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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 2/7/2023 NETANYAHU OPPONENTS CALL NATIONAL STRIKE IN ISRAEL, FRENCH STRIKES, PROTESTS OPPOSE PENSION SCHEME, UN CHIEF FEARFUL OF WORLD 'SLEEPWALKING INTO WIDER WAR'
(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING)
The strikes and protest in France opposing President Macron's pension scheme but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
POLITICS HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA THREE STATE HOUSE CONTESTS WON BY DEMOCRATS LEADING TO A DEMOCRAT MAJORITY IN THE STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
REPUBLICAN RETAIN A MAJORITY IN THE STATE SENATE...(ASSOCIATED PRESS)
IN THE UK THE HOUSE OF LORDS ACTING TO TAKE OUT SOME CONTROVERSIAL PROVISIONS OF A 'PUBLIC ORDER BILL' THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
THEY WOULD HAVE GIVEN POLICE SPECIAL POWERS TO CURB PROTESTS THAT 'CAUSE TOO MUCH DISRUPTION'...BBC NEWS
IN WASHINGTON DC TONIGHT JOE BIDEN DELIVERING A STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE TO CONGRESS AT THE US CAPITOL.
CONGRESSWOMAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE CALLING OUT MR. BIDEN AS A 'LIAR' DURING HIS SPEECH.
He was five years old when mother died on a boat fleeing Communist Cuba in late 1999 while he was rescued and brought to relatives in the US.
But in April of 2000 a US Federal SWAT Team raided his Miami home as the Clinton Administration decided to return Elian Gonzalez to Cuba.
Gonzalez's father who was still in Cuba saying he wanted Elian back.
Now Elian Gonzalez is on his way to becoming a member of the rubber-stamp legislature in Cuba the National Assembly.
In 2013 Gonzalez was reported to have said that he had a God "my God would be Fidel Castro"...HUFFINGTON POST
IN NICARAGUA CATHOLIC PRIESTS GIVEN TEN YEAR PRISON SENTENCES FOLLOWING TRIALS HELD IN SECRET.
ACCUSATIONS OF CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE PRIESTS FOR SUPPORTING ILLEGAL DEMONSTRATIONS OPPOSING THE LEFTIST PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA...FOX NEWS
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the West African nation of Mali cementing ties with a military government that's kicked troops from the former colonial power France out.
Lavrov and Malian leaders discussing both military and economic ties in a nation where Wagner Private Military Contractor mercenaries have replaced French and other Western soldiers to support the government's fight against Islamic jihadists...TASS RUSSIA
GERMANY IS TO SEND UP TO 178 'LEOPARD 1' TANKS TO UKRAINE.
THIS NEWS CAME AS GERMAN DEFENSE MINISTER BORIS PISTORIUS MADE A SURPRISE VISIT TO KIEV TODAY.
THESE TANKS ARE CURRENTLY NOT IN SERVICE WITH GERMANY'S MILITARY BUT ARE EITHER IN FACTORIES OR HELD IN STORAGE.
THE NUMBER OF TANKS ACTUALLY SENT TO UKRAINE WILL DEPEND ON THEIR CONDITION WITH REPAIRS LIKELY NEEDED ON THEM.
EXPECTATIONS ARE THAT UP TO 25 WILL ARRIVE IN UKRAINE BY THIS SUMMER.
More on Russia and Ukraine later in the summary...
UK CABINET SHAKEUP
(UPDATED WITH COMMENT ANALYSIS)
A CABINET SHAKEUP IN THE UK TODAY FROM CONSERVATIVE PARTY PRIME MINISTER RISHI SUNAK...EURONEWS.
CONSERVATIVE PARTY INSIDER GRANT NAMED ENERGY SECRETARY...BBC NEWS...
THE CONSERVATIVE REPLACING ITS CHAIRMAN.
GREG HANDS NOW HOLDS THAT POST AFTER NADHIM ZAHAWI WAS FORCED OUT OVER TAX ISSUES.
A NEW SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY MINISTRY ESTABLISHED HEADED BY MICHELLE DONALAN. DONELAN WILL CONTINUE HER WORK ON AN 'ONLINE SAFETY BILL' THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT 'HARMFUL MATERIAL' ON THE INTERNET.
THE POLLS CONTINUE TO LOOK BLEAK FOR THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY IF AN ELECTION WERE HELD TODAY BUT THERE ARE RUMORS THAT AN ELECTION IS NEAR.
ALSO TALK IN RECENT DAYS OF A POLITICAL COMEBACK IN THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY BY FORMER PRIME MINISTER LIZ TRUSS.
In Israel opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial reform plan calling for a nationwide strike next Monday.
They also want a mass protest in the capital city of Jerusalem...TIMES OF ISRAEL
FRENCH WORKERS STRIKE-MASS PROTESTS OVER PENSION REFORM
400,000 PROTEST IN PARIS
TWO MILLION NATIONWIDE ACCORDING TO PROTEST ORGANIZERS
(UPDATED WHEN ABLE DURING THE DAY)
PROTESTERS IN THE CITY OF BLOIS, FRANCE TUESDAY 2/7/2023
PROTESTERS OPPOSING PENSION REFORM IN ROUEN FRANCE TUESDAY 2/7/2023
The latest day of nationwide protest action over President Macron's "pension reform" plan in France.
Union leaders in France say that some 400,000 people protested in Paris today.
Nationwide some two million protesting today according to the organizers.
The government claims 757,000 participants including 57,000 in Paris.
High school students also joined in today's protests.
Other protests in cities and towns across France...
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu says Russian forces are making progress near Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) and Ugledar as they continue an offensive that is "grinding down" Ukrainian forces.
Shoigu warning of "an unpredictable escalation" with NATO weapons supplies to Ukraine...TASS RUSSIA
In other news...
China is asking the United States to return the debris from the balloon that was shot down last Saturday off the coast of South Carolina...TASS RUSSIA
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