Sunday, October 16, 2022

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 10/16/2022 RUSSIAN ATTACKS IN UKRAINE, SYRIA, RUSSIAN FLAGS DISPLAYED IN GERMAN PROTEST, GLOBAL BANKING FORCES CRUSH BRITISH GOV'T, GOP CANDIDATE: "PENNSYLVANIA DESERVES BETTER", US-SWEDEN MILITARY DEAL

 





      (SERVICE WHEN ABLE WITH FINAL POSTING AT MIDNIGHT EASTERN US TIME)




                LATE NEWS TONIGHT:




Russian military attacks in Syria and Ukraine.



First to Ukraine where tonight explosions were reported in multiple locations.



There were air raid alerts during the overnight hours tonight in numerous Ukrainian regions.




The Russian strikes follow the deadly terrorist attack on Russian soldiers training near the border with Ukraine on Saturday that killed 11 and wounded 15...


             TASS RUSSIA STORY ONE




              TASS RUSSIA STORY TWO




Russian aerospace forces launching strikes against jihadists in northwestern Syria...





                      TASS RUSSIA




Russia also says its ground forces were involved in a military operation in southern Syria said to have killed 20 terrorists.



Those killed said to have organized an attack on a bus carrying Syrian soldiers...




                            TASS RUSSIA



In Bernburg, Germany today thousands of protesters marching against the government's energy and economic policies as well as its hostility to Russia.



German flags and some Russian flags in the protest against the government's moves to ban Russian natural gas imports over Ukraine...LIVE VIDEO STREAM BERNBURG, GERMANY PROTEST 10/16/2022



(UPDATED) IN THE EAST EUROPEAN NATION OF MOLDOVA BORDERING UKRAINE WITH A LARGE RUSSIAN MINORITY POPULATION, A PROTEST MARCH OF TENS OF THOUSANDS TODAY.


THE PROTEST IN OPPOSITION TO THE PRO-EUROPEAN UNION GOVERNMENT...TASS RUSSIA...


LATE IN THE DAY POLICE DISPERSED PROTESTERS ON A MAIN STREET AND A PROTEST CAMP NEAR THE COUNTRY'S PARLIAMENT...TASS RUSSIA STORY 2




The "Left" on the march in Paris today a mass protest of economic conditions including inflation amidst strikes by oil refinery workers with more strikes planned for the week ahead.




Organizers say 140-thousand participated the police say 30-thousand were involved.


The political leader of the Left in France, Jean-Luc Melenchon, blaming Business and the policies of Neo-Liberal Pro-Capitalist President Emmanuel Macron.




The Left includes "Climate Activists" and "Climate Change" is also front and center in this protest...PROTEST LIVE VIDEO STREAM




A massive mobilization of police some 2,000 ahead of the protest authorities warning about "extreme elements" participating...







An incident involving people on the edges of the protest with police using tear gas and also stories of some shops being damaged during the protest.





               (BFM-TV France provided information used in this story)






UPDATING THE FRENCH OIL REFINERY STRIKE SITUATION 30.1 PERCENT OF FRANCE'S GASOLINE STATIONS PARTIALLY OR COMPLETELY OUT OF GASOLINE SUNDAY EVENING.



THAT'S UP FROM 27.3 PERCENT SATURDAY EVENING...(BFM-TV France)



Global banking forces reasserting power in the UK after the removal of Prime Minister Liz Truss's hand-picked Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng Friday.



The new Chancellor Conservative Party insider Jeremy Hunt planning tax hikes and spending cuts reversing the economic policies adopted by Truss when she took office last month...BBC NEWS




CANADA WANTS RUSSIA KICKED OUT OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND G-20 GROUP OF NATIONS.



CHRYSTIA FREELAND PUSHING THE NOTION DURING A VISIT TO WASHINGTON DC FRIDAY...



                   NEWS AM ARMENIA...




An attack on Russian soldiers training in the Belgorod region near Ukraine this weekend.   11 killed and 15 wounded.



Russia says it was a terrorist attack carried out by two citizens of a Commonwealth of Independent States formerly part of the Soviet Union.     The CIS has eight other countries besides Russia Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan...TASS RUSSIA...



Traditionally neutral Sweden not officially in NATO yet but US Army Chief of Staff James McConville has signed a military cooperation agreement with Sweden's top general... SVT SWEDEN (VIDEO EMBED) (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




"No president has done more for Israel than I have"



President Trump, who has Jewish family members, with a message for Jews in the United States as Jewish holidays began at sundown today...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS



Trump, noting his popularity in Israel, urging US Jews to "get their act together...Before it is too late!"...DONALD J TRUMP GAB SOCIAL MEDIA




POLITICS HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA.



DEMOCRAT GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL JOSH SHAPIRO HAS SPENT A RECORD 44 MILLION DOLLARS A 16 TO 1 RATIO OVER REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE STATE SENATOR DOUG MASTRIANO.



THE LATEST CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORT HAS SHAPIRO WITH 11 MILLION DOLLARS TO SPEND COMPARED TO MASTRIANO'S 2.6 MILLION.



MASTRIANO RECENTLY PUT HIS FIRST TELEVISION ADS ON THE AIR AND HAS A NEW ONE OUT THIS WEEKEND ENTITLED "PENNSYLVANIA DESERVES BETTER"...








THE US POLITICAL POLLS THIS WEEKEND.



IN THE RACE FOR NEW YORK GOVERNOR DEMOCRAT INCUMBENT KATHY HOCHUL AT 50 PERCENT AND REPUBLICAN LEE ZELDIN AT 44 PERCENT.


THIS IS A POLL FROM THE DEMOCRAT "SCHOEN COOPERMAN" ORGANIZATION.




IN THE DEMOCRAT STRONGHOLD STATE OF CONNECTICUT POLLING FOR THE STATEWIDE RACES BY THE 'CONNECTICUT EXAMINER' AND FABRIZIO.



THE US SENATE RACE ITS INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT RICHARD BLUMENTHAL AT 49 PERCENT AND REPUBLICAN CHALLENGER LEORA AT 44 PERCENT.



IN THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT NED LAMONT AT 50 PERCENT AND REPUBLICAN BOB STEFANOWSKI AT 43 PERCENT.



THE LATEST REPUBLICAN 'TRAFALGAR GROUP' POLL SHOWING 48 PERCENT INTEND TO VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR CONGRESS ON NOVEMBER 8TH WHILE 43 PERCENT INTEND TO VOTE DEMOCRAT.




In China the Communist Party Congress underway today.



President Xi Jinping addressing issues foreign and domestic in a speech to the congress.



Xi opposing a "Cold War mentality" including  "interfering in other countries domestic policies".



He also said that China will "never commit to abandoning the use of force" regarding Taiwan...



HINDUSTAN TIMES-INDIA (LIVE BLOG)




In Uganda a three-week lockdown imposed over an outbreak of Ebola.



Bars, nightclubs, churches among the places closed and a curfew has also been imposed.



19 reported killed in the outbreak with 58 cases recorded...BBC NEWS




(Updated) An incident this weekend at a high-profile location in Iran's capital city of Tehran.



A fire and gunshots reported at the Evin Prison in Tehran.



Iranian authorities reported a prison riot...NEWS AGENCIES-TIMES OF ISRAEL...



Official Iranian reporting is that four died and 61 hurt in the incident...PRESS TV IRAN...



The Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi points to US government backed efforts to promote protest in Iran.



He says Joe Biden is "inciting chaos, terror and the destruction of another country" and spoke of the founder of Iran's Islamic Republic calling the US "the Great Satan"...AFP FRANCE-TIMES OF ISRAEL



(UPDATED) AZERBAIJAN SAYS THAT ARMENIAN FORCES SHELLED THEIR POSITIONS OVER THE WEEKEND...TASS RUSSIA...


A EUROPEAN UNION MISSION PAYING A VISIT TO ARMENIA THIS WEEKEND...TASS RUSSIA...



MORE SHELLING FROM THE ARMENIAN SIDE REPORTED BY AZERBAIJAN LATE SATURDAY AND EARLY SUNDAY...TASS RUSSIA





             RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA




KREMLIN SPOKESMAN SAYS RUSSIA WILL CONTINUE MILITARY OPERATION



MUSK SAYS FUNDING FOR UKRAINE WILL CONTINUE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT SUPPORT



                 TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED




Russia going forward with its military operation in Ukraine despite the NATO support of Ukraine.




Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov telling Russian television that the NATO involvement is:




               "in no way affecting our goals"




Peskov adds that NATO involvement in Ukraine "means an additional burden" but that Russia's "potential" allows it to continue...TASS RUSSIA









TESLA TYCOON ELON MUSK SAYS HE WILL CONTINUE TO PAY FOR STARLINK SATELLITE SERVICES FOR UKRAINE'S MILITARY DESPITE THE LACK OF US GOVERNMENT SUPPORT.


MUSK'S SPACE X HAD PUT OUT WORD IT WOULD HAVE TO STOP PAYING FOR STARLINK...TASS RUSSIA




In other news...



US AND CANADIAN MILITARY TRANSPORTS DELIVERING ARMORED TACTICAL VEHICLES TO HAITI THIS WEEKEND.



ADDITIONAL SUPPLIES ALSO ON THE PLANES.



HAITI HAD REQUESTED ASSISTANCE FOR ITS POLICE FORCE TO DEAL WITH GANG VIOLENCE IN THE COUNTRY.


"GANGS" SAID TO BE BLOCKING THE DISTRIBUTION OF GASOLINE IN THE COUNTRY.


THERE HAVE BEEN PROTESTS UNDERWAY IN HAITI OVER THE INCREASE IN GASOLINE PRICES CAUSED BY THE GOVERNMENT'S DECISION TO END FUEL SUBSIDIES...TASS RUSSIA...REUTERS-VOICE OF AMERICA



(Updated) Greece says that Turkey (Turkiye) sent a group of 92 naked migrants across the border.



The group, all men, weren't carrying any luggage.    


They told the Greeks that Turkish authorities brought them to a river on the border and put them in rubber boats.


A Greek cabinet minister described the treatment of the migrants 'a disgrace to civilization"...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...



Turkey is denying any involvement in the incident saying the picture of the naked men released by a Greek cabinet minister is evidence of "cruelty" by Greece...NEWS AGENCIES-ORF AUSTRIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




(UPDATED) MASS PROTESTS IN THE TUNISIAN CAPITAL OF TUNIS THIS WEEKEND.     


DIFFERENT POLITICAL PARTIES HELD SEPARATE DEMONSTRATIONS DEMANDING THE RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT KAIS SAIED.



LAST YEAR SAIED FIRED THE PRIME MINISTER, SHUT DOWN PARLIAMENT AND ORDERED A REFERENDUM ON A NEW CONSTITUTION THAT CEMENTS HIS RULE IN THE COUNTRY.     


THAT REFERENDUM BOYCOTTED BY THE OPPOSITION...BBC NEWS...



SATURDAY NIGHT POLICE USED TEAR GAS ON PROTESTERS FOR A SECOND NIGHT IN A ROW...PRESS TV IRAN (VIDEO EMBED)












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