Thursday, April 13, 2023

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 4/13/2023 BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT CALLS FOR END OF US DOLLAR DOMINANCE, PRO-BIDEN MEDIA LEADS REVELATION OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS SUSPECT, CHINA SETS NO-FLY ZONE NORTH OF TAIWAN, MINI SKIRT-HOT PANTS DESIGNER IS DEAD

 



                                  (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING)



                  LATE NEWS TONIGHT:



PRESIDENT TRUMP QUESTIONED IN NEW YORK TODAY.    HIS DEPOSITION IN CONNECTION WITH A FRAUD SUIT BROUGH BY NEW YORK DEMOCRAT ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES...ANI NEWS INDIA




"Change takes time.   The greatest danger to a right-wing government is being to the right of the right of the right.   This leads to the downfall of governments"


The words spoken by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisting he leads a right-wing government in spite of actions like banning Jews from the Temple Mount during the last ten days of Ramadan including the last day of Passover.


Netanyahu saying he is working with a 'determined focus' on a 'goal' responsibly taking into account 'all factors'...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS



IT COULD BE CALLED THROWING DOWN THE GAUNTLET TO AROUSE BASE DEMOCRAT VOTERS FOR THE 2024 ELECTION.




THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SEEKING 'EMERGENCY RELIEF' FROM THE US SUPREME COURT FOLLOWING THE US APPEALS COURT DECISION ON AN ABORTION DRUG REPORTED ON LATER IN THE SUMMARY.



IT'S BEING SAID THE RULING DOES PLACE RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF 'MIFEPRISTONE' CONSIDERED TO BE TOO STRICT.



ANY SUPREME COURT RULING SEEN OR PRECEIVED AS HARMING THE ABORTION DRUG COULD BE USED TO AROUSE THE ANGER OF DEMOCRAT VOTERS IN UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN THE NEXT YEAR FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL ON DOWN...BBC NEWS



The President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva calling for an end to the US dollar's dominance in international trade.  


President Lula speaking at the Shanghai bank established by the 'BRICS' countries that include Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.


Lula says that developing countries are forced to find dollars in order to export their products.


He suggested that the BRICS countries lead the way in finding a dollar alternative for trade among them...FINANCIAL TIMES...TASS RUSSIA




A FLURRY OF ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON WITH AN ARREST AND A NAME BEING ATTACHED TO THE LEAKED INTELLIGENCE DOCUMENTS CONTROVERSY SWIRLING IN WASHINGTON THIS WEEK.


THE ARREST OF A 21-YEAR OLD MAN IN CONNECTION WITH THE SPREADING OF THE CLASSFIFIED DOCUMENTS ONLINE.    



MAINSTREAM MEDIA LED BY THE PRO-BIDEN ADMINISTRATION NEW YORK TIMES NAMING JACK TEIXEIRA IN THE CASE.


TEIXIERA IS A MEMBER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AIR NATIONAL GUARD...CNN NEWS BLOG



Norway kicking out 15 Russian diplomats saying they were 'intelligence officers'.   Russia calling the move an "extremely unfriendly step" and promising a response...REUTERS-MALAY MAIL...


Meanwhile Russia says that a MIG 31 fighter aircraft intercepted a Norwegian patrol plane over the Barents Sea near northern Russia...TASS RUSSIA




THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CHINA, IRAN, PAKISTAN AND RUSSIA WITH A JOINT STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN TODAY.


IT CALLS ON THE UNITED STATES TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY LIFT UNILATERAL SANCTIONS AND UNFREEZE AFGHAN ASSETS...TASS RUSSIA



THE STATEMENT ALSO CALLS ON THE RULING TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN TO FORM AN 'INCLUSIVE GOVERNMENT'...TASS RUSSIA STORY TWO





The markets today.


The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 383.19 points or 1.14 percent in value.


The NASDAQ rising 236.93 points or 1.99 percent in value.


The price of oil falling 84 cents to 82 dollars and 42 cents a barrel...MARKETWATCH




The flatline in British economic growth for February being blamed on strikes in the UK.


The Office of National Statistics citing government employee strikes for .1 percent growth rate that declined from .4 percent in January...BBC NEWS




CHINA'S PLAN FOR A NO-FLY ZONE NORTH OF TAIWAN WILL IMPACT 33 AIRLINE FLIGHTS.


ORIGINALLY A THREE-DAY NO-FLY ZONE WAS ENVISIONED BUT AFTER PROTEST CHINA DECIDING THAT THE NO-FLY ZONE WILL ONLY LAST 27 MINUTES THIS COMING SUNDAY MORNING (APRIL 16)...CHINA NEWS AGENCY-FOCUS TAIWAN




North Korea firing a missile today believed to be an intermediate range or longer type.



An analysis now underway after the rocket flew some 1,000 kilometers before falling into the water.



An anonymous defense official telling South Korea's Yonhap News Agency the missile system tested today is a new system.     Attention focused on the notion that North Korea may have launched a solid-fuel ICBM.




The US has condemned the launch...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA



NATIONAL DAY OF STRIKES AND PROTEST IN FRANCE



400,000 DEMONSTRATE IN PARIS ACCORDING TO ORGANIZERS



  J6 STYLE INCIDENT AT LOUIS VUITTON

                                  (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)






        PROTEST AT GARE DE LYON TRAIN STATION IN PARIS 4/13/2023








              BFM-TV MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCE (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



Protests and strikes in France today another day of opposition to President Emmanuel Macron.



Garbage collectors going on strike today in Paris noting the new pension scheme would force them to work to 67 years old to get a full pension under the new retirement age of 64.



400,000 protesting in Paris according to trade union organizers only 42,000 according to the government.



More than a million protested nationwide according to the unions with the government claiming that only 380,000 participated.



There were huge peaceful protests in France today with January 6th type actors at the fringes of today's protests become more active late in the afternoon.



One prominent January 6th style incident was at the headquarters of the fashion giant Louis Vuitton in Paris.




Tomorrow the Constitutional Council in France will announce if the pension changes forced through by President Macron with a legislative vote are approved.



Today Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announcing a protest ban at the Constitutional Council.



The show of police force tonight at the Constitutional Council mocked by Left political leader Jean-Luc Melenchon who sees the barricading of the council as a clear sign of a "democratic crisis" in France.







                   THE UKRAINE WAR



GERMANY APPROVES FIGHTER JET TRANSFER FROM POLAND TO URKAINE


                  TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED




Germany approving a request from Poland to transfer five former East German MIG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine...DEUTSCHE WELLE




In other news....



The World Tennis Association is going to resume tournaments in China again.  


The WTA had backed out over concern about a rape allegation by Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai.


With China's government standing firm on no probe of the allegation the WTA has backed down from the boycott of China...BBC NEWS




A US FEDERAL APPEALS COURT OVERTURNING A LOWER JUDGE'S ORDER TO STOP USE OF THE ABORTION-INDUCING DRUG MIFEPRISTONE.


THE RULING CAME LATE IN THE NIGHT WEDNESDAY...BBC NEWS




Fashion designer Mary Quant is dead at the age of 93.   She is associated with "mini skirts" and "hot pants" popularized among women in the 1960's and 70's...BBC NEWS











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