Wednesday, August 12, 2020

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 8/12/2020

                          (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY)




"We're doing it simultaneously.   In Russia they decided to do the clinical trial in parallel and collect the data, as is customary in the West, as well as allowing some cases that we call 'compassion treatments' for some patients."



Those words from Dr. Zeev Rotstein, director of Hadassah Hospital in Israel, getting into the details of what's really going on as Russia has announced that its developed the first effective coronavirus vaccine.



Hadassah's branch hospital in Moscow is participating in ongoing clinical trials of the vaccine that Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced adding that its been successfully used on his daughter.......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS



Omaha City Council voting unamimously to impose an emergency mask-muzzle order for indoor public places.   Big businesses in the city supporting the order....ASSOCIATED PRESS



Law enforcement in Belarus using live ammunition on people protesting last Sunday's presidential election and what they see as a rigged result.     The authorities claim they acted in self-defense in the city of Brest.......BBC NEWS......Women today formed human chains in cities across the country in solidarity with those detained and hurt during the protests that have been going on in the country since Sunday night......TASS....Two protesters reported killed......BBC



A joint FBI-Air Force investigation underway after one of two pilots of a helicopter was shot and wounded at an altitude of one thousand feet early Monday afternoon over northern Virginia.    The helicopter operating out of Joint Base Andrews near Washington DC was on a routine training mission at the time.......CNN



THE US IS MOVING FORWARD ON A UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION TO EXTEND AN ARMS EMBARGO ON IRAN THAT WAS PART OF THE JCPOA NUCLEAR AGREEMENT THE UNITED STATES HAS PULLED OUT OF......TASS.....RUSSIA AND CHINA HAVE COME OUT IN OPPOSITION TO EXTENSION OF THE EMBARGO AND THE US HAS WATERED DOWN THE RESOLUTION HOPING TO GET IT PASSED.....FINANCIAL TIMES



"The US needs terrorists in the region, on top (of them) Daesh (ISIS)"



"The Israeli aggression on Dayr al-Zawr came to facilitate the movement of Daesh (ISIS) terrorists"



Parts of the speech from Syria's ruler Bashar al-Assad today saying that US sanctions and Israeli air strikes against Syria are helping jihadist forces fighting his government with ISIS at the top of that list........PRESS TV IRAN



Israel reducing a fishing zone off the coast of Gaza in response to a wave of incendiary balloon attacks launched against southern Israel.      Israel has also launched military strikes on Gaza in response to the attacks during the last week.....YNET NEWS ISRAEL



A JOINT TEST THIS EVENING OF THE ARROW 2 MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM BY THE US AND ISRAEL PROCLAIMED A SUCCESS.......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS



In a Republican congressional primary in northwest Georgia outsider candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene defeated insider candidate John Cowan in the runoff election.    Cowan getting the support for GOP Congressional leaders like Steve Scalise of Louisiana.    The winning candidate being denounced as Anti-Islamic and Anti-Semitic.....THE GUARDIAN-UK.....ABC NEWS



The district attorney in Portland, Oregon intends to drop most of the charges filed against protesters in recent demonstrations unless they involve "deliberate" damage to property, theft or force against another person or threats of force........OREGONLIVE



CORONAVIRUS STATISTICS FOR THE USA TODAY FROM WORLDOMETERS WITH 54,345 NEW CASES REPORTED IN THE US INCLUDING 9,090 IN CALIFORNIA, 8,109 IN FLORIDA AND 6,305 IN TEXAS.    IN KENTUCKY TODAY 1,152 NEW CASES REPORTED.



The coronavirus story worldwide reported by BBC News on its daily blog......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 8/12/2020




And that's the way it really is Wednesday August 12th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.

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