Wednesday, November 15, 2023

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 11/15/2023 BIDEN-XI MEETING, ISRAEL 'TERRORIST STATE' SAYS TURKISH LEADER, CHINA ANNOUNCES SUPERFAST INTERNET SYSTEM, SOROS FUND MANAGEMENT MOVES INVESTMENTS

 


                                (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING)




                 LATE NEWS TONIGHT:




Police clashing with Pro-Palestinian protesters tonight outside Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington DC tonight.



Arrests have been made after hundreds of protesters appeared at the building with some trying to break-in.



Members of Congress inside the building at the time...NBC NEWS USA





ISRAELI POLITICS OPPOSITION LEADER YAIR LAPID OF THE "YESH ATID" PARTY CALLING ON PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU TO RESIGN.    


MR. LAPID SAYING NETANYAHU SHOULD BE REPLACED BY ANOTHER LIKUD PARTY MEMBER...MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...



LAPID DID NOT CALL FOR NEW ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL.    LATEST POLLING DATA SAYING HIS PARTY WOULD FARE POORLY IN AN ELECTION.



THE 'NATIONAL UNITY' PARTY OF WAR CABINET MINISTER BENNY GANTZ WOULD EMERGE AS THE LARGEST PARTY...ISRAELI ELECTION POLLING-WIKIPEDIA





The Pentagon now saying that a US destroyer successfully stopped a drone attack in the Red Sea today.



The incident reported on in the "War In Israel" section of this summary  involved a drone originating in Yemen linked to the Iranian-backed Houthi forces...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)





THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL HAS VOTED 12-0 WITH RUSSIA, THE US AND UK ABSTAINING IN FAVOR OF A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR 'HUMANITARIAN PAUSES' IN ISRAEL'S MILITARY ACTIONS IN GAZA.




ISRAEL'S UN AMBASSADOR GILAD ERDAN SAYS THE RESOLUTION IS:




"disconnected from reality and is meaningless"...




                ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS





Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping holding their meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit in San Francisco.



The meeting comes amidst economic warfare involving the two countries that includes the US restrictions on high-end computer chip sales to China and China's restrictions on mineral exports used in electric car batteries.



President Xi said ahead of today's meeting that there is a "competition" underway between the US and China that "will not help resolve bilateral and global challenges".


Xi hopeful about future progress in US-China relations...TASS RUSSIA



Mr. Biden said ahead of today's meeting that the "competition" between the US and China "have to ensure the competition does not veer into conflict"...TASS RUSSIA STORY TWO...



After the meeting we are told there will dialogues on various issues including AI and drug trafficking.    China is being cited as a source of the drug fentanyl...(News Agencies).




British politics polling done for "GB News" showing the fallout from Monday's cabinet shakeup.


Conservative Party Prime Minister Rishi Sunak firing Home Secretary Suella Braverman and bringing former Prime Minister David Cameron in as Foreign Minister.



The Labor Party shooting up to 49 percent support, the Conservatives falling to 19 percent, Reform UK rising to 11 percent and the Liberal Democrats at 9 percent...WIKIPEDIA BRITISH ELECTION POLLS



                         "terrorist state"




Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan leveling that accusation at Israel today.    


Mr. Erdogan saying Türkiye will act to ensure that political and military leaders who were involved in the killing of civilians in Gaza will face trial in international courts.



Speaking to the members of his Islamist AK Party in Parliament, Erdogan saying that if Israel continues its "massacres", the world will see Israel as a "universally condemned terrorist state"...ANADOLU AGENCY-YENI SAFAK TURKIYE (TURKEY)





In the five-day period ending Monday the annual inflation rate in Russia measured at 7.16 percent.    It was 6.99 percent a week earlier...TASS RUSSIA



A US MILITARY BASE IN IRAQ ATTACKED TODAY.    THE HEZBOLLAH AFFILIATED AL-MAYADEEN CHANNEL SAYS THAT THE AIN AL-ASAD BASE WAS HIT BY SEVERAL MISSILES...TASS RUSSIA



The markets today.





The Dow rose 163.51 points.



The NASDAQ up 9.45 points.


At 6 pm New York Time the price of oil 76 dollars and 58 cents a barrel down one dollar and 68 cents today...MARKETWATCH



THE BRITISH SUPREME COURT RULING AGAINST A GOVERNMENT PLAN TO SEND ASYLUM SEEKERS TO RWANDA.



THE GOVERNMENT HAD ARGUED THE LAW WAS NEEDED TO DEAL WITH THE RISING TIDE OF MIGRATION TO THE UK INVOLVING SMALL BOATS...BBC NEWS...



PRIME MINISTER RISHI SUNAK VOWING EMERGENCY LEGISLATION TO DECLARE RWANDA A 'SAFE' COUNTRY FOR MIGRANTS TO BE TAKEN TO...FREE REPUBLIC POST-BBC NEWS STORY-DISCUSSION




The French courts issuing arrest warrants for Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher al-Assad.



They relate to alleged use of chemical weapons during the Syrian Civil War that started in 2011.



In the conflict between Western and Gulf Arab backed Al Qaeda followers and the Assad government its alleged that two chemical weapons attacks in 2013 led to the deaths of more than 1,000 people...MIDDLE EAST NEWS AGENCY-THE NEW ARAB



CHINA UNVEILING THE WORLD'S FASTEST INTERNET SYSTEM COVERING MAJOR CITIES ACROSS THREE THOUSAND KILOMTETERS.



THE NETWORK ABLE TO TRANSMIT DATA AT 1.2 TERABITS (1,200 GIGABITS) PER SECOND.



IN COMPARISON THE UNITED STATES RECENTLY TRANSITIONED TO A FIFTH-GENERATION INTENET SYSTEM THAT MOVES DATA AT 400 GIGABITS PER SECOND...OUTLOOK INDIA




North Korea says its tested new solid-fuel engines for a new type of ballistic missile.



State media reporting that separate tests were conducted for the first and second state engines.


The tests described as "very successful"...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA





IN NEW ZEALAND TODAY THE LEADERS OF THE THREE POLITICAL PARTIES SET TO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT MEETING FACE TO FACE.


THE MAINSTREAM 'RIGHT' CHRISTOPHER LUXON JOINED IN AN AUCKLAND HOTEL ROOM IN AUCKLAND BY THE PRO-COVID VAX ANTI-GUN CONROL LEADER OF THE ACT PARTY DAVID SEYMOUR.



ALSO INVOLVED NEW ZEALAND FIRST PARTY LEADER WINSTON PETERS.    


PETERS A FORMER DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER IN A GOVERNMENT LED BY JACINDA ARDERN AND THE LABOR PARTY.



PETERS SUPPORTED THE GUN CONTROL MEASURES OF 2019 BUT LAST YEAR VISITED WITH NEW ZEALANDERS OPPOSED TO COVID MANDATES INCLUDING THE COERCION TO VACCINATE WHEN THEY PROTESTED IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF WELLINGTON.




THEIR FACE-TO-FACE MEETING SIGNIFIES THAT THE TALKS TO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT ARE MOVING CLOSER TO COMPLETION...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND





In the third-quarter of this year Soros Fund Management founded by George Soros moving out of some tech investments and into others.


Holdings in Microsoft and Nvidia were sold.  New holdings in many tech stocks acquired including Apple and Taiwan Semiconductor.


Holdings expanded by the Soros fund in Door Dash and Uber.


Increased holdings in General Motors also reported in the third quarter while the Soros fund holdings in Disney were sold off...MARKETWATCH STORY






                        WAR IN ISRAEL

                                                       (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)




            MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




                                     BBC NEWS BLOG




US NAVY SHOOTS DOWN DRONE LAUNCHED BY YEMEN



ISRAELI OPERATION AT AL SHIFA HOSPITAL IN GAZA CONTINUED TODAY



         ISRAEL ALLOWS FUEL TANKERS INTO GAZA




The US Navy shooting down a drone launched from Yemen in the Red Sea south of Israel early today...TIMES OF ISRAEL...The Pentagon is saying the ship was defending itself.





Israeli forces continued to operate inside Gaza's Al Shifa hospital today...(BBC News)




Fuel tanker trucks entering Gaza today.   Israel allowing the fuel trucks in to fuel UN vehicles in Gaza...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)











   THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA



                     TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED




         RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)

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