Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday 23 May 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 23 May 2016 04:54 AM PDT

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban slammed Bill Clinton as a puppet of billionaire George Soros for supporting his plan to flood the EU with “millions” of hostile Muslims.
Clinton last week said the anti-migrant countries of Hungary and Poland “decided democracy is too much trouble,” therefor “they want Putin-like leadership” to “keep the foreigners out.”
Via Breitbart:
Top European leaders have blasted Bill and Hillary Clinton following a war of words about the commitment to democracy of both the Polish and Hungarian governments. One leading figure insisted Mr. Clinton “needs a medical test” following his remarks.
Bill Clinton upset NATO allies in a broadly unreported gaffe accusing Poland and Hungary of thinking “democracy is too much trouble” and wanting to have an “authoritarian dictatorship.” This is despite the fact that Poland recently held elections turfing out the establishment political parties in an election with a higher turnout than Mr. Clinton’s re-election in 1996.
…[Orban] used the incident to highlight the multi-million dollar connections between the Clintons and Hungarian left-wing billionaire George Soros.
…”[B]eyond the American campaign, the remarks made about Hungary and Poland … have a political dimension,” Mr. Orban said, accusing Mr. Clinton of repeating Soros-inspired campaign lines: “These are not accidental slips of the tongue. And [the number of] these slips or remarks have been multiplying since we are living in the era of the migrant crisis. And we all know that behind the leaders of the Democratic Party, we have to see George Soros.”
“And George Soros published his six points supporting the Muslim migration to Europe, in which he announced that at least one million Muslims should be allowed [into Europe] each year, that they must be provided a safe path and that Europe should be happy to get such a chance and shouldn’t be defending against it. He also said that it will cost a lot of money, which he’d loan.”
“So, here, in Central Europe a shadow power exists, which is linked to George Soros, he is one of the most important sponsors of the Democratic Party, so I have to say that although the mouth belongs to Clinton, the voice belongs to George Soros. And since Hungary is where it is, I mean geographically it is where it is and wants to protect its national sovereignty and security, we are a blockade for this Soros plan in America. They will not carry it out here as long as Hungary has a government working in the national interest.”
Fearing Trump’s rise, Soros has already pledged to spend a record $13 million supporting the Democrats this election cycle, at least $8 million of which is going to Hillary Clinton.

While Orban said Soros would loan money to the European Union, in Februrary Soros also demanded EU member states take on massive debt themselves to finance the invasion, lest the EU continue “coming apart at the seams.”
Just weeks ago Orban said his country’s constitution outright bans the “islamization” of Hungary because it commits the government “to promoting and safeguarding our heritage, our unique language, Hungarian culture.”
“We have the right to choose whom we want and don’t want to live with,” he said.
Orban also gave a powerful speech in March where he said the real purpose of the so-called migrant crisis was to “reshape the religious and cultural landscape of Europe, and to reengineer its ethnic foundations. — thereby eliminating the last barrier to internationalism: the nation-states.”

While Hungary was being flooded with an average of around 7,000 migrants a day, the government built their own mini-Trump wall to keep their border secure and migration numbers plummeted immediately after construction was finished.
Last month, ex-US diplomat Adam Topolansky predicted indigenous Europeans would flee to Hungary in the coming years to escape the inevitable disastrous results of the migrant crisis.
While it would be nice if countries like Germany and Sweden followed suit, at least we have one European leader willing to take a stand.
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Posted: 23 May 2016 04:33 AM PDT

More than 400 simultaneous demonstrations around the world are voicing fury at US biotech leviathan Monsanto, which is facing a hostile takeover from German pharmaceuticals company Bayer.
“The whole world hates Monsanto!” read the banners among a throng in Paris, marching to the sound of a drum band.
The crowd held up posters condemning the sale of the herbicide RoundUp, which has been accused of causing cancer in humans, and the development of genetically-modified crops.
Environmentalist and leftist politicians, such as former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, marched at the front of the column, but the impetus for the rallies was provided by another group.
The grassroots Nuit Debout has mobilized hundreds of thousands for labor reform protests in recent months, and many of the same demonstrators turned out to barrack the St. Louis-based giant in Lyon, Bordeaux and Lille.
Genetically-modified crops are banned in France, despite the European Union gradually loosening regulation on the varieties, as they become more popular across the world due to higher yields and greater disease resistance.
Glyphosate, the active chemical in RoundUp and other leading herbicides, could face a Europe-wide ban, after an EU committee failed to issue it with a new retail license, following protracted negotiations. A UN report published this month stated that it was not likely to be ingested in quantities sufficient to cause cancer in humans, but last year’s report by the UN cancer agency called for it to be recognized as a carcinogen that could cause non-Hogdkin’s lymphoma.
“Monsanto is killing me & you!” and “I am not your experiment!” read placards at a protest march through New York.
More than 90 percent of US-grown corn, soybean and cotton is genetically-modified.
RT`s correspondent Caleb Maupin talked to some of the hundreds of activists gathered in the center of Manhattan to protest against Monsanto. People marched through the streets chanting, “No more Monsanto” and “Monsanto has got to go.” The demonstrators carried signs saying: “Ban glyphosate,” the herbicide which is suspected of causing cancer, and “Stop Monsanto.”
“I think it`s very corrupt and they have too much power over our government,” one of the rally`s participants told Maupin, referring to the biotech giant`s outreach.
“I`m tired of being lied to about what is in my food. We are getting sick, there`s cancer, there`re kids that are being affected, so we want to put a stop to that,” said another activist.
The safety of glyphosate, which is an active ingredient in Monsanto`s herbicide Roundup, has been doubted by many environmental organizations, including Greenpeace.
“If I were Monsanto right now, maybe a Monsanto executive gonna hear this, I would be worried. I would than change my life and come over to the right side of history. Amen,” another protester said.
Well-attended rallies also took place in Tokyo, across Germany and in Canada.
Monsanto, which has repeatedly put out publicity campaigns to try and demonstrate that its product range is safe, issued a conciliatory statement to the protesters.
“The 22,000 people of Monsanto are committed to having an open dialogue about food and agriculture – we’re proud of the work we do, and we’re eager for people to know more about us,” said a Monsanto text sent out to the media. “We know people have different points of view on these topics, and it’s important that they’re able to express and share them.”
Marches against Monsanto have become a regular event over the past half-decade, but activists may soon need to find a new target for their anger, following Bayer’s proposed bid for the US company, which has a market cap of nearly $46 billion.
While there is speculation that the Leverkusen-headquartered company, famous for patenting aspirin, lacks the financial might necessary for a takeover, market analysts have repeatedly suggested that if the bid goes through, Bayer will drop the increasingly toxic Monsanto brand, as it swallows up the company.
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Posted: 23 May 2016 04:15 AM PDT

Hillary Clinton-aligned Super PAC, Correct the Record, is taking a page out of Vladimir Putin’s playbook by employing a $1 million dollar professional internet troll army to build a paid, positive consensus about the Clinton campaign. The effort, called “Breaking Barriers 2016,” claims:
“While Hillary Clinton fights to break down barriers and bring America together, the Barrier Breakers 2016 digital task force will serve as a resource for supporters looking for positive content and push-back to share with their online progressive communities, as well as thanking prominent supporters and committed superdelegates on social media.
“Correct The Record will invest more than $1 million into Barrier Breakers 2016 activities, including the more than tripling of its digital operation to engage in online messaging both for Secretary Clinton and to push back against attackers on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and Instagram.”
The campaign will essentially be employing an unknown number of paid, pro-Hillary trolls to spread positive news about the candidate and counter anyone posting negative information about her. And these aren’t just ragtag trolls living in their mothers’ basements — they are industry and campaign professionals. As Correct the Record acknowledges:
“The task force staff’s backgrounds are as diverse as the community they will be engaging with and include former reporters, bloggers, public affairs specialists, designers, Ready for Hillary alumni, and Hillary super fans who have led groups similar to those with which the task force will organize.”
In response to this news, Bernie Sanders campaign staffer Mike Casca told The Daily Beast, “Our campaign and our vendors are not paying people to reply to anti-Bernie comments on social media.” He added, “Come on man, really?”
The Hillary campaign was also recently called out by The Intercept for deploying “astroturfers” into the media — people with ties to Clinton who act as experts and political commentators to promote her campaign without disclosing their ties to the candidate.
With Hillary’s highly effective media strategies employing media surrogates — and now internet trolls — it’s becoming increasingly hard to decipher a distinction between actual Clinton supporters, unbiased political commentators, and paid campaign shills.
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Posted: 23 May 2016 03:32 AM PDT

US President Obama in Hanoi Sunday night receives bouquet of flowers.
Barack Obama arrived in Communist Vietnam on Sunday night.
The country’s top officials skipped the welcoming ceremony.
Poor Barack.
Nobody respects him, not even the Communist Vietnamese.
As a consolation prize they did give him a pretty bouquet.
The Communists Cubans snubbed Obama in Havana in March, too.
Here’s a list of the officials who picked the short straw.

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Posted: 23 May 2016 02:40 AM PDT

Social media giant back to its old ways despite much heralded meeting with conservatives.
Just days after Facebook met with conservatives over concerns about the social media giant’s left-wing bias, conservative pages are still being banned.
According to conservative commentator Lauren Southern, Facebook has banned all the moderator accounts that ran the ‘Disdain For Plebs’ page, which had over 176,000 likes. Just days after Facebook met with conservatives over concerns about the social media giant’s left-wing bias, conservative pages are still being banned.
According to conservative commentator Lauren Southern, Facebook has banned all the moderator accounts that ran the ‘Disdain For Plebs’ page, which had over 176,000 likes.
The ban came after a post was removed which merely argued that Donald Trump was not anti-Muslim.
Another moderator was apparently banned for making fun of Facebook’s censorship.
Southern herself had a post removed for drawing attention to the censorship.
She was then blocked for 30 days for saying Facebook is censoring conservatives.
Southern tweeted a video showing how the block makes her unable to post on Facebook.
She then sardonically asked Glenn Beck for help. According to Tucker Carlson, during his meeting with Mark Zuckerberg, Beck “sucked up” to the Facebook founder.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 19:12