NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT 12/5/2025*NEWSDUMP FRIDAY*VACCINE PANEL DRAMA*ISRAELI MILITARY TENSIONS*MACRON SPEAKS 'UNITY' BETWEEN US AND EUROPE OVER UKRAINE IN CHINA*

 

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                         (FINAL POSTING IN THE 8-11 PM EASTERN US TIME WINDOW)

                           (STORIES IN BOTH UPPER AND LOWER PORTIONS OF POST)

ITS A DECISION DRAWING HEAVY MAINSTREAM MEDIA ATTENTION AND SOME CRITICISM FROM ELECTED OFFICIALS.

THE US CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL VACCINE ADVISORY PANEL REVISING GUIDELINES FOR GIVING NEWBORNS THE HEPATITIS B VACCINE.

THE 8-3 VOTE CHANGES THE EXISTING POLICY RECOMMENDING ALL NEWBORNS THE SHOTS NOW THEY ARE ONLY RECOMMENDED WHEN THE MOTHER TESTS POSITIVE FOR HEPATITIS B...THE HILL USA...

REPUBLICAN US SENATOR BILL CASSIDY OF LOUISANA CALLING ON THE DIRECTOR OF THE CDC TO REJECT THE RECOMMENDATION...(THE HILL USA)

The markets today.

At 1210 pm New York Time the Dow higher, the NASDAQ rising and the price of oil higher at 59 dollars 94 cents a barrel...Marketwatch

'CORE INFLATION' IN THE UNITED STATES ROSE AT A 2.8 PERCENT ANNUAL RATE IN SEPTEMBER.

INFORMATION RELEASED BY THE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT AFTER BEING DELAYED BY THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.

THIS KEY INDICATOR IS USED BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD TO DETERMINE INTEREST RATES...CNBC USA

IN ISRAEL DEFENSE MINISTER ISRAEL KATZ REJECTING THE PROMOTION OF A SENIOR RESERVE OFFICER.

ISRAELI CHIEF OF STAFF LT. GEN EYAL ZAMIR ISSUED A PROMOTION LIST INVOLVING 28 OFFICERS LATE THURSDAY NIGHT.

ONE COLONEL WHO PARTICIPATED IN PROTESTS OPPOSING PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU WAS PROMOTED TO BRIGADIER GENERAL AND RETURNED TO ACTIVE SERVICE FROM THE RESERVES.

THIS TRIGGERED THE OPPOSITION OF THE DEFENSE MINISTER...TIMES OF ISRAEL

"I've seen all the rumors in the last few days.  Unity between Americans and Europeans on the Ukraine issue is essential...We need to work together. We must work together"

                              FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMNUEL MACRON 

FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON STRESSING THE NEED FOR 'UNITY' BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES.

SPECIFICALLY, MACRON WAS SPEAKING ABOUT UKRAINE WHEN ASKED BY REPORTERS ABOUT HIS LEAKED REMARKS EARLIER THIS WEEK.

THOSE REMARKS SPOKE ABOUT 'A GREAT DANGER' FOR UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY AND USED THE WORD 'BETRAY' REGARDING US PEACE EEFORTS IN UKRAINE.

THE ELYSEE PALACE SAYING THE WORD 'BETRAY' WAS NOT USED IN THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN MACRON AND OTHER EUROPEAN LEADERS.

MACRON MADE HIS REMARKS DURING A VISIT TO CHINA ALONGSIDE CHINESR PRESIDENT XI JINPING...POLITICO EU

The estate of Jeffrey Epstein revealing that more than 250 emails between Epstein and Goldman Sachs financial firm lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler are protected by attorney client privilege.

Emails that were released by the Epstein Estate paint a closer relationship between Reummler and the convicted child sex abuser-trafficker than previously known...Jacob Shamsian "X"

US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP NOTING PRIME MINSTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU'S REQUEST FOR A PARDON FROM ISRAEL'S PRESIDENT.

MR. TRUMP LINKING TO AN ISRAELI MEDIA STORY ABOUT MR. NETAANYAHU'S PARDON REQUEST TO ISRAELI PRESIDENT ISSAC HERZOG.

TRUMP HAS ALREADY MADE TWO REQUESTS FOR AN ISRAELI PRESIDENTIAL PARDON OF MR. NETANYAHU.

FIRST IN SPEECH TO ISRAEL'S PARLIAMENT IN OCTOBER AND IN WRITING LAST MONTH TO PRESIDENT HERZOG...TIMES OF ISRAEL

  THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

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                       TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS

      RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)

In other news...

FOUR EUROPEAN PUBLIC BROADCASTERS IN THE NETHERLANDS, SPAIN, IRELAND AND SLOVENIA PULLING OUT OF NEXT YEAR'S EUROVISION SONG CONTEST.

THIS AFTER THE DECISION BY A MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRIES TO ALLOW ISRAEL TO PARTIICIPATE.

DUTCH BROADCASTER AVRO/TROS DENOUNCING THE SEVERE HUMANITARIAN SUFFERING IN GAZA, THE LIMITATION OF PRESS FREEDOM THERE AND THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT'S INTERFERENCE IN LAST YEAR'S EUROVISION CONTEST.

AN ISRAELI GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN WAS WAGED BOOSTING THE ISRAELI ENTRY IN THE SONG CONTEST TO THE NUMBER TWO POSITION...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)