Tuesday, May 23, 2017
2017 Has Seen a Terror Attack Attempted in Europe Every Nine Days
Europe, the United Kingdom, and Russia have witnessed terror attacks or attempted attacks every nine days in 2017 on average, analysis of security incidents has revealed.
Since January, around 45 people have been killed by mostly Islamic terrorists, while hundreds have been injured. The only known incident not linked to jihadism in 2017 was the attack on the Borussia Dortmund soccer team by a Russian-German national attempting to profit from short-selling stock in the company.
Attacks and attempted attacks have taken place in Austria, France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Norway, and Germany.
Security services in Britain — population 65 million — are known to be tracking 3,500 potential terror suspects or persons posing a threat. Meanwhile Belgium, with its population of just 12 million, is tracking around 18,000 potential jihadists.
A further minimum of 14 terror attacks have occurred in Turkey in 2017, a NATO member country currently being considered for European Union membership.
Details:
| Date | Location | Result | Attackerprofile | Name | Fate of Attacker |
| 20 January 2017 | Austria | foiled | 18-year-old was an Austrian citizen of a migrant background | arrested | |
| 3 February 2017 | Paris, France | executed | Egyptian national on tourist visa | Abdullah Reda Refaie al-Hamahmy | arrested |
| 10 February 2017 | Paris, France | foiled | Four arrests including 16y/o girl | arrested | |
| 18 March 2017 | Garges-lès-Gonesse and Orly Airport Paris, France | attempted | Radicalised French-born Muslim of North African origin | Ziyed Ben Belgacem | dead |
| 22 March 2017 | Westminster, London | executed | British. Muslim convert | Khalid Masood | dead |
| 23 March 2017 | Antwerp, Belgium | attempted | Tunisian national | Mohamed R. | arrested |
| 30 March 2017 | Venice, Italy | foiled | Three adults from Kosovo | Three men and an unidentified minor | arrested |
| 3 April 2017 | St. Petersburg, Russia | executed | Ethnic Uzbek, Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen | Akbarzhon Jalilov | dead |
| 7 April 2017 | Stockholm, Sweden | executed | Uzbek failed asylum seeker | Rakhmat Akilov | apprehended |
| 8 April 2017 | Grønland, Oslo, Norway | foiled | 17y/o Russian citizen. Asylum seeker (arrived 2010). MEDIA CLAIM was known to Norwegian security services for having expressed support for Islamic State | unnamed (underage) | arrested |
| 11 April 2017 | Dortmund, Germany | attempted | An Iraqi (Abdul Beset A) linked to Islamic State arrested, but later found to not be related to the attack. On 21 April, Sergej W., a market trader, was arrested. | Sergej W. Joint Russian-German national | arrested |
| 18 April 2017 | Marseille, France | foiled | Plot against at least two candidates in the French presidential election | two arrests` | arrested |
| 20 April 2017 | Champs Élysées, Paris, France | executed | 39-year-old gunman known to intelligence services as an Islamist. French national. | Karim Cheurfi/Abu-Yusuf al-Baljiki (“the Belgian” identified via Amaq) | dead |
| 18 May 2017 | Milan, Italy | executed | Half-Tunisian, half-Italian radicalised. Not on a terror watch list, but known to police for criminality | Ismail Tommaso Ben Yousef Hosni, 21 | arrested |
| 22 May 2017 | Manchester Arena, Manchester | executed | tbc | One (unnamed) male | dead |
Credit to breitbart.com
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/23/2017-seen-terror-attack-attempted-europe-every-nine-days/
Why The Chinese Yuan Won't Be The World's Reserve Currency
Authored by Valentin Schmid via The Epoch Times,
Whenever someone gets too big and too important, the other players who can’t compete by themselves call for a challenger. This is true in sports, business, and even for currencies.
Because the dollar is so big and important, smaller countries were happy when the euro was launched to provide a counterbalance, if not to challenge the dollar’s position outright.
The euro ultimately provided that counterbalance, but never managed to dethrone the dollar as the world’s foremost reserve currency. The euro is used in 30 percent of all global payments, according to payment provider SWIFT; the dollar is still number one, at 40 percent.
But what about the Chinese currency, the yuan, the one that investment bank HSBC predicted would become the third-largest global trade currency by 2015—is it the ultimate challenger to the dollar’s top status? Not so much.
Only 16 percent of Chinese trade is settled in yuan, or renminbi (RMB), and the share of global payments ranks sixth at only 1.78 percent, behind the dollar, euro, pound, yen, and even the Canadian dollar.
To be fair, China’s leadership never called for the yuan to overtake the dollar. It was mainly Western cheerleaders like HSBC that looked at the country’s economic growth and applied it to the currency.
Many pundits also thought the yuan would take a stronger role after Donald Trump’s election last November.
“No longer is the U.S. dollar the only haven of safety. There is an alternative—renminbi,” Daryl Guppy, CEO of the Guppytraders financial market training platform, told CNBC in November.
Reserve Qualities
But what does a currency have to be or do to become the world’s reserve currency? Will the yuan ever qualify, and is the Chinese leadership pushing to replace the dollar?
According to a report by investment bank Natixis, there are four functions a successful currency needs to fulfill for both the private and the public sectors.
The first is being a medium of exchange. For private sector payments, we already saw that the RMB’s share is minuscule compared to the euro and dollar. Even the RMB’s use in trade with and investment into China is relatively small and no longer growing, according to the report.Public sector payments between governments and central banks are conducted via central bank swap lines. They allow central banks of different countries to issue money that is not their own. For example, during the financial crisis of 2008, the Federal Reserve provided the world’s central bank with as much as $620 billion in liquidity. China’s swap lines amount to $430 billion, but are hardly ever used.The second function is being a store of value, so that private players can invest their money in yuan assets like stocks and bonds and preserve their purchasing power. Also here, foreign ownership of Chinese equities is not very large, at around 0.8 percent, and for Chinese bonds, only slightly larger at 2 percent. Foreign bank deposits and loans into China have also been falling since 2014.For the public sector store of value, that is, global central banks’ holding of foreign currency, the yuan’s share is 1 percent, despite the admission to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) special drawing rights (SDR) basket late in 2016. The dollar still takes the lion’s share at 64 percent.The third function is the so-called unit of account. This means that trade invoices, for example, are issued in RMB and then paid in RMB rather than dollars. Also here, even for Australia, one of China’s biggest trading partners, only 0.5 percent of exports to China are invoiced in RMB.For the official unit of account, another country would need to peg its currency to the RMB, but given China’s relatively closed capital account, this hasn’t happened yet. At least the RMB is now part of the SDR, which functions as a unit of account for the IMF, but it only has a 10.9 percent weight.Lastly, the currency needs to have developed fixed income marketswhere payments can be parked in the form of bank deposits or bonds.And while local Chinese corporate bond issuance is strong, foreigners aren’t buying into it, and the Chinese government bond market remains small in comparison to those in the United States and Europe.Furthermore, bank deposits in RMB in the so-called global clearing centers are also falling. In Hong Kong, for example, only 5 percent of all bank deposits are in RMB and 37 percent in dollars.
Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, in Beijing on March12, 2015. Unlike Western pundits, the Chinese central bank never wanted the yuan to replace the dollar. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
This, however, is not a disappointment for the Chinese regime, but rather for their Western cheerleaders. The Chinese have always favored an international solution to replace the U.S. dollar, namely in the form of the SDR, as China’s central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan called for in a 2009 speech at the Council on Foreign Relations.
“The desirable goal of reforming the international monetary system, therefore, is to create an international reserve currency that is disconnected from individual nations,” he said.
Bible Codes Expert Finds Repetition of Sixes During Trump Visit
“Moreover concerning the stranger that is not of Thy people Yisrael, when he shall come out of a far country for Thy name’s sake…when he shall come and pray toward this house.” I Kings 8:41-42 (The Israel Bible™)
US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania arrives at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on May 22, 2017, for his first official visit to Israel since becoming US president. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Though parts of President Trump’s itinerary while in Israel are still undecided, and the political agenda, especially concerning the moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem, are still in flux, for two Israeli rabbis everything about the major political event is clear and revealed.
President Trump landed in Israel on Monday morning, which is coincidentally the 26th day of the Hebrew month of Iyyar, the 50th anniversary of the first day of the Six-Day War. Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson, an expert in Bible Codes, explained how this repetition of sixes is significant.
“This day is too auspicious to be a coincidence,” Rabbi Glazerson said in a video about the president’s visit. “It is a day with great potential. If it is good, it can be amazing, but if it is not good, it can be very bad indeed.”
This assessment very much reflects the all-or-nothing nature of the six-day war of survival Israel fought in 1967. Beginning with indefensible borders, nine miles wide at the narrowest, the Israeli Air Force sent out all but twelve of its combat aircraft in an early morning raid. By noon, the IAF had succeeded in effectively destroying the Jordanian, Syrian, and Egyptian air forces.
Rabbi Glazerson noted that Jews are currently counting the 49 days, or seven weeks, after Passover which culminate in the holiday of Shavuot (Weeks, or Pentecost). The day of President Trump’s arrival will mark the sixth day of the sixth week, which in Kabbalistic terms represents foundation of the foundation, personified by Biblical character of Joseph.
“Just as a foundation establishes what will follow, for good or bad, the real nature of Trump’s visit will not become clear for some time,” Rabbi Glazerson said. “This could be the setting of the foundation for the Temple, but what will actually come out of it depends on Israel’s attachment to Torah and mitzvoth (commandments). In Judaism, six is the number of holiness and purity, and this is the day that the American president chose to arrive in Jerusalem.”
Rabbi Glazerson is an expert in Torah Codes, a method using a special computer program to search for series of letters in the Bible which reveals hidden messages in the Bible. He searched for the Hebrew date, the 26th of Iyyar 5777. The search found an occurrence in the Book of Deuteronomy, which Rabbi Glazerson explained represents the current millennium.
Interconnected with the letters spelling out the date was the word ‘Zion’, which was adjacent to the Hebrew word, ‘Mikdash’ (Temple). These configurations surrounded the verse that commanded Israel to take the land of Israel.
Go up and possess the land which I have given you. Deuteronomy 9:23
Another rabbi who believes that President Trump’s massively public visit to Israel has a hidden nature is Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi, a prominent Israeli mystic with a significant following.
“Donald Trump takes care of what is important to him personally. He does one thing publicly but privately, he works in a completely different manner,” Rabbi Ben Artzi said in his regular lesson last week. “He talks quite a bit, but when it comes to his deeds, he does the right thing. Trump knows, for example, that Abu Mazen (Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas) is crooked, and Trump will act as if he is going along with him, but he will only go along for a little bit.
“Trump intends to fix things in the world that were made crooked, and this is how he will do it. If he wasn’t smart like this, he would not have become president. It is clear that is why he came to Israel: He respects the Jews.”
The real nature of President Trump’s visit to Israel has been a mystery waiting to be solved. The most controversial aspect of his visit concerns his campaign promise to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It was originally speculated that since he will arrive on the day before Jerusalem Day, the day Israel celebrates the unification of the city in the Six-Day War, he would take the opportunity to dramatically announce his decision. It was revealed to the press last week that this would not be the case.
Credit to breakingisraelnews.com
Read more at https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/88468/mystic-rabbis-explain-the-hidden-spiritual-truth-of-trumps-momentous-visit-to-israel/#fOGBluqFBe5YOIe3.99
Nineteen people confirmed dead and 50 injured in Manchester Arena 'terrorist attack'
Nineteen people have been confirmed dead and around 50 injured after a terrorist attack inside Manchester Arena at the end of a teen concert tonight.
Video footage showed thousands of people fleeing in tears from the venue, many covered in blood, after the Ariana Grande concert finished.
Horrifying footage showed petrified children leaping over fences as they desperately tried to escape the 21,000-seat venue.
Armed officers surrounded the venue and bloodied casualties were seen being stretchered out of the concert that resembled a 'war zone'.
There were fears a 'nail bomb' had been used as witnesses described there being 'nuts and bolts flying everywhere.'
Last night police carried out a controlled explosion at Cathedral Gardens after finding a second suspicious device.
Bloodied concertgoers were pictured being helped by armed police outside the arena after explosions rang out at the gig
Casualties are stretchered out of the concert tonight after a terror attack in the Ariana Grande concert
Concert-goers and witnesses have described the chaos after 'huge bomb-like bangs' went off in Manchester Arena following an Ariana Grande gig
A father carries away his daughter following the suspected terror attack at the Ariana Grande concert
Credit to dailymail.co.uk
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4531940/Emergency-services-rush-Manchester-Arena.html#ixzz4hrKz5U9E
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