This showed up last bread just before new bread link. Any ideas? Doesn't seem to be directed at anyone imparticular.
Ahh, makes sense now, thanks:)
Iranian Group Offers $100,000 to Blow Up New U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem
A hardline Iranian organization is reportedly offering a $100,000 reward to any person who bombs the newly opened U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, according to a translation of Farsi language reports.
A group known as the Iranian Justice Seeker Student Movement is reported to have disseminated posters calling for an attack on the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, which has been opposed by Palestinian and Iranian officials as an affront to the holy city.
"The Student Justice Movement will support anybody who destroy the illegal American embassy in Jerusalem," the poster states in Farsi, Arabic, and English, according to an independent translation of the propaganda poster provided to the Free Beacon.
There will be a "$100,000 dollar prize for the person who destroys the illegal American embassy in Jerusalem," the poster states.
The call for an attack on the new embassy is just the latest escalation by hostile Islamic states and leaders who have lashed out at the United States and President Donald Trump for making good on a campaign promise to relocate the embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel's declared capital city of Jerusalem.
News of the bomb threat was first reported by the University Student News Network, a regional Farsi-language site that aggregates relevant news briefs.
"The Student Movement for Justice declared, ‘Whoever bombs the embassy's building will receive a $100,000 award,'" the report states. "It is necessary to mention that the steps by Trump to transfer the US Embassy to Holy Qods [Jerusalem] has led to the anger and hatred of Muslims and liberators throughout the world.'"
Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser and expert on rogue regimes, told the Washington Free Beacon that terrorism of this nature is embedded in the Iranian regime's hardline stance.
"Unfortunately, terrorism directed toward diplomats and embassies has become a central pillar of the Islamic Republic's culture," Rubin said. "Terrorism is lionized in Iranian schools. This bounty is more the rule than the exception. To blame Washington or Jerusalem is to blame the victim and give terrorists a veto over U.S. policy."
Behnam Ben Taleblu, an research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, described the poster as repulsive and blamed the Iranian ruling regime for fostering such an attitude.
"This is nothing short of an invitation to a heinous act of an international terror by a student group that looks up to the world's foremost state sponsor of terror—the Islamic Republic of Iran," he said.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iranian-group-offers-100000-blow-new-u-s-embassy-jerusalem/
Trump Addresses Audience at Embassy Dedication in Jerusalem
President Donald Trump on Monday addressed an audience in Jerusalem, Israel by a pre-taped video to mark the opening of the U.S. embassy in the city.
"United States under President Harry Truman became the first nation to recognize the state of Israel. Today we officially opened the United States embassy in Jerusalem. Congratulations," Trump said. "It's been a long time coming."
Back in December of 2017, Trump announced the U.S. recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and would initiate plans to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
"Almost immediately after declaring statehood in 1948, Israel designated the city of Jerusalem as its capital–the capital the Jewish people established in ancient times," Trump said. "Today, Jerusalem is the seat of Israel's government. It is the home of the Israeli legislature and the Israeli supreme court and Israel's prime minister and president."
Trump added that Israel is a sovereign nation and has the right to designate its own capital.
"Israel is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation to determine its own capital," Trump said.
The ceremony has intensified riots along the Israel-Gaza border, where Palestinians have been protesting for several weeks. There have been reports of casualties and injuries at the protests.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said such a move threatens the peace process, and other Middle Eastern leaders have warned the move could inflame tensions in the region.
Trump said the U.S. is still committed to a lasting peace deal for the region.
"The United States remains fully committed to facilitating a lasting peace agreement, and we continue to support the status quo at Jerusalem's holy sites including at the Temple Mount," Trump said.
Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan led the American delegation of about 250 people, which also included Trump's envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt, American Ambassador David Friedman, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and White House advisers Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Several Republicans from both the House of Representatives and the Senate were also part of the delegation.
http:// freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-addresses-audience-embassy-dedication-jerusalem/
China to deliver world’s largest amphibious aircraft to customers by 2022
“We are endeavouring to get the airworthiness certification from the civil aviation authorities by 2021 and deliver it to the customers by 2022,” Xinhua quoted Huang Lingcai, the plane’s chief designer at state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China, as saying.
China developed the AG600 as part of a drive to modernise its military, amid a more muscular approach to territorial disputes in places like the South China Sea that has rattled nerves in the Asia-Pacific region and the United States.
It made its maiden flight in China in December. Huang also said the aircraft would make more flights this year, including its first take-off from water.
Aviation Industry has spent about eight years developing the aircraft, which is roughly the size of a Boeing 737 and is designed to carry out marine rescues and battle forest fires. It has a range of up to 4,500km (2,800 miles) and is designed to be able to take off and land in two metre waves.
Powered by four turboprop engines, the AG600 can carry 50 people during maritime search-and-rescue missions and can scoop up 12 tonnes of water in 20 seconds for firefighting trips.
Chinese companies and government departments have already placed 17 orders for the new aircraft, state media said in December.
http:// www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2146013/china-deliver-worlds-largest-amphibious-aircraft
Veteran Chinese scientist takes an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ journey deep under the sea
Eighty two-year-old marine expert uses ‘Deepwater Warrior’ submersible to explore previously uncharted area of the disputed South China Sea
Wang Pingxian, a senior marine geologist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, boarded Deepwater Warrior, China’s newest vessel for deep sea exploration, and spent more than eight hours on an uncharted seabed near the Paracel Islands, known as Xisha in China, on Sunday.
The mission reinforced the belief that there are valuable natural reserves in the area, with evidence suggesting there are large reserves of liquefied natural gas on the seabed, some of which was seen seeping through the cracks and rising from the sea floor.
Wang, along with another younger scientist and pilot, recorded a rich range of marine life in the area, including thriving colonies of giant worms, mussels, sponge and coral reefs that feed off a steady supply of nutrition around the cold springs.
“This journey was just like Alice in Wonderland. I was in heaven,” he told Xinhua after returning to the surface.
Given Wang’s age the expedition needed careful planning to ensure it could be carried out safely.
The Deepwater Warrior, commissioned last year with a maximum operation depth of 4,500 metres (14,760 feet), used some of China’s most advanced deep-sea technology, including an enhanced life-support system.
In the event of an emergency, Deepwater Warrior has a powered ascent system that means it is able to get back to the surface much more quickly than other submersibles, which generally float back to the surface.
Wang, one of the key architects of China’s ambitious exploration programme in the South China Sea, said his journey marked the success of a years-long effort to establish China’s dominance in the region.
The programme, launched by Beijing in 2011, employed more than 700 ocean researchers to survey the floor of the South China Sea and beyond.
He told state news agency Xinhua that China was now leading scientific research in the South China Sea with all goals met or exceeded.
The Paracel Islands are claimed by mainland China, Vietnam and Taiwan, and state media described the mission as helping to strengthen Beijing’s claim to the area.
In 2014, the Chinese and Vietnamese navies engaged in a heated stand-off as Vietnam tried to stop the operation of a prospecting oil rig in the Paracels.
China has also generated tension by launching large-scale construction in the area including land reclamation work and expanding its military facilities in recent years.
http:// www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2146066/veteran-chinese-scientist-takes-alice-wonderland-journey-deep
I know, I was thinking more along the lines of propaganda..
As they say, what ever floats your boat!
The other thought I had, was this might be temporary until the mess is cleaned up in that region.