News continuing to be leaked out that drives oil prices down and stock markets higher.
The latest Trump Administration leak speaks of movement towards a "Memorandum of Understanding" to end warfare leading to a period of negotiation between the US and Iran.
This reported by insider media outlet "Axios"...Times of Israel
AUSTRALIAN AUTHORITIES PLANNING SPECIAL MEASURES WHEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN ASSOCIATED WITH ISLAMIC STATE (DAESH) IN SYRIA RETURN TO AUSTRALIA.
ARRESTS, INVESTIGATIONS AND DIRECTION OF CHILDREN INTO PROGRAMS OF INTEGRATION AND COUNTERING EXTREMISM ARE PLANNED...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
Consumer prices in South Korea surged to an annual rate of 2.6 percent in April. It's the highest rate of inflation in 21 months.
A Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow with two drones shot down. A third drone struck a high rise building. No injuries...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
THIS MORNING IRAN'S FARS NEWS AGENCY SAYS A US NAVY VESSEL WAS STRUCK WITH TWO MISSILES.
THE NAVY SHIP TRYING TO ENTER THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ ACCORDING TO THE IRANIANS.
THE IRANIAN REPORT DENIED BY THE US...PRESS TV IRAN...
(COMMENT)...THIS KIND OF STORY WOULD INFLUENCE OIL PRICES TO GO HIGHER.
(SERVICE AS ABLE WITH VERY LIMITED SERVICE DUE TO PERSONAL COMMITMENTS)
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
ISRAEL'S ATTORNEY GENERAL GALI BAHARAV-MIARA RESPONDING TO THE ISRAELI PRESIDENT'S CALL FOR PLEA DEAL TALKS WITH PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU.
SHE IS WILLING TO PARTICPATE IN PLEA DEAL TALKS IF THERE ARE NO PRECONDITIONS AND MR. NETANYAHU'S CORRUPTION TRIAL IS ALLOWED TO PROCEED.
PRESIDENT ISSAC HERZOG PUSHING PLEA DEAL TALKS AS HE FACED PRESSURE FROM MR. NETANYAHU'S LEGAL TEAM BACKED BY US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP TO GRANT NETANYAHU A PARDON.
MR. NETANYAHU'S LAWYERS HAVE NOT YET RESPONDED TO THE PRESIDENT'S PLEA DEAL TALKS PROPOSAL...TIMES OF ISRAEL
As the oil trading markets opened tonight US President Donald Trump announcing a plan to move merchant vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.
The plan stops short of using US warships to escort vessels in the region.
It dangles a notion of US intervention to help ships that may be threatened...OSINTdefender "X"
IN WESTERN NIGERIA AT LEAST 41 FULANI HERDSMEN KILLED.
GOVERNMENT BACKED-MILITIAS CONDUCTED RAIDS ON THE HERDSMEN.
Six Russian civilians wounded in Ukrainian drone attacks in Russia's Belgorod Region. Damage at two apartment houses...Tass Russia...
Russian air defenses taking down 59 attacking Ukrainian drones over the Leningrad Region around Russia's second largest city St. Petersburg Sunday morning.
The Ukrainian attacks aimed at oil export facilities in the area.
AN ABORTION PILL MAKER WITH AN EMERGENCY APPEAL TO THE US SUPREME COURT.
THIS FOLLOWS FRIDAY'S APPEALS COURT RULING IN FAVOR OF A LOUISIANA STATE LAWSUIT SEEKING PROHIBITION OF PRESCRIBING AND DISPENSING THE ABORTION DRUG MIFEPRISTONE ONLINE...THE HILL USA
An oil tanker seized off the coast of Yemen and forced towards Somalia. It's the fourth such attack to take place near Yemen recently.
ISRAELI AIR ATTACKS IN LEBANON KILLED DOZENS IN A 24 HOUR PERIOD THIS WEEKEND AS FIGHTING WITH THE IRAN-ALIGNED HEZBOLLAH MOVEMENT CONTINUES.
THE TOTAL DEATH TOLL SINCE THE LEBANON WAR BEGAN ALONGSIDE THE IRAN WAR TWO MONTHS AGO IS NOW WELL OVER 2,600 WITH MORE THAN EIGHT THOUSAND WOUNDED ACCORDING TO LEBANESE HEALTH OFFICIALS...ASSOCIATED PRESS USA-AL JAZEERA QATAR
POLICE IN AUSTRIA ARRESTING A MAN SUSPECTED OF PUTTING RAT POISON IN BABY FOOD.
HE IS ACCUSED OF EXTORTING GERMAN BABY FOOD MAKER "HIPP" WITH A DEMAND FOR TWO MILLION EUROS WORTH OF CRYPTOCURRENCY.
That bit of history reminds me of the many faces out there telling us what they think each day. In the end Jim Jones in Guyana turned out to be a Marxist-Leninist.
For those of you in Rio Linda "Reverend Jim Jones" was a Communist who pretended to be a Protestant follower of Jesus.
Jones called the "Peoples Temple" a "Marxist-Leninist organization" in the final audio tape as the deadly Kool Aid was mixed and dispensed.
So here's a list of "voices" I encounter in the course of a week via social media:
TUCKER CARSLON
THOMAS MASSIE
NICHOLAS J. FUENTES
CANDACE OWENS
JULIE K. BROWN
SARAH PALIN
DOUGLAS WILSON
PETER HITCHENS
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE
BARAK RAVID
DONALD J. TRUMP
Those folks and others are inputs into my life and I do not blindly follow them agree with everything they say etc. but I do pay attention to what they share.
Blindly following other human beings could have dangerous consequences IMHO.
And another thing descending into anger or resentment of these folks even though some may push at buttons with their over-the-top rhetoric is a dead end.
"See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no 'root of bitterness' springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled..."
HEBREWS 12:15 ESV BIBLE
Feminism claims Men are the problem but of course Women make mistakes too here's a country song from the 1970's Crystal Gayle singing about taking the "wrong road again". This is the music I listened to in the 1970's...
"WRONG ROAD AGAIN"-CRYSTAL GAYLE
"DON'T COME HOME A DRINKIN' (WITH LOVIN' ON YOUR MIND)-LORETTA LYNN
"I DO I DO I DO I DO I DO"-ABBA (LIVE)
My wife and I in the car hearing that song yesterday and I thought was that song pre-selected by the AI considering our 40th wedding anniversary is tomorrow.
REMEMBERING DAD
Wow there's been a lot in this week the passing of my father he loved sports when the $$$$ just wasn't in it.
He came out of a river town (Sunbury, PA) where he was a high school basketball star, then went to work in a factory and played basketball games in the "Industrial League" back in the 1950's here in York.
In those days the NFL players would come to town to play basketball in the off season my dad got to play basketball against the "Baltimore Colts".
I READ THIS BEFORE I FELL TO SLEEP LAST NIGHT:
"Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed--not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence--continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
Do everything without grumbling or arguing,
so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generations. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky
as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
ON FRIDAY MAY DAY A TRADITIONAL LEFTIST DAY OF PROTEST BRINGING OUT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ONTO THE STREETS OF FRANCE.
TOP POLITICIANS INCLUDING POSSIBLE PRESIDENTIAL CANIDATES MAKING SPEECHES.
LEFTIST JEAN-LUC MELENCHON DESCRIBING THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON AS ILLEGITIMATE.
MELENCHON ENGAGING IN DEBATE WITH 'CENTRIST' GABRIEL ATTAL ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LIKELY TO RUN NEXT YEAR.
MELENCHON TRASHED ATTAL FOR SPEAKING TO PEOPLE WORKING ON MAY DAY WHILE ATTAL SHOT BACK AT MELENCHON FOR FORCING PEOPLE TO WORK ON MAY DAY PREPARING HIS SPEAKING PLATFORM.
AS FOR ATTAL HE DID A MAY DAY RADIO INTERVIEW WITH A VERY PRO-CAPITALIST FLAVOR.
ATTAL SUPPORTED DROPPING RETIREMENT AGE IN FRANCE KEEPING PEOPLE IN THE WORKFORCE LONGER.
Much attention focused on an illegal rave in the center of France near Bourges. Tens of thousands descending on the site this weekend a former military training ground.
(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING TILL 11 PM OR LATER EASTERN US TIME)
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
THE PRESIDENT OF BARD COLLEGE OUTSIDE NEW YORK CITY RETIRING FOLLOWING REVELATION ABOUT A CLOSER RELATIONSHIP TO CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER JEFFREY EPSTEIN THAN PREVIOUSLY KNOWN.
LEON BOTSTEIN SAYS HE WILL LEAVE AT THE END OF JUNE REMAINING AS A TEACHER AND MUSICIAN ON THE FACULTY.
HIS DECISION FOLLOWS COMPLETION OF AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH EPSTEIN...ASSOCIATED PRESS USA-DAILY MAIL UK...
THAT PROBE FOUND 25 BOTSTEIN VISITS TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S MANHATTAN TOWNHOUSE AND A TWO-DAY VISIT TO 'ESPTEIN ISLAND' BY BOTSTEIN.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN ALSO MAKING TWO VISITS TO BARD COLLEGE ACCOMPANIED BY FEMALES LATER IDENTIFIED AS EPSTEIN VICTIMS...JULIE K. BROWN "X"
In New Mexico investigators casting a wide net as they probe Jeffrey Epstein's "Zorro Ranch". More than a dozen former employees questioned.
They are being asked about visitors to the ranch and other things they saw.
It has been suggested that Epstein envisioned turning the ranch into a 'baby-making facility' where women would give birth to children bearing his DNA...Mirror UK
POPULARITY POLLING FOR US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SHOWING HIGH LEVELS OF UNPOPULARITY.
THE TRADITIONALLY FRIENDLY 'RASMUSSEN REPORTS' POLL OUT TODAY WITH A 56 PERCENT DISAPPROVAL RATING FOR TRUMP ONLY 43 PERCENT APPROVING OF HIS PERFORMANCE.
ANOTHER POLL FROM 'RMG RESEARCH' WITH 57 PERCENT DISAPPROVAL AND 42 PERCENT APPROVAL FOR THE PRESIDENT.
THE MORE SKEWED AGAINST REPUBLICANS 'PEW RESEARCH' POLL GIVES TRUMP A 64 PERCENT DISPPROVAL RATING VERSUS 34 PERCENT APPROVAL...REAL CLEAR POLITICS LATEST POLLS
Shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz at its lowest level since the start of the Iran War.
Between April 23rd and April 29th (Last Wednesday) only 24 ships transited the strait.
If the strait were re-opened now, it would take until September for traffic to return to normal...USNI News USA
A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT RULING AGAINST MAIL-ORDER DISTRUBTION OF AN ABORTION DRUG.
THE FIFTH US CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS AGREEING WITH THE STATE OF LOUISIANA IN ITS LAWSUIT AGAINST THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION.
THE RULING MEANS THAT THE ABORTION DRUG 'MIFEPRISTONE' MUST BE PRESCRIBED AND DISPENSED IN PERSON...THE HILL USA
In Istanbul 500 protesters arrested at a May Day demonstration. They wanted to march to Taksim Square but Turkish authorities ban protests there...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
THE PENTAGON ANNOUNCING A PULLOUT OF US TROOPS IN GERMANY.
FIVE THOUSAND OF THE 38,000 TROOPS BASED THERE WILL LEAVE IN THE NEXT SIX TO 12 MONTHS...ABC NEWS USA
President Trump contesting the validity of the "War Powers Act" in a letter to Congressional leadership.
Mr. Trump saying the ending of hostilities 41 days into the Iran War negates any notion of Congressional approval for warfare 60 days into the conflict as provided for in the law.
IN BRAZIL LAWMAKERS OVERRIDING PRESIDENT LULA DA SILVA'S VETO TO PASSING A BILL REDUCING THE PRISON SENTENCE OF FORMER PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO.
BOLSONARO GIVEN A 27-YEAR SENTENCE FOR ALLEGEDLY PLOTTING A COUP IN CONNECTION WITH PROTESTS IN BRAZIL'S CAPITAL CITY ON JANUARY 8, 2023.
THE NEW LAW CUTTING 20 YEARS OFF THE SENTENCE WILL BE CHALLENGED IN COURT...FRANCE 24
A Chinese-owned company going to a World Bank associated court over Australia's decision to seize control of the Port of Darwin from it.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pledged in the last election campaign to take back control of the northern Australian port. He said it was necessary for national security...ABC News Australia
In the Netherlands firefighters tackling wildfires at various locations including a military training ground. Additional firefighters have arrived from Germany and France to help put the fires out...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 152.87 points or .31 percent.
The NASDAQ up 222.13 points or .89 percent.
The price of oil in New York closed at 102 dollars 50 cents a barrel down two dollars 57 cents or 2.45 percent...Marketwatch
THE NEW YORK TIMES SEEKING TO RELEASE A FILE CONTAINING A SUICIDE NOTE WRITTEN BY JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
IT'S IN THE FILE OF EPSTEIN'S FORMER CELLMATE CONVICTED QUADRUPLE MURDERER NICOLAS TARTAGLIONE.
TARTAGLIONE SAID HE FOUND IT AFTER EPSTEIN ATTEMPTED TO KILL HIMSELF IN JULY OF 2019.
A FEDERAL JUDGE ASKING PARTIES IN THE MATTER TO RESPOND BY MONDAY...ABC NEWS USA
Canada selected as the host nation for a bank to finance military projects of NATO countries.
The bank will provide 'low-cost, long-term financing' to NATO nations and allies.
Canada's Big Six banks all committed to the project which would lower costs of borrowing money for military spending...GLOBAL NEWS CANADA
IN MYANMAR FORMER LEADER AUNG SAN SUU KYI MOVED TO HOUSE ARREST.
ITS PART OF A BROADER MOVE BY THE MILITARY RULED COUNTRY TO REDUCE SENTENCES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS AND SEEK NEGOTIATIONS WITH REBEL FORCES...REUTERS-ASSOCIATED PRESS-AL JAZEERA QATAR
Political polling in Germany showing a surge in political support for the "far-right" Alternative for Germany Party (AfD).
The rising support accompanies negative economic news in Germany associated with the Iran War.