NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 1/11/2019
(EDITING, UPDATES, ADDITIONS ETC. UNTIL 7 AM AND MAYBE LATER IF ABLE)
As we enter the Friday-Saturday news window when things happen to avoid publicity about them one wonders what might be next in the dispute between President Trump and Democrats over funding for a barrier on the southern border.
It might be an interesting next 24 hours or so but we shall have to wait and see what transpires.
On Thursday President Trump going to the border to make his case for the funding. The president stating he will declare an emergency if necessary.
Trump says he will not attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland later this month because of the situation in Washington.
In Chicago Thursday hundreds of federal employees not getting paid because of the partial shutdown of the government protested. Employees of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Internal Revenue Service were involved.
The Battle of Brexit.
Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn on the attack ahead of next Tuesday's expected vote rejecting Prime Minister Theresa May's proposal for withdrawal from the European Union.
On Thursday the Labor Party chief Corbyn said:
"If the government cannot pass its most important legislation then there must a General Election at the earliest opportunity....."
The British Prime Minister got support for her Brexit plan Thursday from the visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
To France where a cabinet minister in the government of President Emmanuel Macron says she is looking into foreign powers giving support to the Yellow Vests protests.
Marlene Schiappa, who is the Minister of State for Gender Equality, told France Inter radio that Italy should be under suspicion "given the position of certain Italian leaders". She branded the Yellow Vests as a violent protest movement asking her interviewer:
"Who is funding the violence?"
Matteo Salvini, Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, leader of the League, has spoken in favor of the protest, while his fellow Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Five Star Movement, Luigi Di Maio has offered to meet Yellow Vests protest figure Eric Drouet.
There will be Yellow Vests protests in at least eight other locations in France tomorrow.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo taking tough about former President Barack Obama's Mideast policy and Iran during a speech in Egypt on Thursday.
He said Obama's policy was a failure and the former president failed to get rid of Bashar Assad's government in Syria.
Pompeo said that even though the US is withdrawing its troops from Syria the US would:
"expel every last Iranian boot"
from Syria.
LATE WORD FROM SYRIA TODAY IS THAT THE US FORCES HAVE BEGUN THEIR WITHDRAWAL. A SPOKESMAN FOR THE COALITION FORCE IN SYRIA, COLONEL SEAN RYAN, SAYS THAT WHILE DETAILS WILL NOT BE REVEALED FOR 'OPERATIONAL SECURITY' THE US:
"HAS BEGUN THE PROCESS OF OUR DELIBERATE WITHDRAWAL FROM SYRIA"
Four Israeli teenagers students at a yeshiva, a religious school, were freed from the custody of Israel's internal security agency Shin Bet Thursday and put under house arrest.
A fifth teenager remains in Shin Bet custody. The teenagers have been put under intense questioning by Shin Bet and denied access to lawyers causing a storm of protest.
They are being investigated as "Jewish terrorists" in the stoning death of a 47-year old Palestinian woman in the "West Bank".
An Israeli judge says the "level of suspicion is extremely high" against the fifth teenager.
Protesting the Shin Bet's activities with a letter to its head Nadav Argaman is Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu.
A link to his letter......LINK HERE
In Poland a Chinese national who works for Huawei telecom firm and Polish citizen who used to work for the country's internal security agency are under arrest for espionage.
Protesting the Shin Bet's activities with a letter to its head Nadav Argaman is Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu.
A link to his letter......LINK HERE
In Poland a Chinese national who works for Huawei telecom firm and Polish citizen who used to work for the country's internal security agency are under arrest for espionage.
In the UK, a Conservative Party campaign manager was found guilty on two campaign finance charges related to the battle for the South Thanet constituency in the House of Commons for the 2015 general election.
The jury found Marion Little guilty of falsifying campaign records where there was illegal overspending by Conservative Party candidate Craig Mackinlay in the South Thanet race which he won over his main opponent, Brexit activist and then leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, Nigel Farage.
Little was given a suspended nine month sentence by the judge, saying she was caring for her terminally ill husband.
The jury decided that the Tory candidate, Mr. Mackinlay, was not guilty of violating campaign finance laws.
The prosecutor argued that the Conservative Party fought the normally safe South Thanet seat violating campaign finance laws against Farage so they could "knock him out" of politics.
Speaking on his radio show about the court decisions Wednesday, Nigel Farage said:
"British politics is dominated by two big parties and despite the legislation and despite the electoral commission frankly if you're a big party and its an important by-election or a very important seat you can just break the law with impunity because nothing is ever going to happen to you."
The election results in the Democratic Republic of Congo were announced some five days late in the early hours of Thursday morning and they are "fishy".
A third candidate considered an opposition candidate defeated the main opposition candidate and the candidate endorsed by outgoing President Joseph Kabila.
But the Roman Catholic Church, which ran an extensive election monitoring operation involving some 40-thousand observers, said the results announced by the electoral commission claiming that Felix Tshisekedi won the election with 38.5 percent of the vote do not reflect the vote totals they have.
Candidate Martin Fayulu says there has been an "electoral coup" in the country. Fayulu says he will challenge the election result in the country's constitutional court. He also described Mr. Tshiskedi as a tool of the outgoing President Joseph Kabila and that Kabila is the "boss" of the country.
It is suspected that the winning candidate announced by the electoral commission Mr. Tshisekedi is involved in some sort of deal with Mr. Kabila to maintain power for his political operation in the country.
There are fears of violence in the country as a result of the suspicious election and 80 members of the US military are on standby in the nearby country of Gabon to protect Americans if needed.
Congo is a former Belgian colony and the Belgian Foreign Minister says his country will bring up the matter of the election and "seek clarification" in the UN Security Council in coming days.
And even though the country's National Assembly and a dozen nearby or neighboring countries say they will not recognize his leadership, Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro took the oath of office Thursday for a second term as president after last year's election that was widely considered to be illegitimate.
Also not recognizing Maduro as Venezuela's president the United States and European Union.
Maduro still has his friends like Bolivia's leftist president Evo Morales who showed up for the inauguration and on the phone with Maduro on Monday of this week to discuss cooperation, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
And finally police in Wisconsin will have more to say today about the discovery of a 13-year old girl who went missing early in the morning of October 15th. Jayme Closs was located 70 miles from where she disappeared and a suspect was taken into custody.
Her disappearance was in conjunction with the murder of her parents and there was a reward of 50-thousand dollars for information to help locate her.
And that's the way it really is Friday mornng January 11th, 2019.
And even though the country's National Assembly and a dozen nearby or neighboring countries say they will not recognize his leadership, Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro took the oath of office Thursday for a second term as president after last year's election that was widely considered to be illegitimate.
Also not recognizing Maduro as Venezuela's president the United States and European Union.
Maduro still has his friends like Bolivia's leftist president Evo Morales who showed up for the inauguration and on the phone with Maduro on Monday of this week to discuss cooperation, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
And finally police in Wisconsin will have more to say today about the discovery of a 13-year old girl who went missing early in the morning of October 15th. Jayme Closs was located 70 miles from where she disappeared and a suspect was taken into custody.
Her disappearance was in conjunction with the murder of her parents and there was a reward of 50-thousand dollars for information to help locate her.
And that's the way it really is Friday mornng January 11th, 2019.
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