Tuesday, February 23, 2021

NEWS SUMMARY INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 2/23/2021

 


           (LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE TUESDAY WITH SERVICE                                                         SUSPENDED AT 915 PM EASTERN US TIME)




Conflicting testimony from former US Capitol security officials who resigned after the January 6th Capitol Incident.    They testified before a Senate committee today.


Former US Capitol Police Chief Stephen Sund and House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving disagree on when National Guard assistance was requested for the Capitol.



Sund, Irving and the former Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger all say they did not have access to an FBI report sent to the US Capitol Police the evening of January 5th.    The report indicated the possibility of trouble at the Capitol the next day.




                                  AXIOS STORY ONE







                                   AXIOS STORY TWO





During the hearing Senator Ron Johnson (R)-Wisconsin read from a report by analyst J. Michael Waller.    The report published by "The Federalist"  said among other things that agitators turned  "unsuspecting marchers into an invading mob"...NEWSMAX




Is the talk about release from the coronavirus confinement in the United Kingdom a release or just a lengthy extension of confinement and control?     Journalist Peter Hitchens sees the latter as being the true meaning of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement this week...PETER HITCHENS TWITTER


ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SAID TODAY HE WANTS AN OVERNIGHT CORONAVIRUS CURFEW FOR THE UPCOMING PURIM HOLIDAY IN ISRAEL....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...THE CURFEW APPROVED BY THE CORONAVIRUS CABINET TONIGHT AND SET TO START THURSDAY EVENING FOR THREE NIGHTS IN A ROW....YNET NEWS ISRAEL 




The medical license of an Israeli doctor opposed to the coronavirus vaccine has been taken away by the country's health ministry.     A retired judge deciding that Dr. Aryeh Avni's views were a threat to public health...YNET NEWS ISRAEL


A 266-0 vote with two abstentions in Canada's House of Commons approving a motion declaring the Chinese government's treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority as "genocide".


The push by the opposition Conservative Party supported by many in the governing Liberal Party but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other cabinet ministers absent.    However Foreign Minister Marc Garneau was present to abstain on the vote "on behalf of the government of Canada".



The motion calls on the government to lobby for the removal of the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing....CBC NEWS CANADA



Two rockets landed in Baghdad's Green Zone Monday night.    Iraqi government officials and pro-Iranian militia leaders condemned the attack which they say was caused by "rogue" elements...PRESS TV IRAN



Facebook deciding to allow news content in Australia again.   The social media giant reaching an understanding with Australia's government over the new law requiring tech companies to pay media companies for use of their content...THE NATIONAL-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES



Police in the nation of Georgia near Russia arresting the leader of the main opposition party.   Supporters barricading themselves inside the party's headquarters.   Tear gas used by the police.   The country's prime minister resigned last week over the arrest order...BBC NEWS...TASS



One of three men accused of assassinating a journalist in Malta entered a guilty plea and received a 15 year sentence.  Vincent Muscat will provide information about the murder believed to have been ordered by figures in the country's political establishment...BBC NEWS




PROTESTS IN ARMENIA TODAY DEMANDING THE RESIGNATION OF PRIME MINISTER NIKOL PASHINYAN.   DOZENS ARRESTED WITH PROTESTS SLATED TO CONTINUE TOMORROW AND THURSDAY....TASS



In Poland the investigation against a left-wing journalist dropped.   The prosecutors say they could find no violation of the law in Katarzyna Markusz's article on "Polish participation in the Holocaust".      She was accused of "insulting the Polish nation"...YNET NEWS ISRAEL




Golf great Tiger Woods seriously injured in a vehicle accident in the Los Angeles area today.  His SUV involved in a rollover accident...ABC 7 LOS ANGELES (VIDEO-LIVE EMBEDDED)




THE CORONAVIRUS STATS FROM WORLDOMETERS FOR TODAY AND THE TREND OF HIGHER NUMBERS OF POSITIVE TESTS VERSUS LAST WEEK CONTINUES.



IN THE US TODAY 71,054 NEW POSITIVE TESTS UP FROM 63,398 LAST TUESDAY AND WORLDWIDE 371,129 NEW POSITIVE TESTS UP FROM 342,151 LAST TUESDAY.




SOME OF THE NUMBERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES TODAY NEW POSITIVE COVID-19 TESTS FRANCE 20,064, ITALY 13,314, POLAND 6,310, ISRAEL 4,574 AND COLOMBIA 3.926




And that's the way it really is Tuesday February 23rd, 2021 Day 345 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 345 of America and the World held hostage.




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