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- Major Ships Have Deserted Atlantic Ocean For First Time In History
- Chemistry textbooks officially obsolete
- Hundreds rally against women violence after NYE attacks in Cologne
- Volkswagen faces $48 billion in fines in US
- New York Governor Orders Officials to Round Up State’s Homeless
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Posted: 06 Jan 2016 07:54 AM PST
 A very alarming Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that Federation Naval Forces reported yesterday that the entire Atlantic Ocean has been totally deserted of major freighter ships—an occurrence this report states has never been seen in all of modern recorded history. According to this report, this stunning information about the Atlantic Ocean now being abandoned by major shipping vessels was contained in the classified section(s) of the Northern Fleet’s report to the MoD of its ability to conduct operations in different regions during 2016. Of the ships most noted in this report to now be missing from the Atlantic Ocean, this report continues, are Panamax and New Panamax vessels along with every type of wet carrier (oil/liquefied natural gas) vessels including VLCC and ULCC supertankers. Secondary confirmation of this stunning occurrence, this report notes, was obtained by Northern Fleet analysts tracking INTTRA’s 220,000 ocean shipping database and the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) crashing to a new all-time low—and which caused Germany’s Deutsche Bank to warn yesterday that a “perfect storm was coming”.  This report explains that the INTTRA portal allows shippers, consignees and forwarders access to multiple carriers through a single site and allow users to communicate with their carriers and is, in many respects, a shipping portal to the maritime industry what a global distribution system (GDS) is to the airline industry—while the BDI is the global index that provides an assessment of the price of moving major raw materials by sea and takes in 23 shipping routes measured on a timecharter basis and covers Handysize, Supramax, Panamax, and Capesize dry bulk carriers carrying a range of commodities including coal, iron ore and grain. The combination of these major ships having deserted the Atlantic Ocean and the crashing of the BDI, this report further explains, is a “clear and potent” signal of a coming Western economic/banking collapse as was evidenced in the 2007-2008 Crisis that was the last time these two factors accurately indicated what was coming—and has, likewise, led to all of the world’s stock markets crashing during the first week of this new year. Further confirmation of this historic abandoning of the Atlantic Ocean, this report says, was noted this past November when an over two mile line of oil tanker vessels were reported to be sitting off the Gulf of Mexico coast of Galveston, Texas, due to their being no place to offload their ships—and has reached such a critical proportion that other oil tankers in route to the US were forced three weeks ago to turn around in the Atlantic Ocean as there was no longer any more room left for their cargo either. Grimly though, this report further notes, as the world’s major shipping vessels have now abandoned the Atlantic Ocean, the same cannot be said of the Obama regimes United States Navy (USN) whose Lewis and Clark class cargo ships are continuing their non-stop armament shipments to Saudi Arabia—where the bulk of these weapons and ammunition shipments end up the hands of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) terrorists operating the Levant War Zone. As to why the Obama regime is continuing to arm these Islamic State terrorists through USN weapons shipments to Saudi Arabia, this report questions, is “beyond understanding”—including to former President Ronald Reagan top official David Stockman, who in his research article yesterday titledEnough Already! It’s Time To Send The Despicable House Of Saud To The Dustbin Of History bluntly stated: “ …for more than four decades Washington’s middle eastern policy has been dead wrong and increasingly counter-productive and destructive. The crisis provoked this past weekend by the 30-year old hot-headed Saudi prince, who is son of the King and heir to the throne, only clarified what has long been true.To the American people being allowed by the Obama regime and its mainstream “presstitute” news services to know of this grave occurrence in the Atlantic Ocean, this report concludes, appears, like always, to not be the case as this government would rather see these once great people alarmed and confused rather than trusting them with true facts so that at least some of them may be able to prepare themselves for the storms that are soon to come. Source           |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2016 03:19 AM PST
 Each chemical element is made up of atoms with the same number of protons, and since each atom has a unique number of protons, called atomic number, all the elements can be grouped and ordered in a tabular arrangement, known as periodic table of elements. Other criteria for the arrangement are electron configuration and chemical properties. Of the 114 elements arranged on the table, the first 94 occur naturally on Earth and the remaining 20 are made in controlled lab conditions, dubbed synthetic elements, which are decaying and unstable. The recent groundbreaking discovery of four new elements has completed the seventh row of the periodic table, and as a result made all the chemistry textbooks outdated at once. The four new elements, which are highly radioactive and can only live for fractions of a second before decaying into other elements, were discovered — or synthetically made — by scientists in Japan, Russia, and the United States and were recognized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). “IUPAC has now initiated the process of formalizing names and symbols for these elements temporarily named as ununtrium, (Uut or element 113), ununpentium (Uup, element 115), ununseptium (Uus, element 117), and ununoctium (Uuo, element 118),” said Professor Jan Reedijk, the president of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of IUPAC. He added that the chemistry community was eager to see its “most cherished table” was finally being completed down to its seventh row. According to IUPAC rules, new elements can be named after a notable scientist, a mythological concept, a country, or a place. Moreover, the union must propose and approve a two-letter symbol for the newly-discovered elements to represent them in the table. The atomic number rises as the count of protons in the atom’s nucleus increases, making the element heavier. The heaviest elements in nature are Plutonium (atomic number 94) and uranium (atomic number 92), beyond which, synthetic elements have to be created in lab through slamming elemental nuclei together. In 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev designed and published the most well-known periodic table of elements with only 63 entries at the time. The table is not completed yet with scientists hoping to find an “island of stability” at or near element 120 or perhaps 126, containing elements that would stick around longer than fractions of a second. Source      |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2016 03:13 AM PST
 Several hundred people have rallied in Cologne in protest against heightened trouble stemming from the migrant community, and the authorities’ failure to intervene and prevent the dozens of sexual assaults which took place during wild New Year celebrations. Organized via social networks, hundreds of men and women demonstrated against the intolerable levels of abuse witnessed by women at the hands of the male refugee community at Cologne’s main train station on New Year’s night. So far some 90 women have reported being sexually molested, threatened and robbed outside Cologne Cathedral by men of “Arab or North African” origin, police said on Tuesday. Addressing a crowd of up to 500 citizen activists, speakers took turns raising their concerns to the public, urging authorities to defend female integrity. Again and again the question was raised of what was law enforcement had been doing on that night to allow such large scale attacks to happen. Those gathered at the scene of the crimes slammed the government’s open door refugee policy, enacted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in September. Women held up signs reading, “Mrs Merkel – Where are you?” and “Thank you [Cologne Mayor] Mrs. Reker. Arm Cologne.” The mass attack on women in the middle of the city around Cologne Central Station on New Year’s happened to the loud cheers of festivities. Up to 1,000 men could be suspects in what the authorities called a “crime of a whole new dimension.” To quell the New Year’s disturbance in the city, authorities eventually deployed more than 200 officers, involving 143 local policemen in addition to 70 federal officers. So far fewer than a dozen arrests have been made. Tuesday’s rally to protect women’s rights came after Mayor Henriette Reker held a crisis meeting with Chief of Police, Wolfgang Albers, and head of federal police, Wolfgang Wurm, where she urged women to adopt a “code of conduct.” “It is important to prevent such incidents from ever happening again,” Reker said according to RP Online. The code includes advice to maintain a distance of an arm’s length from strangers, not to walk alone at night, to conjugate with a team of friends, to ask bystanders for help and to inform the authorities of an assault. Reker also called for a “better explanation” of acceptable behavior at public gatherings to the city’s migrant community, as she pledged to step up security ahead of next month’s Cologne Carnival. “We need to prevent confusion about what constitutes happy behavior and what is utterly separate from openness, especially in sexual behavior,” she said, promising to beef up security at mass events. The mayor also called for new regulations requiring event organizers to place temporary video surveillance at public gatherings. The mayor also revealed that the same kind of New Year’s chaos in Cologne has also happened elsewhere in Germany. “We have heard by now that they [the attacks] have occurred in other cities. This of course is not comforting to us.” In addition to Cologne attacks by migrants on women were apparently reported in Hamburg. At least ten cases were reported over the night of New Year in the St. Pauli district. According to the city’s police, victims had been approached by several men of “southern or Arab appearance” on Beatles Platz and in the Grosse Freiheit, who sexually harassed women aged 18 to 24. Assaults on women have also taken place in Stuttgart where two 18-year-old women had reportedly been sexually abused and robbed by a group of over a dozen men on New Year’s Eve. Source      |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2016 02:03 AM PST
 The US Justice Department has filed a lawsuit estimated to worth $48 billion against German automaker Volkswagen for violating environmental laws.Reuters reported that the US Justice Department has accordingly filed a lawsuit to the same effect against Volkswagen. The news agency said such US lawsuits are typically settled at a fraction of the theoretical maximum penalty. Nevertheless, it quoted analysts as saying that the size of the claim meant that the company could face a larger bill than previously anticipated. In September, US regulators initially said Europe’s biggest carmaker could face fines in excess of $18 billion. The Justice Department lawsuit is being filed in the Eastern District of Michigan and then transferred to northern California, where class-action lawsuits against Volkswagen are pending. News on this showed immediate effects on the company’s shares which fell as much as 6 percent to a six-week low in early Tuesday trade. The drop has been described as the biggest on Germany’s blue-chip DAX index. The civil lawsuit, announced on Monday, reflects the growing number of allegations against Volkswagen since the German company admitted in September to installing devices to cheat emissions tests in several 2.0 liter diesel vehicle models, Reuters added. The group, previously regarded as a paragon of German industry, revealed in late September that 11 million of its diesel cars worldwide were equipped with devices that can cheat pollution tests. The revelation rapidly snowballed into a scandal, which wiped a third off the company’s market capitalization in just two days. Source      |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2016 01:47 AM PST
 On Sunday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order for law enforcement to force the state’s homeless population into shelters when the temperature drops below freezing. The order goes into effect on Tuesday, and will allow for individuals to be taken — even against their will — by law enforcement. Law enforcement agencies are to take “all necessary steps to identify individuals reasonably believed to be homeless and unwilling or unable to find the shelter necessary for safety and health in inclement winter weather, and move such individuals to the appropriate sheltered facilities.” As of October, the Coalition for Homeless estimated that there are over 59,500 homeless people in New York City alone, 23,000 of which are children. “Our state, which has a beautiful tradition of social progress and community, should not leave anyone outside in freezing temperatures. That’s called basic humanity,” Cuomo said during an interview on New York City news channel NY1. To ensure that shelters are available, the order also requires them to extend their hours of operation any time there is “inclement winter weather which can cause hypothermia, serious injury and death.” While this order is aimed at keeping people safe, many people do not feel safe in shelters and prefer to stay outdoors and make due. Supporters of people’s rights to be able to make their own decisions are arguing that the new regulations may not be constitutional. “We have a lot of legal concerns about how you force people off the street and into shelter,” Judith Goldiner, head of the law reform unit at the Legal Aid Society told the Wall Street Journal. “To the extent that they’re talking about arresting people who refuse, obviously we are completely opposed to that.” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office told the Times that he supports the governor’s intentions, but that Cuomo will need to pass a law to force people to go to shelters against their will. “If I get sued for keeping people safe and getting people in from the cold, because they were endangering themselves, so be it,” Cuomo said during a radio interview. Source     |
