Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday, 22 February 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 22 Feb 2016 07:18 AM PST

A stunning, and highly confidential, Minister of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today detailing a “telephonic communication” conducted yesterday between Commander of the Aerospace Forces Colonel GeneralViktor Bondarev and US Chairman, Joint Chiefs of State, Marine General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., states that America’s top military leader ordered President Barack Obama not to attend the funeral mass of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia held in Washington D.C. on 20 February at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
According to this report, the intended purpose of this “telephonic communication” between Colonel General Bondarev and General Dunford was to formerly put into placement the “exact protocols” needed for the protection of US Special Forces troops operating in the Syrian region of the Levant War Zone from being mistakenly targeted by Aerospace Forces who are currently bombing Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) terrorist forces—which the Pentagon had “quietly” proposed doing last week.
During this conversation between these two military war leaders, this report continues, Colonel General Bondarev queried General Dunford about last weeks findings by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) [see our 16 February report US Supreme Court Justice Scalia Had Secret Texas Meeting With Obama Just Hours Before His Death] that showed President Obama and Justice Scalia held a secret meeting aboard a US Air Force aircraft that departed Washington D.C. to Marfa, Texas, after which this American jurist was found dead under mysterious circumstances with no autopsy being performed.
Immediately upon this query, this report says, General Dunford experienced an “extreme vicissitude” of both tone and language stating that “of course the bastard murdered him” and then told Colonel General Bondarev that he had “personally ordered” the White House to keep President Obama away from the funeral of Justice Scalia.
Important to note, this report continues, is that General Dunford’s “severe” reaction to the death of Justice Scalia lies in both of them being strong adherents to the Roman Catholic faith—with Justice Scalia being described as a “vocal defender of traditional Catholic morality” and General Dunford, likewise, being long known as a “fervent Catholic”.
As to why President Obama had Justice Scalia murdered, this report grimly notes, General Dunford told Colonel General Bondarev that is was “over f*cking coal”.
Specifically, this report details, the entire “coal” issue General Dunford claimed was behind President Obama’s order to have Justice Scalia murdered revolves around these central facts:
On 3 August 2015, President Obama unveiled the final version of his centerpiece global warming agenda called theClean Power Plan that four months later, December 2015, he presented to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change at the 2015 Conference of Parties (otherwise known as the Paris Climate Conference) in Paris, France.
Two months prior to the Paris Climate Conference, though, on 23 October 2015, President Obama made his Clean Power Plan law by publishing it as a “final rule” in the Federal Register under the title of Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units.

Within hours of President Obama publishing his “final rule”, 24 US States filed a lawsuit against the Obama regimes Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop this law with Oklahoma, North Dakota and Mississippi filing individual lawsuits and the US Chamber of Commerce, led a group of trade associations, and utilities, coal companies, mining interests and other sectors each filing their own cases too for a combined 39 lawsuits from a total of 157 petitioners.

With all of these lawsuits against President Obama being filed in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, these cases were then combined last month with an expedited briefing schedule and oral arguments set to begin on 2 June.
Knowing that these lawsuits against his global warming agenda would take years, if not decades, to decide, President Obama, this report surmises, was assured that his centerpiece law had become “unbreakable” thus ensuring his legacy—made even more surer after the D.C. Court of Appeals refused to stop this law with a “stay”. [The act of temporarily stopping a judicial proceeding through the order of a court.]
But, on 9 February, before this case was even heard by the D.C. Court of Appeals, and for the first time in its history, the US Supreme Court granted a “stay” to keep President Obama’s global warming centerpiece law from taking effect.

Critical to note about the US Supreme Court “stay” granted against President Obama, this report says, is that in it Justice Scalia had written that “Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, Justice Sotomayor, and Justice Kagan would deny the application”, thus meaning that the five Supreme Court Justice’s agreeing to it had doomed this law to ultimate failure before it had even been heard in the lower court.
Two days later, on 11 February, and as the SVR had previously reported, President Obama and Justice Scalia met at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington D.C. where both had separate flights scheduled—President Obama going to California and Justice Scalia going to Texas, but which the evidence suggests both were on the same flight.
With President Obama having failed to convince Justice Scalia to change his mind in regards to the Supreme Court’s “stay”, at least until the lower court had ruled on the case, this report further notes, this esteemed jurists fate was “most likely” sealed—and though his death is officially now listed as having taken place on both 12 and 13 February, MoD intelligence analysts contributing to his report state, it could well have been on 11 February too.

And with Justice Scalia now dead, this report says, President Obama’s centerpiece global warming law has now been thrown into “uncertainty and chaos” instead of its “assured destruction” with no one yet able to determine its ultimate outcome.
As to what fate awaits General Dunford for revealing these facts to Colonel General Bondarev, this report concludes, isn’t known—but with President Obama having already fired nearly 200 generals, flag officers and other high-ranking officials in his “military purge” it shouldn’t be to hard to guess.

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Posted: 22 Feb 2016 07:17 AM PST

Pharmaceutical companies have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 2016 presidential election cycle. Guess which presidential candidate accepted far more campaign cash than any other from Big Pharma? The money went to…drum roll please…Hillary Clinton. What’s more, Clinton says she’s proud to have drug companies as her enemies.
Those who think you can’t buy position in America are sorely mistaken. If there was truly any democracy left in this country, then I’d like for someone to show me.
If we are supposed to be a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives, how does Cargill, Ely Lilly, or Turing Pharmaceutical get to determine who runs the country?

Clinton has been acting as though she has a tough stance on the industry, especially after news of Turing Pharmaceutical’s CEO Martin Shkreli increasing the price of an HIV drug called Daraprim by nearly 5,000%. But the money trail tells a different story.
Clinton accepted $164,315 in the first six months of her campaign for President from drug companies, according toan analysis by Stat News.
Clinton unveiled a plan to combat rising drug prices by clamping down on the rules for pharmaceuticals, and in a recent Democratic debate, she listed off drug companies among the enemies she is most proud to have made in politics. Really?
See Clinton at 0:31 in the democratic debate from October, 2015:

As you can see, Bernie Sanders also responded with hostility to the pharmaceutical industry, yet he also took money from them.
These big, bad companies continue to be big spenders, donating $951,018 to presidential candidates in the 2016 presidential election, according to the Center for Responsive Politics and the Federal Election Commission – including to her campaign.
Clinton collected $336,416 in donations from the pharma/health industry, over a third of the total contributions during the 2016 presidential campaign. The next biggest recipient was Republican candidate Jeb Bush, who collected less than half the amount of Clinton. Trump received a whopping $1001 – enough to buy one Daraprim pill.
These donations don’t include the big money corporations spend on lobbying Congress as well. For example, Pfizer, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies, spent more than $10 million in lobbying efforts last year.
Big Pharma bets on established candidates that they think they can influence once they are in office. Scott Swenson, vice president for communications for Common Cause, a nonprofit political watchdog group, says:
“Established industries and lobbies give primarily to establishment candidates that they perceive will be leaders and eventual nominees.”
The health industry overall — combining health professionals, hospitals, HMOs and pharmaceutical companies —donated over $9.5 million to the 2016 presidential candidates, making it the third largest donating industry. Clinton is still the top beneficiary from this group, receiving more than $3.5 million in donations.
Clinton is also a big supporter for Big Biotech and GMOs – check it.
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Posted: 22 Feb 2016 03:17 AM PST
US presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks following his victory in the South Carolina primary on February 20, 2016 in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
The main donor of a super-PAC designed to destroy Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s campaign has been exposed after spending $4 million on attack ads against the candidate.
Called “Our Principles PAC,” the organization is mostly funded by Marlene Ricketts, the matriarch of the Ricketts family that owns the Chicago Cubs baseball team.
Ricketts has so far contributed $3 million to the super-PAC which is being run by former Mitt Romney adviser Katie Packer.
Our Principles PAC has spent more than $4 million running attack ads against the GOP front-runner in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, which hosted the first presidential primaries and caucuses.
Packer said in late January that the organization will get its messages before nearly every Republican voter in the states.
Despite the significant spending, however, the real estate mogul has had strong performances, winning by a large lead in South Carolina and New Hampshire and finishing Iowa at the second place.
According to the Federal Election Commission, almost all the money used by the only serious anti-Trump group to date came from Ricketts, whose identity was first reported by The New York Times.
The family had previously given $5 million to a super-PAC supporting the failed presidential bid of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
Ricketts are yet to fully endorse another presidential candidate, but clearly they like both Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, as in June last year, Marlene Ricketts donated $10,000 to super-PACs supporting Rubio and Cruz.
Apparently the Ricketts have always chosen to invest millions of dollars into loosers such as Mitt Romney, Scott Walker and now Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. They were never capable of choosing a winner.
Besides a token $250 donation, the only other wealthy donor to the anti-Trump organization in January was Illinois businessman Richard Uihlein, who paid only $7,500.
Interestingly, Uihlein had also given $2.5 million to Walker’s super-PAC, but after the Wisconsin governor quit the race he endorsed Cruz, contributing $1 million to a pro-Cruz super-PAC.
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Posted: 22 Feb 2016 03:06 AM PST

Turkey has the right to carry out military operations not only in Syria, but in any other country, which is hosting terror groups that threaten the Turkish state, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
“Turkey has every right to conduct operations in Syria and the places where terror organizations are nested with regards to the struggle against the threats that Turkey faces,” Erdogan was cited as saying by the Hurriyet newspaper.
Ankara’s stance has “absolutely nothing to do with the sovereignty rights of the states that can’t take control of their territorial integrity,” the president insisted.
“On the contrary, this has to do with the will Turkey shows to protect its sovereignty rights,” he added.
The Turkish president’s used an unexpected platform to make his hawkish remarks. On Saturday, he was visiting an event celebrating the inclusion of Turkey’s southeastern province of Gaziantep on the list of UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network in the gastronomy category.
Erdogan warned that his government will treat “attitudes to prevent our country’s right [to self-defense] directly as an initiative against Turkey’s entity – no matter where it comes from.
“No one can restrict Turkey’s right to self-defense in the face of terror acts that have targeted Turkey; they cannot prevent [Turkey] from using it,” he said.
The Turkish forces have been shelling Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) forces, which Ankara views as a terrorist organization, as well as government troops on Syrian territory since mid-February.
The bombings of YPG targets, the military wing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), continue despite Turkey’s ally, the US, considering the Kurdish fighters an important partner in fighting Islamic State (IS, Daesh, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
There were also reports of dozens of Turkish military vehicles crossing into Kurdish northern Syria, with servicemen digging trenches in the area.
In December, Ankara also deployed 150 soldiers backed by artillery and around 25 tanks to northern Iraq, without consent from the government in Baghdad.
“Turkey will use its right to expand its rules of engagement beyond [responding to] actual attacks against it and to encompass all terror threats, including PYD and Daesh, in particular,” Erdogan said on Saturday as cited by the Anadolu news agency.
Twenty-eight people, mainly Turkish military, were killed and 61 others injured in a suicide bombing in Ankara on Wednesday.
Despite the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) militant group claiming responsibility for the attack, Turkey says the YPG was also involved.
In an attempt to protect itself, Turkey will treat anyone, who opposes it as a “terrorist and treat them accordingly,” the president said.
“I especially want this to be known this way,” he added.
Erdogan also slammed countries that criticized Ankara for their incursion into Iraq and Syria, calling them “disingenuous” due to “preaching only patience and resoluteness” to Turkey, but acting in a completely different manner when they are attacked themselves.
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Posted: 21 Feb 2016 02:38 PM PST


The Vatican today executed a speedy climb-down in its feud with Donald Trump – handing the Republican White House hopeful a major political victory.
Pope Francis’s suggestion that Trump was ‘not Christian’ because of his views on immigration was not a personal attack on the candidate, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said on Friday.
Lombardi told Vatican radio that the pope’s comments, which were denounced by Trump, were simply an affirmation of his longstanding belief that migrants should be helped and welcomed rather than shut off behind walls.
He also leaned toward confirming Trump’s contention that his statement that Trump was ‘not a Christian’ was based largely on ‘what he was told’ about the billionaire’s position.
Trump said Thursday that he suspected the Mexican government had propagandized to the Pontiff about him, prompting the unusual condemnation from the leader of the world’s Roman Catholics.
‘This wasn’t in any way a personal attack, nor an indication of who to vote for,’ Lombardi said.
‘The Pope has clearly said he didn’t want to get involved in the electoral campaign in the US, and also said that he said what he said on the basis of what he was told [about Trump], hence giving him the benefit of the doubt.’
But in the same breath, Lombardi defended the Pontiff’s statement from Thursday and declared that he had said nothing new.
‘The Pope said what we already know, if we followed his teaching and positions: We shouldn’t build walls, but bridges.’
‘He has always said that, continuously,’ he added. ‘He also said that in relation to migration in Europe many times. So this is not a specific issue, limited to this particular case.’
‘It’s his generic view, coherent with the nature of solidarity from the Gospel.’
Trump continued the quick about-face on Friday morning in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, praising the Vatican for walking back the Pontiff’s criticism – although he seemed under the impression that Francis himself had spoken on the subject.
‘The Pope was great. He made a beautiful statement this morning,’ he told a capacity crowd at the Myrtle Beach Sports Center, an indoor rec center the size of eight basketball courts.
‘They had him convinced that illegal immigration is, like, a wonderful thing!’ Trump exclaimed, referring to Mexico’s government.
‘Not wonderful for us. It’s wonderful for Mexico. Not wonderful.’
Trump repeated his well-worn refrain that America’s southern neighbor will pay for a lengthy border wall, and pointed out an audience member dressed as a construction worker, complete with hard hat and tool belt.
The man carried a sign that read: ‘I’m ready to work on the wall!’
‘We give massive subsidy to Mexico,’ Trump said. ‘The wall is going to cost 10 to 12 billion bucks. Our trade deficit is like $58 billion.’
‘Mexico is going to pay for it, folks. It’s so easy. It’s so easy.’
The olive branch of sorts from the Vatican came less than 24 hours after the Pope’s explosive intervention in the presidential campaign.
Asked about Trump and his plan to build a wall between Mexico and the U.S. to stop illegal immigration, he called said that a man with such a plan was ‘not Christian.’
‘A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,’ he said.
‘This is not in the Gospel. As far as what you said about whether I would advise to vote or not to vote, I am not going to get involved in that.
‘I say only that this man is not Christian if he has said things like that.’
His answer promoted an immediate and furious denunciation from Trump, as well as a massive backlash on social media, where the Pope was mocked for living in the Vatican, itself a walled city-state.
Trump’s aides helped him craft a biting reply – which he said took ‘one minute’ to write. He read it from a podium during a late-morning speech in coastal South Carolina.
By day’s end the conflict drew Trump’s Republican rivals out of the shadows, with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio – the presidential race’s two Roman Catholics – backing The Donald over The Pontiff.
‘For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful,’ Trump said in South Carolina, just two days before the state’s critical presidential primary election.
He doubled down on that comment when he spoke to DailyMail.com at lunch.
Trump issued a furious response, reading a lengthy statement from the podium on a campaign stop in the coastal community of Kiawah Island.
He reflected on the seismic impact of crossing swords with the leader of the world’s largest religious denomination, and shrugged it off.
‘Now it’s probably going to be all over the world. Who the hell cares? I don’t care!’ he said. ‘We have to stop illegal immigration … and crime.’
Trump blasted the Vatican for what he said was a naive outlook on the ISIS terror army, saying in a statement released to reporters that ‘If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President because this would not have happened.’
‘ISIS would have been eradicated unlike what is happening now with our all talk, no action politicians.’
Trump partisans, including his social media director Dan Scavino, circulated photos of the massive wall that separates Vatican City from the rest of Rome.
‘Amazing comments from the Pope – considering Vatican City is 100% surrounded by massive walls,’ Scavino wrote in a highly retweeted message.
And reporters swarmed around the rest of the presidential field looking for reactions to the global cultural battle royale.
Rubio told reporters during a press conference in Anderson, South Carolina, that he had not seen the Holy Father’s full statement, but defended the Republican Party’s line – essentially, Trump’s position – on immigration.
‘There’s no nation on earth that’s more compassionate about immigration than we are,’ Rubio said.
Noting that the U.S. takes in a million immigrants a year, he declared that ‘Mexico doesn’t do that. No other country in the world does that.’
‘We’re a sovereign country. We have a right to control who comes in, when they come in and how they come in,’ he added.
‘Vatican City controls who comes in, when they come and how they come in, as a nation-state, or a city-state. And as a result, the United States has a right to do that as well.’
Bush also rushed to Trump’s defense and insisted that no one should determine the validity of another person’s faith in God.
‘I think his Christianity is between he and his creator. Don’t think we need to discuss that,’ Bush told reporters in Columbia, South Carolina, according to CBS News.
The campaign straggler did throw a shoulder at Trump for his boasts about ISIS, suggesting the billionaire isn’t prepared to mount a serious military campaign against the terror army.
‘As it relates to his policies related to ISIS, he’s not the right guy to be commander-in-chief,’ Bush said.
But there were signs Thursday night that Trump wanted to bury the hatchet and move past the conflict.
At a CNN town hall, he emphasized that the Pope’s comments were exaggerated by early media reports.
‘I think he said something much softer than what was originally reported by the media. I think that he heard one side of the story, which is probably by the Mexican government,’ Trump said.
‘He didn’t see the tremendous strain that the border is causing us with respect to illegal immigration, [and] with the drugs pouring across the border.’
The Donald said he would be interested in a sit-down with Francis to hash out their differences.
‘I’ll do it any time he wants. I mean, it would be very interesting,’ he said.
‘I like him. I mean, I like him as a personality. I like what he represents. And I certainly have great respect for the position.’
Cooper chuckled at recalling a 2015 Iowa event during which Trump told a skeptical audience of evangelical Christians that asking the Almighty for forgiveness wasn’t a common ritual in his faith life.
‘Was there a moment when you first heard the Pope had said something about you, that you thought, ‘Maybe I’m gonna have to ask
for forgiveness?” Cooper asked him.
‘No,’ he replied, as the studio audience laughed along with him.
‘No. Look, I have a lot of respect for the Pope. I think he’s got a lot of personality. He’s very different. He’s a very different kind of a guy. And I think he’s doing a very good job. He’s got a lot of energy.’
‘But I’d say that I think he was very much misinterpreted. And I also think he was given false information.’
Trump said he wished Francis had ‘heard our side, the side from people who live in the United States.’
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Posted: 21 Feb 2016 02:25 PM PST


Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, once tipped as the frontrunner of the Republican Party contest for the US presidential nomination, admitted defeat and pulled out of the race after being defeated in the South Carolina primary by Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
Bush was a twice-elected governor of Florida, and the brother and son of previous US Presidents George W. Bush and George Herbert Walker Bush.
“The people of Iowa, and New Hampshire and South Carolina have spoken. So Tonight I am suspending my campaign,” Bush announced on Saturday night, after projections showed him winning little more than 8 percent of the Republican vote.
Bush was running in fifth place in South Carolina, and had done equally badly in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, despite having amassed an enormous financial “war chest” of $100 million for his campaign.
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Posted: 21 Feb 2016 02:14 PM PST

Kalmar County Transport are no longer allowing so-called “refugees” to use the same buses Swedish children use,because they have been suspected of molesting and harassing the children.
School children use the buses to get to their schools in the city of Oskarshamn, and back to their homes in the small towns around the city.
This route was also used by immigrants who wanted to get from their accommodations in the small towns, into the city. So the bus company decided it would be okay to let fully grown male immigrants use the buses as well.
Soon after, immigrants began sexually assaulting and harassing children of all ages; especially 13 year-old girls.
In one case, on January 28th, a 16-year old girl was cornered by a “refugee” man who reportedly tried to kiss her, and then stole her phone.
Children warned their parents they were being sexual harassed, and that some “have been photographed“.
Parents told the bus company and the police, and they decided to put guards on the buses.
This decreased complaints of sexual harassment somewhat, but the bus company has now kicked all immigrants off the school buses and is running an extra bus just for them.
“It is an asylum accommodation from which we have received a huge number of travelers, and it’s been very crowded and we’ve got to put in larger buses” said Kalmar County Transport Traffic and Planning Manager, Katharina Seijsing.
“Many girls feel that they have been threatened and harassed, or so they say, by fellow travelers and they feel insecure. It has also gone by in the past and they ran home.”
Things like this won’t stop Sweden’s elite from bringing more refugees. They couldn’t care what happens to little children as long as in the end they get their “diverse” and “multicultural” utopia goes on.
A Swedish politician, Mona Sahlin, Party Leader of the Social Democrats said “the White majority is the problem” and that “the Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden , the old Sweden will not return.“
        
Posted: 21 Feb 2016 02:02 PM PST


Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has won the South Carolina primary with a 10-percent lead over his closest competitor Senator Marco Rubio, according to the official results published by the Decision Desk website.
Trump received 32.5 percent of the votes, while Rubio and Ted Cruz received 22.5 percent and 22.3 percent, respectively, Decision Desk reported on Saturday night.
The South Carolina primary is the second victory for Trump in the US Republican presidential contest after he won in the US state of New Hampshire on February 9.
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush won 7.9 percent of the vote, Ohio Governor John Kasich 7.6 percent and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson 7.2 percent. Bush announced he was dropping out of the presidential race.
On March 1, the presidential candidates will compete in primaries and caucuses in 12 US states, the biggest election day on the election calendar called “Super Tuesday.”
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Posted: 21 Feb 2016 01:09 PM PST


Donald Trump says that if he were black, he would be angry at President Obama, the first black president.
“People don’t know I’m a unifier,” Trump, the GOP front-runner, said at a rally in Myrtle Beach, S.C. “You know, Barack Obama, African-American. If I were African-American, I would be so angry at him.”
Trump said black unemployment has gone up under Obama’s watch.
“African-American youth has an almost 60 percent unemployment rate,” he said. “African-American people that are 25, prime-time age, 25 to 40, have such a high unemployment rate, you wouldn’t believe it. It’s gone up and it’s gotten worse since he’s been president.”
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