Thursday, November 17, 2022

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 11/17/2022 FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF FRANCE'S YELLOW VESTS PROTEST, RUSSIAN FORCES MAY GO ON OFFENSE IN NEW YEAR

 


                          (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING)




                  LATE NEWS TONIGHT:




North Korea firing a suspected long-range missile eastwards at 10:15 am Friday morning local time  (8:15 pm Thursday Eastern US Time).


Japan's Prime Minister saying the missile landed in waters west of Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido...(NHK Japan)...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA...NHK JAPAN






 TONIGHT UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY SAYS THAT 10 MILLION UKRAINIANS ARE WITHOUT POWER FOLLOWING DAYS OF RUSSIAN STRIKES ON THE COUNTRY'S ELECTRICITY GRID....BBC NEWS




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




IN LOS ANGELES THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE THAT PLOWED INTO SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT RECRUITS HURTING 25 OF THEM NOW UNDER ARREST.



THE DRIVER IDENTIFIED AS NICHOLAS JOSEPH GUTIERREZ, 22, IS ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A PEACE OFFICER WITH ADDITIONAL CHARGES PENDING.


THE DRIVER'S ACTION BEING CALLED 'DELIBERATE' WITH BAIL SET AT 2 MILLION DOLLARS...ABC 7 LOS ANGELES (VIDEO REPORT EMBEDDED)




Truck drivers in Brazil striking tomorrow over the newly installed Leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva...




KATIE DAVISCOURT REBEL NEWS TWITTER...




 Brazil's Supreme Court ordering the blocking of bank accounts linked to 43 businesses and individuals accused of "undemocratic acts".



The bank accounts linked to highway blockades opposing the election results that showed Leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva the winner in the October 30th Presidential runoff election...(SBT Brazil)




TODAY IS THE FOURTH OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF THE YELLOW VESTS PROTESTS IN FRANCE.


THOSE PROTESTS SPARKED BY PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON'S IMPOSITION OF GASOLINE TAXES IN THE NAME OF FIGHTING 'CLIMATE CHANGE'.



THERE WERE MASS PROTESTS IN THE STREETS OF FRENCH CITIES AND AT TOLL PLAZAS AND TRAFFIC CIRCLES IN OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.



THIS YELLOW VESTS ANNIVERSARY PROTEST HELD AT A TRAFFIC CIRCLE IN THE SOUTHERN CITY OF MONTPELLIER....







IN SOUTHEASTERN FRANCE 26 YOUNG 'MIGRANTS', MOSTLY FROM THE AFRICAN NATION OF ERITREA, DISAPPEARING FROM A HOTEL WHERE THEY HAD BEEN TAKEN TO FOR CARE.



THEY WERE PART OF A GROUP OF HUNDREDS OF MIGRANTS ADMITTED TO FRANCE FROM THE 'OCEAN VIKING' VESSEL REFUSED BY ITALY.



FRENCH AUTHORITIES SUGGEST THE GROUP OF OLDER TEENAGERS MAY HAVE RELATIVES ALREADY LIVING IN EUROPE...(BFM-TV France)




The markets today slightly downward.





The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 7.51 points and the NASDAQ went down 38.70 points.


Oil prices have fallen over four percent by 440 pm today to just under 82 dollars a barrel in New York...MARKETWATCH



THE UK GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCING AUSTERITY MEASURES THAT INVOLVE BOTH SPENDING CUTS AND TAX INCREASES.


INFLATION ON ANNUAL BASIS IN THE UK REPORTED AT 11.1 PERCENT FOR LAST MONTH...BBC NEWS BLOG




THE DEAL TO BRING GRAIN OUT OF UKRAINE FOR WORLD MARKETS EXTENDED FOR ANOTHER 120 DAYS...TASS RUSSIA




The Biden Administration spinning a decision about a Justice Department-FBI investigation into the actions of the Israeli military earlier this year.



The White House saying it had no advance knowledge of a decision by the Justice Department to launch the probe into the killing of Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh of Al Jazeera.



She is believed to have been killed by the Israeli military during a firefight with Palestinian gunmen in May.     


Israel describes the shooting as accidental...TIMES OF ISRAEL




IRAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS THAT ISRAEL AND WESTERN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES ARE TRYING TO START A CIVIL WAR.



HOSSEIN AMIR-ABDOLLAHIAN TWEETING FOLLOWING A DEADLY SHOOTING INCIDENT IN SOUTHWESTERN IRAN...AFP FRANCE-TIMES OF ISRAEL





21 killed including seven children in a house fire in the Gaza Strip...TIMES OF ISRAEL






US POLITICS NANCY PELOSI STEPPING DOWN FROM DEMOCRAT PARTY LEADERSHIP IN THE US HOUSE.



PELOSI WILL BE REPLACED BY A REPUBLICAN HOUSE SPEAKER IN JANUARY.




THE NEW HOUSE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY SAYS IT WILL INVESTIGATE JOE BIDEN.




 A POLITICO/MORNING CONSULT POLL SAYS ITS DONALD TRUMP 47 PERCENT, RON DESANTIS 33 PERCENT IN THE RACE FOR THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION IN 2024...REAL CLEAR POLITICS LATEST POLLS



              RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA




RUSSIAN MILITARY MAY GO ON OFFENSE IN THE FUTURE



MALAYSIAN AIRLINER CASE RULING FROM DUTCH COURT


                TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED




An Austrian military expert says that most of the 300,000 soldiers mobilized by Russian President Vladimir Putin in late September are still training.



Colonel Berthold Sandtner tells the Austrian Press Agency that 100,000 of those soldiers already being used to stabilize the front lines.



He says that the other 200,000 soldiers should be finished with their training in the coming weeks.



And depending on weather conditions Russian forces may go on the offensive at the beginning of the new year...AUSTRIAN PRESS AGENCY-ORF AUSTRIA




Individuals linked to ethnic Russian rebels in Ukraine convicted by a Dutch court in the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in 2014.



298 killed in the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17.



One of the four defendants acquitted by the court and the other three sentenced in absentia to life in prison.


In Moscow one Russian lawmaker calling the verdicts politicized...AFP FRANCE-TIMES OF ISRAEL...TASS RUSSIA





In other news...





The military government of Myanmar (formerly Burma) releasing 700 prisoners.



A former British ambassador, an Australian adviser to former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a Japanese journalist among those being freed on the country's National Day...



                                       AFP-LEGIT NG

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