Friday, August 30, 2024

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT 8/30/2024 NEWSDUMP FRIDAY HOLIDAY WEEKEND*US WARSHIP COMMANDER FIRED AFTER EMBARASSING RIFLE PIC*MUSK TALKS US BANKRUPTCY*CONTROVERSIAL BRAZILAN JUDGE SHUTS DOWN "X" SOCIAL MEDIA IN BRAZIL*

 



     (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING TILL 11 PM EASTERN US TIME)


(FINAL POSTINGS WILL BE IN THE  8-11 PM EASTERN US TIME WINDOW)




                     LATE NEWS TONIGHT:





US CENTRAL COMMAND ANNOUNCING A JOINT OPERATION AGAINST ISIS IN WESTERN IRAQ SAID TO HAVE KILLED 15 ISIS FIGHTERS THERE ARE UNOFFICIAL REPORTS OF 6-7 MEMBERS OF THE US MILITARY WOUNDED...US CENTRAL COMMAND "X"...VISEGRAD 24 "X"




An explosion at a gas station in Yemen's port city of Aden causing deaths and injuries.  Early reports spoke of five killed but there are reports of more fatalities and some 150 injuries...Khabar Agency Kazakhstan




THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE USS JOHN MCCAIN GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER FIRED.


COMMANDER CAMERON YASTE WAS PICTURED IN APRIL ON SOCIAL MEDIA HOLDING AN M-4 RIFLE WITH THE OPTIC (SIGHT) MOUNTED BACKWARDS.


"LOSS OF CONFIDENCE' STATED AS A REASON FOR REMOVING COMMANDER YASTE FROM HIS POST...TASK AND PURPOSE




Police in Germany saying the stabbing attack that injured five people on a bus this evening was not a 'terrorist act'.


The attacker said to have been a 32-year-old German woman.  Three of wounded suffered critical injuries...Tagesschau Germany (Translation Prompt)





TENSIONS IN THE BALKANS AS KOSOVO AUTHORITIES RAIDED SERBIAN MINORITY GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS IN THE NORTH.


THE SHUT DOWN OF THOSE GOVERNING STRUCTURES VIEWED AS A PROVOCATION.


THE UNITED STATES CRITICIZING THE MOVE WITH SERBIA'S GOVERNMENT URGING SERBS IN KOSOVO NOT TO REACT TO THE PROVOCATION...ASSOCIATED PRESS-ABC NEWS USA...(ADDITIONAL INFO VIA TANJUG NEWS AGENCY SERBIA)




Two missiles exploding near a merchant vessel off the south coast of Yemen tonight. No damage or injuries reported...United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations "X"...




In Ireland today a High Court order and attempted arrest of teacher Enoch Burke over his defiance of a court order.   


Burke objecting to transgender ideology at his school and fired from his job.



Mr. Burke appeared at his school when it reopened recently accompanied by members of the public supporting him..."X" SOCIAL MEDIA POST (VIDEO EMBED OF POLICE ATTEMPTING TO ARREST ENOCH BURKE)...RTE IRELAND MAINSTREAM MEDIA STORY






SHUT DOWN ORDER FOR 'X' SOCIAL MEDIA IN BRAZIL

                                                        (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)



THE CONTROVERSIAL BRZAILIAN SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ALEXANDRE DE MORAES ORDERING SHUT DOWN OF THE "X" SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM IN BRAZIL...TASS RUSSIA...(EARLIER NEWS ON THIS STORY LATER IN THE SUMMARY)...


TONIGHT "X" OWNER ELON MUSK LETTING BRAZILIANS KNOW OF ALTERNATIVE MEANS TO ACCESS "X" INCLUDING DOWNLOAD OF A VPN...ELON MUSK "X"...


BUT THE BRAZILIAN JUDGE ALSO IMPOSING A FINE OF NEARLY 8900 DOLLARS A DAY ON ANYONE USING A VPN TO ACCESS "X"...MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER "X"...


THREE MAJOR INTERNET PROVIDERS IN BRAZIL BLOCKING "X" AT MIDNIGHT LOCAL TIME TONIGHT...OSINTdefender "X"




Four injuries in Israel tonight following two terrorist attacks.  One was a car bombing the other a ramming attack...OSINTdefender "X"



(UPDATED) AT LEAST FIVE DEAD IN UKRAINIAN SHELLING ATTACKS IN RUSSIA'S BELGOROD REGION.   AT LEAST 37 OTHERS WERE HURT...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...



EARLIER TODAY SEVEN KILLED AND 59 OTHERS HURT IN RUSSIAN SHELLING OF THE CITY OF KHARKIV IN UKRAINE...BBC NEWS UK




GERMAN AUTHORITIES SPEAKING OF EXPLOSIVE PACKAGES BEING SENT ACROSS EUROPE.    NOTIFICATIONS SENT TO THE VARIOUS LOGISTICS COMPANIES THAT SHIP PACKAGES.


AN INCIDENT AT A DHL LOGISTICS CENTER LAST MONTH CITED IN CONNECTION WITH THE NOTIFICATIONS...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



THE LEFTIST GOVERNMENT OF NICOLAS MADURO IN VENEZUELA CLAIMING SABOTAGE TODAY FOLLOWING A MAJOR POWER OUTAGE.


THE CAPITAL CITY OF CARACAS AND SEVERAL STATES HEAVILY IMPACTED OUTAGES REPORTED IN PART ACROSS ALL 24 STATES...ASSOCIATED PRESS-PBS USA



"At current rates of government spending, America is in the fast lane to bankruptcy"


That message from Elon Musk today Musk linking on "X" to a post discussing expectations of 16 trillion dollars more being added to the US national debt by 2035..."X" Trending Post




The markets today.



The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 228.03 points or .55 percent.



The NASDAQ up 197.19 points or 1.13 percent.


The price of oil in New York lower today closing at 73 dollars 65 cents a barrel down two dollars 26 cents or 2.98 percent...Marketwatch



Germany toughening up its immigration policies with deportation of Afghan nationals back to Afghanistan.


The German government saying the 28 Afghans put aboard a charter flight to Kabul were all convicted of crimes.


This is the first time Germany has carried out deportation to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover...France 24...



Politics looms in the background of today's deportation as 'populist' parties of the Right and Left are expected to make a strong showing in two German state elections on Sunday.



In Saxony and Thuringia the Alternative for Germany (AfD) expected to do well.


This is happening in spite of criminal charges against party leaders, police investigations of the party and spying by domestic intelligence agencies.


A new left-of-center group called 'populist' the Bundeis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) expected to gain from 10 to 20 percent of the vote in both states displacing the old East German Communists now called The Left.


One political party facing annihilation in both states is the Liberal Capitalist Free Democrats (FDP) now one of the three parties in Germany's national government.


Another election set in the eastern German state of Brandenburg a week from Sunday...Brussels Signal


(THIS IS THE EARLIER NEWS STORY REGARDING THE BAN ON 'X' IN BRAZIL, THE LATER STORY IS CLOSER TO THE TOP OF THE SUMMARY)....


 SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM "X" EXPECTS TO BE SHUT DOWN IN BRAZIL TODAY.


THIS IS BECAUSE A DEADLINE SET BY CONTROVERSIAL SUPREME JUSTICE ALEXANDRE DE MORAES HAS PASSED.


MORAES WANTS ACCOUNTS SPREADING WHAT HE CALLS 'LIES' AND 'DISINFORMATION' SHUT DOWN.



"X" OWNER ELON MUSK SAYING JUSTICE MORAES IS ACTING LIKE A 'TYRANT' AND 'DICTATOR'...BBC NEWS





Dutch political parties represented in the government expressing support for the 2025 budget after ten hours of consultations overnight at the Ministry of Finance.


The non-political Prime Minister former intelligence chief Dick Schoof expressing his pleasure at the outcome of the talks without revealing any details of the budget...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)



A CONVICTED MURDERER EXECUTED IN FLORIDA THURSDAY EVENING.   


A LETHAL INJECTION WAS GIVEN TO 57-YEAR-OLD LORAN COLE.   


BESIDES HIS DEATH PENALTY CONVICTION, COLE WAS ALSO GIVEN TWO LIFE SENTENCES FOR TWICE RAPING HIS MURDER VICTIM'S OLDER SISTER.


AT ONE TIME HIS DEFENSE LAWYERS SOUGHT TO APPEAL HIS CONVICTION BASED ON COLE BEING ABUSED AT A NOTORIOUS FLORIDA REFORM SCHOOL FOR BOYS.


HIS LAWYERS FINAL APPEAL BASED ON HIS PARKINSON'S DISEASE SYMPTOMS CREATING AN INHUMANE ENVIRONMENT FOR HIS EXECUTION...BBC NEWS


              THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

                                                    (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)



ISRAELI SOLDIER'S BODY RETRIEVED FROM GAZA AFTER BEHIND HELD BY HAMAS


           MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




                            ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS




                                      TIMES OF ISRAEL




The Israeli military retrieved the body of a soldier taken into Gaza by Hamas during the October 7th attack...Ynet News Israel




In other news...




The probe into the sinking of the superyacht Bayesian off Sicily now includes two crew members of the vessel.



The captain and two crew members among the 15 survivors of the August 19th sinking that killed tech magnate Mike Lynch, his daughter and five others...Independent UK




IN NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT BROADCASTER TVNZ REPORTING AN ANNUAL LOSS OF 28.5 MILLION DOLLARS (17.85 MILLION US DOLLARS).


THE ECONOMY, A CHANGING MEDIA LANDSCAPE AND DIFFICULT ADVERTISING MARKET CITED IN CONNECTION WITH THE LOSSES.


CEO JODI O'DONNELL SPEAKING OF A THREE-YEAR STRATEGY TO TURN THE COMPANY'S FINANCIAL SITUATION AROUND...ONE TV NEW ZEALAND






    THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                           (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)




UKRAINIAN AIR FORCE CHIEF FIRED FOLLOWING F-16 CRASH




                         TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS



         RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)





Volodymyr Zelensky dismissing Ukraine's air force chief following the F-16 warplane crash earlier this week...Independent UK


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