Friday, April 14, 2023

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 4/14/2023 NEWSDUMP FRIDAY TOP RATINGS AGENCY TARGETS ISRAEL OVER JUDICIAL REFORM, TIK TOK BAN LEGISLATION GOES TO MONTANA'S GOVERNOR, TEMPORARY STAY OF ABORTION DRUG ORDER, DOCUMENTS LEAK SUSPECT IN COURT

 



          (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING AT 11 PM EASTERN US TIME)



             WTOP-TV WASHINGTON DC NEWS OPEN 1972







The hearing for the man accused in connection with the leaking of those US intelligence documents France's Constitutional Council approves a key part of the pension reform law and new details about Chinese connections to and interference Canadian in politics but first...




                    LATE NEWS TONIGHT:




                              BREAKING NEWS JAPAN:


A suspect arrested after a bomb was thrown near the location where Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was to give a speech Saturday morning...NHK WORLD JAPAN (VIDEO EMBED)...


The bomb being described as a smoke bomb thrown as Mr. Kishida began to speak he was quickly taken away while a suspect was subdued and taken in custody...BBC NEWS



In Argentina the price of food rose by 9.3 percent in March, 28 percent for the first three months of this year and 106.6 percent since March of last year...TODO NOTICIAS ARGENTINA (TRANSATION PROMPT)




LATE THIS AFTERNOON THE MOODY'S RATING SERVICE DOWNGRADING ISRAEL'S ECONOMIC OUTLOOK.



THE MOVE WAS EXPECTED AS A RESPONSE TO PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU'S NOW SUSPENDED EFFORT TO ENACT JUDICIAL REFORM IN THE COUNTRY.


MOODY'S CLAIMING THAT THERE IS A:



      "deterioration of Israel's governance"



MOODY'S CHANGING THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK IN ISRAEL FROM 'POSITIVE' TO 'STABLE'...TIMES OF ISRAEL




Russia imposing a 10 percent tax on sales of foreign owned businesses.


Finance Minister Anton Siluanov sees the move as a disincentive for foreign companies to pull out of Russia...TASS RUSSIA




A bill to ban TikTok approved 54-43 in the Montana State House.    The legislation going to Republican Governor Greg Gianforte.    


If the bill becomes law it's likely to face legal challenges...NEW YORK POST



THE GOVERNMENT IN THE NETHERLANDS PLANNING FOR 47,500 MORE UKRAINIANS TO ENTER THE COUNTRY THIS YEAR.


AS OF JANUARY THERE WERE 88,000 UKRAINIANS LIVING IN THE COUNTRY AS REFUGEES...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



Politics in the USA former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying he will not run for President in 2024.  Pompeo said "This isn't our moment" during a Fox News interview...CNN



US SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO ISSUING A TEMPORARY STAY OF A TEXAS FEDERAL JUDGE'S ORDER PREVENTING USE OF THE ABORTION DRUG MIFEPRISTONE.


THE STAY IN EFFECT UNTIL NEXT WEDNESDAY WHEN THE FULL SUPREME COURT WILL ISSUE AN ORDER REGARDING THE MATTER...NEW YORK POST



"We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people.    We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer"



Part of the statement from Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth reacting to the negative reaction to the company's decision to market its "Bud Light" brand using transgender activist-influencer Dylan Mulvaney...FREE REPUBLIC POST-DAILY MAIL STORY-DISCUSSION




NURSES IN ENGLAND REPRESENTED BY THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING PLANNING A 48-HOUR STRIKE AT THE END OF THE MONTH.     THIS FOLLOWS REJECTION OF A PAY OFFER FROM THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT...BBC NEWS



The markets today.


The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 143.22 points.


The NASDAQ down 42.81 points.


At 510 pm New York Time the price of oil up 52 cents a barrel at 82 dollars and 68 cents...MARKETWATCH




Five Austrian officials going on trial today accused of giving asylum in Austria to a general in Syrian military intelligence accused of "war crimes" at the behest of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.


The Austrian government also probing General Khaled Halabi whose lawyer says his client fled Syria with the help of the Syrian opposition forces during the civil war.



It's reported that Halabi was an informant for Israeli intelligence...ASSOCIATED PRESS



Iranian cyberattacks in Israel today.   The Israel Electric Company and the Red Alert rocket attack warning website were affected...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...


In Iran today tens of thousands marching in Tehran on Jerusalem Day.     


Shouts of "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" heard from the crowd.


Banners at the protest included one saying "the destruction of Israel is near"...NEWS AGENCIES-TIMES OF ISRAEL



    CHINA AND CANADIAN POLITICS:




TRUDEAU FOUNDATION CHINA CONTRIBUTION KNOWN AT PRIME MINISTER'S OFFFICE



NEW DOCUMENT CONTRADICTS JUSTIN TRUDEAU'S PREVIOUS STATEMENT ABOUT ELECTION INTERFERENCE BRIEFINGS

                                                    (UPDATED)



MONTREAL'S 'LA PRESSE' NEWSPAPER REPORTING THAT A KEY EMPLOYEE INSIDE THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE KNEW ABOUT A TRUDEAU FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTION FROM CHINA.



PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU HAS MAINTAINED THAT A THERE WAS A WALL OF SEPARATION BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE FOUNDATION THAT BEARS HIS FATHER'S NAME...SAM COOPER GLOBAL NEWS CANADA TWITTER...




A DOCUMENT RELEASED TODAY SAYS THAT CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU WAS BREIFED SIX TIMES ABOUT FOREIGN ELECTION INTERFERENCE SINCE 2018.


LAST YEAR TRUDEAU SAID THAT HE HAD NOT BEEN BRIEFED ON CHINESE ELECTION INTERFERENCE...TWITTER POST...



 THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO MR. TRUDEAU WAS QUESTIONED THIS AFTERNOON ABOUT FOREIGN ELECTION INTERFERNCE IN THE LAST TWO CANADIAN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.


ATTENTION FOCUSED ON THE NOTION THAT CHINA ATTEMPTED TO INFLUENCE THE ELECTIONS IN FAVOR OF MR. TRUDEAU AND HIS LIBERAL PARTY.



Pakistan says that the United Arab Emirates will provide a one billion dollar loan.


This is a major step required by the International Monetary Fund in order to get loan money from the IMF.


Pakistan is currently burdened by a shortage of US dollars hampering its ability to import vital goods...BLOOMBERG-TIMES OF INDIA



Citing low pay thousands of British Environment Agency workers on a three-day strike starting today...BBC NEWS





11 MORE US SOLDIERS DIAGNOSED WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY FOLLLOWING ATTACKS BY PRO-IRANIAN MILITIA IN SYRIA.



THIS RAISES THE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES IN LAST MONTH'S ATTACKS ON US BASES TO 25...FARS NEWS AGENCY-IRAN



Japan has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council over the Thursday missile launch by North Korea...TASS RUSSIA...



North Korea says it tested a new kind of intercontinental ballistic missile yesterday.


The solid fuel type of missile is used by other leading nuclear powers and is much more difficult to detect and quicker to launch...NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO UNITED STATES




                           "love you Jack"



                            "you too Dad"



The shouted words exchanged at the federal court hearing for Jack Teixeira the 21-year old Massachusetts Air National Guardsmen who's been accused in connection with the leaking of those US intelligence documents,



Two federal charges that carry up to 15 years in prison leveled against Teixeira. 



Federal prosecutors want him held till trial.    A detention hearing set for next Wednesday April 19th...BBC NEWS...




"They couldn't find the Supreme Court leaker who put Supreme Court Justices lives in danger, but magically, they can find 21-year-old low level National Guardsman "responsible" for exposing the truth about Ukraine....


white, male, christian and antiwar.  That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime.   And he told the truth about troops being on the ground in Ukraine and a lot more.


Ask yourself who is the real enemy?"



Those are some of the comments coming from Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia in response to the revelation and arrest of the person alleged to have leaked US intelligence documents online...




      TWITTER POST ONE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE






      TWITTER POST TWO MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE




"The Secretary General was not soft on any one country...He says the same thing when he's in Moscow, when he's in Kiev..."


Those words from Stephane Dujarric spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.    


Dujarric responding to the media reports based on the leaked US intelligence documents that Mr. Guterres phone conversations are monitored by the US government.


The US said to be upset that Guterres was biased in favor of Russia over the Ukraine War.


His spokesman saying he is not surprised about the notion of his phone conversations being monitored...TASS RUSSIA




FRENCH CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL RULES ON PENSION REFORMS IMPOSED BY PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON.


RULES IN FAVOR OF RAISING RETIREMENT AGE TO 64 BUT SAYS OTHER PROVISIONS BELONG IN OTHER LEGISLATION.

                                                      (UPDATED)


That ruling from France's Constitutional Council gave President Macron a win on his imposition of a new retirement age without a legislative vote.


But it did say that some of the legislation's provisions need to be in other laws.


Labor union leaders and opposition politicians vow the protests and other challenges to the pension reform will continue.



Tonight protests were held in several cities across France with 4000 marching in the streets of Paris following the decision.


Legislation to repeal the raising of the retirement age will be tabled in the National Assembly...(BFM-TV France)




China says its warning for aircraft north of Taiwan in the coming days is a warning for falling rocket debris and not the creation of a 'no-fly zone'...TASS RUSSIA



CHINA SLAPPING SANCTIONS ON THE CHAIRMAN OF US HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE.


TEXAS REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL MCCAUL BANNED FROM TRAVEL TO CHINA AND CHINESE BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS ARE PROHIBITED FROM CONDUCTING ANY TRANSACTIONS WITH HIM.


THE SANCTIONS ORDER ALSO FREEZES ANY PROPERTY MCCAUL HAS IN CHINA.



CONGRESSMAN MCCAUL ENTERED TAIWAN LAST WEEKEND AS CHINA ANNOUNCED MILITARY MANEUVERS AROUND THE ISLAND FOLLOWING HOUSE SPEAKER KEVIN MCCARTHY'S MEETING WITH TAIWAN'S PRESIDENT TSAI ING-WEN...TASS RUSSIA





                     THE UKRAINE WAR




HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER SAYS US SEEKS TO DRAG NATIONS INTO UKRAINE WAR THREATENING A WORLD WAR


WAGNER GROUP SAYS UKRAINIAN DEFENDERS IN THEIR PATH 'HUMAN SHIELDS'


                  TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED



Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says that the US is trying to "shoehorn" all nations into a military alliance against Russia in Ukraine.


Orban says this increases the threat of war, a war that will be a nuclear one...TASS RUSSIA



The Wagner Private Military Contractor fighting for control of Bakhmut (Artemovsk) says the Ukrainians opposing it have little or no prepared defenses.


This means as Wagner sees it that the Ukrainians without defenses-fortifications are nothing but 'human shields'...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




In other news....




THIS WEEK THE US TREASURY DEPARTMENT IMPOSED SANCTIONS ON A HUNGARIAN BANK OVER ITS ALLEGED TIES TO RUSSIA...FREE REPUBLIC POST-POLITICO STORY-DISCUSSION




The Florida House of Representatives passing a six-week abortion bill following State Senate passage.


Last year Florida lawmakers passed a more liberal 15-week abortion statute but now as Republican Governor Ron DeSantis moves towards a Presidential campaign he indicated his support for a stricter law.


Today Governor DeSantis signed the legislation...(News Agencies)


Florida's Supreme Court now considering a legal challenge to the 15-week law...THE HILL

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