NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 1/27/2019-MONDAY 1/28/2019
(A WORK IN PROGRESS UPDATES, EDITING, ADDITIONS ETC. UNTIL 8AM EASTERN US TIME)
The United States National Security Adviser John Bolton tweeting a warning to regime leader Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela about any actions against US diplomats or the country's interim President Juan Guaido.
Bolton saying that "intimidation" of either would be met with "a significant response"
Additional nations are recognizing Juan Guaido as the new President of Venezuela. The latest nations to join the list Australia and Israel.
Guaido is offering amnesty to those supporting Maduro if they switch allegiance to him including the military.
The Venezuelan military attache in the United States, a colonel, has switched his allegiance to the interim president Juan Guaido.
The United States National Security Adviser John Bolton tweeting a warning to regime leader Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela about any actions against US diplomats or the country's interim President Juan Guaido.
Bolton saying that "intimidation" of either would be met with "a significant response"
Additional nations are recognizing Juan Guaido as the new President of Venezuela. The latest nations to join the list Australia and Israel.
Guaido is offering amnesty to those supporting Maduro if they switch allegiance to him including the military.
The Venezuelan military attache in the United States, a colonel, has switched his allegiance to the interim president Juan Guaido.
A prominent Yellow Vests figure, Jerome Rodrigues, seriously injured in the eye by French police in Paris Saturday evening at the "Place of the Bastille".
Rodrigues was trying to keep the peace at the protest site as the police were forcing people out of the area.
His lawyer says a "flash ball" fired by police caused the injury.
Rodrigues calls the attack "deliberate" because of his prominence in the protests.
He told the media:
Rodrigues calls the attack "deliberate" because of his prominence in the protests.
He told the media:
"I think they knew very well who they fired"
The attack was captured on video at the link...HERE And here is a video link of Rodrigues being treated for his injury...HERE
Some anti-Yellow Vests protesters came out onto the streets of Paris wearing red scarves on Sunday.
Some anti-Yellow Vests protesters came out onto the streets of Paris wearing red scarves on Sunday.
A group of 10-thousand was reported in the media.
Official estimates say that 69-thousand Yellow Vests protested across France on Saturday.
Also the "Yellow Vests" concept of protest has spread to other countries including Canada where a "Yellow Vests" protester was injured in an attack by an "Anti-Fascist" activist Saturday. Police in Hamilton, Ontario arrested and later released the attacker on condition of their return to court for a hearing.
"Yellow Vests" protesting against mass immigration into Canada, the new carbon taxes being phased in and also for freedom of speech in the face of "hate crimes" laws.
20 killed and dozens injured when two bombs exploded at a cathedral Sunday on the southern Philippine island of Jolo. Its a majority Muslim area where the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group is active.
Syrian air defenses active on Sunday shooting down three drones attacking a Russian air base in Latakia. There have been drone attacks on the Russian base in the past and Russia has expressed suspicion that US satellite tracking assistance is being given to the jihadist groups believed to be launching the drones.
The attack occurred during Mass with one bomb going off and a second one delayed in its detonation until police arrived at the scene.
Also the "Yellow Vests" concept of protest has spread to other countries including Canada where a "Yellow Vests" protester was injured in an attack by an "Anti-Fascist" activist Saturday. Police in Hamilton, Ontario arrested and later released the attacker on condition of their return to court for a hearing.
"Yellow Vests" protesting against mass immigration into Canada, the new carbon taxes being phased in and also for freedom of speech in the face of "hate crimes" laws.
20 killed and dozens injured when two bombs exploded at a cathedral Sunday on the southern Philippine island of Jolo. Its a majority Muslim area where the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group is active.
Syrian air defenses active on Sunday shooting down three drones attacking a Russian air base in Latakia. There have been drone attacks on the Russian base in the past and Russia has expressed suspicion that US satellite tracking assistance is being given to the jihadist groups believed to be launching the drones.
The attack occurred during Mass with one bomb going off and a second one delayed in its detonation until police arrived at the scene.
The British Health Minister in Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party government is threatening to ban social media companies on mental health grounds.
Matt Hancock says that material about self-harm needs to be removed from social media.
Emotions are raised over the 2017 suicide of a British teenager who had material about suicide on her Instagram account. Her father blames Instagram for her death.
The "Daily Telegraph" in the UK is paying substantial damages to First Lady Melania Trump.
The newspaper, which editorializes for the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Theresa May, apologized Saturday "unreservedly" for false statements published in a "Saturday Magazine" article about the First Lady.
In China a prominent human rights lawyer has been imprisoned for "state subversion"
Wang Quanzhang, who's defended political campaigners, people whose land has been seized by the state and members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, got four and half years in prison.
He was tried behind closed doors. His wife was banned from the trial and confined to her home where she has shaved her head in protest.
Canada's ambassador to China, John McCollum, has resigned. McCollum lost his job after making comments criticial of the US extradition request for Huawei telecom executive Meng Wanzhou.
Meng is in Canada right now free on bail while the extradition process moves forward.
Here in the United States, the director of a graduate program at Duke University removed from her position.
That's because she wrote an email about Chinese students speaking their language instead of English.
Critics pounced on Dr. Megan Neely for being "racist" and "insensitive". Some of her students have praised her for her work in the program after Neely was removed.
With the family of Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann and others involved in the incident in Washington DC more than a week ago covered by legal representation, some are changing their tune about him and the other students.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Covington, Kentucky, across the river from Cincinnati, is reversing course with an apology to Sandmann and others students.
Student Nick Sandmann, who took the brunt of the negative media coverage and outrage, has the services of Atlanta attorney Lin Wood. Wood represented the late Richard Jewell, falsely accused in the bombing at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Wood won damages from the mainstream media for their coverage of Jewell.
Israeli politics and this week the new face for the April 9th election is coming out.
The newecomer who's emerged in polling as the main challenger to incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will break his silence.
Retired Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz has formed something called the "Israel Resilience Party". It polls at around 13 percent of the popular vote making it the closet rival to Netanyahu's Likud with 25 percent of so popular support.
Gantz makes his first public speech tomorrow, Tuesday.
Politics here in the US with California Democrat Senator Kamala Harris officially announcing her candidacy for President Sunday in Oakland. She's joining what looks like a very crowded field of newcomers and lesser known Democrat candidates who may end up splitting votes.
And all those split votes would help the "moderate" Joe Biden. The former Vice-President could be assumed to be the "Establishment" candidate just like Jeb Bush was considered to be the insider candidate in a crowded Republican field in 2016.
Would an independent candidate have a shot at the White House in 2020? Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says he's seriously considering an independent presidential candidacy.
President Trump issued a statement for Holocaust Remembrance Day Sunday.
In part it read:
And that's the way it really is as we reach Monday morning January 28th, 2019.
In China a prominent human rights lawyer has been imprisoned for "state subversion"
Wang Quanzhang, who's defended political campaigners, people whose land has been seized by the state and members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, got four and half years in prison.
He was tried behind closed doors. His wife was banned from the trial and confined to her home where she has shaved her head in protest.
Canada's ambassador to China, John McCollum, has resigned. McCollum lost his job after making comments criticial of the US extradition request for Huawei telecom executive Meng Wanzhou.
Meng is in Canada right now free on bail while the extradition process moves forward.
Here in the United States, the director of a graduate program at Duke University removed from her position.
That's because she wrote an email about Chinese students speaking their language instead of English.
Critics pounced on Dr. Megan Neely for being "racist" and "insensitive". Some of her students have praised her for her work in the program after Neely was removed.
With the family of Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann and others involved in the incident in Washington DC more than a week ago covered by legal representation, some are changing their tune about him and the other students.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Covington, Kentucky, across the river from Cincinnati, is reversing course with an apology to Sandmann and others students.
Student Nick Sandmann, who took the brunt of the negative media coverage and outrage, has the services of Atlanta attorney Lin Wood. Wood represented the late Richard Jewell, falsely accused in the bombing at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Wood won damages from the mainstream media for their coverage of Jewell.
Israeli politics and this week the new face for the April 9th election is coming out.
The newecomer who's emerged in polling as the main challenger to incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will break his silence.
Retired Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz has formed something called the "Israel Resilience Party". It polls at around 13 percent of the popular vote making it the closet rival to Netanyahu's Likud with 25 percent of so popular support.
Gantz makes his first public speech tomorrow, Tuesday.
Politics here in the US with California Democrat Senator Kamala Harris officially announcing her candidacy for President Sunday in Oakland. She's joining what looks like a very crowded field of newcomers and lesser known Democrat candidates who may end up splitting votes.
And all those split votes would help the "moderate" Joe Biden. The former Vice-President could be assumed to be the "Establishment" candidate just like Jeb Bush was considered to be the insider candidate in a crowded Republican field in 2016.
Would an independent candidate have a shot at the White House in 2020? Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says he's seriously considering an independent presidential candidacy.
President Trump issued a statement for Holocaust Remembrance Day Sunday.
In part it read:
"Any denial or indifference to the horror of this chapter in the history of humankind diminishes all men and women everywhere and invites repetition of this great evil...."
When considers the Nazi culture that led to the Holocaust I am always reminded of the journalist Howard K. Smith's observation ("Last Train From Berlin") that Germany had "no pornography" but it had "art" which was the graphic detailed depiction of naked people.
Out of this culture came the mass murder of stark naked people that is synonymous with the Holocaust.
And that's the way it really is as we reach Monday morning January 28th, 2019.
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