Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Friday 17 April 2015

The European Union Times


Posted: 17 Apr 2015 12:51 AM PDT


An “apocalyptical” storm swept through several regions in Belarus, including the capital. But it was in the city of Soligorsk where clouds as black as ink obscured the sun light, while strong winds ushered in a sand storm.
Soligorsk residents, about 120 kilometers from the capital Minsk, were both scared and excited by the weather phenomenon that hit Belarus on Monday. At around 17:00 local time, darkness descended on the city with over 100,000 residents opting to stay indoors.
People reportedly had to move around several districts with flashlights. The storm’s heavy rains led to electricity being cut off, trees falling down and damage to buildings.



The country’s Emergency Ministry reported about 46 communities in the Minsk region suffered various kinds of damage. The capital city was also hit by storm force winds and torrential rain, but no emergency situations were reported.

The epic storm was created by a cold front on the Ukrainian-Belorusian border that later reached the Carpathian Mountains in an event that is quite rare for this time of the year. Meteorologists called the natural phenomenon a “haboob,” which means an intense red dust storm in Arabic.
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Posted: 16 Apr 2015 05:47 AM PDT

An intriguing Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today is expressing puzzlement as to why the United States top Special Forces command, that is currently directing the war in Yemen against Houthi rebel forces, has this past week taken over a number of Walmart stores in America and is now converting them to Command and Control (C2) Centres.
According to this report, SVR electronic intelligence analysts tasked with overseeing their American counterparts this past week indentified a series of mysterious communications between the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM), located at MacDill Air Force Base (MCF) in Tampa, Florida, their subservient counterpart located at the US Naval Expeditionary Base Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti (where the war in Yemen is being directed from), and… of all places… from asuddenly closed Walmart store in Brandon, Florida just 20 kilometers (13 miles) from their main headquarters.
In following these SOCOM communications, this report says, a further strangeness was discovered when C2 links were also found existing between the, likewise, suddenly closed Walmart store in Pico Rivera, California and the massive US Marine base Camp Pendleton located 119 kilometers (74.0 miles) apart… a suddenly closed Walmart store in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Tulsa Air National Guard Base (TANGB) located 16 kilometers (10 miles) apart… a suddenly closed Walmart store in North Midland, Texas, and Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, located 416 kilometers (259 miles) apart… a suddenly closed Walmart store in Livingston, Texas, and the highly secretive US Homeland Security base located at the Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base (EFJRB) in Houston, Texas, located 119 kilometers (74 miles) apart.
As to why all of these Walmart stores spanning the entire length of the United States were suddenly closed, this report continues, US news sources are reporting that they all mysteriously experienced the exact same plumbing problem… but which local news sources, from California to Florida, quickly discounted as being not true.
More ominous, however, of the sudden closing of these Walmart stores, this report states, is their location in what has been described as the “main combat target zone” of a massive SOCOM military exercise planned for the United States called “Jade Helm”, whose ending in September (coincidentally?) exactly coincides with the 6 month date all of these stores have stated they will remain closed for until they reopen.


To the massive “Jade Helm” military exercise itself, this report continues, it is an 8-week US domestic battle plan scheduled to begin on 15 July, and last until 15 September, encompassing the US States of California (mostly friendly but with an “insurgent pocket”), Utah (enemy State), Arizona (friendly State), Nevada (friendly State), Colorado (friendly State), New Mexico (neutral State), Texas (enemy State), Mississippi (not designated) and Florida (not designated). [Note: Mississippi and Florida were late additions to this military exercise.]
And according to the unclassified Request to Conduct Realistic Training – JADE HELM 15 (RCRT-JH15) posted by SOCOM describing this massive domestic military exercise they further state about it:
“This is a challenging eight-week joint military and interagency (IA) unconventional warfare (UW) exercise conducted throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado.
The seven states and divided regions therein are designated as hostile, permissive, uncertain (leaning hostile) and uncertain (leaning friendly), with, for example, California designated as a largely blue (permissive) region with a small portion of the south in red (hostile) based on insurgent activity in the area. Here is a graphic of the exercise’s geographic layout.
Exercise participants come from across the Department of Defense and U.S. government, and include U.S. Army Special Forces Command (Green Berets), U.S. Navy SEALs, U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command, U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command, U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary Units, 82nd Airborne Division and some interagency partners (likely, but not confirmed: FBI, CIA, DHS and others).
The RCRT states upfront the goals that the exercise hopes to accomplish: to improve the unconventional warfare capability of U.S. special operations forces as part of the national security strategy, and to determine the pros and cons associated with the exercise.”
Left unsaid/unanswered by SOCOM, or any other US authority, this report asks, is why the American militaries special forces and domestic intelligence/security agencies even need to conduct such an exercise as the United States (people/society/transportation/etc.) is so unique that the only information that could possibly be gained is in how to subjugate/suppress their own citizens as the knowledge gained could not possibly apply to any other nation on Earth?
Even more grimly to note about this “Jade Helm” “adventure”, SVR intelligence analysts in this report state, are that SOCOM forces are apparently honing the tactics they will soon be using against their own citizens in America… including mass starvation… in Yemen.
The reason(s) for this being so, they continue explaining, is due to both Yemen and the United States having the largest per capita ratio of privately owned guns in the world, a situation which has enabled both of these nations to be deemed “unconquerable” by Federation war experts.
But to the greatest (potential) horror of what SOCOM’s “Jade Helm” is really about, this report grimly concludes, can be heard in the words of the late US Army Veteran and FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl, who in 1982 described in chilling detail the Obama regimes “fellow travelers” logistical master plan to kill tens of millions of Americans… and by using these closed Walmart stores as C2 centres to weed them out would certainly be something they could do.

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Posted: 16 Apr 2015 04:17 AM PDT

France has unveiled a multibillion euro cost cutting plan to be executed over two years in order to press down its deficit below the European Union’s cap.
The Finance Ministry revealed on Wednesday that the country would be shaving €9 billion (USD 9.60 billion) off costs through the plan.
Accordingly, some €4 billion (USD 4.26 billion) will be trimmed from the budget this year, including through €1 billion (USD 1.06 billion) worth of cuts from social security and health spending. The government also expects to save €1.2 billion (USD 1.28 billion) in 2015 thanks to lower servicing costs on public debt.
It is planning another €5 billion (USD 5.33 billion) in savings next year.
In its so-called “stability program” that each eurozone country must send to Brussels, France confirmed its budget deficit would be below the limit of three percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017. The budget deficit will stand at 2.7 percent of GDP in 2017, just below the EU bar of 3.0 percent.
However, Paris ventured to enrage the EU by saying that to maintain economic growth, it will target smaller reductions in its structural budget deficit in 2016 and 2017 than called for by the bloc’s executive branch, the European Commission.
“Implementing those (EU) recommendations would have stifled growth and stopped us from curbing unemployment,” said French Finance Minister Michel Sapin, who added, “Our strategy is built around our determination to get the economy back up and running in the long term … to boost growth and jobs.”
The European Commission has said France must cut its structural deficit by 0.5 percent in 2015, 0.8 percent in 2016, and 0.9 percent in 2017. The country has said it would reduce its structural deficit by 0.5 percent per year until 2017.
The eurozone’s second-largest economy expanded at a sluggish rate of 0.4 percent in 2014 as the government battled stubbornly against high unemployment. Most economists believe that France needs a growth rate of around 1.5 percent to create jobs.
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Posted: 16 Apr 2015 04:13 AM PDT

Judge Olu Stevens
Jordan and Tommy Gray’s 3-year-old daughter was watching SpongeBob Squarepants when two armed males broke into their home near Buechel on March 21, 2013, and robbed them at gunpoint. Two years later, when one of the offenders was about to be sentenced, Jordan wrote in a victim influence statement that her daughter was nevertheless “in constant fear of black men.” Both robbers have been African-American.
“Anytime we are operating errands, if we come across a black male, she holds me tight and begs me to leave,” the mother stated. “It has impacted her friendships at college and our relationships with African-American buddies.”
Tommy Gray also wrote that because the crime, his daughter had been terrified of black males and that probation was not sufficient punishment for Gregory Wallace, 27, who had pleaded guilty to armed robbery.
“If holding a tiny girl at gunpoint gets you probation, then our system is flawed,” Gray mentioned.
But when Wallace was brought up for sentencing Feb. 4 in Jefferson Circuit Court, it was the parents, not Wallace, who suffered Judge Olu Stevens’ wrath.
“I am offended. … I am deeply offended that they would be victimized by an individual and express some sort of worry of all black men,” he said.
“This little girl definitely has been victimized, and she can not help the way she feels,” he stated. “My exception is much more with her parents and their accepting that kind of mentality and fostering these sort of stereotypes.”
The crime occurred in Louisville, KY, in 2013. The judge’s anti-white racism was reported April 10, 2015.
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Posted: 16 Apr 2015 03:35 AM PDT

Pope Francis made a speech on the Orthodox Easter which was celebrated last Sunday.
He named the main genocide of the XX century. According to him, that is the slaughter of more than 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman forces.
The Turkish officials, however, diminish the number to 300 000 – 500 000 people and insist on calling them the casualties of World War I.
The Pope claimed that we should remember such tragedies, “It is necessary, and indeed a duty, to honor their memory, for whenever memory fades, it means that evil allows wounds to fester.”
It broached great anger among the officials in Ankara. The Prime Minister and President condemned such expressions and warned the pontiff against making such ill-considered statements.
Recep Erdogan added, “If politicians and religious leaders do the job of historians, then we will not get to the truth and only end with nonsense.”
The Turkish ambassador to the Vatican has been recalled for further consultation.
A number of countries, including Russia, France, Italy and Belgium also acknowledge the massacre as genocide.
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Posted: 16 Apr 2015 02:28 AM PDT
A picture released by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute dated 1915 shows the child victims of the massacre of Armenians during World War I.
The European Parliament has called on Turkey to acknowledge its historic responsibility for the massacre of Armenians during World War I, and pave the way for “a genuine reconciliation” with Yerevan.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), in a resolution put to the vote on Wednesday, urged Armenia and Turkey to “use the centenary of the Armenian genocide” to normalize diplomatic relations, open their border and pave the way for economic integration.
The lawmakers also encouraged the two countries to “use examples of successful reconciliation between European nations, and ratify and implement, without preconditions, the protocols on the establishment of diplomatic relations, opening the border and actively improve their relations, with particular reference to cross-border cooperation and economic integration.”
The MEPs further asked Ankara to “use the commemoration of the centenary of the Armenian genocide as an important opportunity” to open up Turkish archives, “come to terms with its (Turkey’s) past,” recognize the genocide and so pave the way for a “genuine reconciliation between the Turkish and Armenian peoples.”
Armenians say up to 1.5 million Armenian Christians were systematically slaughtered in eastern Turkey through mass killings, forced relocations and starvation, a process that began in 1915 and took place over several years during World War I and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire.
Ankara rejects the term “genocide” and says 300,000 to 500,000 Armenians, and at least as many Turks perished between 1915 and 1917, and they were the casualties of World War I.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that, “For Turkey, it will never be possible to recognize such a sin, such a blame.”
Pope Francis outraged Turkish authorities on Sunday by using the word “genocide” to describe the massacre of Armenians around the time of the World War I. He referred to the event as the “first genocide of the 20th century.”
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said during an event in Ankara on Wednesday that the pontiff has joined “an evil front” plotting against Turkey.
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Posted: 16 Apr 2015 02:22 AM PDT

Following Russia’s decision to lift a ban on supplying S-300 missile systems to Iran, the Israeli PM has called President Putin to express his “grave concerns” – and received a detailed explanation of defensive weapons and the logic behind Moscow’s move.
According to a statement released by the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin “gave a detailed explanation of the logic behind Russia’s decision…emphasizing the fact that the tactical and technical specifications of the S-300 system make it a purely defensive weapon; therefore, it would not pose any threat to the security of Israel or other countries in the Middle East.”
The assurances do not appear to have had the desired effect. In a statement released by his office, the Israeli PM expressed “grave concerns regarding the decision,” and told Russia’s president that this step “will only encourage Iranian aggression in the region and further undermine the stability of the Middle East.”
Russia signed an $800 million deal in 2007 to ship five S-300 divisions, which are composed of radars and multiple interception missile launchers, only to postpone the deal three years later, during the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev.
It was done as a sign of solidarity with Western partners who were imposing increasingly tough sanctions against the Islamic Republic – the missile systems themselves were never on the international sanctions list.
The reversal comes amid major progress in the negotiation framework between Iran and six leading world powers over the regulation of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, which should produce a final deal this summer.
Moscow believes at this stage there is “no longer need for this kind of embargo,” Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said, reiterating that “from the Russian side it was unilateral and voluntary.” Russia has also started supplying grain, equipment and construction materials to Iran in exchange for crude oil under the so-called “oil-for-goods” barter deal, which had earlier sparked dissatisfaction in the West.
The US officials also seemed displeased with Russia’s latest “non-constructive” moves, with State Department spokesperson Marie Harf however admitting that it did not violate any international norms. “We don’t believe it’s constructive at this time for Russia to move forward with this,” she said, adding that Secretary Kerry had voiced his concerns too.
For its part of the future deal with Iran, the West is promising it will drop some of its sanctions against Tehran – particularly in the oil and financial sectors. However on Tuesday the German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned that it was important to wait until the Iranians fulfill their side of the bargain.
“I’ve told some US senators that they should not now try to unnecessarily impede further negotiations,” he told the media when asked about Russia’s contract in Lubeck in Germany on Tuesday. “But I’ll also say that it is also too early to talk about rewards at this stage.”
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 08:14