Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thursday, 21 January 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 20 Jan 2016 12:25 PM PST

Evidence that municipal authorities in cities as diverse as Cologne, Philadelphia, and Reykjavik covered up violent acts by jihadists may indicate that there is an international agreement between some nations to cover up such acts.
Police in Cologne, along with the administration of Mayor Henriette Reker, covered up the fact that the mass rapes and sexual assaults committed against German women on New Year’s Eve were carried out by Muslim immigrants, including some recently-arrived migrants from the Middle East. In addition, the German media participated in the initial cover-up of the identities of the perpetrators. Some observers believe that the order to cover up the assaults came directly from the German chancellor’s office in Berlin. Chancellor Angela Merkel originally invited over a million mostly Muslim refugees into Germany from civil war-wracked nations such as Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan. Every one of these civil wars were brought about by neo-conservative masterminded intervention by the United States and its NATO allies, including Germany.
It subsequently emerged that the Swedish government covered up incidences of mass rape at the “We are Sthlm” music festival in Stockholm in 2014 and 2015. The sexual assaults were carried out by young male migrants from Afghanistan and the youngest victim was a 12-year old Swedish girl. Swedish police revealed that the identities and ethnicity of the perpetrators were covered up in order to prevent the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party from gaining a political advantage at the expense of the Social Democrats currently in power in Stockholm. Similar mass gang rapes committed by Muslim men were reported in Kalmar and Karlstad. As with the German media, the Swedish media, including the large daily Dagens Nyheter, initially covered up the Stockholm rapes.
Mass sexual assaults by mainly Iraqi men against Finnish women have also been reported by Finnish police. As in Sweden, Finnish authorities have been reluctant to reveal the ethnicity and religion of the perpetrators.
In November of last year, the Reykjavik, Iceland police came under heavy criticism for releasing from custody two men found to have been torturing and raping Icelandic women in an expensive apartment in the Hlíðar district near central Reykjavik. The police also allowed the two perpetrators to leave Iceland. Although the identities of the two men were not disclosed, Icelandic social media commentary has focused on Muslim men as the perpetrators. Certainly, the fact that the Reykjavik police may have covered up another jihadi rape crime fits a pattern seen in Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, and other Scandinavian cities.
The mass rape events are actually an ingrained part of Islamist society. Known as
“taharrush gamea,” it was carried out by mainly Muslim Brotherhood-supported Islamists against Egyptian and foreign women during the Tahrir Square demonstrations in Cairo.
In Rotherham, England, it emerged that authorities covered up between 1997 and 2013 the systematic rape of girls, some as young as 12, by Muslim Pakistanis. The Pakistanis were also involved in sex trafficking of young girls. The local police commissioner resigned after it was discovered he had engaged in “institutional political correctness.” The local Rotherham council leader also resigned. Jahangir Akhtar, the deputy council leader, lost his seat in an election and the Labor Party later suspended him from membership.
After Edward Archer, 30, a jihadist who swore allegiance to the Islamic State, tried to execute Philadelphia police officer Jesse Hartnett, who was sitting in his patrol car, the Philadelphia chapter of the Saudi-funded Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) attempted to push the meme that Archer was not really a practicing Muslim. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney echoed CAIR’s statement by claiming that Archer was not a Muslim. Philadelphia Police Comissioner Richard Ross contradicted both CAIR and Kenney by stating that Archer was not only a Muslim but that he swore allegiance to the Islamic State. CAIR’s Philadelphia executive director, Jacob Bender, the Wahhabist-oriented group’s first Jewish official, did his best to divert the media’s attention away from the fact that Archer was a jihadist. Bender said, “I’ve called numerous imams and mosques to try to see if the name rings a bell with anyone. So far it hasn’t.”
CAIR and Kenney should have known about Archer, if previous rhetoric about “close cooperation” between Philadelphia’s Muslim community, the Philadelphia’s mayor’s office, and the local FBI office are to be believed. WMR previously reported on the jihadist activities that have taken place at a mosque in Palmyra, New Jersey. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has paid little attention to the activities in his own state, preferring instead to warn at presidential campaign venues, the threat posed by Islamists from abroad.
Asim Abdur Rashid, imam of Masjid Mujahideen on South 60th Street, the mosque attended by Archer and near where the jihadist tried to kill the Philadelphia cop, said he did not know Archer and that he was not a member of his mosque. Later, Rashid admitted that he did know Archewr but only by his Muslim name of Abdul Shaheed. The imam also later revealed that Archer Archer made the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and studied Arabic in Egypt. The Philadelphia media painted a picture of Archer as a troubled man and quoted his mother as saying her son often heard voices in his head.
As previously reported by WMR, the Saudis, aided and abetted by their Israeli friends, the Turkish government, and CIA director John Brennan, are facilitating a Wahhabist invasion of Europe and North America. It is also noteworthy that Hillary Clinton’s chief aide, Huma Abedin, has close ties to the Saudis and that the Clinton Foundation received generous donations from the Wahabist-ruled kingdoms of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai.
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Posted: 20 Jan 2016 12:16 PM PST

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a controversial trade agreement that the Obama administration spent years negotiating in secret, is “worse than we expected,” public interest lawyer and activist Kevin Zeese told Sputnik Radio.
The TPP is a wide-ranging economic agreement between 12 countries in the Asia-Pacific region and the Pacific coasts of the Americas primarily aimed at deregulating trade. In October, the parties reached an agreement on the wording and subject matter of the TPP. The details of the controversial trade deal were then revealed to the public, after almost seven years of negotiations.
“The sad reality is it’s worse than we expected. Seeing it all, we see it’s … essentially a global corporate coup where corporations become more powerful than governments,” Zeese told Sputnik Radio’s “Loud & Clear.”
​Negotiators spent years working behind closed doors to create the 6,000-page agreement that, according to Zeese, covers “all aspects of our lives.”
More than 500 corporate representatives monitored and edited the agreement for US trade representatives. US lawmakers, Zeese said, had to go through “a lot of hoops” to view the details. Even then, legislators were prohibited from making any recording or copy of the agreement and could not discuss it with their staff, let alone their constituents.
“So it was kept secret because [negotiators] know that as people see what’s in this agreement, it loses support,” he said.
According to Zeese, the main beneficiaries of the hotly-debated TPP will be the “poorest countries” which can “bring in some slave-wage jobs.”
The Obama administration claimed the TPP will create hundreds of thousands of American jobs. However, the administration abandoned that claim after it was discredited by the Washington Post, Zeese said.
In reality, the TPP will benefit the ‘trans-national corporate powers” in the United States, Zeese said. While in poorer countries, the agreement will serve “people in charge of those governments, usually oligarchs who in various ways run the governments.”
“So it’s the wealthy versus the workers; that’s really what these agreements are about,” Zeese said.
Obama and the heads of other nations party to the TPP will formally sign the agreement on February 4 in New Zealand. After that, the president can send it to Congress at his leisure. Each nation state that is party to the deal must ratify the agreement within its own government before the hotly debated treaty can come into effect.
Obama called the TPP his top legislative priority of 2016. But, because of how difficult it is now to pass controversial legislation, Zeese said, the president may wait until after the November election to send it to Congress for a vote.
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Posted: 20 Jan 2016 11:59 AM PST

A lawsuit is challenging President Obama’s recent executive order, which attempts to expand government restrictions on gun sales. The lawsuit argues that the action illegally attempts to circumvent Congress’ legislative power.
Conservative advocacy group Freedom Watch on Monday challenged Obama’s executive order on guns, which instructed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and other agencies to reinterpret legislation passed by Congress. The president justified this by saying he was closing what he called a “loophole” that allowed certain sales to occur without a background check.
“The president states that he is doing so purely because he does not like the legislative decisions of the Congress,” wrote Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman. “These actions are unconstitutional abuses of the president’s and executive branch’s role in our nation’s constitutional architecture and exceed the powers of the president as set forth in the US Constitution.”
The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, alleges that President Obama doesn’t have the legal authority to redefine laws that Congress passed. The new interpretation allows the ATF to extend its enforcement activities to people who do not make their livelihood selling firearms and require them to perform background checks. This previous limitation on jurisdiction was known by its detractors as the “gun show loophole.”
This is only the first lawsuit challenging the January 4 executive order that many experts predicted to be controversial both politically and legally.
Klayman also argues that the executive order violates due process by containing overly-vague language about prohibiting mental health.
“Obama is changing under such background checks a person prohibited from buying a gun from one formally adjudicated by a court of law to be mentally incompetent to anyone who – vaguely – has a mental health ‘issue,’” Klayman said in a statement. “Thus, the due process protection of a court ruling is being lost. Obama ordered the Social Security Administration to report to the firearm background check database people on disability payments for reasons that may indicate ‘issues’ of mental health.
“Obama is working to require doctors to report those with (poorly defined) issues. Everyone living in same household may lose right to possess a gun.”
In addition to Barack Obama, Klayman’s lawsuit names Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Thomas Brandon, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as defendants.
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Posted: 20 Jan 2016 11:46 AM PST


In the wake of a series of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in Germany, right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders on Monday called for all Muslim male refugees to be locked up in asylum centers, saying women needed to be protected.
Speaking in a new video for his Freedom Party (PVV), Wilders condemned the attacks in Cologne, Germany, in which hundreds of women were groped and robbed by a mob of mostly Arab and North African men.
​He called the attacks “sexual terrorism, sexual jihad,” and repeated calls for the Netherlands to close its borders to all “asylum-seekers from Islamic countries.”
“But as long as this doesn’t happen, as long as our women are in danger from the Islamic testosterone bombs, I propose that we lock the male asylum seekers up in the asylum centers,” he said.
The Netherlands took in a record number of asylum-seekers last year, receiving more than 54,000 by the end of November.
Wilders’ views have already sparked controversy. He was charged with inciting racial hatred after making a campaign pledge to ensure there will be “fewer Moroccans” in the country.
His party, the PVV, is planning to hand out fake pepper spray to women at a political rally this weekend. Carrying pepper spray is illegal in the Netherlands, but Wilders has said it should be legalized.
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Posted: 20 Jan 2016 07:03 AM PST

A grim Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that Ministry of Defense (MoD) officials were “stunned” last week after a Turkish Air Force fighter jet operating within its own airspace fired upon and downed two CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters being flown by the US Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) over Kurdish held territory in the eastern Syrian “department” of the Levant War Zone killing all 12 of the American military troops on board.
According to this report, on 14 January, these two MARSOC helicopters departed from Ayn al-Asad Airbase in Iraq for a “normal/routine” re-supply mission of US Marine and British Special Forces troops currently embedded with Kurdish Peoples Protection Unit (YPG) fighters battling Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) terrorists near the Turkish border in north eastern Syria near the city of Raqqa when this “war crime” occurred.
Immediately upon Federation Aerospace Forces detecting this Turkish “unprovoked” attack upon these two MARSOC helicopters, this report continues, Russian commanders notified the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar advising the American’s of their willingness to assist in search and rescues missions, but which the US commanders stated they did not need as their own TRAP forces (tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel) had already been alerted.
Most outlandishly, this report notes, is that within 5 hours of Turkey shooting down these two MARSOC helicopters in Syria, Aerospace Forces satellites monitoring the Pacific Ocean region detected what they believed at the time to be an unannounced test of a US Navy RIM-8 Talos missile in the waters surrounding the Hawaii Islands—but which within two hours of its firing and exploding the US Navy announced two of its CH-53 helicopters had “crashed”, and just yesterday announced they had ceased attempting to find either these aircraft or its crew members.
As to why the Obama regime would deliberately conceal from the American people this “deliberate war crime”, this report explains, is due to their fears of what the reactions of their citizens would be upon learning that these 12 brave US Marines were killed by their own NATO ally Turkey—who at the exact same time the US is fighting with and assisting the Kurdish peoples in fighting Islamic State terrorists, Turkey is doing everything it can to destroy them.
So bitter have relations deteriorated between the Obama regime and Turkey over America’s support for the Kurdish peoples, this report notes, Turkish officials even openly warned the American’s again yesterday that they won’t even tolerate the inclusion of Kurdish groups at the upcoming peace talks aimed at ending the war in Syria—with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu bluntly telling the US: “We will never accept that YPG is being seen as a legitimate power on the opposition side. We will never allow this to happen because it is a direct threat to Turkey.”
Upon the Security Councils reviewing the MoD information relating to Turkey’s downing of these MARSOC helicopters, and its threat to further destabilize the Levant War Zone, this report concludes, it issued a warning a few hours ago stating that the activities by foreign Special Forces are now one of the main threats to Russia’s security.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2016 02:50 PM PST


Former Alaska Governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump on Tuesday before the latter’s rally in Iowa, at her own rally in Ames, two weeks before the Iowa caucus.
“I’m proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for president,” Palin said in a statement released by the Trump campaign.
In a press release on Trump’s website, the campaign rubbed the endorsement in the face of his closest GOP competition, Senator Ted Cruz, going so far as to quote him in the endorsement announcement. Palin endorsed Cruz during a previous senate bid in Texas.
“Senator Ted Cruz notes: ‘I would not be in the United States Senate were it not for Gov. Sarah Palin… She can pick winners,’” Trump’s statement quoted the Texas senator as saying.
Despite the innumerable jokes made at her expense (she is a recurring character on Saturday Night Live), Palin remains inexplicably influential in the Republican party, particularly in evangelical circles.
“Are you ready to make America great again?!” Palin shouted after being introduced at the rally.
“If you love your freedom, thank a vet! Thank a vet and know that the United States military deserves a commander in chief who loves our country passionately and will never apologize for this country!” Palin expostulated.
The former governor praised Trump for being from the private sector instead of being a politician. Palin also asserted that Trump will “kick ISIS’ ass.”
She spoke highly of Rand Paul for being a Libertarian, while saying the other Republican candidates who are currently members of the House and Senate need to stay there to help “our new Commander in Chief” when he gets into office.
Like Trump, Palin is a former reality-tv star, and understands how to acquire and maintain media attention with orchestrated controversy. The former beauty queen pageant winner is expected to add to the larger-than-life circus atmosphere of Trump’s events and overall campaign.
Palin will be traveling with Trump to Norwalk, Iowa, for an event on Wednesday, before traveling to Tulsa, Oklahoma, for a rally later in the day, where the campaign claims that “thousands” are set to attend.
“I am greatly honored to receive Sarah’s endorsement. She is a friend, and a high quality person whom I have great respect for. I am proud to have her support,” Trump said.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2016 02:34 PM PST

After the incidents of sexual assault in Cologne, Germany on New Year’s Eve committed by Muslim refugees against German women, feminist apologetics have acquired renewed vigor in the European debate.
Pundits and politicians assure the public that refugee males now storming the gates of Europe from the Middle East, Northern Africa and Central Asia will be required to learn that Western women are independent and sexually liberated. Such arguments, however, are obviously too weak to have any impact on the male cultures representative of certain refugee groups.
To these individuals, strong European women are ‘easy’ and easy victims; they have respect only for strong men – and strong men aren’t exactly thick on the ground in Europe.
The deficiency of masculinity in European culture renders it impotent in the face of the political and cultural chaos that has escalated along with growing immigration.
Instead of a single-minded focus on imposing liberal feminist values on Muslim males, it might well be much more beneficial for Europeans to consider if the feminist war on masculinity might be the underlying cause of the weakness of European culture – feeble and defenseless as it is – against the culture of immigrants and refugees. The irony is that the vacuum feminism has created means that women become victims of an aggressive male culture.
A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Centre shows that the number of young men in the US who want to marry has dropped to the lowest level ever recorded.
American author Suzanne Venker claims that the pervasive cultural influence of feminism is the cause. Venker states that men explain their lack of desire to marry with the observation that “women are no longer women”; feminism has programmed women to see men as the enemy. As a result, males have been made redundant in post-modern Western culture. Women no longer need men as a provider, protector or father of her children; an anonymous semen donor can do the job of creating a baby if a woman so chooses.
Since the 1960s, modern mothers have raised their sons to be women, soaking them in feminine values like accepting responsibility for household chores, being caring, understanding and attentive, and bend to every wish of the woman. This has produced a generation of soft, insecure men, who are out of touch with their masculine nature, identity and strength.
Today, many boys also grow up with no father in the home and have no male role models. The average modern Western male has been feminized, with no knowledge or habit of manly virtues like courage, resolve, self-sacrifice, justice, temperance, self-reliance, self-discipline and honour. He has no sense of true expression of manliness. Feminism despises and rejects these virtues, and this has had a profoundly detrimental impact on a European culture, the “battered wife” of a feeble continent.
The massive feminization of culture has had a major impact on politics. The prevailing ideology of Western liberal democracy is secular humanism, which is particularly feminine in character. Policy, especially as applied to immigrants, is a motherly embrace of goodness and overbearing indulgence. One could also interpret it as naivety, weakness and accommodation. As the refugee crisis erupted and overwhelmed Europe, its political leaders – spearheaded by German Chancellor Angela Merkel – acted like timid mother hens, not as strong men responsible for guarding their country from an invasion.
Indeed, Danish police officers were seen playing with refugee children on motorways instead of doing their job of enforcing the law. They were lauded as heroes in the media. They acted like women with soft hearts and not as men entrusted with defending their country and the rule of law.
Camille Pagilla, self-professed “feminist dissident”, put it like this in the Daily Mail: “The entire elite class now, in finance, in politics and so on, none of them have military service – hardly anyone, there are a few. But there is no prestige attached to it anymore. That is a recipe for disaster… These people don’t think in military ways, so there’s this illusion out there that people are basically nice, people are basically kind, if we’re just nice and benevolent to everyone they’ll be nice too. They literally don’t have any sense of evil or criminality.’ According to Paglia, the results are there for all to see in the on-going dysfunction in Washington, where politicians ‘lack practical skills of analysis and construction’”.
The precise problem is that Europe’s political leaders have no military background, unlike leaders of the past, for instance Roosevelt, de Gaulle and Churchill. For this reason, they lack the basic understanding for defending their culture, their country and its inherent values. They are self-deprecating and apologetic, gullible and caring to the point where their policies become severely harmful to the populations they are supposed to protect.
The feminine approach threatens to throw society into chaos and outright collapse because the rule of law and its enforcement are made subject to the priorities of care, understanding and inclusion. The shortage of masculine virtues affects society and the political system. The shortage of masculine virtues is the underlying cause of the immigration problems.
The present clash with Islam, driven as it is by a dominant male culture, reveals the lamentable shortcomings of post-modern feminist culture, which does not possess the strength to defend itself against a male-dominated culture. The gross violations against women on New Year’s Eve in Cologne provide a chilling reminder of the contrast; male aggression has gained a foothold and feminine values are helpless and unable to resist.
At the moment, Europe resembles a woman who allows herself to be battered and abused by her man. Like many battered women, she tries to cover her man’s violations, makes excuses for him, and returns to him time after time.
At the same time, immigration is inevitable in a globalized world. If Europe is to survive in an age of mass migration, there must be a male revolution. This revolution will be as important as the struggle for women’s rights in the 1960s. It is vital for Western men to acknowledge this need and start building social, cultural and political capital based on masculine virtues to defend the values upon which Europe is based.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2016 02:08 PM PST

US presidential candidate, Republican Senator Rand Paul, put forward an initiative to tighten the rules for issuing visas to Russian citizens.
The politician also suggested including Russia on the list of so-called “highly dangerous countries,” from where terrorists may enter the territory of the United States.
The project that the senator develops is called the “Security Act.” there time for issuing a US visa to Russian citizens may increase up to 30 days. The document also empowers the State Department with the right to impose a moratorium on accepting refugees from the list of “dangerous countries.”
The list, in addition to Russia, includes Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt, Eritrea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen and the Palestinian Territories.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2016 01:47 PM PST

A nuclear watchdog group warns that, despite efforts to secure nuclear material, nations are still vulnerable to theft, as well as acts of sabotage or cyberattacks, which could enable terrorists to obtain nuclear materials or trigger a dangerous meltdown.
Twenty-four states “still have one kilogram (2.2 pounds) or more of weapons-usable nuclear materials…[and] nearly 2,000 metric tons (4.4 million pounds) of weapons-usable nuclear material remain stored around the world, much of it still too vulnerable to theft,” said Sam Nunn, chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, in the introduction to a new report titled “2016 NTI Nuclear Security Index: Theft and Sabotage.”
The NTI Index ranks nations in terms of their safeguards for keeping nuclear explosive materials protected.
Alarmingly, the report found that more than 80 percent of all nuclear explosive materials are held by militaries “whose practices and safeguards are not covered by international agreements on security of such materials.” The report urged all nuclear weapons states to agree on a set of security precautions to implement.
“We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the world’s leaders must run faster,” said Nunn, a former Senate Armed Services Committee Chair, in commenting on the reports’ findings, according to The Center for Public Integrity.
In 2014, the index listed seven countries that were taking the most important steps in preventing theft of nuclear materials through their elimination, but two years on only one country, Uzbekistan, had done so.
Nunn told The Center for Public Integrity that “brutal attacks and incidents by ISIL, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram and other organizations are on the rise, raising the specter of catastrophic nuclear terrorism if they or other terrorists get control of dangerous nuclear materials.”
He added, “…Of course, that’s what the world must prevent.”
Among the 24 states with weapons-usable nuclear materials, Australia topped the list of countries with strong nuclear protections for the third time, and Japan was the most improved state. North Korea came in last. France, the US, and the United Kingdom score the highest among nuclear-armed states, and the US, India, Russia and the UK are the most improved nuclear-armed states, according to the report.
Sweden earned first place for states without or with less than one kilogram of weapons-usable nuclear materials, and Djibouti is the most improved of those states, noted the report.
Other findings were that no improvements have been made in several areas to secure highly enriched uranium and plutonium since 2014. Those areas are on-site physical protection, control and accounting, insider threat prevention, physical security during transport, and response capabilities.
For the first time, the index included the risk to nuclear facilities posed by cyberattacks and sabotage, and found that nearly half of the assessed countries did not have a single requirement to protect facilities from cyberattacks. Only nine of the 24 countries with weapons-usable material received a maximum score on cybersecurity.
The report also found that 45 countries with nuclear facilities were struggling to put basic measures in place to prevent an act of sabotage that could result in a radiological release on par in scale with that of the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan.
The report found that Finland topped the list of those in need of protection. Australia, Canada, the UK, and Japan rounded out the top five.
World leaders are scheduled to meet in Washington, DC on March 31 for the final Nuclear Security Summit, which was created to draw attention to the potential for theft of nuclear material.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2016 01:14 PM PST

Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos accused Turkey on Monday of facilitating the smuggling of migrants from its territory to Europe, in an interview with a German newspaper.
“I have serious concerns that Turkish human traffickers get support from authorities,” Pavlopoulos told Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
The Greek leader said that port authorities in Turkey did not do enough to prevent migrants from boarding smuggler boats bound for Europe. “In particular, port authorities are pretending to be unaware of this,” he claimed.
The European Union agreed in November to give Turkey 3 billion euros (almost $3.8 billion) in funds to help it bolster border security and accommodate some 2.2 million Syrian refugees. The European Commission has already transferred some 500 million euros, with the rest to be contributed by EU member states.
President Pavlopoulos confirmed that Greece would uphold its part of the deal to provide Turkey with funds – but only after Ankara delivers on its pledge to prevent migrants from crossing into Europe. “Turkey has so far not delivered,” he said.
The Greek president is in Berlin for three-way talks with his German counterpart Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose open-door refugee policy he described as “daring.”
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