Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday, 26 October 2015

The European Union Times


Posted: 25 Oct 2015 03:58 PM PDT

74 years of sentences for high level fraudsters; US and rest of Europe bailed theirs out.
In a story not reported on at all by any Western mainstream media source, Iceland just sentenced another five high level bankers to prison for directly contributing to the collapse of the country’s economy in 2008.
This brings the total to 26 bankers now behind bars in Iceland, with most being CEOs of large financial institutions, rather than low level traders.
Most of those jailed will serve terms of two to five years, according to a report by Iceland Magazine, which notes that three executives at Landsbankinn and two at Kaupþing, along with one prominent investor, have been prosecuted.
Their crimes include market manipulation, embezzlement, and breach of fiduciary duties. Their market manipulation destroyed the country’s economy and to this day Iceland is still having to repay the global loan sharks at the IMF, as well as governments of other countries, which kept the nation operating.
The article explains that the prosecutions have been possible because rather than protect and reward the very institutions responsible for the collapse, and the gangsters that run them, the Icelandic government let them fail, and then created a financial supervisory authority to strictly oversee the banks.
Iceland’s President, Olafur Ragnar Grimmson noted:
“Why are the banks considered to be the holy churches of the modern economy? Why are private banks not like airlines and telecommunication companies and allowed to go bankrupt if they have been run in an irresponsible way? The theory that you have to bail out banks is a theory that you allow bankers enjoy for their own profit, their success, and then let ordinary people bear their failure through taxes and austerity? People in enlightened democracies are not going to accept that in the long run.”
The President added:
“We were wise enough not to follow the traditional prevailing orthodoxies of the Western financial world in the last 30 years. We introduced currency controls, we let the banks fail, we provided support for the poor, and we didn’t introduce austerity measures like you’re seeing in Europe.”
While the country’s economy is far from what it once was, it has stabilized and is in a position to recover.
Meanwhile, the governments of the US and Europe bailed out most of those responsible for playing a direct role in the financial crisis that crippled the global economy.
In the US, Congress gave American banks a $700 billion TARP bailout at the expense of taxpayers.
Not one banker in the US has even been charged with a crime relating to the financial collapse, there is still virtually no regulation of the banks, and they are pulling in a near record $160 billion in annual profits, all from “money” created out of thin air.
The banksters continue to be protected, at all levels, and the effects of their criminal actions continue to worsen every day. Another financial catastrophe is a certainty.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2015 03:50 PM PDT

If life on comets was possible, Lovejoy would be a popular destination – scientists have found it releases alcohol and sugar in crazy amounts. But jokes aside, the finding is important as it backs the idea that comets could have seeded life on Earth.
This is the first discovery that has witnessed a comet releasing ethyl alcohol in such amounts – 500 bottles of wine every second.
“We found that comet Lovejoy was releasing as much alcohol as in at least 500 bottles of wine every second during its peak activity,” the paper’s lead author, Nicolas Biver of the Paris Observatory in France, said in a paper published October 23 in Science Advances.
Researchers described finding 21 different organic molecules in the substances released by the comet, including ethyl alcohol, the same ingredient used in alcoholic drinks, and glycolaldehyde, sugar.
Some scientists strongly believe that comets, which are the frozen remains from the formation of our solar system, may have carried the molecules necessary for sparking life to Earth.
This particular find was made possible as Comet Lovejoy (its formal name is C/2014 Q2) made its closest approach to the sun back on January 30. It is one of the brightest and also one of “the most active comets in Earth’s orbital neighborhood,” scientists said.
At the time, Lovejoy was releasing water at a rate of 20 tons per second, NASA said. Being relatively close to the sun caused the heated comet to release various gases, and scientists used the opportunity to figure out what kind of molecules they were composed of.
The research team measured the microwave frequencies of each molecule, which glowed after being energized by the sunlight. Each type of molecule has its own unique frequency, which makes it possible to identify it.
“The result definitely promotes the idea the comets carry very complex chemistry,” a co-author of the paper, Stefanie Milam of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said.
“During the Late Heavy Bombardment about 3.8 billion years ago, when many comets and asteroids were blasting into Earth and we were getting our first oceans, life didn’t have to start with just simple molecules like water, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen. Instead, life had something that was much more sophisticated on a molecular level. We’re finding molecules with multiple carbon atoms. So now you can see where sugars start forming, as well as more complex organics such as amino acids – the building blocks of proteins – or nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA. These can start forming much easier than beginning with molecules with only two or three atoms,” Milam added.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2015 03:33 PM PDT

If Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia step into the Syrian conflict on the side of the Islamic State, this may trigger Third World War.
Earlier, Qatari Foreign Affairs Minister, Khalid al-Attiyah, stated that his country could decide to start intervention in Syria. Qatar actively supports the militants opposing Syrian President Assad. It goes about such groups such Jabhat an Nusra, the Islamic State, Al Qaeda and Taliban.
Representatives of Turkey and Saudi Arabia have also expressed an intention to get involved in the Syrian conflict. The Russian, Syrian and Iranian military have made considerable progress in the struggle against the Islamic State. As a result of the operation, five towns in the south-western suburbs of Aleppo have been liberated so far. The goal of the coalition is to remove terrorists from the cities of Aleppo, Hama and Latakia province. In this case, the chain, through which the Islamic State receives supplies via the Turkish border, will be broken.
However, should Riyadh, Doha and Ankara provide military support to the Islamic State, the war may last a lot longer. Therefore, it is vital for the Russian Federation to use diplomatic channels to try to convince these countries to stop supporting the Islamic State, military analyst, Lt. Gen. Yuri Netkachev believes.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2015 03:04 PM PDT

Saudi warplanes have continued their airstrikes against areas across Yemen, killing at least 115 people in the northwestern province of al-Hudaydah.
According to reports, the people were killed on Friday after the Saudi fighter jets pounded a number of islands, including Uqban and Kamaran, in the Red Sea.
The Saudi warplanes reportedly launched over 20 sorties on the islands.
It was also said that the Saudi jets targeted a number of fishing boats in the area and prevented them from providing aid for the people on the targeted islands.
Riyadh also bombarded residential areas in the Yemeni province of Sa’ada, killing at least 11 people and injuring two others in the district of Haydan.
It was reported a gas station and some shopping centers were targeted in the Saudi attacks on the district as well.
Saudi Arabia also pounded residential areas in the district of Bani Hashish in the province, killing at least two children. Saudi attacks were reported in other districts of the province, including Baqim and Kattaf.
Elsewhere, Saudi warplanes also bombarded the district of Bayhan in the southern province of Shabwah, killing at least three civilians.
Local Yemeni media outlets said that Saudi Arabia targeted a market in the Yemeni northwestern province of Hajjah, causing the death of eight civilians and wounding at least 20 others.
Witnesses also confirmed that Saudi fighters targeted the power plant and pylons in the district of Abs in the province.
The Yemeni provinces of Ta’izz and Ma’rib were also bombed by Saudi warplanes.
On Wednesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said that Saudi warplanes had targeted residential areas in Ta’izz, which is Yemen’s cultural capital and third largest city, killing at least 22 people and wounding 140 others.
Yemen has been under incessant Saudi strikes since March 26. The strikes are supposedly meant to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
Riyadh has repeatedly used cluster bombs against the Yemenis during the past months. On Wednesday, Saudi jets reportedly dropped banned cluster bombs on Sa’ada and killed an unspecified number of civilians.
Some 7,000 people have lost their lives in the airstrikes, and a total of nearly 14,000 people have been injured since late March.
As many as 114,000 others have also been forced to flee the war-stricken country due to the Saudi aggression, according to a UN report earlier this month.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2015 02:58 PM PDT

A Florida congressman went before the House earlier this week to again plead for an investigation into the CDC over allegations the agency destroyed documents proving a link between childhood autism and the MMR vaccine.
Two months after a similar speech, Rep. Bill Posey on Tuesday was at it again imploring Congress to investigate admissions made by former CDC researcher Dr. Bill Thompson, who claimed he and other CDC scientists destroyed documents showing a causal link between injections of the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine at an early age and autism-like symptoms.
“…[I]t’s troubling to me that in a recent Senate hearing on childhood vaccinations, it was never mentioned that our government has paid out over three billion dollars through a vaccine injury compensation program for children that have been injured by vaccinations,” Posey pointed out.
In an in-depth video released last year, Thompson confessed to Dr. Brian Hooker that he and other scientists hid or omitted evidence that receiving the vaccine at an earlier age directly correlated with a higher risk or incidence of autism. Thompson also forwarded Hooker documents which were ordered destroyed, but which he managed to keep copies of.
“I believe it is my duty that the documents Dr. Thompson provided are not ignored,” Posey said, echoing sentiments made in his previous speech.
But that was only part of what Dr. Thompson’s team had covered up.
“The risk of autism from early MMR vaccination was seen in black children, black boys. Those boys for some reason are at very high risk,” the narrator of the video, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, says. “Consistent with the CDC’s own findings, the rate of autistic regression in black children is reported to be twice that in white children.”
While beginning his remarks stating he was “absolutely, resolutely pro-vaccine,” Posey urged Congress to launch an investigation into the grave allegations.
“Considering the nature of the whistleblower’s documents, as well as the involvement of the CDC, a hearing and a thorough investigation is warranted. So I ask Mr. Speaker, I beg, I implore my colleagues on the Appropriations committees to please, please take such action,” Posey stated.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 09:36