Wednesday, January 31, 2024

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 1/31/2024 SHARP MARKET DROPS, VICTORIA NULAND IN UKRAINE, US PATRIOT SYSTEM SAID USED TO SHOOT DOWN RUSSIAN POW PLANE, YOUTH WORKER IN AUSTRALIA WINS COURT FIGHT OVER VAX INJURY

 



                                 (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING)




Police in France beginning to take a tougher line against protesting farmers but first...




                     LATE NEWS TONIGHT:





A US WARSHIP OFF THE SOUTH COAST OF YEMEN SHOOTING DOWN A BALLISTIC MISSILE FIRED BY THE HOUTHI FORCES ALONG WITH 'THREE IRANIAN' DRONES...US CENTRAL COMMAND "X"...




More news related to Yemen later in this summary.








A hangar under construction collapsing at the Boise Airport in Idaho.


Injuries are certain with one report claiming fatalities.


So far mainstream media report about 12 injuries.


Notification of family members is causing a delay in acknowledging the fatalities.


The hangar collapse led to a crane falling over...KIVI-TV BOISE




US POLITICS THE BLOOMBERG/MORNING CONSULT POLL ACROSS SEVEN 'BATTLEGROUND' STATES SHOWING LEADS IN ALL OF THEM FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP.


TRUMP UP BY THREE PERCENTAGE POINTS IN ARIZONA AND PENNSYLVANIA AND FIVE PERCENTAGE POINTS IN MICHIGAN IF HE FACES JOE BIDEN ONLY.



IN ALL SEVEN STATES THOSE TRUMP LEADS STEADY OR GREATER IN A MULTI-CANDIDATE MATCHUP....REAL CLEAR POLLING-LATEST POLLS




THE US LAUNCHING AIRSTRIKES ON TEN DRONES IN YEMEN TONIGHT.  THOSE DRONES SAID TO BE READY TO LAUNCH...BNO NEWS "X"-CBS NEWS...


More news about an earlier airstrike in Yemen later in the summary.




Nine people hurt in London tonight after a corrosive substance (acid) was thrown.


A woman and two children in a car assaulted with the substance police and others who came to their assistance also hurt. 



Police launched a major search effort for the suspect including use of a helicopter...BBC NEWS




Longtime Democrat political operative John Podesta tapped to replace John Kerry as the US "Climate Envoy"....FREE REPUBLIC POST-THE HILL STORY-DISCUSSION



POLITICAL DRAMA IN WASHINGTON TODAY US SENATE HEARINGS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE EXPOITATION OF CHILDREN.


TOP TECH EXECUTIVES QUESTIONED.


MARK ZUCKERBERG OF 'META', PARENT COMPANY OF FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA APPS, OFFERING UP AN APOLOGY.



EMOTIONAL PERFORMANCES BY POLITICIANS AS WELL WITH REPUBLICAN US SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM SAYING:



            "You have blood on your hands"...



        REUTERS-RADIO NEW ZEALAND






Tensions in the Balkans with the Albanian majority government in Kosovo trying to control the money used by the minority Serb population.


The Serbian Dinar is to be replaced by the Euro.


Western nations concerned about the decision.   A multinational force including US soldiers currently deployed in Kosovo...ASSOCIATED PRESS-ABC NEWS USA...



President Trump's Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell dealt with Kosovo as a diplomat.   Grenell says the Biden Administration needs to pull US troops out for safety if the Kosovo Albanians continue provocations...RICHARD GRENELL "X"



THE US MILITARY HAS DESTROYED A SURFACE TO AIR MISSILE PREPARED TO LAUNCH IN YEMEN THIS EVENING...LIZ FRIDEN FOX NEWS "X"




THE US FEDERAL RESERVE LEFT INTEREST RATES UNCHANGED TODAY AMID EXPECTATIONS OF A RATE CUT...(News Agencies)


The markets today.




The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 317.01 points or .82 percent.




The NASDAQ down 345.89 points or 2.23 percent.


At 457 pm New York Time the price of oil is 75 dollars 79 cents a barrel down two dollars three cents a barrel or 2.61 percent ...MARKETWATCH



THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN MYANMAR EXTENDING A STATE OF EMERGENCY FOR SIX MONTHS.



THE MILITARY OUSTED A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT ON FEBRUARY 1, 2021 SAYING THE ELECTION OF 2020 WAS MARRED BY FRAUD.



SINCE THE MILITARY COUP THERE HAS BEEN CONFLICT THE GOVERNMENT AND REBEL FORCES ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTRY...AFP FRANCE-VOICE OF AMERICA






The International Court of Justice acquitting Russia of charges that it finances terrorism in eastern Ukraine.



The case brought against Russia by Ukraine back in 2017...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




Neoconservative US policy maker Victoria Nuland in Ukraine.   


The US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs meeting both government and non-government personalities during her visit...TASS RUSSIA




A SOURCE TELLS RUSSIA'S TASS NEWS AGENCY THAT A US MADE PATRIOT MISSILE SYSTEM WAS APPARENTLY BEHIND THE SHOOTDOWN OF A RUSSIAN TRANSPORT PLANE IN THE BELGOROD REGION LAST WEEK.



74 KILLED IN THE CRASH INCLUDING 65 UKRAINIAN POW'S...TASS RUSSIA







POLICE BEGINNING TO ARREST PROTESTING FARMERS IN FRANCE

                                                        (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)







FRENCH FARMERS PROTEST AT RUNGIS FRESH PRODUCE MARKET IN PARIS WEDNESDAY 1/31/2024





(Updated) 20 companies of French riot police (CRS) are to be deployed in the Paris area tomorrow to 'maintain order'.



Today police making 91 arrests of protesting farmers for 'obstructing traffic' and other actions at the Rungis Market in Paris.



In other parts of France arrests are reported.



Meanwhile the European Union is speaking of partial relief for farmers from rules forcing land to kept from use in 2024.


Farmers continuing to block major roads across France...



BFM-TV FRANCE (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




FORMER PAKISTANI PRIME MINISTER IMRAN KHAN AND HIS WIFE BUSHRA BIBI GIVEN 14-YEAR PRISON SENTENCES.


THE SENTENCES DISQUALIFY THEM FROM HOLDING PUBLIC OFFICE FOR TEN YEARS.


THE CORRUPTION CASE SENTENCES COMING JUST DAYS BEFORE PAKISTAN'S FEBURARY 8TH NATIONAL ELECTIONS THAT EXCLUDE MR, KHAN'S PARTY...WION INDIA



In the state of South Australia an employment judge ruling in favor of a youth worker who was hospitalized after experiencing chest pains following  a COVID booster shot in February of 2022.


Daniel Shepherd went to court after his employer admitted the Pfizer COVID vaccine's connection to his illness but cited emergency COVID law in denying him compensation...REBEL NEWS




"I think we are in a 'new normal', or even 'old normal' environment in which inflation is going to be tougher to keep under control"



The view from economist Bevan Graham of Salt Funds Management in New Zealand.


Graham looking at markets around the world and New Zealand where he expects the central bank there to be slow to reduce interest rates not taking any action until November...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND






                  ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

                                                     (SERVICE WHEN ABLE)




  ISRAEL HITS HEZBOLLAH TARGETS IN LEBANON



          MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)





                            ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS





                                    TIMES OF ISRAEL



Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon today aimed at Hezbollah targets.   Additional Israeli strikes after Hezbollah fired projectiles into Israel...TIMES OF ISRAEL





   THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                             (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)



NATO SPY PLANES NEAR CRIMEA BEFORE UKRAINIAN ATTACK WHERE 20 MISSILES WERE DESTROYED




  CIA DIRECTOR URGES UKRAINE AID CITING IT AS BENEFIT FOR US INDUSTRY




                   TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED




      RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




Spy planes from Italy, the UK and the US near Crimea before a Ukrainian attack today...TASS RUSSIA...


Russian authorities now say that 20 Ukrainian missiles were destroyed...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns urging US aid for Ukraine.   Writing in "Foreign Affairs" Mr. Burns said it would be a mistake of 'historic proportions' not to send aid.


Burns says the aid for Ukraine is "a relatively modest investment with significant geopolitical returns for the United States and notable returns for American industry"...NBC NEWS

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