***** BULLETIN ***** "Russia will not tolerate any more civilian casualties in Gaza" Israel INCREASES attacks!

***URGENT*** The Russian Foreign Ministry has just announced "Russia will not tolerate any more civilian casualties in Gaza."

Now you know why stock markets are plummeting and gold is rising today (Story HERE) 

This is a direct and blunt warning to the state of Israel that they must stop the bombing of civilians in the Gaza Strip.   It is a warning coming from the second most powerful country on earth.

Much more as information becomes available.   Updates to appear below . . .

UPDATE 12:51 PM EDT -- Netanyahu: "Israel is not ruling out a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip."

UPDATE 12:56 PM EDT -- Palestinian President: Israeli attacks in Gaza are war crimes. No elections without Jerusalem, "whatever the price."

For those of you who may not be keeping score on these troubles, today's announcement by Russia's Foreign Ministry means that as of today, 19 May 2021, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and now, of course, Russia, which are the big players . . . have all come out publicly against Israel. All of the other Muslim countries to a lesser extent. The stage is just about set. for World War 3.

Putin told Netanyahu Russia could declare war on Israel amid Palestine situation!

PUTIN told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu their two countries could find themselves in a state of war as tensions with Palestine built up to today's crisis in Gaza.

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Keep a close eye out for this... Palestine is about to make a formal call to Turkey and Pakistan to send peacekeeping force into Palestine, at the United Nations

 

UPDATE 1:04 PM EDT-

Religious figures are now openly saying "Russia and Turkey both are telling Israel to stop; Iran is funding the weapons: EZEKIEL 38,39 we are there Russia Turkey Iran...

and . . .

Pak MNA Asma Qadeer: “The only option we have now is to declare JIHAD against Israel. No more negotiations. Enlist me for jihad.

This is an actual call for Muslim Jihad coming publicly from a Minister in the Government of Pakistan.   

(HT REMARK: This situation between Israel and the Gaza Strip has now, I think, officially spun out of control. Mark the date so history (if any of us survive) will remember.)

 

Update 1:09 PM EDT -- BREAKING: Rocket launches seen from southern Lebanon towards northern Israel

Sky News Arabia reporting that the rockets towards Israel seem to have been launched from Seddiqine in southern Lebanon, southeast of Tyre.

 

UPDATE 1:13 PM EDT -- IDF responding with artillery fire in Southern Lebanon

Israeli Air Force warplanes spotted over South Lebanon  right now.

Hezbollah Al-Nour radio: media sources say IDF targeting vicinity of town of Alma, area of Al-Wardani in vicinity of town of Qana in south Lebanon, in response to rocket fire from Lebanon into Israel

 

UPDATE 1:15 PM EDT -- White House reveals Biden spoke with Israel PM Netanyahu this morning and told him that he expected a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire.   

(HT REMARK: Clearly, Biden has no gravitas; nobody pays any attention to him because they all know he's an illegitimate President who grabbed the job via stealing an election.  They further know he's a dementia-addled man (no fault of his own) and he'll probably forget whatever they spoke about in a few minutes anyway, so they don't have to do as he asks! Netanyahu explicitly ignored the (illegitimate) President of the United States and upped the attacks the same day!  Hey Biden voters, LOOK at what you've caused. )

 

MORE on the Missiles shot from Lebanon:

This is the third attack from Lebanon, but it differs from previous ones in that the rockets used today appear to have a higher range (at least according to the initial details regarding the location of the rocket launch).

Previous attacks were short range, this one came from deeper inside Lebanon. That plus the mere fact that multiple attacks were carried out, means Hezbollah is likely at least turning a blind eye - more likely pushing for these attacks whilst maintaining plausible deniability

 

UPDATE 1:22 PM EDT -- Secretary of Defense Austin spoke on the phone again with his Israeli counterpart Benny Gantz about the need for a cease fire in Gaza, Israeli officials say

 

UPDATE 1:35 PM EDT -- Yediot Aharonot: The Israeli government has ordered to open and equip Bomb shelters from Haifa to the far north of occupied Palestine immediately

ISRAELI WARPLANES BOMBED A HOUSE FOR SALHA FAMILY IN DEIR ALBALH, IN THE MIDDLE OF GAZA STRIP, THE AIR RAID KILLED THE PREGNANT MOTHER, FATHER AND 2 KIDS

 

UPDATE 1:41 PM EDT -- Netanyahu rejects Biden's request for a ceasefire, says there is no time limit for the Israeli operation

MORE:

Riots break out at Jerusalem's holy sites: Israeli troops fire tear gas at Palestinians at the walls of the old city as two IDF soldiers are shot at protest on the West bank on 8th day of Gaza conflict

 

Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza says 227 killed, including 64 minors, and over 1620 wounded since fighting began last week.

 

INTEL ASSESSMENT ON LEBANON ROCKET LAUNCHES EARLIER:

Total of four rockets fired, two land at sea, another hits open area near Arab town. This was an extreme effort to fire without hurting anyone, upsetting anyone too much, or starting a war.

Mini-attack from Lebanon was likely a warning, coordinated with Hamas, which desperately seeks a ceasefire. The message: Stop the war in Gaza or face a conflict on 2 fronts.

 

WHOA!  Defense Minister Gantz ordered to accelerate the IDF's operational actions against terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip.

 

UPDATE 1:56 PM EDT --  Izz Adin al-Qassam Brigades: "Today the z enemy will feel Tel Aviv burning. Tel Aviv will burN at 21 h  (HT Remark: Israel is seven hours ahead of US east coast.  2100 in Israel equates to 2:00 PM eastern US time .  .  . four minutes form now!)

 

UPDATE 2:02 PM EDT--  AOC and other progressives mull a resolution to block the $735 million arms sale to Israel.


https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/bulletin-russia-will-not-tolerate-any-more-civilian-casualties-in-gaza

Japan will dump this Fukushima radioactive water into the ocean -
Strange Sounds
3 minutes

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says that the government has put off figuring out what to do with all of the contaminated water building up at the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for long enough — and it’s time to start dumping it into the ocean.

Suga’s hand is forced given that the plant will soon run out of space to store the contaminated groundwater seeping into the facility and he’s framing the controversial plan to release the water into the Pacific Ocean as “unavoidable.”

Japanese officials have been debating how to best contain the radioactive water at the Fukushima plant for years, but the plan that seems to have stuck is to purify the water as best as possible, dilute the radioactive tritium that persists even after the cleaning process, and to dump it over the course of 30 years.

“What to do with the [treated] water is a task that the government can no longer put off without setting a policy,” Japanese trade minister Hiroshi Kajiyama told reporters on Wednesday.

But outside of government halls, the plan is still considerably unpopular, especially among fishers who are concerned no one will want to buy fish caught in radioactive waters. Reasonably so, too, since 15 countries and regions still restrict imports from the Fukushima prefecture.

Suga is expected to make a formal decision on the release by next Tuesday. If the government proceeds, the plan will be to dilute tritium down to just 2.5 percent of the maximum concentration allowed by national standards before dumping it out.

That means, Japanese officials say, the water won’t be dangerous to people — though only time will tell how much people trust it.[The Japan Times, Futurism]

https://strangesounds.org/2021/04/japan-dumps-fukushima-radioactive-water-into-ocean.html

Russia just invaded Ukraine and this iconic Rabbi predicted it will bring the Messiah
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
5-7 minutes

Escalating tensions between Ukraine and Russia are dragging other countries into the mix, threatening to explode into a multi-national shooting war. The situation closely matches a 400-year-old prophecy about the conditions before Messiah and one rabbi explains why current events are particularly ripe for Gog and Magog.
Russia and Ukraine Heating Up

Unbeknownst to most people in the west, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed Decree No. 117/2021 on March 24, essentially declaring war with Russia. The new Ukrainian decree calls for the “de-occupation and reintegration of the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.”

The conflict between the two countries has been brewing since the Ukrainian revolution in 2014 which led to Russia annexing Crimea. This led to armed conflict between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions.Since the decree was issued, a bilateral military buildup has been underway.

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This escalation has expanded to increase the western nations on the side of Ukraine with  Kiev officially opening its airspace for NATO surveillance planes and other activities hostile to the Russian Federation. Last Monday, NATO fighter jets scrambled 10 times on to shadow Russian bombers and fighters during an unusual peak of flights over the North Atlantic, North Sea, Black Sea, and Baltic Sea. In all, NATO aircraft intercepted six different groups of Russian military aircraft near Alliance airspace in less than six hours.

NATO voiced concern last week over what it said was a large Russian military build-up near eastern Ukraine. President Biden made his first phone call to the Ukrainian president last week and pledged to stand by Ukraine in the event of any Russian “aggression” while the US European Command raised its alert status to the highest level.

Russia responded by warning NATO against deploying troops to Ukraine, saying such a move would escalate tensions nears its borders. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia would be forced to respond if NATO troops were deployed to Ukraine.

The Pentagon said earlier this week that US forces in Europe had raised their alert status following the “recent escalations of Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine”.
Vilna Gaon: “When Russians Capture Crimea, Messiah On His Way”

This conflict mirrors an end of days prediction made in the 18th Century. The prophecy was originally made by Rabbi Elijah of Vilna (also known as the Vilna Gaon), a Jewish scholar from the 18th century who is well known for his contributions in understanding the Messianic process. The prophecy was handed down from father to son and was revealed just a few years ago by  Rabbi Shturnbuch, the great-grandson of the Vilna Gaon.

The announcement of the Messianic revelation, originally publicized by Rabbi Lazer Brody, stated, “When you hear that the Russians have captured the city of Crimea, you should know that the times of the Messiah have started, that his steps are being heard. And when you hear that the Russians have reached the city of Constantinople [today’s Istanbul], you should put on your Shabbat clothes and don’t take them off, because it means that the Messiah is about to come any minute.”

Rabbi Pinchas Winston, a prolific end of days author, noted that conditions are indeed ripe for the pre-Messiah War of Gog and Magog.

“It is known that the Gog and Magog will come from the north,” Rabbi Winston said. “The Hebrew word for ‘north’ (צפון:tsafon) also implies ‘hidden’.”

    Therefore prophesy, O mortal, and say to Gog: Thus said Hashem: Surely, on that day, when My people Yisrael are living secure, you will take note, and you will come from your home in the farthest north, you and many peoples with you—all of them mounted on horses, a vast horde, a mighty army. Ezekiel 38: 14-15

Rabbi Winston noted that a war between Turkey and Russia was predicted to be the precursor to the pre-Messiah War of Gog and Magog.

“The two nations have faced off before,” Rabbi Winston explained. “Each time is like the building of a tower of explosives. It may seem like small events set off major conflicts but in every case, the conditions were all in place, waiting for a spark to set them off.”

Rabbi Winston noted that one pre-condition seemed to be especially incendiary.

“Major multinational wars, like both World Wars, tend to come directly after a period of excessive liberalism,” Rabbi Winston said. He made the disclaimer that “a little liberalism is a good, even necessary thing.”

“The world can only run properly when people, especially leaders, acknowledge that God runs the world,” Rabbi Winston said. “People and governments need to take responsibility for their own actions in a global framework. When people become socially irresponsible, as liberalism has certainly become, a conflict becomes unavoidable.”

Rabbi Winston gave a Biblical precedent.

“Eve was the first liberal,” Rabbi Winston said. “She threw off the yoke of heaven. She did what she thought was best for herself, opening the door to the snake. The snake is like the Putins and Hitlers of the world who think only of themselves and how they can benefit at the expense of others.”

https://www.israel365news.com/189073/russia-just-invaded-ukraine-this-iconic-rabbi-predicted-it-will-bring-the-messiah/

Biden Starting SECOND War Front - First Syria, now Ukraine: NATO Mortars being fired at CIVILIANS in Ukraine; Troops and armor moving by train toward Russia Border
News Desk
12-15 minutes

Biden Starting SECOND War Front - First Syria, now Ukraine: NATO Mortars being fired at CIVILIANS in Ukraine; Troops and armor moving by train toward Russia Border

Just one day after (illegitimate) U.S. President Joe Biden resumed air strikes against Syria, we are receiving information that war trouble is brewing again in eastern Ukraine.

NATO MORTARS are being fired against civilians in Luhansk, Ukraine only this time, Russia is moving marked Russian military radar into the area.  No more unmarked "little green men" now it's open Russian army.  Direct war with Russia looms - again, thanks to the Biden corrupt presidency.

First, a little background.  Ukraine used to be part of the Soviet Union.  Back in the 1950's then Soviet Chairman Kruschev "gave" the land area peninsula called "Crimea" to Ukraine.  For at least 300 years prior to that moment, it was, throughout ALL of recorded history, known as "Russian Crimea."

The people who live there, speak Russian.  Their family histories are Russian. In 1950-something, Kruschev "gave it" away to Ukraine.

NATO EXPANSIONISM

Back in 2012 Europe was trying to convince Ukraine to leave Russia's "sphere of influence" and join the west.  Europe and the United States had been chipping away at Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, after the USA promised Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev that "NATO would not move one inch east" back in 1991-92 after the Soviet Union collapsed.

First, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania went with Europe/USA and joined with NATO.  Then Poland went.

The Russians watched, helplessly for years, as these countries allowed NATO to build bases and airfields . . . all closer and closer to Russia.  The joke became "Russia wants war, look how close they put their COUNTRY to our bases"

With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia found itself with massive problems at home, and they needed time to fix those problems at home.  Russia simply didn't have the resources, the military might, or the money, to try to stop NATO from encroaching closer and closer.

Fast-forward to about 2010, getting Ukraine to voluntarily align with Europe offered big military advantages to the west.  It would be the final country to come into NATO, and allow NATO first-strike weapons to be placed there.   Such weapons could nuke Moscow in less than five minutes.  More importantly, they could reach Russia's nuclear arsenal within about 8 minutes.  That would make a decapitation strike by NATO, an actual possibility.  NATO could shoot and destroy Russian nuclear deterrents faster than Russia could react to protect itself.  In one fell swoop, Russia could be conquered.

As Europe enticed Ukraine to join with the west, Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich proved to be troublesome.  He was favorable to Russia.   He grew up with Russia as an ally and protector.  He was not convinced that moving away from Russia's sphere of influence would be a good thing for Ukraine.  After years of negotiations, Yanukovich DECLINED Europe's offers and chose to remain aligned with Russia.

Well, that just wouldn't do.

The US and Europe had spent vast sums of money in Ukraine to woo the country.  They weren't going to just walk away.

So Europe and America did, what Europe and America always do: They began funding an insurgency inside Ukraine.  Creating civil unrest.  Protests, then riots.  Later, escalations to armed attacks within Ukraine, all to destabilize President Yanukovich and his government.

At its apex, the protests and riots turned very ugly.  Numerous people were shot, blamed on government forces, but in reality, by European/American Snipers who shot people on both sides to cause an eruption of violence! 

When horrific violence finally erupted, Yanukovich fled the country to Russia.  Europe and America backed a replacement government and Ukraine ostensibly came into the European/American Sphere of Influence.

For Russia, this was just too blatant; too overt, and too close to home.   It could not be tolerated by Russia. 

RUSSIA UPS-THE-ANTE

So Russia started fomenting trouble for the American/Europe-installed government of Ukraine.   Russia began in the Crimea which had an almost 100% Russian-speaking population.

Crimeans, seeing what Europe and the US did to the government in Kiev, decided they wanted to return their land home to Russia.  They began a movement to secede from Ukraine and return to Russia.   Kiev wouldn't allow it and sent troops to quell the movement.   

Fighting erupted between the people of Crimea and Ukraine forces loyal to the US/Europe Puppet government in Kiev.

Then, quite suddenly, "Little Green Men" began appearing in Crimea.   Troops in military uniforms . . . with no flags or patches identifying whose army they were!

Those "Little Green men" began fighting against the Ukraine Army.  While that was taking place, Russia exercised a Treaty option for their naval base on Crimea.  That option allowed Russia to station "a maximum of 25,000 Russian military personnel" at the base.

Quite rapidly, the base was filled and then, they all moved at once.  Ukraine soldiers were immediately overwhelmed and surrendered.

At that moment, Crimea was effectively back under Russia control.  But the world, led by Europe and the US, called it an invasion.  They screamed that Russia had to give Crimea back to Ukraine.  Russia said they would hold a Referendum and ask the people of Crimea to vote.  The US and Europe did not accept this. (Article continues below the ad)

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The vote took place.  The people of Crimea voted overwhelmingly to re-join Russia.  The Russian Duma (i.e. Congress) accepted the election results and passed legislation accepting Crimea back into Russia.

The world, again, led by Europe and the US, called this an illegal annexation.  Sanctions were imposed on Russia.  They failed.

Ukraine began moving troops on land, and naval vessels by sea, toward Crimea.  With that, people in two eastern provinces of Ukraine, Luhansk and Donetsk, started demanding a referendum so they, too, could rejoin Russia.

Faced with two more large areas trying to leave, Ukraine had to choose whether to try recovering Crimea by force, or stopping the departure of Luhansk and Donetsk.  Ukraine chose to try keeping the two new provinces that were trying to leave.

Those two provinces then held their own vote and the outcome was LEAVE.  They declared themselves the Donetsk People's Republic ("DPR") and that's when Ukraine's army was ordered to attack.

Shortly thereafter, more "Little Green Men" began appearing, backing the forces of Luhansk and Donetsk.  The Ukrainians sought help from NATO.  They were turned down.

Fighting took place throughout Luhansk and Donetsk for years, but always ended in a stalemate for Ukraine.

Then Donald Trump became US President, and all the troubles in Ukraine . . . stopped.

It's been relatively quiet for the past four years.

Two short months ago, Joe Biden slithered his way into the US Presidency and this week, the quiet in Ukraine has been shattered.

NATO MORTARS FIRED AGAINST CIVILIANS

The Ukrainian Armed Forces used 60-mm munitions and shelled Elenovka [a settlement in the DPR].   This woman, who lives in the DPR, found this exploded Mortar in her garden:

These mortars comply with NATO standards and are in service with the alliance countries. This is reported by the Joint Control and Coordination Commission of the DPR.

It is important to note that by shelling Elenovka, the government in Kiev hinders the work of the humanitarian missions of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations (UN).

The ICRC and the UN deliver humanitarian aid to the DPR and LPR just through the Elenovka checkpoint.

As was stated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPR, Kiev warned representatives of the ICRC and the UN a few days ago that they would not be able to deliver their goods through Elenovka, due to the tense situation in the area.

At the same time, there were several years without attacks in the area of Elenovka until yesterday evening. Local residents conclude that the Ukrainian leadership is deliberately going to aggravate the situation in Donetsk People's Republic.

Biden got into the US Presidency, and suddenly a war that was building in eastern Ukraine under Obama, but had stopped under Trump, is now starting again.

And the planning is already being carried out to escalate this into actual, hot, warfare, complete with Armor, artillery, and massive numbers of troops.   Military trains are already traveling through Ukraine, toward the Russian Border areas of Luhansk and Donetsk (DPR).  Here's video from yesterday:

NO MORE "LITTLE GREEN MEN"

This is a gigantic signal from Russia that things are not going to go the way they went previously.  For the first time in  Donbass, the Russian #51U6 Kasta-2E1 radar station was officially captured on camera, in the open, on actual DPR territory, which they tried to disguise in a hurry by draping a Ukraine flag. 

 If you zoom-out using the MINUS sign on the map, you will see precisely where this radar is set up; well inside Ukraine, in the Luhansk/Donetsk border area, a very considerable distance from the vast Russia border.   

Map:

The Kasta 2E (NATO: Flat Face E, alternative name Casta 2E) is a modern Russian radar system.

The development of the Kasta 2E surveillance radars was initiated in the former Soviet Union. Its primary objective is to overcome deficiencies or to satisfy the demand in low-level surveillance.

The Kasta 2E1 system uses two antennas and consists of two vehicles:

    one truck carries the antenna and its peripheral equipment
    another truck operates as command post vehicle and on a trailer unit, the external power supply is installed

The Kasta 2E2 system uses one antenna and consists of three vehicles:

    one truck carries the antenna and its peripheral equipment
    another truck operates as command post vehicle
    a diesel-electric power plant is mounted another truck and two single-axle trailers carry auxiliary equipment

Both radar types can be triggered with either equal or opposed phases. The both antenna types can optionally be mounted on a standard 50 m pylon. This arrangement causes a displacement of the radar horizon which in turn increases the detection altitude up to 6 km at a distance of 150 km.
     Kasta 2E1    Kasta 2E2
Target detection (height 100 m)
with Antenna 5.4 / 14 m    32 km    41 km
Target detection (height 100 m)
with Antenna 50 m    58 km    55 km
Accuracy distance    540 m    100 m
Azimuth    100'    40'
Height    n.a.    900 m
Velocity    n.a.    2 m/s
Data processing cap.    n.a.    200 Plots
Target tracking    n.a.    50 Tracks
Max. Range of radio connection    n.a.    50 km
Moving target indication (MTI)    53 DB    54 DB
Mean time between failure (MTBF)    300 h    700 h
Setup time    20 min    20 min
Power up    3.3 min    3.3 min
Teardown    20 min    20 min
Power consumption    16 kW    23 kW
Operating crew    2    2
Transport units    2    3
References

    «КАСТА-2Е1»(51У6) - Company website from ОАО Муромский завод радиоизмерительных приборов
    «КАСТА-2Е2» (39Н6Е) - Company website from ОАО Муромский завод радиоизмерительных приборов
    [1] Rosoboron company website

This radar is not unmarked.  It is Russian military, complete with Russian flag painted on the sides, and official Russian Army markings.

Russia isn't playing anonymous Little Green Men anymore, they're now out in the open.  This is a blunt signal they intend to defend the DPR; by force of the Russian Army.

If the US and Europe try pulling the same stunts they have in the past, it will now mean direct war with Russia.

That, is what Joe Biden and his failed advisors are conjuring up.  Direct war with Russia.  In Europe . . . and as we saw yesterday with US Air Strikes in Syria (Story HERE), perhaps war with Russia in Syria too.

These developments are NOT being reported in the mass media within either the USA or Europe.   If war begins, it will arrive like a lightning strike and the general public in both the US and Europe will be caught completely unaware . . .

. . . and also unaware that it was their own governments that sparked the whole thing.

Get right with God, folks.  If this breaks out, it will get very bad, very fast . . . and it is OUR country that is to blame.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/biden-starting-second-war-front-first-syria-now-ukraine-nato-mortars-being-fired-at-civilians-in-ukraine-troops-and-armor-moving-by-train-toward-russia-border

Biden: ‘We will stand with Ukraine’ against Russia on Crimea
Al Jazeera
2-3 minutes

Seven years after Russia annexed Crimea, Biden says the US will ‘never recognise’ the move.

US President Joe Biden has said it’s a “simple truth” that “Crimea is Ukraine” and promised the United States “will never recognise Russia’s purported annexation of the peninsula”.

Russia’s actions on February 26, 2014 violated international law and “the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbor Ukraine when it invaded Crimea”, Biden said in a statement on Friday.

Seven years ago, Russia sent troops into Ukraine in violation of the 1995 Black Sea agreement, seized ships from Ukraine’s navy and surrounded and took over military bases.

As the Russian military controlled the peninsula, a political status referendum was held on March 16, 2014 in which an overwhelming majority of voters – 96.7 percent – voted to rejoin Russia, a move Western leaders declared illegal.

Then-President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on a number of senior Russian officials and businessmen connected to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Russian state companies.
The Russian Navy’s improved kilo-class submarine, Kolpino, sails during the Navy Day parade in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea on July 26, 2020 [Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters]

The annexation of Crimea instigated the most serious rift between Washington and Moscow since the Cold War.

Mike Pompeo, the former Secretary of State under Donald Trump, said the US would not recognise Russia’s annexation of Ukraine. It is unknown publicly what Trump said in personal meetings with Putin, and it was widely reported that he told G7 leaders in Quebec, Canada in 2018 that Crimea is Russian because everyone speaks Russian there.

Trump blamed Obama for the annexation because Obama failed to prevent it.

Biden said the US would continue to support Ukraine against Russian aggression. Russia supports separatist troops in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/26/biden-we-will-stand-with-ukraine-against-russia-on-crimea

Audio: American Airlines pilot radios ‘long cylindrical’ UFO over NM; Airline confirms and now the FBI may be involved

An American Airlines pilot was recorded on Sunday during a flight over New Mexico when he reported via radio an unidentified “long cylindrical object” flying over the airplane. The airline confirmed the transmission and pointed to the FBI, who says it’s “aware” of the incident. “I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise-missile type of thing. Moving really fast and went right over the top of us,” the pilot added.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/02/audio-american-airlines-pilot-radios-long-cylindrical-ufo-over-nm-airline-confirms-and-now-the-fbi-may-be-involved/?utm_campaign=DailyEmails&utm_source=AM_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Master_List&utm_campaign=4b3a26b54d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_02_25_10_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9c4ef113e0-4b3a26b54d-61619259&mc_cid=4b3a26b54d&mc_eid=d4a810d349

Radioactive fish caught near Fukushima have five times the permitted radiation levels of highly dangerous cesium

A black rockfish caught near Fukushima by fishermen had caesium levels five times above the government’s permitted levels.

Radioactive cesium five times above permitted levels in Japan has been detected in black rockfish caught in northeastern Fukushima Prefecture, according to a Feb. 22 announcement by a local fishing association.

Some 500 becquerels per kilogram of cesium was found in black rockfish caught at a depth of 24 meters about 8.8 kilometers off the town of Shinchi, exceeding the national standard level of 100 becquerels per kilogram.

The Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations has since halted distribution of the fish until it can confirm their safety.

The voluntary suspension of seafood shipments by the fishing body marks the first time since October 2019, when 53 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium was detected in a white sea perch, exceeding the standard level set by the group at 50 becquerels per kilogram.

The fishing association has been conducting test fishing since June 2012 on a limited scale. After shipping restrictions on common skate were lifted in February 2020, shipment of all fish was permitted. The fishing body aims to resume full fishing operations in April.

It’s been 10 years since Japan’s worst nuclear accident, which was triggered by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the country and a massive tsunami that wiped out everything in its path.

Yet the aftershocks from the devastating March 11 disaster continue to rattle these parts — the most recent occurring only a week ago, when a M7.3 earthquake hit on February 13, 2021.

It is not clear whether the radioactive substances in the offshore fish have been affected by the recent earthquake in the sea near Fukushima. But one thing is clear… Leaks and pressure drops have been reported in containment vessels after the quake.
Increase in radiation

The company’s errors have immediate implications, as monitoring equipment installed at sea off the plant detected a small increase in highly radioactive caesium in the days after the earthquake, indicating that water had indeed escaped from the site and was dispersing into the ocean.

And that coincided with the announcement that a black rockfish caught off the prefecture by a fishermen’s collective had caesium levels five times above the government’s permitted levels.

The revelations surrounding TEPCO’s latest problems is unlikely to reassure the public that produce from much of northeast Japan is safe to buy and eat.

Fukushima’s earthquake problems

The fallout from that incident was worsened after a serious earthquake on February 13 shook northeast Japan, including the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Seismologists said the magnitude 7.3 tremor was the largest to strike Japan since April 2011 and was actually the latest aftershock from the Great East Japan Earthquake nearly a decade ago.

TEPCO admitted a short while later that seismometers installed in two of the reactor buildings broke down last year and had not been repaired.

In addition, a report to the NRA confirmed that the earthquake caused radioactive water to slosh over the edges of containment tanks at the site, while the water level around two of the reactors has fallen.

That could indicate that the tremor enlarged existing fissures in the surrounding concrete or created new ones, enabling the escape of water that is needed to keep the reactors cool and prevent the release of more radioactivity into the atmosphere.

The incident “raised doubts” about TEPCO’s “fitness to operate nuclear power plants. Meanwhile, the utility must thoroughly reexamine every conceivable issue and raise its workers’ safety awareness to prevent missteps, once and for all.
Fukushima radioactive water problem

And how do you remove a million tonnes of contaminated water? All of the water that touches the highly radioactive molten fuel also becomes contaminated.

Although the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) removes more than 60 different types of radioactive materials from the water, it doesn’t completely purify it. The radioactive element, tritium, remains inside all of the stored water, albeit at “low” levels

Currently, 1.2 million tonnes of contaminated water is stored in more than 1,000 tanks spanning the entire power plant facility. But by the end of next year, the tanks and the site will be full.

The Japanese government is now weighing up what to do next. Experts have recommended disposing of it in the ocean as the most practical option as opposed to releasing it into the air.

Meanwhile, tritium water from nuclear plants is discharged all around the world… And Japan’s nuclear disaster site is still a hive of activity. TEPCO has spent the last 10 years trying to cool and stabilise the three reactors so that they can eventually start to remove the 800 tons of molten radioactive fuel debris that sits inside them.

https://strangesounds.org/2021/02/radioactive-fish-fukushima-cesium-radiation.html

Vatican Betrays Virgin Mary for Prophet Muhammad
Raymond Ibrahim
6-7 minutes

The same folks to bring you “Abrahamism”—the idea that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are intricately connected—have narrowed their sights on promoting Mary, the mother of Christ, as “a Jewish, Christian and Muslim woman,” in the words of Catholic priest Fr. Gian Matteo of the Pontifical International Marian Academy. In a ten-week webinar series titled “Mary, a model for faith and life for Christianity and Islam,” the academy will seek to present Mary as a bridge between the two religions.

This may be easier said than done — at least for those still interested in facts.  For starters, the claim that Mary was a “Jewish, Christian and Muslim woman” is only two-thirds true: yes, she was a Jew by race and background; and yes, she was a Christian in that she literally birthed Christ(ianity); but she was most certainly not a Muslim — a term and religion that came into being 600 years after Mary died.

Worse, far from being the Eternal Virgin, as she is for 1.5 billion Christians of the Catholic and Orthodox variety, Islam presents Mary, the Mother of Christ, as “married” to and “copulating” with Muhammad in paradise — a depiction that would seem to sever rather than build “bridges.”

In a hadith that was deemed reliable enough to be included in the renowned Ibn Kathir’s corpus, Muhammad declared that “Allah will wed me in paradise to Mary, Daughter of Imran,” whom Muslims identify with Jesus’s mother.  (Note: The Arabic word for “marriage” (نكاح, or nikah, denotes “legal sexual relations,” connotes the “F” word, and is wholly devoid of Western, “romantic,” or Platonic connotations.)

Nor is this just some random, obscure hadith.  None other than Dr. Salem Abdul Galil — previously deputy minister of Egypt’s religious endowments for preaching — affirmed its canonicity in 2017 during a live televised Arabic-language program.  Among other biblical women (Moses’s sister and Pharaoh’s wife), “our prophet Muhammad — prayers and be upon him — will be married to Mary in paradise,” Galil said.

If few Christians today know about this Islamic claim, medieval Christians living in Muslim-occupied nations were certainly aware of it. There, Muslims regularly threw this fantasy in the face of Catholic and Orthodox Christians who venerated Mary as the “Eternal Virgin.” Thus, Eulogius of Cordoba, an indigenous Christian of Muslim-occupied Spain, once wrote, “I will not repeat the sacrilege which that impure dog [Muhammad] dared proffer about the Blessed Virgin, Queen of the World, holy mother of our venerable Lord and Savior. He claimed that in the next world he would deflower her.”

As usual, it was Eulogius’s offensive words about Muhammad — and not the latter’s offensive words about Mary and any number of other things — that had dire consequences: He, as well as many other Spanish Christians vociferously critical of Muhammad, were found guilty of speaking against Islam and publicly tortured and executed in “Golden Age” Cordoba in 859.

One expects that all of these “inconvenient” facts will be quietly passed over during the Pontifical International Marian Academy’s webinars.  And if they are raised, no doubt Christians will somehow take the blame, as almost always happens in academic settings.  As one example, after quoting Eulogius’s aforementioned lament against Muhammad’s claim of being married to Mary, John V. Tolan, a professor and member of Academia Europaea, denounced it as an “outrageous claim” of Eulogius’s own “invention.” He then railed against the martyr — not against his murderers or their prophet:

    Eulogius fabricates lies designed to shock his Christian reader.  This way, even those elements of Islam that resemble Christianity (such as reverence of Jesus and his virgin mother) are deformed and blackened, so as to prevent the Christian from admiring anything about the Muslim other.  The goal is to inspire hatred for the “oppressors[.]” … Eulogius sets out to show that the Muslim is not a friend but a potential rapist of Christ’s virgins. (Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination, p.93)

As already seen, however, it is Muhammad himself — not any “Christian polemicist” — who “fabricates lies designed to shock,” namely that Mary will be his eternal concubine.

This, incidentally, is the main problem the purveyors of Abrahamism fail to acknowledge: Islam does not treat biblical characters the way Christianity does.

Christians accept the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, as it is. They do not add, take away, or distort the accounts of the patriarchs that Jews also rely on. Conversely, while also relying on the figures of the Old and New Testaments — primarily for the weight of antiquity and authority attached to their names — Islam completely recasts them with different attributes that reaffirm Muhammad’s religion as the one true and final “revelation,” as opposed to Judaism and Christianity, whose biblical accounts on these figures are then seen as “distorted” because they are different from Islam’s later revisions.

Far from creating “commonalities,” it should be clear that such appropriation creates conflict. By way of analogy, imagine that you have a grandfather whom you are particularly fond of, and out of the blue, a stranger who never even met your grandfather says: “Hey, that’s my grandfather!”  Then — lest you think this stranger is somehow trying to become your friend — he adds: “And everything you thought you knew about grandpa is wrong!  Only I have his true life story.”

Would that create a “bridge” between you and this stranger trying to appropriate and recast the image of your grandfather?

https://pjmedia.com/columns/raymond-ibrahim/2021/02/26/vatican-betrays-virgin-mary-for-prophet-muhammad-n1428697