Thursday, June 16, 2022

NEWS SUMMARY INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 6/15/2022 DEMOCRAT WINS JUDGE ELECTION FROM LAST YEAR AFTER US SUPREME COURT DECISION, WALL STREET DIVE AFTER FED RATE HIKE, GHISLAINE MAXWELL CELLMATE CLAIMS MONEY OFFERED TO KILL HER

 


                                 (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING)




A massive downturn on Wall Street but first...




               LATE NEWS TONIGHT:




Two are dead another wounded in a shooting incident at an Alabama church this evening.




The male suspect is now in police custody.


The attack at St. Stephens Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills, a suburb of Birmingham, where a small group was meeting...WVTM BIRMINGHAM (VIDEO EMBEDDED)




Three Palestinians killed early Friday in clashes with Israeli soldiers in Jenin according to Palestinian sources.    The Palestinians were reported armed...TIMES OF ISRAEL




IN MICHIGAN NEW POLLING IN THE REPUBLICAN RACE FOR GOVERNOR. 



RYAN KELLEY REMAINS IN THE LEAD AMONG THE CANDIDATES STILL ON THE BALLOT FOLLOWING HIS ARREST OVER JANUARY  6TH AND THE REMOVAL OF OTHER CANDIDATES FROM THE BALLOT OVER ALLEGED SIGNATURE FRAUD ON NOMINATING PETITIONS.



KELLEY WITH 17 PERCENT OF THE VOTE IN A FIELD OF FIVE CANDIDATES.



FORMER DETROIT POLICE CHIEF JAMES CRAIG, ONE OF THOSE KNOCKED OFF THE BALLOT, ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK HE IS LAUNCHING A WRITE-IN CAMPAIGN FOR THE REPBUBLICAN PRIMARY ON AUGUST 2ND...REAL CLEAR POLITICS POLLS





In Pakistan former Prime Minister Imran Khan calling for nationwide protest Sunday night against rising inflation in the country.    


Khan leading opposition to the government that recently ousted him when members of his party defected...DAWN PAKISTAN





A fourth day of protest against government economic policy in the South American nation of Ecuador.



Indigenous people joined by students and other protesters active in 15 of the country's 24 provinces today.



Highways blocked around the capital city of Quito...(AFP France).



Video streamed from Quito late this afternoon and early evening...





Also, this newscast from tonight in Ecuador in Spanish on Teleamazonas...VIDEO LINK







Politics in the USA a Democrat candidate the winner of the judicial contest from last year in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania following the addition of undated mail-in ballots to the vote count.



Zachary Cohen five votes ahead of David Ritter after 253 undated mail-in ballots were added to the mix from last November's election.     



The counting of the votes for the county judgeship became a long and drawn out legal fight.



Last Friday the US Supreme Court decided 6-3 that the undated mail-in votes should be counted in the race with Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissenting...(Allentown Morning Call)...FREE REPUBLIC POST DISCUSSION




NEW ZEALAND LIFTING A COVID TEST REQUIREMENT FOR TRAVELERS TO THE COUNTRY STARTING NEXT TUESDAY.



THAT PRE-TRAVEL TEST REQUIREMENT WAS SET TO CONTINUE UNTIL JULY 31ST BUT NOW THE COVID-19 RESPONSE MINISTER SAYS ITS OK TO DO SO...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND







WALL STREET GOING SHARPLY LOWER TODAY FOLLOWING YESTERDAYS BIG INTEREST HIKE BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD.


THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE MOVING BELOW 30,000 POINTS.


AT THE CLOSING BELL THE DOW 29,927.07 DOWN 741.46 POINTS OR 2.42 PERCENT IN VALUE.


THE NASDAQ FELL 453.06 POINTS OR 4.08 PERCENT IN VALUE...MARKETWATCH




"Inflation in 2022 will most likely be about 15%...probably a bit lower."



Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov speaking those words about inflation in his country this year.   


 Belousov telling the TASS News Agency inflation spiked earlier now there's some deflation taking place...TASS RUSSIA




THE NEW AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT OF LABOR PRIME MINISTER ANTHONY ALBANESE HIKING THE COUNTRY'S TARGET TO CUT CARBON EMISSIONS.



THE TARGET FOR 2030 RAISED TO 43 PERCENT FROM THE 26 TO 28 PERCENT TARGET UNDER THE PREVIOUS PRIME MINISTER SCOTT MORRISON...REUTERS





THE RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVE FOR SYRIA SAYS RUSSIA HAS URGED TURKEY TO REFRAIN FROM CONDUCTING A MILITARY OPERATION IN NORTHERN SYRIA.


TURKEY HAS BEEN SAYING IT INTENDS TO LAUNCH SUCH AN OPERATION AGAINST KURDISH FORCES INTENDING TO ESTABLISH A 'SECURITY ZONE' ALONG ITS BORDER WITH SYRIA...TASS RUSSIA





Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell filing paperwork calling for a lenient sentence.   


They cite childhood trauma and death threats in prison.



The filing cites a cellmate of Maxwell's who says she's been offered money to kill Maxwell...(Fox News)...FOX NEWS


The former associate of Jeffrey Epstein set for sentencing June 28th the week before the Fourth of July holiday...NEW YORK POST







NO ISRAELI POLICE WILL FACE DISCIPLINARY ACTION IN CONNECTION WITH ATTACKS AT THE FUNERAL OF PALESTINIAN JOURNALIST SHIREEN ABU AKLEH.     


ABU AKLEH KILLED DURING A CLASH BETWEEN ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES AND PALESTINIANS...AL JAZEERA (QATAR)




ISRAEL RAISING THE QUOTA FOR WORKERS FROM GAZA TO ENTER THE COUNTRY.    


OFFICIALS ALLOWING 2,000 MORE GAZANS ACCESS TO WORK IN ISRAEL BRINGING THE TOTAL TO 14,000.



PLANS ARE TO EVENTUALLY RAISE THAT QUOTA TO 20,000 THE PROGRAM SEEN AS A WAY OF MAINTAINING PEACE ON ISRAEL'S SOUTHERN FRONTIER.



THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS URGING ISRAEL TO REFRAIN FROM ACTIONS WHICH MIGHT UPSET PALESTINIANS AHEAD OF JOE BIDEN'S VISIT THERE NEXT MONTH...TIMES OF ISRAEL










             RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA




FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN LEADERS MEET ZELENSKY IN UKRAINE



                 TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED





                        BBC NEWS UKRAINE BLOG



French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi meeting the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv today.



They also toured a suburb of the city with Mr. Macron speaking of evidence of "massacres" by Russian forces there...NEWS AGENCIES-TIMES OF ISRAEL...



The Italian Prime Minister saying he wants Ukraine in the European Union...ANADOLU AGENCY TURKEY









In other news...




Police in Brazil say a suspect has confessed to shooting a British journalist and indigenous expert who went missing 11 days ago.



The suspect took police to a location where human remains were found...BBC NEWS




Actor Kevin Spacey appeared in a courtroom in London today accused of sexual assaults involving three men.    


Spacey denies the allegatons.    His next hearing July 14th...BBC NEWS




The US says its captured a bomb maker for the jihadist ISIS group in the Idlib region of Syria.   


The raid by the US military said to have taken into custody a top leader of the terrorist group...ABC NEWS US







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