Tuesday, October 18, 2022

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 10/18/2022 ISRAELI LEADERS OPPOSE UKRAINE WEAPONS SALES, OPPOSITION SILENCED IN DUTCH PARLIAMENT, MAINSTREAM FRENCH MEDIA LINK WORKER STRIKES WITH EXTREMISM, NEW AUSSIE GOV'T WALKS BACK JERUSALEM AS ISRAEL'S CAPITAL

 


                               (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING)



Not guilty verdicts in a case brought by Special Counsel John Durham over the "Steele Dossier" but first...




                     LATE NEWS TONIGHT:





Those hearings in Canada over the crackdown on the Trucker Freedom Convoy in Ottawa back in Feburary.


Today Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson forced to admit that truckers were trying to keep their rigs out of residential areas.



But the emergency powers declaration of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau then prevented truckers from moving their rigs to public areas on Parliament Hill and elsewhere...SHEILA GUNN REID REBEL NEWS TWITTER...




REBEL NEWS VIDEO COVERAGE ON RUMBLE (STARTS AT 19:00 INTO VIDEO)





Israeli leaders in and out of power expressing opposition to weapons sales to Ukraine.



   "We are not selling weapons to Ukraine"



Those words from Defense Minister Benny Gantz.




Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu told MSNBC this week that selling weapons to Ukraine could lead to them ending up in Iranian hands.



Netanyahu fearful that the conflict in Ukraine could escalate into a world-wide nuclear conflict.



Israel right now in the midst of an election campaign with the voting two weeks from today.




On Thursday Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid will speak with Ukraine's foreign minister...


                       TIMES OF ISRAEL...




IN URKAINE TONIGHT MORE AIR RAID ALERTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY...TASS RUSSIA




More on Russia and Ukraine later in the summary...


Opposition politicians sanctioned in the Dutch parliament.


Leader Thierry Baudet of the Forum for Democracy suspended from Dutch House of Representatives debates for a week and two other FvD legislators reprimanded.


Forum for Democracy members walked out of the House before the 119-2 vote along with members from the Party of Freedom (PVV).


PVV leader Geert Wilders said that the parliament should not be voting on the fitness of other members...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...



Meanwhile the Party of Freedom (PVV) leader in the Dutch Senate Marjolein Faber has been banned from speaking there.  



Faber was cited by the Senate President for making reference to the notion of traitors being behind the government or a "fifth column" as she put it...NOS NETHERANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)







                "We are the red line"



Demonstrators calling for peace and freedom on the streets of  Schwandorf, Germany tonight.


Opposition to government COVID policies now amplified with opposition to economic and defense policies as well that support Ukraine and oppose Russia...VIDEO STREAM SCHWANDORF, GERMANY PROTEST 10/18/2022





IN GERMANY THE INTERIOR MINISTER FIRING THE COUNTRY'S CYBERSECURITY CHIEF.


ARNE SCHOENBOHM CAME UNDER A CLOUD OF SUSPICION RECENTLY.


IT'S BEING ALLEGED THAT SCHOENBOHM MAY HAVE HAD CONTACTS WITH PEOPLE IN THE RUSSIAN SECURITY SERVICES...REUTERS



TWO CHINESE WARSHIPS AND 11 CHINESE WARPLANES DETECTED NEAR TAIWAN TODAY.



TAWIAN SAYS ITS MILITARY RESPONDED WITH AIRCRAFT, NAVAL VESSELS AND LAND-BASED MISSILE DEFENSES...TASNIM NEWS AGENCY IRAN...TASS RUSSIA...



MEANWHILE US SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN SAYS THAT CHINA IS 'ON A MUCH FASTER TIMELINE' TO UNIFY WITH TAIWAN...BBC NEWS



WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ISLAMIC STATE?


 THEY HAVE MOVED TO AFGHANISTAN AND POSE A THREAT TO THE CENTRAL ASIAN REGION STRATEGICALLY PLACED BETWEEN CHINA AND RUSSIA.


THE PRESIDENT TO TAJIKISTAN DESCRIBES A 'SERIOUS THREAT'...


                        TASS RUSSIA

 



FRENCH WORKERS SPREAD STRIKES BEYOND OIL REFINERIES, MAINSTREAM MEDIA LINK PROTEST MARCHES TO EXTREMISM


                                                         (UPDATED)







THOUSANDS PROTEST IN PARIS 10/18/2022 (3 HOUR, 12 MINUTE VIDEO)








 Workers on strike in France today thousands marching in the streets of Paris and thousands more in other French cities.



300,000 according to French union leaders and 107,000 according to the government's official estimate.


Rail service disrupted in many cases today.


Bus drivers also walking out.    There are scattered strikes in other sectors including some involving teachers and retail workers.


The strikes in solidarity with oil refinery workers who walked off the job and were then forced back to work by the government of French President Emmanuel Macron.


Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said today that disruption of gasoline stations in France is now under 25 percent as the government forces workers back on the job.


Also, the police and mainstream media stressing the presence of anarchists and "ultra-leftists" inside the protest processions...(BFM-TV France)



THE DRAMA CONTINUES IN THE UK EFFORTS TO BRING THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT OF PRIME MINISTER LIZ TRUSS FOLLOWING HER REVERSAL OF TAX BREAKS SHE FIRST PROPOSED UNDER PRESSURE FROM GLOBAL BANKING INTERESTS...BBC NEWS BLOG




The official inflation rate in New Zealand 7.2 percent.   


A very slight change from the previous 7.3 percent rate recorded earlier this year...



                       ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND





STOCKS MOVED UPWARDS TODAY.



THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE UP 337.98 POINTS OR 1.12 PERCENT IN VALUE.




NASDAQ UP 96.60 POINTS OR .90 PERCENT IN VALUE.




(UPDATED) WITH ELECTION DAY THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION MANIPULATING THE OIL MARKETS AGAIN HOPING TO DRIVE DOWN GASOLINE PRICES.



A NEW RELEASE FROM THE STRATEGIC OIL RESERVE BEING TOUTED.



THE 15 MILLION BARREL DECEMBER RELEASE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED TONIGHT.


A SHARP OIL PRICE DROP IN NEW YORK TODAY MORE THAN TWO PERCENT BY LATE AFTERNOON.


THE OVERSEAS OIL PRICE ALSO DOWN...MARKETWATCH





IN ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA NEAR WASHINGTON DC THE JURY ACQUITTING IGOR DANCHENKO.




HE WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY ON FOUR CHARGES OF LYING.



DANCHENKO ACCUSED BY SPECIAL COUNSEL JOHN DURHAM AS THE MAIN SOURCE OF THE DISCREDITED 'STEELE DOSSIER' LINKING PRESIDENT TRUMP TO RUSSIA...WASHINGTON EXAMINER





Politics in the USA more polls today among them an Emerson Poll in Michigan that puts incumbent Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer at 49 percent and Republican challenger Tudor Dixon at 44 percent.



In the race for US Senate in Georgia an Insider Advantage poll puts incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock at 46 percent and Republican challenger Herschel Walker at 44 percent.


And in New York a Quinnipiac Poll showing Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul at 50 percent and Republican challenger Lee Zeldin at 46 percent...REAL CLEAR POLITICS LATEST POLLS





IN ETHIOPIA ERITREAN AND ETHIOPIAN TROOPS ON THE OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE REBELLIOUS TIGRAY REGION.



THEY HAVE CAPTURED THE CITY OF SHIRE.



THE TIGRAYRANS SAY THEY ARE IN A 'LIFE OR DEATH' STRUGGLE...NEWS 24 SOUTH AFRICA



Former British military pilots lured to China for large sums of cash.


That's the story that's being spread in the UK.



Up to 30 former pilots thought to be involved in such activity which is not officially illegal yet...BBC NEWS



                RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA




NATO TO PROVIDE DRONE DEFENSE IN DAYS



RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR SAYS GERMANY HAS CROSSED LINE WITH ARMS FOR UKRAINE





MAJOR DISRUPTION OF ELECTRICITY IN UKRAINE FOLLOWING RUSSIAN STRIKES



                          218 PRISONERS EXCHANGED




US SAYS IRAN PROVIDING DRONES TO RUSSIA IN VIOLATION OF UN RESOLUTION



                     TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED





The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says that NATO will provide anti drone systems 'in the coming days' to bolster Ukraine...NEWS AGENCIES-ORF AUSTRIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




Evoking World War II Russia's ambassador to Germany says a line has been crossed with the supply of German weaponry to Ukraine...TASS RUSSIA




UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY SAYS THAT 30 PERCENT OF UKRAINE'S POWER STATIONS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED IN THE LAST EIGHT DAYS.



UKRAINIAN OFFICIALSSPEAKING OF A 'CRITICAL' SITUATION WITH WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES...BBC NEWS




218 prisoners, many of them Ukrainian women, exchanged in Ukraine.   Russia says 80 "civilian sailors" and 30 military personnel were returned by Ukraine...REUTERS-NBC NEWS




THE US RAISING THE ALARM OVER IRANIAN DRONES BEING USED BY RUSSIA IN UKRAINE.



THE US STATE DEPARTMERNT NOTING THEY VIOLATE A UN RESOLUTION EMBARGOING ARMS SHIPMENTS FROM IRAN...BBC NEWS




In other news...





The new Labor Party government in Australia reversing the former Prime Minister Scott Morrison's policy on Jerusalem being the capital of Israel.


Foreign Minister Penny Wong advocating for the "two-state solution" of a Palestinian state saying Jerusalem's status must be subject to negotiations...AFP-TIMES OF ISRAEL

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