Month: May 2018

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Bibi1581 Blog For 05/14/2018: Evening Edition

1…………> Get Well: Melania

 

“The procedure was successful and there were no complications,” Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre spokeswoman Ms. Stephanie Grisham said.

“The First Lady looks forward to a full recovery so she can continue her work on behalf of children everywhere,” as Ms. Trump, 48, underwent an embolization procedure to treat the kidney condition. 

 

Mr. Trump tweeted he was on his way to visit his wife, who he said was in “good spirits”.

Donald J. Trump

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@realDonaldTrump

Heading over to Walter Reed Medical Center to see our great First Lady, Melania. The successful procedure, she is in good spirits. Thank you to all of the well-wishers!

2:09 PM – May 14, 2018

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-15/melania-trump-hospitalised-for-kidney-surgery-white-house-says/9761388

 

 

 

 

2…………> Netanyahu Defends Shootings: Gaza

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said his military was acting in self-defense against Gaza’s Islamist rulers, Hamas, who he said wanted to destroy Israel in the deadliest day of violence in Gaza since the 2014 war, with Palestinian officials saying that troops have killed 55 people and wounded 2,700.


The Palestinian Authority’s leader condemned a “massacre”, and the UN spoke of “outrageous human rights violations”, following the opening of the US  controversial embassy in Jerusalem.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44116340

 

 

3…………> Hidden Budapest: Unknown World

The limestone mined from the Kőbánya district, meaning the ‘stone mine district’, on the Pest side of the city, has led to the carving of an underground cellar system of more than 20 miles, and 90 feet below street level.

 

Countless buildings in Budapest, including the 1902 neo-Gothic Parliament building (pictured), were built with the stone mined below the city.

http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20180514-a-hidden-world-30m-below-budapest

 

 

4…………> “Cyber” Islamic State: A Warning

 

The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Hans-Georg Maaßen said the Islamic Merkeldom of Germany should be ready with its own malware to counter hackers, aa a sister service over the channel, the British MI5 warned that IS still posed a threat to Europe despite losses in the Middle East.

The spymaster told German media that the country should be ready with “anti-sabotage” measures to deal with any future attacks.

“This means that we should implement malware in all our critical infrastructures that we could then perhaps activate at a point in time X, when a political dispute arises,” Maaßen said in the interview, held ahead of a meeting of European security chiefs in Berlin.

http://www.dw.com/en/german-intelligence-head-warns-of-cyber-attacks-on-critical-infrastructure/a-43774802

 

 

 

5…………> Another Broken Window: Sichuan Airlines

 

It has been a long, deadly, and horrifying cluster of broken airplane windows, now joined by Chinese Sichuan Airlines Flight 3U8633 that was forced to make an emergency landing at China’s Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport on Monday after one of the airplane’s cockpit windows fell off mid-flight.


The Civil Aviation Administration of China’s Southwest Regional Administration (CAAC) reported that one of the pilots suffered scratches and waist pains, and a flight attendant also received a minor injury during the accident when the domestic flight, which was traveling from Chongqing to Lhasa, landed at the Chengdu Shuangliu airport roughly 20 minutes after the window broke.

Chief pilot Liu Chuanjian revealed that seconds after the malfunction, his fellow pilot started to get sucked out of the window, along with parts of the plane’s control unit.

“The windshield cracked suddenly and gave a huge bang. I looked aside and found half of the co-pilot’s body was already outside the window. Fortunately, his seat belt was fastened,” the South China Morning Post reported Liu saying. “The sudden loss of pressure and low temperature made me very uncomfortable and it was very difficult to make a single move when the aircraft was flying at 600 miles an hour and at such a high altitude.”

This incident comes weeks after a Southwest Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Cleveland, Ohio after a passenger alerted flight staff of a cracked window.

https://sputniknews.com/asia/201805141064452707-sichuan-airlines-window-emergency-landing/

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Bibi1581 Blog For 05/14/2018: Morning Edition

1…………> The “Days Of Wine & Roses“: Ivanka In Jerusalem

 

“Remember this moment. This is history. President Trump, by recognizing history, you have made history,” Israel PM Netanyahu said. “The embassy of the most powerful nation on earth, the United States of America, our greatest ally, today its embassy opened here.”


“We are in Jerusalem, and we are here to stay,” Netanyahu added, to loud applause. “Thank you, president Trump, for having the courage to keep your promises.”

A visibly jubilant Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat next to Ivanka Trump and presidential adviser Jared Kushner during the ceremony, said that today was a “glorious day.”

 The festive ceremony held despite violent protests by Palestinians which have already claimed nearly 40 lives, including a 14-year-old boy, and wounded hundreds more, 27 critically, included a congratulatory video message from President Trump, who didn’t attend the ceremony.


2…………> Shia Super-Power: Iran

Iran, a major military power in the Middle East with an estimated 534,000 active personnel in the army, navy, air force and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), ranked No. 13 in the world out of 136 countries. 

Iran’s population of 82 million offers a deep reservoir of manpower, a key factor in sustaining long wars of attrition such as the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War.

Iran’s asymmetric strategy uses regional allies and proxies, known as the “axis of resistance,” as leverage to weaken, bog down, deter or fight Iran’s enemies away from its soil.

Will Quds Force and its Hezbollah allies start a new war against Israel following the Jerusalem embassy initiation? Don’t bet against it.

http://p.dw.com/p/2xb9X

 

 

 

 

3…………> Gun Runner: Italy

An Italian national named Giovanni Zannoni, 35, a former member of the Italian military was convicted of weapons trafficking and was returned to his home country ICE officers.

In May 2017, Zannoni entered the United States under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) with authorization to remain in the United States until August 2017. One day after his entry, Zannoni was arrested by HSI and charged in U.S. District Court-Eastern District of New York (EDNY) with weapons trafficking. On Sept. 22, 2017, Zannoni was convicted in EDNY of a violation of the Arms Export Control Act and sentenced to 11 months imprisonment. Additionally, he agreed to forfeit $436,673, gun parts, and night vision and thermal imaging devices. Zannoni was transferred to ICE custody in April 2018, while the agency finalized his return.


https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-removes-italian-national-convicted-weapons-trafficking

 

4…………> US Jerusalem Embassy: War Drums? 

At least 41 people had died, and more than 1000 people had been injured in the fighting, about 450 of them by live bullets in the highest Palestinian death toll in a single day since a series of protests dubbed the Great March of Return began at the border with Israel on March 30 and since the 2014 Gaza war. 


Senior White House adviser, and the US President’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, officially opened the relocated embassy.
“On behalf of the 45th President of the United States of America, we welcome you officially, and for the first time, to the embassy of the United States here in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel,” she said. 
 
 

The protests intensified on the 70th anniversary of Israel’s founding, with loudspeakers on Gaza mosques urging Palestinians to join a “great march of return”, and black smoke from tires burned by demonstrators rose into the air at the border. 

“Today is the big day when we will cross the fence and tell Israel and the world we will not accept being occupied forever,” said Gaza science teacher Ali, who declined to give his last name. 
“Many may get martyred today, so many, but the world will hear our message. Occupation must end.” 
Among the Palestinians killed on Monday were a 14-year-old boy and a man in a wheelchair. 
The man in the wheelchair had been pictured on social media using a slingshot. 
The latest casualties raised the Palestinian death toll to 84 since the protests began on March 30. No Israeli casualties have been reported. 

Most countries say the status of Jerusalem — a sacred city to Jews, Muslims and Christians — should be determined in a final peace settlement and that moving their embassies now would prejudge any such deal. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-14/israeli-forces-kill-protesters-in-gaza-as-anger-mounts/9760132

 

 

 

 

5…………> AG Sessions Precedent: Immigration Ax

The fate of tens of thousands of illegal border crossers and immigration law violators court cases could be soon in the hands of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has intervened into the immigration system by reviewing, and rewriting, precedent-setting decisions affecting hundreds of thousands of pending immigration court backlog rulings, including all those who are arrested and put into the deportation process in future.

By taking cases from the Board of Immigration Appeals — the Department of Justice agency that serves as a quasi-appellate body for immigration court cases — and referring them to himself to issue a decision instead, he could make it impossible for cases to be resolved or paused by using attorney general power to set immigration precedents.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/14/17311314/immigration-jeff-sessions-court-judge-ruling

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Bibi1581 Blog For 05/13/2018: Evening Edition

1…………> IS New Playground: Indonesia

Western politicians, led by President Trump announced recently the complete and unconditional destruction of the so-called Islamic State of Levant, unfortunately, as any other cancer, it did not die, but simply mutated and found a new body to feed into. Hence the rumors of its demise were grossly exaggerated since its new target turned out to be the largest Muslim country in the world, namely Indonesia that has suffered a number of deadly incidents linked to Islamist militancy over the years:

2002 (October): A bomb attack on the Kuta Beach nightclub district on Bali kills 202 people, most of them being tourists.
2003 (August): Fourteen people are killed when a car bomb explodes outside the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta
2004 (September): Another car bomb attack outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta kills nine and injures more than 180
2005 (October): Three suicide bombings on Bali kill 23 people, including the bombers
2009 (July): Twin suicide bomb attacks on the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta killed nine people and injured many more
2016 (January): A bomb and gun attack in the center of Jakarta kills two civilians and five attackers. IS claimed to be behind the attack
2017 (May): A suicide bomb attack in Jakarta kills at least three police officers and injures 10 people
2018 (February): Several people are injured in a sword attack at a church in Sleman, Yogyakarta
2018 (May): Five police officers are killed at a high-security prison in clashes with Islamist militant prisoners 

 

Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, is among several nations in South East Asia that have suffered attacks in recent years by groups said to be linked to so-called Islamic State (IS). Why? Because of the relentless Russian and US bombing of desert terrorist sanctuaries in Syria and Iraq exposed a glaring weakness of the fanatical followers of the “Sheik Of Death” Al Baghdadi: there was no place to hide from the prying eyes of intelligence drones, even in a predominantly Islamic country. The solution?  Abandon the Middle East for the time being, and create new bases deep within the tropical jungles of the Philippines and Indonesia, igniting a new jihadist fire away from the long arms of the New World Disorder.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44100393

 

 

 


2…………> Play With Cheetahs: Family On The Run

A quiet day in the park turns into a life & death confrontation.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44086107

 

 

 

 

3…………> Vintage Cars: Poland

A Ford Mustang vintage car is seen during the 2018 Warsaw Oldtimer Show in Nadarzyn, southwest of Warsaw, Poland, on May 13, 2018. The show was held here from May 12 to May 13, attracting about 300 exhibitors to display almost 2,000 vintage cars. 

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-05/14/c_137176523.htm

 

 

 

4…………> Contested Capital: Jerusalem

About 45,000 Israelis, mainly ultranationalist religious Jewish youths, waved Israeli flags and blew horns as they passed through the Old City’s Muslim Quarter en route to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, ignoring high tensions that marked Israel’s 1967 capture of the eternal city.

The annual parade was held under heavy police security a day before the United States was expected to move its embassy to Jerusalem, a diplomatic move that has been boycotted by many EU and third world’s countries.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-05/14/c_137176362.htm

 

5………….> New Maritime Superpower: China

Mr.Xi new toy, the new Chinese aircraft carrier code name Type 001 which has a cruising speed of 36 miles per hour, is based on the same Soviet Kuznetsov-class design used for the Liaoning, with a ski-jump type ramp for taking off, unlike US carriers, which have more advanced catapult technology.  It can carry some 40 planes. and has a displacement of 70,000 tonnes fully loaded. A third aircraft carrier is being built in Shanghai, but all details are still state secret, a long way from US carrier force of 11 carriers, all nuclear-powered.


Although China’s 2-million strong military is the largest in the world and its navy is also the biggest in terms of numbers of ships, its defense budget in 2018, though raised, is still only about one-quarter that of the United States. 

http://www.dw.com/en/first-chinese-built-aircraft-carrier-takes-to-the-waves-for-trials/a-43761961

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