Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday 14 July 2015

The European Union Times


Posted: 13 Jul 2015 05:37 AM PDT


The United States is wrong to consider Russia “enemy number one,” an Italian analyst believes.
US military leadership still believes in patterns of the long-gone Cold War which affect the decisions of the White House and America’s strategy towards the country, Il Giornale columnist Gian Micalessin told Sputnik.
Washington understands that Russian President Vladimir Putin is the only politician in the world who has his own strategic vision with regard to the United States, Micalessin noted.
“Putin is the only real opponent. It is difficult to explain why. One could say that it’s about the combination of two factors: old patterns and fear of Putin as a more experienced chess player in international politics,” the Italian analyst said.
By following the United States, the European Union “once again proves” that it is merely a political organization which is not able to defend itself, Micalessin noted.
A “counterproductive strategy of the EU in Ukraine” is conducted at the expense of European countries interested in economic relations with Russia, he said.
The Italian expert said that Europe has been following the US’ stance “which does not reflect any of the European priorities.”
“Europe is completely under the US control,” the Italian columnist concluded.
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Posted: 13 Jul 2015 05:34 AM PDT


Numerous surveys conducted by American sociologists and analysts demonstrate declining confidence of US citizens to their authorities and federal structures. In addition, many Americans say that they are not confident of their future either.
According to Atlantico publication, France, the roots of the problem lie in American history, and one has to analyze the subconscious belief of the United States in the “exceptionalism” of the nation. The “exceptionalism” does not let the Americans see the multipolarity of the world, even though now is the time when this multipolarity has become especially evident.
The Americans have long realized that their “exceptionalism” is the result of many conquests. However, America’s recent invasions sow nothing but chaos. The unsuccessful operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine have undermined the confidence of American people in their government.
In addition, the USA’s first-ever black president has not been able to fix the broken economy in the country, instead doubled the US debt to $18 trillion under his two terms.
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Posted: 13 Jul 2015 05:22 AM PDT



White House & American corporations behind conspiracy to spark astroturf revolution which will lead to Ukraine-style coup.
Russian Parliament member Yevgeny Fedorov claims that Russian oligarchs are in negotiations with top American corporations and the White House to foment an astroturf revolution that will lead to the ouster of President Vladimir Putin and the collapse of the Russian Federation within two years.
During a 34 minute interview with a Russian media outlet, Fedorov made a number of bombshell claims in asserting that a Ukraine-style coup was being organized.
“They are conducting a negotiation process with the Russian elites for the extradition of Putin,” said Fedorov, noting that the same process was undertaken before the coup in Kiev which ousted Viktor Yanukovyc. He identified John F. Tefft, the United States Ambassador to Russia, as being the figurehead behind this conspiracy.
Fedorov said that Russian oligarchs were supportive of the coup, negotiations for which took place at the 2014 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, and that the plot also involved members of Russia’s interior ministry and military generals.
“We know the objective is the destruction of the Russian federation,” said Fedorov, explaining how the sanctions were designed to gradually collapse the Russian economy and lower standards of living.
The sanctions won’t be lifted until Putin resigns and the Russian Federation collapses, according to Fedorov, dismissing as “propaganda nonsense,” claims by the White House that the sanctions will end when Russia withdraws from Crimea.
“We see a conspiracy forming in Russia against Putin on the basis of the sanctions and the corporations which are dependent on the Americans – we don’t have any others,” added Fedorov, noting that the flash point is likely to come in August, after which there will be a push for “early elections” to oust Putin.
Russian state officials with close ties to businesses will be the “weak link” the Americans use to foment the conspiracy, claims Fedorov, adding that such individuals will become emboldened to defy Putin to a much greater degree. American companies and the IMF already hold significant power over Russia’s laws and economy, argues Fedorov, meaning that a coup is far easier to achieve given the country’s lack of sovereignty.
“After August, through the winter, I think, by the drop of living standards, they will be able to bring out several hundred thousand people onto the streets….simply because, with the help of the government, they will severely crash people’s living standards, this will be especially felt after winter,” said Fedorov, adding that Spring 2016 could be the time period in which the coup is initiated.
Up to 200,000 “hungry people” will suffice to start a “rebellion” against Putin, says Fedorov, adding that militant groups from Ukraine will also be sent in to generate chaos.
Individuals within the government will “mindlessly surrender Russia by the set deadlines,” asserts Fedorov, adding that Russian media outlets like RBC TV, which is controlled by CNN and CNBC, are also complicit in the coup because of their failure to report that the country is under “attack.”
“The noose is being tightened around Russia,” said Fedorov, who predicted that a coup will also be launched in Armenia to starve Moscow of allies.
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Posted: 13 Jul 2015 05:09 AM PDT
A 3-D view of the mesh: microtubules (green tubes) of the mitotic spindle are held together by a yellow network, the mesh. (Warwick Medical School).
Scientists have accidentally discovered a cell structure which may prove helpful in the understanding of cancer development.
A group of researchers from the University of Warwick discovered “the mesh” and recently published their findings on the online journal elife.
The discovery alters the scientific understanding of internal scaffolding of a cell, and provides implications for treatment of cancer cells, given the structure partially shares a protein-based form with the disease.
“As a cell biologist you dream of finding a new structure in cells but it’s so unlikely. Scientists have been looking at cells since the 17th Century and so to find something that no-one has seen before is amazing,” said team leader, Dr. Stephen Royle.
A student of Royle was doing research on structures called mitotic spindles, when the mesh was accidentally found.
Cells use Mitotic spindles to ensure that each new cell has a full genome after division.
“We had been looking in 2D and this gave the impression that ‘bridges’ linked microtubules together. This had been known since the 1970s. All of a sudden, tilting the fiber in 3D showed us that the bridges were not single struts at all but a web-like structure linking all the microtubules together,” noted Royle.
During division, a cell must accurately share chromosomes or the two resulting cells may be created with the incorrect number of chromosomes, which is referred to as aneuploidy and has been linked to various type of tumors.
“Problems in cell division are common in cancer; cells frequently end up with the wrong number of chromosomes. This early research provides … a crucial insight into why this process becomes faulty in cancer and whether drugs could be developed to stop it from happening,” said Dr. Emma Smith with the Cancer Research UK.
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Posted: 13 Jul 2015 05:02 AM PDT


The Bulgarian journalists have reckoned how much is an average country citizen poorer than that of a neighbouring Greece.
It turned out, that average income of the Greeks have been 3,5 times higher against that of the Bulgarians for some years.
In 2013, for example, an average annual income of a Greek resident made up €8,879, that is 17,366 Bulagarian Leva.
An average Bulgarian citizen got only 5,094 Leva a year at the time. Today, it is even lower, in 2014 it made up as much as 5,018 Leva.
In Greece however, a person earning less than €4,068, or 7,956 Bulgarian Leva is considered to live beyond the poverty threshold.
Pravda.Ru has reported, that Bulgaria set a course for entering Eurozone. However, Ivailo Kalfin, Minister of Labour and Social Policy, claimed that the economic performance doesn’t make it possible for Sofia to substitute the national currency with the euro. According to him, it will not lead to positive consequences, as the economy is rather weak and mentioned Greece as a negative example.
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Posted: 12 Jul 2015 03:43 PM PDT


Victoria Nuland’s, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, visit to Athens just after Ukraine makes it suppose, that the Ukrainian scenario of government dethroning and civil war is already orchestrated for Greece.
Greek rapprochement with Russia, which NATO is ready to wage war with, generates such a discontent of the US State Department, that the American authorities may go the length of drastic measures and eliminate the Greek leader.
The French philosopher Nicolas Bonnal makes such statements in his article and claims that tension has not been eased after the referendum, as many think.
The main reason of Nuland’s visit to Greece is to prevent it from rapprochement with BRICS, and especially Russia. Greece is the NATO member state, and taking into account Washington discontent with Tsipras celebrating Victory Day on May, 9 in Moscow, it can be assumed, he may have a more tragic fortune than Kennedy had.
They have already started demonizing Tsipras government and international creditor’s acts may be compared with those of terrorists, as Varoufakis did.
What about the Europe, it has already been dancing to the US pipe. And the US keeps building its power in the world due to the conquered states like Germany and Japan. Namely these countries will be the “oblational aircraft carriers” in the nuclear war, which NATO is going to wage against Russia and China.
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Posted: 12 Jul 2015 03:26 PM PDT


The United States is using the science of psychology to control people, former CIA contractor Steven Kelley says.
Kelly made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Saturday after a report revealed on Friday that some of America’s leading psychologists took part in and covered up the CIA’s torture techniques during the administration of President George W. Bush.
The study conducted by a former US attorney, published by the New York Times on Friday, stated that a large number of American psychologists could be charged over their involvement in the CIA torture program after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
“Obviously, these are the individuals who are going to be implicated,” Kelly said, adding that perhaps they will be fired “to clean up the image, but the corruption of the American medical staff goes back a long time.”
“Getting these doctors to take money to do these things and break their oath is probably not as difficult as you’d think,” he stated.
“They have been doing this for so long in collusion with the government and the military,” Kelly pointed out.
The analyst went on to say that medical professionals act like a mafia and are using “this pseudo science of psychology and the mental institutions to control people and to stifle dissent.”
The report, completed this month, concludes that some of the American Psychological Association (APA)’s top officials, including its ethics director, sought to gain favor with US military officials by seeking to keep the association’s ethics policies in line with the Pentagon’s interrogation policies, while several prominent outside psychologists took actions that aided the CIA’s interrogation program and helped protect it from growing opposition inside the agency.
The CIA and the Pentagon both conducted harsh and torturous interrogations during the Bush administration, although the spy agency’s program included more brutal tactics.
The revelation, exposing years of false claims, has already led to at least one APA leadership firing and has created the potential for loss of licenses and even prosecutions.
“Whenever we look at the issues like this we like to think that something positive will come. I do not expect that is the case, rather I expect that they will become better at hiding what’s happening,” Kelly said.
“And if anything, the ultimate fact may be that they will have to actually execute these people who they are trying to extract information so that they don’t go back to the world and report on the methods of torture they were subjected to,” he observed.
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Posted: 12 Jul 2015 03:22 PM PDT


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Summary:
Economist and best-selling author Harry S. Dent Jr., returns with comments on the latest Grexit drama, noting a default is imminent.
A bankruptcy will benefit the nation as forced fiscal responsibility curtails government profligacy.
The only country to effectively ameliorate the debt problem is Iceland, which defaulted on foreign debt shielding constituents from predatory lending practices.
The Icelandic economy has emerged from the malaise intact and better prepared to thrive in an increasingly complex / competitive global-economic landscape.
Their remarkable saga is an ideal precedent / case study / blue print for officials in the BRICS nations as well as the US / EU / Japan.
Given that the EU has never faced a financial crisis of such magnitude, the lack of precedent is disturbing to top money managers and economists.
If Greece were to leave the union, other members with similar debt issues could soon capitulate triggering a cascade of similar debt crises resulting in a fractured EU, with regional sovereign currencies.
  • As a seasoned traveler in high demand on the public speaking circuit around the world, our guest outlines his ideal destinations, including his home in Puerto Rico and his favorite country, Australia.
  • Harry S. Dent Jr. is anticipating a US stock market correction of 15-20% in the summer / fall months. He’s convinced that all market bubbles must return to their inception point.
  • The US housing bubble has not yet returned to the year 2000 levels, increasing sector risk.
  • The host proposes that the massive shadow inventory held on bank balance sheets will eventually enter the marketplace in tandem with the millions in hedge fund housing-inventory, opening a price sinkhole across the nation and a credit crisis part deux.
  • The host notes the alarming void of understanding regarding fiat money schemes and their onerous track records.
  • The only viable alternatives, gold and silver, will eventually reflect their true intrinsic value, potentially hundreds of fold higher than current prices.
Economist and best-selling author Harry S. Dent Jr., returns with comments on the latest Grexit drama, noting the situation is more significant than implied by mainline media reports – a default is imminent. Still, in the long-term horizon, a bankruptcy will benefit the nation as forced fiscal-responsibility curtails government-profligacy. He notes that the world is awash in bad debt and officials refuse to write-off the toxic loans. Yet due to a disconnect between lenders and the system, the losses are averted, indefinably.
The only country to effectively ameliorate the debt problem is Iceland, which defaulted on foreign debt shielding constituents from predatory lending practices. Having taken the prescribed panacea, after two years of major adjustments, the Icelandic economy has emerged from the malaise intact and better prepared to thrive in an increasingly complex / competitive global economic landscape.
Their remarkable saga is an ideal case study / blue print for officials in the BRICS nations as well as the US / EU / Japan. Given that the EU has never faced a financial crisis of such magnitude, the lack of precedent is disturbing to top money managers and economists. If Greece were to leave the union, other members with similar debt issues could soon capitulate, triggering a cascade of similar debt crises resulting in a fractured EU with regional sovereign currencies. As a seasoned traveler in high demand on the public speaking circuit around the world, our guest outlines his ideal destinations, including his home in Puerto Rico and his favorite country Australia.
In addition, Scandinavian countries such as Sweden and Norway have extraordinary maternity benefits to the benefit of their workforce and demographics. Harry S. Dent Jr. is anticipating a US stock market correction of 15-20% in the summer / fall months. He’s convinced that all market bubbles must return to their inception point. While similar to the internet stock bubble of the late 1990’s, the US housing bubble has not yet completely deflated back to year 2000 levels, making the sector risky. The echo housing recovery is predicated on collaterlized MBS debt, similar to the gimmicks that lead up to the original housing crisis of 2008. The host proposes that the massive shadow inventory held on bank balance sheets will eventually enter the market in tandem with the millions in hedge fund housing inventory, opening a massive price sinkhole across the nation and a credit crisis part deux. The host notes the alarming void of understanding regarding fiat money schemes and their onerous track records. Despite protestations of naysayers, when faith is lost in paper money, currencies will be anathema to wealth preservation oriented investors – the only viable alternatives gold and silver will eventually reflect their true intrinsic value, potentially hundreds of fold higher than current prices.
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Posted: 12 Jul 2015 03:04 PM PDT
Artist’s impression of ice age on Earth at glacial maximum.
A 60-percent drop in the Sun’s activity may unleash a “mini ice age” on the earth in 2030, scientists say.
A team headed by Proffessor Valentina Zharkova used a new model of the Sun’s solar cycles to make the predictions, presented on the last day of the National Astronomy Meeting in Wales.
The team used a technique called “principal component analysis” to create the model, showing conditions last seen in 1645, which resulted in a mini ice age.
“We found magnetic wave components appearing in pairs, originating in two different layers in the Sun’s interior. They both have a frequency of approximately 11 years, although this frequency is slightly different, and they are offset in time,” said Zharkova on Thursday.
Around 180 years ago, scientists noted that solar activity varies over a cycle, lasting around 10 to 12 years.
“In cycle 26, the two waves exactly mirror each other — peaking at the same time but in opposite hemispheres of the Sun. Their interaction will be disruptive, or they will nearly cancel each other,” Zharkova said .
According to many solar physicists, a dynamo caused by the convection fluid deep within the Sun causes the differences in its cycles.
“We predict that this will lead to the properties of a Maunder minimum…. When there is full phase separation, we have the conditions last seen during the Maunder minimum, 370 years ago,” Zharkova noted.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 11:37