Sunday, February 18, 2024

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 2/18/2024 NEWSDUMP WEEKEND CREW ABANDONS SHIP ON FIRE AFTER ATTACK OFF YEMEN, EXPECTED NATO LEADER URGES END TO TRUMP CRITICISM, CHINA WARNS FOLLOWING FISHERMEN DEATHS, A 'PATRIOT FRONT' REBRAND?

 




(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING WITH FINAL POSTING 11-1130 PM EASTERN US TIME)



Disturbances involving Eritreans in North Carolina and the Netherlands this weekend but first...



                LATE NEWS TONIGHT:




IN THE MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL SUBURB OF BURNSVILLE TWO POLICE OFFICERS AND A FIREFIGHTER KILLED EARLY THIS MORNING.


THEY WERE RESPONDING TO A DOMESTIC DISPUTE RIGHT BEFORE 2 AM LOCAL TIME.


ALL THREE SHOT ALONG WITH ANOTHER OFFICER WHO WAS WOUNDED.


THE SUSPECT WAS SHOT AND KILLED...ANI NEWS INDIA




In Papua New Guinea tribal warfare at least 64 massacred in an ambush in Enga Province.


Authorities loading bodies of the victims onto a police truck...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA



(UPDATED) THE CREW OF A MERCHANT VESSEL ABANDONED SHIP LATE TONIGHT FOLLOWING AN ATTACK OFF THE COAST OF YEMEN.  


MILITARY FORCES ARE PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO THE VESSEL IDENTIFIED AS BRITISH REGISTERED AND LEBANESE OPERATED.


A FIRE BURNING ABOARD THE "M/V RUBYMAR"...ROYAL NAVY UK MARITIME TRADE OPERATIONS THIRD UPDATE "X"...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...OSINT DEFENDER "X"


EARLIER AN EXPLOSION REPORTED NEAR THIS MERCHANT VESSEL OFF THE SOUTHWEST COAST OF YEMEN.   


EARLIER WE WERE TOLD THERE WAS DAMAGE WITH NO ONE HURT...ROYAL NAVY UK MARITIME TRADE OPERATIONS




Israel reporting planning restrictions on Muslims going to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the Holy Month of Ramadan that begins March 10th.


Only Palestinian Muslims over the age of 60 and under the age of 10 will be allowed around in an around the Al-Aqsa Mosque.


Limitations on Israeli Muslim citizens using Temple Mount during Ramadan also being considered.



This is said to have been agreed to by top officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir...(Maariv Israel)




US CENTRAL COMMAND SAYS FIVE PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKES WERE CONDUCTED AGAINST HOUTHI FORCES IN YEMEN SATURDAY.


THREE MISSILES, A DRONE BOAT AND A DRONE SUBMARINE DESTROYED...US CENTRAL COMMAND "X"




France's economy minister Bruno Le Maire setting a lower economic growth forecast for 2024.


1 percent is the new expectation, not the previous 1.4 percent.



Le Maire also announcing a 10 Billion Euro cut in government spending involving all ministries calling it a "Savings Plan"...BFM TV FRANCE






BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT SLAMMED BY ISRAEL OVER GAZA COMMENTS

                                                                (UPDATED)


"what is happening in the Gaza Strip is not a war, but a genocide"

BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA SPEAKING IN ETHIOPIA TODAY 2/18/2024




"What is happening to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip has not existed at any other time in history.    In fact, there was.    When Hitler decided to kill the Jews"


BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LUIS INACIO LULA DA SILVA MEETING THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY MOHAMMAD SHATAYYEH YESTERDAY 2/17/2024...SBT BRAZIL NEWS STORY (TRANSLATION PROMPT)






ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SLAMMING THE BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA.



THE BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT MAKING REMARKS TODAY DURING A VISIT TO ETHIOPIA AND REMARKS YESTERDAY TO A PALESTINIAN LEADER COMPARING ISRAEL'S ACTIONS TO THOSE OF ADOLF HITLER.



LULA DA SILVA ACCUSED OF TRIVIALIZING THE HOLOCAUST THE BRAZILIAN AMBASSADOR CALLED IN FOR A REPRIMAND BY THE ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTRY...TIMES OF ISRAEL






An Israeli airliner flying from Phuket, Thailand to Israel received suspicious instructions to fly off course.


The suspicious information originating from areas where extremist-terrorist groups hostile to Israel are operating...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS







 THE EX-THAI PRIME MINISTER THAKSIN SHINAWATRA RELEASED ON PAROLE.    HIS RELEASE APPARENTLY RELATED TO SERIOUS ILLNESS.



THAKSIN SEEN WEARING A NECK SUPPORT HIS RIGHT ARM IN A SLING AS HE LEFT A PRISON HOSPITAL.


HE WAS JAILED OVER ALLEGED CORRUPTION.    


HIS RELEASE SEEN AS AN ATTEMPT BY THE CONSERVATIVE RULING FORCES TOWARDS RECONCILIATION WITH THE HIGHLY POPULAR OPPOSITION PARTIES...IRISH EXAMINER





"We should stop moaning and whining and nagging about Trump"



(UPDATED) THE MAN WIDELY BELIEVED TO BE THE NEXT NATO CHIEF SPEAKING THIS WEEKEND AT THE MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE.


OUTGOING DUTCH PRIME MINISTER MARK RUTTE SAID HELPING UKRAINE SHOULD BE THE PRIORITY.



RUTTE SAYING HE HAS NO CONTROL OVER WHO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CHOOSE AS THEIR PRESIDENT.


RUTTE SAYING EUROPE MUST SPEND MORE ON DEFENSE A THEME PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS STRESSED REPEATEDLY...REUTERS...



IN THE NETHERLANDS MR. RUTTE IS IN A CARETAKER CAPACITY AS THE STRUGGLE TO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT LED BY GEERT WILDERS INTENSIFIES.



IT IS SUGGESTED A NEW CARETAKER PRIME MINISTER MAY BE NEEDED IF A NEW DUTCH GOVERNMENT CANNOT BE FORMED WHEN RUTTE MOVES ONTO NATO LEADER LATER THIS YEAR...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...




MEANWHILE PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FORMER DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE RICHARD GRENELL SAYS THAT MARK RUTTE IS A BAD CHOICE TO HEAD NATO.



HE SAYS RUTTE HASN'T DELIVERED ON INCREASING DUTCH DEFENSE SPENDING TO TWO PERCENT OF GDP...RICHARD GRENELL "X"



Four Belgian soldiers on a NATO training mission in Norway detained after a fight broke out in a cafe.



At least one person taken to a hospital with others hurt in the altercation in the town of Andalsnes.


20 to 30 people involved in the brawl.   Some 200 Belgian soldiers are now in the area of the Norwegian town...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



"The mainland reserves the right to take further measures and Taiwan shall bear all the consequences"



China warning that there are no restricted waters for fishing following the deaths of two fishermen in an altercation with the Taiwanese Coast Guard just days ago.


China saying the deaths of the fishermen had caused "strong indignation".


The incident in the Kinmen-Matsu islands area where it was announced just a few weeks ago that US Special Forces would be based there on a long-term basis...REUTERS-ASIA ONE SINGAPORE





(UPDATED) THE RUSSIAN MILITARY IN FULL CONTROL OF AVDVIIKVA AFTER THE PULLOUT OF UKRAINIAN FORCES.


DEFENSE MINISTER SERGEY SHOIGU INFORMING RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN OF RUSSIA MILITARY SUCCESS AT THE KREMLIN...TASS RUSSIA...



THE RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY DETAILING THE OPERATION THAT TOOK THE TOWN IN THE SOUTH DONETSK REGION ON FRIDAY.  



1,500 UKRAINIAN LOSSES ARE REPORTED BY THE RUSSIANS SAYING THAT 31.75 SQUARE KILOMETERS OF TERRITORY WAS TAKEN (12.26 SQUARE MILES)...TASS RUSSIA








"We will not let anyone drag us into a war"


Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaking this weekend saying the EU's Ukraine policy has been an "utter failure".


Orban saying Hungary wants a peaceful resolution in Ukraine...TASS RUSSIA...


Meanwhile Mr. Orban says Hungary's parliament will soon ratify Swedish membership in NATO...TASS RUSSIA...



And Mr. Orban expressed his hope that President Donald Trump will win the US election and bring peace to Ukraine...TASS RUSSIA




IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY EVENING A DISTURBANCE INVOLVING ERITREANS WITH EIGHT ARRESTS.



THOSE ARRESTS FOLLOWING A TEN-HOUR STANDOFF.WITH POLICE...FOX NEWS...




THERE WAS RIOTING IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF THE NETHERLANDS SATURDAY NIGHT LINKED TO ERITREANS.


POLICE CARS IN THE HAGUE TORCHED AS RIVAL GROUPS OF ERITREANS FOUGHT EACH OTHER.



POLICE USING TEAR GAS.



GROUPS SUPPORTING AND OPPOSING THE GOVERNMENT OF ERITREA A NATION IN NORTHEASTERN AFRICA HAVE OFTEN CLASHED IN MANY COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD...INDIA TODAY





In Pakistan a commissioner in Rawalpindi resigning alleging fraud in the February 8th elections.



The military supported Pakistan Election Commission denying any election wrongdoing...ONE INDIA







IN LONDON TODAY TENS OF THOUSANDS PROTESTING IN THE STREETS CALLING FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASE-FIRE IN GAZA...






IN SCOTLAND THE LABOR PARTY PRESSURING BRITISH OPPOSITION LEADER SIR KEIR STARMER SUPPORTING AN IMMEDIATE CEASE-FIRE IN GAZA.    STARMER SAYING HE IS SEEKING A 'SUSTAINABLE CEASE FIRE'...BBC NEWS





"potentially devastating consequences on the civilian population"


PART OF A STATEMENT FROM THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF THE G7 NATIONS REGARDING IN GAZA AND THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ISRAELI MILITARY OPERATION IN THE SOUTHERN CITY OF RAFAH.



THE JOINT STATEMENT FROM BRITAIN, CANADA, FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY AND THE UNITED STATES ISSUED ON THE SIDELINES OF THE MUNICH SECURITY SUMMIT THIS WEEKEND...REUTERS-TIMES OF ISRAEL...


ISRAEL'S PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG MEETING MR. BLINKEN AT THAT MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE.



EACH OF THEM STATING THEIR POSITIONS REGARDING THE SITUATION IN GAZA MR. HERZOG SAYING MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO DEAL WITH HAMAS.


THEN ISRAEL CAN SEEK BETTER RELATIONS AND ECONOMIC TIES WITH ARAB COUNTRIES...TIMES OF ISRAEL



At a Saturday night news conference Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacking critics of Israel's military plans.



Netanyahu saying those not wanting Israel to enter Rafah want Israel to "lose the war"...TIMES OF ISRAEL





              THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

                                             (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)




            MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




                            ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS





                                     TIMES OF ISRAEL




In other news...



A Red and Black uniformed group like the one observed in Madison, Wisconsin in recent months acting surfacing in Nashville.


They marched with black flags emblazoned with white Swastikas.



They're calling themselves the "Blood Tribe" and they're being called out as operators for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


It's being said that "Blood Tribe" is a rebranding of the discredited "Patriot Front" group in blue and khaki uniforms...SHADOW OF EZRA "X" POSTING (VIDEO EMBED)








    THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                             (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)





BRITISH MILITARY ADVISORS PRESSURED UKRAINE TO SHOOT DOWN RUSSIAN PLANE WITH PRISONERS ON BOARD





                      TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED





            RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




Russia's RIA Novosti news agency reporting that British military advisors in Ukraine put pressure on the Ukrainian military to attack a Russian transport plane in the Belgorod Region.


65 Ukrainian prisoners and nine Russians died in the January 24th shootdown of the IL-76 transport plane.


A source telling that Russian news agency that the attack decision was one quickly made in the field without coordination with higher ups in the Ukrainian chain of command or verification...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)

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