Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Friday, 22 January 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 22 Jan 2016 08:08 AM PST

The Federal Security Service (FSB) is shockingly reporting today that it has just added former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to its terrorist sponsor watchlist after it was discovered this week that one of the top monetary contributors to her presidential campaign is a suspected agent of Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) who has funneled hundred-of-millions of dollars to Islamic Sunni-backed terror groups throughout the Middle East.
With the Federation, in 2011, having begun this confidential list of people and organizations found to be involved in laundering money and funding terrorism, this report notes, Hillary Clinton’s addition to it makes her the highest ranking US official to have ever been placed upon it—but is not necessarily a “firm/complete” indication of her guilt, but rather means her “actions/associations” involving “known/suspected” terrorists and terrorism supporters have raised “serious concerns” within the FSB.
As to what has raised the FSB’s “serious concerns” about Hillary Clinton, this report explains, was herprivate meeting this past week in Beaumont, Texas, with Pakistani businessman Muhammad Tahir Javed at his home, and attended by 250 other Muslims, that collected about $500,000 making it one of the top five private fundraisers she has had in America to date.
Hillary Clinton’s main new supporter, Muhammad Tahir Javed, this report continues, has long been identified by the FSB as a “suspected” terror supporter and ISI “agent” since he arrived in the United States in 1989 during the President Bill Clinton regime and over the past quarter century has amassed a fortune through his “convenience store empire” located in Texas and the American south which he has vastly expanded into other business areas making him one of the most powerful Islamic businessmen in both the US and Pakistan.
FSB intelligence on the “true” business practices of Muhammad Tahir Javed though, this report notes, appear to show that his fortune was made through his involvement with the ISI and Mexican drug cartels utilizing the “complicity/support” of American government officials.
To the exact working of the ISI’s and Muhammad Tahir Javed’s “scheme” to support global Islamic terrorists, this report says, was recently detailed in news reports from the US State of Alabama where 11 of Javed’s affiliated convenience stores were confiscated this past summer, and as we can, partly, read about:
“A couple of steaks shoplifted at a Gardendale Walmart three months ago led to the biggest food stamp fraud investigation in Alabama history, and launched 11 simultaneous raids this morning at convenience stores countywide.
Led by the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, teams of law enforcement officers met at 5 a.m. for a briefing and then fanned out across the county beginning at 6:50 a.m. The officers and agents were armed with 242 arrest warrants and plans to arrest 17 suspects.
All 17 suspects were in custody by mid-morning, and investigators already today have filed for forfeiture and condemnation of those 11 stores, which totals more than $1 million in assets.
“This is huge for us,” said Jefferson County District Attorney Brandon Falls.
The massive probe, dubbed Operation T-bone, targeted those they say have been cheating the food stamp system to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars and sending the profits via wire transfer to Yemen, some of which is suspected to have funded Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist activity.
At the heart of the operation are Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards, a government-issued debit card that replaced food stamps. There are more than 900,000 people who get government assistance through the EBT card in Alabama each year, and they are allowed to use the cards for food, non-alcoholic beverages, and other basic needs, mostly through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
The investigation began in February when Gardendale police arrested a man for shoplifting steaks and some other items at Walmart in that city. When they interviewed the suspect, he said he was boosting the items to give to two convenience stores, and he named the stores, authorities said.”
As to why the State of Alabama became the only US law enforcement entity to crack down on Muhammad Tahir Javed, this report explains, is due to that State’s top judge becoming embroiled with the Obama regime over the rights of homosexual peoples to marry—and which this action was clearly meant to send a message to President Obama himself that they knew some of his darkest secrets.
In supporting Muhammad Tahir Javed too, this report continues, Hillary Clinton, while she was Secretary of State, joined with the Obama regime in flooding Texas with Islamic refuges who all have received EBT cards which they are now using at Javed’s thousands of convenience/thrift stores—and where one of whom was recently arrested for being a member of the Islamic State terror group.
As to how the American people will react to Hillary Clinton’s receiving $500,000 from a suspected Islamic terror supporter just a fortnight before US Presidential primary elections are held, this report concludes, is never to be known as barely any of them will know about it due to the New York Times itself shockingly admitting in 2012 that all American news, especially news relating to political campaigns, are censored by Obama regime government officials.
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Posted: 22 Jan 2016 08:08 AM PST

The U.S. government harbors a number of exiled political groups, some self-styled “governments-in-exile,” some banned opposition groups and parties, and other groups that have carried out terrorist attacks.
Some of the latter groups have close links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), otherwise known as the “Islamic State.”
Some Republican presidential candidates and both Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Congress have criticized the recent nuclear and sanctions relief deal with Iran because they claim that Iran harbors terrorist groups.
These opponents of closer U.S.-Iranian relations are referring to Iran’s support for Hamas, Lebanese Hezbollah, and the Houthis of Yemen, all of whom have legitimate grievances against Israel, Israel and Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia and its proxy government in Yemen, respectively.
The United States has aided and abetted two Iranian exile groups, one of which, the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), which has coordinated attacks against the Iraqi and Iranian governments with ISIL.
The MEK, aside from maintaining its support offices in the United States, has received the support of such U.S. politicians as former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former CIA directors James Woolsey and Porter Goss, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, former FBI director Louis Freeh, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Attorney General Michael Muksaey, former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, and former Vermont governor and Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean.
All of these and other supporters of the MEK, by default, provide assistance to the MEK’s on-the-ground partner in Iraq, ISIL. The MEK also coordinates terrorist attacks in Iran with the Pakistan-based Iranian Baluchi separatist group, Jundallah.
In 2004, the United States dropped the MEK from its list of foreign terrorist organizations and changed its status to a “protected organization.”
Although the MEK and its two leaders, the husband-wife team of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, some former MEK members consider the Rajavis to be “cult leaders,” the Jim and Tammy Fay Bakker of terrorism, if you will.
Although the MEK and its umbrella organization, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, are based in Paris, the group maintains a number of fronts in the United States.
The MEK also works closely with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The MEK has also maintained links to the National Council of Iran, headed up by the son of the deposed Shah of Iran, “Crown Prince” Reza Pahlavi. Pahlavi maintains his headquarters in Potomac, Maryland, a wealthy Washington suburb.
In 2015, the MEK opened an office on Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Washington, just a block from the White House.
Former Obama national security adviser General Jim Jones and former Bush ambassador to the UN John Bolton attended the grand opening of the office.
Bolton has appeared on television recently decrying the nuclear deal and prisoner swap with Iran. The MEK also maintains a presence in New York from which it lobbies against Iran at the United Nations, often in concert with American Jewish groups.
Ironically, during the Shah’s reign, the Shah and MEK were bitter enemies. In those days, the MEK received support from the Communist bloc.
The U.S. government provides sanctuary to the East Turkestan government-in-exile that helps provide Uighur child soldiers to ISIL forces in Syria and Iraq via Turkey.
Another government-in-exile supported by Washington is that of the rival pretender to the Iranian throne, Mohammed Hassan Mirza II, the leader of the Qajar dynasty, which was exiled from Iran by the rival Pahlavi dynasty in 1923. The Qajar dynasty has its headquarters in Dallas.
In 2014, Razak Abdul A’imma al-Haidari, an Iraqi MP from the Badr Parliamentary bloc, charged that the MEK and ISIL were coordinating their terrorist activities in Iraq.
The U.S. continues to provide the MEK with security at the “Temporary Transit Location” at the former Camp Liberty (Camp Ashraf) U.S. base.
In 2014, the MEK hailed ISIL as “part of a popular revolution against the Maliki regime” in Iraq. Later, the MEK tried to hide its past support for ISIL by claiming that ISIL was a creation of Iran. In fact, ISIL and Iran are bitter enemies and Iranian troops have engaged ISIL in battle in northern Iraq near the Iranian border.
The United States also provides sanctuary to leaders of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which has direct links to the ISIL-affiliated and anti-Russian Caucasus Emirate. Ruslan Tsarni (Tsarnaev), the uncle of Boston Marathon bombing figures Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, had links to the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Ichkeria leaders are found mainly in the Boston, Washington, and New York areas.
The East Turkestan “government-of-exile” is based in Washington, DC. It has helped to provide mercenaries from China’s predominantly Muslim Uighur Xinjiang province, including child soldiers, to ISIL in Syria and Iraq. Some of these children have carried out war crimes by executing hostages. China considers the East Turkestan groups to be terrorist organizations.
The Royal Lao Government-in-exile, which has been involved in clandestine guerrilla warfare against the Lao government in coordination with the Hmongs, has its headquarters in Gresham, Oregon.
The so-called “Federal Republic of Vietnam,” the successor to the U.S.-supported South Vietnamese government and which is said to have been involved in anti-Hanoi guerrilla activities in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam, has its headquarters in Missouri City, Texas.
Southern Florida has been the home of exiled right-wing groups from Cuba, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Many of these groups have been supported by the CIA.
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Posted: 22 Jan 2016 08:08 AM PST

Prime Minister David Cameron is hoping to secure key EU reforms including restrictions on migration during a meeting with Czech leaders in Prague on Friday.
Cameron will hold talks with Czech President Milos Zeman and Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka after leaving the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The PM is hoping to gain key concessions from European countries at an EU gathering next month, before announcing the date of a referendum on Britain’s membership of the bloc.
He is due to meet with EU leaders at a summit of the European Council on February 18-19, where he will seek to reach an agreement on several demands put forward as part of Britain’s renegotiation of its EU membership.
The PM’s most controversial proposal involves restricting access to in-work and out-of-work benefits for EU migrants who have lived in the UK less than four years. Eastern European countries such as Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are especially resistant to this demand, claiming it would infringe on free movement across the bloc.
Speaking at Davos on Thursday, Cameron said he was willing to wait for the right deal from European leaders.
“I very much hope that we can, with the goodwill that is clearly there, reach an agreement at the February European Council. I would like that,” he said.
“I want to confront this issue, I want to deal with it, I want to put that question to the British people in a referendum, and go out and campaign to keep Britain in a reformed European Union. If there is a good deal on the table I will take it, and that’s what will happen.
“But I do want to be very clear: if there isn’t the right deal, I’m not in a hurry. I can hold my referendum at any time up until the end of 2017, and it’s much more important to get this right than to rush it.”
The PM’s talks in Prague follow complaints by Tory MPs that they are being prevented by Conservative Central Office (CCO) from publicly supporting local party members’ campaigns to leave the EU, unless a pro-EU supporter is present to disagree with them.
A letter from the Conservative’s director of organization warned all the party’s association officers that they would be breaching party rules if MPs were given free rein to speak out against the EU at their annual general meeting.
It stipulated that if MPs planned to use the event to speak out in favor of a Brexit, they must ensure “the opposite view is equally strongly advocated.”
The letter, which was sent earlier this month, provoked a fierce backlash from some Tory MPs, who claim the Conservative Campaign HQ (CCHQ) is trying to “gag” them.
CCHQ subsequently backed down and gave MPs permission to make their views clear at association annual general meetings. However, referendum events will still be required to have speakers from both sides.
The debate over whether or not the UK should remain in the EU has been heating up in recent days, with a group of 300 senior City lawyers throwing their weight behind the campaign to keep Britain in the bloc.
The lawyers, led by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner John Davies, claim a Brexit would have a significant impact on their business and the business of their clients.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2016 02:06 PM PST

The new Moldovan government was sworn in at night, following a day of furious protests against the newly appointed pro-EU prime minister. Angry demonstrators clashed with police and stormed the parliamentary office shortly after the lawmakers’ vote.
The ceremony was initially postponed due to the protest. However, it became known post factum that the new cabined was sworn overnight in by the President Nicolae Timofti.
The unrest in the capital city of Chisinau reportedly calmed down in the evening, following an hours-long stand-off between activists and law enforcement officials.
According to reports, up to seven police officers and three protesters have been injured.
Rallying outside the Parliament office since around 10:00 in the morning local time, activists managed to break through police barricades and storm the building around 19:00.
Some police officers were reportedly dragged out of the building by the demonstrators. According to some reports the protesters also used tear gas against police.
Police detained several protesters after they broke into the parliament building, according to local media reports.
The protesters gathered in front of the parliament on Wednesday to demonstrate against the lawmaker’s decision to approve the pro-EU cabinet led by Pavel Filip. Thousands of demonstrators blockaded the building after the new government was approved without debate.
Pavel Filip was appointed to the post of Prime Minister by 57 votes out of 78. He was previously chosen by the country’s president as a compromise candidate after two earlier attempts to appoint a prime minister failed.
“The people of Moldova don’t need a government that says pleasant things, but a government that solves their problems,” said Filip on Wednesday after his appointment.
Moldavian law enforcements are now working in the Parliament building, in order to assess the damage.
“Accounts are being gathered and video is being studied. A few provocateurs have been identified,” speaker of the Moldovan Parliament Adrian Kandu said, adding that on Thursday morning “measures will be taken” to bring those responsible to justice.
The Moldovan opposition has been objecting to Filip’s appointment. The vice-chairman of the major pro-European Democratic Party, has close ties with its leader Vladimir Plahotniu, a former lawmaker, who was one of the major targets of massive public protests over a corruption and banking fraud scandal that came to light in October 2015.
Moldova has been home to political uncertainty for about three months after its previous government was ousted by a no-confidence vote in October. The country entered 2016 without a government and amid ongoing mass protests which started in early September 2015.
The latest massive rally calling for the dissolution of the parliament and snap elections was held on Saturday with about 20,000 people taking to the streets of Chisinau.
The unending anti-government protests are “just a culmination” of political developments in the country which have been ongoing for about 15 years, political analyst Aleksandar Pavic, told RT.
Moldavian elites pursued pro-European policy for more than 15 years with the country “being somehow integrated with the West on paper but in reality people were getting just more impoverished,” he said.
“People do not trust the government, the elites,” who “lost all credibility” in the eyes of the people that see them as “corrupt,” he added stressing that snap elections “are very likely to happen soon” but will not resolve the crisis.
Moldova’s ruling elite has been the target of constant anti-government protests following a media report of a $1.5 billion banking fraud prior to 2014 parliamentary elections. The fraud drove the banks to the verge of insolvency and wiped out an estimated eighth of the country’s GDP.
In September 2015, the protesters demanded the then government as well as leaders of a number of state institutions, including the heads of the central bank, attorney general’s office, and the country’s anti-corruption commission, to step down. At that time, from 30,000 to 50,000 people gathered on the streets of Moldova’s capital. On September 21, Moldova’s central bank governor, Dorin Dragutanu, resigned following the protests.
In the view of the banking scandal and the subsequent political crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) withheld its funding to Moldova demanding a clean-up of its financial sector.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2016 01:58 PM PST

The nation’s capital is preparing to be hit with a massive blizzard over the weekend, and many are now even more concerned after a brief dusting of snow on Wednesday evening essentially shut down the city.
DC may get 12 to 24 inches of snow, the National Weather Service said, calling the system “a potentially crippling winter storm.” They have warned of white-out conditions and advised against any travel.
With Wednesday’s dusting, grocery stores were ravaged, with lines outside just to enter — and Google maps showed so many accidents and traffic warnings that some on social media noted it looked like the “end times”.
If DC gets the two feet of snow that has been predicted, it will be the city’s second-biggest snowstorm ever, after a 1922 storm that produced 28 inches. If the chaos of Wednesday is any indication — it will be a storm they are greatly unprepared for.
The travel pool for the White House reported that President Obama was forced to travel back from from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, by motorcade after the inch of snow grounded helicopters. The vehicles were reportedly slipping and sliding into curbs as they made their way back.


To prepare for the storm, DC has stockpiled 39 tons of salt, 106 heavy plows, 37 contracted plows, 70 light plows, 145 dump trucks, 30 loaders and 20 Bobcats, Mayor Muriel Bowser said in a statement on Thursday morning. City schools will also be closed on Friday.
The blizzard warning is in effect from 3 PM Friday through 6 AM Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2016 01:41 PM PST


The problem with Bernie Sanders, writes liberal Matthew Yglesias, is he is too white. He appeals to white people. He hails from a white state. Everything about him screams white.
Yglesias takes his lead from Jamelle Bouie, a staff writer at Slate magazine. Bouie is known for his racist politics.
The problem with America, according to Bouie and Yglesias, is that it is too white.
And the problem with Bernie Sanders’ political ad is it is too white.
“Now the striking thing about this ad, as Jamelle Bouie hints, is that especially for a Democrat it’s very white. There are a handful of nonwhite faces, but you are looking overwhelmingly at white people often in very white settings like northern New England. The soundtrack is very white,” writes Yglesias.
White is a niche, according to Yglesias. It always is when you play the race politics game.
This is problematic. There are hurdles when you look at everything through a racist lens.
“Now, in the long term, Sanders is going to need to go beyond this niche. The Democratic Parties of South Carolina and Nevada are very black and Latino, respectively, and ultimately the campaign will move on to big, diverse states like California and New York. That will be a challenge for him. But the first order of business is to win in two white, rural states, and this ad is optimizing for that.”
So what can we expect next (keeping in mind race over everything else)?
Maybe a video filmed in Detroit, Jackson or New Orleans with a soundtrack by Otis Redding (if we are to stay in sync with 1968 and the white duo Simon and Garfunkel).
Keeping in mind Yglesias’ talking points, the next task will be to film ads specifically targeting Latinos, Asians, American natives (formerly known as Indians, but that’s racist) and mixed and other races.
You can see how this is becoming very complex.
Not to mention expensive.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2016 01:20 PM PST


A traffic cop shot in his bulletproof vest at point-blank range stuck to his original guns by finishing the ticket he was writing.
The dashcam video from South Africa shows officer Nizaam Alexander conducting a routine stop when he is approached from behind by a random black gunman.
After the pistol initially jams, the suspect manages to get off a shot, striking the cop in the back of his vest.
Officer Alexander then ducks behind the two people he pulled over, in front of their Mercedes Benz, putting the driver and passenger between him and the shooter, directly in the line of fire.
The officer returned fire, forcing the attacker away from the car.
Later, Alexander consults with other officials on the scene and the edited video concludes with him completing the ticket and a big thank you message from the Western Cape government.
The officer was awarded for his “professionalism and dedication to duty” by the City of Cape Town’s traffic services.
“Even after traffic officer Nizaam Alexander was shot at point-blank range, he continued to perform his duties,” the campaign said when releasing the video online. “His dedication to serving the public earned him the City of Cape Town Traffic Services Departmental Officer of the Year Award.”
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Posted: 21 Jan 2016 01:06 PM PST

The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) is working to create eco-friendly robots, by incorporating biodegradable “smart materials” that will decompose when the machine’s “lifespan” is complete.
Current robot build technology involves materials that are difficult to dispose of, incorporating primarily metal and plastic. Scientists hope that by using new materials, including from food waste, autonomous machines will be able to self-repair and regenerate. Natural materials are also thought to potentially create a more lifelike and natural human appearance.
“While mimicking biological principles does not necessarily lead to the development of optimal systems it is believed that the merging of multiple, diverse technologies will facilitate a transition from traditional (hard-bodied) robots towards a new generation of hybrid systems combining engineering principles such as speed, robustness, accuracy, and endurance with biologically inspired concepts that aim to emulate the ‘softer’ compliant structure of muscle, bone, tendons and skin to provide robots with the capacity for self-repair, regeneration, redundancy etc,” the IIT website states.
The so-called Smart Materials Group, spearheading the research within the IIT, hopes their work will lead to less use of conventional plastic. Plastics are made from petroleum, a fossil fuel that, when burned or otherwise broken down, is a leading factor in global climate change.
“These biodegradable materials, natural materials, they are very flexible so they can be used for robotic skins. But they can be also very hard so they can be used for internal parts of a robot. And also, in this flexible skin — robotic skin let’s say — we can incorporate sensors so they have this tactile sensing that the robots need, but with biodegradable materials,” group leader Athanassia Athanassiou explained.
While they are currently developing outer layer or biodegradable “skin” technologies, the group does not rule out creating robots that could entirely decompose, in much the same way organic materials break down in the natural environment.
“I believe that the starting point would be to make part of the robot, like the outer part of the robot for example, with this biodegradable material. But, in a few year’s time, I find it very feasible that the entire robot could be biodegradable,” she said.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 20:02