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Friday, May 27, 2022
NEWS SUMMARY INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 5/27/2022 NEWSDUMP HOLIDAY WEEKEND TRUMP HONORS ATTACK VICTIMS, POT USE OF SCHOOL ATTACKER CENSORED, IRAN SAYS OUTSIDE POWERS IMPORTING JIHADISTS INTO AFGHANISTAN, CONTROVERSIAL NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER IN US
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New developments in the mass murder attacks at a Texas school and a Buffalo, New York grocery store also Iran claiming seizure of Greek oil tankers but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT...
A Washington DC jury convicting a man accused in connection with his presence in the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Timothy Hale-Cusanelli found guilty on all five charges created by federal prosecutors.
An FBI informant testified against Hale-Cusanelli, a former Army reservist and Navy contractor, calling him "an avowed white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer".
US District Judge Trevor McFadden, who has acquitted another defendant and partially acquitted another one in bench trials, will sentence Hale-Cusanelli on September 16th...MALAY MAIL MALAYSIA
Turkish backed forces shelling Kurdish targets in northern and northeastern Syria today.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking of a new military operation there this week but for now no ground offensive has been mentioned or launched in the region....KURDISTAN 24
In London two Metropolitan Police officers accused of rape. Both officers suspended from the police force...SKY NEWS UK
IN OREGON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CALLING A DEMOCRAT CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY FOR A 'PROGRESSIVE' CANDIDATE.
JAMIE MCLEOD-SKINNER DECLARED THE WINNER OVER SEVEN-TERM INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN KURT SCHRADER LABELED AS A 'CENTRIST'...POLITICO
The "New York Times" reporting an attack on Iran's Parchin military complex Wednesday. One killed and one wounded in the attack...TIMES OF ISRAEL
The numbers up on Wall Street today the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 1.76 percent in value or 575.77 points. The NASDAQ up 3.33 percent in value or 390.48 points...MARKETWATCH
THE US IMPOSING NEW SANCTIONS ON NORTH KOREA FOLLOWING ITS LATEST MISSILE LAUNCHES.
THEY FREEZE ASSETS OF TWO NORTH KOREAN BANKS, ONE INDIVIDUAL AND A TRADING COMPANY... THE HILL
DR. OZ DECLARES HIMSELF PRESUMPTIVE WINNER OF GOP SENATE PRIMARY IN PENNSYLVANIA
(UPDATED VOTE TOTALS)
"I am blessed to have earned the presumptive Republican nomination for the United States Senate"
Dr. Mehmet Oz declaring a victory in the Pennsylvania Republican race for US Senate in Pennsylvania with a 900 some vote lead over hedge fund manager David McCormick with the recount of the vote getting underway.
Oz also speaking of the need to 'heal' and 'pull people together again' in a campaign video released this morning...
The Associated Press vote total at 9 pm Eastern US Time tonight Mehmet Oz 419,631 votes to David McCormick 418,706 votes...
An official recount now underway by the Pennsylvania Department of State with final totals due by Tuesday June 7th.
The Department of State numbers differ from the Associated Press Count but when it comes to mail-in ballots they show 46,291 for David McCormick and 33,362 for Mehmet Oz...PA DEPARTMENT OF STATE VOTE COUNT
Dr. Oz was one of President Trump's political endorsements this year Mr. Trump touting a 101-6 record for his endorsements on social media today...DONALD TRUMP GAB SOCIAL MEDIA
THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA RULING TODAY THAT THE MAN WHO KILLED SIX PEOPLE AT A MOSQUE IN QUEBEC CITY IN JANUARY OF 2017 WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE AFTER 25 YEARS INSTEAD OF 40.
THE COURT SAYING THAT THE ORIGINAL SENTENCE OF 40 YEARS UNTIL PAROLE WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL...ANADOLU AGENCY TURKEY
IRAN SEIZES GREEK OIL TANKERS FOLLOWING GREEK SEIZURE OF SHIP CARRYING IRANIAN OIL
(UPDATED)
Iran says it has seized two Greek oil tankers in the Persian Gulf.
Iran says that outside powers are moving jihadists into neighboring Afghanistan.
The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council making the allegation as he visited Tajikistan another nation next to Afghanistan.
Ali Shamkhani also says that United States needs to release frozen Afghan assets and pay compensation for the damage caused in Afghanistan...PRESS TV IRAN
FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON TALKING BETTER RELATIONS WITH AUSTRALIA.
MACRON ON THE PHONE WITH NEW LABOR PARTY PRIME MINISTER ANTHONY ALBANESE.
'REBUILD' THE PHASE BEING USED IN THE CONVERSATON FRANCE DEEPLY HURT BY AUSTRALIA'S DECISION TO GO WITH US SUBMARINE TECHNOLOGY DROPPING A SUBMARINE DEAL WITH FRANCE.
THAT WAS THE PART OF THE AUSTRALIA-UK-US DEFENSE ALLIANCE ANNOUNCED LAST YEAR.
MR. ALBANESE TWEETED THAT HE AND MACRON DISCUSSED COOPERATION ON A 'FREE OPEN AND RESILIENT' INDO-PACIFIC (OPPOSITION TO CHINA), CLIMATE CHANGE AND UKRAINE...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
A RETIRED FEDERAL AGENT MAY HAVE HAD ADVANCE NOTICE ABOUT PLANS FOR A MASS MURDER ATTACK AT A BUFFALO, NEW YORK SUPERMARKET.
THE BUFFALO NEWS REPORTING THAT PAYTON GENDRON WAS SHARING HIS PLANS IN AN ONLINE CHATROOM OF 30 PEOPLE ONE HOUR BEFORE THE ATTACK.
THE RETIRED FEDERAL AGENT SAID TO HAVE BEEN INVITED TO READ THE PLANS BUT IT'S NOT CLEAR IF HE ACCEPTED THE INVITATION...FOX NEWS...
TEXAS LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL CITES 'WRONG DECISION' DURING DEADLY SCHOOL ATTACK
Today the Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said that police believed the attacker at an elementary school was barricaded in a classroom not posing a risk to children.
This led to a 45-minute wait before an operation was launched to enter the classroom.
(Updated) One aspect of the mass murder attack on an elementary school in Texas reportedly edited out by "The New York Times" a reference to the attacker Salvador Ramos and the use of marijuana...PETER HITCHENS TWITTER...The Daily Mail in the UK continues to report this...PETER HITCHENS TWITTER...
TRUMP ADDRESSES NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION IN HOUSTON HONORS SCHOOL ATTACK VICTIMS
There were many entertainment and political personalities who bowed out of the National Rifle Association convention in Houston following the school attack but President Trump spoke there late this afternoon.
Trump reading the names of the victims.
He also spoke of "cynical politicians" exploiting the tragedy to take away Constitiutional rights...RUMBLE VIDEO-FULL SPEECH
The US Justice Department for a third time declining to charge former FBI agents for their handling of the sex abuse allegations against former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
The Justice Department saying its decision reflected "the recommendation of experienced prosecutors".
A third review of the matter ordered last October with "new information" being cited...CNN
In Spain a new sexual crime law passing Parliament supported by the Left and opposed by the Right on grounds it takes away the presumption of innocence and is unworkable.
Proof of physical resistance will no longer be required to prove sexual assault.
There is a broadening of the definition of sexual violence to include public behavior and comments.
15 year prison sentences for rape are included in the new law which also criminalizes "intimidating compliments" and distribution of sex videos.
The Southern Baptist Convention releasing information about hundreds of clergy accused of sexual abuse gleaned from public databases of ministers accused of sexual abuse such as news media articles.
Nine of the accused said to still be in ministry, two in Southern Baptist churches...NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN
LAWMAKERS IN POLAND PULLING THE PLUG ON A 'DISCIPLINARY CHAMBER' OF THE COUNTRY'S SUPREME COURT.
THE MOVE LINKED TO THE EUROPEAN UNION'S SANCTIONS ON POLAND WHOSE CONSERVATIVE-NATIONALIST GOVERNMENT OPTED TO CREATE THE CHAMBER IN WHAT WAS SEEN AS AN EFFORT TO REMOVE LIBERAL JUDGES.
The Foreign Minister in Australia's new Labor Party government Penny Wong traveling to Fiji and saying Australia is listening to the concerns of the South Pacific region.
Her trip comes as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in the region. Wang is reported planning to pitch security agreements with the numerous island nations in the South Pacific including Fiji...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA...
China raising its objections to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's speech at George Washington University yesterday.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the speech inflated China as a threat and was designed to contain China.
Blinken characterized China as the main threat to the world order separate from any threat posed by Russia...TASS RUSSIA
TURKEY STANDING FIRM WITH LITTLE PROGRESS REPORTED IN TALKS WITH FINLAND AND SWEDEN REGARDING THOSE NATIONS MEMBERSHIP IN NATO.
TURKEY OPPOSED TO FINNISH AND SWEDISH MEMBERSHIP OVER SUPPORT FOR THE KURDISH PKK GROUP CONSIDERED TERRORISTS BY THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT....AHVAL TURKISH NEWS
Earlier today the Biden Administration was reported possibly authorizing the sale of long-range MLRS systems to Ukraine when new arms sales to Ukraine are announced next week...TASS RUSSIA...The "New York Times" reporting tonight that the Biden Administration will sell the rocket systems to Ukraine...TASS RUSSIA
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 6,659,220 Ukrainians have fled the country since February 24th with more than 3.5 million going to Poland...(BFM-TV France)
In other news...
Israeli nationalists will march in Jerusalem Sunday amidst threats from the Hamas group in Gaza and the Iranian backed Hezbollah movement in Lebanon.
The Jerusalem Day Flag March will go ahead with Defense Minister Benny Gantz saying:
"We will hold whatever kind of march we want to in our capital. You will not threaten our sovereignty"...
A federal judge throwing out a lawsuit by President Trump seeking to stop the New York Attorney General's probe into his business practices.
The motion to throw out the lawsuit made by New York Attorney General Democrat Letitia James...THE HILL
POLITICS IN NORTH DAKOTA REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR DOUG BURGUM PUTTING NEARLY ONE MILLION DOLLARS ON THE TABLE TO OPPOSE FELLOW REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS.
THOSE REPUBLICANS ARE MEMBERS OF A CONSERVATIVE CAUCUS GROUP THAT'S BEEN DUBBED 'EXTREMIST' AND 'ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE'...THE HILL
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will visit with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at the White House next week.
Ardern currently visiting the US where she delivered a commencement address at Harvard University.
Ardern known for both her harsh COVID policies and the 2018 gun confiscation law which followed mass murder attacks at mosques in Christchurch...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND...
Ardern has already delivered a commencement address at Harvard that's led to a call for regulation of social media in her own country.
Andrew Cushen of Internet NZ has said the government needs to take a stand because social media platforms are radicalizing people...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
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