Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Wednesday, 29 July 2015

The European Union Times


Posted: 28 Jul 2015 03:01 PM PDT

Crowds of illegal migrants desperate to get to the UK stormed the Eurotunnel’s French terminal near Calais Monday night, causing traffic delays and disrupting rail services. The incident prompted UK authorities to re-introduce emergency measures.
About 2000 migrants tried to breach the fences of the Calais terminal on Monday night into Tuesday in a bid to reach the UK, according to a Eurotunnel spokesman, who described the situation as “the biggest incursion effort in the past month and a half.”
“Some 2,100 of them entered the site overnight, 1,900 of them were quickly pushed back outside and 200 were arrested,” the local official told Reuters.
A French police source described the scenes as “absolute pandemonium.”
“They were pouring in through holes in the fencing and clinging onto Eurotunnel trains. About fifteen migrants suffered injuries, and were treated by paramedics before the entire site was cleared by around 6 am on Tuesday,” a spokesman from the French police said.
About nine migrants were taken to hospitals following the event. Two migrants were hit by a train and about seven more, including a 14-year old, were rescued from drowning after they fell into a water collection basin near the entrance to the tunnel.
“Many of these people [migrants] are coming from countries where English is widely spoken as a second language, so it is understandable they want to get to the United Kingdom,” said Keith Best, the former vice chair of the European Council for refugees, explaining why so many migrants were trying to cross the Channel, in an interview with RT.
On Tuesday morning, Eurotunnel advised anyone travelling through the “chunnel” in either direction via its services to “postpone their journey” due to long delays as a result of “migrant activity throughout the night.” A Eurotunnel spokesman said that though migrants had caused some damage to fences, the trains remained intact.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) also warned people travelling through Calais to “keep vehicle doors locked” due to the “large numbers of illegal migrants” and a “high threat of terrorism.”
In order to avoid gridlock on Kent county roads, UK authorities also re-introduced a set of emergency measures due to heavy traffic and “continued disruption in Calais,” police said.
Eurotunnel officials said the storming of the Calais terminal by migrants was “an almost nightly occurrence,” and demanded compensation from the British and French governments for disruptions resulting from the migrants’ activities.
On Tuesday, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve held talks on the migrant issue with UK Home Secretary Theresa May in London.
After the meeting, Theresa May said that “the French and UK governments are working in close collaboration and cooperation on this issue which affects us both.”
“We have juxtaposed controls at the border. We work together on dealing with this particular problem,” she added, answering a question as to why Britons should pay for the problems on the French side.
Philip Gomm, Head of external communications of the London-based Royal Automobile Club Foundation, also called on authorities to take measures to resolve the problem, saying, “The TV pictures of queues in Kent might suggest this is a little local difficulty, but it has become a problem which is impacting the UK supply chain and is affecting the travel decisions of people hundreds of miles away from south-east England.”
“Matters need to be treated with the urgency they deserve,” he added, as quoted by the Guardian.
In commenting on the measures that the British and French governments had taken to deal with the migrant crisis, Keith Best told RT that the French had recently made changes to their immigration laws that reduced the period of consideration for asylum requests from two years to nine months.
“We have to wait and see if this measure is actually translated into reality or not,” he said.
According to different estimates, between 5,000 and 10,000 migrants are currently living in camps near the French port of Calais with the aim of getting to the UK. The migrant crisis has escalated recently as the ever growing number of migrants has been causing significant transport disruptions and delays in Eurotunnel services.
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Posted: 28 Jul 2015 02:47 PM PDT
UK Prime Minister David Cameron says there is no need for another referendum on Scotland independence.
The British Prime Minister David Cameron says he will not hold another referendum on Scotland while he is in power.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said there is no need for another referendum on Scottish independence, emphasizing that no vote will not take place while he is in office until at least 2020.
Cameron said that a decisive referendum had already been held in September which saw Scotland narrowly vote to stay in the United Kingdom. He argued having another referendum so soon would not have as much legitimacy.
“A referendum would have to be legal, fair and properly constituted. And that’s what we had and it was decisive and I don’t see the need for another one,” he added.
Alex Salmond the former leader of the Scottish National Party and the flag bearer for the independence campaign said he believed a referendum was inevitable and that when it takes place was up to the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
When Sturgeon was asked whether a referendum would feature in her manifesto she said: “It will be my ultimate decision, in line with the democratic decision-making processes of the SNP, to determine whether or not there is a commitment to a second referendum in the SNP manifesto for the Scottish election. And in due course we will take that decision and take that decision based on what we consider to be in the best interests of the country.”
Experts believe the SNP’s landslide victory, in this year’s elections in Scotland suggests there may be a change in thinking amongst Scots. However those opposing a referendum are arguing it is far too soon to hold one so soon after the last.
London-based political analyst Chris Bambery believes the major reason behind Cameron’s opposition to holding another referendum is public fury over the unpopular austerity measures which are expected to intensify in the future.
“Austerity measures are deeply unpopular, across the UK, particularly in Scotland where majority of people champion welfare over the free market,” he told Press TV on Tuesday.
Cameron is trying to control the situation by refusing to hold another referendum on Scotland’s independence, Chris Bambery concluded.
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Posted: 28 Jul 2015 02:36 PM PDT
Liberals signed a petition to address “income inequality” by imposing a 10% “male privilege tax” on all men in the latest Mark Dice ‘man on the street’ video which illustrates how much leftists are divorced from reality.

Asked to support an additional 10% tax on men’s income, one woman responded, “I’ll definitely sign for that,” before adding, “Yeah I’ve never heard of that before but whatever they’re trying to do right now is clearly not working so I’m all for giving it a shot.”
Dice then talks to a couple, telling the woman the petition is to “fight sexism in this new world order.” She signs right in front of her boyfriend, who doesn’t dare raise a whimper of dissent.
Two more women sign the petition, with one saying it helps her “feel better,” before adding, “When that actually happens, that would be great though.”
Two men then sign the petition to help with “income inequality,” despite the concerns of a woman standing nearby who remarks, “That’s their problem, let them go out and find a good job, I make more money than my husband.”
“It’s really the final phase in the new world order to help solve a lot of our economic problems,” states Dice, to which the man responds, “Hell yeah!”
“Gotta stop with this male privilege – feminist revolution is really upon us and it’s the final phase in equality,” remarks Dice.
The leftist media promulgates the myth that men are paid more than women because of discrimination, feeding into feminist doctrines about patriarchal systems oppressing women in the workplace.
In reality, the “gender wage gap” of around 19-23 per cent between the two sexes in the United States is explained by a number of reasons that have nothing to do with discrimination, including the fact that men work more hours and men seek less desirable jobs that pay higher.
As a result, men account for 93% of workplace deaths despite being only 54% of the workforce. 94% of workplace suicides every year are also men. The left buries these shockingly high male workplace fatality figures because they completely contradict the myth that the jobs market discriminates against women.
“The gender pay gap is simply the difference between the average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It does not account for differences in occupations, positions, education, job tenure or hours worked per week,” writes dissident feminist Christina Hoff Sommers. “When such relevant factors are considered, the wage gap narrows to the point of vanishing.”
As Sommers explains in the video below, the gender wage gap myth is based on completely bogus statistics.

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Posted: 28 Jul 2015 02:30 PM PDT
Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
The United States is grating parole to Jonathan Pollard after three decades of imprisonment on charges of spying for Israel.
Pollard, a former US Naval intelligence analyst who spied for the Tel Aviv regime, will be freed from life sentence, his lawyers announced on Tuesday.
The decision, made unanimously by the three members of the Parole Commission, was later confirmed by the US Justice Department.
The spy, who had tried to gain asylum at the Israeli embassy in Washington, is slated to be set free on November 21.
Israel ‘looking forward’
The Tel Aviv regime considers Pollard an Israeli agent and has granted him citizenship.
“After decades of effort, Jonathan Pollard will finally be released,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. “Throughout his time in prison, I consistently raised the issue of his release in my meetings and conversations with the leadership of successive US administrations. We are looking forward to his release.”
Other Israeli officials also reacted to the announcement, with Israeli justice minister Ayelet Shaked, saying, “Thirty years of suffering will come to an end this November; not though kindness but through the law.”
Pollard was convicted of passing classified information to Israel and he has been jailed since 1987.
A recent poll showed that the majority of Americans oppose the provision of any special compensation to Israel for its concern over a nuclear agreement with Iran.
The poll by Google Consumer Surveys found that 67.8 percent of Americans oppose any sort of compensation to Israel, while only 12.8 percent support it.
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Posted: 28 Jul 2015 02:15 PM PDT

A skeleton with an unusual-shaped skull (pictured) has been unearthed on a site known as Russia’s Stonehenge. UFO enthusiasts were quick to claim it was proof aliens visited earth when it was first found.
Archeologists are puzzled over the ancient remains of a woman discovered on a site near Chelyabinsk, a Russian city to the east of the Ural Mountains. The approximately 2,000 year old skeleton boasts an oddly shaped skull.
The “conehead” skeleton of a woman from the Sarmati tribe, unearthed at the archaeological site of Arkaim, a 4000-year-old settlement, has totally thrilled UFO hunters who have taken it as solid proof that aliens have visited Earth. Photos and videos of the dig may indeed remind one of the aggressive, dangerous extraterrestrial creature from the 1979 sci-fi movie, Alien, directed by Ridley Scott.
However, archeologists say this idea is off the table, attributing the skull’s unusual shape to traditional head bonding.
Archaeologists have revealed that the bones belong to a woman who lived around 6,000 years ago and had an elongated skull because it was bound out of tribal tradition.
In an interview with the Russian news agency TASS, Maria Makurova, head of the Arkaim Nature Reserve, said:
“Her skull was elongated because the tribe did so by tying up the heads of their children with rope. It was clearly a tradition in the tribe.”
Scientists are still lost in conjecture as to why such a tradition evolved.
The settlement, twice as old as the skeleton itself and, thus, having no historical connection to it, was discovered in 1987 and is believed to have been built in the 17th century BC.
Arkaim, situated in Russia’s Southern Urals, is often compared to England’s Stonehenge because it was also used for star observations. The Russian observatory, however, is said to have been more technologically advanced and have more favorable conditions for astronomical observation.
The settlement, occupying an area of around 20,439 square meters, consisted of two circles of dwellings separated by a street and a central square. The site was surrounded by high walls built to protect the 1,500 to 2,500 people who lived there.
Since its discovery, Arkaim has become an important location for Bronze Age study, attracting a great deal of public and media attention in Russia, including a significant number of esoteric and pseudoscientific organizations.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 08:35