Wednesday, February 19, 2025

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 2/19/2025*TRUMP UNDER ATTACK OVER UKRAINE POLICY*DONATION ACCUSATION LEVELED DAYS BEFORE GERMAN ELECTION*ISRAELI SOLDIERS ACCUSED OF RAPING PRISONER*BRAZIL'S FORMER PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF COUP*

 

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                                  (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING)



                  LATE NEWS TONIGHT:



PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SPEAKING ABOUT GIVING TAXPAYERS BACK SOME OF THE SAVINGS CREATED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY.



MR. TRUMP SAYING HE IS CONSIDERING GIVING 20 PERCENT OF THE SAVINGS BACK.


EARLIER TODAY ELON MUSK SAID HE WOULD CHECK WITH THE PRESIDENT REGARDING THE NOTION OF GIVING BACK TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SAVINGS CREATED BY DOGE...NEW YORK POST





This evening in Jerusalem a woman moderately wounded in an ax attack.   The incident is a suspected terrorist attack...Israel National News




12 ARRESTS IN NINE MOROCCAN CITIES TODAY LINKED TO TERRORISM.


AUTHORITIES SAY THEY WERE PREVENTING A MAJOR TERRORIST ATTACK BY AN ISLAMIC STATE (DAESH) CELL ON MULTIPLE TARGETS IN MOROCCO.


NINE SIMULTANEOUS RAIDS CARRIED OUT TO MAKE THE ARRESTS OF THE SUSPECTS SAID TO BE DIRECTED BY ISLAMIC STATE IN THE SAHEL REGION OF AFRICA...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTING THAT PLANS ARE BEING DRAWN UP TO CUT US DEFENSE SPENDING EIGHT PERCENT ANNUALLY FOR A TOTAL 40 PERCENT CUT BY 2030.


SOME ITEMS ARE EXEMPT FROM CUTS INCLUDING MEXICAN BORDER OPERATIONS, NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND ONE-WAY ATTACK DRONES...OSINTdefender "X"




In New York a federal judge declining to rule on dismissal of federal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.


The Trump Administration Justice Department dropping charges leveled by the Biden Administration Justice Department.


Today's hearing on dismissal of charges came as Democrat New York Governor Kathy Hochul held meetings in the city ahead of a possible decision to remove Adams from office.



The corruption case cited but Democrats are upset with Adams cooperation with the Trump Administration's illegal immigration crackdown...BBC News Blog



President Trump's media company and the Rumble video company suing the controversial Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes in a US court.


They say his orders to censor posts on social media by Americans violate their First Amendment free speech rights and the sovereignty of the United States...Glenn Greenwald "X"



THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RESCINDING BIDEN ADMINISTRATION APPROVAL FOR A NINE DOLLAR TOLL FOR CARS IN PARTS OF MANHATTAN.


US TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY SEAN DUFFY SAYING THE 'CONGESTION PRICING PLAN' WAS 'A SPAP IN THE FACE OF WORKING CLASS AMERICANS AND SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS'.


PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYING NEW YORK HAS BEEN 'SAVED' BY THE DECISION...THE HILL USA




The Dutch government banning three Islamic clerics described as 'extremist' from entering the country.


The three were to appear at a Ramadan Expo in Utrecht.



Justice Minister David Martijn van Weel speaking of no place 'for hate speech and condoning violence' in the Netherlands...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)



INFLATION IN RUSSIA NOW RATED AT 10 PERCENT ANNUALLY ACCORDING TO THE LATEST WEEKLY STATES.   FOOD PRICES DRIVING THE INFLATIONARY PRESSURE...TASS RUSSIA



PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DEFENDING HIMSELF FROM CRITICISM BY UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY.


ZELENSKY SPOKE OF TRUMP AS BEING IN THE 'BUBBLE OR RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION'.


MR. TRUMP SAYING ZELENSKY IS A 'DICTATOR' WHO'S DONE AN 'AWFUL JOB'...Free Republic Post-Donald Trump Truth Social Link



The markets today.


The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 71.25 points.


The NASDAQ rose 14.99 points.


At 438 pm New York Time the price of oil higher 72 dollars 34 cents a barrel up 49 cents...Marketwatch



PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS THAT RUSSIAN FORCES HAVE CROSSED INTO UKRAINIAN TERRITORY IN THE KURSK REGION.


THE URKAINIAN CAPTURE OF TERRITORY IN KURSK HAS BEEN SEEN AS AN ATTEMPT TO GIVE URKAINE A BARGAINING CHIP IN NEGOTIATIONS TO END THE WAR...TASS RUSSIA


In the final days of the German election campaign an accusation about campaign donations to the Alternative for Germany Party.


The AfD, supported by Elon Musk directly and US Vice-President JD Vance indirectly, slapped with the accusation by mainstream media in Germany and Austria.


 2.46 million US dollars in donations and an Austrian intermediary labeled a 'straw man' figure in the accusation...News Agencies-TRT World Turkey (Turkiye)



                       (THE FOLLOWING MAY BE DISTURBING)


IN ISRAEL FIVE SOLDIERS INDICTED FOR MISTREATMENT OF A PALESTINIAN PRISONER SUSPECTED IN THE OCTOBER 7TH ATTACK.


RAPE IS AT CENTER OF THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THEM WITH THE SOLDIERS ACCUSED OF USING A TRUNCHEON.



BUT THIS IS DENIED BY THOSE DEFENDING THE SOLDIERS.     THERE IS EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE ALLEGATION.


THE INCIDENT ALLEGED TO HAVE HAPPENED AT THE SDE TEIMAN SECURITY FACILITY LAST JULY...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



In Austria a refugee center emptied in the city of Villach.  Its residents moved to another location in Austria.


This follows last Saturday's terrorist knife attack there that killed a 14-year-old boy.


The opposition Freedom Party calling for another center in the area to be shut down...ORF Austria (Translation Prompt)



AUTHORITIES IN BRAZIL ACCUSING FORMER PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO AND DOZENS OF OTHERS OF ATTEMPTING A COUP.


ON JANUARY 9TH, 2023 A JANUARY 6TH TYPE OF EVENT OCCURRED IN BRAZIL'S CAPITAL CITY OF BRASILIA AFTER LEFTIST PRESIDENT LULA DA SILVA TOOK OFFICE.


OVERSEEING THE CASE AGAINST MR. BOLSONARO IS CONTROVERSIAL SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ALEXANDRE DE MORAES WHO LEADS EFFORTS TO CENSOR ONLINE SPEECH IN BRAZIL...AL JAZEERA QATAR



In Florida a Jewish man facing charges for firing 17 shots at two men he thought were "Palestinians".


Mordechai Brafman jailed without bail facing second degree murder charges.



The two men he shot happened to be Israelis in Miami Beach for a vacation.



Brafman's attorney saying his client suffering from a 'mental health crisis' that led him to 'fear for his life'...Israel National News



IN SOUTH KOREA 17 GENERALS AND 13 FIELD GRADE OFFICERS UNDER INVESTIGATON IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHORT-LIVED DECLARATION OF MARTIAL LAW ON DECEMBER 3RD.


EIGHT OF THE OFFICERS MEMBERS OF THE DEFENSE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE COMMAND.


THOSE OFFICERS ACCUSED OF MOBILIZING SOLDIERS TO TAKE POLITICIANS INTO CUSTODY...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA




    THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                       (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)



OIL REFINERY IN RUSSIA DAMAGED BY UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACK



                         TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS


        RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




An oil refinery in Russia's Samara Region southeast of Moscow damaged by a Ukrainian drone attack...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA

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