Wednesday, May 15, 2024

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 5/15/2024*TURKISH PRESIDENT HINTS AT COUP PLOT*SLOVAK LEADER SYMPATHETIC TO RUSSIA SHOT CRITICALLY WOUNDED*CHINA CONDEMNS 'TYPICAL BULLYING BEHAVIOR' OF NEW US TARIFFS

 


                             (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING)




A state of emergency in a French South Pacific territory with TikTok banned and the assassination attempt on Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico but first...



                   LATE NEWS TONIGHT:





Israeli airstrikes deep inside Lebanese territory tonight.   The strikes aimed at Hezbollah targets following attacks on Israel during the day including a drone attack 30 miles inside Israel...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS




WITH LIBERAL JUSTICES DISSENTING A MAJORITY OF THE US SUPREME COURT ACCPETING A NEW CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT MAP IN LOUISIANA.


THE MAP CREATING A SECOND BLACK MAJORITY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WAS REJECTED BY A LOWER COURT...THE HILL




A mass stabbing attack in Switzerland wounded six people today.   Police found the suspect holed up in a building with self-inflicted stab wounds...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



"We know perfectly well who is the puppet, who is celebrating, and who is the puppeteer"


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke in Parliament following media reports about a coup plot.


Mr., Erdogan linking a plot to the FETO organization to which a 2016 coup plot against his government was associated with...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA




VIOLENCE LEADS TO STATE OF EMERGENCY IN NEW CALEDONIA-ARMY DEPLOYED, TIK TOK BANNED

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FRANCE ORDERING A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC TERRITORY OF NEW CALEDONIA FOR THE NEXT 12 DAYS.


PROTESTS BY PRO-INDEPENDENCE FORCES AGAINST AN ATTEMPT AT 'CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM' IN THE TERRITORY.


THAT REFORM ALLOWING ANTI-INDEPENDENCE FRENCH NATIONALS RESIDING TEN YEARS OR MORE ON NEW CALEDONIA TO VOTE.


FOUR ARE REPORTED DEAD INCLUDING A POLICE OFFICER AND THREE PRO-INDEPENDENCE DEMONSTRATORS.


500 ADDITIONAL POLICE SENT TO REINFORCE THE 1,800 ALREADY THERE.


FRENCH PRIME MINISTER GABRIEL ATTAL DEPLOYING THE ARMY TO PORTS AND THE AIRPORT.


TIKTOK HAS BEEN BANNED IN THE TERRITORY...ASSOCIATED PRESS-IRISH EXAMINER...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA



BFM-TV FRANCE LIVE BLOG (TRANSLATION PROMPT)


In the Netherlands a deal cut by four political parties on a new government following last fall's election.


Party of Freedom leader Geert Wilders making the announcement saying each of the four parties must now approve the deal.



Still undecided who the new Prime Minister will be Mr. Wilders indicating earlier in the government formation process that he will not be holding the post...(NOS Netherlands)...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)




ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SLOVAKIAN PRIME MINISTER 



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RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA STORY (TRANSLATION PROMPT) (WARNING: VIDEO OF SHOOTING)


THE PRIME MINISTER OF SLOVAKIA ROBERT FICO IN CRITICAL CONDITION FOLLOWING AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.



FICO, WHO IS SYMPATHETIC TO RUSSIA, SHOT AS HE LEFT A GOVERNMENT MEETING IN HANDLOVA NORTHEAST OF THE CAPITAL CITY OF BRATISLAVA.


HE WAS TAKEN TO ONE HOSPITAL EVENTUALLY AIRLIFTED TO A SECOND HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT.



SURGERY CONDUCTED ON MR. FICO SHOT FIVE TIMES IN HIS ABDOMEN, STOMACH AND LEG.


THE ASSAILANT HAS BEEN DETAINED BY POLICE.


HE IS IDENTIFIED AS A 71-YEAR OLD MEMBER OF THE ANTI-RUSSIA 'PROGRESSIVE PARTY' JURAJ CINTULA.



DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER TOMAS TARABA SAYING OPPOSITION PARTIES HAVE USED 'FALSE NARRATIVES' AGAINST MR. FICO.



THESE NARRATIVES MAKING FICO 'LIKE ALMOST A MONSTER'...



..REUTERS-TELEGRAPH INDIA...TASS RUSSIA...OSINTdefender "X"...BBC NEWS BLOG





The markets today.




The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 349.89 points or .88 percent.



The NASDAQ rose 231.21 points or 1.4 percent.


At 445 pm New York Time the price of oil rising at 78 dollars and 85 cents a barrel up 83 cents or 1.06 percent...MARKETWATCH






US POLITICS AFTER A SERIES OF EXCHANGES ONLINE THIS MORNING JOE BIDEN AND DONALD TRUMP SETTING UP EARLY DEBATES THAT WILL END WELL BEFORE ELECTION DAY IN NOVEMBER.



DATES SET JUNE 27TH AND SEPTEMBER 10TH.



EXCLUDED FROM THEIR PLANS THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES LED BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.




HEZBOLLAH LAUNCHING ROCKETS AT THE ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE BASE ON MT. MERON.     THIS IN RETALIATION FOR YESTERDAY'S ISRAELI STRIKES ON HEZBOLLAH TARGETS IN LEBANON...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS


"They give false hope to a silent majority and let us down every single time"



BRITISH MEDIA HOST NIGEL FARAGE REJECTING THE NOTION THAT HE JOIN BRITAIN'S CONSERVATIVE PARTY GOVERNMENT TO SAVE IT CHANCES OF WINNING THE ELECTION IN THE COMING MONTHS.


BACKBENCH TORY JACOB REES-MOGG BROACHED THE NOTION ON FARAGE'S TV SHOW.


REES-MOGG SAYS THE REFORM UK PARTY AND FORMER PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE CONSERVATIVE CABINET TO STRENGHTHEN THE PARTY BEFORE THE ELECTION...POLITICO



                    "typical bullying behavior"



Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reacting to the latest US economic warfare against China which includes a 100 percent tariff on electric car batteries...CGTN CHINA



RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN TELLING CHINA'S XINHUA NEWS AGENCY THAT ECONOMIC RELATIONS BETWEEN CHINA AND RUSSIA ARE RAPIDLY EXPANDING.


THOSE RELATIONS SHOWING 'STRONG IMMUNITY TO EXTERNAL CHALLENGES AND CRISES'...TASS RUSSIA




             THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

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           MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




                            ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS





                                      TIMES OF ISRAEL











      THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                                    (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)



THREE HURT IN UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACK IN BELGOROD REGION


                            TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS




            RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




Three were hurt in a Ukrainian drone attack in Russia's Belgorod Region.   The three inside a passenger car that came under attack...TASS RUSSIA

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