Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thursday, 10 March 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 10 Mar 2016 04:51 AM PST

The secret behind Mercury’s low visibility to astronomers has finally been revealed thanks to a recent mission to the planet.
The reason for planet Mercury’s ‘dark’ appearance to astronomers has been found to be graphite, astronomers examining data from NASA’s MESSENGER mission found.
The study, carried out at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory found that the planet’s outer core is largely made of graphite, which floated to the top of the initially molten planet before it cooled.
“We used MESSENGER’s Neutron Spectrometer to spatially resolve the distribution of carbon and found that it is correlated with the darkest material on Mercury, and this material most likely originated deep in the crust,” one of the study’s co-authors said in a statement.
The distribution of the graphite also found that while it was generally not the top layer, it often appeared in large craters. Around Mercury in general, the graphite layer was later covered with magma coming from volcanic activity.
“As this magma ocean cooled and minerals began to crystallize, minerals that solidified would all sink with the exception of graphite, which would have been buoyant and would have accumulated as the original crust of Mercury,” the Applied Physics Laboratory’s Rachel Klima said.
However, the planet’s top layer still retains graphite in its rocks, further darkening the surface.
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Posted: 10 Mar 2016 04:43 AM PST


Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton appeared to support late-term abortions, with “exceptions,” during a live town hall style meeting hosted by Fox Monday.
“Do you think a child should have any legal rights or protections before it’s born? Or do you think there should not be any restrictions on any abortions at any stage in a pregnancy?” Fox host Bret Baier asked.
Clinton answered that she was against the current Supreme Court case attempting to shut down various abortion clinics in Texas, and said she was ultimately for a woman’s right to choose to kill a child.
“Under Roe v. Wade, which is rooted in the Constitution, women have this right to make this highly personal decision with their family in accordance with their faith, with their doctor,” Clinton said.
Baier pressed for clarification.
“Just to be clear, there’s no — without any exceptions?” he asked.
“No — I have been on record in favor of a late-pregnancy regulation that would have exceptions for the life and health of the mother,” Clinton replies.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List pro-life organization, wrote last month that Clinton’s middle-of-the-road “exception” stance “is a loophole so big as to make the underlying restriction meaningless,” and can essentially be taken as a late-term abortion endorsement.
“It applies to anyone who claims to feel ‘mental distress’ at the thought of having a baby,” Dannenfelser said. “And it’s hard to take seriously the idea that a woman who stood by as her husband vetoed a law to prohibit the gruesome practice of partial-birth abortion now opposes the very abortions the technique was designed to administer.”
Clinton’s sentiments are similar to those espoused by DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz last year when pressed by Sen. Rand Paul on whether she would agree with aborting a late-term baby.
“Sounds like her answer is yes, that she’s okay with killing a seven-pound baby,” Sen. Paul said.
“But Debbie’s position, which I guess is the Democrat Party’s position, that an abortion all the way up until the day of birth would be fine, I think most pro-choice people would be really uncomfortable with that,” he added.
Despite Clinton’s legal reference, it should be noted that even the woman at the center of the Roe v. Wade controversy, Norma McCorvey (AKA ‘Jane Roe’), sought for the Supreme Court to overturn the decisionafter coming to the realization that it was “no longer just” and that “abortion hurts women,” according to her attorney.
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Posted: 10 Mar 2016 04:00 AM PST


Indictment could mean the beginning of the end for one of humanity’s largest enemies.
The indictment of a Rothschild is not simply another dirty banker being brought to justice.
The imprisonment of the controlling interest of life on Earth would mean a stop to endless wars, illegal mass surveillance, debt slavery, and a Luciferian cultural agenda.
Basically, peace on Earth.
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Posted: 10 Mar 2016 03:48 AM PST

The moment is around the corner when Saudi Arabia will face a massive budget deficit, an American political scientist said.
“Saudi Arabia is running large budget deficits of 15 to 20 percent of GDP, and is drawing down on its currency reserves,” American political science professor James D. Savage told Iran’s Tasnim news agency.
He added that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates Riyadh will run out of cash in five years and then “will go deeply in debt.”
In February, rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded Saudi Arabia’s sovereign credit rating, saying falling crude prices continue to deal a blow to the kingdom’s budget. S&P also revised average growth in 2016-2019, from three to two percent. In turn, Moody’s Investors Service recently put Riyadh’s on review for a possible downgrade.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Saudi Arabia is seeking to borrow up to $8 billion from international banks and also could issue foreign bonds in a bid to cope with the widening budget deficit.
The Ministry of Finance has asked foreign banks to submit proposals to the loan, which would be between $6 billion and $8 billion, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
The kingdom is also considering raising billions from international bonds after securing the loan.
A foreign bank loan would be Saudi Arabia’s first international borrowing in more than a decade, according to the article.
Riyadh is also mulling listing part of its state-owned oil company Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Aramco), sources told WSJ.
In the past decade, Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s biggest oil producers, has received most of its revenues from high crude prices.
With a slump in global oil prices, the country has faced a huge budget deficit which is expected to reach $87 billion this year. Saudi Arabia’s foreign reserves dropped to $640 billion last year from $737 billion in 2014.
The government announced austerity measures for this year, including spending and subsidy cuts, and said it would consider privatizing state assets.
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Posted: 10 Mar 2016 02:27 AM PST

North Korea’s provocative nuclear rhetoric has gotten so bad even the Kremlin has come out against the hermit kingdom, warning continued nuclear threats could justify an invasion.
The warning was issued in the form of a written statement from the Russian foreign ministry. It follows North Korea’s threat it would engage in a “preemptive and offensive nuclear strike” in reaction to the start of joint U.S.-South Korean war games Monday.
“We consider it to be absolutely impermissible to make public statements containing threats to deliver some ‘preventive nuclear strikes’ against opponents,” said the statement, as translated by the Russian TASS news agency. “Pyongyang should be aware of the fact that in this way the DPRK [North Korea] will become fully opposed to the international community and will create international legal grounds for using military force against itself in accordance with the right of a state to self-defense enshrined in the United Nations Charter.”
Russia also had harsh words for the U.S. and South Korea, condemning the “unprecedented” exercises. “The development of the situation on the Korean peninsula and around it is causing growing concern,” said a statement issued Monday, as reported by the Kremlin-funded RT news channel.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 19:53