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Hungary
November 19, 2015  ‘All the terrorists are migrants’. Viktor Orbán on how to protect Europe from terror, save Schengen, and get along with Putin’s Russia. In a wide-ranging 90-minute interview a week after the Paris terrorist attacks, Orbán lays out his prescriptions for Europe’s ailments: An impenetrable external border to boost security and save the Schengen treaty on passport-less travel within the EU; a new EU constitutional convention that strengthens the power of nation states and weakens Brussels; and normalized relations with Russia. NATO and EU countries are “at war” with Islamists in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and, he says, “it’s quite logical” that “enemies” would seek to send fighters with migrants coming into Europe. “All of them present a security threat because we don’t know who they are. If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of … terrorism will significantly increase.” Muslim migrants who in his words belong to “parallel societies,” holding EU passports but rejecting Western values. Earlier this year, Hungary was widely criticized for building a barbed wire fence along its border with Serbia to stop the waves of new arrivals. For Orbán, Hungary was merely upholding the law of the Union that Greece (“a major problem for us”) failed to do by allowing the migrants to continue north unimpeded. Orbán’s opposition helped torpedo a scheme championed by the European Commission for a mandatory resettlement of migrants across the EU, and flipped the discussion from how best to accommodate the refugees to one of how to stop them from coming at all. For the Hungarian, this year of troubles —  from Greece to migration, from terrorism to possible Brexit —  calls for a wholesale rethink of the EU. The bloc “is only reacting, reacting, crisis after crisis, instead of having a concept.” Asked if the EU will be here in 10 years, he says, “it’s an open question.” In Orbán’s proposed reform of the EU, the balance of powers would tilt back toward nation states and away from leaders in Brussels who have “very much the pro-United States of Europe position,” he says. Although he’s widely seen in Western Europe as a leader who’s turned his back on “liberal democracy” and embraced Russia’s Putin, Orbán insists he wants to save the EU and NATO. “Hungary’s place is [in the] West,” he says. “We criticize them because they are far from perfect, but the starting attitude of the Hungarians to Western institutions is always positive.” Getting up from his seat around a large conference table, Orbán walks over to the books stacked on his desk and shelf. He picks up a tract on Europe he’s reading by Habermas, the German philosopher and proponent of a closer, federal EU. “The most dangerous book,” he calls it. There are essay collections by the founder of the ultra-conservative Catholic Opus Dei movement (Orbán’s a Calvinist) and the Hungarian Nobel laureate in literature, Kertész. He’s reading about the political theory of Islam and another book by a Hungarian writer on the global sexual revolution — “an anti-gender study,” he says, “about how we destroy freedom in the name of freedom.” At 52, Orbán carries a healthy paunch and says his football-playing days are mostly behind him. He puts on a tie and jacket for a photographer, then quickly dispenses with both. In his part of the world, he says, leaders are more laid-back. He speaks fluidly in English and cracks jokes. Liberalism in Europe now concentrates not on freedom but on political correctness. It became a sclerotic ideology. Dogmatic, may I say. There is an oft-noted irony that this pro-democracy dissident of the late 1980s, who co-founded the Fidesz student-led movement and helped bring down communism, is seen in the second half of his nearly three-decade run in Hungarian politics as a threat to its democracy. Addressing doubts about his democratic bona fides, Orbán says he has been in parliamentary opposition longer — a dozen years — than in power, and expects to “lose again” in future elections. In a widely circulated speech to ethnic Hungarians  in Romania last year, he announced his desire to build “an illiberal new state based on national foundations,” and argued that “liberal democracy can’t stay competitive.”  When another party picked up the urban, youth electorate that Fidesz had courted, he went to find votes on the traditional right and outside Budapest, in religious, rural areas. His former liberal friends call the shifting shapes of Orbán opportunistic and cynical. He says he’s right where he belongs, with the “national-Christian-civic political family.” People call him a populist. “Because I am,” he retorts. “The problem is nobody knows what [that] means. It does not sound bad in Hungarian ears. Being a populist means that you try to serve the people. It’s positive.” Support for his Fidesz party has grown from 40 percent last December to almost 50 percent today, according to polls. The other notable irony of the modern Orbán is his relationship with Putin. He fought to bring down the Soviet empire and remove Russian troops from Hungarian soil. Putin, a KGB officer who was a cog in the Soviet system that Orbán battled, is now seeking to restore Russian power. These days, Orbán opposes EU sanctions on Russia over its incursions into Ukraine, though Hungary has signed off on them since last year. He nurtures close business ties with Moscow, particularly in energy. And the point is very clear, without the Russians it’s impossible to manage rightly the future of the Hungarians. So we have to have a good balanced relationship with the Russians.” European and Russian principles are “impossible to harmonize. So put aside principles, ideologies and look at the interest, and find the common sense realpolitik agreements. That’s the Hungarian approach.”  While Orbán notes that Hungary’s closest ally in Europe, Poland, backs sanctions, he says he finds more than a little hypocrisy coming from Berlin. Germans “like to appear as opposing” him on sanctions on Russia, he says, “but in fact they are doing even more than we are” to work with Russia. Orbán points to Berlin’s support for a second gas pipeline from Russia to Germany under the Baltic, which will deprive Ukraine of billions in yearly transit fees. “Hungarians are easygoing guys in the European Union,” Orbán says, laughing. “What we are doing, we are saying — and what we are doing is exactly what we are thinking. So it’s not complicated.” Orbán says the Russia relationship helps him balance a testy one with Berlin: “We would not like to depend on the Germans.” (Source: Politico): http://tinyurl.com/pd6llw3

Belgium
2015. XI. 17.  Brüsszel Molenbeek nevű kerülete a terroristák és a radikálisok egyik központja lett; fél óra alatt bármilyen katonai fegyvert és robbanóanyagot is be lehet szerezni. A helyi fiatalok között 37 százalékos a munkanélküliség, sokan csatlakoznak az iszlám államhoz, a helyi mecsetekből pedig ömlik a dzsihádista propaganda. A belga kormány megpróbálja megelőzni a bajt, de eddig nagyon kevés eredményt értek el. (Forrás: Origo): http://tinyurl.com/q5xd76x

12 November 2015  The tide of migrants coming to Europe from the Middle East and Africa may be part of a left-wing plot to pack the continent with sympathetic voters, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has told a Swiss magazine. Orbán's anti-immigrant rhetoric and the border fences he has erected to block the wave of people fleeing war and poverty have made him a winner at home from a crisis that has divided Europe. "I am not brave enough to speak about this in public with certainty, but you cannot get around imagining that some kind of master plan is behind this," he said in an interview with Die Weltwoche.He cited essays by "the European left  and radical American democrats" that envision the emergence of a European super state to the detriment of traditional nation-states. Future leftist voters are being imported to Europe," he said. The U.S. ambassador to Budapest has warned against "xenophobic characterization of refugees". (Source: YahooCanada): http://tinyurl.com/poxaf69

France
26 Concrete Legal Measures for Remigration. The Bloc Identitaire is  proposing a “sheet on the road to a policy of Identity and Remigration” including 26 measures (covering culture, economy, education and institutional reform) looking forward to ending uncontrolled immigration and replanting immigrants in their country of origin. (Source: CounterCurrentsPublishing): http://tinyurl.com/qglqmvb

Tuesday, 17 Nov 2015  Hollande calls on Russia and US to unite to defeat islamic state. French president gathered his politicians in Paris to declare war on isil, as Obama insisted that if there were an easy option, they would have done it. Hollande has used a highly-unusual address to both French parliaments to call on Russia and America to “unite our forces” in a coalition to destroy isil, three days after Islamists killed 129 in France's worst ever terror attacks. Shortly before he spoke yesterday, fighters from the islamic state of Iraq and the Levant (isil) released a video promising to repeat the Paris terror attack in Washington. Mr Hollande, proposing extending France’s state of emergency for three months, told the politicians gathered at Versailles: “France is at war.” In a sombre speech, ending in a rousing standing ovation, Mr Hollande said he would call on the UN Security Council to pass a new resolution to “destroy daech (isil)”, describing Syria as “the biggest terrorist factory the world has ever seen”. He said he would meet US President Obama and Putin, the Russian leader, in the coming days to urge them to join forces in a “wide and single coalition” against isil, saying that the international community had been “divided and incoherent” for too long. Mr Hollande said that France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier would leave for the area on Thursday to “triple our action capabilities” and that more airstrikes – like those on Sunday that hit Raqqa - would be launched “in the coming weeks”. The French defence ministry said 12 Rafale and Mirage jets based in the region dropped 20 bombs, including on the jihadists’ de facto capital Raqqa. It claimed they had destroyed a training camp and munitions dump, among other targets. The raid was the largest attack by the French since they joined the US-led coalition in Syria in September, after previously restricting themselves - like the RAF - to Iraq. Mr Obama, speaking at the G20 in Turkey in a speech which coincided with Mr Hollande’s address, insisted that America was not shying away from tackling isil, and angrily hit back at critics who accused him of inaction. He said that America could send in 50,000 troops to wipe out the murderous regime, but that  would only provide a short-term solution. “We can retake territory. And as long as we leave our troops there, we can hold it,” he said. “But that does not solve the underlying problem of eliminating the dynamics that are producing these kinds of violent extremist groups.”  Repeatedly stressed that defeating isil would take time, and rejected accusations that he was dithering. “If there was a swift and quick solution to this, I assure you that not just the United States, but France and Turkey and others who have been subject to these terrorist attacks would have implemented those strategies,” he said, adding that America’s weakening of al Qaeda was proof that he was not sitting back and letting jihadists roam free. Mr Obama used his speech to call on other nations to do more in the coalition against isil. But he did not specifically address Russia, which has positioned itself on the other side to America. Mr Hollande, by contrast, was one of several leaders who suggested they were open to working more  closely with Russia against isil. Mr Putin met Mr Obama on Sunday and Cameron on Monday morning, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Turkey. Mr Putin, who has been heavily criticised for concentrating Russia’s aerial bombardment in Syria on non-isil rebels, said a closer coalition was “indispensable”. "I spoke about this at the United Nations,” he said. “The tragic events that followed have confirmed that we were right."  (Source: TheTelegraph): http://tinyurl.com/nskyhr5

16  November 2015  Tragic list of the lost: photos of the victims from the deadly Paris attacks emerge as friends and relatives are forced to wait for news of their missing loved ones. Photos and tribute posted on social media for the victims of the horrific terror attack in Paris, France. Details are starting to emerge of the 129 lives that were brutally cut short by the gunmen during Friday's atrocities  One British victim from the Bataclan massacre has been named as Alexander, 36, from Colchester, Essex. A 'handful' of Britons were among those killed in Paris attacks, which also left 352 injured - 99 critically. Up to 30 bodies have yet to be identified, according to French authorities. See full coverage of the victims of the isis attacks in Paris at www.dailymail.co.uk/isis (Source: DailyMail): http://tinyurl.com/nrh2gw4

16 Nov 2015  Suspect on the run as terror raids end in failure - latest news (Source: TheTelegraph): http://tinyurl.com/o3mtggb

Germany
18-19 November 2015  What is the driving force behind jihadist terrorism? Radicalisation is a youth revolt against society, articulated on an Islamic religious narrative of jihad. It is not the uprising of a Muslim community victim of poverty and racism: only young people join, including converts who did not share the “sufferings” of Muslims in Europe. These rebels without a cause find in jihad a “noble” and global cause, and are consequently instrument alised by a radical organisation (Al Qaeda, isis), that has a strategic agenda. There are no psychiatric specific patterns for radicals. The majority of the radicals come from second generation Muslims born in Europe, the others are converts; almost none came as a young adult or as a teenager to Europe from the Middle East. Many have a past of petty delinquency and drug dealing. It is clearly a youth movement: almost all of them radicalised to the dismay of their parents and relatives. Very few of them had a previous story of militancy, either political (pro-Palestinian movements) or religious (local mosques, Tabligh, Muslim Brothers or even main stream Salafism). The unusual proportion of converts has been systematically overlooked because it contradicts the (culturalist) idea that individual radicalisation reflects a radicalisation of a frustrated Muslim community. A more recent pattern is the recruitment of young women to marry “jihadists”, instead of sharing common militancy as their predecessors. The rate of converts among this category is probably the highest among all categories of recruits. The main motivation of young men for joining jihad seems to be the fascination for a narrative: “the small brotherhood of super-heroes who avenge the Muslim Ummah”: - This ummah is global and abstract, never identified with a national cause (Palestine, or even the Syrian or Iraqi nations). The religious dimension: the revolt is expressed in religious terms for two reasons:  - Most of the radicals have a Muslim background, which makes them open to a process of re-islamisation (almost none of them being pious before entering the process of radicalisation). Jihad is the only cause on the global market. If you kill in silence, it will be reported by the local newspaper; if you kill yelling  “Allahuakbar”, you are sure to make the national headlines. When they join jihad, they adopt the Salafi version of Islam, because Salafism is both simple to understand (don’ts and do’s), and rigid, providing a personal psychological structuring effect. Moreover, Salafism is the negation of cultural Islam, that is the Islam of their parents and of their roots. Instead of providing them with roots, Salafism glorifies their own deculturation and makes them feel better “Muslims” than their parents. Salafism is the religion by definition of a disenfranchised youngster. Radicals have a loose or no connection with the Muslim communities in Europe. Few of them were regular “parishers” in a local mosque. None of them was active in religious activities (proselytism): when they preach Islam it is to recruit other radicals, not to spread the good news. This explains why 1) the close monitoring of mosques brings little information; 2) Imams have little or no influence on the process of radicalisation; 3) “reforming Islam” does not make sense: they just don’t care about “what Islam really means”. “Religiosity” not theology is the key. Consequence for fighting radicalization: to promote a “moderate Islam” to bring radicals back to the mainstream is nonsense. They just reject moderation as such. To ask the “Muslim community” to bring radicals back to normal life is also nonsense. Radicals just don’t care about people they consider as “traitors”, “apostates” or “collaborators” as long as they don’t choose the same path. To consider Islam only through the lenses of “fighting terrorism” will validate the narrative of persecution and revenge that feeds the process of radicalisation. The priority, beyond building a more sophisticated intelligence system, is to debunk the narrative of heroism, to break the “success story” of isis as being invincible (including on the ground) and to let Islam in Europe appear as a “normal” religion. The aim is to accentuate the estrangement of radicals from the Muslim population and to dry up the narrative of Islam as the religion of the oppressed. (Source: BundesKriminalamt): http://tinyurl.com/oofp6sv
(("Ha így lenne, a világon mindenütt, mondjuk Szaúd-Arábiában és más Öböl-monarchiákban is tombolnia kéne a dzsihádnak. De nem tombol."))

Great Britain
Nov 18, 2015  Britain to boost spy agencies after Paris attacks. Britain is to recruit an extra 1,900 security and intelligence staff to counter the threat of terrorist violence following the deadly Paris attacks, British media reported. (Source: Yahoo):http://tinyurl.com/naaue2x

Vatican
November 19, 2015  Terrorist alert: U.S. State Dept warns Americans abroad to steer clear of Vatican (Source: Breitbart): http://tinyurl.com/qcqr97e

European Union
18 Nov 2015  The end of Schengen as we know it? Greece, Spain and Italy will be kicked out of the current zone along with some Eastern European countries as free travel is blamed for migrant crisis. Calls to redraw zone which is blamed for spiralling migrant crisis. A new 'mini-Schengen' with fewer countries proposed to help ease flows. Emergency EU meeting on Friday will discuss new Schengen borders European Council president Tusk says 'clock is ticking'. Eastern European countries will be kicked out of the Schengen Zone along with Greece, Spain, and Italy under a radical plan to save the European Union passport-free travel area in the wake of the migrant crisis. Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands are set to re-draw the boundaries to just include the original members, creating a ‘Mini-Schengen’. The present-day zone covers all the EU Member States – except the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia – as well as Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, which are all outside the EU. (Source: DailyMail): http://tinyurl.com/p38c7ke

November 17, 2015 Paris terror uniting East Europe Against Merkel's refugee plan. Bulgarian diplomat calls talks over EU migrant quotas `absurd'. Polish minister rejects German pressure, cites Nazi past. The EU is increasingly split along east-west lines over how to deal with the immigration crisis as the European Commission estimates 3 million asylum seekers may be heading toward the bloc by 2017. A group of formerly communist countries led by Hungary, one of the nations most affected by the flood of migrants, have opposed German-led efforts to introduce a quota system to settle them, drawing criticism that the recipients of billions of euros in aid from the west aren’t willing to help their richer neighbors. Merkel, who allowed an estimated 1 million asylum seekers into Germany this year, seeks to relocate those fleeing war and civil strife in the Middle East and North Africa across the 28-nation EU. The plan is straining her ties with countries such as Poland and the Baltic nations, which count on German backing for continued sanctions on Russia following President Putin’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014. Poland’s Interior Minister Blaszczak, of the Law & Justice party that won last month’s election after promising to take the country out of the “EU mainstream,” recalled the Nazi’s destruction of Warsaw during World War II when asked about German politicians’ comments suggesting  Poland should show more solidarity in trying to resolve the migrant crisis. “This is another example of German arrogance,” Blaszczak told TVN24. “We are in Warsaw, which was destroyed by Germans agents, who murdered 50,000 people, including women and children” during a raid on its Wola district in 1944, he said. (Source: Bloomberg): http://tinyurl.com/qcvua48

12th November 2015  EU can't send failed migrants back to Africa: £1bn aid deal is snubbed. Africa will refuse to take back failed asylum seekers who travelled to Europe. European leaders had offered a £1billion aid package. But a migration summit in Malta descended into chaos last night after Africans rejected the proposals. The EU plans would see migrants without passports sent back with special travel documents to allow them re-entry. Ethiopia will receive £125m to help deal with its refugee population, which has soared from 90,000 in 2011 to 700,000 in 2015. Another £5m will be used to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance in Mali and Burkina Faso. (Source: DailyStar): http://tinyurl.com/n994adl

Iraq
12 November 2015. isis releases chilling video threatening to attack Russia 'very soon' and 'make their wives concubines' two weeks after claiming to have bombed one of its jets. Footage was posted online by terror group's notorious propaganda wing. Video includes chants of 'soon very soon, the blood will spill like an ocean'. Shows horrific images of prisoners being decapitated and shot in the head. isis has previously threatened revenge for Russian air strikes in Syria. The video come nearly two weeks after isis affiliate Sinai Province claimed it blew up the St Petersburg-bound Metrojet plane on October 31. The terror group had promised revenge after Russia began a campaign of air strikes in Syria six weeks ago, targeting isis strongholds as well as moderate rebels backed by the West who are fighting President Assad. 'Bomb plotter': Secretive isis leader Masri is suspected of blowing up the Russian holiday jet over Egypt killing all 224 people on board. (Source: DailyMail): http://tinyurl.com/no43ayo

Israel
November 18, 2015  Lasers cool liquid for the first time. The technique, which was able to drop a liquid's temperature by 20 degrees Celsius, could eventually be used for everyday tasks like refrigerating water.
(Source: CNet): http://tinyurl.com/obpash6

Saudi Arabia
November 20, 2015  Saudi Arabia, an isis that has made it. The islamic state; Saudi Arabia. In its struggle against terrorism, the West wages war on one, but shakes hands with the other. This is a mechanism of denial, and denial has a price: preserving the famous strategic alliance with Saudi Arabia at the risk of forgetting that the kingdom also relies on an alliance with a religious clergy that produces, legitimizes, spreads, preaches and defends Wahhabism, the ultra-puritanical form of Islam that daesh feeds on. Wahhabism, a messianic radicalism that arose in the 18th century, hopes to restore a fantasized caliphate centered on a desert, a sacred book, and two holy sites, Mecca and Medina. Born in massacre and blood, it manifests itself in a surreal relationship with women, a prohibition against non-Muslims treading on sacred territory, and ferocious religious laws. That translates into an obsessive hatred of imagery and representation and therefore art, but also of the body, nakedness and freedom. Saudi Arabia is a daesh that has made it. The West’s denial regarding Saudi Arabia is striking: It salutes the theocracy as its ally but pretends not to notice that it is the world’s chief ideological sponsor of Islamist culture. The younger generations of radicals in the so-called Arab world were not born jihadists. They were suckled in the bosom of Fatwa Valley, a kind of Islamist Vatican with a vast industry that produces theologians, religious laws, books, and aggressive editorial policies and media campaigns. One might counter: isn’t Saudi Arabia itself a possible target of daesh? Yes, but to focus on that would be to overlook the strength of the ties between the reigning family and the clergy that accounts for its stability — and also, increasingly, for its precariousness. The Saudi royals are caught in a perfect trap: weakened by succession laws that encourage turnover, they cling to ancestral ties between king and preacher. The Saudi clergy produces Islamism, which both threatens the country and gives legitimacy to the regime. daesh has a mother: the invasion of Iraq. But it also has a father: Saudi Arabia and its religious-industrial complex. Until that point is understood, battles may be won, but the war will be lost. Jihadists will be killed, only to be reborn again in future generations and raised on the same books. (Source: The NewYorkTimes): http://tinyurl.com/pwjgfec

Syria
Nov 19, 2015  The Islamic State group is aggressively pursuing development of chemical weapons, setting up a branch dedicated to research and experiments with the help of scientists from Iraq, Syria and elsewhere in the region, according to Iraqi and U.S. intelligence officials. (Source: AP): http://tinyurl.com/nka3anw

17 November 2015 Sick taunts of the Paris mastermind: Jihadist boasts of freely crossing Europe's borders and mocks police who had him in their clutches. isis jihadi Abaaoud has shuttled between Syria and Europe, exploiting the migrant crisis on EU borders. The mastermind of the horrific terror attacks travelled across Europe despite being on several wanted lists. He recruited two brothers he had known since childhood to carry out Friday's murders of 129 people. The jihadi was even featured in isis's propaganda magazine Dabiq, bragging about his terror plans for Europe. See full coverage of the isis militants at www.dailymail.co.uk/isis     The discovery of a car on the Austrian border with Germany with professionally-prepared hidden compartment containing explosives and weapons is a further warning sign. (Source: DailyMail): http://tinyurl.com/npk98co

Turkey
2015/11/20  President Erdoğan calls Muslim countries to unite against terrorism (Source: TheDailySabah): http://tinyurl.com/ptqkm2t

November 20, 2015  Turkey foiled major isil attack on G-20. (Source: HurryjetDailyNews): http://tinyurl.com/nb45ypk

United States
12 Nov 2015   Putin's media Svengali who was found dead in DC hotel was 'murdered for being an FBI informant' - or could even still be alive, claim Russians. Millionaire Lesin, 57, was found dead in $240-a-night in Washington DC last Friday and police are investigating. The pro-Putin 'propaganda channel' he set up, RT, claimed he 'had been suffering from a prolonged unidentified illness'. But DC police have made no such finding and now speculation is mounting in Russia that he was murdered because he had turned FBI informer. Known as 'the Bulldozer' he was key to media falling into line with Putin, for getting the media to dance to Putin's tune. He  had recently found new love and become father with Siberian model, 29. He was a Svengali figure for Putin, who was alleged to have menaced the Russian media into idolizing the strongman president. Lesin was Putin's press secretary during his first stint as president, from 1999 to 2004, before becoming an adviser to the president between 2004 to 2009, founded state television network Russia Today, regarded in the West as a mouthpiece for the Kremlin  He also set up Russia Today, now RT, seen by critics as a 'propaganda' channel aimed at the West. But earlier this year, after the break-up of his marriage, and in a new relationship with his Siberian lover who he may have wed - she referred to him as her 'husband' - he suddenly quit the latest of several high profile positions, as head of Gazprom Media, a major state owned media conglomerate The idea for Russia Today (RT) was conceived by Lesin as the Russian government sought to improve the public image of the country. Before its conception in 2005, the head of the RIA Novosti news agency  Mironyuk said Russia was only known for 'communism, snow and poverty'. Some would argue RT has done little to change that, with most of the West seeing the state-funded television network as a  media arm for the Kremlin and Putin. During the conflict between Russia and Georgia in 2008, RT named Georgia as the aggressor, despite Russia invading parts of Georgia, which had merely defended itself against attack from the separatist governments of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The channel caused consternation in the US in 2010 when it released controversial adverts showing President Obama merging into Iranian president Ahmadinejad. It was captioned 'Who poses the greatest nuclear threat?' and subsequently banned in US airports, while a similar advert showing a soldier merging into a Taliban fighter causing similar uproar. In 2012 RT's website was hacked by a group called Antileaks, believed to be because of Wikileaks chief Assange backing of the channel or because of the jailing of protest group Pussy Riot. Secretary of State Kerry has referred to Russia Today, often shortened to RT, as a 'propaganda bullhorn'. Following the crisis in Ukraine, Kerry said: 'Russia Today network has deployed to promote president Putin's fantasy about what is playing out on the ground. 'They almost spend full-time devoted to this effort, to propagandize, and to distort what is happening or not happening in Ukraine.'  Even  Putin has admitted RT is biased, saying: 'Certainly the channel is funded by the government, so it cannot help but reflect the Russian government's official position on the events in our country and in the rest of the world one way or another. 'But I’d like to underline again that we never intended this channel, RT, as any kind of apologetics for the Russian political line, whether domestic or foreign.' Lesin was found dead at 11:30am on November 6 while staying on an upper floor at the $240-a-night Dupont Circle Hotel, seen as modest for his multimillionaire lifestyle. Lesin's company the Dastel Corporation bought a 13,000 sq ft Beverly Hills home in August 2011 for $13.8 million and a 10,600 square foot property in Brentwood for $9 million in 2012, it was reported. 'For over a year he was living under FBI scrutiny and a total check on his assets. (Source. DailyMail): http://tinyurl.com/p4hw4hm

Space
16 Nov 2015  Astronaut just tweeted a picture of a ‘UFO’ (Source: TheNewYorkPost): http://tinyurl.com/owh76le

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Sun, Earth

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Time data regarding the occurence of M-class or stronger solar flares, Kp= 5-level or greater geomagnetic storm activity, big or slow solar wind speed, etc. Quakes, possibly about some volcano activity.

2015/11/20

SUN:
New sunspot region on the East, number 2457 continues to rotate onto the disk. 
Today solar activity was very low. No Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were observed.
SPACE:
Solar wind speeds steadily decreased from about 420 km/s to around 365 km/s
until 17:00 UT when slowly increased;  
end-of-day values were near 415 km/s.
Today Bz was primarily northward, the phi angle was mostly in a negative (toward the Sun) solar sector orientation.
EARTH:
The geomagnetic field was at quiet to unsettled levels.
(Update -): At 06:05 UT Copahue volcano Central Chile - Argentina border (elevation: 2953 m): crater incandescence, small explosions, continuous emissions of water vapor and gas.
Asosan volcano Kyushu, Japan (elevation: 1592 m): see also the 18 November situation.
Awu volcano Sangihe Islands, Indonesia (elevation: 1320 m): see also the 18 November and 24 November situation.
Colima volcano Mexico (elevation: 3850 m): see the 18 November situation.
Cotopaxi volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5911 m): see the 19 November situation.
Dukono volcano Halmahera, Indonesia (elevation: 1335 m): see the 18 November situation.
Karymsky volcano Eastern Kamchatka, Russia (elevation: 1513 m): see the 18 November situation.
Kilauea volcano, Hawaiian Islands, USA (elevation: 1222 m):  see the 18 November situation.
Reventador volcano Ecuador (elevation: 3562 m): steam, gas, and ash emissions rose 500 m above the crater and drifted west. See also the 18 November situation.
Rinjani volcano Lombok Island, Indonesia (elevation: 3726 m): see the 19 November situation.
Sheveluch volcano Central Kamchatka, Russia (elevation: 3283 m ): see the 18 November situation.
Tungurahua volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5023 m): high volcano-tectonic activity characterized by long-period events, explosions, signals of emissions. Ash-and-gas emissions rose as high as 3 km above the crater and drifted south-west, west and north-west. Ashfalls in areas including at a distance of 13 km west-southwest, 25 km west, 23 km north-west ( - updated).

2015/11/19

SUN:
Solar activity was very low. No Earth directed coronal mass ejection was observed.
SPACE:
00:00-00:30 UT: solar wind speed reached a maximum velocity of about 500-530 km/s and started to decrease.
throughout most of the period of 00:00-12:00 UT the phi angle was predominantly negative (towards the Sun);
01:45-04:25 UT: a brief phi angle rotation into the positive (away from Sun) sector.
SPACE:
around 07:30 UT  Bz reached a southward deflection of -6 nT.
today the phi angle generally was in a negative (toward the Sun) solar sector orientation. Solar wind speeds reflected waning CME effects, weak negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) influence, and slowly decreased from about 520 km/s to around 370 km/s. The interplanetary magnetic field Bz was mostly northward.
EARTH:
Early in this day the geomagnetic field was active;
through the remainder of the day it was quiet to unsettled.
20:05 UT: an M5.5 quake occured at a distance of 91 km south-souteast from Chichi-shima, Japan; 1071 km south-southeast of Tokyo, Japan. See also: the Philippine Sea and vicinity.
Asosan volcano Kyushu, Japan (elevation: 1592 m): see also the 18 November situation.
Awu volcano Sangihe Islands, Indonesia (elevation: 1320 m): see also the 18 November and 24 November situation.
Chirpoi volcano Kuril Islands, Russia (elevation: 742 m): thermal anomaly detected  over Snow, a volcano of Chirpoi.
Colima volcano Mexico (elevation: 3850 m): see the 18 November situation.
Cotopaxi volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5911 m): gas, steam, and ash plumes rose as high as 1.5 km above the crater, and drifted west and south-west.
Dukono volcano Halmahera, Indonesia (elevation: 1335 m): see the 18 November situation.
Karymsky volcano Eastern Kamchatka, Russia (elevation: 1513 m): see the 18 November situation.
Kilauea volcano, Hawaiian Islands, USA (elevation: 1222 m):  see the 18 November situation.
Lokon-Empung volcano Sulawesi, Indonesia (elevation: 1580 m): see the 18 November situation.
Reventador volcano Ecuador (elevation: 3562 m): see the 18 November situation.
Rinjani volcano Lombok Island, Indonesia (elevation: 3726 m): ash plumes from Rinjani rose to altitudes of 3-4.3 km and drifted as far as 95 km south-west, west-northwest and west.
Sheveluch volcano Central Kamchatka, Russia (elevation: 3283 m ): see the 18 November situation.
Soputan volcano Sulawesi, Indonesia (elevation: 1784 m): white plumes were rising as high as 200 m above. Low-frequency emission and avalanche signals of volcanic earthquakes. People were advised not to approach the craters within a radius of 2 km on the west-southwest flank.
Tungurahua volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5023 m): see the 18 November situation.
22:30 UT: Copahue volcano Central Chile - Argentina border (elevation: 2953 m): tremor amplitude began to oscillate.

2015/11/18

Prediction from 17 November:
SPACE, EARTH:
around noon: a glancing blow or shock arrival from the 16/01:14 UT  CME can be expected.
EARTH:
18:31 UT: M7.0 quake occured at a distance of 118 km south-west from Dadali, Solomon Islands; 436 km south-east of Arawa, Papua New Guinea. See also: the New Guinea region and vicinity.
SUN:
Solar activity was low. No Earth directed CMEs were recorded. A new region is turning over the Nnorth-eastern limb.
SPACE:
19:23 UT: a shock is observed; the total interplanetary magnetic field reached 13 nT;
19:30 UT: the maximum southward component of Bz reached -10 nT, indicating a likely shock passage from the anticipated CME of 15-16 November;
20:37 UT: solar wind peak speed: 491 km/s due to the effect of the negative polarity recurrent coronal hole high speed stream.
21:00-24:00 UT: minor (G1) geomagnetic storm (Kp = 5)
EARTH:
Geomagnetic field: quiet to unsettled.
Asosan volcano Kyushu, Japan (elevation: 1592 m): white plumes rose 400-500 m above the rim of Asosan’s Nakadake Crater.
Awu volcano Sangihe Islands, Indonesia (elevation: 1320 m): significant increase in the number of shallow volcanic earthquakes from a baseline maximum of 4 events per day.
Colima volcano Mexico (elevation: 3850 m): ash plumes rose to altitudes of 4.9 - 7 km and drifted north-west, west, and south-west.
Cotopaxi volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5911 m): gas, steam, and ash plumes rose as high as 1.5 km above the crater, and drifted west and south-west. Ashfall.
Dukono volcano Halmahera, Indonesia (elevation: 1335 m): ash plumes rose to an altitude of 2.4 km and drifted 55-165 km in multiple directions.
Karangetang volcano Siau Island, Indonesia (elevation: 1784 m): the lava dome was incandescent at night. Variable amounts of white emissions rose as high as 200 m above main cater.
Karymsky volcano Eastern Kamchatka, Russia (elevation: 1513 m): moderate explosive activity continued.
Kilauea volcano, Hawaiian Islands, USA (elevation: 1222 m): the lava lake continued to circulate and spatter in the Overlook vent. The northeast-trending lava flow continued to be active within 1.9-6.1 km of Pu'u 'O'o crater.
Lokon-Empung volcano Sulawesi, Indonesia (elevation: 1580 m): white plumes rising as high as 400 m above the crater. Seismicity fluctuated, but in a gradually increasing trend. People were reminded not to approach the crater within a radius of 2.5 km.
Reventador volcano Ecuador (elevation: 3562 m): high level of seismic activity - explosions, volcano-tectonic events, long-period earthquakes, harmonic tremor - and signals indicating emissions.
Rinjani volcano Lombok Island, Indonesia (elevation: 3726 m): ash plumes from Rinjani rose to altitudes of 3-4.3 km and drifted as far as 95 km south-west, west-northwest and west. Thermal anomaly; the activity had continued to decline.
Sheveluch volcano Central Kamchatka, Russia (elevation: 3283 m ): lava-dome extrusion onto its northern flank was accompanied by fumarolic activity, dome incandescence, ash explosions, hot avalanches. Daily thermal anomaly over the dome.
Tungurahua volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5023 m): high volcano-tectonic activity characterized by long-period events, explosions, signals of emissions. Ash-and-gas emissions rose as high as 3 km above the crater and drifted south-west, west and north-west. Ashfalls in areas including a distance of 13 km west-southwest, 25 km west, 23 km north-west. Incandescent blocks rolled 500 m down the flanks.

2015/11/17

EARTH:
07:10 UT: an M6.5 quake occured at a distance of 14 km west-northwest from Nidri, Greece; 289 km (west-northwest of Athens, Greece. See also: the Mediterranean region and vicinity.
17:29 UT: an M5.5 quake occured at a distance of -27 km west-northwest from of Gul'cha, Kyrgyzstan; 302 km south-southwest of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. See also: the Himalaya and vicinity.
SUN:
Solar activity was low. No Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CME) were observed.
SPACE:
For the majority of the day the phi angle was positive (away from Sun),
until approximately 19:40 UT when it rotated into the negative (towards the Sun) sector, where it remained for the rest.
Solar wind speeds were relatively steady between 360-380 km/s. The Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field was variable but predominantly in a southward orientation.
EARTH:
Today the geomagnetic field was at quiet to unsettled levels 
Prediction for 18 November:
EARTH:
tomorrow, around noon: a minor glancing blow or shock arrival from the 16/01:14 UT  CME can be expected, when a combination of a negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream and the anticipated arrival of the 16 November CME will enhance solar wind conditions with possibly active geomagnetic conditions or minor geomagnetic storms. (The double filament eruption of late 15 November produced a double CME towards the South West).
Colima volcano Mexico (elevation: 3850 m): see the 11 November situation.
Cotopaxi volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5911 m): see the 11 November situation.
Dukono volcano Halmahera Indonesia (elevation: 1335 m): see the 11 November situation.
Fuego volcano Guatemala (elevation: 3763 m): see the 15 November situation.
Kilauea volcano Hawaiian Islands, USA (elevation: 1222 m): see the 11 November situation.
Nevado del Ruiz volcano Colombia (elevation: 5279 m): A gas, steam, and ash plume rose 2 km and drifted north-west and south-west.
Popocatepetl volcano Mexico (elevation: 5426 m): Ash plumes rose 2 km and incandescent material was deposited on the flanks within 1 km of the crater. See also the 11 November situation.
Tungurahua volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5023 m): See the 11 November situation.
Ubinas volcano Peru (elevation: 5672 m): thermal anomalies were detected.

2015/11/16

SUN:
Today solar activity was very low.
EARTH:
00:00-03:00 UT: the geomagnetic field had an isolated active interval, due to a prolonged period of southward Bz orientation of the solar winds.
00:39 UT: an M5.8 quake occured at a distance of 169 km south-southwest from George Town, Cayman Islands; 422 km westof Montego Bay, Jamaica; 450 km north-northeast of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. See also: the Caribbean region and vicinity.
SUN:
01:14 UT: an approximate 19 degree long filament was observed lifting off. An Earth-directed component is probable.
SPACE:
around 04:45 UT the Bz component of the magnetic field had a maximum deflection of -7 nT; it was predominantly southward.
15:25 UT: the greater than 2 MeV electron flux reached high levels with a peak flux of 3129 pfu.
EARTH:
16:49 UT: an M5.8 quake occured at a distance of 297 km south-southwest from Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia; 1842 km noth-east of Tokyo, Japan. See also: the Kuril-Kamchatka Arc.
Today the geomagnetic field was mostly quiet to unsettled; at active levels for 3 hours.
SPACE:
Solar wind speeds were in gradual decline, decreasing from 390 km/s to around 370 km/s. Phi was in the positive (away) sector. The Bz component of interplanetary magnetic field mostly stayed negative up to around -6 nT.
Colima volcano Mexico (elevation: 3850 m): see the 11 November situation.
Cotopaxi volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5911 m): see the 11 November situation.
Dukono volcano Halmahera Indonesia (elevation: 1335 m): see the 11 November situation.
Fuego volcano Guatemala (elevation: 3763 m): see the 15 November situation.
Kilauea volcano Hawaiian Islands, USA (elevation: 1222 m): see the 11 November situation.
Nevado del Ruiz volcano Colombia (elevation: 5279 m): see the 11 November situation.
Popocatepetl volcano Mexico (elevation: 5426 m): 88 daily  seismic emissions.
Shishaldin volcano Fox Islands, USA (elevation: 2857 m): see the 11 November situation.
Sinabung volcano Indonesia (elevation: 2460 m):  see the 15 November situation.
Tungurahua volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5023 m): see the 11 November situation.
Ubinas volcano Peru (elevation: 5672 m): see the 11 November situation.

2015/11/15:

SPACE:
14:55 UT: the greater than 2 MeV electron flux reached high levels this period with a peak flux of 2,087 pfu.
since around 18:00 UT the Bz component was negative, dipping to -7 nT.
SUN:
Solar activity was very low.
20:48 UT: a coronal mass ejection (CME) lifted off the west limb.
around 21:14 UT: an approximate 21 degree long filament eruption occurred in the south-western quadrant. An Earth-directed component is probable.
22:09 UT: the southern extent of a filament structure located near disk center began lifting off. A lack of coronal eruptions on the visible disk suggests that the CME is associated with far-sided activity.
SPACE:
Towards the end of the day Bz reached a maximum southward deflection of -7 nT. The phi angle remained steady in positive (away from the Sun) solar sector configuration.
Today solar wind speeds declined; varied between 380-410 km/s.
EARTH:
Today the geomagnetic field was at quiet to unsettled levels.
Chirpoi volcano Kuril Islands, Russia (elevation: 742 m): see the 11 November situation.
Colima volcano Mexico (elevation: 3850 m): see the 11 November situation.
Cotopaxi volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5911 m): see the 11 November situation.
Dukono volcano Halmahera Indonesia (elevation: 1335 m): see the 11 November situation.
Kilauea volcano Hawaiian Islands, USA (elevation: 1222 m): see the 11 November situation.
Nevado del Ruiz volcano Colombia (elevation: 5279 m): see the 11 November situation.
Popocatepetl volcano Mexico (elevation: 5426 m): See the 11 November situation.
Rinjani volcano, Lombok Island, Indonesia (elevation: 3726 m): ash plumes rose to altitudes of 3.7-4.3 km and drifted as far as 240 km north-west, west and south-west.
Shishaldin volcano Fox Islands, USA (elevation: 2857 m): see the 11 November situation.
Sinabung volcano Indonesia (elevation: 2460 m): ash plumes rose to an altitude of 3.7 km and drifted sout-west and east.
Tungurahua volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5023 m): incandescent blocks rolled 1 km down the flanks. See also the 11 November situation.
Ubinas volcano Peru (elevation: 5672 m): see the 11 November situation.

2015/11/14:

SUN:
Solar activity was very low. New Region 2455 was numbered. No Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were observed.
SPACE:
between 11:20 - 20:40 UT the phi angle transitioned from positive (away) to a negative (toward) solar sector orientation.
at 14:15 UT the greater than 2 MeV electron flux reached high levels with a peak flux of 2,730 pfu.
Today solar wind speeds were  moderate, declining slowly, from 520 km/s to 420 km/s. Bz reached a maximum southward deflection of -5 nT.
EARTH:
through the night the slightly enhanced geo-activity continued.
19:20 UT: M5.7 quake occured at a distance of 128 km west-southwest from Kushikino, Japan; 704 km south-southeast of Seoul, South Korea. See also: the Philippine Sea and vicinity.
Today the geomagnetic field was mostly quiet.
Chirpoi volcano Kuril Islands, Russia (elevation: 742 m): steam-and-gas emissions were also observed.
Colima volcano Mexico (elevation: 3850 m): see the 11 November situation.
Cotopaxi volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5911 m): see the 11 November situation.
Dukono volcano Halmahera Indonesia (elevation: 1335 m): see the 11 November situation.
Fuego volcano Guatemala (elevation: 3763 m): see the 11 November situation.
Kilauea volcano Hawaiian Islands, USA (elevation: 1222 m): see the 11 November situation.
Nevado del Ruiz volcano Colombia (elevation: 5279 m): see also the 11 November situation. A gas, steam, and ash plume rose 2 km and drifted north-west and south-west.
Popocatepetl volcano Mexico (elevation: 5426 m): 102 daily  seismic emissions.
Rinjani volcano, Lombok Island, Indonesia (elevation: 3726 m): ash plumes rose as high as 1.6 km and drifted west-southwest; ashfall was reported in some villages downwind.
Shishaldin volcano Fox Islands, USA (elevation: 2857 m): see the 11 November situation.
Tungurahua volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5023 m): incandescent blocks rolled 500 m down the flanks. See also the 11 November situation.
Ubinas volcano Peru (elevation: 5672 m): ash plumes rose 600 m.

2015/11/13

SUN:
The solar activity was low.
No Earth directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were observed.
New sunspot region 2454 was numbered.
SPACE:
05 45 UT: the Bz component of the IMF shifted to a predominantly negative (towards) sector.
06:00-12:00 UT: some variability of the phi angle, which was generally positive (away from the Sun).
EARTH:
06:04 UT: an  M5.8 quake occured at a distance of 38 km north from Quilino, Argentina; 705 km east-northeast of Santiago, Chile. See also: South America, Nazca Plate region.
Forecasted from 23 October 2015:
around 06:19 UT a mysterious piece of space debris called WT1190F is expected to enter Earth’s atmosphere near Sri Lanka. The object is believed to be a discarded rocket body and will likely enter from above the Indian Ocean. (Source: SpaceSituationalAvareness): http://tinyurl.com/ppyhupe
SPACE:
Solar wind speeds slowly decreased from 400 km/s to 350 km/s until
around 08:00 UT when speeds slowly increased to end-of-period values near 490 km/s, due to the arrival of a coronal hole high speed stream.
10:23 UT: the Bz component of the IMF was primarily southward and reached a maximum negative deviation of nearly -6 nT. 
13:00-15:00 UT: IMF total field strength values reached 11 nT and Bz reached a maximum southward deflection of -8 nT.
13:55 UT: the greater than 2 MeV electron flux was at moderate storm levels, with a peak flux of  88,813 pfu observed until mid-period when the onset of a coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) caused a decrease to moderate flux levels.
EARTH:
15:00-18:00 UT: the onset of a positive polarity CH HSS caused active geomagnetic field conditions.
20:51 UT: M6.7 quake occured at a distance of 144 km west-southwest of Makurazaki, Japan; 748 km south-south-east of Seoul, South Korea. See also: the Philippine Sea and vicinity. 
Colima volcano Mexico (elevation: 3850 m): see the 11 November situation.
Cotopaxi volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5911 m): see the 11 November situation.
Karymsky volcano Eastern Kamchatka, Russia (elevation: 1513 m): see the 12 November situation.
Kilauea volcano Hawaiian Islands, USA (elevation: 1222 m): see the 11 November situation.
Nevado del Ruiz volcano Colombia (elevation: 5279 m): see the 11 November situation.
Popocatepetl volcano Mexico (elevation: 5426 m): see the 11 November situation.
Rinjani volcano, Lombok Island, Indonesia (elevation: 3726 m): see the 11 November situation.
Sheveluch volcano Central Kamchatka, Russia (elevation: 3283 m): see the 11 November situation.
Shishaldin volcano Fox Islands, USA (elevation: 2857 m): see the 11 November situation.
Tungurahua volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5023 m): see the 11 November situation.
Ubinas volcano Peru (elevation: 5672 m): an ash plume rose 1.5 km above the crater floor and drifted south and south-west.
Yasur volcano, Vanuatu (elevation: 361 m): its activity had increased with more intense explosions.

2015/11/12

SUN:
Active sunspot region number 2452 rotated into view.
SPACE, EARTH:
Forecast from 10 November:
around early 12 November an equatorial coronal hole is expected to become geoeffective around the same time as the 9 November CME arrival, keeping the solar wind speed elevated until around 13 November. Total magnetic field strength (Bt) is anticipated.of yet, the expected effects from the 9 Nov CME have not materialized.
until 06:45 UT the phi angle was predominantly positive (away) when it oscillated into a negative (towards) sector.
at 11:30 UT the phi angle shifted back positive again.
17:35 UT The greater than 2 MeV electron flux reached high levels with a peak flux of 30,200 pfu.
Today wind speeds were in gradual decline: from around 600 km/s to near 400 km/s.
The phi angle was primarily positive (away) most of the period.
SUN:
The solar activity was low.
A new sunspot region emerged and got the number 2453.
No Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were observed.
A large, relatively stable curve-shaped filament is observed with its proximity to two negative polarity coronal holes and newly developed sunspot region 2453.
EARTH:
Geomagnetic field conditions were at quiet levels.
The minor CME impact expected on this day failed to eventuate.
Chirpoi volcano Kuril Islands, Russia (elevation: 742 m): see the 11 November situation. Steam-and-gas emissions were also observed.
Colima volcano Mexico (elevation: 3850 m): see the 11 November situation.
Cotopaxi volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5911 m): see the 11 November situation.
Dukono volcano Halmahera Indonesia (elevation: 1335 m): see the 11 November situation.
Fuego volcano Guatemala (elevation: 3763 m): see the 11 November situation.
Karymsky volcano Eastern Kamchatka, Russia (elevation: 1513 m): moderate explosive activity continued.
Kilauea volcano Hawaiian Islands, USA (elevation: 1222 m): see the 11 November situation.
Lokon-Empung volcano Sulawesi, Indonesia (elevation: 1580 m): see the 11 November situation.
Nevado del Ruiz volcano Colombia (elevation: 5279 m): see the 11 November situation.
Popocatepetl volcano Mexico (elevation: 5426 m): Ash plumes rose from the crater. See also the 11 November situation.
Rinjani volcano, Lombok Island, Indonesia (elevation: 3726 m): see the 11 November situation.
Sheveluch volcano Central Kamchatka, Russia (elevation: 3283 m): see the 11 November situation.
Shishaldin volcano Fox Islands, USA (elevation: 2857 m): see the 11 November situation.
Tungurahua volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5023 m): incandescent blocks rolled 500 m down the flanks. See also the 11 November situation.
Ubinas volcano Peru (elevation: 5672 m): see the 11 November situation.

2015/11/11

EARTH:
00:00-03:00 UT: G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm (kp = 5).
00:26 UT: an M5.6 quake occured at a distance of 145 km south-southeast from Satawal, Micronesia; 863 km south-southeast of Hagatna, Guam. See also: the Philippine Sea and vicinity.
01:54 UT: an M6.9 quake occured at a distance of 93 km northwest of Coquimbo, Chile; 466 km north-northwest of Santiago, Chile. See also: Nazca Plate Region.
02:46 UT: an M6.9 quake occured at a distance of 98 km north-west from Coquimbo, Chile; 467 km north-northwest of Santiago, Chile. See also: Nazca Plate Region.
11:45 UT: an M5.6 quake occured at a distance of 106 km south from Bambanglipuro, Indonesia; 476 km south-east of Jakarta, Indonesia.
SPACE:
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit maintained at minor storm levels.
over the past few days a large (positive) coronal hole was currently centered and has been the source of enhanced solar wind speeds. We're currently passing out of the High Speed Stream (HSS).
EARTH:
15:00 - 18:00 UT: G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm (kp = 5), possibly caused by the trailing edge of the High Speed Stream (HSS) or a glancing blow from the CME generated on 9 November, or was likely the result of enhanced solar wind speeds and a sustained period of southward Bz.
SPACE:
today the Bz component began the period in primarily a southward orientation.
after 18:52 UT the Bz component was becoming variable.
about 19 00 UT: solar wind speeds began a gradual decline.
19:15 UT: the greater than 2 MeV electron flux reached very high levels with a peak flux of 59,508 pfu.
Today the solar wind speed has steadily declined, from about 750 km/s to around 610 km /s.
EARTH:
Forecast from 9 November:
at 20:00 UT any Earth directed component of a partial CME recorded by Cactus at 14:00 on 9 November can be expected to reach Earth.
Forecast from 10 November:
Later on 11 November and into 12 November, the 9 November CME is expected to arrive at Earth. Enhanced solar wind speeds and total magnetic field strength (Bt) are anticipated.
Forecast at noon:
around 23:00 UT this evening the 9 November CME will hit the Earth system.
23:36 UT: an M5.7 quake occured at a distance of 272 km west-northwest from Saumlaki, Indonesia; 399 km east-northeast of Dili, East Timor. See also: the New Guinea Region and vicinity.
Chirpoi volcano Kuril Islands, Russia (elevation: 742 m): thermal anomaly detected over Snow, a volcano of Chirpoi.
Colima volcano Mexico (elevation: 3850 m): ash plumes rose to altitudes of 4.3-6.3 km and drifted north-east, west and south-west.
Cotopaxi volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5911 m): gas, steam, and ash plumes rose as high as 2 km above the crater and drifted north-west, west and south-west.
Dukono volcano Halmahera, Indonesia (elevation: 1335 m): ash plumes rose to an altitude of 2.4 km and drifted 45-120 km south, south-west, west and north-west.
Fuego volcano Guatemala (elevation: 3763 m): explosions generated ash plumes that rose 450-750 m above the crater and drifted west-southwest. Ashfall was reported. Lava flows remained active in two south-eastern drainages.
Karangetang volcano Siau Island, Indonesia (elevation: 1784 m): the lava dome was incandescent at night; avalanches from lava-flow fronts traveled as far as 1.5 km east down the two drainages. Seismicity decreased, but continued to be dominated by avalanche signals. People were warned not to approach Karangetang within a 4-km radius.
Karymsky volcano Eastern Kamchatka, Russia (elevation: 1513 m): ash plumes were drifting 110 km south-east. Moderate explosive activity continued.
Kilauea volcano Hawaiian Islands, USA (elevation: 1222 m): the lava lake continued to circulate and spatter in the Overlook vent. Multiple incandescent outgassing vents within Pu'u 'O'o. The north-east-trending lava flow continued to be active within 1.9-6.1 km of Pu'u 'O'o crater.
Lokon-Empung volcano Sulawesi, Indonesia (elevation: 1580 m): white plumes rising as high as 300 m above the crater. The seismic spectral amplitude showed a gradually increasing trend. People were reminded not to approach the crater within a radius of 2.5 km.
Nevado del Ruiz volcano Colombia (elevation: 5279 m): seismicity characterized by long-period earthquakes and short-duration volcanic tremor associated with gas-and-ash emissions. Significant amounts of water vapor and gas rose from the crater.
Popocatepetl volcano Mexico (elevation: 5426 m): 30-62 daily seismic emissions. Daily gas plumes drifted south-west and north-west.
Rinjani volcano, Lombok Island, Indonesia (elevation: 3726 m): dense white-and-gray plumes rose as high as 2.6 km above Barujari crater. Elevated levels of continuous tremor were detected in a declining trend. North to east-trending lava flows. A lava flow entered lake Segara Anak, causing an increase in the lake level and increased flow in the Kokok Putih river. People warned not to approach the crater within a 3-km radius.
Sheveluch volcano Central Kamchatka, Russia (elevation: 3283 m): lava-dome extrusion onto Sheveluch’s northern flank was accompanied by fumarolic activity, dome incandescence, ash explosions, hot avalanches. Intense daily thermal anomaly over the dome.
Shishaldin volcano Fox Islands, USA (elevation: 2857 m): seismicity continued to be slightly elevated over background levels; low-level eruptive activity confined to the summit crater continued.
Tungurahua volcano Ecuador (elevation: 5023 m): high seismic activity, characterized by long-period events, volcano-tectonic events, explosions, signals indicating emissions. Daily ash-and-gas emissions rose as high as 4 km above the crater and drifted west and northwest. Ashfall was also reported daily, in north-western, western and south-western areas.
Ubinas volcano Peru (elevation: 5672 m): sporadic ash-and-gas emissions.

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Orbán Viktor beszéde Nemeskürty István temetési szertartásán

    Tisztelt gyászoló család! Tisztelt gyászoló gyülekezet! Elmennek hát mind a nagyok. Elmennek sorban, akik szellemi, lelki támogatást és megerősítést adtak, akik átsegítettek bennünket a megingás és elbizonytalanodás fel-felbukkanó pillanatában. Illetlen, mert önző gondolat a búcsúzás perceiben, de eluralkodik bennünk egy érzés: most, hogy lassan magunkra maradunk, most, hogy lassan csak magunkra támaszkodhatunk, mire lesz ez elég?
     Amikor egy rendíthetetlen hazafi sírja előtt állunk, mi magunk megrendülünk. Teljes valónk minden gyarlóságával együtt átérezzük, hogy miközben Isten mennyei királysága gazdagabb lett egy polgárral, mi, magyarok szegényebbek lettünk. Elszégyellem magam, ha arra gondolok, mennyit nyafogunk, hogy hol erre, hol arra nincs elegendő időnk, miközben Nemeskürty István félszáznál is több könyvet írt, másfél száznál is több film születésénél bábáskodott, végigtanította az életét, nemzeti kultúránk legaktívabb szervezője volt, és még arra is jutott ideje, hogy tető alá hozza a mai polgári, nemzeti, keresztény politikai közösség szellemi szövetségét. Hüledezünk, hogy férhet bele ennyi minden egy emberi életbe. Nemeskürty István számára egy pillanatra sem volt kétséges, hogy édesapját követve arra a pályára lépjen, amelynek lényegét a Ludovika egyik jelszava egy rövid mondatban foglalja össze: „A hazáért mindhalálig!” Tömör parancs ez, amely egész embert kíván. Életre szóló konok elhatározást, teljes szívet, teljes lelket, teljes elmét követel a katonától, a tanártól, a férjtől, a családapától. Visszapillantva a tanár úr életútjára, mely kilenc, válságokkal és zűrzavarokkal terhes évtizedét fogja egybe a magyar államiság ezeréves történetének, ebben nem találunk hibát. Mindent, amit a tanár úr tett és mondott, azt teljes szívvel, teljes lélekkel, teljes erővel képviselte, ahogy egy igaz, magyar hazafihoz illik, aki vallja és vállalja, hogy élete nem a saját, hanem a haza tulajdona.
     Nemeskürty István hazafi tudott maradni, amikor 1944. március 19-én megindultak a német Tigrisek, s ő „mint ludovikás kadét” azon kevesek közé tartozott, akik nem azt nézték, hogy hova állhatnak vagy hova futhatnak, hanem azt kérdezte: Mikor lövünk? Hazafi tudott maradni az ötvenes évek kommunista diktatúrájában és az ’56-os forradalom és szabadságharc alatt is. Megmaradni és itthon maradni az ő fejében ugyanazt jelentette. Így állhatott meg szilárdan őrhelyén a Kádár-rendszer egyébként megalkuvásokra kényszerítő világában és a rendszerváltást követő két zavaros évtizedben is. Akik látták őt a szocialista kultúrpolitika keskenyre szabott pallóján egyensúlyozni, vállalva kereszténységét és magyarságát, nem értették, hogy honnan volt ereje és bátorsága egy kötéltáncos ügyességével, de megalkuvás nélkül kitartani. Talán azért tehette ezt, mert ő egyetlen pillantásával a nemzet történetének ezer évét látta át olyan természetességgel, ahogyan mi a tegnapi vagy a mai napot látjuk. És ebben a távlatban magabiztosan ítélt meg minden eseményt, személyt és gondolatot. Amikor azt kérdeztem tőle, megtisztelné-e a nemzetet azzal, hogy elvállalja a millenniumi ünnepségek kormánybiztosi feladatait, azt válaszolta, ilyen állás ezerévente egy van, és ezért elvállalta.
     Ma már világosan látjuk, avégre volt a világon, hogy a magyar nemzet krónikása legyen, aki hangot és arcot tud adni a XVI. század elfeledett prédikátorainak és Biblia-fordítóinak, és aki igazságot tud szolgáltatni egy halálra és feledésre ítélt hadseregnek. Avégre volt a világon, hogy a legszebb és legtisztább, mindenki által érthető magyarsággal tolmácsolja és átlelkesítse a magyar irodalom és a magyar film történetét. Avégre volt a világon, hogy magyar könyveket olvasson, magyar fejjel gondolkodjon, hogy a gyors változások idején a maga módján igazodási, sőt találkozási pontot kínáljon sok jóérzésű, de elbizonytalanodott embernek. Avégre volt a világon, hogy másokat tanítson. Tőle tanultuk, tőle tanulhatjuk, hogyan lehetünk jó magyarok. Ha az ő példájára tekintünk, akkor nem lehetünk jó magyarok hazánk történelmének pontos és mélyreható ismerete nélkül. Erre tanított minket történészként. Ha az ő példájára tekintünk, akkor nem lehetünk jó magyarok anyanyelvünk szeretete és ápolása nélkül. Erre tanított minket íróként. Ha az ő példájára tekintünk, akkor nem lehetünk jó magyarok nemzeti kultúránk óvása és gazdagítása nélkül. Erre tanított minket a kultúra tábornokaként. Mert ahogy ő mondta: „Vagy mer a magyar nép nagyot álmodva tényleg naggyá lenni, vagy végképp fölmorzsolódik a nemzetek kíméletlen versenyében, ahol csak az önbizalommal és öntudattal rendelkező nemzeteknek van esélyük.”
     Számos érv szól amellett, hogy visszariadjunk egy ilyen hatalmas életmű és egy ilyen kiemelkedő felebarátunk értékelésétől és méltatásától. Mégis, kellő alázattal annyit talán mondhatunk, hogy Nemeskürty István a hazáért végzett szolgálatát teljesítette, pályáját befutotta, Istenbe, nemzetbe, családba vetett hitét megtartotta. Adja a Jóisten, hogy ne csak tisztelői, hanem követői és tanítványai is maradhassunk ezen az úton.
Isten veled, tanár úr!
     (Forrás: MagyarIdők)

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Russia
(Autumn 2015) Upon its entry into force, this agreement will ensure establishing lines of 24-hour operational communication between the military headquarters of Russia and the United States and mechanisms of interaction, including provision of mutual assistance in case of emergency. The US side has undertaken to inform all other members of the Counter-isil Coalition led by the United States of the agreed rules and the Coalition members’ aircrews will adhere to these arrangements.The signing of the document in no way changes the Russian position of principle, whose military forces in Syria are operating at the request of legitimate authorities of that country. While projection of force of the United States and the Counter-isil coalition led by Washington on the territory of Syria without the consent of Damascus and in the absence of relevant UN Security Council resolution represents negligence of the international law. (Source: MinistryOfDefenseOfTheRussianFederation): http://tinyurl.com/y7o3aay8

Globalization
Oct 31, 2015  A mass migration crisis, and it may yet get worse. What if islamic state militants are not beaten back but continue to extend their brutal writ across Iraq and Syria? What if the taliban continue to increase their territorial gains in Afghanistan, prompting even more people to flee? A quarter of Afghans told a Gallup Poll that they want to leave.There are between six million and eight million people displaced in Syria, along with more than four million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. Egypt’s five million or more Copts, the Middle East’s last remaining major Christian sect, are deeply worried about their future in an unstable and hostile country. Ancient minority groups like the Yazidis of Iraq are already homeless, as are many small communities of Assyrian, Nestorian and Chaldean Christians from northern Iraq. While Yemenis have yet to abandon their homeland in substantial numbers, their plight is worsening daily amid wartime shortages of food and medicine and persistent bombardment by Saudi warplanes. Yemen is not much farther away from Europe than Eritrea, now the biggest source of African refugees, just across the Red Sea, and at some 25 million it is as populous as Afghanistan. In Nigeria, which already has double the population of Germany, 40 percent of people would emigrate to the West if they could. And the lesson of 2015 — for them and much of the world — is that they can. “We are talking about millions of potential refugees trying to reach Europe, not thousands,” - Tusk, the president of the European Council, said in a recent Twitter posting. In the Middle East and Africa, borders drawn by Ottoman dynasts and European colonialists are breaking down as the autocratic Arab states that enforced a grim peace for generations continue to implode. As traditional lines of authority break down, militant groups like the islamic state and Boko Haram, in Nigeria, seek to fill the vacuum while minority sects and ethnic groups suffer unspeakable treatment at their hands. Climate change, too, is roiling societies across the Middle East and Africa. Syria was in the grip of a prolonged drought when war broke out, and large areas of sub-Saharan Africa are becoming uninhabitable. With rising sea levels, a single typhoon in the Bay of Bengal could drive millions of Bangladeshis from their homes in low-lying coastal areas and render that land uninhabitable, too. Many migrants are from countries where the West has tried to intervene and failed spectacularly — Iraq and Afghanistan, in particular. There are now some two million Iraqi refugees, many bound for Europe. Libya represents another failed intervention, by the French and British, with American support. The chaos in their country has made it easier than ever before for other African migrants to flee to Europe through northern Africa. Others come from places like Eritrea, where young men are fleeing a brutal dictatorship that offers them the prospect of a lifetime of unpaid military service, and little else. Some are escaping civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo or poverty in nations like Gambia or Senegal. Many, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, are motivated by elemental problems like spreading desertification. Others are looking for economic opportunity. (Source: The New York Times): http://tinyurl.com/p7hyxsr

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The magnetic field in and around earth. The intensity of the magnetic field at the earth's surface is approximately 31 000 nT (0.31 gauss) at the equator and 62 000 nT (0.62 gauss) at the north pole. Its short-term disturbances are the geomagnetic activities.

Geomagnetic storm: A worldwide disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, distinct from regular diurnal variations. A storm occurs when the Ap > 29, a minor storm when 29 < Ap < 50, a major storm when 50 <= Ap < 100 and a severe storm when Ap >= 100.

10 MeV = 10 million eV. The eV (electron volt) is a very tiny amount of energy corresponding to about 0.16 billionth of a billionth of a Joule. For comparison, a flying mosquito has a kinetic energy of
about a trillion eV (= 1000 billion eV).

ap index: A mean, 3-hourly "equivalent amplitude" of magnetic activity based on K index data from a planetary of 11 Northern and 2 Southern Hemisphere magnetic observatories between the geomagnetic latitudes of 46 and 63 degrees. ap values are given in units of 2 nT.

Bt: total magnetic field strength

Bz: the north-south direction of the interplanetary magnetic field

CH HSS: coronal hole high speed stream

CIR: co-rotating interaction region

geomagnetic storms: classification according to NOAA scale: http://tinyurl.com/lcepo4z

Kp index: A 3-hourly planetary index of geomagnetic activity calculated by the Institut fur Geophysik der Gottingen Universitat, Germany, from the K indices observed at 13 stations primarily in the Northern Hemisphere.

NOAA Space Weather Scales (for three event types: geomagnetic storms, radio blackouts and solar radiation storms: http://tinyurl.com/lcepo4z

pfu: proton flux unit. This is the number of particles registered per second, per square cm, and per steradian.

proton events classification according to NOAA scale R1-R5 of radio blackouts: http://tinyurl.com/lcepo4z
 
Reconnection: A plasma process by which differently directed field lines link up, allowing topological changes of the magnetic field to occur, determining patterns of plasma flow, and resulting in conversion of magnetic energy to kinetic and thermal energy of plasma. Reconnection is invoked to explain the energization and acceleration of the plasmas that are observed in coronal mass ejections, magnetic substorms, and elsewhere in the solar system.

solar radiation storms: classification according to NOAA scale: http://tinyurl.com/lcepo4z

Solar wind: The outward flow of solar particles and magnetic fields from sun. Typically at 1 AU, solar wind velocities are near 450 km/s and proton and electron densities are near 5 cm^-3. The total intensity of the interplanetary magnetic field is nominally 5 nT. The fast solar wind originates from coronal holes and the slow wind is assumed to originate from regions near the coronal neutral line.

Sector boundary: Area between sectors, which are large-scale features distinguished by the predominant direction of the interplanetary magnetic field, toward the sun (a negative sector), or away from the sun (a positive sector). The sector boundary separating fields of opposite polarity is normally narrow, passing the earth within minutes to hours as opposed to the week or so needed for passage of a typical sector.
 
Solar activity: Five terms are often used to describe the activity (see x-ray solar flare class).
Very low ---- x-ray events less than C-solar flare class.
Low ---- C-class x-ray events.
Moderate ---- isolated (one to 4) M-solar flare class x-ray events.
High ---- several (5 or more) M-class x-ray events, or isolated (one to 4) M5 or greater x-ray events.
Very high ---- several (5 or more) M5 or greater x-ray events.
 
X-ray solar flare class: Rank of a flare based on its x-ray energy output.
Class ----- Peak burst intensity (I) measured at the Earth in the 0.1-0.8 nm band (W m^-2)
B ----- I< 10^-6
C ----- 10^-6 <= I < 10^-5
M ----- 10^-5 <= I < 10^-4
X ----- I > = 10^-4 

Time data, photos regarding the occurence of M-class or stronger solar flares, Kp5-level or greater geomagnetic storm activity, big or slow solar wind speed, etc.
Possibly about some quakes, volcano activity

by Danube

2015/11/10

EARTH:
06:00 - 12:00 UT: G1-level (Minor) geomagnetic storm (Kp = 5) due to elevated wind speeds from the CH HSS influence.
SPACE:
by 10:42 UT: from between 450 - 500 km/s the solar winds speed steadily rose to a peak of 733 km/s.
EARTH:
12:00 - 15:00 UT: G2-level (Moderate) geomagnetic storm (Kp = 6) due to elevated wind speeds from the CH HSS influence.
SPACE:
16:38 UT: solar wind with speeds over 700 km/s
EARTH:
16:38 UT: A sudden, fast subsided geomagnetic storm in progress (Kp reaching 6) as a result of a fast speed solar wind stream from a coronal hole is experienced.
SPACE:
17:10 UT: the greater than 2 MeV electron flux reached high levels with a peak flux of 19,551 pfu.
Solar wind speeds were elevated today ranging from around 550 - 750 km/s, reflecting the influence of a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Total magnetic field was in gradual decline from around 9 nT to near 5 nT. Phi was predominantly positive (away).
EARTH:
17:48 UT: an M5.7 quake occured at a distance of 35 km north-east of Calama, Chile; 637 km south of La Paz, Bolivia. See also: South America, Nazca Plate Region.
Fuego volcano, Guatemala seen from about 50 km southwest of Guatemala City, erupts. (Source: Yahoo): http://tinyurl.com/h6p35xd 

2015/11/09

SUN
Sunspot region number 2443 continued to rotate to and beyond the west limb.
SPACE
from 03:00 UT to 12:30 UT: period of negative (towards) phi, which was positive (away) for most of the day.
for the first half of the day, the solar winds were consistent, between around 450 - 500 km/s
EARTH:
08:12 UT: M5.5 quake occured at a distance of 76 km north-west from Sabang, Indonesia; 840 km west-northwest of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. See also: the Sumatra Region.
SUN:
13:12 UT: an M3.9-class solar flare occured. Its source: sunspot region number 2449.
SPACE:
beginning at 13:36 UT an associated coronal mass ejection (CME) of the M3,9-class solar flare was observed  from the south-eastern limb. A Type II radio sweep, with an estimated shock velocity 957 km/s, and a type IV radio sweep were observed. An Earth-directed component is likely.with the event.
14:00 UT: an Earth directed component of a partial CME was recorded.
(Prediction: for 11 November  Any Earth directed component of the partial CME can be expected to reach Earth on November 11 around 20:00 UT).
15:00 UT: the greater than 2 MeV electron flux reached high levels with a peak flux of 17,885 pfu
after 16:00 UT: the Bz component, which was predominantly southward through the period became with more frequent oscillation into a northward component
EARTH:
16:03 UT: M6.2 quake occured at a distance of 93 km east-south-east from Atka, Alaska, USA; 1548 km south-southeast of Anadyr', Russia; 2516 km west of Whitehorse, Canada.
SPACE:
at 19:26 UT: total magnetic field strength (Bt) began the period around 5 nT and gradually increased to a peak of 12 nT
by 23:14 UT: solar wind speeds were elevated, began slowly rising to a peak of 671 km/s;
The solar wind speed increased from ~500 to ~600 km/s under the influence of a northern hemisphere coronal hole. Total IMF strength increased from 5 nT, peaked at 13 nT. 
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit maintained at minor storm level.
EARTH:
21:00- 24:00 UT: the geomagnetic field was at minor storm level (KP = 5), due to the effects of coronal hole high speed stream,

2015/11/08

SUN:
between 00:25 - 02:40 UT: filament eruption.
Small-scale activity appears to be occurring around sunspot regions 2449 and 2450 which have a complex magnetic topology.
Sunspot region 2443 has moved over the Western hemisphere limb.
SPACE:
11:55 UT: greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit maintained at minor storm level; reached high levels with a peak flux of 6,280 pfu.
until around 17:00  UT: the phi angle was steady in a positive (away from the Sun) solar sector orientation; after it became variable.
The solar wind was between 450 and 500 km/s. It has gradually increased; this is associated with the waning effects of the 04 Nov CME triggered by the M3.7 flare and the approaching very wide, recurrent positive northern hemisphere coronal hole. IMF Bz has been mainly oriented southwards for at least 10 hrs of the day. The total magnetic field has slightly decreased from around 10 nT to around 5 nT, and the Bz component has been largely negative. The Bz was mainly around -5 nT.

2015/11/04

SPACE:
From midnight to 09:00 UT solar wind speeds remained around 700 km/s, after began to decrease.
From 03:00 UT till noon Bz was mostly negative.
EARTH:   
From 00:00 till 15:00 UT the planetary K index ranged G1-class (minor) geomagnetic storming (Kp = 5).
On the evening aurora sightings are likely from Southern Australian regions, possibly extending at times to Central regions (forcast from November 3).
SUN:
03:26 UT: an impulsive M1.9-class flare was peaking, associated with a non Earth-directed coronal mass ejection and a Type II radio sweep (estimated shock speed 790 km/s and a 220 sfu Tn flare). This flare's source: sunspot region number 2245.
EARTH:
03:44 UT: M6.3 quake occured at a distance of 77 km west-north-west from Dili, East Timor; 83 km north of Atambua, Indonesia. See also: Java Region.
SPACE:
04:05 UT: solar wind with a maximum speed near 770 km/s was observed. The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) total strength was ending -
at noon - near 10 nT.
SUN:
12:03 UT: M2.5-class solar flare occured. Its source: sunspot region number 2245. Nor this event had an Earth-directed component.
13:52 UT: M3.7-class solar flare. Its source: sunspot region number 2243.
A relatively quiet so far group of sunspots is rounding the northeast limb.  
SPACE:
Elevated solar wind speeds are expected from the coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS)
EARTH:
is under influence of the positive polarity high speed stream (HSS) of the equatorial coronal hole. Chance on a major (K = 6) storming episode in response to the continued effects from the HSS of the equatorial coronal hole.

2015/11/03

SPACE:
From around midnight till 07:30 UT a gradual increase was observed from 300 to 400 km/s in solar wind speed, coinciding with particle densities up to 100/cm3 and increasing temperatures. The 4th Proton event so far this year. The source of this event was an eruption on the solar backside, slightly beyond the southwest solar limb as seen from Earth, on 29 October probably between 02:30 - 03:00 UT.
at 02:36 UT the complex coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with this event was first visible in LASCO/C2 coronagraphic imagery. It had no earth-directed component.
EARTH:
During the early hours, auroras were sighted in the USA in Michigan, Wisconsin, Montana, and even Ohio.
On the evening aurora sightings are likely  from Southern Australian regions, possibly extending at times to Central regions.
SPACE
05:30 UT: the total magnetic field strength (Bt) jumped from 4 nT to 22 nT, the north-south direction of the interplanetary magnetic field (Bz) dropped from -5 nT to -24 nT, solar wind speeds began to increase to near 700 km/s and have remained steady near 665 km/s. These enhancements appear to be a reflection of the anticipated co-rotating interaction region (CIR) ahead of the expected coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Bt reached a peak of 37 nT while Bz saw a maximum southward deflection to -24 nT.
EARTH
06:00-12:00 UT interval: minor geomagnetic storming has been observed (Kp = 5)
SPACE:
Around 07:30 UT solar wind speed  jumped to 550 km/s.
Until about 08:00 UT Bz oscillated wildly between -25 and + 27 nT. This probably corresponds to the passing of the co-rotating interaction region.
Around 11:00 UT solar wind speed jumped again from 550 to 700 km/s, indicating the arrival of the high speed stream (HSS) from the equatorial coronal hole (CH). Solar wind density quickly decreased and Bz stayed mostly positive between 0 and +20 nT (declining). Minor to severe geomagnetic storming (K ranging from 5 to 7) is expected in response to the HSS of the CH.
around 15:00 UT a high-speed stream of solar wind has reached Earth and is buffeting our planet's magnetic field. So far, however, there have been no strong geomagnetic storms. Magnetic fields inside the solar wind stream are not well-connected to Earth's magnetic field, and that mismatch is mitigating the impact.
EARTH:
18:00-21:00 UT: minor geomagnetic storming (Kp = 5)
SPACE:
From 17:00 UT till midnight Bz was mostly negative.
From 18:30 UT to midnight solar wind speeds were increasing to over 700 km/s.
Today the Bz component of interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) ranged between -25 to +27 nT and Bt was between 3-40 nT. If the IMF Bz turns strongly southward for prolonged periods, minor to severe geomagnetic storms could occur.
SUN:
Sunspot region number 2244 is huge; from end to end it measures almost 200,000 km.
EARTH:
21:25 UT: M5.7 quake occured at a distance of 69 km west-north-west from Dili, East Timor; 81 km north of Atambua, Indonesia. See also: Java Region.

2015/11/02

EARTH:
Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, USA (summit elevation: 1247 m): lava lake still present at Kīlauea's summit; the lava lake level is roughly 70 m below the Overlook crater rim. Continued eruption at Puʻu ʻŌʻō.
03:04 UT: an M 5.6 quake occured at a distance of 358 km south-east of Lambasa, Fiji, 396 km east of Suva, Fiji. See also: Fiji region.
08:15 UT: an M5.9 quake occured at 80km south-east of Atka, Alaska, the USA; 1549 km south-southeast of Anadyr', Russia; 2541 km west of Whitehorse, Canada.
SUN:
at midday: a monster spot on the sun, sunspot region number 2443 has more than quadrupled in size since it first appeared on Oct. 29th. It now stretches more than 175,000 km from end to end, and has more than a dozen dark cores, many of which are as large as terrestrial continents - and a couple as large as Earth itself. The sunspot's magnetic field has simplified a little, but the spotty complex still has a 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy for strong M-class solar flares. Any such explosions will be geoeffective as the sunspot turns squarely toward Earth in the days ahead.
SPACE:
Solar wind speeds could exceed 800 km/s and spark a strong G3-class geomagnetic storm.
EARTH:
90% chance of geomagnetic storms on Nov. 2nd-3rd when a fast-moving stream of solar wind is expected to hit Earth's magnetic field.
SUN:
21:17 UT. An impressive CME was observed originated from behind the west limb. It does not appear to have an Earth-directed component. A recurrent, large equatorial coronal hole is taking a geoeffective position on the solar disk. Its size is slightly smaller compared to the previous rotation.
EARTH:
The geomagnetic field was quiet to unsettled.
At about 22:14 UT total magnetic field strength (Bt) reflected a pronounced jump from around 3 nT to 10 nT.
SPACE:
After 22:14 UT (within minutes) solar wind speed's increase in from around 320 km/s to about 410 km/s, as well as an increase in density.
Today the solar winds fluctuated between 300 and 360 km/s. They are expected to elevate at some time due to the anticipated arrival of high speed streams emanating from the recurrent coronal hole.
SUN:
Sunspot region number 2443 positioned directly earth facing.
Forecast for November 3-4, 2015:
EARTH:
On the evening  aurora sightings are likely from Southern Australian regions, possibly extending at times to Central regions.

2015/11/01

EARTH:
15:16 UT:  an M5.9 quake occured at 38 km south of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile; 748 km south of La Paz, Bolivia. See also: South America, Nazca Plate Region.
SPACE:
around 18:30 UT a sector boundary crossing was observed  with the direction of the interplanetary magnetic field turning from towards to away from the Sun.
EARTH:
21:09 UT: an M5.5 quake occured at 46 km east of Taitung City, Taiwan, 130 km south of Hualian, Taiwan and 766 km east of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. See also: the Philippine Sea and vicinity.
SUN:: solar activity was low to moderate with sunspot region number 2443 which maintains its complex beta-gamma-delta configuration producing several high level C class flares. No Earth directed CME's were recorded. Growing sunspot AR2443 has a 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares.
SPACE:
Solar wind:speed was in the 330-380 km/s range. The magnetic field phi angle was stable in the negative sector. Geomagnetic conditions were quiet to unsettled. Solar wind conditions are expected to increase afterwards with the expected arrival of a recurrent equatorial coronal hole high speed stream. In the previous rotation this coronal hole caused solar wind speeds of over 800 km/s and associated major geomagnetic storms.

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Great Britain
Nov 5, 2015  Mass immigration is on the verge of destroying Europe, Dressing up their vandalism as compassion and their cowardice as moral superiority, these leaders have created an immigration crisis so profound that the very existence of our European culture and heritage is under mortal threat. The tragic paradox of the obsession with free movement and the abolition of national identities is that Europe in any meaningful sense will probably cease to exist this century. As the social revolution accelerates traditional values of democracy, freedom and solidarity will be replaced by conflict, sectarianism, oppression and intolerance. Increasingly Islamified, barbaric and poverty-stricken, Europe will become indistinguishable from large swathes of North Africa and the Middle East. Several millennia were required to build European civilisation but its impending destruction has been the work of just a few years, carried out by a cadre of irresponsible, unpatriotic and deluded politicians led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel Even the stupendously high levels of mass immigration over the past two decades are now dwarfed by the colossal flood of new arrivals that has occurred since the early summer when Merkel made her woefully illconceived pledge that ­Germany would welcome anyone claiming to be a refugee. She may have thought that the open-door policy would provide a counter to Germany’s appalling record of aggression since the 1860s but in reality by wrecking Europe’s social fabric she has added to the long catalogue of Teutonic crimes. It is thanks mainly to her that so many African, Asian and Middle-Eastern migrants are coming to our shores. In October alone a record 218,000 of them crossed the Mediterranean, more than the entire total for 2014. Absurdly some metropolitan elitists complain that Britain has failed to join in this demographic upheaval since our Government has said that we will only take 20,000 refugees from Syria over the next five years. This ignores the crucial fact that the current annual immigration rate is officially more than 630,000-a-year, with most of the new settlers hailing from outside the EU. How many more are Britain and Europe expected to take? The potential influx is almost limitless. The United Nations says that globally there are at least 60million people classified as refugees while more than 1.2billion live in dire poverty. But the numbers are already proving catastrophic. It is clear that Europe is now unable to cope. The Greek island of Lesbos has run out of burial space, while tiny Slovenia has 13,000 migrants passing through its borders every day, also setting fire to tents. Even Germany is struggling. There have been mass brawls at several migrant reception centres and in a chilling echo of the country’s totalitarian past the German authorities are seizing property to provide accommodation for the arrivals. As winter approaches and the weather worsens the migrant crisis is set to escalate. A new wave of sentimentality will be unleashed by much of the media, peddling manipulative images of the suffering of the refugees. Eager to parade their humanitarian credentials politicians will open the doors even further and impose even greater burdens on European taxpayers. So the cycle of decline will gather momentum. None of us ever voted for our demise. But without any democratic mandate that is what the politicians have inflicted. One nurse in Germany, who is being evicted from her Nieheim flat so it can be used for migrants, told a reporter last month: “I find it impossible to understand how the city can treat me like this.” Her experience could be a metaphor for the peoples of Europe. The scale of this political treachery is almost incomprehensible. (Source: Express): http://tinyurl.com/nt64rgg

Europe
9 November 2015  Migrant crisis: migration to Europe explained in graphics (Source: BBC):  http://tinyurl.com/p6rsdc2

Egypt
November 2, 2015  CBS News' national security correspondent Martin reports a U.S. infrared satellite detected a heat flash over the Sinai at the time the Russian plane went down. The data is still being analyzed in an effort to determine what caused the flash. One possibility is a bomb, but an explosion in a fuel tank or engine as the result of a mechanical failure is also possible. Some aviation experts raised the possibility that a bomb on board the Metrojet Airbus A321-200 brought it down, while others cited an incident in 2001 when the aircraft grazed the runway with its tail while landing. (Source: CBSNews): http://tinyurl.com/pufomy4

Nov 1, 2015  Russian jet broke up at high altitude over Egypt. The Russian jetliner that crashed shortly after takeoff from an Egyptian resort city broke up at high altitude, scattering fragments of wreckage over a wide area in the Sinai Peninsula, Russia's top aviation official said Sunday as search teams raced to recover the bodies of the 224 people who died. The Metrojet Airbus A321-200 plummeted abruptly from 31,000 feet just 23 minutes after it departed from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh bound for St. Petersburg.  An Egyptian official had previously said that before the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers, the pilot radioed that the aircraft was experiencing technical problems and that he intended to try to land at the nearest airport. A local affiliate of the extremist islamic state group claimed it brought down the aircraft, which crashed in the same general area of northern Sinai where the Egyptian military and security forces have battled militants for years. The claim, in a statement posted on social media, provided no supporting evidence. The militants are not known to be capable of downing an aircraft at cruising altitude, although there have been persistent media reports that they have acquired Russian shoulder-fired, anti-aircraft missiles that are effective against low-flying warplanes or helicopters. (Source. MyWay): http://tinyurl.com/oh7seb4

Lybia
02 Nov 2015  Lybia warns it could flood Europe with "hundreds of thousands" of extra migrants if EU does not recognise new self-declared government. Breakaway government in Tripoli issues veiled threat in response to West's refusal to accept their legitimacy. Officials say they could hire boats to send large numbers of African migrants across the Mediterranean. The warning was made by a spokesman for Libya's General National Congress in an interview with The Telegraph in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. The Congress took control of Tripoli last year after fighting against forces loyal to the internationally- recognised House of Representatives government.  Zubia, the Congress's foreign media spokesman, told The Telegraph that Libya was currently spending tens of millions of pounds a year stopping migrants from crossing the Mediterranean, through the use of detention centres and repatriation programs. He said that if Europe continued to refuse to recognise the Congress's authority, the Libyan government could reverse the policy. Last year alone, an estimated 170,000 migrants arrived by boat from Libya in Italy. Between January and September this year the figure was 130,000. The Libyan government's Department for Combating Illegal Immigration employs around 8,000 staff and detains large numbers of migrants for entering the country illegally, as well as working with the International Organisation for Migration on voluntary repatriation programmes. Libya spend around £80m a year on the issue. The Congress is the political wing of the Libya Dawn coalition, a range of both moderate and more radical Islamist fighting groups that were involved in Col Gaddafi's overthrow. A rival government, known as the House of Representatives, now operates out of the small eastern city of Tobruk and has no effective control over Tripoli, despite being internationally recognised.  (Source: The Telegraph): http://tinyurl.com/pcfhew6

Törökország
2015. XI. 2.  A török szavazók országuk egysége és területi épsége mellett tették le a voksot - mondta virradóra Erdogan, akinek pártja a parlamenti választásokon megszerezte a szavazatok közel 50 százalékát. A török elnök egyúttal a választási eredmény tiszteletben tartását kérte a világtól. (Forrás: MTI)

United States
November 3, 2015  With cases of dementia in the United States set to triple, reaching 132 million by 2050, some experts warn the disease could bankrupt major world economies and cripple health systems. (Source: Yahoo): http://tinyurl.com/q6lja34

Space
November 3, 2015 There's a hole in the Sun that's going to make the skies dazzle. A satellite on the far side of the Sun recorded a wind speed of about 1,000 kilometers per second from this hole, and it’s possible that may be what the Earth gets. People across large parts of Asia, Europe and North America should be able to catch the aurora. Those as far south as Illinois in the U.S. may count themselves lucky. (Source. Bloomberg): http://tinyurl.com/nzgjgvu

Nov 3, 2015  ISS NASA live cam cuts after 'suddenly locking on to mystery glowing UFO'. A "UFO was intercepted" by the International Space Station (ISS), claim alien hunters, who allege footage from a NASA live camera feed which zoomed in on a mysterious glowing orb suddenly cut out. (Source: Express): http://tinyurl.com/nlhsdns

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Great Britain
Oct 28, 2015 Abbott, ousted Australian leader, urges Europe to take hard line on migrants  warning in London that the continent risked “fundamentally weakening itself” through “misguided altruism” as large numbers of asylum seekers arrive. Mr. Abbott backed an aggressive policy on migration during his two years in office. The Australian authorities turned away boats and refused to accept asylum seekers intercepted at sea, instead sending them to offshore camps. Prime Minister Turnbull, who replaced Mr. Abbott in September in a party coup, has announced no change to those policies. Mr. Abbott recommended the same approach for Europe. “This means turning boats around, for people coming by sea,” he said. “It means denying entry at the border, for people with no legal right to come. And it means establishing camps for people who currently have nowhere to go.”More than 600 people are still being detained on the small Pacific island nation of Nauru, and more than 900 remain in a camp on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. As public criticism of the camps has increased, the Australian government has tried with little success to resettle asylum seekers in third countries. After just four people were sent to Cambodia under a $29 million agreement reached last year, Australia said this month that it was in talks with the Philippines.His remarks came hours after the president of the Philippines, one of several countries where Australia has hoped to send asylum seekers, said the country would not accept them for permanent resettlement. His comments were later endorsed by Farage, leader of the right-wing U.K. Independence Party, which is known for its anti-immigration stance. Mr. Farage told the Australia Broadcasting Corporation that the former prime minister was “heroic” and “absolutely right.” In his London speech, Mr. Abbott argued that the people arriving in Europe should be considered economic migrants, not refugees, even if they were fleeing war in Syria or elsewhere, because they were no longer in immediate danger. “In Europe, as with Australia, people claiming asylum invariably have crossed not one border but many, and are no longer fleeing in fear but are contracting in hope with people smugglers,” he said. (Source: The New York Times): http://tinyurl.com/p7zkz3e

European Union
Oct 28, 2015  EU lawmakers block opt-out from GMO rules. European Union lawmakers have rejected a draft law that would have allowed countries to ban certain genetically modified food and animal feed even if the produce was authorized by EU authorities.Lawmakers fear the move could force a return to border controls to keep GMO produce out of some countries. The decision to reject the law was taken by an overwhelming majority. (Source: AP): http://tinyurl.com/omjllge

India
October 28, 2015   Weather on demand: making it rain is now a global business. Welcome to the strange world of cloud seeding. Kyathi Climate Modification Consultants, the cloud-seeding company based in Bangalore 24 cylinders resembling sticks of dynamite wired to racks on the plane’s wings, 12 on each. The flares are filled with combustible sodium chloride—pulverized table salt mixed with a flammable potassium powder. When the switch is flipped, the end of the flare shoots orange fire and trillions of superfine salt particles are released into the cloud. Water molecules are attracted to salt, so they bond to the particles and coalesce into raindrops. It’s early September, still monsoon season in this southwestern region of India, yet the clouds haven’t done much more than drizzle. Maharashtra is one of the largest and wealthiest of India’s 30 states, with 110 million residents. It encompasses Mumbai and other large cities, plus vast swaths of farmland. Like other agricultural regions of India, it’s in its third consecutive year of drought. More than 80 percent of its farms depend on rain for irrigation, and agriculture production has dropped by almost a third since 2013. The human impact has been severe—1,300 debt-trapped farmers have committed suicide in Maharashtra in just the past six months. Weather Modification Inc., the world’s largest private aerial cloud-seeding company, based in Fargo, N.D. is training Indian pilots, meteorologists, and Doppler radar technicians to seed clouds. Cloud seeding has been controversial since it was invented by Schaefer in 1946. A chemist for General Electric, Schaefer made the first snowstorm in a laboratory freezer.  In India, I witnessed “hygroscopic” or water-attracting cloud seeding, which is used in warm-weather regions to enhance rain, disperse fog, and clean dirty skies. Snow-enhancement projects are often commissioned by water managers and power companies with hydroelectric plants; for decades, Pacific Gas & Electric has spent millions annually on cloud seeding in the Sierra Nevadas. Cold-weather seeding is done at the core of snow clouds that can reach altitudes as high as 60,000 feet: Flares filled with tiny flakes of silver iodide are ejected into the clouds’ centers. Silver iodide has a molecular structure similar to that of ice. As the silver particles drift down through the clouds, water gloms onto them as it would to ice, and snowflakes grow. This method is also routinely used for mitigating hail storms, especially in Canada: When silver iodide particles are injected into a hail-producing storm cloud, there are suddenly more nuclei for the ice to cling to. Smaller ice pellets, or “graupel,” form rather than large hail stones. Silver iodide in large concentrations can be harmful, but the concentrations found in snowpack after cloud seeding are often so low as to be undetectable. Breed’s NCAR study in Wyoming found that there was less silver iodide in snow and soil samples in areas where clouds had been seeded than there had been before the campaigns What we do know is that no two clouds are alike.” This makes it difficult to control and replicate the results of cloud-seeding studies. Despite the uncertainty, the industry is on the rise. According to the World Meteorological Organization, more than 52 countries have active cloud-seeding operations—up from 42 four years ago. In the U.S. last year, 55 cloud-seeding projects were reported to NOAA. There’s even a luxury cloud-seeding market emerging—one European company, for instance, charges a minimum of $150,000 to guarantee good wedding weather by forcing clouds to rain in the days before the event. Sweeney’s mechanics equip and service the more than 100 WMI cloud-seeding aircraft—Cessnas, King Airs, and Bombardiers—they operate or have leased and sold worldwide. Sweeney also built ICE (Ice Crystal Engineering), a company that makes cloud-seeding chemicals and supplies flares to 25 countries. It customizes and operates the planes and radars, manufactures the flares, and flies the missions. There are 34 private companies worldwide that do weather modification, but there’s no bigger rival in aerial cloud seeding than the Chinese government, which spends hundreds of millions a year seeding clouds in 22 of its 23 provinces, both to clear pollution above cities and to enhance rainfall for farming. China has yet to allow private companies to enter its market, but Sweeney is making inroads; he sold his first cloud-seeding plane to Beijing last year. Thailand’s government has a Bureau of Royal Rainmaking, with hundreds of employees that WMI helped train, though the program’s still using old technology—releasing mounds of table salt from trap doors in the bellies of its planes. And when the Argentine government took over the cloud-seeding program WMI built for the country, it cut costs. Soon after, two pilots died seeding clouds above a mountain, and the project was suspended. a huge white orb, about 80 feet in diameter, on top of a scaffolded tower. This is the latest in Doppler radar, a technology that’s improved significantly over the last decade, along with satellite data and computing power. It helps the government make sure it’s getting its money’s worth. The office of disaster management in Aurangabad, at the center of Maharashtra’s farming region has an orb which sends out electromagnetic waves that travel hundreds of kilometers; when the waves hit rain droplets and ice crystals, they bounce back and create an image of the cloud contour. The stronger the signal, the denser the cloud and the more intense the rain. (Source: Bloomberg): http://tinyurl.com/o8fmwdn

Globalization
28 October 2015  Forget X-rays, now you can see through walls using WI-FI: device called RF Capture, developed by researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) captures silhouettes and can even identify people when they're stood behind concrete.The RF Capture device was developed by researchers at MIT. Wireless signals travel through the wall and reflect off the body behind it. This creates a silhouette from which body parts can be identified. Silhouettes can then be compared to a database of bodies to identify who they belong to - and it can even identify which hand their moving. The team continued that the emitted radiation is approximately 10,000 times lower than that of a standard phone. The researchers said the technology could have major implications for everything from gaming and film-making to emergency-response and elder-care. (Source: DailyMail): http://tinyurl.com/okea2ap

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Germany
Oct 27th, 2015  Germans panic as Muslims march through city ‘This is our future'’ (VIDEO). 162,700 new migrants entered the Bavarian region of Germany so far this month. 170,000 new migrants entered Bavaria  last month. You can hear German women talking about Islamists marching through their town. Their voices and words display panic and fear: “None of us want this. We’re all scared.” “What is this? How will this be in 100 years?” “This is not my life. It just shows you how many of them are here already.” “Now there’s another 1.5 million who came this year.” “Every year 2-3 million arrive.” “It’s generally about foreign infiltration.” “Yes, exactly.” “We won’t dress like we do now.” “Here, no! They won’t take anything from me!” “Look, when I walk through the streets of the city, it’s only foreigners!” “There are walking 50 foreigners and I only see one European face.” “Look at the women! They’re all veiled!” “This is our future.” (Source: TheGatewayPundit): http://tinyurl.com/qyshaxn

Oct 27, 2015  Bavaria tells Merkel to limit migrant numbers by Sunday or else. The German state on the front line of the country’s migrant crisis has set Angela Merkel a deadline of Sunday to put an end to the influx or risk unspecified emergency measures, underscoring growing impatience among the German chancellor’s political allies as the flow continues unabated. On Tuesday, Ms. Merkel dismissed Bavaria’s threat and pointed instead to long-term efforts to negotiate an international solution, setting the stage for a possible confrontation between the government and her increasingly irate allies this weekend. Figures provided by Bavaria’s interior ministry indicate that the number of migrants who entered Bavaria in October should surpass the 170,000 recorded last month after Ms. Merkel decided to let migrants stranded in Hungary travel to Germany, effectively suspending European Union rules mandating that refugees apply for asylum in their first port of entry in the bloc. Although states have no power over migration policies, legal experts say Mr. Seehofer who is also chairman of the Christian Social Union, sister party to Ms. Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and a junior partner in the ruling coalition in Berlin could invoke the constitution to put emergency measures in place, arguing that the federal government has failed in its duties to protect the country’s borders. Bavaria has urged Berlin to set up camps for asylum seekers on Germany’s southern borders in an attempt to speed up the review of asylum applications and expedite the departure of rejected applicants. But the plan has run into opposition from Ms. Merkel’s junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats, who fear such zones would be impractical and politically indefensible. Mr. Seehofer has also threatened to take the government to court. Mr. Seehofer was also critical of Austria, which he said was waving through large numbers of migrants to Germany without coordinating with German officials. Slovenia, whose police force is already augmented with officers from Austria, expects police reinforcements from Germany and other European countries. (Source: The Wall Street Journal): http://tinyurl.com/qz2e8cp

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Germany
Oct 27, 2015  The German health service has been completely overwhelmed by the influx of Muslim asylum-seekers who are refusing to be treated by female medics. Doctor's outrage at 'refugees pushing German hospitals to breaking point'. A doctor working in German hospitals has revealed the horrifying chaos which could face the NHS if thousands of migrants from the Middle East manage to reach Britain.The hospitals simply cannot cope because so many of the migrants require treatments for diseases long since eradicated in Europe. Migrant parents are abandoning their children at pharmacies across the country after being told that they have to pay a prescription charge for lifesaving drugs.Huge numbers of the asylum-seekers have Victorian diseases including TB, which they risk passing on to locals. German authorities have been forced to post police at hospitals around the country after others got involved in angry clashes with medics over cultural differences. Many migrants have AIDS, syphilis, open TB and many exotic diseases that we, in Europe, do not know how to treat them. Migrants stabbed the doctors who tried to save a tiny eight-month-old baby which had been "dragged across half of Europe for three months. The physician had to undergo surgery and two nurses are laid up in the ICU. Nobody has been punished. The local press is forbidden to write about it. A WHO spokesman said there were some concerns about cholera coming to the West from Iraqi and Syrian refugees, particularly because in 80 per cent of cases it does not show symptoms, but that in a normal, Western city, cholera would not be a big problem because cholera spreads through the water system and Western cities have safe supplies with sewage and drinking water pipes completely separate. (Source: Express): http://tinyurl.com/pntgwpj
 
October 26, 2015  The end of the Merkel era is within sight. As the placid surface of German society is disturbed, the positives of immigration are hard to see. The trouble is that Ms Merkel’s government has clearly lost control of the situation. German officials publicly endorse the chancellor’s declaration that “We can do this”. But there is panic just beneath the surface: costs are mounting, social services are creaking, Ms Merkel’s poll ratings are falling and far-right violence is on the rise. Meanwhile, refugees are still heading into Germany — at a rate of around 10,000 a day. (By contrast, Britain is volunteering to accept 20,000 Syrian refugees over four years.) Nonetheless, Ms Merkel was widely seen as having announced an “open door”. That impression persists, making Germany (along with Sweden) the EU country of choice for asylum seekers. The only way to turn this situation around quickly would be to build border fences of the kind that the Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán has constructed. Some German conservatives are now calling for precisely such measures. But Ms Merkel is highly unlikely to embrace the Orbán option. She knows that such a policy could sound the death knell for free movement of people within the EU, and would also seriously destabilise the Balkans by bottling up refugees there. Instead, Ms Merkel wants an EU-wide solution. But German plans for a compulsory mechanism to share out refugees across the EU — and for an emergency fund to share the costs — are encountering stiff resistance. As a result, Germany’s relations with its EU partners, already strained by the eurozone crisis, are worsening. The election of an anti-migrant government in Poland this weekend will not help. However, if the number of refugees heading into Germany continues at its present level for some time, and Ms Merkel remains committed to open borders, the pressure for her to step down will grow. There are, at present, no obvious rivals. But a continuing crisis will doubtless throw some up. (Source: FT): http://tinyurl.com/qay4tw3

Greece
Oct 26, 2015  Greece's foreign minister says the European Union needs to fork out money to improve conditions in camps housing refugees fleeing Syria in countries such as Jordan and Lebanon, in order to stem the flow of people heading to Europe. Kotzias says that there indications that 300,000 people now living in these refugee camps are on the move and heading to Greece. He said action must be taken to avoid destabilizing other countries in the region like Egypt, which could make the migration problem much worse. More than 500,000 migrants have entered Greece so far by sea from Turkey, and more than 120 have drowned. (Source: AP): http://tinyurl.com/nko8alv

Europe
26 Oct 2015  We are watching the death of open frontiers in Europe. The endless wave of migrants - for which we have utterly failed to prepare - will unleash extremist politics throughout the Continent. It is hard to comprehend the stupefying naivety of those, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who thought it a good idea to send out an utterly self-serving signal a few weeks ago inviting anyone who could make the journey to head for Europe. This was ostensibly aimed at Syrians who had fled the civil war in their homeland; but the exodus has been swelled by migrants from many other countries looking for a better life. Arguably a transit centre in Europe might be preferable to a refugee camp in Jordan or Turkey, though the latter at least has the merit of being close to Syria, where there are finally tentative signs of some political progress being made. But having encouraged people to move, the Europeans are now pulling up the drawbridge because they have found dealing with the influx overwhelming. Where were the preparations? Why were fleets of buses and trains and boats not laid on at the borders of the EU to bring people safely to Germany, which is, after all, where most people are headed?  At an ill-tempered summit in Brussels on 25 October, European leaders belonging to the borderless Schengen area blamed each other for the crisis before finalising a 17-point plan to be foisted upon countries that don’t agree with it. The countries that are in the front-line of this crisis are understandably seething: Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister, accused the German chancellor of “moral imperialism”. This will unleash extremist politics in Europe. In Germany, the anti-immigrant Pegida movement is attracting thousands to its rallies and in France the Front National continues to gain support. Elsewhere, Eurosceptic parties are making inroads. In Portugal, a Syriza-style leftist minority government has taken office opposed to the eurozone’s fiscal rules; and in Poland, the Law and Justice Party is back in power, pledged to oppose any Brussels diktat on migrant quotas. Against this backdrop, which can only darken, Britain has to decide over the next two years whether to remain part of an increasingly unstable organisation. The advantages of staying in are diminishing rapidly. If anything, the migration crisis has made this less achievable: why would countries forced to take migrants against their wishes agree to let Britain off the hook, even if we are outside the Schengen system? Sooner or later, the million or so new migrants will be allowed to move around Europe and many may want to come here. In the early stages of this crisis, the rationale ascribed to Germany’s policy was that they need people because of a falling birth rate and dwindling population. Britain, by contrast, is growing rapidly. Indeed, on the continent, the era of open frontiers is drawing to a close amid political acrimony and human misery. (Source: TheTelegraph): http://tinyurl.com/ofodazy

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Balcans  
25 October 2015  On the march to western Europe: shocking pictures show thousands of determined men, women and children trudging across the Balkans as politicians warn EU could collapse in weeks. Battling howling winds, driving rain and icy temperatures, thousands of migrants today marched into Slovenia. Photographed from above, the refugees formed a single column as they crossed into the country from Croatia. It comes as Slovenia's Prime Minister warns the EU will break up if leaders cannot agree on how to deal with crisis. Since October 17, more than 62,000 migrants have arrived in Slovenia, with some 14,000 still passing through the country on today alone. Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia have all now warned they could close their borders if Germany and Austria stop accepting migrants. More than 680,000 migrants and refugees have crossed to Europe by sea so far this year from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Turkey, the starting point for most of the migrants, is pressing the EU for funds, visa-free travel, accelerated membership talks and resumed participation in EU summits in return for cooperation in stemming the refugee flow. (Source: DailyMail): http://tinyurl.com/pz72foe

Lengyelország
2015. X. 25. Politikai földrengés a lengyel parlamenti választásokon. Kaczyński pártja, a korábban már kormányzó Jog és Igazságosság nyerte a lengyelországi parlamenti választásokat az exit pollok szerint. A PiS nagyobb arányban, 16 százalékkal a földbe döngölte a mostani kormánypártot, és Szydło Beata vezetésével várhatóan egyedül is tud kormányozni. Történelmi fordulat, hogy az egymással összefogó és együtt induló baloldali pártok nem érték el a bejutási küszöböt, így a baloldal kiesett a parlamentből. Két idén alapított párt is bejutott a szejmbe. Orbán Viktor számára örömteli fejlemény a PiS győzelme, mert így a magyar kormány egy erős szövetségest kaphat a mostani EU-s politikájához. Míg a V4-ek megállapodásából Kopacz Ewa  legutóbb a menekültkvóták ügyében kihátrált, a PiS-szel ez nem fordulhat elő, erre Szydło célzott is a kampányban. Korábban a magyar kormányzati körökben is beszéltek már arról, hogy a PiS nagyarányú győzelmével kalkulál Orbán, amely erősítheti az általa képviselt EU-s politikát. (Forrás: Index)

2015. X. 25. Lengyelország válaszúton. Ma reggel hét órától Lengyelországban parlamenti választást tartanak, mely nem csak az országra, de gazdasági és politikai súlyánál fogva egész régiónkra hatással lesz. Így sokatmondó volt a Jog és Igazságosság tavaszi elnökjelöltje, az új lengyel köztársasági elnök, Andrzej Duda augusztusi beiktatásán elmondott beszéde is, melyben egy a Baltikumtól az Adriáig és a Fekete-tengerig tartó közép-európai összefogást vázolt fel. (Forrás: AlfaHír): http://tinyurl.com/ngg8a2u

Europe  
25 Oct 2015  As leaders of eastern European countries turned on each other at a foul-tempered emergency summit in Brussels, They said the Schengen visa-free zone and even the European Union itself could be pulled apart as states threw up borders to halt the influx. Every day counts, otherwise we will soon see families in cold rivers in the Balkans perish miserably' -  Juncker said. Hahn, the EU’s ‘neighbourhood’ Commissioner, said there were now 20 million refugees in Europe’s backyard and that regime's new Russian- and Iranian-backed assault on Aleppo, Syria's biggest city, would produce an “immediate impact” in the numbers reaching Europe. Initial statistics suggested that some of the almost eight million displaced people who had stayed inside the country were now also starting to leave. The US and Saudi Arabia dramatically responded to Russian air-strikes in support of the Assad regime by agreeing to boost their own military and diplomatic support for the Syrian rebels, threatening an ever worsening downward spiral. The European Commission revealed last night that just eight out of 28 member states had volunteered emergency equipment and experts to address the crisis, a month after they were asked to come forward with offers. Cerar, the Slovenian prime minister, attacked Croatia for dumping migrants on its border without warning. He said some 12,000 people a day were arriving in the tiny state of two million.Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian leader, demanded an end to Europe’s “open border policy” which he blamed for the crisis. Mr Tsipras criticised the lack of “responsibility” from other states, and said Turkey, the launching point for many trips to Europe, should have been invited. Zoran Milanovic, the Croatian Prime Minister, attacked Mr Tsipras. "Why doesn't Greece control its maritime half with Turkey?” he said. "If Germany and Austria and other countries close their borders, we will be ready to also close our borders at that very same moment," said Boyko Borisov, the Bulgarian Prime Minister. In Germany, according to Welt am Sonntag, an unsigned discussion paper circulated among security official warns: “We are importing Islamic extremism, Arabic anti-semitism, the national and ethnic conflicts of other nations and other concepts of rights and society.” (Source: TheTelegraph): http://tinyurl.com/ncj3tjx

Israel
10/25/2015 A Palestinian Authority polling institute survey of Arabs living in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem indicate that most want to leave the Land of Israel and emigrate to other countries, according to a Ynet report. 68% of the Arabs surveys are concerned for their economic well-being. 70% of the Arabs surveyed would emigrate to the West if they could. 70 percent among their primary concerns are the increased likelihood of war with Israel, and their worsening financial situation. The poll was carried out between June 16-24 with a sample of 1024 adults. (Source: IsraelsVoice): http://tinyurl.com/nq745qe

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Svédország
2015. X. 24.  Nem szabad beszélni a multikulturalizmus sötét oldaláról. Hagwall, Svéd Demokraták parlamenti képviselője: A menedékkérők a hatóságokkal való együttműködés, az integráció helyett párhuzamos társadalmat alkotnak. Hogyan ítélik meg  Svédországban a magyar migrációs politikát? A hivatalos, a sajtó által is sulykolt álláspont szerint a magyarok kegyetlenek, lelketlenek, egy humánus ország számára elfogadhatatlan módon akarják kezelni a válságot. A médiában folyton a „magyar falról”, a „magyar kerítésről” beszélnek. A blogokon, alternatív híroldalakon és az emberek egymás közötti beszélgetéseiben már más a helyzet. A többség támogatja a magyar politikát, mert felismeri, hogy ezzel a népvándorlással szemben már nem lehet mást tenni. Sokan érdeklődnek nálam a magyarországi helyzetről, sokan egyenesen ide is költöznének. A svédek saját tapasztalatai, amelyeket például turistaként szereztek, nagyon jók Magyarországról és a magyarokról... (Forrás: MagyarHírlap): http://tinyurl.com/nqgyp77

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Turkey  
October 23, 2015  EU suffers from hypocrisy and political correctness - Hungarian FM says. during his visit to Turkey in an interview with Daily Sabah, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Szijjártó said that Turkey must be supported on the refugee crisis through easing visa restrictions, opening several EU accession chapters and with financial aid. In response to the EU's criticism of Hungary due to its alleged abuse of migrants, he claimed that the EU suffers from hypocrisy and political correctness. (Source: DailySabah): http://tinyurl.com/psan892

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France  
Oct 22, 2015  The 6,000-strong migrant population of Calais is mobilising and ready to make a major dash for Britain within the next two weeks as smugglers rush to beat new controls. //Ibid: Calais migrant crisis in France - photos - Fri, July 31, 2015// (Source: Express): http://tinyurl.com/pqub634

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Magyarország
2015. X. 21.  Megverték a biciklitolvajt, bíróság elé állnak. Csoportosan elkövetett önbíráskodás kísérlete és más bűncselekmények miatt emelt vádat a Budakörnyéki Járási Bíróság négy férfival, köztük a Tomcatként ismert Polgárral szemben, akik egy kerékpártolvajt bántalmaztak és számoltattak el Budakeszin. A vádlottak kerékpártolvajok elfogásában próbáltak segítséget nyújtani a rendőrségnek, ezért Tolvajkergetők néven egy egyesületet is létrehoztak. Módszerük általában az volt, hogy nagy értékű, GPS-jeladóval ellátott, úgynevezett „csali-kerékpárokat” helyeztek ki Budapest kerékpárlopással leggyakrabban érintett területein, hogy azokat a tolvajok elvigyék. Az egyesület tagjai a jeladó segítségével rátaláltak az elkövetőre, és értesítették a rendőrséget. (Forrás: Mandiner): http://tinyurl.com/pf66cnz

2015. X. 21. Tudományos tevékenységet nem végez, egy nem létező egyetemen rektorhelyettes, az általa elnökölt osztrák „akadémia” pedig tavaly azt a Tarlóst tüntette ki a választási kampányban, aki idén  felügyelőbizottsági posztot adott neki egy fővárosi cégben. Megpróbáltam komolyan venni Magyarország legnépszerűbb biztonságpolitikai szakértőjét, de ahogy elmerültem az életrajzában, ez egyre nehezebben ment. "Úgy jöttem el Nógrádi irodájából, hogy már nem akartam portrécikket írni róla." (Forrás: Index)

Ausztria
2015. X. 21. Több ezer migráns tört ki a spielfeldi befogadóállomásról délelőtt Ausztriában és indult meg az ország belseje felé. Megelégelték a várakozást, kevesellték a buszokat. Az osztrák hatóságok fejetlenül „állnak és várnak”. (Forrás: M1)

Germany
October 21, 2015  Migrants stay at 4 star hotel while poor Germans lose their homes. The Maritim Hotel in Halle now is used to house at least 80 migrants who began arriving last week. The 4 star hotel boasts an indoor swimming pool, sauna and fitness room and is located just a 10 minute walk from Halle’s historic old town. While the migrants are enjoying all the comforts of a 4 star hotel, low income Germans are being ordered to leave their homes. Germans are beginning to receive notices of eviction to make way for asylum seekers. (Source: InfoWar): http://tinyurl.com/oh3rsx6

Europe  
October 21, 2015  European leaders will hold an emergency summit this weekend in an attempt to bring order to the tide of migrants crossing the western Balcans. The eight EU member states set to attend the summit are Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia, along with Germany, which is still the favoured destination for most people heading to Europe. Non-EU countries including Macedonia and Serbia will also attend the meeting. The influx of refugees has raised fears that overwhelmed authorities and rash military deployments could stir regional tensions. The hastily arranged meeting in Brussels comes after weeks of tit-for-tat border closures in Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia, which have led to thousands of migrants being stranded in increasingly difficult conditions in southeastern Europe. The crisis has triggered a dramatic deterioration of relations between governments in the region, with Slovenian prime minister Miro Cerar attacking Croatia’s handling of the situation. Slovenia this weekend called in the army to help cope with the influx, sparking concern among diplomats in Brussels.In an effort to ease the pressure, German chancellor Angela Merkel will meet leaders from nine other countries on the so-called “western Balcans route”, which has become the main route for people trying to reach Europe. More than 500,000 people have entered Europe via Greece this year. Brussels’ plans involve a potential “structural” resettlement programme early next year. Berlin has attempted to toughen its stance on refugees and is considering using military transport aircraft to ferry unsuccessful asylum-seekers back to their homelands to try to win over an increasingly sceptical German public. (Source: FinancialTimes): http://tinyurl.com/pggmatj

United States
Oct 21, 2015  The WikiLeaks organization posted material from what appears to be CIA Director Brennan's personal email account, including a draft security clearance application containing personal information. The material presumably was taken in a compromise of Brennan's email account by a hacker who told The New York Post he is a high school student protesting American foreign policy. The hacker claimed he posed as a Verizon employee and tricked another employee into revealing Brennan's personal information. Brennan was seeking a security clearance while applying for a job as White House counterterrorism adviser. It was not immediately clear whether any national security information was compromised in the release of the clearance application. (Source: MyWay)

2015-10-21  The draft security clearance application: (Source: Wikileaks): http://tinyurl.com/oqxmlrh

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Balcans
October 20, 2015  Next wave of Muslim invasion; it's all men (Source: YouTube): http://tinyurl.com/qxf4x7l

China
20 October 2015 Genetically-engineered, extra-muscular dogs created by Chinese scientists. Researchers hope to go on to create dogs that have human diseases, like Parkinson’s and muscular dystrophy. The scientists create beagles that have double the amount of muscle mass by deleting a certain gene, reports the MIT Technology Review. The mutant dogs have “more muscles and are expected to have stronger running ability, which is good for hunting, police (military) applications”. Since dogs’ anatomy is similar to those of humans’, intentionally creating dogs with certain human genetic traits could allow scientists to further understand how they occur. To create the dogs, researchers edit out the myostatin gene. If that is inhibited, animals can gain significantly more muscle mass and become much stronger than usual. Losing the myostatin gene happens naturally in whippets, and leads to the creation of double-muscled “bully whippets” who are much more strong than standard animals. The change can also happen very rarely for humans. Doctors reported around ten years ago that a child had been born with extra muscles and unusually strong, as a result of being born without the gene (Source: The Independent): http://tinyurl.com/nquy8zv

India
October 20, 2015  Suicides have become the deadliest epidemic in India since the country decided to liberalize the agricultural sector in the 1990s. According to official statistics – which numerous NGOs say underscore the magnitude of the problem because they don’t include many cases stamped as doubtful –  more than 300,000 farmers have taken their lives since 1995. And although the Indian economy is experiencing a golden age, the weight of agriculture in the country’s GDP is falling steadily – currently at 13 percent despite providing jobs to about 50 percent of the workforce – and 2015 is becoming by far the worst year in the past two decades. For now, the only thing the government is doing to stop this crisis is to grant a controversial 700,000 rupees ($10,700) compensation to the families of farmers who take their lives, which many consider an incentive for farmers to take their own lives. And sometimes it is. (Source: The Diplomat): http://tinyurl.com/qdrddfu

United States
October 20, 2015  Geophysicist Dr. Donnellan, along with seven other scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena predict a possible 5.0 magnitude quake in Los Angeles, but say it very well could be stronger.  They used radar and GPS to measure Southern California’s chances for a sizable earthquake, and has made a sobering hypothesis about another big one. (Source: LosAngelesCBSLocal): http://tinyurl.com/nt2hmnl

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Dr. Isaszegi, ny. vezérőrnagy előadása a migráció okairól

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Vekerdi Tanár Úr, a nemzet könyvtárosa

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Pótlás 7 6 22-i közléshez

Utóirat 2015-ből:

   Megjelent egy legkurtább írás 1995 januárja végén  - korabeli Magyar Hírlapban? - miszerint Vekerdi antiszemita és cigányellenes. Továbbá hogy egyes - kommunista múltúnak tételezett? - szerzők írta könyveket nem hajlandó terjeszteni Nyugaton. Emlékezetem szerint valami ilyes feljelentés-szerűség, közölt vélekedés volt elég ahhoz - minden kivizsgálás nélkül - a korabeli Magyarországon, hogy őt, tisztes vezetőt állásából napokon belül eltávolítsák. A Nemzetközi Csereszolgálat (NCS) vezetője volt. Közvetlen munkatársai - néhányak kivételével - kiálltunk ugyan mellette, írásbeli beadványban tártuk az intézmény vezetése elé cáfolatunkat - meggyőződéses véleményünket, miszerint a közölt vádak hamisak, koholtak, kérjük rehabilitációját. Ő nyelvészként kiútnak a magyar nemzet mindenkori egységét tekintette. Számos -  a feljelentő újságcikk kiötlője által 'zsidó származású'-ként számon tartatott - kitűnő magyar emberrel is naprakész kapcsolatban volt, munkája természetéből adódóan. Legtermészetesebb, hogy irodájában gyakorta fordult meg Faludy is - mindenek előtt hivatkozhatott ennek tényére -,  egyes külszolgálatos diplomatáink, mások. Ugyanakkor Jóska évtizedeken át volt kutatója a hazai cigányság nyelveinek és terepen folyt hosszas kutatásai eredményeképpen következetesen képviselte azon a téren is oly  tapasztalati következtetéseit, meggyőződését, amely a minden magyar állampolgárt megillető jogok mellett a kötelességek, törvényeink betartatását is célnak tekinttette. Esetenként rámutatott kiütközőnek ítélt megélhetési szeparatista törekvésűekre, nevükön nevezett önjelölt vezetőket; az érintett tömeget viszont kulturálisan nagyon elesettnek tudta, jóllehet terepi gyűjtései, illetve mindennapjaink során számos megismert, közülük való, egyszerű, dolgos ember iránt megbecsülést tanúsított, velük jól szót értett. A tényszerű közléshez még hozzátartozik: Sorost és az általa a kis hazában támogatottak közül egyeseket viszont kifejezetten nem kedvelt, esetenként ennek is hangot adott. Így míg a fényen számos a barátja, addig árnyékban meghúzódó, csapásul szegődött ellenségei is lettek. Jóska tehát közvetlen munkatársai által tanúsítottan egy igaztalanul megvádolt és megszenvedett ember hites életével bír. Jómagam az Országos Széchényi Könyvtárban (OSZK) az osztályvezetőnk mellett szóló beadványt hivatali minőségemben, helyetteseként írtam alá. .Az általam utólag is, folytatólagosan szorgalmazott "erkölcsi rehabilitáció"-jára az OSZK, mint intézmény végül is sort kerített, valamikor a 2000-es évek elején, szinte egyidejűleg viszont az NCS-t, volt osztályát felszámolta. Az ellene kibontakoztatott ellehetetlenítésnek tehát alapjában magyar érdek ellenes irányultsága volt. Vekerdi "kinyírását" követően ugyanis - ő maga nevezte így a vele szembeni eljárást - két év múltán, 1997-ben megjelent új "könyvtári törvény"-ben az OSZK Nemzetközi Csereszolgálata már nem szerepelt többé a legjobb értelemben vett nemzeti, kulturális propagandánkat szolgáló támogatott intézmények között. Tudni kell, hogy korábban mindennémű, kiadványterjesztésre használható forrásunkat fele részben nemzeti könyvtári szintű cserepartnereinkkel fennálló kapcsolatainkra kellett fordítanunk, fele részben viszont határon túli magyar érdekeltségű, könyvtárral rendelkező intézmények könyv-és folyóirat-támogatására fordíthattuk. Azt a két, teljes  köteles példány sort, amit évtizedeken át a mondott célokra használhattunk fel, s amely még a Pozsgay-féle rendeletben, a hetvenes évek végén, nyolcvanas évek elején - kimondatlanul ugyan, de egyéb úton kifejezetten - az NCS ily céljaira volt rendelve, biztosítva, az 1997-es törvényben már a Fodor-, majd Magyar-féle SZDSZ-es korabeli kulturális minisztériumi vezetés az NCS-től megvonta; a törvényben már nem nevesítette, szerepeltette. Létfontosságú eszköztől fosztották meg ezzel a nemzetet, országot, benne létalapjától minket, a szóban forgó, szakosodott működési egységet. Az intézmény maga nem tudta volna  - nem világos, hogy korabeli vezetője  ténylegesen akarta-e  - a fenntartotti költségvetésből kigyöngyözni e célból az elvesztett köteles példányok pótlására az évi több tízmilliós anyagi keretet, s így  2001-re felszámolta a mondott szervezeti egységet. Megjegyzendő, hogy a civilizált s műveltebb északi féltekén, ahová akkor is tartoztunk, csupán Magyarország, utóbb Horvátország volt az az állam, amelyik nemzetközi szerződésben államilag felvállalt kiadványcsere-szolgálat fenntartási kötelezettségét ilyen, visszatetsző módon felmondta. Az sem világos, hogy a korabeli, felszámoló intézményvezető egyáltalán tudott-e arról, hogy a Nemzetközi Csereszolgálat, egy NCS  nem csupán OSZK kötelezettségeit teljesítő szervezeti egység, hanem a magyar állam által nemzetközi szerződésben szavatoltan működtetett nemzetközi kulturális együttműködés rendeltetésű intézmény, amelyet IFLA (nemzetközi könyvtáros szervezet) ajánlások nyomán az egyes országokban - szak-tevékenységük és gazdaságos működésük elősegítésére - az egyes Nemzeti Könyvtárakhoz rendelnek ugyan, de nem csupán nemzeti könyvtári egység jelleggel fejtik ki szaktevékenységüket. A Nemzetközi Csereszolgálat, a magyarországi NCS tehát nem csupán az OSZK-é, hanem Magyarországé, a magyarságé, annak folyamatos fenntartási kötelme pedig a szerződött magyar államot illeti.! Az IFLA-nak van Nemzetközi Kiadványcsere szakosztálya, amely tízévente  megjelenteti ajánlásait külön kötetben. A legutóbbiban, amit láttunk, amelyik az elmúlt évtized közepe tájt jelent meg, már csak az szerepel, hogy az OSZK, magyar nemzeti könyvtár a nemzetközi kiadványcsere szerepet az intézmény Gyarapítási Osztályára átruházta. Azt ki sem közölte a kötet IFLA-központi összeállítójával hivatalból Budapestről, hogy a továbbiakban a tevékenységhez - a korábbiakkal ellentétben - sem köteles példányt, sem rendszeres pénzeszközt sajnos nem rendel leghosszabb évek óta itt, Magyarországban senki. Következőleg: a megszüntetés tényleges célzata a határon túli magyarsággal fenntartott legszélesebb körű kapcsolatrendszer sikeres működésének felszámolása lehetett? Eredménye zömében az lett. Holott ez az osztály volt hivatva arra is, hogy eleget tesz azon törvényi kötelezettségnek, miszerint az OSZK a teljesség igényével begyűjti a hungarikumokat. Mindaddig, míg  e kötelem fennáll, az NCS újjá szervezendő, tényleges működése helyreállítandó szükséglet. Az NCS szerezte be a kiadványcsere útján, nagy hatékonysággal a magyar nemzeti könyvtár számára a határon túli megjelenésű magyar kiadványok 95%-át. Megrendítő, máig ható kihatásai lettek tehát e kulturális síkokon is annak, hogy az egész magyar társadalmat megrázó, megrövidítő, elhíresült Bokros-csomaggal egyidejűleg vélhetően a korabeli kulturális tereken is be kívántak vezetni egyfajta megszorító csomagot annak idején. Ennek megfélemlítési és ellehetetlenítő eszköze egy nagymérvű elbocsátás-sorozat lett volna? Erre mutat, hogy egyidejűleg több, nagyszámú munkatársat foglalkoztató nemzeti intézményünk vezetőjét - például  Keserűt a Szépművészeti Múzeum; Ablonczyt a Nemzeti Színház élén - s a Vekerdi-ügy révén az OSZK vezetését is érte központi támadás egyidejűleg, azt célozva, hogy a vezetőt eltávolítanák, s ha már a nyájat ki sem védi, az szétszalad. A mondottak védekeztek, s védték nemzeti intézményeiket, amint csak tudták. Jóska is védte ugyan magát, pillanatig sem vállalta föl a sarokba szorítottak szerepét; hazai és külföldön élő jeles egyetemi tanáraink, tudósaink sokasága állt ki egyként s egyként rokonszenvét nyilvánítva mellette, üldözés egyik áldozata mellett..Az OSZK meghunyászkodó korabeli vezetése viszont súlyos vezéráldozatot hozott, minisztériumi nyomásra 1995-ben egyik legkitűnőbb korabeli szakemberét áldozta fel, elkötelezettjét a határon túli nemzetrészek értékes támogatásának, aki egyik letéteményese volt a mindenkori magyar nemzeti és  nemzetközi együttműködésnek. 2002-ben aztán, amikor "a magyarországi cigány szubkultúra, valamint a szanszkrit nyelv és irodalom kutatásában, fordításában és közkinccsé tételében végzett egyedülálló munkásságáért" Széchenyi-díjat kapott, Jóska személyesen megkért, hogy a díjjal járt pénzösszeg egyharmad részének kárpátaljai magyar oktatási intézmények friss megjelenésű magyar könyvekkel való ellátására fordítását - szépirodalmi, ifjúsági- és pedagógiai szakkönyvek  beszerzését és kijuttatását - vállalnám el. Szívesen megtettem. Mert ilyen ember volt. Sajnos kiemelkedő gondoskodás a felfüggesztett tevékenységű NCS vonatkozásában viszont utóbb nem történt, országosan ki sem vette át legátfogóbb teendőink célszerű intézését, személy szerint hiában szorgalmaztam annak szükségét is meggyőződéssel, folyamatosan...
Dr. Vekerdi József emlékét megőrizzük!

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Hungary
Oct 19, 2015  Hungary says migrant influx 'stops'. "We are continuously monitoring the situation at the Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian borders, and are ready to react to any situation which might develop." The figure of 41 represents a new daily record low in 2015 for Hungary, which witnessed up to 10,000 people stream across its borders daily since the summer. The country has been a key transit point on the western Balkan route used by thousands of people who have fled violence in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. In total, some 390,685 have passed through Hungary since the beginning of the year. In a bid to stem the influx, Hungary sealed its Croatian border with a razor-wire fence barely a month after it shut its frontier with Serbia. (Source: Yahoo)

Németország
2015. X. 19. A hónap első hetében jelent meg Ulfkotte német újságíró új könyve A menekültipar – Miként profitálnak politikusok, újságírók és szociális szervezetek a menekülthullámból címmel. Tizenegy hónappal azután, hogy szintén a Kopp kiadónál látott napvilágot bestsellerré vált könyve, A megvásárolt újságírók. Abban a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung egykori haditudósítója és szerkesztője, egy vezető német lap egyik korábbi kulcsembere előszavában leírja tapasztalatait arról, hogy milyen megpróbáltatások érték és érik tavalyi leleplező kötete miatt. Egyik lábával a börtönben van, másik lábával az anyagi összeroppanás szélén egyensúlyoz, aki olyan könyvet ír, mint ő. A kötetből megtudhatja az olvasó, hogy a nagyvállalatok mekkora profitot fölöznek le a menekültipari tevékenységükkel. (Ulfkotte könyvében végig a Németországban megszokott „menekült” szót használja.) Megtudja továbbá, hogy a gyógyszeripar miként növeli forgalmát milliárdokkal a beérkező menekülteknek felírt gyógyszerek eladásából. Hogy a rendőrökre és újságírókra szájkosarat raknak a menekültstátust kérők bűnelkövetései ügyében; hogy számos SPD (szociáldemokrata) politikusnak mellékállása van olyan szervezetekben, amelyek a migránsoknak szállást adnak; hogy a pártok a menekültek ellátásával kapcsolatban törvénytelen finanszírozásban részesülnek, és hogy újságírók külön pénzt kapnak, ha könnyfakasztó sztorikat írnak a menekültstátust kérőkről. Ulfkotte bemutatja azt is, hogy miközben a német sajtó és Merkel kancellár halálra aggódja magát a menekültek sorsa miatt, annak nem adnak hangot, hogy az országban háromszázezer, többnyire etnikailag német hajléktalan él, akik közül harminckétezer gyerek. E könyv megjelenése előtt nem igen tudtunk arról, hogy Németország nettó kivándorlóország, mert egyre több németnek lesz elege saját hazájából. „A bevándorlók már csak az olyan országokból érkeznek, ahol az oktatásban kevesen részesülnek. A távozó, képzett németek „Goodbye Deutschlanddal” búcsúznak. Ma már minden negyedik német azzal a gondolattal játszik, hogy elhagyja hazáját. Minden évben 165-170 ezer német fordít hátat Németországnak. A legtöbb közülük fiatal és egyetemi végzettségű. „Az igazság így hangzik: Német­ország kivándorlási ország – legalább is az etnikai németeknek.”  (Forrás: MagyarHírlap): http://tinyurl.com/zwhdvkz

Democratic Republic of Congo
19 October 2015  Agony of Congo's 50,000 ', children living on the streets of Kinshasa, all abandoned after being accused of witchcraft. Witches' who are brutally exorcised to 'beat the devil out of them'. The communities say they are capable of horrific crimes, drinking the blood and eating the flesh of their relatives. But a lot of the time the children are rejected simply because their parents cannot afford the extra mouth to feed  It means the children - some newborn - are left to fend for themselves, turning to crime and prostitution to survive. Youngsters are accused of killing relatives by eating their flesh and drinking their blood in the dead of night. They are accused of casting spells – delivering death, illness, unemployment, pregnancy, debt, or simply bad luck – to any or all around. But possibly worst of all they are accused of being evil – having the devil living within them. Once accused of witchcraft, children are stigmatized and discriminated against for life. Children accused of witchcraft may be killed, although more often they are abandoned by their parents. The collapse of the economy in the 1990s following mass lootings by the unpaid army and the following chaos of two devastating wars turned this phenomenon into an epidemic. Witchcraft was often used to simply rid a household of an unwanted mouth to feed. However the rise of child-witchcraft is a recent phenomenon linked to the breakdown of the traditional extended family. It isn't just the Catholic priests who carry out exorcisms. Traditional healers also rid children of evil spirts. Two babies are born on the streets of Kinshasa every day to girls who have been condemned as child witches. Their children are considered witches by inheritance. The UN's new 'global goals' hope that the drivers of this horrific tradition, poverty and a lack of education, will be completely eradicated in the next 15 years.  (Source: DailyMail): http://tinyurl.com/qccnh3c

United States
Octorber 19th, 2015  WaPo accidentally publishes Biden candidacy story, abruptly report says: ‘This file was inadvertently published’ (Source: MediaEqualizer): http://tinyurl.com/p5r5gxr

19 October, 2015  Lockheed Martin reveals it has been secretly testing 'supersonic' laser turret for fighter jets. Turret allows laser to fire in any direction . New system will allow craft flying near the speed of sound to fire lasers. Has been tested on nearly 60 flight tests conducted in 2014 and 2015. Tests used a converted business jet as a low-cost flying test bed. (Source: DailyMail): http://tinyurl.com/pwyd4wu

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Magyarország  
2015. X. 18. Este nyolc óráig összesen 41 illegális bevándorlóval szemben kellett intézkednie a magyar rendőröknek a szerb határszakaszon, Horvátország irányából pedig nem volt elfogás.Sem a két tranzitzónában - Letenyén és Beremenden -, sem pedig Tompán és Röszkén nem jelentkeztek migránsok menedékkérelem benyújtására. (Forrás: MTI)

Ausztria
2015. X. 18. Délelőtt ezer, Szlovéniából érkezett menekültet regisztráltak Ausztria déli határrészén. A burgenlandi határátkelőnél ez idő alatt nem érkeztek menekültek az országba. (Forrás: MTI)

Turkey
October 18, 2015  Merkel discusses refugee crisis, Turkish-EU relations during Turkey visit. Naming four main topics discussed during the meeting, Davutoğlu said: "The first topic is the fair share of the refugee burden. Turkey has been left alone in the last four years on the issue of sharing [this] burden. The process hereafter should be carried out together irrespective of the possible financial aid to Ankara from the EU of 3 billion euros." Davutoğlu cited visa liberalization as the second topic. Stressing that the EU drew a new framework on the visa issue that has been ongoing for decades, Davutoğlu said: "For us to sign the readmission agreement, the Schengen visa must be secured for Turkish citizens. We are performing serious collaboration with the EU to realize this issue by 2016 rather than as planned in 2017. We hope that from July 2016 both readmission and Schengen agreements will go into effect." "The third topic is about whether Turkish-EU relations can gain new momentum following this refugee crisis. The EU has produced a new vision out of every crisis. We have a mutual perspective in Turkish-EU relations gaining new momentum," Davutoğlu said. For the fourth topic, Davutoğlu said that Turkey joining EU summits is a significant point, which he hoped would continue in the upcoming years. Underscoring that the last Turkish politician to have been present at an EU summit was President  Erdoğan when he was prime minister, Davutoğlu said: "We hope that Turkey appears in the EU picture." After Davutoğlu's speech, Merkel reflected her views following the meeting. Emphasizing that Germany and the EU will provide support of any kind to Ankara on four topics, she said: "New meetings will be held on the visa issue. We [Germany and the EU] have some expectations from Turkey regarding the refugee crisis." Acknowledging that Turkey has carried the burden of refugees financially, Merkel said: "We know that Turkey has not received much aid for this issue. In fact, Turkey has undertaken a great task. I can also say that the EU will work on legal migration." Labeling Turkey's accession to the EU as an open-ended issue, Merkel said that the EU is ready to negotiate Chapter 17 while Davutoğlu said both parties agreed on the same terms to accelerate efforts on Chapters 17, 23 and 24. Feeling alone due to the heavy burden of the refugee crisis, Turkey has spent over $7 billion and has failed to make itself heard in the international area. For now, the EU seems to be listening to Ankara, which could ease the burden of the refugee crisis of which Turkey has been most affected. (Source: TheDailySabah): http://tinyurl.com/oks2xxv

United States  
18 Oct, 2015  'America is a bomb waiting to explode'  The number of farms in the country has fallen by some 4 million from more than 6 million in 1935 to roughly 2 million in 2012. And according to the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, only about 2 percent of the  . US population live on farms. That means that around 4.6 million people currently have the means to feed themselves. Food supply logistics are extended, sometimes stretching thousands of miles. The shops have nothing more than a few days’ stock. A simple break in that supply line would clear the shops out in days. The US currency came off the gold standard in 1933 and severed any link with gold in 1971. Since then, the currency has been essentially linked to oil, the value of which has been protected and held together by wars. In the past, people were in rural communities. They could grow food. They had real communities. They also had self-control and a conception of morality. Today, if the supply lines go down, you are stuck in a house you can’t heat surrounded by millions of FDA-approved drug addicts who are going psycho because they have run out of juice and people who would murder their own grandmother to get a cut-price iPhone. The right shock event – or combination of shock events – will detonate the explosive. There was one such potential detonator – which presently has not gone off – in the UK just last week. The UK’s Independent reported on October 16 that experts were ‘staggered’ after Cafferkey – who had been brought to London of all places – rapidly declined after being declared cured from Ebola. This woman had been allowed out into the community – still sick with Ebola – and managed to visited Mossneuk Primary School in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, on October 12 to thank children for their fund-raising efforts. Johnson, the current Mayor of London, primed the British public for the possibility of Ebola in London just last week. Perhaps he knows something we don’t. What do you think will happen if people start dying from Ebola in London or New York? The natural response will be to get out of the urban centre as quickly as possible. The poor people who are left in the cities will run out of food in short order as suppliers refuse to enter the city. (Source: RT): http://tinyurl.com/ob9b3ye

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