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Monday, August 15, 2022
NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 8/15/2022 DISPUTED ELECTION RESULT IN KENYA, MONKEYPOX VAX SHORTAGE IN UK, ATTACK ON US BASE IN SYRIA, NEW ZEALAND SENDS CONTINGENT TO TRAIN UKRAINE'S SOLDIERS
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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
FINES HAVE BEEN ISSUED TO NEW ZEALAND FREEDOM ACTIVIST BRIAN TAMAKI AND HIS WIFE HANNAH OVER A JULY 23RD PROTEST ON A FREEWAY IN AUCKLAND.
THE 250 DOLLAR FINES GIVEN OUT IN CONNECTION WITH A PROTEST WHERE A THOUSAND OR MORE PEOPLE MOVED OUT ONTO THE FREEWAY AFTER A PROTEST RALLY.
THE PROTEST IN OPPOSITION TO CONDITIONS IN THE COUNTRY RELATED TO THE COVID POLICIES OF PRIME MINISTER JACINDA ARDERN.
NO WORD YET ON WHETHER OTHERS HAVE BEEN FINED...(TV ONE NEW ZEALAND)...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
The scene in Lutherstadt-Wittenberg, Germany this evening.
The Monday walks for "peace", "freedom" and "self-determination" continuing in numerous German cities and towns.
The protests began in opposition to restrictive COVID policies in Germany...
"YOU HAVE TO GET UP FIRST TO BE ABLE TO RESIST" THE BANNER AT THIS EVENING'S PROTEST IN DRESDEN, GERMANY
The Justice Department wants to keep documents related to the FBI raid on President Trump's home secret.
Federal prosecutors claim that the public disclosure of a "search warrant affidavit" would damage an "ongoing investigation".
There are some papers the DOJ would allow to be released to the public...BUSINESS INSIDER
"Wow! In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports..."
PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS THE FBI STOLE PASSPORTS BELONGING TO HIM DURING THE RAID ON HIS HOME AT MAR-A-LAGO A WEEK AGO TODAY...DONALD J TRUMP GAB SOCIAL MEDIA FULL POST
With a majority of Kenya's electoral commission dissenting (4 of 7 members) Deputy President William Ruto declared the winner of Kenya's Presidential election.
There were scuffles as the time came for announcement of the result with the electoral commission majority urging calm for the court appeals of a vote count they described as "opaque".
Ruto is said to have gotten 50.5 percent of the popular vote in the contest with former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
Mr. Odinga's campaign said the vote was rigged...BBC NEWS
THE CEO OF THE COVID VAX MAKER PFIZER ALBERT BOURLA TESTING POSITIVE FOR COVID.
ALBERT BOURLA DESCRIBES HIS SYMPTOMS AS 'VERY MILD'.
BOURLA ACKNOWLEDING HE HAS RECEIVED FOUR PFIZER COVID SHOTS AND IS RECEIVING TREATMENT WITH PAXLOVID ANOTHER PFIZER PRODUCT...CNN...
The UK is the first country to approve a new COVID shot for both the original form of COVID and the Omicron variant.
Moderna's new COVID vaccine getting the nod for use in a campaign of "booster shots" this fall...BBC NEWS...
THAT COVID VACCINE NEWS COMES ON THE SAME DAY THAT BBC NEWS REVEALED A SLOWDOWN IN MONKEYPOX VACCINATIONS IN THE UK.
APPOINTMENTS FOR THOSE NOT INFECTED ARE NOW CANCELLED WITH ONLY THE INFECTED GETTING THE JABS.
THERE IS A SHORTAGE OF MONKEYPOX VACCINE IN THE UK WITH AUTHORITIES RUSHING TO GET MORE DOSES...BBC NEWS
In the Netherlands Dutch police touting more than 100 arrests and 700 fines in recent weeks in connection with the farmers protest against climate change cow gas rules...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...
Meanwhile there's been another fire at a "Green" grocery store chain in the Netherlands connected with Bill and Melinda Gates.
There's been a drone attack on a US base in eastern Syria.
US troops based there were not hurt and there was no damage at the al-Tanf base near the borders with Iraq and Jordan...ASSOCIATED PRESS-TIMES OF ISRAEL...
Also in Syria Kurdish forces in the US occupied northeast backing away from cooperation with American soldiers.
That's the result of Turkish drone attacks aimed at the Kurds.
The US trying to curry favor with Turkey right now over Turkish approval for Finland and Sweden to join the NATO military alliance...SOUTHFRONT
THE US IS CONDEMNING 'DESPICABLE' IRANIAN MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE ATTACK ON AUTHOR SALMAN RUSHDIE.
SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN NOTING 'GLOATING' IN IRANIAN MEDIA OVER THE ATTEMPT TO KILL RUSHDIE WHO WAS TARGETED BY AN IRANIAN FATWA FOR BLASHPHEMY AGAINST ISLAM IN THE 1980'S.
RUSHIDE IS DESCRIBED AS BEING 'ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY' AT THE UPMC HAMOT HOSPITAL IN ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA WHERE HE WAS TAKEN FOLLOWING THE ATTACK IN UPSTATE NEW YORK FRIDAY MORNING...NEWS AGENCIES-TIMES OF ISRAEL
China planning a military drill off Taiwan tomorrow following a two day visit to Taiwan by a US congressional delegation...TASS RUSSIA
Local Russian authorities say Ukrainian M777 howitzers provided by the US fired 25 times over a two hour period at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant today...TASS RUSSIA
The facility occupied by Russian forces with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky promising it would be targeted over the weekend.
New Zealand sending a contingent of 120 soldiers to train members of Ukraine's military.
The training mission in the UK is the second one for New Zealand which previously sent 30 soldiers for a now completed mission to train Ukrainian soldiers...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
In other news...
The numbers up on Wall Street today the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 151.39 points while the NASDAQ went up 80.87 points...MARKETWATCH
INLFATION IN ISRAEL PEGGED AT 5.2 PERCENT PER YEAR.
THAT'S THE READOUT FROM THE LATEST CONSUMER PRICE INDEX REPORT.
THE COST OF HOUSING IN ISRAEL SKYROCKETED 17.8 PERCENT IN THE LAST YEAR...TIMES OF ISRAEL
The former democratic leader in Myanmar again convicted by the new military government of corruption.
Aung San Suu Kyi given a new six year prison sentence.
The military overthrew the democratic government in Myanmar (formerly Burma) last year...AXIOS
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