Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday, 1 September 2015

The European Union Times


Posted: 31 Aug 2015 03:43 PM PDT

The words “the people” in the Second Amendment, apply to everyone in the US, including illegal aliens.
When Mario Meza-Rodriguez was five years old, his parents brought him into the United States illegally.
By the time he was an adult, he managed to get in trouble with the police after getting into a bar fight two years ago. When the police arrested him, they discovered a .22 caliber pistol in his pocket. Even though illegal aliens can’t own firearms under federal law, Meza-Rodriguez argued in court that charging him for possessing the pistol would violate his Second Amendment rights. The court disagreed. He was convicted and deported.
However, the 7th Circuit Court has recently ruled in Mario’s favor, while also upholding his conviction. They believe that the words “the people” in the Second Amendment, apply to everyone in the US, including illegal aliens. At the same time though, they believe that his conviction is still valid since the US government can restrict gun ownership for known law breakers. Mario’s lawyer is challenging their decision on the grounds that it contradicts itself.
Their decision is certainly confusing. Obviously, everyone in this country is supposed to have certain rights regardless of their citizenship status. Even if you’re an illegal, you be can’t be imprisoned indefinitely without trial, you can’t be tortured into a confession, and you have the right to an attorney (at least you did before 9/11). But once you’re convicted, you can lose your rights. If you couldn’t restrict the rights of a known criminal, then you couldn’t punish anyone for anything. If you ask me, it sounds like the 7th Circuit Court is trying to establish a new precedent for illegal aliens.
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Posted: 31 Aug 2015 03:30 PM PDT

China and Russia are changing the financial architecture of the world, award-winning author, sociologist and geopolitical analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya emphasizes, recommending the Wall Street financial elite to focus on America’s domestic problems instead of trying to undermine China’s economy.
The rise of the yuan sends shivers down the spine of America’s financial elite: fearing that the dollar’s decline is just around the corner Wall Street financiers are making vain attempts to damage the Chinese stock market and undermine investors’ confidence in China’s currency.
“The Chinese are in the process of displacing the monopoly of the US dollar. They are dropping their US Treasury bonds, stockpiling gold reserves, and opening regional distribution banks for their own national currency. This will give them easier access to capital markets and insulate them from financial manipulation by Washington and Wall Street,” award-winning author, sociologist and geopolitical analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya noted in his article for Strategic Culture Foundation.
The US-led economic world order is being altered by China and Russia, which are so far directly challenging the monopoly of the Washington-influenced Bretton Woods system.
At the same time, the EU banks and governments find the Chinese currency very attractive due to its stability. Thus far, Washington and Wall Street have launched a financial war against Beijing and Moscow.
“Using speculation as a psychological weapon and market manipulation, the US launched a financial strike against the Chinese. This was done through an attempt to sink or crash the Chinese stock market and hurt investor confidence in the Chinese economy and its stocks. Beijing, however, reacted quickly by imposing controls on investment withdrawals. This prevented the snowballing of stock selloffs and defused the US financial bomb,” Nazemroaya emphasized.
The author narrated that as the price of the yuan began to rise, China started the quantitative easing procedure in order to devalue its currency and boost export trade, turning a deaf ear to Washington’s objections.
The US Congress and White House accused Beijing of “financial manipulation.” But the truth of the matter is that the US financial elite wanted the Chinese to let the yuan to rise thus far ruining the country’s economy.
“As US financial institutions began trying to hurt investor confidence in China through psychological tactics claiming that the Chinese economy was slowing down and that the Chinese market was in free fall, Beijing announced that it had bought 600 tons of gold in the span of a month and the People’s Bank of China had got rid of over 17 billion US dollars from its foreign exchange reserves,” the author elaborated.
“Push China and it will push back,” Nazemroaya stressed.
Citing Zero Hedge, a financial market webpage, he pointed out that China has been “aggressively” selling its US Treasury bonds “to the tune of $107 billion,” triggering fears that the move could hit the US economy heavily.
“Beijing, of course, is the largest foreign holder of US Treasury debt, estimated at close to $1.5 trillion. Part of that is held in custodial accounts in Europe. So, if the regime were to suddenly start dumping that debt, the effect could be cataclysmic for the US economy,” US journalist Alex Newman wrote on August 31, 2015.
It is worth mentioning that not everything is rosy in the garden of the US economy: America’s stock market downturn on August 24, 2015 has indicated that clearly.
“Many blamed the crash on China’s recent currency devaluation. It is true that the crash was caused by a flawed monetary policy. However, the fault lies not with China’s central bank but with the US Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve’s inflationary policies distort the economy, creating bubbles, which in turn create a booming stock market and the illusion of widespread prosperity. Inevitably, the bubble bursts, the market crashes, and the economy sinks into a recession,” former American congressman Dr. Ron Paul highlighted.
Instead of waging financial wars against China, Washington and Wall Street should be focused on the US’ own domestic problems, Nazemroaya remarked, adding that “despite the wishes of Wall Street and Washington, the Silk World Order is moving forward.”
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Posted: 31 Aug 2015 03:08 PM PDT

The death of Williams remains an unsolved case after five years.
A MI6 spy who was discovered dead in a holdall at his apartment in 2010 had hacked into sensitive information about former US President Bill Clinton, it has been claimed. The spy had obtained Clinton’s diary for an event and passed it to a friend.
Gareth Williams, 31, hacked into the event’s guest list as it was to be attended by President Clinton, passing it to his friend who was also to be a guest at the party, according to sources speaking on condition of anonymity to the Sun on Sunday.
“The Clinton diary hack came at a time when Williams’s work with America was of the most sensitive nature,” one source said. “It was a diplomatic nightmare for Sir John Sawers, the new director of MI6 at the time.”
The death of Williams remains an unsolved case after five years. A three-year investigation by the Metropolitan Police ended in 2013, deciding that no one else was involved in Williams’ death and his being locked inside the bag, which was found in his bath. A coroner’s report following his death judged that he was killed unlawfully, however.
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Posted: 31 Aug 2015 03:01 PM PDT
US Senator Marco Rubio as he speaks at the Foreign Policy Initiative breakfast in New York, August 14, 2015.
Republican US presidential candidate Marco Rubio has called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “gangster” and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a “lunatic.”
In an unusual attack on the Russian leader, Rubio said, “Russia is governed today by a gangster. He’s basically an organized crime figure who controls a government and a large territory.”
“This is a person who kills people because they’re his political enemies. If you’re a political adversary of Vladimir Putin, you wind up with plutonium in your drink or shot in the street,” he said during a foreign policy speech in South Carolina on Friday.
The freshman senator from Florida went on to term Russia as a major threat to the United States. “We have a gangster running the largest nuclear stockpile in the world.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Cuban-American politician also called North Korea a threat to the US and slammed its supreme leader.
“In North Korea, a lunatic possesses dozens of nuclear weapons, and a long-range missile that can hit the United States,” he said.
Tensions between the United States and Russia have escalated steadily since April, 2014, when the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea reunited with the Russian Federation following a referendum a month earlier.
Washington accuses Moscow of arming and supporting pro-Russian forces fighting in the predominantly Russian-speaking areas in eastern Ukraine. Moscow dismisses the accusations as “groundless”.
The Kremlin has described Washington’s foreign policy on Ukraine as “aggressive”, saying the policy “fails to meet present-day realities and demonstrates that the United States actually wants to dominate the world.”
The mainstream US media have also attempted to demonize the Russian president for standing up against Washington’s hegemonistic foreign policy.
Republican as well as Democratic politicians have also attacked Putin in order to gain the support of the US military-industrial complex, which is provoking war with Russia.
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Posted: 31 Aug 2015 02:51 PM PDT

Another huge blast at a chemical facility has reportedly occurred in the Chinese province of Shandong. The explosion, located in an industrial zone in Lijin, Dongying City, happened late on Monday, China’s People’s Daily reported.
The blast was so massive it could be seen and heard from a great distance. A chemical factory is believed to have been in the area. According to People’s Daily, the blast happened at around 11:30pm local time (3:30pm GMT).
No immediate reports of casualties or damages were available.
The plant in Shandong province which caught fire on August 22 produced hundreds of thousands of tons of adiponitrile – a toxic colorless liquid which releases poisonous gases when it reacts with fire, local media reported.
China has been hit by a wave of massive blasts at its chemical facilities this month. Earlier in August, nearly 160 people were killed and around 700 injured in explosions at a warehouse storing hazardous chemicals in Tianjin port. Fifiteen people still remain missing following the tragedy, authorities said on Monday. Cleanup crews are still struggling with cyanide contamination in the area.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 09:00