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Monday, March 13, 2023
NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 3/13/2023 MCCONNELL GOES TO 'INPATIENT FACILITY', ISRAELI POLITICAL TENSIONS, BIDEN APPROVES ALASKA OIL DRILLING PROJECT AFTER A BAN ON OIL AND GAS DRILLING IN ALASKA AND ARCTIC
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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
TWO ARE DEAD OTHERS INJURED AFTER A VAN MOWED DOWN PEDESTRIANS IN AMQUI, QUEBEC CANADA .
Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell released from a hospital to an "inpatient facility".
He will be there for "physical therapy" before "he returns home".
McConnell suffered a concussion when he fell at a Washington DC hotel last week...THE HILL
AFTER THE OIL PIPELINE DRILLING ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SUNDAY NIGHT A NEW ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY THAT AN OIL DRILLING PROJECT WILL BE ALLOWED IN ALASKA.
OIL DRILLING TO BE ALLOWED FOR THE WILLOW PROJECT IN NORTHEASTERN ALASKA AT THREE LOCATIONS, NOT THE FIVE SOUGHT BY OIL COMPANY CONOCO PHILLIPS.
A PROMINENT ALASKA POLITICIAN WHO'S BEEN FRIENDLY TO BIDEN REPUBLICAN US SENATOR LISA MURKOWSKI MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS BIDEN DECISION. MURKOWSKI ALSO CLOSE TO THE ENERGY INDUSTRY IN THEIR BACK POCKET...BREAKING NEWS COMMENTARY
Russia says it has no objections to extension of the grain export deal involving Ukraine for the next 60 days.
Russia also noting that provisions of the UN brokered deal regarding Russian products have not been implemented so far...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
GERMANS PROTEST AGAINST UKRAINE WAR IN EISNACH MONDAY 3/13/2023
"Greens To The Eastern Front"
The Monday night protests against German government support for the Ukraine War.
One protest sign with a message for the Green Party in Germany's current coalition government...
"China poses an epoch-defining challenge to the type of international order we want to see..."
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's words as the UK revealed its defense and security position for the coming years. Six billion US dollars more is to be spent on national defense...
THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER JOINING AUSTRALIA'S PRIME MINISTER ANTHONY ALBANESE AND JOE BIDEN FOR A MEETING OF THE AUKUS DEFENSE ALLIANCE AIMED AT CHINA.
A DEAL BETWEEN THE NATIONS REGARDING SUBMARINES ANNOUNCED...BBC NEWS BLOG
IN PAKISTAN FORMER PRIME MINISTER IMRAN KHAN HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO HOLD A POLITICAL RALLY IN LAHORE.
PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS THWARTED BY AUTHORITIES CLAIMING DANGER OF VIOLENCE...ANI NEWS INDIA
AUTHORITIES ALSO SEEKING TO ARREST KHAN ON VARIOUS CHARGES.
THOSE CHARGES LEVELED AGAINST HIM SINCE THE POLITICAL OPPOSITION REMOVED HIM FROM POWER WHEN MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT SWITCHED PARTIES LAST YEAR...(INDIA TODAY)
KHAN SAYS HE WILL HOLD ANOTHER POLITICAL RALLY THIS COMING SUNDAY...(DAWN PAKISTAN)
DEVELOPMENTS IN ISRAEL:
BILL TO PREVENT SUSPENSION OF PRIME MINISTER MOVES IN PARLIAMENT
NETANYAHU SAYS THERE IS CIVILIAN CONTROL OF POLICE AND MILITARY
POLICE CHIEF BANS OFFICERS FROM TALKING TO 'FAR RIGHT' NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER
(UPDATED)
A bill preventing Israel's High Court from suspending a prime minister from office approved in committee today...TIMES OF ISRAEL...Late tonight it was approved on first reading in the Knesset (Parliament)...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Earlier Israeli Police Commissioner Yaakov "Kobi" Shabatai banning his officers from talking directly with National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, who oversees Israel's police force.
Shabatai says he will be the intermediary for any communication with lower ranks in the police force.
Mr. Ben Gvir attempted to remove Tel Aviv's top police officer last week but was stopped by Israel's Attorney General.
Ben Gvir opposes what he sees as a tepid police response to mass protests blocking highways and otherwise disrupting Israeli life.
Those protests opposing the judicial reform plans of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...
Meanwhile Mr. Netanyahu decrying media bias that is aligned with the street protests and also saying:
"In any reformed democracy, elected officials are responsible for the army, police and law and order"...
Joe Biden trying to reassure following two bank failures in the US over the weekend.
Biden speaking about the soundness of the banking system this morning.
When the stock markets opened in New York this morning the VIX an indicator of market turbulence was above 22 percent.
Trading of shares in First Republic Bank and Western Alliance Bancorp were halted earlier today.
Major Wall Street players like Goldman Sachs say the Federal Reserve Board will hold off on interest rate hikes for a month in light of the present circumstances.
TODAY ON WALL STREET THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE DOWN 90.50 POINTS AND THE NASDAQ UP 49.96 POINTS.
At 445 pm New York Time the price of oil at 74 dollars and 52 cents a barrel down two dollars and 16 cents...MARKETWATCH
FOOD PRICES IN NEW ZEALAND 12 PERCENT HIGHER THAN A YEAR AGO.
THE FOOD INFLATION STATS FOR FEBRUARY OUT TODAY SHOW THE COST OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES IN NEW ZEALAND INCREASED 23 PERCENT SINCE LAST YEAR.
FOOD PRICE INFLATION AT ITS HIGHEST ANNUAL RATE SINCE 1989...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
Over the weekend the Biden Administration strengthening a ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean and imposing a partial ban off the coast of Alaska.
The protection of wildlife cited in connection with the measures...REUTERS-ARCTIC TODAY
CHINA WARNING THE PHILIPPINES THAT CLOSER MILITARY TIES WITH THE UNITED STATES WOULD ALIGN IT WITH US GEOPOLITICAL GOALS AND HURT ITS SECURITY.
THE CHINESE EMBASSY IN MANILA SAYS THAT THE RECENT DECISION ALLOWING THE US MILITARY ACCESS TO PHILIPPINE MILITARY FACILITIES PITS THE PHILIPPINES AGAINST CHINA AND TIES IT TO THE 'CHARIOT OF GEOPOLITICAL STRIFE'...ANI NEWS INDIA
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