The Last Chronicles of Planet Earth July 20th Edition written by Frank DiMora
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Headline: In Policy Turnaround US State Department Refuses to Commit to “Biased” Two-State Solution
While a White House delegation meets with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, the US State Department indicated a significant shift away from the anti-Israel two-state solution, admitting that it was “biased”. In a press conference on Wednesday, State Department’s spokesman Heather Nauert deftly sidestepped questions about a two-state solution which the department has committed to in the past. When asked, “Why are you so loath to…recommit yourself to the two-state solution?”, Nauert’s answer was surprising. “The President has made it clear that that is one of his top national security issues – one of his top priorities, I should say more correctly,” Nauert said in response. “We want to work toward a peace that both sides can agree to and that both sides find sustainable. Okay? We believe that both parties should be able to find a workable solution that works for both of them.” When pressed, Nauert made an unscripted comment, implying that the two-state solution goes counter to Israeli interests. “We are not going to state what the outcome has to be,” Nauert said. “It has to be workable to both sides, and I think, really, that’s the best view as to not really bias one side over the other, to make sure that they can work through it.”
Aug 25, 2017
Headline: PA Chairman: I’ll pay terrorists’ salaries until my dying day
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told the United States that he will continue to pay terrorists’ families for terror attacks against Jews. “I do not intend to cease paying salaries to the families of prisoners and martyrs, even if it means I lose my position,” Abbas told Kan 11. “I will continue paying their salaries until my dying day.” US Special Middle East Envoy Jason Greenblatt and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner on Thursday met Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Later, they met Abbas in his Ramallah headquarters. The PA’s official news agency said Abbas told the US team that “we know things are difficult and complicated, but with effort and goodwill nothing is impossible. We very much appreciate President Trump’s efforts, and the fact that he said he would work to make an historical peace agreement.”
Aug 25, 2017
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/234518
Headline: Frustrated with US, Abbas said to be weighing dissolving the PA
The Palestinian Authority continues to be disillusioned US efforts to revive the peace process and is now considering dissolving the PA and renewing a Palestinian bid for full United Nations membership, Arabic media reported on Wednesday. Abbas’s deliberations come ahead of a visit to the region by US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is set to arrive in Israel on Wednesday night with a US peace delegation, after quietly meeting with leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. According to the report in the Lebanese daily Al Hayat, which cited unnamed “reliable” sources in the PA, Abbas is waiting for Kushner and Trump’s envoy to the region Jason Greenbelt to give him a written response to his conditions for returning to the negotiating table, which are “freezing settlement construction in the West Bank and working towards a two-state solution.” The Palestinians are also reportedly renewing their bid to halt Israel’s settlement expansion through the International Criminal Court (ICC). The report said a PA delegation will travel tomorrow to the ICC’s headquarters in the Hague in order to the meet with the court’s chief prosecutor Fatu Bensuda.
Aug 25, 2017
http://www.timesofisrael.com/frustrated-with-us-abbas-said-to-be-weighing-dissolving-the-pa-2/
Syria
Headline: Daesh counterattack kills 34 Syria regime forces in Raqqa province: monitor
At least 34 Syrian soldiers and allied fighters have been killed in a Daesh (Islamic State) counterattack in eastern Raqqa province, rolling back regime gains, a monitor said Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said the jihadist group had recaptured large swathes of territory from government forces in the fighting on Thursday. Syria’s army is seeking to advance through Raqqa province to reach neighboring Deir Ezzor, where jihadists have besieged government forces and civilians in the provincial capital since 2015. Earlier this month, government troops and allied fighters arrived at the outskirts of Madan, the last Daesh-held town in the eastern Raqqa province countryside before Deir Ezzor. But in Thursday’s counterattack, Daesh “made major progress and… expanded the area under its control along the southern bank of the Euphrates,” the Observatory said. “Daesg has managed to push regime forces back 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the western outskirts of Madan,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
Aug 25, 2017
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1150476/middle-east
Iraq
Headline: Iraqi forces make fresh gains in Tal Afar offensive
Iraqi forces made further gains in their offensive to dislodge Daesh from Tal Afar, seizing five more villages on the eastern and southern outskirts of the city, the military said on Thursday.
In the fifth day of their onslaught, Iraqi forces continued to encircle terrorists holding out in the city in far northwestern Iraq close to the Syrian border, according to statements from the Iraqi joint operations command. Within the city limits, Iraqi forces captured three more neighborhoods — Al-Nour and Al-Mo’allameen in the east and Al-Wahda in the west, taking over several strategic buildings in the process. The advances were the latest in the campaign to rout the militants from one of their last remaining strongholds in Iraq, three years after they seized wide swathes of the north and west in a shock offensive. On Tuesday, the army and counter-terrorism units broke into Tal Afar from the east and south.
Aug 24, 2017
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1150156/middle-east
Turkey
Headline: No Turkey in EU under Erdogan – Germany
As long as Recep Tayyip Erdogan is president, Turkey will not become a member of the EU, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel pledged on Thursday – the latest in a verbal tit-for-tat between the two. “It is clear that in this state, Turkey will never become a member of the EU,” Gabriel told the newspaper Bild on Thursday. “It’s not because we don’t want them but because the Turkish government and Erdogan are moving fast away from everything that Europe stands for.” Earlier this week, Gabriel said at an election campaign rally that the majority of Turks were “democratically minded” and did not support Erdogan. Gabriel’s Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said the German minister “crossed the line” with his comments and that his “populist remarks” would not bring him any benefit.The exchange comes after Erdogan said Gabriel should “know his place” and not criticize Ankara for what it tells ethnic Turks living in Germany. The Turkish president called on the three million Turks eligible to vote in the upcoming September general election in Germany to not support incumbent Chancellor Angela Merkel or any other party “hostile towards Turkey.”
Aug 25, 2017
https://www.rt.com/news/400859-turkey-eu-gabriel-erdogan/
Iran
Headline: Satellite images show Iran building long-range missile site in Syria
Security analysts say satellite images show Iran is constructing a facility in northwestern Syria for the manufacturing of long-range Scud missiles. The analysts said the facility was similar to a rocket factory near Teheran, Israel’s Channel 2 reported on Aug. 17. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was closely monitoring the situation and would act against any threats. “Our policy is clear: We vehemently oppose the military buildup by Iran and its proxies, primarily Hizbullah, in Syria and we will do whatever it takes to protect Israel’s security,” Netanyahu said. … The construction project stretches several kilometers along Wadi Jahannam, which is 8 kilometers from Baniyas.
Aug 25, 2017
Afghanistan
Headline: At least 20 people killed in mosque attack in Afghan capital
Headline: Afghan official: Taliban attack police outpost, killing 4
Militants stormed a packed Shiite mosque in the Afghan capital during Friday prayers, in an attack that lasted for hours and ended with at least 20 worshippers killed and another 50 seriously wounded, many of them children, an official said. Two of the assailants blew themselves up and another two were shot to death by Afghan security forces, according to police official Mohammed Sadique Muradi. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest to target Afghanistan’s minority Shiites. The Taliban condemned the violence, with a spokesman for the militants, Zabihullah Mujahid, telling The Associated Press in a telephone interview that the group had nothing to do with it.
Aug 25, 2017
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5007718,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5007652,00.html
Libya
Headline: Islamic State fighters overrun checkpoint in Libya, behead captives
Jihadists loyal to the Islamic State’s arm in Libya overran a checkpoint manned by the Libyan National Army (LNA) yesterday. LNA officials confirmed that at least 11 people were beheaded after the raid. The so-called caliphate’s Amaq News Agency claimed that 21 members of General Khalifa Haftar’s “militia” were “killed and wounded in an attack by Islamic State fighters on a checkpoint” in the Jufra region. LNA spokesman Ahmed Mismari told the press that Amaq’s claim was generally accurate. “The terrorist organization Daesh (Islamic State) attacked al-Fogha checkpoint in Jufra region this morning, killing nine soldiers and two civilians were slaughtered,” Mismari said, according to Reuters. Mismari added that the 11 people were beheaded. The Jufra region is in the middle of Libya, south of the city of Sirte, which served as the Islamic State’s stronghold in North Africa until late last year. Local Libyan forces, backed by the US and its allies, pushed the jihadists out of Sirte over the course of several months.
Aug 24, 2017
Headline: United Nations Issues Rare “Early Warning” – Signals Potential Civil Conflict In America
In the past 10-years, the early warning has been issued in Burundi, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria. The United Nations Committee on the Eliminations of Racial Discrimination has called on high-level politicians and public officials of the United States to condemn “racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and through the country”. Anastasia Crickley, Chairperson of UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) said: “We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan, promoting white supremacy and inciting racial discrimination and hatred” . As per UN News Centre: In a decision issued under its ‘early warning and urgent action’ procedure, the Committee, which monitors implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, stated “there should be no place in the world for racist white supremacist ideas or any similar ideologies that reject the core human rights principles of human dignity and equality.”In addition to the criminal investigation of the individual who ploughed his car into a crowd of peaceful protestors killing a woman, the UN experts asked the US authorities to undertake concrete measures “to address the root causes of the proliferation of such racist manifestations.” Let’s take a moment to gain another perspective from Los Angeles Times writer Jesse Walker asks in an Op-Ed: Are we headed for a second civil war?
Aug 24, 2017
Headline: Sixteen US staff in Cuba hurt in ‘acoustic attack’
At least 16 US government employees were treated for symptoms after a possible acoustic attack targeting embassy staff in Cuba, the state department says. US media reports say the symptoms range from hearing loss to “mild traumatic brain injury”, which could include concussion or headaches. A spokeswoman said the attacks seemed to have stopped. Cuba denied involvement and said it was investigating the reports. The attacks were first reported earlier this month when the US expelled two Cuban diplomats from Washington. But it was not clear until Thursday how many US employees had been affected. The Associated Press reports that the sonic devices used may have been emitting inaudible sound waves that can cause deafness. “We can confirm that at least 16 US government employees, members of our embassy community, have experienced some kind of symptoms,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.
Aug 25, 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41041216
Headline: 71 killed in Myanmar as Rohingya insurgents stage major attack
Muslim militants in Myanmar staged a coordinated attack on 30 police posts and an army base in Rakhine state on Friday, and at least 59 of the insurgents and 12 members of the security forces were killed, the army and government said. A news team affiliated with the office of national leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, said that one soldier, one immigration officer, 10 policemen and 59 insurgents had been killed in the fighting. “In the early morning at 1 a.m., the extremist Bengali insurgents started their attack on the police post … with the man-made bombs and small weapons,” said the army in a separate statement, referring to the Rohingya by a derogatory term implying they are interlopers from Bangladesh. The militants also used sticks and swords and destroyed bridges with explosives, the army said.
Aug 25, 2017
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-idUSKCN1B507K?il=0
Headline: Russian nuclear bombers fly near North Korea in rare show of force
Headline: North Korea Reveals New Solid-Fuel Missiles Capable of Reaching US
Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers have flown a rare mission around the Korean peninsula at the same time as the United States and South Korea conduct joint military exercises that have infuriated Pyongyang. Russia, which has said it is strongly against any unilateral U.S. military action on the peninsula, said Tupolev-95MS bombers, code named “Bears” by NATO, had flown over the Pacific Ocean, the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea, prompting Japan and Seoul to scramble jets to escort them. The flight, which also included planes with advanced intelligence gathering capabilities, was over international waters and was announced by the Russian Defence Ministry on the same day as Moscow complained about the U.S.-South Korean war games.
Aug 25, 2017
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-southkorea-bombers-idUSKCN1B40MP
Aug 13, 2017–Two million cattle dead due to ‘devastating drought’ in Ethiopia
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/drought-hits-ethiopia-claims-2m-animals/
Aug 15, 2017–Tons of dead fish found in a fish farm in Cianjur, Indonesia
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnasional.republika.co.id%2Fberita%2Fnasional%2Fdaerah%2F17%2F08%2F15%2Fouqajf428-sepekan-terakhir-puluhan-ton-ikan-mati-di-cianjur&edit-text=&act=url
Aug 17, 2017–Thousands of dead fish washing ashore along Tampa Bay Florida
http://wfla.com/2017/08/17/dead-fish-causing-foul-smell-along-north-tampa-bay/
Aug 18, 2017–Dozens of dead dolphins and turtles are washing up on the Gulf Coast
http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/dead-marine-life-in-gulf-sets-off-concerns-over-dead-zone/465479329
Aug 20, 2017–Over 2,000 cattle have died, ‘reason unknown’ in Chuquisaca, Bolivia
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fmbolivia.com.bo%2Fmacharet%25C3%25AD-supera-las-2000-cabezas-de-ganado-muerto-por-causas-desconocidas&edit-text=&act=url
Aug 21, 2017–4,000 birds killed due to disease in Kalmar County, Sweden
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultrynews/39067/sweden-reports-outbreak-of-newcastle-disease-in-laying-hens/
Aug 22, 2017–200,000 birds killed due to avian flu in Pampanga, Philippines
http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/22/17/bird-flu-ground-zero-in-pampanga-finishes-culling-200000-fowls
Aug 23, 2017–Hundreds of dead Snow Geese found washed up in Cambridge Bay, Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/cambridge-bay-dead-snow-geese-1.4258264
Headline: India swine flu death toll rises above 1,000 this year
India appears to be in the grip of a swine flu outbreak with 1,094 recorded deaths over the past eight months, said an official report on Wednesday. The last three weeks have seen the highest number of fatalities, at 342. A total of 22,186 cases have been reported across the country. The number of deaths this year is four times more than fatalities recorded over the equivalent period in 2016, which itself saw a dip in occurrences of the disease. The western state of Maharashtra is the worst affected, where the death toll stands at 437, according to data revealed by the Union Health Ministry. Neighbouring Gujarat follows closely with 297 deaths, reported news agency PTI. India experienced a severe swine flu wave two years ago, when health officials scrambled to contain an outbreak which killed more than 1,900 people. While 2016 saw a dip in recorded deaths (265) and affected cases (1,786), the numbers for this year indicate a resurgence of the disease.
Aug 24, 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41034038
Headline: Hurricane Harvey strengthens, threatens U.S. with most powerful storm in 12 years
Hurricane Harvey intensified early on Friday into potentially the most powerful hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in more than a decade, as authorities warned locals to shelter from what could be life-threatening winds and floods. Harvey is set to make landfall late Friday or early Saturday on the central Texas coast where Corpus Christi and Houston are home to some of the biggest U.S. refineries. Oil and gas operations have already been disrupted and gasoline prices have spiked. “Now is the time to urgently hide from the wind. Failure to adequately shelter may result in serious injury, loss of life, or immense human suffering,” the National Weather Service said. Harvey grew into a category 2 storm with winds of 110 mph (177 kph) as it moved northwest about 145 miles (233 km) off Port O’Connor, Texas, the National Hurricane Center said. Up to 35 inches (97 cm) of rain are expected over parts of Texas, with winds up to 125 mph, and sea levels may surge as high as 12 feet (3.7 meters). Louisiana could get 10 to 15 inches of rain. Flood warnings are in effect for Louisiana and northern Mexico.
Aug 25, 2017
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