Wednesday, September 30, 2020

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 9/30/2020

 



                         (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY)


"I am not extending the statewide mask mandate, but I want to be clear,  I still believe masks work.   I think the facts and data across this country bear that out"



Those words spoken by Mississippi Republican Governor Tate Reeves today as he continues a mask order for certain professions and for schools in the State of Mississippi along with other COVID-19 restrictions......



WAPT JACKSON STORY (VIDEO EMBEDDED)


Police in Israel have handed out 3,570 fines for violations of the nationwide coronavirus lockdown in the last 24 hours......YNET NEWS




Spain moving to expand a lockdown already underway in parts of its capital city.    The lockdown will now include all of Madrid and surrounding areas.......BBC NEWS



British Parliament members promised a better response from the government by Health Minister Matt Hancock as the House of Commons speaker admonished the government but refused to allow an amendment to reduce the power of Prime Minister Boris Johnson to rule without the consent of Parliament.......PETER HITCHENS COMMENTARY



In the UK some 1,800 of the nations 110,000 hospital beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients....PETER HITCHENS TWITTER LINK TO DAILY MAIL STORY




Azerbaijan says that the fighting with Armenia continues today in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region......TASS......The country's president vows to continue fighting......BBC NEWS....More on the conflict from the "Al Jazeera" blog......AL JAZEERA BLOG ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN WAR 9/30/2020




RUSSIAN TROOPS BREAKING THROUGH A US BLOCKADE TO ESTABLISH A CHECKPOINT IN THE EASTERN PART OF SYRIA.   THE CHECKPOINT SAID TO BLOCK ACCESS FROM NEIGHBORING IRAQ..........SOUTHFRONT



A court approving an 800 million dollar settlement for more than 4,400 victims and their relatives in the October 2017 mass murder incident in Las Vegas.    58 killed and more than 850 wounded.   The MGM Resorts International organization does not admit liability in the deal but pays out 49 million dollars along with 751 million from its insurance companies......ASSOCIATED PRESS



KENTUCKY ATTORNEY GENERAL DANIEL CAMERON GETTING AN EXTENSION FROM A JUDGE WHO ORDERED RELEASE OF GRAND JURY RECORDINGS IN THE BREONNA TAYLOR CASE AT NOON TODAY.    THOSE RECORDINGS MUST NOW BE RELEASED BY NOON ON FRIDAY.......CNN


Portland city officials are saying they didn't know that 56 police officers in the special unit with deals with protests were being federally deputized until the end of the year.      The deputizing took place last Saturday morning ahead of the Proud Boys rally in the city.



The city attorney has written to the counsel for the US Attorney in Portland saying it does not consent to the deputizing lasting until the end of the year.....OREGONLIVE



THE US INCREASING ITS MILITARY PRESENCE ON THE GREEK ISLAND OF CRETE AMIDST TENSIONS BETWEEN GREECE AND TURKEY OVER ENERGY RIGHTS IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN......WASHINGTON EXAMINER




The World Health Organization is probing allegations by 50 woman of sexual misconduct by its employees sent to combat the ebola virus.      Two news organizations reporting on the allegations in the Democratic Republic of Congo......BBC NEWS



In India a special court acquitted top leaders from India' ruling BJP party of inciting Hindu mobs to destroy a mosque in 1990.    Rioting that followed the demolition of the mosque in Ayodhya killed around two thousand people......BBC NEWS



WORLDOMETERS CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR THE USA TODAY SHOWING 40,929 NEW CASES WITH 955 MORE DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-19.



WORLDWIDE 313,858 NEW CASES REPORTED INCLUDING 12,845 IN FRANCE, 7,018 IN THE UK,  3,294 IN THE NETHERLANDS AND  1,797 IN CANADA.




The coronavirus story around the world today as reported by BBC News on its daily blog......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 9/30/2020



That's the way it really it Wednesday September 30th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.

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