NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 1/30/2019
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In Venezuela the opposition to Nicolas Maduro taking to the streets and in support of the Interim President Juan Guaido today (Wednesday).
Venezuela's Supreme Court, controlled by Maduro, has ruled that Mr. Guaido cannot leave the country and frozen his bank accounts.
Maduro told a Russian news agency he's willing to talk with the opposition but is not willing to agree to early presidential elections, but supports early elections for the opposition controlled National Assembly.
President Donald Trump tweeted this morning in part:
"Americans should not travel to Venezuela until further notice"
The Battle of Brexit and two amendments approved Tuesday in Parliament that appear to be the fruit of a closing of ranks in the British Conservative Party.
One amendment calls for a renegotiating of the "backstop" on the British-Irish border in Northern Ireland with the European Union.
The other speaks of avoiding the "No-Deal" Brexit on the March 29th date when the UK is set to leave the EU.
The two amendments seem to be pandering to both factions of the Conservative Party, the "backstop" amendment to "Leave" Tories and the avoiding "No Deal" amendment to "Remain" Tories, but neither has any certainty to them.
Mr. Brexit Nigel Farage told his listeners on the "Nigel Farage" show Tuesday evening that the Conservative Party is putting its interests ahead of:
"the interests of getting the right Brexit deal"
Farage suspects that the Conservative Party wants to find a way to drag out the process and delay any kind of Brexit deal until after a General Election in 2021.
The early reaction from the European Union is that there will be no renegotiation of the Brexit deal Prime Minister Theresa May originally agreed to.
Chief negotiator Michel Barnier said in part:
Chief negotiator Michel Barnier said in part:
"we stand by the agreement we have negotiated with the UK"
There's a high level Russian delegation talking Syria and Iran on a visit to Israel this week.
The Russian Syrian representative and Deputy Foreign Minister held talks Tuesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his residence in Jerusalem.
Russia has said that the dispute between Israel and Iran should not be fought out in Syria and said that there should be no further Israeli attacks on Syria.
After a Russian surveillance plane was shot down and its crew killed during an Israeli air attack last September, Russia sent a more advanced air defense system to Syria, the S-300. The new system is expected to be operational by March.
The Russian representatives said they were committed to Israel's security during their visit.
Israeli politics and the new face in Israeli politics, retired Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, made his first speech in the campaign leading to the April 9th election.
Speaking at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds Tuesday night, Gantz said that Prime Minister Netanyahu's government is out of touch with the average person and the high cost of living. Gantz spoke of the divides in Israel between Left and Right and religious and secular. He also criticized the Netanyahu policy of sending cash to the Hamas terror group in Gaza mentioning the notion of "blackmail funds".
Netanyahu said that Gantz is a tool of the Left in Israeli politics in response to his speech.
Meanwhile in an interview with an Israeli radio station, one of the leaders of the "New Right" Party, Naftali Bennett says President Trump's "Deal of the Century" plan to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict turns 85 percent of Judea and Samaria ("The West Bank") into a Palestinian state.
The Russian representatives said they were committed to Israel's security during their visit.
Israeli politics and the new face in Israeli politics, retired Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, made his first speech in the campaign leading to the April 9th election.
Speaking at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds Tuesday night, Gantz said that Prime Minister Netanyahu's government is out of touch with the average person and the high cost of living. Gantz spoke of the divides in Israel between Left and Right and religious and secular. He also criticized the Netanyahu policy of sending cash to the Hamas terror group in Gaza mentioning the notion of "blackmail funds".
Netanyahu said that Gantz is a tool of the Left in Israeli politics in response to his speech.
Meanwhile in an interview with an Israeli radio station, one of the leaders of the "New Right" Party, Naftali Bennett says President Trump's "Deal of the Century" plan to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict turns 85 percent of Judea and Samaria ("The West Bank") into a Palestinian state.
The FBI says it cannot find a motive for the mass murder incident involving a sniper in Las Vegas in October 2017 who killed 58 people and committed suicide.
The FBI report on the matter says that gunman Stephen Paddock was driven by mental health and stress issues and that they could find no ideological or political beliefs tied to him.
The FBI has closed its investigation.
The "Code Pink" activists have a message for singer Mariah Carey.
Don't perform in Saudi Arabia.
Medea Benjamin of "Code Pink" asks if Carey wants to be associated with a regime that:
And Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, pardoned by President Trump last summer, got some good news this week.
The now former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke decided before his departure at the beginning of the year to retroactively approve grazing permits for the Hammonds on federal government land in Harney County, Oregon meaning they will have use of more than 26,000 acres for cattle they own to graze until 2024.
The Hammonds forced return to federal prison to serve out mandatory terrorism sentences for lighting a backfire to protect their property from a brushfire triggered the Oregon Standoff protest led by Ammon Bundy three years ago this month.
The Oregon Standoff protest drew worldwide attention to the plight of the Hammonds.
And that's the way it really is Wednesday January 30th, 2019.
The "Code Pink" activists have a message for singer Mariah Carey.
Don't perform in Saudi Arabia.
Medea Benjamin of "Code Pink" asks if Carey wants to be associated with a regime that:
"cuts up the body of (a) journalist with a bone saw, beheads people for non-violent offenses, tortures women who want to free themselves from the oppressive male guardianship system, makes homosexuality punishable by death, and has created a humanitarian situation in Yemen so severe it has already taken the lives of around 85-thousand young Yemeni children?"
And Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, pardoned by President Trump last summer, got some good news this week.
The now former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke decided before his departure at the beginning of the year to retroactively approve grazing permits for the Hammonds on federal government land in Harney County, Oregon meaning they will have use of more than 26,000 acres for cattle they own to graze until 2024.
The Hammonds forced return to federal prison to serve out mandatory terrorism sentences for lighting a backfire to protect their property from a brushfire triggered the Oregon Standoff protest led by Ammon Bundy three years ago this month.
The Oregon Standoff protest drew worldwide attention to the plight of the Hammonds.
And that's the way it really is Wednesday January 30th, 2019.
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