Monday, August 19, 2024

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 8/19/2024*PROTESTS IN CHICAGO LIMITED AFTER MUCH HYPE*NETANYAHU EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR BIDEN PROPOSAL ON WAR WITH HAMAS, BLINKEN SAYS HAMAS YET TO RESPOND*CHINA SAYS PHILIPPINE VESSEL CAUSED COLLISION IN SOUTH CHINA SEA*

 


                                  (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH MONDAY EVENING)



A legendary TV talk show host who had a business connection with Rush Limbaugh is dead but first...






                     LATE NEWS TONIGHT:





           CHICAGO PROTEST SITUATION




                                               (NEWS COMMENT AND ANALYSIS)

The protest situation in Chicago where the Democratic National Convention is underway talk of 100,000-150,000 demonstrators not borne out in what has been seen so far.



Why the notion of such large numbers of Pro-Palestinian Anti-Israel demonstrators was spread in the first place not clear but very suspicious? 



A small group of protesters broke away from a larger group and breached a fence in Chicago today with police making some arrests.




The number of demonstrators involved in today's protests in the thousands with organizers offering the highest estimate of 15,000 participants.


Demonstrators seen in Chicago today using phases associated with the violent protests seen in the city during the August 1968 Democrat National Convention...ASSOCIATED PRESS-TIMES OF ISRAEL...TASS RUSSIA





ISRAEL'S MILITARY CALLING UP RESERVISTS PREVIOUSLY EXEMPTED FROM SERVICE.


THE CALL UP LINKED TO SHORTAGES OF SOLDIERS WITH HOPES OF BRINGING 15,000 MORE INTO THE RANKS OF ISRAEL'S MILITARY.


IN JUNE PARLIAMENT PASSED A BILL THAT TEMPORARILY EXTENDS THE RETIREMENT AGE FOR ARMY RESERVISTS...ANADOLU AGENCY TURKEY (TURKIYE)





Russian President Vladimir Putin saying Russia is still committed to mediation in the dispute between Azerbaijan and the Armenia.


Putin visiting Azerbaijan for a two-day visit as Armenia appears to be less friendly to Russia following Azerbaijan's military victories in the conflict between the two countries...Al Jazeera Qatar




In Gaza an Israeli officer killed when a missile fired during an airstrike failed to reach its target.    

Six other soldiers wounded.

The missile fell 300 meters short of its intended target...Times of Israel





AN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE THIS EVENING AIMED AT HEZBOLLAH FUEL FACILITIES DEEP INSIDE LEBANON....REUTERS-AL ARABIYA





More heavy rains and flash flooding in Pakistan as torrential seasonal rains continue.    



Since the monsoon season began July 1st there have been 209 deaths reported.



14 dying in Pakistan's Punjab province in the last 24 hours...Associated Press US-Telegraph India





Vietnam's new Communist leader To Lam and China's President Xi Jinping pledging closer ties.



Mr. Lam visiting Beijing with agreement for cooperation on defense and security as well as highway and railroad links.


China is Vietnam's largest trading partner...Straits Times Singapore (Click Past Ad)





(UPDATED) ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SAYING HE SUPPORTS THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION'S 'BRIDGING PROPOSAL' FOR A CEASEFIRE HOSTAGE RELEASE DEAL TO STOP FIGHTING IN THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR.



NETANYAHU MET FOR THREE HOURS WITH US SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN WHO HAS ALSO TALKED WITH ISRAELI PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG AND DEFENSE MINISTER YOAV GALLANT DURING HIS VISIT TO ISRAEL.



BLINKEN WILL HOLD TALKS IN EGYPT TOMORROW...TIMES OF ISRAEL...



BLINKEN ALSO SAYING IT IS NOW UP TO HAMAS TO RESPOND TO THE US PLAN...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS


The markets today.




The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 236.77 points or .58 percent.




The NASDAQ rose 245.05 points or 1.39 percent.




At 425 pm New York Tie the price of oil in a steep decline at 74 dollars 51 cents a barrel down two dollars and 14 cents or 2.79 percent for the day...Marketwatch



One dead and six missing after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily.     Among the missing British entrepreneur Mike Lynch...BBC News Blog 



AN ISRAELI SOLDIER KILLED ANOTHER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN A HEZBOLLAH DRONE ATTACK IN NORTHERN ISRAEL TODAY.



ISRAEL'S MILITARY SAYING THREE OF THE FIVE DRONES USED IN THE ATTACK WERE SHOT DOWN...TIMES OF ISRAEL



China says that a Philippine vessel deliberately collided with one of its coast guard ships early this morning.


The Chinese statement speaks of two Philippine coast guard vessels illegally intruding into Chinese waters without permission.



The incident in an area disputed by China and the Philippines...REUTERS-MALAY MAIL




A BRITISH FORIEGN OFFICE OFFICIAL RESIGNING OVER ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL.


MARK SMITH, WHO WORKS AT THE UK'S EMBASSY IN DUBLIN, SAYING THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT 'MAY BE COMPLICIT IN WAR CRIMES'...BBC NEWS




                 THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

                                                              (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)




   BOMBER KILLED IN ATTEMPT TO ATTACK TEL AVIV




             MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



                                ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS



                                       TIMES OF ISRAEL






Hamas claiming responsibility after a man carrying a bomb was killed in an explosion in Tel Aviv.   A passerby was wounded.  


 An attempt was being made to carry out an attack in Tel Aviv when the blast happened and Hamas pledging more attacks...Times of Israel





In other news...





    THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                                (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)





   UKRAINE ORDERS EVACUATIONS OF EASTERN TOWN





RUSSIA SAYS UKRAINIAN ATTACKS REPELLED IN KURSK REGION




                             TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS




        RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)





In the face of Russian advances in the Donbass Ukraine ordering the evacuation of the town of Pokrovsk...BBC News





Russia's military says several Ukrainian attacks have been repelled in the Kursk Region...Tass Russia





And finally....



Legendary TV talk show host Phil Donahue dead at the age of 88.


Donahue rising to fame in the 1970's with a local television talk show that went national dealing with controversial topics and featuring controversial guests.



The talk show franchise Donahue built expanded into a TV talk production company that at one point in the early 1990's syndicated Rush Limbaugh to television stations across the United States.



Donahue also employed at one-point longtime Radio Moscow commentator Vladimir Posner when the Cold War thawed several decades ago.



Earlier this year Joe Biden gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House.


Donahue is survived by his wife Marlo Thomas daughter of entertainer-entrepreneur the late Danny Thomas...New York Post




















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