Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Saturday, 5 September 2015

The European Union Times


Posted: 04 Sep 2015 11:50 AM PDT

NATO has opened a new military command center in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius amid growing tensions between the West and Russia over the issue of Ukraine.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the so-called NATO Force Integration Unit (NFIU) in Vilnius on Thursday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg described the move as “a big step forward towards greater solidarity, greater strength, and greater readiness.”
According to an official NATO press release, the NFIU in Lithuania is one of the six such units that have been opened this month. The other five are based in Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Romania.
The NATO units “are part of the Readiness Action Plan, the biggest reinforcement of NATO’s collective defense since the end of the Cold War,” the press release stated.
Underlining the significance of the NFIUs, the NATO chief said, “They will ensure that, should our forces need to move, they can move quickly and effectively. And they help send a very clear message: no NATO ally stands alone.”
During the inaugural event, which was also attended by Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, Stoltenberg said NATO needs to respond to what he referred to as an assertive Russia.
Grybauskaite welcomed the opening of the new military bases in Eastern European countries near the Russian border, saying that the units would ensure the quick movement of NATO forces.
At a joint press conference with Grybauskaite, the NATO chief also thanked the Lithuanian government for its commitment to NATO as well as the role it plays in Afghanistan and Kosovo. He further welcomed Lithuania’s determination to increase defense spending over the coming years, calling this “an example for other allies.”
The US-led force has boosted its military presence in Eastern Europe in recent months in the wake of the conflict between the Western-backed Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia groups in eastern Ukraine.
Russia has repeatedly censured NATO’s growing war games and military buildup toward its borders.
Kiev and its Western allies accuse the Kremlin of meddling in Ukraine’s internal affairs and backing pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine. Moscow, however, has strongly denied such allegations.
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Posted: 04 Sep 2015 11:41 AM PDT

Saudis are waging a full scale campaign of genocide against the people of Yemen.
Samuel Cohen, the devilish inventor of the Neutron Bomb went on to invent a Hydrogen bomb without the Uranium- 238. The Neutron Bomb would essentially increase the radiation output to as high as 80% without the massive destructive blast. The relatively small kill zone would spread into enemy troops liquifying their living tissue with the emitted massive dose of neutrons.
In 1975, The Ford Administration, under the guidance of Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, proceeded to build the ultimate weapon of mass human destruction. Protests and an arms race soon followed. Anti Nuke President Jimmy Carter dropped the program. But President Ronald Reagan eagerly supported it.
However, support for the Neutron bomb had evolved by the time Reagan took office and military leaders were skeptical of its use on the battlefield and the potential it had to affect civilians. Plus, the bomb had only reached a small percentage of its intended neutron radiation output. The bombs were then dismantled by the Bush administration. Or were they? Back in 2012 UK Ex Defense Secretary Lord Gilbert suggested dropping a Neutron Bomb on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Now, as President Obama gathers support for his one sided deal with Iran, the Saudis are waging a full scale campaign of genocide against the people of Yemen. Among the banned US Supplied cluster bombs used by Saudi airstrikes, there is now unconfirmed evidence of a Neutron bomb in play. Who is supplying these bombs remains to be seen, it could be the US, France, Israel, or China which has detonated at least one neutron bomb. The bottom line is, Obama’s pending deal with Iran will only increase the arms race in the volatile middle east.
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Posted: 04 Sep 2015 11:36 AM PDT

The “lungs” of our planet consist of about 3 trillion trees, and 20% of them are in the territory of Russia. That is a record-breaking figure (640 billion), which is double the number of trees in Canada, that ranked second.
Thomas Crowther, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies analyzed with his colleagues satellite images of tree populations with the help of supercomputer technologies. They managed to count up the exact number of trees on Earth, and found out that their quantity has reduced about 46% since the first signs of civilization.
According to Crowther, trees “store huge amounts of carbon, are essential for the cycling of nutrients, for water and air quality, and for countless human services. Yet you ask people to estimate, within an order of magnitude, how many trees there are and they don’t know where to begin. I don’t know what I would have guessed, but I was certainly surprised to find that we were talking about trillions.”
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Posted: 04 Sep 2015 11:24 AM PDT

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has stepped down shortly after an arrest warrant was issued for him amid a corruption scandal that has rattled his government.
The embattled leader decided to resign from presidency in order to confront “individually the proceedings against him,” his spokesman Jorge Ortega said on Thursday.
Perez Molina’s resignation came hours after an arrest warrant was issued for him by a judge as a preliminary probe is underway into corruption allegations against his administration.
Under the order, Perez Molina would have to appear before Judge Miguel Angel Galvea on charges of illicit association, fraud and receiving bribe money.
On Tuesday, the Congress, which is Guatemala’s legislature, lifted his immunity, paving the way for the president to be prosecuted over allegations of being behind a massive corruption scheme, in which business people reportedly paid bribes to avoid import duties through the customs agency.
Perez Molina, 64, has rejected the allegations and vowed to face the legal process. No formal charges have been filed against him yet.
This is the first time in the country’s history that a sitting president faces legal prosecution.
Business leaders, Guatemala’s National Council of Bishops and even the government comptrollers’ office had all urged Perez Molina to step down.
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Posted: 04 Sep 2015 11:09 AM PDT

Hundreds of illegal Muslim immigrants who managed to board a train from Budapest to the border with Austria have had their journey stopped by police in Hungary, where the authorities are attempting to force them to stay in a refugee camp instead.
Some of the thousands of immigrants camped at Budapest’s Keleti train station who managed to get a place on a train bound for the border with Austria had their journey curtailed by Hungarian authorities on Thursday, who intend to send the immigrants to a camp instead of allowing them to reach their destination.
The train was the first to depart Keleti train station after two days during which police closed the station to refugees and immigrants, and left Budapest early on Thursday.
Instead of continuing to its destination of Sopron, near the Austrian border, the train stopped at the town of Bicske, an hour from Budapest, the site of one of Hungary’s four main refugee camps.
Confrontations ensued between the immigrants and police, when security forces in Hungary tried to force immigrants off the train. Immigrants shouting “no camp,” refused to leave the train. When some were forcibly removed, they lay on the tracks in protest.
Hungarian police forced journalists away from Bicske station, which, according to reports, has been declared an ‘operation zone’ by authorities.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 08:39