NEWS SUMMARY INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 5/12/2022 TRUMP SAYS KATHY BARNETTE CANNOT WIN GENERAL ELECTION, NORTH KOREA MISSILE TEST, COVID LOCKDOWN, FINLAND COMMITS TO NATO

 

                                    (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE THURSDAY)

                      LATE NEWS TONIGHT:

US Senator Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky putting the brakes on the bipartisan freight train to approve 40 billion dollars more in aid for Ukraine.

Paul using his power to raise an objection and asking for insertion of new language into the bill which will hold it up at least until next week...THE HILL...

Senator Paul explained his move on the Senate floor...

AT LEAST 11 DEAD AFTER A BOAT CARRYING SUSPECTED MIGRANTS CAPSIZED OFF THE COAST OF PUERTO RICO.

THE COAST GUARD SAYS THAT 31 WERE RESCUED EIGHT OF THEM IDENTIFIED AT HAITIANS...ASSOCIATED PRESS-USA TODAY

Other news...

"Kathy Barnette will not be able to win the General Election against the Radical Left Democrats"

That's some of President Trump's message on social media today regarding the Republican US Senate Primary in Pennsylvania where Trump has endorsed Dr. Mehmet Oz.

He also said there are matters regarding Barnette that have not been "properly explained or vetted" but if she is able to do so:

"she will have a wonderful future in the Republican Party---and I will be behind her all the way"...

          TRUMP GAB SOCIAL MEDIA

Producer prices in the US jumped 11 percent last month, that's 11 percent higher than the year before with food prices leading the way.

The US Labor Department detecting a .5 percent hike in April alone which is less than the 1.6 percent in April...AL JAZEERA QATAR

NORTH KOREA LOCKS DOWN OVER COVID AND CONDUCTS MISSILE TEST

                                                    (UPDATED)

In North Korea the first positive tests for COVID-19 being acknowledged.  

Infection with the omicron variant reported in the nation's capital city Pyongyang. 

Ruler Kim Jong-un calling for measures to be taken against the virus...ASSOCIATED PRESS-NBC...

A nationwide lockdown has been declared across North Korea...BBC NEWS...

NORTH KOREA TEST FIRING THREE BALLISTIC MISSILES TODAY TWO DAYS AFTER THE NEW 'CONSERVATIVE' PRESIDENT OF SOUTH KOREA TOOK OFFICE.

YOON SUK-YEOL CALLING FOR A NUCLEAR FREE KOREAN PENINSULA AND OFFERING NORTH KOREA ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE IN EXCHANGE FOR ENDING IT NUCLEAR PROGRAM...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA...

THE LATEST WORD IS THAT NORTH KOREA FIRED THREE SHORT RANGE TEST MISSILES EASTWARDS INTO THE SEA...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA

PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARY POLITICS WITH REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT FORCES CIRCLING THE WAGONS TO STOP STATE SENATOR DOUG MASTRIANO FROM WINNING NEXT TUESDAY'S PRIMARY FOR GOVERNOR.

ANOTHER STATE SENATOR RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR, JAKE CORMAN, PULLING OUT OF THE RACE IN FAVOR OF FORMER CONGRESSMAN LOU BARLETTA.

PRESSURE BEING APPLIED ON OTHER CANDIDATES TO DROP OUT AND UNITE TO STOP MASTRIANO...(Various News Media)

OPPOSITION POLITICIAN NAMED PRIME MINISTER IN SRI LANKA AS PROTESTERS WANT PRESIDENT OUT

                                                               (UPDATED)

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed opposition parliament member Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister today.

He is to lead a cross-party government...BBC NEWS...

Mr. Wickremesinghe said among other things that Sri Lanka needs to become a country:

"where people can eat three meals a day" 

Negative reaction to Wednesday night's speech from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Many Sri Lankas calling on him to resign over the country's severe economic crisis...BBC NEWS...

Tonight's TV 1 news from Sri Lanka in English...VIDEO LINK

THE US WANTS TO DEPLOY COMBAT AIRCRAFT TO GREECE AND SUPPORT GREECE IN THE DEFENSE OF ISLANDS OFF THE WEST COAST OF TURKEY.     

THE REPORT COMES FROM A TURKISH MEDIA OUTLET...SLOBODEN PECAT MACEDONIA

               RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA

FINLAND COMMITS TO RAPIDLY JOIN NATO MILITARY ALLIANCE

                   TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED

                           BBC NEWS UKRAINE BLOG

Finland said today it wants to quickly join NATO saying there is a threat from Russia because of its military action in Ukraine...ASSOCIATED PRESS...

Today the Russian news agency Tass reported on a Russian naval exercise in the Baltic Sea region that includes Finland...TASS RUSSIA

Other news...

Israel's Defense Ministry authorizing construction of 4,427 homes in Judea and Samaria (West Bank).

More than half of homes authorized receiving their final approval...TIMES OF ISRAEL

A provisional settlement of almost one billion dollars for families of victims and survivors of last June's condo collapse in Miami.

An attorney announced the deal during a hearing in local court...NEWS AGENCIES-ABC AUSTRALIA

Randy Weaver, besieged by federal law enforcement in a 1992 standoff where an FBI sniper killed his wife and son, has died at the age of 74.

The feds sought Weaver on a 'firearms charge" and when they arrived on his property gunfire broke out and the siege began...