Orban accuses Germany and Turkey of secret pact to flood Europe with another 500,000 illegals

[D. Schlenk]

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/02/11/orban-accuses-germany-and-turkey-of-secret-pact-to-flood-europe-with-another-500000-illegals/

Orban accuses Germany and Turkey of secret pact to flood
Europe with another 500,000 illegals


http://media.breitbart.com/media/2015/09/GettyImages-463742454-640x480.jpg

by Oliver JJ Lane 11 Feb 2016

Addressing a private meeting of government members of
parliament yesterday, uncompromising Hungarian Prime
Minister Viktor Orban has accused Germany and Turkey of
contracting a secret pact to flood Europe with an
"unprecedented migrant tide".

According to details of the speech leaked to the Times of
Hungary, Mr. Orban claimed to have knowledge of an
agreement between Turkey and Germany so shocking the
nations involved do "not yet dare to make it public".
Remarking the deal had now been agreed, but was still
going through a "bargaining phase", Mr. Orban said when
executed - at Turkey's leisure - it would mean the "direct
transportation" of half a million migrants to Germany.

Once they had arrived in Germany, these migrants would
then be distributed around the continent by binding EU
resettlement rules designed to take the burden off the
most popular European nations, said Mr. Orban.

Although some 1.5 million migrants made their way to
Germany over the course of 2015, speaking to his
parliamentary colleagues the Hungarian leader said this
sudden, organised movement of between 400,000 and 500,000
migrants in one go would resemble an "unprecedented
migrant tide". Europe under "siege" would suffer for years
under the weight of the migrants, he said.

Germany has already been the main deal-broker between
Turkey and the European Union, securing billions of Euros
of cash in return for Turkey taking action on slowing the
flow of migrants into the continent. If it were proven
Germany was also agreeing secret deals working to do the
exact opposite, it could be politically difficult for
Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Germany's men in Brussels.

Viktor Orban is one of the most outspoken, and often
maligned leaders in Europe, who has defied the opinion of
his fellow EU politicians to secure his country against
the migrant crisis, building a significant fence along
Hungary's southern border.

Choosing the route of least resistance, the tens of
thousands of migrants a week passing through Hungary re-
routed, accessing northern neighbour Austria by way of
Slovenia instead. While the number of daily illegal
incursions initially dropped to just dozens from
thousands, it has recently slowly grown again to hundreds
a day as Austria tighten their own borders.

Despite the difficulty this creates for the Hungarian
government which rides high in the polls on the back of
having stopped the migrant invasion, the country has still
offered congratulations to Austria for getting their house
in order and starting to secure their borders.




http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/02/11/einsteins-gravitational-waves-detected-in-scientific-milestone/

Einstein' Gravitational Waves Detected in Scientific
Milestone

http://media.breitbart.com/media/2016/02/An-outburst-on-an-ultra-magnetic-neutron-star-also-called-a-magnetar-is-shown-in-this-handout-provided-by-NASA-February-10-2016-Reuters-640x480.png

11 Feb 2016

Scientists said on Thursday they have for the first time
detected gravitational waves, ripples in space and time
hypothesized by physicist Albert Einstein a century ago,
in a landmark discovery that opens a new window for
studying the cosmos.

The researchers said they detected gravitational waves
coming from two black holes - extraordinarily dense
objects whose existence also was foreseen by Einstein -
that orbited one another, spiraled inward and smashed
together. They said the waves were the product of a
collision between two black holes 30 times as massive as
the Sun, located 1.3 billion light years from Earth.

The scientific milestone, announced at a news conference
in Washington, was achieved using a pair of giant laser
detectors in the United States, located in Louisiana and
Washington state, capping a long quest to confirm the
existence of these waves.

The announcement was made in Washington by scientists from
the California Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and the LIGO Scientific
Collaboration.

Like light, gravity travels in waves, but instead of
radiation, it is space itself that is rippling. Detecting
the gravitational waves required measuring 2.5-mile (4 km)
laser beams to a precision 10,000 times smaller than a
proton.

The two laser instruments, which work in unison, are known
as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
(LIGO). They are able to detect remarkably small
vibrations from passing gravitational waves. After
detecting the gravitational wave signal, the scientists
said they converted it into audio waves and were able to
listen to the sounds of the two black holes merging.

"We're actually hearing them go thump in the night," MIT
physicist Matthew Evans said. "We're getting a signal
which arrives at Earth, and we can put it on a speaker,
and we can hear these black holes go, 'Whoop.' There's a
very visceral connection to this observation."

The scientists said they first detected the gravitational
waves last Sept. 14.

"We are really witnessing the opening of a new tool for
doing astronomy," MIT astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala said
in an interview. "We have turned on a new sense. We have
been able to see and now we will be able to hear as well."

The LIGO work is funded by the National Science
Foundation, an independent agency of the U.S. government.

Einstein in 1916 proposed the existence of gravitational
waves as an outgrowth of his ground-breaking general
theory of relativity, which depicted gravity as a
distortion of space and time triggered by the presence of
matter. But until now scientists had found only indirect
evidence of their existence.



OPEN THE DOOR

Scientists said gravitational waves open a door for a new
way to observe the universe and gain knowledge about
enigmatic objects like black holes and neutron stars. By
studying gravitational waves they also hope to gain
insight into the nature of the very early universe, which
has remained mysterious.

Everything we know about the cosmos stems from
electromagnetic waves such as radio waves, visible light,
infrared light, X-rays and gamma rays. But because such
waves encounter interference as they travel across the
universe, they can tell only part of the story.

Gravitational waves experience no such barriers, meaning
they can offer a wealth of additional information. Black
holes, for example, do not emit light, radio waves and the
like, but can be studied via gravitational waves.

Scientists sounded positively giddy over the discovery.

"It is really a truly, truly exciting event," said Abhay
Ashtekar, director of Penn State University's Institute
for Gravitation and the Cosmos. "It opens a brand new
window on the universe."

"The LIGO announcement describes one of the greatest
scientific discoveries of the past 50 years," Cornell
University physicist Saul Teukolsky added.

Ashtekar said heavy celestial objects bend space and time
but because of the relative weakness of the gravitational
force the effect is miniscule except from massive and
dense bodies like black holes and neutron stars. He said
that when these objects collide, they send out ripples in
the curvature of space and time that propagate as
gravitational waves.

The detection of gravitational waves already has provided
unique insight into black holes, with the scientists
saying it has demonstrated that there are plenty of black
holes in the range of tens of solar masses, resolving the
long debated issue of the existence of black holes of that
size.

A black hole, a region of space so packed with matter that
not even photons of light can escape the force of gravity,
was detected for the first time in 1971. Scientists have
known the existence of small black holes and so-called
supermassive black holes are millions or billions of times
as massive as the sun, but had debated the existence of
black holes of intermediate size.

Neutron stars are small, about the size of a city, but are
extremely heavy, the compact remains of a larger star that
died in a supernova explosion.

(Reporting by Will Dunham in Washington, Irene Klotz in
Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Scott Malone in Cambridge,
Mass.; Editing by Tom Brown)