(SERVICE WHEN ABLE WITH FINAL POSTING AT MIDNIGHT SUNDAY NIGHT EASTERN US TIME)
The latest developments on the tensions involving Kosovo and Serbia but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
IN ISRAEL TOMORROW A NEW PARLIAMENT SPEAKER WILL BE ELECTED.
THE NEW SPEAKER WILL MOVE LEGISLATION SETTING THE STAGE FOR A NEW GOVERNMENT LED BY LIKUD PARTY LEADER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU...TIMES OF ISRAEL
Two are dead and four others hurt in protests demanding new elections in Peru.
Leftist President Pedro Castillo ousted last Wednesday.
His Vice-President Dina Boluarte sworn-in as President but protesters say there should be new elections rather than waiting till 2026 for the next scheduled elections...REUTERS-INDIA TODAY...VIDEO LINK
IN LOS ANGELES TODAY DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN KAREN BASS SWORN IN AS MAYOR BY VICE-PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS....
THE OUTGOING ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER GETTING A 'BOOSTER' COVID SHOT TODAY.
YAIR LAPID URGING ISRAELIS TO 'GO AND GET VACCINATED'...(TIMES OF ISRAEL)
AN ISRAELI ATTACK ON A RADAR SITE IN SOUTHERN SYRIA EARLY THIS MORNING.
ISRAELI AIRCRAFT DROPPING WARNING LEAFLETS IN THE AREA ABOUT SYRIAN COOPERATION WITH THE IRANIAN BACKED HEZBOLLAH GROUP...SOUTHFRONT...
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking with Turkish President Vladimir Putin this weekend with the tensions involving the Kurds in Syria boiling.
Economic relations in a world where many nations are sanctioning Russia discussed but also the situation in Syria where Turkiye (Turkey) has been attacking Kurdish forces in northern-northeastern Syria...TASS RUSSIA...
Turkiye threatening escalation to a ground offensive in Syria unless Kurdish forces pull back at least 30 kilometers (18.64 miles) from the Turkish border...THIS WEEK...
There is a report that the Kurds are willing to pull out of major towns in northeastern Syria and Russia is making this offer to Turkiye...SOUTHFRONT...
TURKEY'S PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN PROMISING HUMANITARIAN AID FOR UKRAINE THIS WINTER. MR. ERDOGAN SPEAKING WITH UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT VOLODYMR ZELENSKY...TASS RUSSIA
India has decided not to support the price cap imposed by the G7 nations and Australia on Russian oil...ANI NEWS INDIA
SERBIA-KOSOVO TENSIONS
(UPDATED LATEST NEWS AT TOP)
The German Foreign Minister says that Serbian rhetoric regarding Kosovo is unacceptable...TASS RUSSIA
Sunday evening following an emergency meeting Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic calling on both sides in Kosovo to preserve peace...TASS RUSSIA...
Vucic told Radio Television Serbia of assurances that European and NATO police and military forces in Kosovo will not take violent actions against Serbs blocking highways in Northern Kosovo...
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic calling on the US, UK and EU nations not to participate in removing Serbian barricades in northern Kosovo...TASS RUSSIA
The European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell saying the EU will not tolerate violence following an attack on a patrol of European law enforcement in northern Kosovo this weekend.
Kosovo's leader calling for all means to be used to end barricades in Serbian regions the Serbian government convening an emergency meeting Sunday evening...TASS RUSSIA
In a Saturday evening speech Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic saying that Serbia is asking KFOR, the NATO force in Kosovo, to allow deployment of Serbian police and military under UN Security Council Resolution 1244...TASS RUSSIA
Gunshots and explosions heard in northern Kosovo Saturday night...TASS RUSSIA
Barricades set earlier up by Serbs following the intervention of hundreds of Kosovo police in the area.
Aljbin Kurti, the Prime Minister of Kosovo, calling for US and EU sanctions on Serbia and the removal of barricades.
The former US mediator between Serbia and Kosovo, Richard Grenell, calling for "US leadership right now!" over the dispute.
Grenell saying that both sides are breaking agreements with their actions...RICHARD GRENELL TWITTER...
Elections to replace Serbian officials in northern Kosovo set for later this week postponed due to the dispute in the region...NOS NETHERLANDS
(ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR THIS STORY FROM RADIO-TELEVISION SERBIA)
Police in Belgium making arrests this weekend in an alleged corruption scheme involving European Union officials and Qatar the host nation for soccer's World Cup currently underway.
The allegation is that Qatar was using EU officials to paint a more positive picture of the country in connection with the World Cup...BBC NEWS...LATER BBC NEWS STORY
A CLASH ON THE BORDER BETWEEN AFGANISTAN AND PAKISTAN. SIX KILLED, OTHERS WOUNDED...REUTERS
IN NEW ZEALAND A BY-ELECTION RESULT FAVORING THE OPPOSITION NATIONAL PARTY IN THE HAMILTON WEST SEAT.
CANDIDATE TAMA POTAKA WINNING THE SEAT FORMERLY HELD BY THE GOVERNING LABOR PARTY...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
There were more air raid alerts in Kiev and in other parts of Ukraine today...TASS RUSSIA
Russian authorities say Ukrainian forces fired more than 170 shells at cities in the Donetsk region today...TASS RUSSIA
In other news...
THE US TAKING INTO CUSTODY A SUSPECT IN THE BOMBING OF A US AIRLINER OVER SCOTLAND IN THE 1980'S.
THE LIBYAN SUSPECT CAPTURED BY JIHADIST MILITIA IN LIBYA AND HANDED OVER TO THE US...BBC NEWS
The recently freed Russian prisoner Viktor Bout speaking of the Western world committing suicide.
Bout speaking of drugs and LGBTQ+ contributing to what he calls "the suicide of civilization". He says other parts of the world must prevent that suicide from overtaking them.
Bout convicted and imprisoned by the US for arms dealing was traded for US basketball star Brittney Griner...TASS RUSSIA
The US Orion capsule returning to the Earth after a test flight to the Moon. The capsule tested ahead of use by astronauts for a flight around the Moon...ASSOCIATED PRESS-TIMES OF ISRAEL
Christmas Eve just two weeks away from today Merry Christmas from your host.
Great to be with you music from my childhood this is the stuff I heard on the radio when I was young songs that left an early impression with me.
WELL FIVE YEARS AGO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DID THE SWORD DANCE WITH THE SAUDIS BUT THE MAN OF THE HOUR THIS WEEK IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA IS XI JINPING PRESIDENT OF CHINA...
XI CALLING FOR OIL TO BE PURCHASED IN CHINESE CURRENCY INSTEAD OF THE US DOLLAR...REUTERS
The game of destroying Donald Trump goes on Israel dealing with Palestinian terrorism by sending out the spies and the informants.
Heck the US Justice Department and FBI treat President Trump and those who support him like they are Palestinian terrorists or Al Qaeda or ISIS it's an all-out dirty war with Big Media and Big Business heck the media companies including the tech ones are Big Business-Big Government all lined up in super firing squad.
WE HAVE THESE TWITTER FILES BUT NEEDLESS TO SAY THE FBI COLLUSION WITH BIG TECH CARRIES ON.
THEY ARE IN BED CENSORING WITH FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE-YOU TUBE ETC. ETC. EVEN WITH THE TWITTER REVELATIONS.
Let's go to the "Ron DeSantis Update" here are The Tremeloes "Silence Is Golden"...
"A talkin' is cheap people follow like sheep
Even though there is nowhere to go"
Drama over Ron DeSantis comments at a private event.
Comments saying that he will challenge the claims of Big Pharma about COVID vaccines.
But what about punishing Pharma for the deaths and injuries caused by COVID vaccines.
In March of 2020 at the federal and state levels emergency declarations to give Pharma immunity from consequences for vaccine deaths and injuries Ron DeSantis signed his state of emergency papers in Florida too.
So here's the post on 'Free Republic" comments in there including my own...
THE HIGHER POWER HAS A 'TOP TEN' LIST AND WHEN IT'S BROKEN THERE IS ANARCHY AND WHEN THERE IS ANARCHY SOMEONE COMES ALONG TO BRING ORDER.
Lets take note of the rule about sex here with an "Adultery Update" the group is named Hot and the song "Angel In Your Arms" from back in the 1970's....
There's a big fit in the mainstream media over the Muslim nation of Indonesia passing an adultery law a law making sex outside of marriage a crime.
This is so that aggrieved family members can report someone who's breaking the rules about sex like the husband or wife being wronged.
They put in a provision to criminalize "insulting the president and state institutions".
The total package includes a five-year prison term for deviations from basic tenets of six different religions not just Islam.
This whole shebang will take several years to fully implement.
And guess what a proposal to criminalize gay sex got shot down in the process to pass this legislation so there's a lot in the mix.
Here's something to think about the former Democrat President of the United States Jimmy Carter told "Playboy" back in 1976 that he had committed adultery in his heart and by G-d that's where I have sinned so many times.
The music is coming our way...
"WHEN I FALL IN LOVE"-NATALIE COLE AND NAT KING COLE
"SNOOPY VS. THE RED BARON"-THE ROYAL GUARDSMEN
"LITTLE DRUMMER BOY"-BONEY M
The "Mainstream Media Update" and the "Mainstream Media" is a business it was when I was in it and still is now more than ever so here is the ultimate theme for the MSM "Money, Money, Money" as performed by ABBA...
The mainstream media shut out of the revenue streams it enjoyed in the past by online media like social media.
Now the mainstream media wants their money from the tech companies-social media companies they want tech to pay for links to their content.
And isn't it a "strange coincidence" that politicians want to help them do it including the ones in the US Congress.
The quid-pro-quo for supporting all the COVID disinformation to promote masks-vaccines and of course the quid-pro-quo for the MSM carrying water for the RINO's and Democrats in opposition to President Donald J. Trump.
Australia already did this excrement and Canada moving the same way too the payback to Big Media for carrying the COVID propaganda narrative and more for Big Government.
On with the music...
"LET IT SNOW!, LET IT SNOW!, LET IT SNOW!"-VAUGHN MONROE
"YOU ARE EVERYTHING"-THE STYLISTICS
"FOR ALL WE KNOW"-THE CARPENTERS
SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE USA
Your host on the road today I had dinner with three others tonight spent 80 dollars including the tip at Cracker Barrel. Chicken and Dumplings hit the spot for me.
More time on the road tonight working on the news summary that will start posting at Midnight Eastern US Time.
Our Yellow Vests post for France is finished and available on the blog.
Why not a Blast From The Past El Rushbo would have given President Macron's Thursday announcement the "Condom Update" treatment The Fifth Dimension "Up, Up And Away"...
Emmanuel Macron distracting from his pension reform plan to raise the retirement age and cut benefits for older people in France with a pitch to the younger people...
"What is happening in the West is simply the suicide of civilization. And if this suicide is not prevented, at least within the non-Western world, within the world that is not controlled by the Anglo-Saxons, then the whole planet will commit suicide.
And it may be happening in all areas, with drugs and LGBT+ among them"...
THEY WERE CHAMPIONED BY FEMINISTS, THEN FORCED INTO ABORTIONS, SOME OF THEM DIED
Mainstream media as in Reuters reporting on forced abortions involving 10,000 young girls kidnapped years ago by the Boko Haram Jihadists Islamists.
Those were the days of Michelle Obama and others on Twitter championing these girls signaling their virtue.
Well after the girls were "freed" they were sent to camps run by Nigeria's military given abortion drugs without their knowledge or consent.
Some of them died according to this investigative news report.
But who in the **** gave the Nigerian military all those abortion drugs who paid for those drugs are the US taxpayers or the Gates Foundation involved in this ****?
(MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES INCLUDING FRANCE 24 AND BFM-TV USED IN CONNECTION WITH THIS POST)
For the eight time Constitution Article 49.3 invoked by President Emmanuel Macron's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
Her move on Thursday was to force President Macron's budget through the National Assembly where a majority of members are now from opposition parties.
It was also on Thursday that we learned that President Macron will push a rise in France's retirement age to 65 as part of his "pension reform" plan.
The LFI "Left" Party in France planning a protest march opposing Macron's pension policy on January 21st.
While those matters played out there were distractions to get public attention.
Mr. Macron appearing in public in a mask saying that COVID and other illnesses dictated responsibility and that he was putting a mask on.
Macron suggested that he may even impose a mask order on France.
And another distracting issue that got headline attention on Thursday the announcement by Mr. Macron that free condoms for 18 to 25 year olds will be offered in 2023. The condoms will be available in pharmacies.
The protest in Besancon near the Swiss border at a traffic circle with a message labeled on the video:
"Until when will you accept the unacceptable"..
Video of protesters gathering in Paris today and as the protest began the posting of pictures of those who have died following COVID shots.
This video is a full almost four-hour presentation of a Yellow Vests protest in Paris today...
Additional video showing protest on the streets in Paris today...VIDEO LINK
Protesters moving through the streets in Marseille this afternoon some of them wearing the iconic Yellow Vests....
Hundreds of protesters seen in Montpellier in southern France today in what was called a "National" protest. They type protests include the black uniformed black smoke using protesters associated with the anarchists (government agents?)...
Tonight in Paris the streets filled with football (soccer) fans some celebrating French advancement to the quarter finals of the World Cup and others reveling in the Morocco's win that sets up a match with France on Wednesday...
President Macron announcing that he will be there.
Meanwhile there 42 arrests tonight as some in the massive crowds in and around the Champs Elysees attacked police with projectiles. Some fires were lit.
ITALY ALLOWING TWO SHIPS WITH SOME 500 MIGRANTS TO DOCK IN ITALIAN PORTS.
33 MIGRANTS FROM ANOTHER SHIP GRANTED ACCESS TO THE ITALIAN ISLAND OF LAMPEDUSA.
ITALY HAD PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED A 'CLOSED PORT' POLICY FOR MIGRANT RESCUE SHIPS OPERATED BY NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS.
THIS HAD CAUSED FRANCE TO MAKE THREATS AGAINST ITALY INCLUDING ONE NOT TO TAKE THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS ALREADY IN ITALY INTO FRANCE...ANADOLU AGENCY TURKEY
When a 16-year-old girl died from a fentanyl overdose at a Vancouver, Washington high school parents and police were kept in the dark about what happened.
A Portland television station dug into public records and conducted interviews to piece together the story of what happened when the girl was found in a restroom on May 3rd of this year...KGW PORTLAND
A WEEK OF DELIBERATIONS WITH NO VERDICT AT THE LOS ANGELES TRIAL OF FORMER MOVIE MOGUL HARVEY WEINSTEIN.
Protesters on the streets and highways of Peru in support of ousted Leftist President Pedro Castillo.
They dub the Vice-President installed to replace him, Dina Boluarte a "coup leader".
Boluarte says she is forming a new government tomorrow but also suggesting early elections.
The former Chief of Staff to Castillo says he may have drugged when he read a speech dissolving Congress on Wednesday right before his ouster...AFP-RFI FRANCE
The Ukrainian drones that attacked Russian strategic bomber bases earlier this week guided by the US GPS system.
Russia's UN ambassador speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council today...TASS RUSSIA...
Meanwhile the US accusing Russia and Iran of being involved in close military partnership.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby claiming that Iran "has become Russia's top military backer"...BBC NEWS
"ELON: The Twitter releases are a revelation in that they show, in a very powerful fashion, the FBI and "Justice" illegally colluding, proving conclusively, in one more very powerful way, that the 2020 Presidential Election was Rigged & Stolen...Thank you!"
That's part of social media message from President Trump today thanking Twitter owner Elon Musk for revealing dealings of Twitter in connection with the 2020 Election...GAB SOCIAL MEDIA...
PART THREE OF THE TWITTER FILES OUT TODAY REVEALING EXTENSIVE TWITTER DEALINGS ON 2020 ELECTION RELATED CENSORSHIP WITH FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS BEFORE AND AFTER THE ELECTION.
VARIOUS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES OSTENSIBLY UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF REPUBLICAN APPOINTEES WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP OVER THEM.
AN INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATION SAID TO HAVE BEEN LAID DURING THESE MONTHS FOR THE EVENTUAL BANNING OF PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM TWITTER AFTER THE EVENTS OF JANUARY 6TH, 2021...
A FORMER MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICER WHO KNELT ON GEORGE FLOYD'S BACK DURING THE DEADLY INCIDENT WHEN ANOTHER OFFICER HAD HIS KNEE ON FLOYD'S NECK FOR EIGHT MINUTES SENTENCED TODAY.
J. ALEXANDER KUENG GIVEN A THREE AND A HALF YEAR SENTENCE.
HE PLED GUILTY TO A CHARGE OF AIDING AND ABETTING SECOND-DEGREE MANSLAUGHTER...BBC NEWS
The US imposing sanctions on two Chinese officials in Tibet over human rights abuses and a Chinese businessman over illegal fishing activities...PRESS TV IRAN
Chinese President Xi Jinping telling Gulf Arab leaders today that China is seeking to use its currency for buying oil instead of the US dollar.
Such a move weaken the position of the US dollar in the world.
Xi concluding a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia speaking to the Gulf Cooperation Council summit...REUTERS
IN NORTHERN SYRIA TODAY TURKISH SHELLING OF A COMMUNICATIONS TOWER.
In the Netherlands one province coming up with a partial "solution" to farmers facing penalties over cow gas emissions.
Authorities in Overijssel will impose a fertilizer ban next year for agricultural land owned by the state as a means of giving the livestock farmers a break from penalty payments.
French Health Minister Francois Braun calling for more COVID vaccination and the wearing of masks.
Braun drawing attention to COVID and other illnesses present in France right now...(BFM-TV France)
Outside a hospital in New Zealand today protest as "Baby Will" was given emergency heart surgery using the blood of COVID vaccinated people.
Protesters decrying the danger in the surgery and the medical experimentation involved in the COVID shots and the surgery with COVID vaccine tainted blood.
A court took custody of the four-month-old infant after the parents sought to have the surgery done only with blood donated by unvaccinated people...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
THE MARKETS TODAY.
THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE DOWN 305.02 POINTS.
THE NASDAQ OFF 77.39 POINTS.
THE OIL PRICES AT 71 DOLLARS AND 58 CENTS A BARREL BY LATE AFTERNOON...MARKETWATCH
ISRAELI POLITICS: NETANYAHU GIVEN MORE TIME TO FORM GOVERNMENT BUT IT IS A SHORTENED TIME
(UPDATED)
"These are complex times for Israeli society as differences over core issues threaten to stoke violence and blind hatred"
LETTER TODAY FROM ISRAELI PRESIDENT ISSAC HERZOG TO PRIME MINISTER DESIGNATE BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
Israel's Prime Minister Designate Benjamin Netanyahu asked President Issac Herzog for extra time to form a new government...TIMES OF ISRAEL...
Herzog giving Netanyahu a 10-day extension.
Normally he would have been given a 14-day extension.
Mr. Herzog's letter talking of the need for a government that works 'for the entire public in Israel' and a government that 'must preserve the powerful bond with the Jewish Diaspora'.
The new government developing in Israel has been characterized by critics as "far right" and "extreme"...
Politics in the USA US Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona says she is now an Independent instead of a Democrat...THE INDEPENDENT-UK
(UPDATED) THE PRIME MINISTER OF SERBIA ANA BRNABIC SAYS SERBIA HAS THE RIGHT AND INTENTION TO RETURN ITS POLICE FORCES TO KOSOVO.
BRNABIC SAYS THE ACTION BY KOSOVO IS 19TH CENTURY IN NATURE AND BRINGS THE TWO NATIONS TO THE BRINK OF CONFLICT.
HER STATEMENT FOLLOWS THE MOVE BY KOSOVO TO SEND ITS FORCES INTO THE SERB REGIONS OF NORTHERN KOSOVO YESTERDAY.
THE EUROPEAN UNION CALLING FOR A LOWERING OF TENSIONS...(RADIO-TELEVISION SERBIA)
US CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY DIRECTOR BILL BURNS WITH A STRONGLY WORDED MESSAGE FOR HIS TURKISH COUNTERPART.
'AXIOS' REPORTING THAT BURNS WARNED ABOUT THE DANGER OF TURKISH AIR STRIKES AIMED AT KURDS IN NORTHEASTERN SYRIA HARMING US FORCES THERE...SOUTHFRONT
The UK, Italy and Japan jointly developing a new fighter aircraft. It will incorporate Artificial Intelligence and is due to enter service in the mid 2030's...BBC NEWS
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA
22 CIVILIANS KILLED IN UKRAINIAN SHELLING OF DONETSK REGION
Russia says that 20 Grad rockets were fired into the city of Donetsk by Ukraine this evening...TASS RUSSIA...
In the last week 22 civilians killed and 60 wounded in Ukrainian shelling of the Donetsk region. Donetsk one of four Ukrainian regions now annexed by Russia...NEWS AGENCIES-ORF AUSTRIA
In other news...
The interior ministers of European Union nations deciding to expand the 26-nation border-free "Schengen Zone" to include the Balkan nation of Croatia.
But they rejected Bulgaria and Romania being added.
The European Commission had advocated for all three nations to be added to the zone that allows free movement of people and goods...BBC NEWS
What about that alleged plot to overthrow the German government and restore the monarchy?
A serious threat or a laughable farce?
Many take the events seriously but as more details come out they seem less serious than originally claimed...POLITICO EU STORY
A US HOUSE COMMITTEE REPORT ALLEGES DECADES OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT INVOLVING THE WASHNGTON DC NFL FOOTBALL TEAM NOW CALLED THE COMMANDERS BUT FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE REDSKINS...BBC SPORT
And a lawsuit alleging rape by singer Nick Carter of the "Backstreet Boys".
ABC-TV in the US pulling a special planned for broadcast next week over the allegation...BBC NEWS
In the UK an American woman linked to the US intelligence community sentenced in the vehicular death of Harry Dunn.
Anne Sacoolas was behind the wheel and driving on the wrong side of the road in March of 2019 when motorcyclist Dunn was struck and killed near a US military base.
Sacoolas left the UK quickly afterwards claiming diplomatic immunity with support inside the British government.
The parents of Dunn have been seeking justice ever since.
Appearing by video from the US Sacoolas sentenced to eight months in prison with the sentence suspended for 12 months...
THE PRISONER SWAP BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES.
BASKETBALL STAR BRITTNEY GRINER COMES BACK TO THE US AND VIKTOR BOUT RETURNS TO RUSSIA.
GRINER CONVICTED ON DRUGS CHARGES IN RUSSIA BOUT CONVICTED ON ARMS TRAFFICKING CHARGES IN THE US....TASS RUSSIA...BBC NEWS BLOG
THE MARKETS TODAY MOVING UPWARDS.
THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE ROSE 183.56 POINTS.
THE NASDAQ UP 123.45 POINTS.
THE PRICE OF OIL AT 71 DOLLARS AND 80 CENTS BY LATE AFTERNOON...MARKETWATCH
A Russian official says that NATO was aware of Ukraine's plans for the recent drone attacks on Russian airbases.
He says that the attacks could have created a serious nuclear security threat...TASS RUSSIA
IN NEW ZEALAND THE FAMILY OF "BABY WILL" OPTING NOT TO APPEAL A COURT DECISION TO TAKE CUSTODY OF THE FOUR-MONTH-OLD CHILD.
THE COURT CUSTODY OF THE INFANT TRIGGERED BY THE PARENTS DESIRE FOR UNVACCINATED BLOOD TO BE USED IN URGENTLY NEEDED HEART SURGERY.
THE PARENTS SAYING THERE WASN'T ENOUGH TIME TO APPEAL IN LIGHT OF THE CHILD'S NEED FOR THE SURGERY...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
There's been a meeting of White House officials to consider whether the Biden Administration will speak to some members of the new Israeli government to be led by Benjamin Netanyahu.
Top Defense Department, Intelligence and State Department officials considering how to deal with the new government in general and with specific cabinet ministers in the new government considered to be from the "extreme right"...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS..
IN ISRAEL THE PROCESS TO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT MOVES FORWARD TALKS CONCLUDING WITH THE ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS SHAS PARTY...TIMES OF ISRAEL
Peru's Leftist President dissolves Congress establishing an emergency government with Congress then voting to oust him from power followed by his arrest but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
The Farmers Protest in the Netherlands against those climate change cow gas rules continued tonight.
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ OF NEW YORK UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE.
THE INVESTIGATION PROMPTED BY THE OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS WHICH MADE THE COMMITTEE AWARE OF THE UNDISCLOSED MATTER IN QUESTION BACK IN JUNE...THE HILL
"We are sane and cognizant of what nuclear weapons are about...
However, everything that we say in our statements is instantly blown out of proportion and the whole world is sent into a panic over such remarks."
Russian President Putin making it clear that extreme statements about nuclear weapons are not coming from Russia but from the Western media not to mention Western officials.
He cited a statement from former British Prime Minister Liz Truss about the use of nuclear weapons.
Putin saying Russia has more modern and advanced nuclear weapons than other nations and considers them a deterrent...TASS RUSSIA
THE LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION THAT HOSTS THE WIMBLEDON TENNIS TOURNAMENT FINED 1,003,106 US DOLLARS OR 820,000 BRITISH POUNDS.
THE FINE ISSUED BY AN UMBRELLA TENNIS ORGANIZATION, ATP, FOR WIMBLEDON'S BAN ON MALE PLAYERS FROM RUSSIA AND BELARUS THIS YEAR...BBC SPORT
The CEO of a major American retailer with a stark warning.
Doug McMillon of Walmart says that theft is increasing and if it isn't slowed down prices will rise and stores will close.
THE BANK OF CANADA RAISING THE PRIME RATE .50 PERCENT TO 4.25 PERCENT. IT'S THE SEVENTH RATE HIKE THIS YEAR.
SPIN FROM THE BANK IS THAT THERE MAY BE A PAUSE TO THESE RATE HIKES IN THE FUTURE...BLOOMBERG
MARKETS TODAY THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE UP 1.58 POINTS.
THE NASDAQ FELL 56.34 POINTS.
THE PRICE OF OIL DECLINING TO 72 DOLLARS AND 40 CENTS A BARREL BY LATE AFTERNOON...MARKETWATCH
CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING BEGINNING A THREE-DAY VISIT TO SAUDI ARABIA.
XI MEETING WITH OTHER MIDDLE EASTERN LEADERS DURING HIS VISIT. HE WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE SIX-NATION GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL ON FRIDAY...NEWS AGENCIES-ORF AUSTRIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
In New Zealand a judge placing a four-month-old child in court custody after parents objected to heart surgery involved the blood of those who received the COVID vaccine.
The ruling in the "Baby Will" case announced late today at 6 pm local time...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND....
Counterspin Media in New Zealand reports that an appeal is expected in the case.
PROTESTS CONTINUE IN GERMANY TONIGHT FOLLOWNG POLICE RAIDS, MASS ARRESTS AND ALLEGATIONS OF A 'FAR-RIGHT' COUP PLOT.
Protesters on the streets again in Germany tonight almost daily demonstrations opposed to COVID, economic and Russia policies of the German government.
Meanwhile special police units staged raids early this morning in Germany.
Raids staged at 130 locations across the country.
Dozens of arrests and allegations that some 50 people formed a "terrorist organization" to overthrow the German government.
The group accused of planning to storm Germany's Parliament and attack the nation's power supply.
Media reports link the group at least in part to "lateral thinkers".
That's the pejorative term used in government and media circles for opponents of COVID mandates including those involving vaccines...
Peru's Leftist President Pedro Castillo dissolving Congress ahead of a debate about impeaching him.
It would have been the third attempt this year to remove Castillo from office.
Castillo then saying he would rule by decree and ordering a curfew tonight establishing an emergency government.
The national ombudsman's office calling Castillo's actions a coup.
Congress then voting to oust Castillo and replace him with the Vice-President...ASSOCIATED PRESS...
Castillo leaving the Presidential Palace this afternoon.
Police and the military warning Castillo against breaking the constitution...REUTERS...
Crowds gathering at the Mexican Embassy in Lima to ostensibly prevent Castillo from seeking asylum.
Later word is that Mr. Castillo was arrested video shown of a chaotic scene on the streets of Lima described as his arrest.
Later more video of Castillo inside a police station.
Vice-President Dina Boluarte installed as President this afternoon...(Information from Panamericana TV-Peru)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the US has 'neither encouraged nor enabled' Ukraine to launch attacks inside Russia.
But Blinken says the US will continue to provide military support to Ukraine that he says is needed for Ukraine to "defend itself".
There have been Ukrainian attacks on Russian bases many miles from Ukraine's border in recent days...TASS RUSSIA
More on Russia and Ukraine later in the summary...
The 857 billion dollar defense budget bill in Congress right now lifts restrictions on the sale of F-16's to Turkey.
The US had kicked Turkey out of the F-35 fighter program and taken a confrontational stance on arms sales when Turkey purchased S-400 air defense systems from Russia.
"However we know that the real toll is far greater"
The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martha Griffiths officially reporting over 17,000 civilian deaths since the conflict began in February but saying that the real number is higher...TASS RUSSIA
In other news....
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky named Time's Person of the Year...CBS NEWS
"THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME CONTINUES, OVER AND OVER AGAIN & THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY AREN'T GOING TO TAKE IT MUCH LONGER. A GIANT POLITICAL SCAM!!!"
That's the message from President Trump on social media tonight....TRUTH SOCIAL MEDIA
Watching the vote count in Georgia tonight in the US Senate runoff election between incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.
The last votes to be counted will be those in Atlanta counties favoring Warnock.
The mainstream media calling the race for Warnock.
DESPITE THE THREAT OF A TURKISH GROUND OFFENSIVE IN NORTHEASTERN SYRIA THE US WILL FULLY RESUME PATROLS WITH KURDISH FORCES.
TURKEY CONSIDERS THOSE FORCES TO BE TERRORISTS AND HAS BEEN LAUNCHING AIR AND ARTILLERY STRIKES ON THEM IN RECENT WEEKS FOLLOWING A DEADLY TERRORIST ATTACK IN ISTANBUL...THE WASHINGTON POST
Explosions in Odessa and other parts of Ukraine tonight along with air raid warnings in Kiev and other regions...TASS RUSSIA
IN OREGON A FEDERAL JUDGE REFUSED TO STOP OREGON'S NEW GUN CONTROL LAW FROM TAKING EFFECT.
MEASURE 114 APPROVED BY VOTERS LAST MONTH SET TO TAKE EFFECT THURSDAY.
STATE OFFICIALS DELAYING IMPLMENTATION OF THE PORTION ABOUT NEEDING A PERMIT TO BUY A GUN.
BUT LATE TODAY A JUDGE IN HARNEY COUNTY IN EASTERN OREGON ISSUED A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER REGARDING THE LAW.
Hundreds of protesters outside court in Auckland, New Zealand today.
The court hearing continued in the case involving parents who want blood from unvaccinated people used for heart surgery involving their four-month-old child.
Health NZ wants the child to be placed into state custody...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND....
PROTESTS CONTINUE IN MONGOLIA'S CAPITAL CITY ULAN BATOR. THEY WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO PUNISH THOSE WHO HAVE ENRICHED THEMSELVES ILLEGALLY IN THE DELIVERY OF COAL TO CHINA...TASS RUSSIA
Today North Korea ordering more artillery fire into sea at its border with South Korea.
THE DIRT ON ELON MUSK BEING SPREAD FOLLOWING HIS RELEASE OF 'THE TWITTER FILES' IN CONNECTION WITH THE 2020 ELECTION.
A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY INTO HOW A COMPANY OWNED BY MUSK TREATED ANIMALS.
ALLEGATIONS THAT NEURALINK WAS INVOLVED IN 'BOTCHED' EXPERIMENTS ON AMINALS WITH HUNDREDS OF DEATHS...FOX NEWS
Qatar's Al Jazeera television filing a lawsuit at the International Criminal Court over the killing of reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. She was killed during a firefight between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians.
A prisoner exchange between the warring sides in Ukraine today. 60 prisoners from each side exchanged...SOUTHFRONT
Russian authorities say that two drones were destroyed off the coast of Crimea near Sevastopol last night.
Sevastopol home of the Russian Black Sea Fleet...TASS RUSSIA
The United States has secretly modified rocket launchers supplied to Ukraine to limit their range.
The HIMARS system modified so that a "wider war" with Russia can be avoided...YAHOO NEWS
In other news...
TWO US SENATORS CRAFTING A BIPARTISAN DEAL TO 'BOOST SECURITY' AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER AND CREATE A 'PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP' FOR TWO MILLION 'DREAMERS"...NEW YORK POST
In the US Congress legislation to fund mainstream media by forcing social media companies to pay for links to mainstream media stories.
Australia has already passed similar legislation. Other countries moving in the same direction like Canada and New Zealand.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is saying it will remove news content from Facebook in the US...BBC NEWS
In the UK today a man arrested after an egg was thrown in the direction of where King Charles...BBC NEWS