finding clues about how the virus manages to evade detection after being suppressed by drugs.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, made the announcement on Wednesday after they analyzed blood samples from 25 patients with the human immunodeficiency virus, AFP reported.
After being treated by antiretroviral drugs, the sleeping virus harbors mutations that help it skirt detection by the immune system.
Now, scientists have voiced hope that the immune system can be trained to spot the peril and destroy it.
After the infection is rolled back, HIV hides in a component of the immune system, called memory CD4 T cells, lurking there to rebound once the therapy is stopped.
The research, originally published in the Nature journal, touches upon the “kick-and-kill” strategy.
“Our results suggest that luring HIV out of hiding is winning only half the battle,” said Robert Siliciano, a professor of molecular biology at the university, adding, “We found that these pools of dormant virus carry mutations that render HIV invisible to the very immune cells capable of disarming it, so even when the virus comes out of hiding, it continues to evade immune detection.”
Out of the 25 HIV+ patients the researchers studied at the university, 10 had undergone early therapy and 15 had started the drugs only after the virus entered a chronic stage.
Almost no mutations were detected in the virus inside the bodies of early initiators of the therapy, while the others had HIV stuffed with “escape mutations.”
Still, the virus had retained a tiny bit of its original viral protein, left non-mutated, in the bodies of the late initiators of the therapy.
Scientists exposed uninfected immune cells to the virus of both kinds and managed to kill 23 percent of the cells with escape mutations and 61 percent of the ones in the early initiators.
“It’s as if the immune system had lost its ability to spot and destroy the virus, but priming killer T cells that recognize a different, non-mutated portion of HIV’s protein reawakened that natural killer instinct,” Siliciano said.
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Posted: 10 Jan 2015 02:04 AM PST


The leader of France’s rightwing Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen, has asked French President Francois Hollande to suspend the visa-free Schengen Area in Europe and strip dual nationals of their French citizenship if they carry out “barbaric crimes.”
“I expressed to the president the absolute necessity…to immediately suspend Schengen to be able to control our borders as an essential element in the fight against terrorism, and also the fight against arms trafficking,” Le Pen told reporters following a meeting with Hollande on Friday.
The Schengen Area consists of 26 European countries that have abolished passport and any other type of border controls. The agreement allows for both freedom of movement for both European citizens, Schengen visa holders and those who can travel in the area visa-free. Freedom of movement is considered “a fundamental right” guaranteed by the EU to its citizens.
Four EU states however, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus and Romania, are yet to join the area despite being obliged to do so, sometimes due to resistance from other EU states.
Le Pen also turned her eye to the issue of dual-nationals who have been suspected of engaging in terror-related activities at home or abroad, saying such individuals should be stripped of their French citizenship.
“I also expressed the necessity – in another inevitable way – of measures for the removal or the forfeiture of citizenship for all of those who have dual citizenship who have left to train or fight in a foreign country, and then come back to our territory, to commit barbaric crimes, which seems to be the case with these two murderers who are currently in the process of being chased,” she said.
The measure would put France in line with the United Kingdom, where Home Secretary Theresa May currently has the power to strip foreign born terror suspects of their British citizenship if they possess another citizenship.
Hollande has yet to react to Le Pen’s proposals.
Le Pen made waves on Thursday by expressing her support for the death penalty, saying she would organize a referendum to reintroduce it if elected president in 2017.
Following Wednesday’s deadly attack on the office of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris, Le Pen made a passionate speech against Islamic fundamentalism, which she called an “odious ideology.”
While Hollande has called for national unity following the tragedy, Le Pen has openly pinned the attack on “radical Islam.”
“Time is up for denial and hypocrisy,” she said. “The absolute rejection of Islamic fundamentalism must be proclaimed loudly and clearly.”
Critics have accused Le Pen of ratcheting up anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiments for political purposes.
France is home to Europe’s largest Muslim population, with nearly five million people practicing Islam out of a population of roughly 65 million.
As the president of FN, Le Pen has vowed to drastically curb immigration if elected president.
According to the latest opinion polls, if France were to hold its presidential election today, Le Pen would lead in the first round.
The French presidential election is set to be held in April and May 2017.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 10:37