Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday, 22 December 2015

The European Union Times


Posted: 21 Dec 2015 07:08 AM PST

A shocking report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development (MoED) for the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation (PFRF) is warning that a newly passed secretive law signed by US President Barack Obama last week virtually ensures the total enslavement of the American people to the Muslim world—“forever”.
According to this report, this secretive new law signed by President Obama last week was contained in a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill passed by the US Congress that Senator Rand Paul warned about by stating: “It was over a trillion dollars, it was all lumped together, 2,242 pages, nobody read it”.
If this omnibus bill would have been allowed to be read by the American people, or more importantly their US Congress lawmakers, this report continues, they would have shockingly discovered that contained in it was a repeal of the 1980 Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA) that required all foreign persons to pay tax on dispositions of any interests in American real estate. The law specifically provided, too, that its provisions took precedence over any existing tax treaties that provided otherwise.
The reason for the US passing this law in 1980, this report explains, was to protect their citizens from having their property values and taxes skyrocket due to a massive inflow of money from Japan as that Asian nation, at that time, was reported to be buying “everything” they could in the United States—most particularly farm land and through whose purchase of caused the Great American Farm Crisis that was equally as devastating to this nations farmers than the Great Depression.

With President Obama having now having overthrown the FIRPTA law, this report further explains, foreign pension funds are now allowed to buy American real estate the same as their US counterparts without facing any financial repercussions—and whom the biggest beneficiaries will be the Sunni-Muslim Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states that include Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
With GCC pension funds now containing over $3 trillion, this report warns, these Sunni-Muslim nations are now set to become the new “overlords” of America as they are prepared to begin buying massive numbers of US farms and farmland acreage—which will benefit them by allowing them to transfer American food and crops to their nation, as well as benefit the corrupt government structure of the United States as they reap untold billions of dollars, in not trillions, in property taxes due to inflated farmland values their own citizens will no longer be able to afford to pay, and like happened in the 1980’s.
Equally as concerning as these Sunni-Muslim nations destroying American farms, this report says, are that the US land purchases planned by the GCC also includes thousands of acres to erect mosques upon—such as the massive mosque recently completed outside of Washington D.C. that Turkey claims was personally approved by President Obama himself.
Even though the propaganda US media has failed to inform their citizens of this looming crisis, this report concludes, the Obama regime, nevertheless, is showing signs that it is preparing for a backlash as it is now listing on its terror watch database any American citizen described as a “patriot”, and is, also, said to preparing new dictatorial gun laws aimed at totally disarming those of it citizens who fail to bow down, like Obama, to their new and future Muslim leaders.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2015 04:46 AM PST

A 20-year-old green-eyed girl from Kirkuk was chosen Miss Iraq in the first national pageant in over four decades. The final had to be moved from Basra to Baghdad after receiving threats from radical Muslims.
Eight contenders competed for the crown and a chance to represent Iraq in the Miss Universe contest. Organizers tried to stick to criteria of the international event, but made concessions to cultural sensitivities.
For instance, no swimsuit walk was allowed and the evening dresses worn by the contestants were all below the knee. However, the girls were also prohibited from wearing headscarves.
There was more talking than glamorous strutting during the pageant as the contestants pitched their charity projects. One suggested repairing the Mosul dam, the largest in the country and reportedly badly damaged during the fighting around the city. The winner, Shaymaa Abdelrahman, said she would push for educational programs.

“I’m very happy to see Iraq going forward,” she told AFP after being crowned. “This event was huge and put a smile on the faces of the Iraqis.”
Iraq only held one pageant as part of Miss Universe – in 1972, when the country was ruled by the predecessor and cousin of Saddam Hussein, President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. Now Iraq is impoverished, torn by sectarian violence and at war with the brutal jihadist group, Islamic State, which has occupied Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul.
Security concerns prompted the relocation of the pageant’s final from Basra to Baghdad. Two contestants dropped out of the competition after receiving death threats. The organizers say they were accused of “supporting Zionism” by the country’s Sunni community.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2015 04:37 AM PST

Hillary Clinton still won’t say whether she takes any responsibility for the chaos that’s consumed Libya since she pushed for the U.S. to invade it in 2011 and topple Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
“Secretary Clinton, Libya is falling apart,” ABC’s Martha Raddatz noted Saturday during the third Democratic debate.
“You advocated for that 2011 intervention and called it smart power at its best. Even President Obama said the U.S. should done more to fill the leadership vacuum left behind. How much responsibility do you bear for the chaos that followed elections?” Raddatz asked the leading Democratic presidential hopeful.
“Well first, let’s remember why we became part of a coalition to stop Gaddafi from committing massacres against his people … the U.S. was asked to support the European and the Arab partners that we had and we did a lot of due diligence about whether we should or not. Eventually, I recommended, and the president decided, that we would support the action to protect civilians on the ground, and that led to the overthrow of Gaddafi,” Clinton responded.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2015 04:20 AM PST


Donald Trump has fiercely defended Vladimir Putin when an ABC host cited “allegations” accusing the Russian president of killing reporters. Try to prove it, the Republican presidential hopeful said, reminding the media of the presumption of innocence.
The heated discussion took place on ABC’s “This Week” show on Sunday when host George Stephanopoulos started asking the mogul about President Putin’s policy.
Question after question – on Russia’s alleged desire for world domination, relations with Iran, Ukraine – and finally, Stephanopoulos decided to play the Politkovskaya murder card.
“There are many allegations he was behind the killing of Anna Politkovskaya,” Stephanopoulos said. Politkovskaya, a prominent investigative journalist and human rights activist, was killed on October 7, 2006.
He even quoted a tweet from Obama’s Republican rival in 2012, Mitt Romney, who wrote: “Important distinction: thug Putin kills journalists and opponents; our presidents kill terrorists and enemy combatants.”
“But, in all fairness to Putin, you’re saying he killed people, I haven’t seen that. I don’t know that he has. Have you been able to prove that?” Trump said, sharply.
The US presidential candidate admitted that it would have been “despicable” if Putin were really implicated, but he hasn’t seen “any evidence that he’s killed anybody in terms of reporters.”
“It’s never been proven that he’s killed anybody. So, you know, you’re supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, at least in our country,” Trump added.
The ABC host referred to numerous “allegations.”
“I’m saying when you say a man has killed reporters, I’d like you to prove it,” Trump argued. “And I’m saying it would be a terrible thing if it were true. But I have never seen any information or any proof that he killed reporters.”
In fact, “our country does plenty of killing,” Trump added, referring to the United States. When he was asked to clarify his phrase, he lashed out at another presidential candidate – Hilary Clinton.
“I think Hillary Clinton, when she was secretary of state, made some horrible, horrible decisions, and thousands and thousands and even hundreds of thousands of people have been killed. Take a look at what we’re doing in the Middle East. We went into Iraq, we shouldn’t have.”
Trump has never concealed that he approves Putin’s policy, including Russian military operation in Syria. In October, he said that he likes that “Putin is bombing the hell out of ISIS.”
Earlier in December, Putin praised Trump during his traditional end-of-year Q&A session with journalists for wanting deeper ties with Russia. Putin also described Trump as the “absolute frontrunner in the presidential race.”
“He is a very flamboyant man, very talented, no doubt about that… He is the absolute leader of the presidential race, as we see it today. He says that he wants to move to another level of relations, to a deeper level of relations with Russia. How can we not welcome that? Of course we welcome it,” Putin said.
Trump quickly responded to Putin’s comment, stating that it was a “great honor” to receive praise from a “highly respected” leader such as Putin.
“It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond,” Trump said at a rally in Columbus, Ohio.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2015 03:35 AM PST

Dozens of Kurdish fighters and several Turkish soldiers have lost their lives in bloody clashes in Turkey’s southeast this week, and the shadow of civil war is increasingly seen day by day.
Increasingly, signs that ongoing clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish fighters may soon turn into a full-scale civil war, with much of the Kurdish population involved, have caused deep concern.
​Ankara’s hardline politicians and Turkish nationalists across the country are pouring oil onto the flames with violent rhetoric.
“The operations carried out by the Turkish Armed Forces, gendarmerie and police will continue in the region in a steadfast manner until public security is established,” a recent statement by Turkey’s General Staff reads.
​Over a hundred fighters from the notorious Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed in action in the south-east province of Sirnak this week, according to Turkish media. In a full-scale military operation launched on Tuesday, two government soldiers were killed while 23 others, including members of the police, were injured.
This course of events is what many have been warning against.
“When we see these moves, we will know that Pandora’s Box has been opened and we can expect that both sides are heading to a level of violence that could become a civil war,” Metin Gurcan, a Turkish analyst, wrote for Al Monitor earlier this week.
Before the “anti-PKK” operation, as the Turks call their military actions in Cizre, Silopi, and other spots, both PKK and the government forces had been telling civilians to leave the area or go into hiding. Now, peace in this part of the Middle East looks a lot like war.
​“Semsettin, 45, said his family in Silopi woke up on Wednesday to the sound of gunfire and went down to their basement to hide,” BBC reported on Thursday. “As their house is the only one in the area with a basement, 25 neighbors have joined them in the 3-4 square meter room. ‘There is no electricity, it’s cold and the children are suffering. There is no baby food or milk,’ he says.”
​After two days of military operations in the area, Turkey’s Interior Minister Efkan Ala stated that the military and police had seized tons of explosives and thousands of weapons from Kurds, according to Anadolu Agency.
“Security forces seized 2,240 weapons, 862 of which were heavy and long-barreled weapons, almost 10 tons of explosives and some 10,000 Molotov cocktails,” the minister specified.
Kurdish rebels reportedly have not only dug trenches and built barricades in urban areas, but also modified their combat strategy to be effective against well-equipped government military forces.
​​“In the past, veteran PKK fighters reinforced young urban fighters by using a strategy of ‘come-coordinate-depart,’ but now the strategy has become ‘come-stay-direct,’ Metin Gurcan of Al Monitor explained. “If these hybrid forces of veteran PKK fighters and young YDG-H militants in cities are equipped with advanced anti-tank missiles such as Milan, Kornet and TOW and shoulder-fired ground-to-air missiles that could change the entire nature of the anticipated clashes.”
​The regulation of financial activities in Kurdish-dominated areas was reportedly taken over by the PKK in advance, in expectation of a long conflict.
Experts point out that a full-scale war with increased civilian casualties – or, as NATO is used to cynically label it: “collateral damage” — is likely to lead to a civil war over the large areas of Turkey that have a Kurdish majority. Kurds account for some 20% of the total population of Turkey.
​Around 10,000 troops and police officers are involved in a nationwide military operation tasked with putting down a recent Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) independence insurgency.
The PKK waged two long, violent and unsuccessful struggles for independence against Turkey, in which 5,000 Turkish troops and more than 40,000 Kurds were killed between 1984-1999 and 2004-2012.
​A total of 180 police, military and civilians have died in PKK attacks following terrorist acts, claimed by the Islamic State (Daesh in Arabic), that killed 33 Kurdish activists in July and the murder of two police officers claimed by the PKK.
​Turkey has stepped up its air campaign against PKK targets in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2015 03:29 AM PST

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has lost ground to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) in the Republican presidential primary, criticized his colleague today for introducing an amendment to the 2013 immigration bill that would have barred citizenship for anyone who entered the country illegally — something Cruz described as a way to call the bluff of reformers.
“Without question, Rubio and Cruz have been for amnesty,” Paul told The Washington Post in a call with reporters today. “It’s kind of a silly debate. The amendment Cruz put forward was not intended to be a poison pill. It was for legalization.”
Paul’s comments were seized on by the campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), which views this battle in the policy weeds as a way to tarnish Cruz as a political cynic. Paul, like Cruz, spent the early part of 2013 describing how a sensible immigration reform might work, then voting against the “gang of eight” bill and every amendment backed by its adherents. Today, with months of campaigning behind them, Paul described Cruz’s history of that period as self-serving.
“I think Cruz is being disingenuous and not honestly describing what he did,” Paul said. “He’s wanting to have it both ways. I don’t think there’s any contemporary evidence he was putting forward something he didn’t believe in. It makes you wonder whether or not we can take him at face value on other issues.”
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