Tuesday, January 17, 2023

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 1/17/2023 BIG CONSERVATIVE MEDIA CALLED OUT AS 'BIGCON', NEW ITALIAN LAW AIMED AT REDUCING MIGRANT ARRIVALS, GERMAN POLICE ARREST GRETA THUNBERG AT PROTEST AGAINST NEW COAL MINE

 




The top US general meets his Ukrainian counterpart but first...





                   LATE NEWS TONIGHT:





PHILIPPINE JOURNALIST MARIA RESSA ACQUITTED OF TAX EVASION CHARGES.



THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING JOURNALIST STILL FACE OTHER CRIMINAL CHARGES AND IS APPEALING A CYBER LIBEL CONVICTION.



RESSA TARGETED BY AUTHORITIES DURING THE RULE OF FORMER PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE HER WEBSITE RAPPLER THE SITE OF CRITICAL REPORTING ABOUT DUTERTE'S ANTI-DRUG POLICIES...AFP-RFI FRANCE




IN UKRAINE TONIGHT THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY IS INCREASING ITS FOOTPRINT.    



THE IAEA CREATING A PERMANENT PRESENCE AT A SECOND NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.



DIRECTOR GENERAL RAFAEL GROSSI SAYING THE ATOMIC AGENCY WILL HAVE MISSIONS AT ALL OF UKRAINE'S NUCLEAR POWER FACILITIES IN COMING DAYS.


GROSSI EXPRESSING CONCERNS ABOUT 'NUCLEAR DANGER' OR A 'NUCLEAR ACCIDENT' DURING THE CONFLICT...TASS RUSSIA




More on Russia and Ukraine later in the summary.





Conservative media personality-comedian Steven Crowder's relationship with "The Blaze" and Glenn Beck ended last month.


But without naming any names himself Crowder made a video appearance today speaking out against:


                             "BigCon"



Crowder discussing contracts that force media personalities like himself on major conservative platforms to censor themselves or face financial loss if major tech platforms like You Tube do things like demonetize them...




                 STEVEN CROWDER VIDEO RUMBLE






AUTHORITIES IN PERU RESTRICTING TRAFFIC FLOW INTO THE CAPITAL CITY OF LIMA.



PROTESTERS TRAVELING THERE OPPOSING THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT DINA BOLUARTE AND SEEKING NEW ELECTIONS IN THE COUNTRY.    THEY SUPPORT FORMER LEFTIST PRESIDENT PEDRO CASTILLO.



BOLUARTE SAYS SHE HAS EVIDENCE OF A PLAN FOR THE "TAKING OF LIMA" IN THE COMING DAYS.   SHE SPEAKS OF DIALOGUE WITH PROTESTERS BUT SAYS SHE WILL NOT RESIGN.



PROTESTS AND HIGHWAY BLOCKADES CONTINUE ACROSS THE COUNTRY...RPP PERU BLOG (TRANSLATION PROMPT)





An advisor to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky resigning.



Oleksiy Arestovych stepping down after he pointed to the notion that the Russian missile that struck an apartment complex last weekend in Dnipro had been shot down by Ukrainian fire.



Some 44 people now reported dead from that incident...




                             BBC NEWS



                            TASS RUSSIA....



Meanwhile at the United Nations the Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya told a Security Council meeting the deadly incident in Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk) was caused because Ukraine violated international law by placing missile defenses in a residential area...



                              TASS RUSSIA





ITALY HAS A NEW LAW REQUIRING INTERNATIONAL RESCUE BOATS CARRYING MIGRANTS PICKED UP AT SEA TO RETURN TO ITALIAN PORTS WITH ONLY ONE GROUP AT A TIME.



FAILURE TO DO SO RISKS FINES.    THE NEW LAW SEEN AS A MOVE TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF MIGRANTS THAT CAN BE DUMPED ON ITALY'S SHORES BY THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




GERMAN POLICE CONTINUE CRACKDOWN ON PROTESTS AT NEW COAL MINE SITE


                                                      (UPDATED)




Greta Thunberg carried off by German police today.    


Thunberg joining a continuing protest against the construction of a new coal mine in Lutzerath...IRISH INDEPENDENT...



The police not charging anyone with crimes but trying to keep protesters away from the site.





UNIONS ACROSS FRANCE GEARING UP FOR A NATIONAL STRIKE THURSDAY TO OPPOSE PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON'S PENSION REFORM PLAN.



RAILROAD UNIONS EXPECTED TO BE MAJOR PARTICIPANTS.    A TEACHERS UNION OFFICIAL SAYS THAT 70 PERCENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS LIKELY TO WALK OUT...(BFM-TV France)



STOCKS TODAY THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE MOVING DOWN 391.66 POINTS OR 1.14 PERCERNT IN VALUE.


THE NASDAQ MOVING UP 15.96 POINTS.


THE PRICE OF OIL UP TO 81 DOLLARS AND 14 CENTS A BARREL AT 405 PM NEW YORK TIME...MARKETWATCH





The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland continues with the setting being described as a "fake movie set".



When national leaders speak like Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez there isn't much of an audience to listen...EZRA LEVANT REBEL NEWS TWITTER






The President of Vietnam resigning.



Nguyen Xuan Phuc leaving his post after the Communist Party that controls the country held him responsible for corruption involving other officials.



Two deputy prime ministers have lost their jobs and dozens of lower level officials have been arrested over corruption...AL JAZEERA QATAR





ITS HAPPENED IN OTHER NATIONS BUT NOW POPULATION DECLINE IS BEING RECORDED IN CHINA.


850,000 FEWER PEOPLE IN CHINA.    THAT'S THE FIRST RECORDED POPULATION DECLINE SINCE 1961...NHK JAPAN



"approach the future with a positive mood"



It's the message of World Economic Forum Executive Director Klaus Schwab who wants the WEF participants to offer creativity and positivity.



Schwab admitting serious problems in the world...TASS RUSSIA...




Leading economists polled at the World Economic Forum in Davos expect the world economy to be in recession this year.    


That's the expectation of two-thirds of them with 18 percent seeing the recession as "highly likely"...TASS RUSSIA



THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV URGING AZERBAIJAN TO REOPEN THE LACHIN CORRIDOR IN A PHONE COVERSATION WITH THAT COUNTRY'S FOREIGN MINISTER.


THE CORRIDOR LINKS ARMENIA TO THE DISPUTED NAGORNO-KARABAKH REGION...TASS RUSSIA



            RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA


US JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN MEETS UKRAINE'S TOP GENERAL



   THIRD CANADIAN NATIONAL KILLED IN UKRAINE



                TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED



The Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley in Poland today meeting Ukraine's armed forces chief Valrery Zaluzhny...AFP FRANCE-TIMES OF ISRAEL




No comment from Canada's government on the death of a third Canadian citizen in the conflict.



Combat media Grigory Zhekhmistrenko killed Sunday in the Donetsk Region...TASS RUSSIA




In other news...




IN THE UK NEW LEGISLATION TO BAN 'CONVERSION THERAPY'.    


THE PROPOSED LAW FOR ENGLAND AND WALES WILL BAN ANY SUCH THERAPY AIMED AT LGBTQ PEOPLE.



THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY GOVERNMENT'S CULTURE MINISTER MICHELLE DONELAN PUTTING OUT THE WORD THAT THIS BILL WILL INCLUDE THOSE WHO ARE TRANGENDER...BBC NEWS




Albuquerque Police staging a SWAT raid on a former Republican New Mexico state legislative candidate Monday.


Solomon Pena is being charged with conspiring with four other men to shoot at the homes of Democrat elected officials.


There have been shooting incidents at elected officials homes and offices in recent weeks...KRQE-TV ALBUQUERQUE

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