Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thursday 4 February 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 03 Feb 2016 08:05 AM PST

Two elderly metro passengers in Munich were attacked by a group of young men of Middle Eastern appearance last weekend as they tried to protect a woman from being sexually harassed. The alleged asylum seekers went berserk when the old men intervened.
The assault that took place on a train going from Sendlinger Tor station to the Munich city center terminal was recorded on a mobile phone by Munich citizen Tom Roth, who uploaded it to his Facebook page.
The clip lasting less than a minute shows how several young men of middle eastern appearance attack two elderly Germans, who moments earlier had come to the defense of a young woman harassed by the same group.
After seizing the Germans by the hands and insulting them verbally, a young attacker kicks one of the old men, then holds him by the neck from behind and threatens him. The other attackers make sure none of the passengers can interfere by creating a safe zone. The second German man is seen grappling with one of the migrants.

According to the author of the footage, Tom Roth, the incident broke out after a young woman rejected one of the migrant’s advances, who had addressed her in English and placed his hand on her back.
After being brushed off, the harasser struck a window with full force to express his dissatisfaction, Roth recalled. This is when the old men asked the migrants to behave.
The man wearing a brown jacket acted aggressively, patting the head of one old man, who immediately stood up.
Other passengers tried to call the disrespectful asylum seekers to order.
Once the train arrived at the station, Tom Roth called the police, but law enforcement officers said there was nothing they could do.
The incident in Munich is a minor one in a series of conflicts between Germans and migrants who are arriving in Europe en masse. The country’s Interior Ministry said 1.1 million refugees came to Germany in 2015. In 2016, Berlin expects 1.5 million asylum seekers to arrive.
The worst assault to date on locals in Germany took place in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, where mass sexual harassment was reported, although similar attacks, allegedly pre-planned, took place in other German cities.
State Interior Minister Ralf Jager said more than 1,200 people fell victim to attacks on New Year’s Eve in German cities, with more than a half of them suffering sexual assaults.
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Posted: 03 Feb 2016 05:48 AM PST

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he was “honored” with his second place finish in the Iowa caucuses and vowed that he will win the nomination and beat “whoever the hell” the Democrats nominate in a speech in Iowa on Monday night.
Trump said, “[O]n June 16th, when we started this journey, there were 17 candidates. I was told by everybody, ‘Do not go to Iowa. You could never finish even in the top ten.’ And I said, ‘But I have friends in Iowa. I know a lot of people in Iowa. I think they’ll really like me. Let’s give it a shot.’ They said, ‘Don’t do it.’ I said, ‘I have to do it.’ And, we finished second, and I want to tell you something, I’m just honored, I’m really honored.”
Trump then congratulated all the other candidates, mentioning Iowa’s winner Texas Senator.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and former Arkansas Mike Huckabee, who suspended his campaign, by name.
After thanking his staff and family, Trump stated, “We have a poll, we’re 28 points ahead, okay? New Hampshire. We love New Hampshire. We love South Carolina. And we’re leaving tonight, and tomorrow afternoon, we’ll be in New Hampshire, and that’ll be something special. It’s going to be a great week, and we’re going to be up here next week. And I think we’re going to be proclaiming victory, I hope.” He added, “I don’t know who’s going to win between Bernie and Hillary. I don’t know what’s going to happen with Hillary, she’s got other problems, maybe bigger than the problems she’s got, in terms of nominations, but we’ve had so many different indications, and polls that we beat her, and we beat her easily. And we will go on to get the Republican nomination, and we will go on to easily beat Hillary, or Bernie, or whoever the hell they throw up there.”
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Posted: 03 Feb 2016 04:27 AM PST

As the Pentagon prepares to quadruple its European defense budget, a new analysis from a US military think tank may offer an explanation for the striking increase. According to projections by the group, should war erupt, both the US and NATO would be decimated by Russia in less than three days.
On Tuesday, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter presented his proposal for the Pentagon’s 2017 budget. The massive increase to European defense is meant to demonstrate a “strong and balanced approach to deter Russian aggression.”
Spending in Eastern Europe will increase from a current $800 million to some $3.4 billion.
While this announcement came as a shock to many, a report released by the RAND Corporation this week may offer an explanation. According to the think tank’s analysis of NATO war games in Eastern Europe, both the US and NATO would suffer a crushing defeat if forced to confront the Russian military.
“The games’ findings are unambiguous: As currently postured, NATO cannot successfully defend the territory of its most exposed members,” the report states.
The report focuses on the Baltic region, examining a series of war games conducted between 2014-2015. The results show Russian troops reaching the Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian capitals within 36 to 60 hours.
“Such a rapid defeat would leave NATO with a limited number of options, all bad,” the report reads.
Three options are provided. The first is a counterattack, which is predicted to result in an even stronger reaction from Moscow. The second option involves NATO threatening Russia with nuclear weapons, while the third would be to accept defeat.
In November 2015, an earlier study by the same consultancy group found that the United States is rapidly losing air superiority to the Chinese military.
“…Continuous improvements to Chinese air capabilities make it increasingly difficult for the United States to achieve air superiority within a politically and operationally effective timeframe, especially in a scenario close to the Chinese mainland,” the earlier report stated.
Beijing’s growing military strength challenges Washington’s role in the Pacific, particularly in the South China Sea, where the US has vocally protested China’s construction of artificial islands in the Spratly archipelago.
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Posted: 03 Feb 2016 03:14 AM PST

Donald Trump supporters think that Microsoft’s involvement in last night’s Iowa’s caucus helped Marco Rubio achieve a third place finish that some are predicting could turn the Florida Senator into the Republican frontrunner.
For many, Rubio’s far better than expected performance was more noteworthy than Ted Cruz’ triumph, leading to suspicions about vote tampering.
“Polling indicated Rubio would be a distant third, trailing by perhaps double digits in the socially conservative state — an afterthought behind the two candidates expected to duke it out for first: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Donald Trump,” reported the Washington Post.
However, soon after Rubio captured 23 per cent of the vote, just one per cent behind Trump, the hashtag #MicrosoftRubioFraud began trending on Twitter, with some Trump supporters adamant that Microsoft, whohelped tally the votes via their own app, had been involved in foul play.
Noting that Microsoft is Rubio’s number two campaign contributor, one meme asked the question, “Nice of them to count the votes, wasn’t it?”
“Members of the 8chan message board (one of the original Gamergate hotbeds) began theorizing earlier on Monday that Microsoft software used for counting votes was going to screw Trump somehow,” writes Noah Kulwin. “And when Trump finished behind Ted Cruz and ahead of Marco Rubio, it stunned many Trump supporters online, who turned this Breitbart article connecting Microsoft and Rubio into an anti-Rubio rallying cry.”
While many Trump supporters used the hashtag to express their suspicions, it was also hijacked by Democrats to make fun of the entire issue.
Rubio’s surprisingly strong showing has led many establishment voices to predict that he will now emerge as the main challenger to both Trump and Cruz. If Rubio can beat the other “establishment” candidates in New Hampshire, then a three horse race appears likely.
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Posted: 02 Feb 2016 09:56 AM PST

What a way to live… what a way for a nation to die.
When I first reported on the New Year’s Eve mass sexual attacks, I warned that Carnival would be next on the migrant army’s list.
Fear of sexual assault – Cologne high school (for Girls only) closes for security to Carnival — Chief of school “we want not bring the girls in danger, avoid the girls the way to school” = not another Cologne NYE Mass rape situation – German Feminists very silent, so you can see > They were only a tool to destroy family structures & values, sponsored by NGOs.

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Posted: 02 Feb 2016 06:07 AM PST

As global powers prepare for the increased role of outer space in future conflicts, the US Air Force has announced the creation of a new team whose sole purpose is to protect American space assets – primarily against Russian and Chinese “aggression.”
Currently, US satellite navigation is claimed to be dangerously understaffed. Gen. John Hyten, commander of Air Force Space Command, stated to reporters in December 2015 that, “two 19-year-old airmen are the two guys flying GPS this morning for the entire world. That’s wrong.”
To help make US space infrastructure more robust, the Air Force is preparing to organize a new team at the 50th Space Wing at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado. Consisting of 352 people across four squadrons, the team will include orbit analysts, intelligence professionals, mission specialists, and engineers.
Two additional Space Mission Force crews will be established later this year, one at the 21st Space Wing at Peterson Air Force Base and another at the 460th Space Wing at Buckley Air Force Base, both in the state of Colorado.
The Pentagon’s plan to boost space defense comes in light of what it views as near-term threats.
“In our case, we’re looking at threats that are within the next year or two,” Lt. Col. Toby Doran of Air Force Space Command told Defense One. “We’re really not looking to the five- or ten-year threat…What are the concerns in the immediate future that we need to focus on so we are prepared for immediate threats.”
Anti-satellite missiles and jamming devices are both of principle concern for the Air Force, especially when it comes to counteracting the activities of America’s chief rivals, Russia and China.
“Four Russian space launches in 2013 and 2014 in particular have sparked interest,” Brian Weeden, a former officer in US Strategic Command’s Joint Space Operations Center, wrote for The Space Review. The paper describes what Weeden considers to be the maneuvers of interest.
Speaking to Defense One, Hyten said that US Space Command keeps a close eye on Russian satellite positions, saying “We watch where it goes all the time.”
The Air Force expressed concern after China shot down one of its own weather satellites in 2007. While the move was a way to effectively dismantle a decaying satellite, Washington viewed the incident as Beijing demonstrating its ability to potentially target any satellite.
This fear of losing superiority in space could partially explain Washington’s most recent condemnation of North Korea. On Tuesday, Pyongyang stated to the United Nations its intention to conduct a satellite launch later this month.
In response, a US State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, stressed that any North Korean satellite launch will be an “egregious violation” of its international obligations.
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Posted: 02 Feb 2016 05:46 AM PST


Sheikh Adel Al-Kilbani, former Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, admitted during a television appearance that ISIS merely shares the same beliefs as all Muslims who embrace what is contained in the Koran.
Asked if the emergence of ISIS was a result of “Islamic revivalism,” the Saudi cleric responded, “There’s no doubt about this, no doubt.”
Dismissing the claim that ISIS was created by “intelligence agencies,” Al-Kilbani goes on to assert, “Daesh has adopted Salafist thought….they draw their ideas from what is written in our own books, from our own principles.”
The cleric goes on to suggest that many Muslims agree with the Salafist philosophy behind ISIS, and that the only disagreement is with the way in which that philosophy is acted out from a public relations perspective.
“We do not criticize the thought on which it is based, such as the concept of apostasy,” states Al-Kilbani, suggesting that executions are justifiable for people who leave Islam, but that the “brutal” way in which ISIS kills people, “ruins our image in front of the world.”
“If we execute them in a way what does not show us in a bad light, then that’s fine,” he adds.
Al-Kilbani goes on to emphasize that ISIS is not acting outside of the framework of the Salafist doctrine embraced by Saudi Arabia and is merely following what is mandated in the Koran.
The Imam’s admission that many Muslims share the same radical beliefs as ISIS is merely in line with Pew researchthat shows intolerance pervades the Muslim world, with significant majorities in many middle eastern and north African countries supporting the execution of people who leave the faith, as well as the death penalty for homosexuals and alleged adulterers.
These sentiments have also been expressed by other prominent Muslim speakers.

During a conference held in May 2013, Norwegian Islamic leader Fahad Qureshi complained that the media often frames views such as “the death penalty for homosexuals” or the subjugation of women as only being held by radical Muslims.
“I always try to tell them that….these are general views that every Muslim actually has….every Muslim believes in these things,” said Qureshi.
Qureshi then asks the audience of Muslim attendees – black, white and Arab – to raise their hands if they agree with gender segregation and stoning women for adultery, as taught by the Koran.
Virtually every single ‘moderate’ Muslim in the room raises their hand to agree with these positions.

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Posted: 02 Feb 2016 05:26 AM PST

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has urged a raw vote count release from the Iowa caucus, after results showed Hillary Clinton beating him by just .4 percentage points.
Sanders spoke of an unfolding controversy at certain Iowa precincts which did not have enough Democratic party volunteers to report delegate totals.
He called on officials to reveal underlying voter totals, a strategy which is not not typically practiced in Iowa.
Only projections of how many Democrats turn out to each Iowa precinct are typically released. Candidates are awarded on a precinct-by-precinct basis, regardless of the state-wide vote for each person.
“I honestly don’t know what happened. I know there are some precincts that have still not reported. I can only hope and expect that the count will be honest,” he said, as quoted by the Guardian.
“I have no idea, did we win the popular vote? I don’t know, but as much information as possible should be made available,” he continued.
Sanders’ campaign director, Jeff Weaver, said he did not “anticipate we are going to contest” specific results, but hoped there would be an investigation into the situation.
There were six instances where a coin was tossed to determine the Iowa winner, and Clinton won all six.
Despite any possible controversy, Sanders expressed optimism on Monday night, saying: “Tonight shows the American people that this is a campaign that can win.”
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 19:55