Wednesday, August 21, 2024

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 8/21/2024*KENNEDY TO SPEAK ABOUT HIS CAMPAIGN ON FRIDAY*ARREST IN PAKISTAN FOR MISINFORMATION ON DEADLY UK KNIFE ATTACK*ATTACK DISABLES MERCHANT VESSEL IN RED SEA*

 



                          (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING)




                  LATE NEWS TONIGHT:






IN CALGARY, ALBERTA A PASTOR WHO PROTESTED DRAG QUEEN STORYTIME EVENTS FOUND GUILTY OF FOUR CHARGES OF CRIMINAL HARASSMENT AND A BREACH OF BAIL CONDITIONS.



THE JUDGE IN THE CASE ACQUITTED DEREK REIMER OF THE CHARGE OF CAUSING A DISTURBANCE.



A SENTENCING DATE TO BE SET LATER THIS WEEK...CBC NEWS CANADA




Late tonight more than a dozen Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon following attacks on northern Israel including the Golan Heights earlier today...OSINTdefender "X"




IRAN HAS DETERMINED THAT THE HELICOPTER CRASH THAT KILLED PRESIDENT EBRAHIM RAISI WAS AN ACCIDENT.



BAD WEATHER CONTRIBUTED TO THE CRASH ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL REPORT.


THE CHOPPER HAS NO GPS SYSTEMS ON BOARD THAT COULD HAVE BEEN HACKED...TASS RUSSIA





IN SOUTHWESTERN FRANCE A 46-YEAR-OLD MAN SERIOUSLY WOUNDED BY POLICE AFTER HE ENTERED A TOWN HALL AND STARTED A FIRE.


THE MAN DRESSED IN A MILITARY UNIFORM ENTERING THE TOWN HALL IN ANGOULEME WITH A CAN OF GASOLINE AND TORCHING THE MAYOR'S OFFICE BEFORE POLICE INTERVENED...BFM-TV France (Translation Prompt)





Word tonight that the "USS Abraham Lincoln" aircraft carrier and escort warships have arrived in the Central Command area of operations in the Middle East...US Central Command "X"...


US Central Command also reporting destruction of a surface to air missile system and radar system in Yemen in the last 24 hours...US Central Command "X"





JOE BIDEN TALKING TO ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ABOUT PREPARATIONS FOR POSSIBLE ATTACKS ON ISRAEL FROM IRAN AND ITS ALLIES.



BUT BIDEN ALSO LEANING ON MR. NETANYAHU REGARDING A CEASEFIRE AND HOSTAGE RELEASE DEAL IN THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS




Five bodies found on that superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily.


Among the missing tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch who was celebrating a not guilty verdict at a federal fraud trial in the United States.



Lynch's lawyer was also on the yacht that is said to have been sunk by a waterspout early Monday morning...BBC News...



A co-defendant in that fraud case Stephen Chamberlain killed when struck by a car in England last Saturday.



Both Chamberlain and Lynch with ties to British and American intelligence agencies...Politico EU




The numbers regarding job creation in the United States have been revised downward dramatically.



The US Bureau of Labor Statistics saying 818,000 fewer jobs were created as of March this year than initially reported...CNN



US POLITICS ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. WILL SPEAK ON FRIDAY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN (2 PM EASTERN US TIME).


HIS RUNNING MATE NICOLE SHANAHAN HAS LAID OUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT KENNEDY WILL FOLD HIS CAMPAIGN IN FAVOR OF DONALD TRUMP DUE TO DIRTY DEMOCRAT TACTICS AGAINST HIM.



THOSE TACTICS RANGING FROM A FLOOD OF DEMOCRAT LAWSUITS TO KEEP KENNEDY OFF THE BALLOT TO THE PLANTING OF MOLES INSIDE HIS CAMPAIGN...ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. PRESS SECRETARY STEPHANIE SPEAR ON "X"



(UPDATED) A SECOND ATTACK ON A MERCHANT VESSEL IN THE LAST 24 HOURS REPORTED OFF THE COAST OF YEMEN.

INITIALLY TWO EXPLOSIONS NEAR THE SHIP OFF THE SOUTHERN COAST.   THE VESSEL AND CREW SAFE...TASS RUSSIA...

A LATER REPORT OF A THIRD EXPLOSION THE CREW STILL REPORTED SAFE...UK MARITIME TRADE OPERATIONS "X"...

AND THE LATEST WORD IS THAT A FOURTH AND FIFTH EXPLOSION WERE SEEN NEAR THE VESSEL STILL NO DAMAGE CAUSED.


The markets today.




The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 55.52 points.




The NASDAQ rose 102.05 points. 


The price of oil falling to 71 dollars 93 cents a barrel down 1.69 percent for the day...Marketwatch


A disturbance in Jerusalem this morning as Ultra-Orthodox Jews protested draft notices aimed at them.


One of the protesters attacked by a passerby.



Israel's Attorney General and Supreme Court forcing the draft on the "Haredim"  against the wishes of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whose government depends on religious parties to maintain its parliamentary majority...Israel National News


A man in Pakistan arrested over alleged disinformation regarding a deadly knife attack in Southport, England.


Farhan Asif accused of giving a false name for the suspect in that attack.


The name and notion the attacker was an asylum seeker who arrived illegally in the UK was spread following the attack.


In the days following the attack mass protests in the UK over illegal immigration that led to a crackdown on protesters and internet posts by the government of Sir Keir Starmer...BBC News



(UPDATED) POLICE IN ROMANIA RAIDING THE HOME OF INTERNET INFLUENCER ANDREW TATE.


AUTHORITIES OPENING UP A NEW PROBE INTO TATE WITH YET MORE ACCUSATIONS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MONEY LAUNDERING ON THE TABLE...REUTERS-ASIA ONE SINGAPORE...



TATE BEING HELD OVERNIGHT BY ROMANIAN AUTHORITIES...(BBC News)




China says the US is using it as a pretext to evade nuclear disarmament.



This follows a published news report in the US about a new US nuclear weapons strategy that takes China into account.



Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning saying the US government is 'fanning the theory of a so-called Chinese nuclear threat' aiming to increase its nuclear arsenal for 'an overwhelming strategic advantage'...Tass Russia



IN THE RED SEA A MERCHANT VESSEL ATTACKED WITH THREE MISSILES IN AN APPARENT HOUTHI ATTACK FROM YEMEN.



THE SHIP IS NOW UNABLE TO OPERATE DUE TO THE ATTACK.


ITS IDENTIFIED AS A GREEK OIL TANKER ON FIRE AND DRIFTING...ASSOCIATED PRESS-VOICE OF AMERICA...ASSOCIATED PRESS-CBS NEWS



US SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN HOPES THAT AN EMERGING DEAL ON HUMANITARIAN AID FOR SUDAN WILL LED TO PROGRESS ON ENDING HOSTILITIES.


A PLAN TO OPEN THREE HUMANITARIAN ROUTES BEING FINALIZED IN SWITZERLAND.


A CONFLICT NOW UNDERWAY IN SUDAN BETWEEN THE SUDANESE ARMY AND THE PARAMILITARY RAPID SUPPORT FORCES...NEWS AGENCIES-THE NEW ARAB




              THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

                                                          (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)


            MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



                               ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS



                                      TIMES OF ISRAEL





In other news...




FRANCE SET TO DONATE 100,000 MPOX VACCINE DOSES.



PRIME MINISTER GABRIEL ATTAL SAID THE DONATION WOULD GO THROUGH THE EUROPEAN UNION TO COUNTRIES AFFECTED BY MPOX.




A SURGE OF MPOX CASES REPORTED IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES...AFP FRANCE-MALAY MAIL








    THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                          (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)



                        TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS



       RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)










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