Tuesday, September 20, 2022

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 9/20/2022 DUTCH FARMERS STAGE COW GAS RULES PROTEST IN CAPITAL CITY, MAJOR GERMAN ENERGY COMPANY SET FOR NATIONALIZATION, NEW ZEALAND CORONER RULES PFIZER COVID SHOT CAUSED DEATH, RUSSIA MAKING UKRAINE MOVES POINTING TO FULL USE OF MILITARY FORCE

          


                             (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING)



The new developments regarding Russia and Ukraine are part of this news summary...




                 LATE NEWS TONIGHT:




        "we are nearing a big armed conflict"



Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speaking in a media interview expecting a conflict in the next couple of months.


Vucic is not certain of the scope of conflict whether it rivals World War II exactly but he is expecting it.


The Serbian leader also sees Europe experiencing its worst winter since 1945 the year when World War II ended...



                                       TASS RUSSIA




THE US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ACCUSING 47 PEOPLE OF BEING INVOLVED IN A SCHEME TO USE 250 MILLION DOLLARS IN COVID RELIEF FUNDS FOR PURPOSES OTHER THAN THOSE INTENDED...BBC NEWS



In a federal courtroom today the legal wrangling over documents seized during the FBI raid on President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home last month.



President Trump's lawyers in disagreement with US District Judge Raymond Dearie over classified versus unclassified documents.



Dearie's review of 11,000 pages of documents at the order of another Federal District Judge in Florida...NEW YORK POST





UPSIDE DOWN DUTCH FLAGS DISPLAYED AT FARMERS PROTEST IN                                                       THE HAGUE 9/20/2022




In the Netherlands the farmers protest against climate change cow gas rules continues.


Today thousands in the streets of the Dutch capital city The Hague.



The farmers trying to get their message out about the devastating economic impact of the climate change emissions rules.


Their protest confronting the Dutch government committed to those rules as the government used the country's Royal Family for a 'throne speech' on its policies. 



Mainstream media reporting spinning today's protest as a dissing of the royalty...







Protest in other parts of the Netherlands today by farmers including this demonstration on a highway overpass in Heiloo in Northern Holland...






 

THE FALL ON WALL STREET.


THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE DOWN 313.45 POINTS OR 1.01 PERCENT IN VALUE.


THE NASDAQ DECLINED 109.97 POINTS OF .95 PERCENT IN VALUE.


THE PRE-ELECTION DRIVE DOWN OF OIL PRICES CONTINUED ITS MOMENTUM TODAY...MARKETWATCH...



THERE WAS ALSO AN EXTREMELY SHARP DECLINE ON RUSSIA'S STOCK MARKETS TODAY.



 THE 'NEWS BACKGROUND' AND THE DECLINE IN 'OIL PRICES' CITED AS REASONS FOR THE FALL...TASS RUSSIA....


WESTERN MEDIA POINT TO THE VOTES TO JOIN RUSSIA IN VARIOUS REGIONS OF UKRAINE AND THE PROSPECT OF FULL MILITARY MOBILIZATION.


MORE ON RUSSIA AND URKAINE LATER IN THE SUMMARY.




In Canada the spin is that inflation is "cooling" with a seven percent annual rate measured last month and gas prices moving down.


But food prices are rising at the fastest rate in 40 years.


A 10.8 annual rate for food price increases in August...CBC NEWS CANADA



IN GERMANY NATIONALIZATION OF THE ENERGY COMPANY "UNIPER" EXPECTED TOMORROW.



THE COMPANY IN MAJOR FINANCIAL TROUBLE.


IT IS A MAJOR IMPORTER OF RUSSIAN NATURAL GAS NOW BEING CUT OFF BY MANY NATIONS.



THE COMPANY FORCED TO BID FOR MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE NATURAL GAS FROM OTHER SOURCES.


THE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER COUCHED IN TERMS OF NEEDING TO DEAL WITH THE SHORT TERM:


                         "energy crisis"




AND THE LONG TERM:




                         "energy transition"...




REUTERS-NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)





UN SECRETARY GENERAL ANTIONIO GUTERRES CALLING FOR 'RICH COUNTRIES' TO TAX FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCERS.



GUTERRES SAYS THE REVENUE RAISED SHOULD BE USED TO 'PAY FOR CLIMATE DAMAGES'.



HE ALSO THINKS THE REVENUE SHOULD BE USED TO PAY FOR HIGHER FOOD AND FUEL COSTS FOR CONSUMERS.


MR. GUTERRES SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN NEW YORK...TIME



A coroner in New Zealand finding that a 26-year old man died of myocarditis after receiving a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.



Rory Nairn experienced myocarditis symptoms during the nearly two weeks between his dose last November 5th and his death...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND...



MEANWHILE IN NEW YORK CITY 850 MORE UNVACCINATED TEACHERS AND AIDES HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR NOT GETTING COVID SHOTS...THE DEFENDER



POLITICS IN THE USA THE POLLS KEEP COMING AND IN WISCONSIN THE SIENA COLLEGE POLL SHOWS A CLOSE US SENATE RACE INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN RON JOHNSON AT 47 PERCENT TO DEMOCRAT MANDELA BARNES WITH 48 PERCENT.


THERE IS ALSO AN EMERSON POLL IN THAT RACE PUTTING RON JOHNSON AT 48 PERCENT TO MANDELA BARNES 44 PERCENT.


THAT SAME POLL FOR GOVERNOR PUTS INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT TONY EVERS AT 49 PERCENT TO REPUBLICAN TIM MICHELS AT 44 PERCENT.



THE EMERSON POLL OUT TODAY PUTS TONY EVERS AT 45 PERCENT TO TIM MICHELS AT 43 PERCENT.


IN MISSOURI A POLL DONE FOR KMOV-TV ST. LOUIS PUTS REPUBLICAN ERIC SCHMITT IN THE LEAD FOR THE US SENATE SEAT.   SCHMITT AT 47 PERCENT TO DEMOCRAT TRUDY BUSCH VALENTINE AT 36 PERCENT...REAL CLEAR POLITICS




A SET OF POLLS FOR THE GEORGIA RACES THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION POLL PUTS REPUBLICAN HERSCHEL WALKER AT 46 PERCENT TO DEMOCRAT INCUMBENT RAPHAEL WARNOCK AT 44 PERCENT.


A MARIST POLL PUTS WARNOCK AT 47 PERCENT TO WALKER'S 45 PERCENT.


FOR GOVERNOR BOTH POLLS GIVE INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN BRIAN KEMP LEADS OVER DEMOCRAT STACEY ABRAMS.   



THE JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION POLL HAS KEMP 50 TO 42 PERCENT OVER ABRAMS WHILE THE MARIST POLL HAS KEMP 53 TO 42 PERCENT OVER ABRAMS.


Politics in Israel the party of current Prime Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) taking aim at the Religious Zionism Party that combines various religious factions and is committed to joining a government led by Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party after the November 1st election.


 Yesh Atid parliament member Ram Ben Barak says Religious Zionism wants women hosting television programs to cover their hair and is a threat to the LGBTQ community in Israel among other things.



Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich calling those comments "incitement".


Polling puts Religious Zionism as the third-place party in Israel (13 out of 120 seats in Parliament)...TIMES OF ISRAEL



PEPSI STOPPING BEVERAGE PRODUCTION IN RUSSIA...TASS RUSSIA



             RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA


                             (UPDATED, NEWS AND ANALYSIS)



RUSSIA MOVING QUICKLY ON ANNEXATION VOTES IN UKRAINIAN REGIONS




DENUNCIATIONS FROM NATIONS OPPOSING RUSSIA



VOTES WOULD MAKE THOSE TERRITORIES PART OF RUSSIA INCREASING THE LIKELIHOOD OF MILITARY ESCALATION TO DEFEND THEM



AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EXCLUDED FROM SCENE OF PURPORTED WAR CRIMES WHILE US CUTS DEAL TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGATIONS OF WAR CRIMES




      RUSSIA TODAY LIVE VIDEO STREAM IN ENGLISH




                 TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED




                      BBC NEWS UKRAINE BLOG




The talk today in Russia early on was about referendums in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions on joining Russia.


Security Council Chairman Dmitry Medvedev among those speaking saying such referendums need to be held.



Medvedev saying if Luhansk and Donetsk were to join Russia it would make geopolitical transformation in the world irreversible.


This an apparent reference to a world not dominated by the United States...TASS RUSSIA...



By this afternoon word out in Russian media that referendums on regions of Ukraine occupied by Russian troops and or Russian speaking separatists in Ukraine formally joining Russia are coming starting on Friday...(TASS Russia)...



Russian President Vladimir Putin originally set to speak tonight his speech now at 8 am local time tomorrow or 1 am Eastern US Time Wednesday.



If the territories are annexed to Russia this will make them part of Russia justifying the full use of military force to defend them.



Comment and analysis from the "Moon of Alabama" Blog...ON THE UPCOMING PUTIN SPEECH AND ANNOUNCEMENTS-MOON OF ALABAMA...



US Attorney General Merrick Garland signed an agreement with Ukraine today to strengthen the investigation of "war crimes" attributed to Russia.


It's a deal said to allow the US and Ukraine "work more expeditiously and efficiently" in such probes...WASHINGTON EXAMINER...



Meanwhile the human rights group Amnesty International says that it is not being allowed to verify the allegations of Russian war crimes that surfaced last weekend in the city of Izyum...T-ONLINE GERMANY (TRANSLATION PROMPT) (ALSO RED BOX TO LEFT OF SCREEN TO ALLOW FREE READING OF STORY)




In other news...




Military helicopters attacking a school in Myanmar (former Burma) on Monday.


Six children killed and 17 wounded.



The military says it attacked the school because it was a base used to attack the military which staged a coup last year overthrowing the democratically elected government...REUTERS-CNN




A man who went to the British consulate in Hong Kong to remember Her Majesty The Queen arrested by Chinese authorities...BBC NEWS




(UPDATED) THE LATEST ON HURRICANE FIONA THE STORM CONTINUING TO MOVE AWAY FROM MAJOR LAND MASSES.  


MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS 125 MILES PER HOUR AS OF 8 PM EASTERN US TIME.


FIONA IMPACTING THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS TODAY AND TO A LESSER EXTENT THE SOUTHEASTERN BAHAMAS.


THE HURRICANE PROJECTED TO MOVE OUT INTO OPEN ATLANTIC WATERS IT MAY POSE A THREAT TO BERMUDA AND IS LIKELY TO IMPACT ATLANTIC CANADA AT THE END OF THE WEEK...NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER LATEST ADVISORY
















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