Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Reopened: Research for Sub-Atomic Processes


These days the Large Hadron Collider LHC in Geneva is being reactivated after its maintenance stop in December 2015.

As a consequence, the run for information about sub-atomic particles and processes has been reopened. Scientists from all over the world, engaged in the LHC project, are convinced that last year's confirmation of Higgs bosons being involved in sub-atomic processes is only a starting point. Even more remarkable results might be achieved sooner or later this year.

Here an evaluation by two scientists from CERN, the international center of nuclear research that is operating the LHC facility in Geneva:



CERN video March 2016






Sunday, March 27, 2016

North Korean Threats - What's Behind ?




فيديو دعائي.. كوريا الشمالية توجه ضربة نووية لواشنطن

Propaganda video: North Korea directing a nuclear blow at Washington.



[Source: Al-Arabiya on March 27, 2016]




朝鲜核弹小型化可完爆美国:萨德反导是个笑话

The miniaturization of North Korean nukes could finish with
blowing up America: THAAD missile defence is "mere joke".


The Chinese article is pointing out that there is no need to apply the U.S. developed THAAD system in South Korea as the North is not interested in delivering a nuclear blow on the U.S. by means of an intercontinental missile. Kim Jong Un's policy is only considered to underline that "some fearless men" might be sufficient to terrorize a country as could recently be seen in the aftermath of the Brussels attacks.

[Source: china.com on March 25, 2016]

Editor's Note:
The so-called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system is using an enhanced version of U.S. made Patriot missiles to intercept aggressing missiles.
In February 2016, the Pentagon announced that a Patriot Advance Capability-3 (Pac-3) missile system was moved from Fort Bliss in Texas to the Osan Air Base near Seoul, alongside two existing batteries. The Pac-3 system, with an altitude of up to 40 kilometres and a maximum speed of Mach 5, can intercept short- and medium-range missiles, such as the North Korean Scud and Rodong missiles.
Some sources are looking at the installation of the THAAD system in South Korea as part of an indirect threat that is aiming at neighbouring China rather than North Korea.




A promotion tour of North Korea's Singing Army Girls, the ultimate propaganda tool of
Kim JongUn. Their concert tour should have taken place from 12-14th December 2015
at the " National Centre for the Performing Arts " in Beijing. It combined revolutionary
songs with reminders of the Korean War. That must have been the group's last program
in China after which president Xi JinPing allegedly refused to attend their performance,
such putting an end to N Korea's so-called "Spice Girls Diplomacy" towards China. The
pro-Chinese music show, however, was comprehensively covered by some TV stations
in China / Taiwan that presented the appetizing female army detachment side by side
with news on N Korea's disputed H-bomb test and its missile capabilities.




TV pictures: North Korea's singing army girls "hurriedly flying back to Pyongyang".
The spokeswoman for China's ministry of foreign affairs, when asked in a regular
press-conference why the N Korean band of army girls left China so unexpectedly,
only answered "I don't know" and "We hope for a thoroughgoing cultural exchange."


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Russian visitors to "blueprint news" in March 2016.



Russian visitors interested in North Korean proceedings and who surfaced in April 2016.


Friday, March 25, 2016

The World Fighting in Syria / Iraq




إحصاء لأعداد المقاتلين الأجانب بسوريا والعراق

Counting the number of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq.


ذكرت صحيفة ديلي تلغراف أن عدد المقاتلين الأجانب الذين سافروا إلى العراق وسوريا منذ نشوب القتال في عام 2011 يقدر بأكثر من 27 ألفا.ـ

The journal Daily Telegraph reminded that the number of foreign fighters who have travelled to Iraq and Syria since the outbreak of fighting in 2011 is considered to surmount 27.000.

وعلى الرغم من عدم تأكيد صحة هذه الأرقام رسميا فإن الخبراء يعتقدون أن العديد منهم لا يزالون يقاتلون في مناطق الصراع، في حين تقدر نسبة الذين عادوا إلى أوطانهم بين 20 و30%.ـ

And despite the unconfirmed status of these official data, experts consider that numerous of them are leaving to fight in war zones [while] the rate of those who return to their countries is considered to lie between 20% and 30%.

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وذكرت المنظمة أن المقاتلين الأجانب الذين ينضمون إلى هذه الجماعات يأتون مما لا يقل عن 86 دولة، والدول العشر التي تتصدر قائمة المقاتلين الأجانب في العراق وسوريا تشمل تونس (6500) والسعودية (2500) وروسيا (2400) و الأردن (2250) وتركيا (2100) وفرنسا (1700) والمغرب (1350) ولبنان (تسعمئة) ومصر (ثمانمئة) وألمانيا (760).ـ

And the organization [i.e. Soufan Group*] reminded that foreign fighters who affiliate to such groups [i.e. ISIL, Al-Nusra etc.] arrive from not less than 86 countries. And the ten countries heading the list of foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria include Tunisia (6.500), Saudi-Arabia (2.500), Russia (2.400), Jordan (2.250), Turkey (2.100), France (1.700), Morocco (1.350), Lebanon (900), Egypt (800), and Germany (760).


Editor's Note: The above mentioned organization is the Soufan Group which provides strategic security intelligence services to governments and multinational organizations.

[Source: Al-Jazeera الجزيرة, undated article that appeared on March 25 and is quoting a Daily Telegraph article published the day before.]

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Monday, March 21, 2016

Cuba Recibe A Obama




Ayer el Presidente de los Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, llegó en horas de la tarde a La Habana recibido por el Canciller Cubano Bruno Rodriguez. El presidente Obama visitó con su familia La Habana vieja y la catedral donde se encuentran testimonios de diferentes épocas. La visita del presidente quedará marcada para la historia de Cuba.

Ciudadanos de La Habana dicen que están esperanzados en las buenas relaciones entre EE.UU. y Cuba.

En el Museo de la Ciudad tiene cuadros pictóricos de la historia de Estados Unidos. Aqui Estados Unidos y Cuba encuentran sus vínculos culturales a través del arte.

[TeleSUR, Caracas / Venezuela, 20 de marzo]

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Segundo día de Obama en La Habana: En su encuentro con el presidente cubano, Raúl Castro, Obama afirma que EE.UU. reconoce progresos del pueblo cubano. Dice que continuaré haciendo un llamado al congreso para levantar el bloqueo.

Raúl Castro destacó avances en el restablecimiento de relaciones con los Estados Unidos pero reitera en que debe levantarse el bloqueo impuesto por EE.UU. contra la isla. Raúl dice que el bloqueo continua y sus efectos contra el pueblo estan vigentes. Pese al bloqueo financiero, Cuba expondra beneficios de su mercado a empresarios de EE.UU.

Sobre el balance del diálogo entre Raúl Castro y Barack Obama, TeleSUR presenta los opiniónes de dos expertos políticos en vivo desde La Habana.

Actualmente, el Secretario de Estado, John Kerry, participa de negociaciones de paz entre el gobierno de Colombia y la milicia de FARC que también tienen lugar en La Habana estas días.

[TeleSUR, Caracas / Venezuela, 21 de marzo]




Secretario de Estado Kerry y Canciller Cubano Rodriguez
[Cubavision 21 de marzo]


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El discurso del Presidente Obama que se dirige al pueblo cubano en El Gran Teatro de Habana.



Obama finaliza su visita en La Habana [TeleSUR 22 de marzo]




Cultivo Una Rosa Blanca

José Martí (1853-1895)

La poesía citada por el Presidente
Obama en su discurso que se dirige
al pueblo cubano durante su visita
histórica en Cuba en marzo 2016.
(traducción por Ulysses)



Cultivo una rosa blanca
en junio como en enero
para el amigo sincero
que me da su mano franca.

I cultivate a rose of white
in June as well in January
preserved for some true friend
who freely reaches out his hand to me.


Y para el cruel que arranca
el corazón con que vivo,
cardo ni ortiga cultivo;
cultivo la rosa blanca.

And for whatever cruelty might tear apart
the very heart I have to live with,
then neither thistle nor nettle I do cultivate,
I still keep cultivating that white rose of mine.




Saturday, March 19, 2016

China - Service Industries on the Rise




人民网北京3月19日电(李楠桦)由国务院发展研究中心主办的“中国发展高层论坛2016年会”经济峰会今日在京召开,华润(集团)有限公司董事长傅育宁在“现代服务业的开放与发展”分组会上表示,2015年,服务业的外资已经达到700多亿的吸收额,60%中国的引资都是在服务业。

People's Network, Beijing, report from March 19:
Today, an economic summit has been convoked in the capital. The "China Development Forum 2016 Annual Meeting" is hosted by the State Council Research Center on Development. The chairman of China Benefit Group Inc., Fu Yu Ning, showed for the grouping "opening and development of modern service industries" that in 2015 foreign investment into services already reached more than 70 billion [U.S.$], 60% of China's fundings being absorbed in the service sector.


Fu Yu Ning considers that a flourishing Chinese service sector could generate an output value of 1000 billion U.S.$ by 2020.

[Source: People's Network 人民网 on March 19, 2016]

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俄媒称应建大型航母卖给中国 专家:完全可以自己建造

Russian media say [Russia] agrees to construct
a large-scale mother ship and sell it to China.

Experts: It could be completely self-built.


The Chinese article is showing a photo of the Russian mother ship (i.e. aircraft carrier) "Kuznetsov".

[Source: People's Network 人民网 on March 18, 2016]


领导干部如何迎接改革大考

How leading cadres welcome the final examination of the reform.


On March 20, an editorial published in the semi-official journal People's Daily 人民日报 urges the immediate application of reform plannings targeting China's military defence.

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文莱航空庆国庆日 派全女性机师驾机飞抵沙特

Brunei aviation celebrating National Day. Sends entirely
female flying crew to pilot a plane to Saudi-Arabia.


On National Day February 23, the tiny Sultanate of Brunei, situated on the island of Borneo in the Malay Archipelago, sent a Royal Brunei Airlines Boeing 787 "Dreamliner" with an entirely female cockpit crew on a flight to Jeddah in Saudi-Arabia. In Saudi-Arabia, however, women are not even allowed to drive a car due to a unique interpretation of Islam regarding the missing virtues of women.

Before that remarkable information finally reached China, it had already spread all over the world. [People's Network on March 17, 2016]

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Mastermind of Paris Attacks Under Arrest


Yesterday evening, Al-Jazeera, Arabic TV, reported that Salah Abdus-Salam, the suspected mastermind of the 2015 Paris attacks, could be arrested in the Belgian capital of Brussels. He was the only one to escape after the bloodshed his terrorist group had triggered off in the French capital. Even though some shooting accompanied the arrest of Abdus-Salam by Belgian police, he is reported to be in good health. French president Hollande is now urging the Belgian authorities to extradite Abdus-Salam to France.


هولاند: سنطالب بلجيكا بتسليم عبد السلام

[French president] Hollande: We will demand from Belgium the extradition of Abdus-Salam.





صلاح عبد السلام المطلوب رقم واحد في هجمات باريس

Salah Abdus-Salam searched as No.1 of the Paris attacks.

ولد في بلجيكا عام 1989 لعائلة من أصول مغاربية

Born in Belgium in 1989 to a family originating from Morocco.

السلطات البلجيكية تؤكد اعتقال المشتبه به في هجمات باريس صلاح عبد السلام

Belgian authorities are sure to have arrested the
suspect of the Paris attacks, Salah Abdus-Salam.


[Source: Al-Jazeera الجزيرة, Arabic website, on March 19, 2016]

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Related News on Terrorism:



البرلمان الجزائري:عقوبات ضد الإرهابيين العائدين من سوريا والعراق وليبيا

Algerian Parliament: Sanctions against terrorists returning from Syria, Iraq and Libya.


[Source: Iraq News Summary موجز العراق on March 19, 2016]

Friday, March 18, 2016

US Court vs Iran - Joke of the Week




وثائق سرية تكشف التحالف بين بن لادن ومغنية وإيران

Secret documentation unveils alliance between Bin Laden,
[Hezbollah head of security] Mughniyeh and Iran.

حيثيات حكم محكمة نيويورك الفيدرالية بإدانة إيران و"حزب الله" في هجمات 9/11

The reasons of the rule by a federal court in New York
that condemned Iran and Hezbollah for the 9/11 attacks.


[Source: Al-Arabiya العربية on March 17, 2016]


TEHRAN. — Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has slammed as “unjust”, “ridiculous” and “absurd” a US court ruling against the Islamic Republic over the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

Yesterday [i.e. March 14], Hossein Jaberi Ansari described the US court order as “the latest product of the US Judicial system in the race for blindly following Zionist Iranophobic scenarios”.

“The ruling is ludicrous and absurd to the point that it makes a mockery of the principle of justice while further tarnishes the US judiciary’s reputation,” he said.

Last Wednesday [i.e. March 9], Iran was ordered by a US judge to pay more than $10,5 billion in damages to families of people killed on 9/11 and to a group of insurers.

US district judge George Daniels issued the judgment in New York, claiming Iran has failed to defend itself against allegations of involvement in the attacks.

The court ruling is based on the 9/11 Commission Report which stated that some attackers moved through Iran and did not have their passports stamped.

The verdict comes as none of the 19 hijackers on September 11 were Iranian citizens. Fifteen were from Saudi Arabia, while two from the United Arab Emirates and one each from Egypt and Lebanon.

Saudi Arabia was legally cleared from paying damages to the families of 9/11 victims last year, after Judge Daniels dismissed accounts that the Persian Gulf monarchy provided material support to the terrorists and ruled that Riyadh had sovereign immunity.

[Source: The Herald , Harare / Zimbabwe, on March 15, 2016]


Black Africans - The First to Laugh !



Spreading the News in Africa


By the way, how could they forget "old bad guy" Saddam Hussein from Iraq with all of his weapons of mass destruction and who allegedly supported Bin Laden's organization ?

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Quotation of my present blogspot by French news service TEADS TV.


Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Syria - Russian Troop Withdrawal




بوتين يأمر قواته بالانسحاب من سوريا.. وأميركا تشكك

Putin orders the withdrawal of his troops from Syria .. while America has its doubts.

الرئيس الروسي وجّه بتقليص دور بلاده العسكري وإبداله بالدور السياسي

The Russian president [exposed] a shrinking military role of
his country and and its replacement with a political role.


قال الرئيس الروسي فلاديمير بوتين انه امر ببدء سحبِ الجزء الرئيسي من القوة العسكرية الروسية في سوريا ابتداء من اليوم الثلاثاء.ـ

Russia's president Vladimir Putin said he ordered to start the withdrawal of the main part of Russia's military forces from Syria scheduled to begin on Tuesday [i.e. March 14].

وخلال اجتماعه بوزير الدفاع الروسي قال بوتين إن قوات البحرية والقاعدة الجوية الروسية في مدينة طرطوس ستعود للعمل كما كانت قبل التدخل العسكري الاخير.ـ

And during his meeting with Russia's minister of defence, Putin said that naval forces and Russia's airbase in Tartus township will return to work like before the [excellent] military intervention.


[Source: Al-Jazeera الجزيرة نت, Arabic website, on March 14/15, 2016]




Inside Story on Russia's military withdrawal from Syria,
broadcast by Al-Jazeera International on March 15, 2016.


Russia's "deescalation" in Syria seen in the frame of a global build-up of high-end weaponry in the wake of WW III:



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Visitor to "blueprint news" coming from the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.


Monday, March 14, 2016

Obama Visiting Cuba


In the wake of U.S. President Obama's visit to Habana, Cuba's journal "Granma", the official voice of Cuba's Communist Party, published an editorial that drafted the official Cuban position for further talks with the United States. A news evaluation of that editorial, originally published by a Panama daily, has now been quoted in yesterday's edition of cuba.cu. Here my translation of the complete article:

Destaca prensa panameña posición cubana ante visita de Obama.

Panama media highlighting Cuba's position before Obama's visit.




Panamá, 13 de mar (PL). Bajo el título "Granma extiende la mano ante la visita de (Barack) Obama, pero cierra filas", el matutino panameño La Prensa reseña hoy un editorial del periódico cubano sobre la próxima visita del presidente estadounidense a Cuba. "El diario oficial respalda el acercamiento a Estados Unidos, pero le exige a Obama que la política de cambio de régimen sea definitivamente sepultada", señaló sobre la postura definida por el diario del Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC).

Panamá, March 13:
Under its title "Granma reaches out its hand in advance of Obama's visit but closes its ranks" the Panama morning journal La Prensa is evaluating today an editorial of Cuba's daily ["Granma"] and which is regarding the forthcoming visit of the U.S President to Cuba. "The official [Cuban] daily supports an approach towards the United States, however, demands from Obama to definitely bury the policy of change of regime, such hinting at the definite position taken by the daily of Cuba's Communist Party (PCC).


Reflejó un párrafo del editorial en el cual el rotativo cubano señala que "debe reconocerse la posición reiterada [del presidente de Estados Unidos] de que el bloqueo tiene que ser eliminado", pero advierte que "debe abandonarse la pretensión de fabricar una oposición política interna sufragada con dinero de los contribuyentes estadounidenses".

A paragraph in its editorial is reflecting how the Cuban printing media signals that "one has to appreciate the position [of the U.S. president] repeatedly saying the blockade should be eliminated", while admonishing that "it needs to give up the pretension of creating an internal political opposition and which is financed with money from U.S. tax payers."

La reseña destaca la parte del artículo en la que se recuerda el bloqueo económico, comercial y financiero a Cuba y las prerrogativas ejecutivas del Presidente estadounidense para modificar tanto como sea posible su aplicación, sin necesidad de una acción legislativa.

The evaluation is highlighting a part of the [Cuban] article which is reminding the economical, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba and the administrative prerogatives of a U.S. president to modify his venture as far as possible without any need for legislative activity.

El tema de la próxima visita oficial de Obama a La Habana, anunciada entre el 20 y 22 del presente mes, se refleja constantemente en medios panameños, algunos de los cuales invitan a expertos para analizar el contexto del hecho, sus proyecciones en el desarrollo de la isla y la repercusión para la región.

The subject of Obama's forthcoming official visit to Habana, and which has been announced [to take place] between the 20th and 22th this month, found its constant repercussions in Panama media, some of them inviting specialists for an analysis of [the subject and its consequences] in the development of the island, as well as, the regional repercussions.

[Source: cuba.cu on March 13, 2016, quoting a news feature from La Prensa, Panamá, and which is referring to the March 8 Granma editorial on Obama's planned visit.]


The original Granma Editorial: President Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba is already available in the English version as presented by Radio Rebelde, Cuba.

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U.S. visitor interested in Cuba-Venezuela relations.


Monday, March 07, 2016

Libya - Deeply Divided


Libya’s future is threatened by ‘terrifying’ ISIL, UN chief Ban Ki-moon says. The UN Secretary General has warned that the future of Libya, and the stability of the whole Sahel region, is at stake as it faces the “terrifying threat” of the ISIL group. But he warned international powers not to “stoke the fires of conflict” in the country.

Chaos has engulfed Libya since the 2011 Nato-backed ouster of dictator Muammar Gaddafi and rival administrations are being urged to sign up to a UN-brokered national unity government to help restore stability.

The internationally recognised and rather weak government is based in the far east of the North African country while an opposing government was installed in Tripoli, the former capital of Libya.

The ISIL group and other extremist organisations have exploited the power vacuum, making gains along the oil-rich coastal regions and triggering concern among Western nations over terrorists controlling territory just 300 kilometres from Europe.

“There are alarming reports of widespread human rights violations, including serious abuses that may amount to war crimes,” Ban said in his comments Friday. “All those with influence must use it to calm the situation and stop the fighting. It is utterly irresponsible for any outside player to stoke the fires,” he added.

Ban said that his special representative Martin Kobler “is facilitating talks on a national unity government” as “we face the terrifying scourge of ISIL expanding in Libya and beyond its borders.” Delays would only worsen the dire humanitarian needs, he warned, adding that “Libya’s future is at stake” and “the reverberations echo far”. Success in stabilising Libya would also benefit the whole Sahel region and “our world” in general, he added.

[Source: Gulf News, Dubai, on March 5, 2016]


On Sunday March 6, 2016, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made clear she stood behind U.S. action in Libya, saying if the country hadn’t participated in the bombing campaign that led to the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi, Libya would now look like Syria.

The Democratic presidential contender acknowledged on CBS’s “Face the Nation” the situation in Libya is not optimal but noted the 1,500 deaths in Libya fighting last year were far fewer than the 150,000 in Syria.

[Source: International Business Times on March 6, 2016]


The United States is basing plans for military intervention in Libya on faulty intelligence, Western officials and country experts have told the Sunday Telegraph.

American intelligence agencies assess that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) has doubled in size in Libya, with between 5,000 and 6,500 fighters in the country. Privately, however, some US officials say they believe these estimates to be overblown. Independent experts have come to the same conclusion. ..... all said they believed the real figure to be only 20 to 40 per cent of the US estimate.

[Source: Sunday Telegraph, London, on March 5, 2016]





Please note: The IP address of that Tripoli visitor to "blueprint news" has been blacklisted together with a whole range of related IP numbers by different websites. This, however, doesn't necessarily mean any danger of electronic attack going out from such IP address. It might be instead a sign of politically motivated blacklisting as political power in Libya is currently divided between two opposing governments and different terrorist groups.