Monday, December 8, 2025

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 12/8/2025*1 TRILLION+ TRADE SURPLUS FOR CHINA*UK-FRANCE-GERMANY DOUBTING US UKRAINE PLAN*THAILAND-CAMBODIA FIGHTING*ISRAEL CALLED AMERICA'S 'FIREWALL' AGAINST 'RADICAL ISLAM'*

 

                                (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH MONDAY EVENING)

                                (STORIES IN UPPER AND LOWER SECTIONS OF POST)





ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU PLANNING A WEEK-LONG VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES AFTER CHRISTMAS.


NETANYAHU'S VISIT FROM DECEMBER 28TH TO JANUARY 4TH WILL INCLUDE A MEETING WITH US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ON DECEMBER 29TH...TASS RUSSIA



  A 7.6 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE OFF JAPAN'S NORTHERNMOST ISLAND OF HOKKAIDO.


TSUNAMI WARNINGS ISSUED...NHK WORLD JAPAN



"If the Israeli media doesn't protect freedom of expression, there won't be freedom of expression"


Israel's Opposition Leader Yair Lapid warning Israeli journalists to stand their ground as the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advances a new media bill.



The legislation coming just months before Israel's next election will create a new regulatory structure for Israeli media.



It's being justified because of left-leaning bias inside the Israeli mainstream media.


Mr. Lapid criticizing the bill as an attempt to 'silence dissent'...(Times of Israel)...Times Of Israel 



ISRAEL IS CONDUCTING WIDESPREAD SURVEILLANCE AT AN INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION CENTER TO IMPLEMENT AN AGREEMENT ENDING THE FIGHTING IN GAZA.


THE US COMMANDER OF THE BASE SUMMONED HIS ISRAELI COUNTERPART TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE SPYING.


SOURCES TELLING THE GUARDIAN ABOUT THE SITUATION WITH US DECLINING TO COMMENT ON IT.


ISRAEL PUBLICLY DISMISSING THE NOTION THAT IT IS INVOLVED IN SPYING AT THE GAZA COORDINATON CENTER AS 'ABSURD'...THE GUARDIAN UK



The markets today.

At 1223 pm New York Time the Dow and NASDAQ lower the price of oil sharply lower at 59 dollars 10 cents a barrel...Marketwatch



CHINA REACHING A RECORD TRADE SURPLUS OF MORE THAN ONE TRILLION US DOLLARS.


THIS AS BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPEAN UNION SEEK TO LIMIT THEIR TRADING WITH CHINA.


CHINA LOST 29 PERCENT OF ITS TRADE WITH THE US LAST YEAR BUT MADE UP FOR IT BY TRADING WITH OTHER NATIONS...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



In London Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky meeting Prime Minister Keir Starmer along with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.


Their meeting apparently an attempt to oppose US efforts to end fighting in the Ukraine War...


                          BBC NEWS BLOG




                                  (This Story Is Updated)


FIGHTING BREAKING OUT BETWEEN CAMBODIA AND THAILAND THIS MORNING WITH AT LEAST FIVE KILLED ONE THAI SOLIDER AND FOUR CAMBODIAN CIVILIANS.


THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS IN BOTH COUNTRIES EVACUATING BORDER AREAS.


TODAY'S CLASH CHALLENGES THE PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES SIGNED IN THE PRESENCE OF US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP...BBC NEWS BLOG...OSINTdefender "X" (Thai Air Strike Video Embed)



"The firewall between radical Islam and America is only a tiny state called Israel"


Those words from Dr. Mike Evans of the Friends of Zion organization.


Evans joining more than 1,000 US Christian leaders and influencers in Israel for an event organized by Israel's foreign ministry and a regional Israeli government.


The visitors getting pitches from dozens of top Israeli officials regarding the importance of Judea and Samaria ("The West Bank") for Israel's security.


He also said if "Israel is weakened they will hit us"...Israel National News



     THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                             (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)


67 ATTACKING UKRAINIAN DRONES SHOT DOWN BY RUSSIAN AIR DEFENSES



                             TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS


          RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



Russian air defenses taking down 67 attacking Ukrainian drones overnight into Monday.


Two of them downed over the Moscow Region and two others over the Leningrad Region near the city of St. Petersburg...Tass Russia English News



In other news...




ALBERTA PREMIER DANIELLE SMITH SAYS COURTS SHOULD NOT BE 'GATEKEEPERS' WHEN IT COMES TO ANY INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUMS.


THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA'S ENERGY RICH WESTERN PROVINCE MOVING LEGISLATION GIVING THE PROVINCIAL JUSTICE MINISTER POWER TO ALLOW REFERENDUMS THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE BE SHOT DOWN BY THE JUDICIARY...CBC NEWS CANADA



At the Louvre in Paris hundreds of books damaged by a leak.  The leak occurred recently in the heating and ventilation system of the Egyptian antiquities section of the museum.


Books and magazines damaged along with carpet and office furniture...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)

















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