The European Union Times |
- Putin Orders Special Forces To Protect Greek Leaders Life “At All Costs”
- Russia increases gold purchases by 123%
- Vaccine Death Toll Rises – Special Report
- Scientists produce bio-fuel from algae
- Rap mogul ‘Suge’ Knight arrested for murder after fatal LA hit-and-run
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Posted: 31 Jan 2015 12:26 PM PST
 A stunning new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) states that President Putin has ordered an immediate deployment of at least 125 special forces operatives to Greece to “insure the protection of life at all costs” of that nations new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. [Photo left] According to this report, Prime Minister Tsipras took office this past week after his Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party won a “blowout” election victory sending shockwaves through the corridors of power in both the European Union and the United States. Upon taking office, this report continues, Prime Minister Tsipras further “shocked and stunned” both the EU and US by holding his first official government meeting with Ambassador of Russia to Greece Andrey Maslov. Compelling Prime Minister Tsipras to first meet with Ambassador Maslov, this report says, were fears that his life was in immediate danger from both the EU and US due to intelligence reports he’d received within hours of taking office provided to him by his own nations National Intelligence Service (EYP). Though this MoFA report doesn’t say what the exact fears of Prime Minister Tsipras or the EYP, were, it does state that were of such a magnitude that Ambassador Maslov, acting on his own authority, ordered an immediate attachment of his own personal protection detail to that of the new Greek leader own security forces.  In addition to those special forces authorized by Ambassador Maslov to protect Prime Minister Tsipras, this report states, President Putin’s new order authorizes a further deployment to Greece of Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR RF) operatives and a contingent of specialists from the Psychological Security Department (PSD) of the Presidential Security Service (SBP). Important to note, MoFA experts in this report say, is that the PSD is the intelligence branch of SBP that is responsible for analyzing information collected of the options about the lives risk of the President. The PSD further mixes several selected intelligence experts from the Military Intelligence, Federal Internal Security and the Foreign Intelligence into one branch and their orders to help protect the life of Prime Minister Tsipras are authorized under the Law on Foreign Intelligence that allows them to conduct joint operations with foreign security services. Also to be noted, this MoFA report says, is that the Federations assisting in the protection of Prime Minister Tsipras’ life is fully compatible with normal diplomatic functions as an historic obligation between Greece and Russia has long existed since diplomatic relations between the two nations have been in force since 1828, and both nations share strong social, religious and cultural ties. Most astounding, perhaps, in this report is its detailing that Prime Minister Tsipras, nearly immediately upon his receiving Russian special forces protection, fired his first shot against both the EU and US banking oligarchs by publishing an open letter to the German people that, in brief part, said: “My party, and I personally, disagreed fiercely with the May 2010 loan agreement not because you, the citizens of Germany, did not give us enough money but because you gave us much, much more than you should have and our government accepted far, far more than it had a right to. Money that would, in any case, neither help the people of Greece (as it was being thrown into the black hole of an unsustainable debt) nor prevent the ballooning of Greek government debt, at great expense to the Greek and German taxpayer.”  Following this open letter, this report continues, Prime Minister Tsipras “went nuclear” and declared that Greece that will not cooperate with the ‘troika’ [European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund] of international lenders, and does not plan to seek an extension for its aid package which is set to expire at the end of February. In striking back against Greece, however, this report says, German Chancellor Angela Merkel angrily replied that Greece could expect no further debt relief from the West’s banking oligarchs, a stance, mind you, that was countered by Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov stating that if Greece asked for loans the Federation would be inclined to give them. Most critical to note, this report concludes, is that Greece doesn’t need Europe’s or America’s money to keep its budget afloat anymore, but Europe needs Greece’s money to keep its banks afloat. However, and should Greece fully break with the EU and the Euro, both the Federation and the New Development Bank (NDB) [formerly referred to as the BRICS Development Bank] are able and willing to help Greece helping it escape Western domination. And going from the truly ominous to the absolutely scary implications of this MoFA report, though not directly contained in it, is an interview given this past week by former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dr. Paul Roberts who stated that the machinations being undertaking by the EU and US in both Greece and Ukraine were going to allow President Putin to crush both the West and NATO by destroying their oligarch banking system, and as we can, in part, read: “…right now there are a great many things in the financial system that can blow up but the real blow up is going to require flight from the dollar and the euro. Once that happens, they can’t bail out the banks, the derivatives or the sovereign bonds.Source           |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2015 12:09 PM PST
 The Central Bank of Russia bought a record amount of gold in the first 11 months of 2014 spending an estimated $6.1 billion. Increasing gold reserves attempts to reduce dependence on the dollar amid geopolitical tension, Mark O’Byrne of GoldCore, told RT. Russia’s gold purchases accounted for a third of the world’s total of 461 tons, according to research by Thomson Reuters GFMS (Gold Fields Mineral Services). The amount of gold bought went up 123 percent from the previous year to 152 tons, worth $6.1 billion at current prices. It’s the most Russia has spent since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Given the tension between the US and Russia, it’s more likely Russia will sell dollar assets and buy gold, said O’Byrne. “That will be done both to protect the ruble and potentially to position the ruble as a reserve currency in the long-term, but also as a signal to Washington,” he said, adding that it’s almost like a geopolitical move showing that Russia has a monetary and financial alternative and it can retaliate if economic sanctions were to deepen. On Thursday EU foreign ministers decided to prolong sanctions against Russian officials and the militias in eastern Ukraine until September 2015, but decided against broadening the list of economic restrictions. A final decision is expected in February.  “Increasing the share of gold in foreign exchange reserves is not a short-term speculation, it’s a long-term diversification,” O’Byrne said. Analysts from GFMS partially attribute the increase in Russian gold purchases to the buying of the metal from domestic production that increased 9 percent year-on-year. At the same time, it won’t be easy to sell these volumes overseas due to sanctions, they say. “This is a clear positive for the gold price,” said Matthew Turner, analyst at Macquarie, as quoted by the FT. “If central banks had not purchased that gold it would have been bought by private investors or jewelry consumers, and this would likely have required a lower gold price.” The current spot price for gold is $1,263 per ounce which is below the recent five-month record of $1,300. The research forecasts that soon Russia may slow global gold purchase rates and enter the sales market to sell its reserves in order to support the national currency. During the crisis of 1998, Russia had to sell 118 tons of gold reserves to cover fiscal deficits. At the same time, the current situation is not as dramatic as Russian foreign exchange reserves are valued at $378.1 billion. “We are still a long way off Russia needing to sell gold,” said Turner. Russia was the second biggest gold producer in 2014. Last year it extracted 272 tons of gold, outstripped by China with 465.7 tons, and just ahead of Australia producing 269.7 tons. Source      |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2015 11:46 AM PST
CDC refuses to revise vaccine guidelines as it runs cover for big pharma. The flu vaccine has claimed another child and the Disneyland measles outbreak is being blamed on the unvaccinated but the system cannot explain away fully vaccinated people coming down with and even spreading the flu. The vaccine hoax is starting fail. Infowars reporter Rob Dew covers this and looks at European studies revealing that our CDC refuses to revise vaccine guidelines as it runs cover for big pharma. Source      |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2015 10:54 AM PST
 A common algae used in making fish food has been found to be a potential source for both biodiesel and jet fuel, according to a new study. Researchers exploited chemical compounds found in commercially-grown algal species, Isochrysis, to synthesize the two different fuel products in parallel, a study published in the Energy & Fuels journal said. “It’s novel…. It’s far from a cost-competitive product at this stage, but it’s an interesting new strategy for making renewable fuel from algae,” said the study’s lead author, Greg O’Neil of Western Washington University in the US state of the same name. The scientists began their study by converting the algae’s fatty acids into fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs), which are the molecules in biodiesel. Isochrysis was also found to produce alkenones, which researchers believe hold potential as a fuel source. “The alkenones themselves, with long chains of 37 to 39 carbons, are much too big to be used for jet fuel,” O’Neil said, explaining that after cleaving carbon-carbon double bonds into pieces with only 8 to 13 carbons, “those are small enough to use for jet fuel.” Scientists hope that by producing two fuels, biodiesel and jet fuel, from a single alga, commercialization is possible in the future. “It’s scientifically fascinating and really cool…. This alga has got much greater potential, but we are in the nascent stages,” said researcher, Chris Reddy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in the US state of Massachusetts. Source      |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2015 10:49 AM PST
 The founder of one of America’s biggest record labels has been arrested for murder. Marion ‘Suge’ Knight, the creator of Death Row Records, is being held following a fatal hit-and-run incident in Los Angeles. Sergeant Diane Hecht from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Knight was arrested at 03:00 local time and is being detained at West Hollywood sheriff’s station on $2 million bail. The music producer handed himself into police earlier Friday and was interviewed by detectives. Police were treating the incident as homicide, in which one man was killed and another left needing hospital treatment after a red pick-up truck struck the men, ages 51 and 55, on Thursday afternoon in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant in the district of Compton. Lieutenant John Corina, from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, said: “Looks like he drove backward and struck the victims and drove forward and struck them again. The people we talked to say it looked like it was an intentional act.” A witness, who saw Knight involved in a quarrel with two men said, “To see the argument happen, it’s one thing,” 17-year-old Robert Smith, who was eating in the restaurant. “Seeing the car incident, that was shocking,” AP reported. Knight’s lawyer, James Blatt, said he ran over a friend who died from his injuries, and another man who was taken to hospital as he tried to flee attackers. “We are confident that once the investigation is completed, he will be totally exonerated,” Blatt told AP by telephone. “He was in the process of being physically assaulted by two men and in an effort to escape he unfortunately hit two [other] individuals,” the lawyer said. “He was in his car trying to escape,” his attorney added. In August, Knight, who helped to develop the careers of music legends Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, was shot six times at a MTV awards party in Los Angeles. He was released from hospital just three days later. He also suffered gunshot wounds in 2005, at a party hosted by rapper Kanye West. Source     |
