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Qatar confirms gas pipeline projects in Gaza Strip
Qatari envoy to the Gaza Strip Mohammed al-Emadi revealed new details on Sunday about a plan to lay a natural gas pipeline in Gaza. In an interview with the Gaza-based Sawa news agency, al-Emadi said that Qatar’s Gaza Reconstruction Committee recently held several “productive” meetings to advance the matter with representatives of the Chevron Corporation, as well as with officials from the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia. The committee also held meetings with diplomats from France, the Netherlands and the Palestinian Authority. The Qatari envoy said that there already exist two contracts regarding the pipeline—one between the P.A. and a gas company for the purchase of natural gas, and a second for the installation of the pipelines.
Feb. 15, 2021
Houthis step up attacks after removal from ‘terror’ list
On February 5, the Houthi leadership in the mountains of Yemen read welcome news from Washington that they would soon be removed from a list of foreign terrorist organizations. They had just been put on the list by the Trump administration. Because of their designation as “terrorists,” it made it difficult to deliver humanitarian aid through areas they control, so the US wanted to make them not terrorists. For the Houthi leadership and their Iranian backers, this meant a new round of attacks and that a military offensive would be planned. The 10 days since the announced removal have seen almost daily Houthi drone attacks on Saudi Arabia and increased fighting in Yemen. It comes as the US has also said although it supports Riyadh’s right to self-defense, it will no longer back an offensive war in Yemen. It appears that the Houthis have been unleashing a major drone offensive ever since the US indicated it will delist the group, according to reports from Saudi Arabia and the region. On February 7, reports indicated that Riyadh intercepted four Houthi drones. On February 8, US Central Command said it would continue to support Riyadh defending itself. On February 9, more drones were intercepted by Saudi Arabia. On February 10, the Houthis said they targeted Abha Airport in southern Saudi Arabia, near Yemen. On February 11, another interception of a Houthi attack was reported. On February 12, in the wake of the US finally taking them off the list, more reports of attacks on Abha and King Khalid Air Base in Saudi Arabia were reported. “The attack by an explosive-laden drone was the fourth such incident involving the Iran-backed Houthis in southern Saudi Arabia in as many days,” a local media outlet reported.
Feb. 15, 2021
Syria claims Israel attacked near Damascus
Mysterious Weapon Knocked Out Syrian Army Battle Tank In Southern Idlib
On February 12, a mysterious weapon knocked out a battle tank of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the southern Idlib countryside. The battle tank blew up in the early morning hours after being hit with an unknown object. The battle tank was situated south of the government-held town of Ma`arat al-Nu`man, way behind the frontline. The strike represents a serious escalation by Turkey and a violation of the agreement signed with Russian on March 5, 2020. Ankara forces engaged in a fierce confrontation with the SAA and its allies last year to stop them from neutralizing the remaining terrorist groups in Greater Idlib. Meanwhile, Syrian air defense intercepted “Israeli aggression” over Damascus on Sunday night, Syrian state television reported. The Syrian Ministry of Defense said that shortly after 1:00 a.m., Israel launched missiles from the Golan Heights and the Galilee at several targets in the area of the Syrian capital. According to the ministry, most of the missiles were intercepted. The alleged Israeli attack came hours after an anti-aircraft missile was fired at an Israel Air Force unmanned aerial vehicle.
Feb. 15, 2021
Turkey insists on ‘two-state solution’ in Cyprus
Turkey insists that α “two-state solution” is now the only way to solve the Cyprus problem, even if it contradicts UN resolutions for a federation model with political equality between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. The Mediterranean island has remained divided since 1974, when Turkish troops took advantage of a coup orchestrated by the military government of Athens against then-Cyprus President Archbishop Makarios and invaded the island. Turkey has occupied almost 40 percent of Cyprus territory since then, while Turkish Cypriots have declared the independence of the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus,” a state recognized only by Turkey. Turkey wants to keep Cyprus as a “geopolitical hostage” as this serves President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s plans to revive the Ottoman empire and exert maritime dominance in the Eastern Mediterranean. Its position has hardened since the beginning of 2020, following the leadership election in the Turkish Cypriot community of Ersin Tatar, who is seen as entirely dependent on Erdogan. The UN secretary-general is expected to convene.
Feb. 15, 2021
Iran test fires sophisticated short-range missile
Iran accused of plot to attack UAE embassy in Ethiopia
Iran will scale back its nuclear commitments if 2015 obligations not revived
Iran’s army test fired a sophisticated short-range missile on Sunday, The Associated Press reported, citing the Iranian official IRNA news agency. Sunday’s report comes days after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard began a ground forces drill near the Iraqi border. In a similar drill this past July, the Revolutionary Guard launched missiles targeting a mock aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, Iran was behind a recent plot to attack the UAE embassy in Ethiopia, US and Israeli officials have revealed. Iranian intelligence services activated a sleeper cell in Addis Ababa late last year to also gather intelligence on the US and Israel embassies, the officials told the New York Times. The operation was part of a wider move to by Iran to seek out softer targets in Africa for revenge attacks after the killings of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani by the US and Iran’s main nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, reportedly by Israel. Ethiopia said earlier this month it had arrested 15 people and seized weapons and explosives as part of the plot against the UAE embassy.
Feb. 15, 2021
Clashes, blasts intensify across Afghanistan
Dozens hurt as massive blaze erupts on Afghanistan-Iran border
At least four Afghan security force members, including a commander, were killed and seven were critically injured in blasts in eastern and southern provinces on Saturday, officials said, adding that three civilians were injured in the east. No militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the three attacks, which come amid an upsurge in violence in Afghanistan as clashes intensify between government forces and Taliban insurgents. A string of near-daily roadside bombings in recent weeks has killed government officials, judges, journalists and activists. On Saturday, a police spokesman in southern Kandahar province said a blast there was caused by a Humvee packed with explosives that targeted a police outpost, injuring seven police personnel. Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry said “18 Taliban terrorists were killed and 9 others were wounded” in an operation in Arghandab district of Kandahar province on Friday night. An explosion targeted the police commander in the Chapa Dara district of eastern Kunar province, killing four local police personnel, including the commander, said a provincial police spokesman. A roadside bomb blast injured three civilians in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province. The bloodshed comes as US-brokered peace talks in Qatar between the Taliban and representatives of the Afghan government have staggered in recent months.
Feb. 13, 2021
Sudan warns Ethiopia against provoking a war that threatens regional stability
Sudan strongly condemned on Sunday “Ethiopian aggression” on its territories and the direct violation of its sovereignty and the safety of the Sudanese lands, state news agency SUNA reported. The Sudanese Foreign Ministry issued a statement describing the aggression on Sudanese territories as “an unacceptable and regretful escalation.” Tensions in the border region has flared since the start of the conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in early November and the arrival of more than 50,000 mainly Tigrayan refugees in eastern Sudan. Disputes have been concentrated on agricultural land in Al-Fashqa, which falls within Sudan’s international boundaries but has long been settled by Ethiopian farmers. There have been armed clashes between Sudanese and Ethiopian forces in recent months, with both sides accusing the other of instigating the violence. The two countries held talks in January in Khartoum over the issue.
Feb. 15, 2021
Violent BLM protest in NYC leaves two NYPD cops injured, 11 arrested
Antifa blocks Seattle police from responding to emergencies with snow barrier
A Black Lives Matter march through Midtown Manhattan turned violent Friday night, with 11 protesters arrested. The NYPD reported that two officers suffered minor injuries during the protest, which was attended by about 100 marchers; officials could not immediately say how the cops were hurt. At least some of those arrested were accused of attacking Daily News photographer Sam Costanza at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and 54th Street in the mistaken belief that he was a cop, sources said. The photog was surrounded and struck after one of the marchers recognized him from a BLM protest outside the NYPD’s 6th Precinct house in Greenwich Village last year, according to sources. The NYPD confirmed the attack, telling The Post “a member of the media” was assaulted, and police made “a number of arrests.”
Feb. 14, 2021
Myanmar security forces intensify crackdown on protesters
Security forces in Myanmar pointed guns toward anti-coup protesters and attacked them with sticks on Monday, seeking to quell the large-scale demonstrations calling for the military junta that seized power earlier this month to reinstate the elected government. More than 1,000 protesters rallied in front of the Myanmar Economic Bank in Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, when at least 10 trucks full of soldiers and police arrived and immediately started firing slingshots toward the protesters, according to a photographer who witnessed the events. The soldiers and police then attacked the protesters with sticks, and police could be seen aiming long guns into the air amid sounds that resembled gunfire. Local media reported that rubber bullets were also fired into the crowd, and that a few people were injured. Police were also seen pointing guns toward the protesters. In the capital, Naypyitaw, protesters gathered outside a police station demanding the release of a group of high school students who were detained while joining in anti-coup activities. Protesters continued to gather across Myanmar on Monday, following a night in which authorities cut the country’s internet access and increased the security presence in major cities seeking to curtail demonstrations. On Sunday, ambassadors from the United States and Canada and 12 European nations called on Myanmar’s security forces to refrain from violence against those “protesting the overthrow of their legitimate government.”
Feb. 15, 2021
“Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” (James 5:1-3)
“They will throw their silver into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of the Lord; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.” (Ezekiel 7:19)
U.K. hit with biggest economic decline in more than 300 years
The United Kingdom is facing its worst recession since The Great Frost of 1709 — back when the American colonies were still British, and Benjamin Franklin was just 3 years old. While the U.S. economy shrank by 3.5% last year, the U.K. economy contracted by nearly 10%, and economists believe it will take longer to recover. In a wealthy part of Central London, near where fashionable boutiques and houses that sell for tens of millions of dollars are located, people receive groceries and meals at a food bank. Many of them said they used to be considered middle class. Dr. Miatta Fahnbulleh, an economist, told CBS News the British government’s slow response to the pandemic, along with Brexit, created a perfect storm of economic pain. “There are families that literally cannot feed their children. I think as we see more images of this, there will be a sense that you know our government are letting people down, and it is unacceptable,” Fahnbulleh said. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund — UNICEF — helped feed British children for the first time in 2020.
Feb. 13, 2021
U.S. Home Prices Pass 2005’s Peak Level
A Market Crash And High Inflation?
Experts Are Warning That A U.S. Stock Market Crash Is Very Likely In The Months Ahead
U.S. housing prices have finally eclipsed their peak from 2005 in the years leading up to the Great Recession. Note that at the beginning of 2021, we said real estate was entering the year in a “massive bubble”. A combination of low interest rates and trillions in freshly printed dollars has led to the the median price of a single family home rising 14.9% to $315,000 in Q4. It was “the biggest surge in data going back to 1990, according to the National Association of Realtors,” according to Bloomberg. The move was most pronounced in the Northeast, which saw a 21% gain as a result of buyers leaving cities and flocking to the suburbs. Fairfield County, Connecticut led the way, rising 39%. We have written extensively, not just about families moving to the suburbs, but also corporations. Over the past year, we’ve presented a ton of evidence (see: here & here & here) of city dwellers fleeing for the exits, some of which was due to the virus pandemic unleashing a technological wave of remote working, allowing these folks to work anywhere with an internet connection. In addition to new work-from-home rules, low borrowing costs have also helped people along in their decision to relocate. The rise in prices can be a bad omen for those looking to buy. The obvious decision is for people to leave expensive areas like New York and San Francisco in favor of more affordable areas. Surging home prices, as we pointed out in January, mean that young Americans can’t afford to buy, and a record 34% of them now live with their parents.
Feb. 15, 2021
Governments will eventually defeat cryptocurrencies
ECB official floats idea for limits on digital euro holdings to discourage hoarding
Clear crypto rules urgently needed as major companies embrace asset: SEC official
The Indian government plans to introduce a new piece of legislation that will outlaw Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. India also plans to introduce its own digital currency, thus making crypto uncool. In fact, it would not be a cryptocurrency if a government issues it. It is not only India, governments across the world have started banning them. Since 2009, when Bitcoin was created, some of the brightest tech Bohemians have sold the world a lemon. That a new kind of global currency will end the monopoly of governments and central banks over money. This new currency will not exist in physical form, it will be created from nothing by a vast network of computers as they perform a vast number of computations to randomly create it. The currency will have no intrinsic value beyond the perception that it has value, and its own predetermined scarcity. The lure of a cryptocurrency is that it can make transactions between two individuals secure and possible without inefficient intermediaries like banks and rule-makers like governments. It offers complete anonymity and freedom—two things that governments, including democratic ones, dislike. In fact, governments dislike even their own currency notes, as it provides anonymity and too much freedom. So, why did some people think governments would allow cryptocurrencies to thrive, or even survive? Why would governments permit a system that could end its own relevance ?
Feb. 15, 2021
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to be tested on children
Seven unique variants of coronavirus found across United States
Britain’s University of Oxford said on Saturday it will test the impact of the COVID-19 vaccine it developed with AstraZeneca on children, NBC News reported. The trial will assess the “safety and immune responses” in children and young adults aged between 6 and 17 of the vaccine, the university said in a statement. The trial, which will enroll 300 volunteers, will take place in three English cities, London, Southampton and Bristol, the statement added. The inoculations are expected later in February, it said. “While most children are relatively unaffected by coronavirus and are unlikely to become unwell with the infection, it is important to establish the safety and immune response to the vaccine in children and young people as some children may benefit from vaccination,” said Professor Andrew Pollard, chief investigator on the Oxford vaccine trial. The two-dose Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is cheaper and easier to distribute than some rivals. In recent weeks, there have been concerns about the vaccine’s effectiveness to global mutations, in particular a variant detected in South Africa. A small clinical trial recently suggested that the Oxford-AstraZeneca isn’t effective in preventing mild to moderate illness from the South African variant. South Africa later suspended the rollout of the vaccine in the country. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) this week recommended the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for people over the age of 65 “even if variants are present”.
Feb. 14, 2021
New Ebola Deaths In West Africa Declared “Epidemic Situation”
The West African country of Guinea has confirmed its first Ebola deaths since 2016 as the World Health Organization (WHO) is ramping up to combat the new declared outbreak there. At least three people have died from the deadly disease with another half-dozen people testing positive. On Sunday Guinea’s National Health Security Agency called the new outbreak an “epidemic situation”. Health officials are now scrambling to trace the new outbreak’s origins, while isolating individuals that had contact with the infected. So far they’ve narrowed a possible outbreak center to a funeral that was attended by many. As Reuters describes, “The seven patients fell ill with diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding after attending a burial in Goueke sub-prefecture. Those still alive have been isolated in treatment centers, the health ministry said.” Ebola can kill rapidly and painfully, and is believed spread through bodily fluids. There’s growing alarm and panic given the last outbreak in West Africa was so deadly: The 2013-2016 outbreak of Ebola in West Africa started in Nzerekore, whose proximity to busy borders hampered efforts to contain the virus. It went on to kill at least 11,300 people with the vast majority of cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Sporadic cases have appeared in central Africa in recent years, but currently the health systems of Guinea and other regional countries is already under severe strain given the coronavirus pandemic. Guinea has nearly 15,000 COVID-19 cases out of a country of about 12 million, including 84 deaths.
Feb. 15, 2021
February 4, 2021 – Over 800 dead turtles wash up since January on beaches in Odisha, India. Link
February 4, 2021 – Hundreds of dead birds found in Ahmedabad, India. Link
February 6, 2021 – Millions of dead fish wash up on beach in Biobio Chile. Link
February 6, 2021 – Hundreds of dead starfish wash up in Edinburgh, Scotland. Link
February 7, 2021 – 1.1 million poultry killed due to avian flu in Chiba and Miyazaki, Japan. Link
February 8, 2021 – 100,000 chickens killed due to avian flu in Vietnam. Link
February 9, 2021 – 55,000 hens killed due to avian flu in Bulgaria. Link
February 9, 2021 – Mass die off of tree martin birds ‘due to cold’ in Western Australia. Link
February 9, 2021 – Millions of oysters die off ‘a mystery’ off coast of Louisiana, America. Link
February 9, 2021 – Over 200,000 birds killed due to avian flu in Maharashtra, India. Link
February 9, 2021 – 50,000 birds killed due to avian flu in Algeria. Link
February 9, 2021 – Thousands of fish die suddenly in a lake in Ponorogo, Indonesia. Link
February 10, 2021 – Thousands of dead fish found in the Prai River in Malaysia. Link
February 10, 2021 – 3,000 pigs killed due to swine flu in Hong Kong. Link
February 11, 2021 – Dozens of starlings fall dead from sky in Nahariya, Israel. Link
If you think the weather’s been the driest you’ve seen in your life, you’re right
The western United States is in the grip of a once-in-a-lifetime drought that is threatening millions of acres of farmland and rangeland, drying up streams and creeks and forcing people to think about alternative landscaping choices that don’t suck up so much water. The drought information system, which operates under the umbrella of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, updated its website at drought.gov, that provides residents with down to the city information across the country regarding drought and weather trends. The drought monitor maps the entire country for dryness with assessments updated weekly. In fact, the summer of 2020 was the driest ever logged in Utah and Nevada since record keeping began 126 years ago, said Laura Haskell, an engineer with the Utah Division of Water Resource’s planning section. Conditions are dry now — snowpack is in the 60% of normal range across the state — and much of the runoff will be absorbed by the thirsty ground before it ever has a chance to make it into creeks, streams and rivers that feed reservoirs.
Feb. 13, 2021
Asteroid 2021 CW7 to flyby Earth at 0.07 LD
Asteroid 2021 CA6 to flyby Earth at 0.43 LD on February 13
A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2021 CW7 will fly by Earth at a distance of 0.07 LD / 0.00019 AU (28 420 km / 17 660 miles) at 16:14 UTC on February 14, 2021. This object was first observed at GINOP-KHK, Piszkesteto, Hungary on February 13, one day before close approach. It belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids and has an estimated diameter between 1.7 and 3.8 m (5.6 – 12.5 feet). This is the second <1 LD asteroid flyby of the day, after 2021 CS6 at 12:09 UTC. This is the 19th known asteroid to flyby Earth within 1 lunar distance since the start of the year and the 10th so far this month.
Feb.14, 2021
150M people under winter advisories as ‘unprecedented’ storm stretches across 25 states
More than 1.4 million homes without power as unprecedented winter storm hits Texas
Powerful blizzard causes whiteout conditions in Northern Ireland
Major, record-breaking snow blankets Moscow, Russia
An “unprecedented” winter storm continued its assault on the nation Monday, leaving millions without power in Texas and wreaking travel havoc across a wide swath of the central and southern U.S. due to the heavy snow and ice. As of Monday morning, more than 150 million people were under a winter storm warning or winter weather advisory in 25 states, stretching over 2,000 miles from southern Texas to northern Maine, the National Weather Service said. Bitter, record-smashing cold accompanied the storm across the central U.S. Hundreds of daily record low temperatures have been or will be broken during this prolonged “polar plunge,” the weather service said, “with some February and even all-time low temperature records in jeopardy.” More than 50 million people could see temperatures dip below zero during the next several days.
Feb. 15, 2021
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