Thursday, October 19, 2023

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 10/19/2023 JIM JORDAN STILL IN SPEAKER RACE, US CITIZENS WORLDWIDE WARNED, NEW US SANCTIONS AIMED AT CHINA HURT COMPUTER CHIP STOCKS

 


                           (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING)



California Governor Gavin Newsom is going to China next week and Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the military command center for operations in the Ukraine War and new developments tonight as Jim Jordan will seek a third vote to make him House Speaker but first...



                  LATE NEWS TONIGHT:




Two Russian SU-27 fighters intercepted a British spy plane and two British fighters over the Black Sea as they approached Russian near Ukraine today...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




MOODY'S RATINGS SERVICE PUTTING ISRAEL'S A1 CREDIT RATING ON REVIEW FOR A POSSIBLE DOWNGRADE.



THIS FOLLOWS A SIMILAR MOVE BY THE FITCH RATINGS AGENCY EARLIER IN THE WEEK.


THE PROSPECT OF A LONG CONFLICT WITH HAMAS FIGURING IN THOSE DECISIONS...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS




Tonight a speech from Joe Biden that links the War In Israel to the Ukraine War Against Russia with Biden seeking 60 billion dollars for Ukraine and 14 billion dollars for Israel from the US Treasury according to a leaked report.



But the final number said to be 100 billion dollars in total.


Biden connecting the two wars in his speech by linking Russian President Vladimir Putin to Hamas by implication claiming that both 'want to annihilate democracy'...





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TONIGHT, WORD THAT THE US MILITARY BASE AT THE AL OMAR OILFIELD IN NORTHEASTERN SYRIA HAS BEEN ATTACKED.    THIS IN ADDITION TO THE EARLIER REPORTED ATTACKS ON US BASES IN IRAQ AND SYRIA...TAMMUZ INTEL




In Syria the Russian military destroying underground storage facilities of the jihadist forces opposing the Syrian government.



The facilities in northwestern Syria said to contain long-range rockets.



The Russians also say there were two violations of deconfliction protocols in Syrian airspace by the US-led military coalition involving drones and 13 other violations of Syrian airspace by US and allied drones...TASS RUSSIA







THE EUROPEAN UNION WANTS SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES META AND TIK TOK TO TELL THEM WHAT ACTIONS ARE BEING TAKEN TO COMBAT 'DISINFORMATION'.



THE EU CITING THE NOTION OF 'DISINFORMATION' RELATED TO THE WAR IN ISRAEL...UPI




LAWYER SIDNEY POWELL PLEADING GUILTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE CASE BROUGHT AGAINST HER AND OTHERS INCLUDING PRESIDENT TRUMP IN CONNECTION THE CHALLENGE TO THE 2020 ELECTION RESULTS IN GEORGIA.



SIX YEARS PROBATION IN THE PLEA DEAL WITH DEMOCRAT ATLANTA PROSECUTOR FANI WILLIS WITH POWELL AGREEING TO TESTIFY AGAINST OTHER DEFENDANTS..





Tonight, a rocket and drone attack reported on the Ain al-Asad Air Base used by the US military in western Iraq..."X" SOCIAL MEDIA 'FAYTUKS NEWS'...Later a Pentagon statement saying this was a warning of a potential attack.



The US says a military contractor died during the alert suffering a heart attack while running for cover...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS





(UPDATED) A US WARSHIP OFF THE COAST OF YEMEN INTERCEPTING MULTIPLE MISSILES FIRED AT IT.     ITS NOT CLEAR IF THE MISSILES FIRED BY THE IRANIAN-BACKED HOUTHI REBELS WERE AIMED AT THE DESTROYER USS CARNEY...CNN...ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE SOURCES SAYING MISSILES FIRED TONIGHT FROM YEMEN WERE TARGETING ISRAEL...(Channel 13 Israel)


(Updated) A drone attack on the US military base at Al-Tanf in southern Syria at the Iraqi border using three drones.



Iraqi Shia Muslim militia claiming responsibility for the attack saying all three drones hit their targets. 


Fox News has been told that the US military base at Al-Tanf in Southern Syria was also targeted by drones yesterday.


No immediate information was given on casualties or damage caused by the attacking drones only one of which hit the base according to the US-led coalition forces. 



Later Al Jazeera was told by the US Central Command that minor injuries were sustained by members of the US military at Al-Tanf injuries not requiring hospitalization.


The Hezbollah affiliated Al Mayadeen TV channel saying that Al-Tanf and the Conoco Oil Field bases in Syria were attacked yesterday.


The US military also involved in interception of attacking drones in Iraq yesterday that targeted a US base...FOX NEWS...SHAFAQ NEWS IRAQ...TASS RUSSIA



THE UNITED STATES ISSUING A WARNING TO US CITIZENS AROUND THE WORLD.


IT IS BEING CALLED A:




           "Worldwide Caution Security Alert"...



                US DEPARTMENT OF STATE...





THIS ALERT ANOTHER SIGN OF IMPENDING MILITARY ACTION BY ISRAEL IN GAZA WHICH IS LIKELY TO TRIGGER A VIOLENT RESPONSE.

 



The markets today.




The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 250.91 points or .75 percent.



The NASDAQ fell 128.13 points or .98 percent.


At 520 pm New York Time the price of oil 90 dollars and 37 cents a barrel up two dollars and five cents or 2.32 percent today...MARKETWATCH





POLITICS IN WASHINGTON WORD TONIGHT THAT CONGRESSMAN JIM JORDAN OF OHIO WILL SEEK A THIRD VOTE TOMORROW AT 10 AM TO BE APPROVED AS US HOUSE SPEAKER...CONGRESSMAN JIM JORDAN "X" (TWITTER)...FREE REPUBLIC POST-THOMAS MASSIE "X"-DISCUSSION





 EARLIER TODAY THE WORD WAS THAT JORDAN WAS BACKING AWAY FROM SEEKING ELECTION AS HOUSE SPEAKER.



JORDAN WAS SAID TO BE PUTTING OFF A SPEAKER CONTEST UNTIL JANUARY.



A DECISION REPORTEDLY MADE TO HAVE REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE PATRICK MCHENRY TO SERVE AS AN INTERIM SPEAKER.


THIS DECISION APPEARED LIKELY LINKED IN SOME WAY TO IMPENDING MILITARY ACTION BY ISRAEL IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND WHAT WILL TRANSPIRE AS A RESULT...FREE REPUBLIC POST-WASHINGTON POST STORY-DISCUSSION








In Arras, France today the funeral of teacher Dominique Bernard stabbed to death in a terrorist attack last Friday...AFP FRANCE-DIGITAL JOURNAL





In Berlin last night 65 police officers hurt with 174 people placed under arrest a Pro-Palestinian demonstration.


Firecrackers flew during the demonstration...TAGESSCHAU GERMANY




AFTER THE CRACKDOWN ON FORMER PRIME MINISTER IMRAN KHAN INCLUDING HIS IMPRISONMENT THE GOVERNMENT IN PAKISTAN IS NOW ALLOWING ANOTHER FORMER PRIME MINISTER IN EXILE TO RETURN TO THE COUNTRY.



A COURT DECISION TODAY WILL ALLOW NAWAZ SHARIF TO RETURN TO THE COUNTRY AHEAD OF ELECTIONS PLANNED IN JANUARY...ASSOCIATED PRESS-ABC NEWS USA




China condemning the flight of a Canadian military patrol plane into its air space in the vicinity of the Taiwan Strait.


Canada claiming the flight was in international air space when confronted by a Chinese warplane...CHINA DAILY




THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HITTING CHINA WITH ECONOMIC WARFARE THIS WEEK TRYING TO CLOSE LOOPHOLES IN COMPUTER CHIP SANCTIONS.


CHINA CRITICIZING THE NEW RESTRICTIONS SAYING THEY VIOLATE PRINCIPLES OF THE MARKET ECONOMY AND FAIR COMPETITION.



THE US SAYING IT'S TRYING TO KEEP CHINA FROM USING CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY TO STRENGHTHEN ITS MILITARY.



CHIPMAKING TOOLS AND CHIPS PART OF THE NEW SET OF SANCTIONS HITTING COMPANIES LIKE NVIDIA.



STOCKS OF CHIP MAKERS DECLINED THIS WEEK FOLLOWING THE NEW SANCTIONS...BBC NEWS




"California and China hold the keys to solving the climate crisis"



California Governor Gavin Newsom billing his trip to China next week for talks with government and business leaders as a trip about climate.



The news release from his office stressing the economic ties between China's second-largest world economy and California's fifth-largest world economy...THE HILL



ON A VISIT TO NORTH KOREA RUSSIA FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV DESCRIBING THE TWO COUNTRIES RELATIONS ADVANCING TO A 'NEW STRATEGIC LEVEL'.




LAVROV ALSO SPEAKING OF PROJECTS RELATED TO ENERGY AND MINERALS INCLUDING PROVIDING RUSSIAN ENERGY TO NORTH KOREA.



THE NEW LEVEL OF RELATIONS LINKED TO THE SEPTEMBER 13TH MEETING IN RUSSIA'S FAR EAST INVOLVING PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN AND NORTH KOREAN RULER KIM JONG-UN...TASS RUSSIA...TASS RUSSIA STORY TWO





                        WAR IN ISRAEL

                                                       (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)




DEATHS AND INJURIES AT GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH IN GAZA FOLLOWING ISRAELI STRIKE




MISSILE BARRAGE INTO NORTHERN ISRAEL FROM LEBANON




         ISRAEL ESTIMATES 203 HOSTAGES IN GAZA





  BRITISH PRIME MINISTER PUSHES AID FOR GAZA

 


       MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




                          ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS




                                   TIMES OF ISRAEL




                                    BBC NEWS BLOG






Sources telling CNN tonight that the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will not be opened for 20 humanitarian relief trucks tomorrow...(CNN)




Deaths and injuries reported after an Israeli attack that caused damage to a Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza...(BBC News)




20 or more missiles fired into Northern Israel from Lebanon this evening.   Three injuries reported...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS




Today the Israel Defense Forces estimated 203 hostages in Gaza...(Israel National News)


British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visiting Israel today expressing solidarity with Israel but also pushing the notion of humanitarian aid in Gaza at the same time...(BBC News)




  THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA



PUTIN VISITS MILITARY COMMAND CENTER FOR UKRAINE WAR



UKRAINIAN DRONES DOWNED OVER SOUTHWESTERN RUSSIA TONIGHT


                  TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED





     RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting the military command center for the war in Rostov-on-Don.



Mr. Putin briefed by Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov who said that Russian forces are "fulfilling objectives in accordance with the operation's plan"...TASS RUSSIA




Late tonight Russian air defenses taking down two Ukrainian drones flying over the Belgorod Region of southwestern Russia...TASS RUSSIA




In other news...





The attempt to impeach the Anti-Russian ceremonial leader of the nation of Georgia failed.



The parliamentary vote on impeachment of President Salome Zurabishvili received 86 votes in favor short of the 2/3 majority of 100 required...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)

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