(SERVICE WHEN ABLE PAST MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY INTO EARLY THURSDAY AM)
A collision between Russian and US armored vehicles in Syria leads to a high level conversation but first.......
Citizens were urged to show up en masse at Idaho's State Capitol in Boise today (745 am local time, 945 Eastern US time) following yesterday's tumultuous events when riot police flooded the building and citizen journalists were removed from the building leading to the arrest of Peoples Rights activist Ammon Bundy and two others late in the afternoon......FACEBOOK EVENT
And again today Ammon Bundy arrested and removed from the Senate gallery in the Idaho State Capitol and he has been banned from the state Captiol building for a year......YOU TUBE VIDEO.....EAST IDAHO NEWS
Activists trying to stop legislation that would offer civil liability to business over COVID-19 in Idaho in exchange for business compliance with government coronavirus orders.
"Health Freedom Idaho" is following developments in the legislature today......HEALTH FREEDOM IDAHO FACEBOOK
(COMMENT-ANALYSIS)
It appears from what is happening in Boise that what one might call 'political games' are taking place like a bill to stop Republican Governor Brad Little's State of Emergency and its martial law over COVID-19 passing the House by a big margin but not being taken up by the Senate. The Republicans who run Idaho figure people will be distracted by the GOP Convention message and forget that the coronavirus has been used to take away their freedoms and impose authoritarian rule on them.
And as the legislature rams through the immunity from liability in exchange for compliance with muzzle-mask orders only Ammon Bundy has the courage to take a stand for freedom and get himself arrested. Freedom is lost here in the USA one can rightly argue that the people have chosen to give it up......GAVIN SEIM FOR LIBERTY FACEBOOK
A sweeping stay-at-home order imposed on Hawaii's main and most populous island of Oahu for the second time this year because of the coronavirus. Testing to be ramped up along with contact tracing in and around Honolulu along with stepped up quarantine and isolation measures.......HONOLULU ADVERTISER
THE TOP GENERALS FROM RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES TALKING AFTER AN INCIDENT IN SYRIA LATE TUESDAY NIGHT INVOLVING A COLLISION BETWEEN A RUSSIAN MILITARY VEHICLE AND AN AMERICAN ONE. FOUR AMERICAN SOLDIERS REPORTED TO HAVE SUSTAINED CONCUSSION RELATED INJURIES. THE US IS BLAMING RUSSIA FOR THE INCIDENT........TASS REPORT
(ANALYSIS)
THE US AND RUSSIAN PATROLS OPERATING IN NORTHEAST SYRIA HAVE BEEN PRETTY MUCH PLAYING A CAT AND MOUSE GAME WITH EACH OTHER FOR MANY MONTHS NOW. FROM TIME TO TIME ONE SIDE WILL BLOCK THE PATH OF THE OTHER. THAT THIS WOULD 'ESCALATE' IS NOT SURPRISING.
At the protests over the Sunday evening police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin two people shot and killed another wounded around midnight last night. Authorities have arrested the suspected shooter.
THE SUSPECT, 17-YEAR OLD KYLE RITTENHOUSE, SAID TO BE AN ADMIRER OF POLICE.
THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TODAY IDENTIFIED THE POLICE OFFICER WHO SHOT JACOB BLAKE AS RUSTEN SHESKEY.......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
A group of armed men protecting a gas station seen in the area just before the shootings. Protesters were seen arguing with them minutes before the shooting on live video streams.
VIDEO POSTED ONLINE SHOWS THE ARGUING FOLLOWING BY A SEGMENT WITH AN ARMED MAN TALKING TO POLICE IN ARMORED VEHICLES FOLLOWED BY LATER VIDEO OF AN ARMED MAN CHASING AND SHOOTING SOMEONE. LATER THE APPARENT SHOOTER CHASED IN THE STREET AND SHOOTING BACK FIRING MULTIPLE SHOTS AFTER HE'S KNOCKED TO THE GROUND. FROZEN VIDEO OF A MAN HOLDING A GUN AT THE END.
AND TONIGHT THE WORD IS OF A MUCH QUIETER NIGHT WITH PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS IN KENOSHA.......WISN-TV
ALSO TONIGHT IN MINNEAPOLIS LOOTING IN THE CENTER OF THE CITY FOLLOWING WHAT POLICE SAY WAS THE SUICIDE OF A MURDER SUSPECT NOT A POLICE SHOOTING OF THE SUSPECT. LOOTING GOING ON IN PLACES WHERE POLICE ARE NOT PRESENT. STATE POLICE AND SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES CALLED ONTO THE STREETS OF THE CITY...WCCO-TV VIDEO REPORT
France's Defense Minister says its miltiary will join exercises with Italy, Greece and Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean amidst tensions with Turkey over energy exploration in disputed waters.
Germany is trying to mediate with Turkey while France is calling for support for fellow European Union member Greece.....RETUERS
Today Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country is committed to protecting its interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Aegean and Black Sea.
Erdogan said "We will take whatever we are entitled to in the Mediterranean, Aegean and Black seas, we will not make any concessions.".......DAILY SABAH TURKEY
Iran saying it will allow International Atomic Energy Agency Inspections to view former suspected nuclear sites in the country.....BBC NEWS
Police in Hong Kong arresting 16 people involved in pro-democracy protests in opposition to government policy in the territory ruled by mainland China........BBC NEWS
North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un making a public appearance after a recent claim he was in a coma. Kim urging measures against the coronavirus and an approaching typhoon......DAILY MAIL UK
US CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS FOR TODAY SHOWING 44,637 NEW CASES ACCORDING TO WORLDOMETERS WITH TOP NUMBERS FROM TEXAS (6,053), CALIFORNIA (5,415) AND FLORIDA (3,220). NUMBERS FROM OTHER STATES INCLUDE GEORGIA AT 2,236, ILLINOIS AT 2,157, ALABAMA AT 2,012, KANSAS AT 1,359 AND OHIO WITH 1,059 NEW CASES REPORTED. THE STATISTICS ALSO ATTRIBUTING 1,289 MORE DEATHS TO COVID-19.
The coronavirus story around the world as reported by BBC News on its daily blog........BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG
AND FINALLY TONIGHT THE STORY OF HURRICANE LAURA NOW APPROACHING THE US GULF COAST AT MIDNIGHT EASTERN US TIME, 11 PM CENTRAL THE CENTER SOME 60 MILES DUE SOUTH OF LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA MOVING NORTH-NORTHWEST AT 15 MILES PER HOUR. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS 150 MILES PER HOUR.......NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER STATEMENT 11 PM CENTRAL US TIME.......THIS LIVE BLOG FROM KPLC-TV LAKE CHARLES......KPLC LIVE BLOG WITH AUDIO......KPRC HOUSTON LIVE VIDEO.......12 NEWS NOW BEAUMONT TEXAS LIVE
And for now that's the way it really is Wednesday August 26th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
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