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Sunday, August 21, 2022
NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 8/21/2022 NEWSDUMP WEEKEND DAVOS REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR IN TAIWAN, STREETS CLOSED AS PROTEST COMES TO NEW ZEALAND'S CAPITAL, FORMER PAKISTAN PM CENSORED, ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON PUTIN CONFIDANTE KILLS HIS DAUGHTER
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In New Zealand road blocks and street closures ahead of a planned protest in the nation's capital city on Tuesday but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
New polling in the US Senate race here in Pennsylvania the two polls showing a closer contest between Dr. Mehmet Oz the Republican and Lt. Governor John Fetterman the Democrat.
One poll done by the Republican Trafalgar Group puts Fetterman at 48.4 percent to Oz at 43.5 percent.
And in the contest for Governor here in Pennsylvania a tighter race is shown in the new Trafalgar Poll.
That poll has Democrat Attorney General Josh Shapiro at 49 to Republican State Senator Doug Mastriano at 45 percent...REAL CLEAR POLITICS POLLS
THE MAN WHO SUCCEEDED MIKE PENCE AS REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OF INDIANA VISITING TAIWAN.
ERIC HOLCOMB APPEARED AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM IN DAVOS EARLIER THIS YEAR SPEAKING ABOUT INDIANA'S INVESTMENT IN:
"advanced manufacturing"
TAIWAN A MAJOR MANUFACTURER OF COMPUTER CHIPS AND THE US GOVERNMENT HEAVILY INVESTED IN BRINGING CHIP MANUFACTURING TO THE UNITED STATES TO COUNTER CHINA
TONIGHT KHAN SPEAKING TO ANOTHER LARGE RALLY IN RAWALPINDI...
TONIGHT MR. KHAN SAID THAT PAKISTAN'S GOVERNMENT BLOCKED YOU TUBE TO PREVENT LIVE VIEWING OF HIS SPEECH...RETUERS-THE PENINSULA QATAR
MR. KHAN IS BEING PROBED BY AUTHORITIES OVER WHAT ARE CALLED THREATENING STATEMENTS AGAINST POLICE AND A FEMALE JUDGE AND IT'S SUGGESTED HE MAY SOON BE UNDER ARREST...THE TELEGRAPH INDIA
WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND PROTEST PLANNED FOR TUESDAY, ROADBLOCKS GO UP, STREETS CLOSED
(LATE UPDATE: ROADBLOCKS ERECTED SUNDAY NIGHT WITH SOME STREETS CLOSED AROUND NEW ZEALAND'S PARLIAMENT IN WELLINGTON AHEAD OF THE PLANNED TUESDAY PROTEST AGAINST THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS CAUSED BY PRIME MINISTER JACINDA ARDERN'S GOVERNMENT)...(ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND)
In New Zealand mainstream media and social media trying to pour cold water on as a new protest is planned for the capital city of Wellington on Tuesday.
The Freedom and Rights Coalition planning caravans on the North and South Islands of New Zealand Monday.
They will converge for a protest at Parliament on Tuesday in opposition to the Labor Party government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
The protest encompassing issues from COVID restrictions to the economic turmoil in the country including inflation.
Meanwhile Facebook has deactivated a popular page of COVID vax mandate opponent Chantelle Baker in advance of the protest...NEW ZEALAND HERALD...
ALSO IN NEW ZEALAND TODAY THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCING A SCHEME TO BRING IN SOME 12,000 FOREIGN WORKERS TO DEAL WITH LABOR SHORTAGES IN THE COUNTRY...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
The French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says he wants to create three thousand "ecology" police officers.
Darmanin says that every police prefecture in France should have officers trained to deal with "environmental crimes".
Workers at a major British port launching an eight-day strike today as worker demands for higher wages to deal with record inflation gather steam in the UK.
Railway workers walked out Saturday severely limiting rail service across the country...BBC NEWS
THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION HAS RECEIVED A PROPOSAL TO CLASSIFY MONKEYPOX AS A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE.
EPIDEMIOLOGIST ROSSI HASSAD IS MAKING THE PROPOSAL BASED ON EVIDENCE THAT THE SPREAD OF MONKEYPOX IS LINKED TO THE SEXUAL NETWORKS OF GAY MEN.
HE STRESSES THE:
"the need to be more judicious and realistic, and act with scientific integrity, for the greater good"...
CYPRUS IS GETTING ISRAEL'S IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM. THIS REPORT IN A GREEK NEWSPAPER.
THE GREEK CYPRIOT GOVERNMENT IN SOUTHERN CYPRUS IS IN DISPUTE WITH THE TURKISH CYPRIOT NORTH BACKED BY TURKEY.
IRON DOME WOULD BE ABLE TO SHOOT DOWN TURKISH DRONES...YNET NEWS ISRAEL
Iran is moving towards reconciliation with the United States that includes the resumption of US participation in the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement.
Latest word is that Iran is backing down from demands for delisting its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps from a list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
An agreement being mediated by the European Union now appears closer than ever...TIMES OF ISRAEL
In Somalia this weekend a deadly terrorist attack in Mogadishu. The attack on the Hayat Hotel killing at least 20 people and wounding at least 40 more.
Children reported among the victims.
The attack follows last weekend's US drone strike that killed 13 members of the al-Shabaab terrorist group...ASSOCIATED PRESS-PBS USA
REPUBLICAN US SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM OF SOUTH CAROLINA GETTING A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT RULING EARLY THIS MORNING TO DELAY HIS TESTIMONY IN AN ATLANTA DEMOCRAT LED GRAND JURY PROBE.
THE PROBE AIMED AT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EFFORTS TO UNCOVER ELECTION FRAUD IN FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA FOLLOWING THE 2020 ELECTION...POLITICO
DOZENS DEAD IN TWO SEPARATE ACCIDENTS IN TURKIYE (NEW OFFICIAL SPELLING).
ONE ACCIDENT INVOLVED A BUS AND THE OTHER A TRUCK.
BOTH VEHICLES CRASHING INTO ACCIDENT SCENES WHERE BYSTANDERS AND RESCUE WORKERS WERE PRESENT...BBC NEWS
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ENDS UP KILLING DAUGHTER OF PUTIN CONFIDANT
(NEWS, COMMENT, UPDATED)
The daughter of Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin is dead following an explosion of the vehicle she was driving near Moscow.
It was Western media outlets that first spoke of an assassination attempt on Mr. Dugin who is considered close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This is how the story was first reported by TASS the Russian news agency...TASS RUSSIA...
But now TASS is quoting a source as saying an attempt was made on Dugin's life but his daughter chose to drive his car...TASS RUSSIA...
Late today Russian authorities provided details on the bomb that killed Darya Dugina...TASS RUSSIA
(COMMENT)
First you demonize and dehumanize Vladimir Putin and other Russian leaders close to him.
Ukrainian attacks reported this weekend with a symbolic attack on Russia's naval base at Sevastopol in Crimea. No casualties in the attack...TASS RUSSIA...Russia says that the "target" was "destroyed" an apparent reference to the drone used in the attack...TASS RUSSIA...
More Ukrainian drone operations reported today with Russian air defenses activating with attacks said to have been "deflected"...TASS RUSSIA
In other news...
Singapore's Prime Minister announcing repeal of that city state's law criminalizing homosexuality.
Lee Hsien Loong making a televised speech where he said 'gay people are now better accepted' and the law needed to conform to 'current social mores'...BBC NEWS
The World Food Program warning about the food shortage in Ethiopia's Tigray region.
A rebellion-civil war there leading to a situation where nearly half the population faces a "severe" shortage of food...ONE INDIA
GARY BUSEY ACCUSED OF SEXUAL OFFENSES AT A CONVENTION IN CHERRY HILL, NEW JERSEY LAST WEEKEND.
THE 78-YEAR OLD ACTOR ATTENDING THE ANNUAL MONSTER MANIA CONVENTION WHEN POLICE WERE CALLED TO A HOTEL...CNN
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