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Hungary
14 Oct 2015 Billionaire Soros comes under fire in homeland where politicians have accused him of supporting illegal migration amidst a refugee crisis that's brought the right-wing government under pressure. In opinion pieces published by the Financial Times and Project Syndicate, Soros has said frontline states like Hungary were shirking their asylum obligations, and controversially suggested that a comprehensive European refugee plan should provide each asylum seeker with $16,800 annually for two years to help cover housing, health care and education costs. "[Soros] keeps bombarding the international public with his earth-shattering plans, quite obviously, in the name of true selflessness which he has manifested in so many ways in the countries where his activities have resulted in sovereign default in the past 30 years," Hungarian Minister Lázár, who currently heads the Prime Minister's Office, said at a press conference earlier this month. During an interview with Hungarian channel TV2, Orbán said many civil society organizations supported by Soros have "launched themselves into action. They all demand that the Government leave the border open." An OSF spokesperson told CNBC the organization is determined to continue supporting Russians who seek its assistance, as long as it is within the network's mandate and remains in legal limits. (Source: CNBC): http://tinyurl.com/qf68nwr
Space
October 14, 2015 New details of Chinese space weapons revealed. “China is pursuing a broad and robust array of counterspace capabilities, which includes direct-ascent anti-satellite missiles, co-orbital anti-satellite systems, computer network operations, ground-based satellite jammers and directed energy weapons,” a late draft of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s annual report states. “China’s nuclear arsenal also provides an inherent anti-satellite capability.” Two direct-ascent missiles capable of hitting satellites in both lower and higher orbits are under development, the SC-19 and the DN-2. Anti-satellite missile tests were carried out as recently as last year. The high-orbit DN-2 can hit U.S. Global Positioning Satellites but appears more suited for blowing up U.S. intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance satellites. The DN-2 could be deployed in five to 10 years. For space-based weapons, China is developing co-orbital anti-satellite weapons. “These systems consist of a satellite armed with a weapon such as an explosive charge, fragmentation device, kinetic energy weapon, laser, radio frequency weapon, jammer or robotic arm,” the report says. In 2008, a Chinese miniature imaging satellite passed within 28 miles of the International Space Station with no notification, in what the report said was a simulated co-orbital anti-satellite attack. China is also planning military cyberattacks that can take control of satellites by hacking into the microwave signals used by satellites. The report said Chinese hackers probably were behind several computer attacks against U.S. space assets, including a September 2014 hack of National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration satellite and weather service systems. China also has acquired a number of electronic ground-based jammers for use against satellites, and in 2006 China fired a high-powered laser that temporarily disrupted a U.S. satellite, the report said. (Source: The Washington Times): http://tinyurl.com/pprq8o2
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