Wednesday, May 7, 2025

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 5/7/2025*COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROTESTERS ARRESTED*POLAND BALKS AT GERMAN PLAN TO EXPEL ASYLUM SEEKERS*ISRAELI SPYWARE COMPANY ORDERED TO PAY WHATSAPP*CHINA EASES INTEREST RATES*



                            (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING) 


                   LATE NEWS TONIGHT:




NORTH KOREA FIRING MULTIPLE MISSILES EASTWARDS THURSDAY MORNING.   THE SHORT-RANGE MISSILES FIRED INTO THE SEA OF JAPAN (EAST SEA)...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA




                                              (Story Updated)


Protestors with their faces covered entering the Columbia University Library in New York this afternoon.



Dozens of arrests made.   The demonstration appears to be in support of Palestinians and opposing Israel's war policies in Gaza.



Two members of the university security staff were hurt confronting the protesters.



Police moving in to arrest the protestors with Columbia University Acting President Claire Shipman saying many of them are not associated with the university...ABC 7 New York (Video Embed)...



(Comment) Where did all the FBI agents who used to dress up like the "Patriot Front" or "Blood Tribe" go?   These nasty looking protests cropped up during the Biden Administration.   Those protesters also masked.


The Trump Administration narrative is that Jewish students at university campuses like Columbia are threatened by radical extreme protesters.   Today's display feeds that narrative.  


Historically all protest movements Left or Right have been infiltrated by undercover agents-informants for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.




TONIGHT, JEWISH SETTLERS TORCHING A PALESTINIAN HOME AND FARM NEAR RAMALLAH IN JUDEA...TIMES OF ISRAEL




IN MEMPHIS A TENNESEE STATE JURY ACQUITTNG THREE FORMER POLICE OFFICERS ACCUSED IN THE DEATH OF TYRE NICHOLS.


SOME OF THE OFFICERS HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF SOME FEDERAL CHARGES IN CONNECTION WITH THE KILLING OF NICHOLS ON JANUARY 7TH, 2023...LBC NEWS UK




President Trump pulling the nomination of Dr. Janet Nesheiwat to be US Surgeon General.


Physician Casey Means selected as her replacement.  Means linked to the Make America Healthy Again movement of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr...The Hill USA




AMIDST AN ISRAELI MILITARY AND POLICE PRESENCE IN SOUTHERN SYRIA THE NEW SYRIAN RULER AHMED AL-SHARAA SAYS HIS COUNTRY IS INDIRECTLY COMMUNICATING WITH ISRAEL.


AL-SHARAA SAYS SYRIA IS TALKING TO COUNTRIES THAT TALK WITH ISRAEL TO REDUCE TENSIONS...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS




Germany says its moving to stop asylum seekers crossing its border. 



Thousands of police to be sent to Germany's borders.


This is line with promises made by the incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats.


But the new Interior Minister notes that returning those seeking asylum depends on cooperation with neighboring countries.


Already Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responding he will not accept illegal immigrants that Germany wants to send back...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)




TONIGHT, PAKISTAN SAYING 31 WERE KILLED AND 57 WOUNDED IN THOSE INDIAN ATTACKS LAST NIGHT.


PAKISTAN SAYING ITS ARMED FORCES ARE AUTHORIZED TO RESPOND AT A 'TIME AND MANNER' OF THEIR CHOOSING...


MEANWHILE US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYING 'I WANT TO SEE THEM STOP' ADDING 'IF I CAN DO ANYTHING TO HELP I WILL BE THERE'...DAWN PAKISTAN...BBC NEWS



Chinese President Xi Jinping arriving in Moscow.   


Xi leading a parade of foreign leaders attending Russia's commemoration of its victory over Germany 80 years ago during World War II.


The Chinese leader will also be holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin discussing the increasingly close relationship between Russia and China...Tass Russia




The markets today.



The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 284.97 points or .7 percent.



The NASDAQ rose 48.50 points.



At 446 pm New York Time the price of oil at 57 dollars 95 cents a barrel down one dollar 14 cents or 1.93 percent...Marketwatch




(UPDATED) IN ISRAEL A SHOOTING ATTACK IN SAMARIA AND ANOTHER ATTACK IN THE HEBRON HILLS WHERE ONE PERSON WAS STABBED.



THE TWO WOUNDED WERE ISRAELI SOLDIERS.


AT LEAST FOUR WOUNDED IN THE ATTACKS...TIMES OF ISRAEL...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS



A US federal jury in northern California determining that Israeli spyware company NSO Group owes "WhatsApp" almost 168 million dollars.



NSO's Pegasus was used against "WhatsApp" which is owned by social media giant Meta...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt) (Link To US Court Documents)



13 reported killed in an Israel airstrike on a school in northern Gaza.  Displaced people were sheltering there.  

Israeli forces on the ground in southern Gaza continue a systematic process of destroying buildings...News Agencies-Times Of Israel



RUSSIAN AIR DEFENSES TOOK DOWN OVER 140 TARGETS IN THE AIR OVER THE BRYANSK REGION ON UKRAINE'S BORDER...TASS RUSSIA



China's central bank cutting a key interest rate in the face of economic warfare with the United States.


The People's Bank of China lowering the lending rate to commercial banks by .25 percent to 1.5 percent...Associated Press-Yahoo News USA...


China also making other money moves to boost its economy...CNBC USA




AT THE VATICAN THE CONCLAVE OF CARDINALS GETTING UNDERWAY TODAY TO SELECT A NEW POPE TO LEAD THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH...(NEWS AGENCIES)...BBC NEWS BLOG




    THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                        (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)


                        TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS


       RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




In other news...



NEW ZEALAND'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE REMAINED STEADY AT 5.1 PERCENT IN THE QUARTER ENDING IN MARCH.


THERE ARE SIGNS OF A CHANGING LABOR MARKET IN NEW ZEALAND WITH MORE PEOPLE EMPLOYED PART-TIME THIS YEAR AS OPPOSED TO LAST...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND




New York's Columbia University laying off 180 employees.   Those jobs linked to federal grants that have been cut off.


The Trump Administration citing harassment of Jewish students for cutting off the funding.


The university is under pressure to comply with a series of demands to change its policies including its Middle East studies program...NBC News USA

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