NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY DECEMBER 7TH, 2018

(UPDATES, EDITING, ADDITIONS ETC. POSSIBLE UNTIL 8AM EASTERN TIME US)

First this morning the situation in France where in less than 24 hours mass demonstrations are expected to unfold nationwide and especially in Paris.

The "yellow vests" movement opposing the gasoline taxes of the increasingly unpopular President Emmanuel Macron is being swelled by others discontented by Macron's pro-big business "liberal reforms".

As is the case in "crisis" President Macron's Prime Minister Edouard Philippe appeared on the 8pm TF 1 evening news Thursday to say that 89,000 police will be deployed tomorrow across the country, that was up from the 65,000 he spoke of in the Senate earlier in the day.

Philippe claimed:  

"We are facing people who are not here to protest, but to smash and we want to have the means to not give them a free rein."

The Battle of Brexit.

The arm twisting continues in London as the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Theresa May tries to cajole both Tories and members of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party who support her government into backing her controversial Brexit proposal.

The latest bid involves the notion that Parliament will get some sort of say in the "backstop" for Northern Ireland under Mrs. May's Brexit plan.

Former Brexit Secretary David Davis, who resigned in opposition to the deal says that a stake must be driven through its heart.

The final vote expected in the House of Commons on Tuesday around 7pm, that's 2pm Eastern time in the US.

A lawyer for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says a deal for him to leave the Ecuadorean embassy in London is no deal.

Barry Pollock says it does not protect him from extradition to the United States.

Under apparent pressure from the US government, Ecuador has imposed restrictions on Assange.

The President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, claims the "deal" allows Assange to leave in "near liberty", but he offers no explanation of what "near liberty" means.

A federal court document in Virginia revealed last month that the US Department of Justice has prepared charges against Assange.   Those charges apparently related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the arrest of Chinese business executive Meng Wanzhou in Canada last Saturday was a criminal matter, not a political one.   He denied that his government had any involvement in her arrest.

Mang Wanzhou is the chief financial officer of the Chinese telecom firm, Huawei.   She is the daughter of the company's founder.

Meng was arrested at the Vancouver, Canada airport on an extradition request from the United States.

White House National Security Adviser John Bolton told National Public Radio that he was aware of her impending arrest as he sat in the room with President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping during their trade talks in Buenos Aires, Argentina last Saturday night.

She is suspected in the stealing of technology but it appears her major infraction in the eyes of the United States is evading the US sanctions on Iran.

China is demanding her release calling her arrest a human rights violation.   Meng Wanzhou has a bail hearing in Canada today,

There was suicide car bomb attack on a police station in southeastern Iran Thursday.  Three were killed and several others injured in the attack.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is a "reasonable possibility" that Israeli military forces will operate inside Lebanon to take out tunnels built by the Iranian backed Hezbollah movement.

Earlier this week Israel launched operations against the tunnels on its side of the border with Lebanon.

Netnayahu made his comments to a group of 25 foreign ambassadors touring with him in the border area.

Israel and the US have been ratcheting up pressure on Iran and its allies Russia and Syria in recent months in both military and economic ways, reminiscent of the measures taken against Germany and Japan in the lead up to the historic event remembered today-the December 7th, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

James Jeffrey, US representative on Syria, is advocating a no-fly zone in that country.   He made the statement to reporters on Tuesday.  His move comes as Russia and Syria appear to be readying themselves to launch military operations in coming days against jihadist opposition forces violating a cease-fire in the northern part of the country.

The leader of the conservative, religious Jewish Home Party in Israel, Naftali Bennett, says that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to slander his wife.

Bennett says the Netanyahu asked the owners of the "Walla" news website in Israel to publish a story that his wife Gilat was a chef at a non-kosher restaurant.

Last Sunday Israeli police recommended to the country's attorney general that Mr. Netanyahu be indicted for bribery involving the owners of "Walla", Bezeq Communications.   Netanyahu is accused of giving the company regulatory favors when he acted as Minister of Communications along with being Prime Minister.      The favors were in exchange for favorable news coverage.

Moshe Edri, nominated by the Netanyahu government to lead Israel's police, withdrew his nomination Thursday.   Last week an independent advisory committee on civil service appointments voted against Edri's nomination citing his meeting with the attorney for a man pressing charges against him.

The latest batch of cash from the jihadist supporting Gulf oil kingdom of Qatar has arrived in Gaza.   Its all part of Prime Minister Netanyahu's strategy to pacify the territory controlled by the militant Hamas group.    Its an attempt to contain attacks from Gaza against southern Israel, but Netanyahu's strategy has been criticized by conservative politicians in Israel like former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Members of Parliament from the Jewish Home party.

Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine say they are afraid of a false flag chemical attack that would trigger a NATO backed Ukrainian military offensive.   The separatists claim that British operatives are helping Ukraine to stage the chemical attack.

THE PENTAGON HAS REVEALED THAT A US AIR FORCE PLANE FLEW AN OBSERVATION FLIGHT OVER UKRAINE ON THURSDAY.   THE UNARMED PLANE CONTAINED US AND INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS.  IT WAS CALLED A SHOW OF SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE UNDER THE OPEN SKIES TREATY.

The state of Tennessee has successfully executed a death row inmate for the second month in a row.

David Earl Miller argued that lethal injections could be botched and like Edmund Zagorski the month before, he was electrocuted.

Miller was on death row for 36 years after his conviction for the murder of a 23 year old mentally ill woman in 1981.

The Tennessee Department of Corrections says Miller's last words were:

"Beats being on death row"

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, formerly of Fox News, is said to be President Trump' choice to replace Nikki Haley as UN Ambassador.

Actor-comedian Kevin Hart is quitting as host of the 2019 Oscars.   There's controversy over alleged "homophobic" tweets a decade ago.   Hart said he did want to be a distraction.   He had just been chosen to host the Academy Awards on Tuesday.

And that's the way it really is this Friday morning, December 7th, 2018.