Wednesday, August 20, 2025

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 8/20/2025*JUDGE SEES 'DIVERSIONARY TACTIC' IN EPSTEIN GRAND JURY DOCS*US SANCTIONS INTERNATIONAL COURT JUDGES*SYRIA DELAYS ELECTIONS AMID INTERNAL CONFLICT*DRAFT RESISTERS BLOCK ISRAELI ROADS*ISRAELI MEDIA LEAKING GAZA WAR ESCALATION PLANS*

 


                           (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING)


                  LATE NEWS TONIGHT:



IN THE UKRAINE WAR AIR RAID ALERTS ACROSS UKRAINE LATE TONIGHT.   EXPLOSIONS REPORTED IN THE UKRAINIAN CITY OF RIVNE...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...


RUSSIAN AIR DEFENSES ACTIVE AGAINST URKAINIAN DRONE ATTACKS ON RUSSIA AS WELL...(RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA)...



AN ATTACK TONIGHT ON AN OIL REFINERY IN RUSSIA'S ROSTOV REGION...DD GEOPOLITICS "X" (VIDEO EMBED)




ISRAELI AIR ATTACKS IN SOUTHERN LEBANON TONIGHT.   WEAPONS DEPOTS AND ROCKET LAUNCHERS OF THE HEZBOLLAH MOVEMENT SAID TO HAVE BEEN HIT...TIMES OF ISRAEL


The Texas House of Representatives passing a redraw of US House districts in the state designed to turn five Democrat seats into Republican ones.


The vote follows the return of Democrats to the House chamber to allow the legislation to be passed...The Hill USA



THE NEWS LEAK IN ISRAEL TONIGHT ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC AFFAIRS MINISTER RON DERMER MEETING QATARI OFFICIALS IN PARIS.


THE DISCUSSION SAID TO BE ABOUT A CEASEFIRE-HOSTAGE DEAL IN GAZA...BARAK RAVID ON "X" (LINK TO CHANNEL 12 ISRAEL STORY-TRANSLATION PROMPT)



"The information contained in the Epstein grand jury transcripts pales in comparison to the Epstein investigation information and materials in the hand of the Department of Justice"

FROM US DISTRICT JUDGE RICHARD BERMAN'S RULING ON JEFFREY EPSTEIN GRAND JURY DOCUMENTS



ANOTHER FEDERAL JUDGE RULING AGAINST RELEASE OF GRAND JURY DOCUMENTS SOUGHT BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT RELATED TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN.



THESE ARE NOT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DOCUMENTS DISMISSED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AND WHOSE RELEASE IS BEING SOUGHT BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS INCLUDING HOUSE REPUBLICANS MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE AND THOMAS MASSIE.



IN HIS RULING FEDERAL DISTRICT JUDGE RICHARD BERMAN SAYS MUCH LESS INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE IN THE GRAND JURY DOCUMENTS THAN THOSE HELD BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ITSELF.



THE JUDGE SPEAKING OF THE MOVE TO RELEASE THE GRAND JURY DOCUMENTS AS A 'DIVERSIONARY TACTIC'....


NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



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THE UNITED STATES SANCTIONING FOUR INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE JUDGES.


THREE OF THE JUDGES LINKED TO THE INVESTIGATIONS OF ISRAELI ACTIONS IN GAZA AND THE WEST BANK (JUDEA AND SAMARIA).



THE INTERNATIONAL COURT HAS ISSUED AN ARREST WARRANT FOR ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU IN CONNECTION WITH THE GAZA WAR.


THE FOURTH JUDGE CANADIAN KIMBERLY PROST RULED IN FAVOR OF AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CONDUCT OF THE US MILITARY IN THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN...CBC NEWS CANADA




PRESIDENT TRUMP PUSHING FOR THE RESIGNATION OF FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD GOVERNOR LISA COOK SAYING SHE COMMITTED FRAUD.


COOK ALSO ACCUSED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATON OFFICIAL WILLIAM PULTE OF MORTGAGE FRAUD.


PULTE, DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY, MAKING A REFERRAL TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IN THE MATTER.



MR. TRUMP SEEKING TO FORCE THE FED TO LOWER INTEREST RATES IN A BID TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY AND JUMP START STOCK MARKETS...THE HILL USA



The Interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is postponing elections planned for next month.


The elections for a new parliament delayed by two conflicts in the country.


One involving the Druze community backed by Israel in the south the other involving Kurdish forces who have been supported by the United States in the north...Tass Russia



Haredi Jews resisting tens of thousands of draft notices blocking major expressways in Israel today.


The demonstrators showed up on the highways by surprise after announcing a demonstration outside a military prison where arrested draft dodgers are being held...Times of Israel



IN GAZA TODAY AN ATTACK BY HAMAS FORCES ON ISRAELI SOLDIERS.  TWO SOLDIERS WOUNDED ONE SERIOUSLY.


10 OF THE ATTACKERS KILLED (TIMES OF ISRAEL LATEST) WITH ISRAELI OFFICIALS SPECULATING THE ATTACK WAS A KIDNAPPING ATTEMPT...AKHBAR 7 ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



The markets today.


The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 16.04 points.


The NASDAQ fell 142.10 points or .67 percent.


At 437 pm New York Time the price of oil at 63 dollars 14 cents a barrel uo 79 cents or 1.27 percent...Marketwatch


IN PARIS POLICE QUESTIONING A SUSPECT AFTER FOUR BODIES WERE FOUND IN THE SEINE RIVER SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY.


THE MAN BEING QUESTIONED AS A MURDER SUSPECT.   ONE OF THE BODIES FOUND WAS STRANGLED WITH ANOTHER SHOWING SIGNS OF VIOLENT INJURIES...BBC NEWS STORY



Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says the US violated international law when it attacked Iranian nuclear facilities in June.


He said the US attack was an attack on all 'independent countries' noting that 'the collective West wants to dominate the region'.



Pezeshkian spoke during a visit to Belarus as he met its President Alexander Lukashenko.


Lukashenko spoke by phone last week with US President Donald Trump with the issues of prisoners held by Belarus said to have been on the agenda...Tass Russia 



FAMILIES OF THE HOSTAGES IN GAZA MARCHING TO THE BORDER THIS EVENING SEEKING A DEAL FOR THEIR RELEASE.


THEIR DEMONSTRATION COMES AMID TALK OF A DEAL ALONGSIDE PLANS FOR A MILITARY OFFENSIVE IN GAZA CITY THAT MAY ENDANGER THE HOSTAGES' LIVES.


ALSO, US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP YESTERDAY SPEAKING OF HAVING TO 'FIGHT LIKE HELL' TO DEAL WITH HAMAS IN GAZA.



IN A STATEMENT THE HOSTAGE FAMILIES SAYING THEY ARE "CONTINUING THEIR FIGHT TO BRING HOME ALL HOSTAGES AND END THE WAR"...TIMES OF ISRAEL



In Israel media outlets leaking plans for a military offensive to take Gaza City.


The call-up of 130,000 reservists planned along with extension of 70 days of service for reservists currently on duty to 100 days.


An estimate of 100 Israeli soldiers being killed in the fighting expected in the coming days also leaked out...Maariv Israel (Translation Prompt) 




In Tennessee federal court Kilmar Abrego Garcia arguing the criminal charges against him are vindictive and selective.


Those charges followed Garcia's deportation to a prison in El Salvador and his subsequent return to the US.


He says he is being targeted for resisting deportation...The Hill USA






MORE THAN 1,800 FOREIGNERS APPLYING FOR TEMPORARY RESIDENCY IN RUSSIA.


THIS FOLLOWS A DECREE BY PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN OFFERING ASSISTANCE TO THOSE SHARING 'TRADITIONAL RUSSIAN SPIRITUAL AND MORAL VALUES'.


369 OF THOSE APPLICATIONS COMING FROM GERMAN CITIZENS, 185 FROM LATVIAN CITIZENS AND 163 FROM US CITIZENS...TASS RUSSIA


   THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

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In other news...



Colombia's Supreme Court ordering an end to house arrest for former "Right" President Alvaro Uribe.


Uribe appealing his corruption-bribery conviction for which the trial judge imposed a 12-year house arrest sentence.


The Supreme Court saying the trial judge's reasoning for house arrest was 'vague'...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)

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