Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Sunday 15 March 2015

The European Union Times



Posted: 14 Mar 2015 10:50 AM PDT


The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that the Federation is now in a “state of war” thus bringing to full activation President Putin’s “Dead Hand” nuclear order issued 29 July 2014 to The Strategic Missile Forces (SMF).
According to this report, the full activation of the much feared “Dead Hand” nuclear option was authorized under President Putin’s previous order due to the discovery that the nuclear forces of the United Kingdom (UK) were preparing a first strike against military and civilian targets located in the Federation.
The intention of the nuclear forces of the UK preparing a first strike against the Federation, this report says, was revealed by Federal Security Services (FSB) electronic intelligence experts working in conjunction withKaspersky Lab who discovered last month a massive US National Security Agency (NSA) cyber espionage programme targeting not just Russia, but everyone else on Earth.
Both the FSB and Kaspersky Lab experts, the MoD reports, were able to swiftly reverse engineer the computer code(s) involved in this massive NSA spying operation which then enabled them to electronically obtain the launching codes and coordinates of all the UK’s nuclear weapons showing their plan to launch a first strike against the Federation during the week of 15 March.
Though information of this highly successful FSB-Kaspersky Lab intelligence operation has been suppressed in the West, some counter-news of it has been reported by a few technical websites, including The Verge which in their article reported yesterday titled “A Network Error Routed Traffic For The UK’s Nuclear Weapons Agency Through Russian Telecom”, in part, says:
“For the past week, something strange has been going on in the European internet. For five days, web traffic from Texas to certain addresses in the UK has been routed through Ukrainian and Russian telecoms, taking a detour thousands of miles out of the way. Network traffic often takes a circuitous route as a result of network congestion or interconnection difficulties, but neither one would be enough to account for these routes. Instead, this was the result of a bad route announced by Ukraine’s Vega telecom, inserting itself in between.
It’s particularly disconcerting because of the sensitive nature of many of the sites involved. Among the dozens of sites involved was the UK’s Atomic Weapons Establishment, which is tasked with managing and delivering the UK’s nuclear warheads, as well as the UK’s official mail service, the Royal Mail. US defense contractor Lockheed Martin was also running a VPN connection that was caught up in the redirection.”
Upon the MoD’s confirmation of the UK’s intention to launch a nuclear first strike against the Federation, this report continues, Russian military forces throughout the country were immediately activated with a special emphasis placed upon massive rocket-artillery maneuvers on the southern borders.
Foreign Minister Lavrov, this report notes, further warned the West this week that Moscow would respond to NATO “in an adequate way” as thousands of Norwegian troops neared the Russian border this week preparing for the influx of a US Marine Expeditionary Brigade, estimated to number between 14-18,000, whose tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, ammunition and battle equipment have flooded into Norway this past year.
The MoD also in this report states that the Ministry for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters (EMERCOM) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) previously issued an immediate travel ban on firefighters, ambulance drivers rescue troopers, tens of thousands of police officers, prison guards, and other law enforcement agencies who are deemed critically needed during times of war.
Also to be noted, though not contained in this MoD report, are reports from London that Russian personnel and officers have evacuated their embassy and that a mass of activity is now being reported throughout Moscow, especially in and around Red Square.
As President Putin, top political officials and military leaders are now under MoD “protection”, other reports (of unknown quality) state that the Kremlin has also “advised” journalists not to leave Moscow and to prepare for a “major announcement” over the next few days.
Though not specifically stated in this MoD report, but strongly eluded to, are that crisis negotiations between Moscow and the West are currently ongoing and have led within the past few hours to NATO’s Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, stating that the alliance does not plan to interfere in the conflict in east Ukraine…”Ukraine is not a member of NATO, so there is a difference between Ukraine and NATO members, because the security guarantee is for NATO allies.”
This NATO “assurance”, however, may do little to calm this crisis and avert nuclear war after the Federation’s Investigative Committee launched a criminal case against Robert Scales, a retired US major general and a Fox News military analyst, who said in a live broadcast this week that the only way for the US to turn the tide in Ukraine is to start killing Russians… “It is Game, Set and Match in Ukraine. The only way the US can have any effect in this region and turn the tide is to start killing Russians. Killing so many Russians that even Putin’s media can’t hide the fact that Russians are returning to the Motherland in body bags.”
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Posted: 14 Mar 2015 09:51 AM PDT
The picture shows a computer illustration of a chameleon-like artificial “skin” developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley.
​Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a super thin material that can be made to change color on demand when a minute amount of force is applied.
“This is the first time anybody has made a flexible chameleon-like skin that can change color simply by flexing it,” said Connie J Chang-Hasnain, member of the Berkeley team and co-author of the paper published on Friday in Optica, the Optical Society’s (OSA) new journal.
The hues that are typically seen in fabrics, paints, and other natural substances, occur when the unique chemical composition of each surface absorbs or reflects various bands, or wavelengths, of light.
Engineers, inspired by the nature, have thus found a new approach to changing the color of a surface, without altering the chemical composition of a material.
“If you have a surface with very precise structures, spaced so they can interact with a specific wavelength of light, you can change its properties and how it interacts with light by changing its dimensions,” Chang-Hasnain explained.
The novel chameleon-like material has been created like an incredibly thin and perfectly flat “skin,” which is easy to manufacture with the preferred surface properties.
The “skin” offers fascinating possibilities for a completely new class of display technologies, color-shifting camouflage, and sensors that can detect indiscernible defects in buildings, bridges, and the wings of airplanes.
“The next step is to make this larger-scale and there are facilities already that could do so,” Chang-Hasnain stated, adding, “At that point, we hope to be able to find applications in entertainment, security, and monitoring.”
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Posted: 14 Mar 2015 09:16 AM PDT



I’ve been wondering why David Cameron has been running down the British armed forces and why he refused to commit to spending targets in our islands.
I think Mr Juncker has given the answer. We’re going to do it at EU level. We’re going to have a European army.
Now when I raised this last year with British Deputy Prime Minister Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg he said it was a dangerous fantasy to talk about a European army, an EU army.
Everyone has heard the leader of the European Liberals Guy Verhofstadt crying out for militarisation at EU level. Of course the truth is it is already happening. We already have a European Defence Agency. We have EU battle groups on active service all over the world. We already have an EU navy active against the Somali pirates, and who can forget Euro Corps here in Strasbourg last year virtually goose stepping that ghastly flag around the courtyard outside.
And of course the Lisbon treaty article 28 provides for all of this. Tony Blair was right. He said: “The European Union is not a project about peace, it’s a project about power.” And I think Mr Juncker is trying to seize an opportunity. We ourselves in the European Union provoked the conflict through our territorial expansionism in the Ukraine. We poked the Russian bear with a stick, and unsurprisingly Putin reacted. But this now is to be used as an opportunity to build a European army.
The opportunity is being seized. And Mr Juncker said we must convey to Russia that we are serious. Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Juncker? We do not want any part of an EU army and I doubt the rest of the peoples of Europe do either. Thank you.
[following a question from a Romanian Socialist MEP, Nigel Farage responded]
We through our territorial ambitions provoked the overthrown of an albeit corrupt but democratically-elected leader in the Ukraine. We have provoked this crisis. Now, the question you ask is, “What do we do from here?”
I was in this chamber at the time when Libya was attacked. I heard the Liberals and the Greens scream, frothing at the mouth, for us to bomb Libya, for us to become militarily involved because we believed that would make things better.
My view, Sir, is that if you look at Afghanistan, if you look at Iraq, if you look at Libya, and you look at the attempt to back the rebels in Syria, many of whom have now morphed into Isis, we see that our recent foreign military interventions have made things worse not better.
– Nigel Farrage, in the European Parliament
Earlier today, the leader of Britain’s UKIP, an eloquent wordsmith and member of the EU Parliament, Nigel Farage, unleashed one of his most memorable and finest diatribes in recent years. While the topic of conversation was the recent push for an “EU Army,” at its core the conversation was really about the simmering catalyst for World War III, which continues to be dangerously provoked in Ukraine.
        
Posted: 14 Mar 2015 09:09 AM PDT


The UN health agency says the death toll from the Ebola epidemic has passed the 10,000 mark, with the three hardest-hit West African countries taking the brunt of the plight.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday that the number of the deaths had hit 10,004 and the total number of cases stood at 24,350.
Almost all of the deaths and cases have occurred in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.
There have also been six deaths in Mali, one in the United States, and eight in Nigeria, all of which have since been declared Ebola-free.
Spain and Senegal, which have also been declared free of Ebola, had one case each but no deaths.
The WHO on Wednesday said the fight against Ebola was “going in the right direction.”
The United Nations has warned that the spread of the deadly virus is still not fully controlled despite a significant fall in the number of new cases across West Africa.
Ebola is a form of hemorrhagic fever, whose symptoms are diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding. The virus spreads through direct contact with infected blood, feces, or sweat. It can also be spread through sexual contact or the unprotected handling of contaminated corpses.
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Posted: 14 Mar 2015 09:05 AM PDT
With Julian Assange’s 1000 days in the Embassy coming up March 16, here’s a reminder of some facts.
Swedish prosecutors have offered to question Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London over allegations of sexual misconduct and rape, Reuters reports. The WikiLeaks founder’s lawyer said he welcomes the request, but the process will take time.
Prosecutors have also asked to carry out a DNA test on Assange.
The offer was made by chief prosecutor Marianne Ny, according to the Swedish Prosecution Authority.
“If Assange gives his consent, the prosecutor will promptly submit a request for legal assistance to the British authorities to further continue the investigation,” the Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement.
Assange’s approval is needed for the prosecutors to question him “as English law states that a person being interviewed through the use of international legal assistance in a criminal case must also provide his or her consent.” A request will also be sent to the Ecuadorian government.
“My view has always been that to perform an interview with him at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London would lower the quality of the interview, and that he would need to be present in Sweden in any case should there be a trial in the future,” Ny said.
Assange’s Swedish lawyer welcomed the Swedish prosecutors’ request to interview Assange in London, but added that the whole process of questioning could take time.
“We welcome [this] and see it also as a big victory … for Julian Assange that what we have demanded is finally going to happen,” Per Samuelson, Assange’s lawyer, told Reuters.
However, Samuelson added that the request from Swedish prosecutors was accompanied by a number of formal requirements, which included requests for permission for the questioning from the UK and Ecuadorian authorities.
“That means that could take time, despite the fact that we are in a hurry,” Samuelson said.
Assange has lived inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for over two years while awaiting safe passage to South America, where he has been granted asylum.
The WikiLeaks founder has not been charged with a crime, but is wanted for questioning regarding allegations of sexual misconduct brought against him in Sweden in 2010.
An arrest warrant was issued for Assange in 2010 in the of wake sexual assault allegations leveled against him by two Swedish women. The Wikileaks founder has denied the allegations of sexual misconduct and rape. He managed to avoid extradition to Sweden by seeking refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has resided since 2012.
If Assange is deported to Sweden, he will likely face espionage charges in America over his role in publishing sensitive, classified US government documents.
In June 2014, 56 international human rights and free media organizations signed a letter addressed to US Attorney General Eric Holder, calling upon the US government to end all criminal investigations into Assange’s actions as editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, and to cease harassing the organization for publishing materials in the public interest.
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