NEWS SUMMARY AND INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 3/31-MONDAY 4/1/2019

(ADDITIONS EDITING UPDATES POSSIBLE UNTIL MONDAY 545 AM EASTERN US TIME)

A private investigator for Amazon and "Washington Post" owner Jeff Bezos says that Saudi Arabia hacked into Bezos's phone and accessed his data.

Gavin de Becker says he and a team of experts have concluded with  "high confidence" that the Saudis tapped into Bezos phone.

The findings turned over to federal officials.

De Becker wrote in the "Daily Beast" that the phone hacking:

"gained private information"

about Bezos.

De Becker also said the Saudis have been targeting Bezos since the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consultate in Istanbul last October.

Khashoggi wrote for Bezos's "Washington Post".

Also in the mix is the "National Enquirer" publication of information about an extramarital affair involving Jeff Bezos and the February allegation that the owner of the "Enqurier"  American Media Incorporated, friendly to President Trump, was trying to blackmail Bezos.

North Korea says a raid on its embassy in Madrid, Spain was a "grave terrorist attack".      Members of a shadowy group tied to US intelligence agencies "Cheolima Civil Defense" claimed responsibility for the break-in and taking of computers just days before President Trump met North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un in Vietnam in February.  

In Malaysia, a Vietnamese woman accused of spraying the nerve agent VX onto the face of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un's half brother Kim Jong-nam has entered a guilty plea to a lesser charge.

Doan Thi Huong was originally accused of murder but after her guilty plea to causing hurt by potentially deadly means she was given a three year, four month sentence starting at her arrest in February 2017.   Malaysian law allows for her early release in May of this year.

An Indonesian woman accused in the case was freed by Malaysian authorities early this year after the country's attorney general intervened.

The women say they thought they were part of a prank when they approached Kim Jong-nam at the Kuala Lumpur Airport and sprayed him in the face back in 2017.

On that North Korean embassy story the group is alleged to have tied up and beaten members of the North Korean embassy staff according to Spanish investigators.    More on this story from the BBC.....LINK

German police released 11 men who were arrested in pre-dawn raids early Saturday morning.

The German police acted on suspicion that there were arms and explosives caches where the men lived and that they were planning terrorist attacks.

The men, who were mostly from the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan, released after police found no evidence to support their suspicions.

He's a comedian who's portrayed the President of Ukraine, but now Volodymyr  Zelenskiy has won the first round of Ukraine's presidential election.    Zelenskiy projected to win just over 30 percent of the vote while incumbent President Petro Poroshenko is expected to win just about 18 percent of the vote.

The two will face each other in a runoff election April 21st.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is vowing a "strong economic program" admitting his ruling Islamist AK Party suffered some setbacks in local government elections.

The secularist CHP Party appears to be leading a tight race for mayor in Turkey's capital city Ankara while the AK Party appears to hold a narrow lead for mayor in the country's largest city Istanbul.

But the opposition CHP candidate for mayor of Istanbul claims victory.

Not all votes were counted as of late Sunday night.

In Venezuela, the government of Nicolas Maduro decreeing a shorter work day and the closing of schools to deal with nationwide power shortages.

Protests throughout the country Sunday with widespread anger over the shortages of electricity and water.  Fires being lit in the streets into the night as a form of protest.   Police and hooded government supporters took to the streets to put down protests sometimes firing live ammunition.

Interim President Juan Guaido told the BBC that Maduro cannot be removed from power without the assistance of the armed forces.

Guaido calling for a meeting of the National Assembly at 5pm Monday.

In the face of weeks of protest demanding his resignation President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria decided to reshuffle his cabinet Sunday.    While Bouteflika is keeping his Prime Minister and will himself remain as Defense Minister, 21 of 27 cabinet posts were shuffled.

In Canada the opposition leader, Andrew Scheer of the Conservative Party, says he isn't buying attempts to shield Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from the fallout of a phone conversation between a top civil servant and the former Justice Minister released Friday. 

Civil Service Chief Michael Wernick telling Jody Wilson-Raybould she could run into a "collision" with Trudeau if she didn't consider a "deferred prosecution agreement" for the construction-engineering firm SNC-Lavalin in a criminal case involving bribery allegations.

More on the story from CBC News in Canada.....LINK

Pope Francis visiting Morocco, a predominately Muslim country, over the weekend.   He met Muslim leaders, migrants and celebrated Mass for the small Catholic community at a community center in Rabat.

Some Papal quotes from the trip:

"The issue of migration will never be resolved by raising barriers"

And to Moroccan Catholics at Mass an admonition against trying to convert people saying:

"this always leads to an impasse"

and:

"Please, no proselytizing"

And last but not least and certainly NO APRIL FOOLS Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg writing in the "Washington Post" and other publications internationally over the weekend that its time for the government and social media industries to enact both laws and standards of practice for social media.

The "New York Times" analyzes Zuckerberg's call for regulation....LINK

And that's the way it really is as we come into this Monday morning April 1st, 2019.

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: SATURDAY NIGHT VERSION

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'I WILL SURVIVE'-GLORIA GAYNOR

Gloria Gaynor with "I Will Surive", one of the top songs at the end of March 1979.

It was forty years ago that a worldwide media sensation was unleashed suggesting that a lot of people would not survive because of an incident at Three Mile Island right here in my own backyard.

I guess you could say the mainstream media gave us the "Nuclear Disaster Hoax" which was their way of doing the "Russian Collusion Hoax" back then.

But first another thing to remember, tomorrow is March 31st.

Its a day to remember.

Before I get on with this I remember as a teenager being confronted by another teenager, a girl, with a message for me.

It went like this:   

"You're sizing me up, you're looking at me like I'm a piece of meat"

Of course, I could never have admitted to that back then.   I was too holy and self-righteous and "Born Again" to admit I was wrong as she sensed my wrong.

But yes I was dehumanizing her at that moment.

Dehumanization of another human being was in full swing for 13 days 14 years ago with the starvation killing of Terri Schiavo as the behest of her own husband who afterwards married his girlfriend.

Mark Fuhrman, the former LAPD detective, wrote a book "Silent Witness" that got more into the saga of the untold story of her death.

Its time to remember Terri Schiavo......

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"GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME"-TOM JONES

"MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION"-PAUL SIMON

"I feel calmer in Harrisburg than I did in New York City"

Somebody said that during a phone in show on WCMB Radio in Harrisburg during the frenzy caused by the mainstream media sensationalizing of Three Mile Island.

The story began on March 28th but it was Friday March 30th when the spreading of fear went into high gear.

I was not home and home being 12 miles from TMI back then in 1979, away at the university.

From there I witnessed the big city and national media going into TMI mode over TMI.

CBS News on the Hour with Douglas Edwards came on Friday morning March 30th at 10am mentioning the million people who lived in the four counties around TMI.

The local media did a lot IMHO to maintain calm as opposed to the national media's over the top treatment of the whole situation.

This is a segment from WGAL-TV with some local media people talking about their experiences with the situation at TMI 40 years ago...

WGAL-TV THREE MILE ISLAND CRISIS SEGMENT


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'YOU WON'T SEE ME'-ANNE MURRAY


'THE NIGHT CHICAGO DIED'-PAPER LACE

In the here and now the presidential election in Slovakia.  Its a largely symbolic position but the winner is the anti-corruption anti-ruling party candidate Zuzana Caputova.

Here is the BBC News take.....LINK

Tomorrow the election in Ukraine for president with a comedian leading the established candidates again with corruption being a major issue....An analysis of the situation from Chris Brown of CBC News.....LINK

Good Night, God Bless.

Hope you find that next right thing to do and from the Contemporary Christian Music days of my life Keith Green to close things out.

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'SO YOU WANNA GO BACK TO EGYPT'-KEITH GREEN

FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 20:  NATIONWIDE PROTESTS CONTINUE WITH PROTEST BANS, POLICE CHECKPOINTS

Yellow Vests Week 20 in France involved 33,700 protesters if you go by the government's estimate and over 102,000 if you go by the Yellow Vests own estimate.

The authorities say some 4,000 protesters were in Paris.   This 22 minute video was posted on You Tube showing highlights including confrontational situations between demonstrators and police.....GILETS JAUNES ACTE 20: FORCES DE L'ORDRE HYPER REACTIVES A PARIS

Checkpoints were set up on highways around Paris with at least nine cities imposing bans on demonstrations.

A heavy police presence with checkpoints aroiund Avignon, France today.   A protest ban in the city center as Yellow Vests called a major protest there.    The police and Yellow Vests facing off throughout the day.

This video posted of a procession of protesters in Avignon including a short part with Jerome Rodrigues, an online video poster for the Yellow Vests.  Rodrigues was injured in the eye by a police flashbang round during a Paris protest......VIDEO FROM WEEK 20 YELLOW VESTS AVIGNON 3/30/2019

Police arrested dozens of protesters in the Place de la Republique area of Bordeaux.....Here is a 38 minute video of today's protest there......ACTE XX GILETS JAUNES BORDEAUX VS POLICE

At Montpellier in the south of France some  1600 plus Yellow Vests estimated by the government but the Yellow Vests said their number was more like 2500.   Yellow Vests marched in the city center but also stationed themselves at traffic circles.      A confrontation with police in the city center.  Two police officers injured there with eight arrests.

Here is video from Montpellier.......YELLOW VESTS MONTPELLIER ACT 20 3/30/2019

From Yellow Vests figure Eric Drouet, who was in Bordeaux today, potential sites for major Yellow Vests demonstrations in the weeks ahead, Lille in the north of France April 6th,  Toulouse April 13th and Paris April 20th.

Link below......

RUPTLY VIDEO OF PARIS YELLOW VESTS WEEK 20

BREAKING NEWS: FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 20 MORE CITIES RESTRICT, PROSECUTOR ADMITS POLICE ASSAULT IN NICE

(3AM EASTERN US, 8AM FRANCE)(LATEST NEWS AT THE BOTTOM)

The 20th Week in a row of Saturday Yellow Vests protests in France today with more cities imposing restrictions on protests in central business districts.

But there's other important news about the incident in Nice last weekend where a protest ban was in effect.

That's when 73 year old Genevieve Legay recalls seeing police charging her, then remembering nothing.     When she came to to, she couldn't recognize her own daughter at first.

Legay was knocked unconscious suffering three skull fractures.

Her family filed a complaint with the prosecutor in Nice.

Early in the week Jean-Michel Pretre said Legay was pushed from behind, not the police in front of her but admitted then that more evidence needed to be looked at from cameras.

Now prosecutor Pretre has changed his tune saying police "jostled" Legay and he's opened a formal judicial inquiry.

Lawyer Aire Alimi told BFM-TV Friday night:

"Genevieve Legay and her family are extremely relieved that the lies of the administrative and judicial authorities come to an end"

Protest bans in Paris on the Champs-Elysees and in the center of many other towns and cities, more than ever this Saturday.....

Yellow Vests will gather at the Gare de L'Est (Eastern Gate) at 11 am and from 130 pm on march a circuitous route on both sides of the Seine River reaching the Trocadero area at the Eiffel Tower.


Link below....

BFM-TV LIVE VIDEO


(4 AM EASTERN US, 9 AM FRANCE)

Police putting up barriers in Avignon where a major Yellow Vests protest was called for today with a protest ban in force from 9 am to midnight in many areas.

A Yellow Vests protest called for 12 noon at the Palais des Papes in Avignon.

A climate of fear being promoted in Bordeaux where police beat a legislator after a protest several weeks ago as he was leaving National Assembly member Loic Prudhomme.

Businesses boarding up and people being urged to avoid the city.

Yellow Vests figure truck driver Eric Drouet on social media with a video Thursday night calling for a protest in Bordeaux.

Drouet in court Friday being fined 2,250 dollars with 650 dollars suspended for participation in "unauthorized protests"  December 22nd last year and January 2nd this year in Paris.

Protest bans in at least nine French cities today.


(530 AM EASTERN US, 1030 AM FRANCE)

I've seen video in the last hour of police stopping cars in places like Avignon and along highways and doing searches.

The crackdown is visible.

There is a video stream from Paris which may show something soon but for now sufficient to say that some early arrivals at the Gare De L'Est in Paris of Yellow Vests protesters as seen on BFM-TV.


(720 AM EASTERN US, 1220 PM FRANCE)

Now available is the Ruptly Live Stream from Paris as protesters gather set to leave for their procession at 130 pm......RUPTLY LIVE STREAM


(730 AM EASTERN US, 1230 PM FRANCE)

The story being reported is one of police controls at railroad stations and on highways around Paris searching vehicles today.   Police also heavily deployed in other parts of the country like Bordeaux and Avignon.

Yellow Vests are protesting in Nice at this hour.

Getting back to last week's incident in Nice mentioned at the beginning of the post here is video of the actual police assault that knocked 73-year old Yellow Vests protester Genevieve Legay down which comes at around 25 seconds....LINK

(735 AM EASTERN TIME, 1235 PM FRANCE)

Video from Avignon on BFM-TV shows a swarm of police in the streets to meet an expected Yellow Vests protest there at Noon with protests banned in Avignon by the government.

(840 AM EASTERN US, 140 PM FRANCE)

Time to wrap up with the procession now underway in Paris and a yellow banner calling for a "Frexit" as in exit of France from the European Union.   Other yellow banners being displayed and a Catalonian flag visible signifying the desire of that Spanish region for independence from Spain.

Some definitely left-wing banners with the image of Che Guevara mixed in a Cuban flag.

And now the video from Nice today of Yellow Vests protesters.....ACTE XX GILETS JAUNES (YELLOW VESTS) NICE

Also video of police searching cars around Avignon today.....POLICE CHECKPOINT AVIGNON

We also have late video of a police confrontation involving the CRS riot police and the Yellow Vests in Avignon.........RIOT POLICE FIGHT YELLOW VESTS AVIGNON

And more video from Avignon at 124 pm, 824 am in the Eastern US of  riot police at the barricade and protesters on the other side......POLICE VERSUS PROTESTERS AVIGNON

Here is a 13 minute long video from the Avignon protest today......POLICE VERSUS PROTESTERS-AVIGNON 3/30/2019



This evening tonight will be the next post......

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 3/29-SATURDAY 3/30/2019 NEWSDUMP EDITION

(WORK IN PROGRESS, ADDITIONS, EDITING, UPDATES ETC. THROUGH 545 AM SATURDAY MORNING)

THE BATTLE OF BREXIT WITH NEWS, COMMENT AND ANALYSIS....

British Prime Minister Theresa May continues to bore into supporters of a real and meaningful exit from the European Union tying to get her plan for "Brexit" rejected three times back up for a fourth vote.

Her continued efforts backed up by fearful media and political and business leaders trying to spread fear among the public about the notion of leaving the EU without a deal (NO DEAL BREXIT)  as advocated by activists who worked for the winning Leave side in the 2016 referendum.

If May can't get her deal through, it could lead to moves to scuttle Brexit and impose a second referendum on the public, even though they voted for Leave in 2016.

Supporters of Brexit gathered at two rallies either side of Parliament late Friday afternoon.

Nigel Farage with his "Leave Means Leave" colleagues and on the other side the United Kingdom Independence Party with its leader Gerard Batten and activists like Tommy Robinson.

Here is a video of the UKIP-Tommy Robinson rally with speakers starting 20 minutes into the video.....LINK





A prosecutor in Nice,  France says that the 73-year old Yellow Vests protester Genevieve Legay was jostled by police when she was knocked to the ground unconscious by police last Saturday.

Jean-Michel Pretre made the admission Friday and said a formal judicial inquiry has been opened.

Week 20 of the Yellow Vest protest in France Saturday with prohibitions on protest spreading across the country aimed at keeping the protests out of business districts.

Our Breaking News post on Yellow Vests Week 20 at the link...….HERE

"We strongly caution actors external to the Western Hemisphere against deploying military assets to Venezuela, or elsewhere in the Hemisphere, with the intent of establishing or expanding military operations"

That was part of a statement issued Friday by US National Security Adviser John Bolton in response to last weekend's arrival of around 100 members of the Russian military with 35 tons of equipment in Venezuela.

It was an apparent Russian move to prop up the Maduro regime.

Bolton also said in the statement:

"We will consider such provocative actions as a direct threat to international peace and security in the region"

The International Red Cross says it will begin to distribute aid in Venezuela in 15 days.    The Red Cross says that Interim President Juan Guaido and the Maduro regime both support the distribution.

Intitially the Red Cross says it will be able to help 650,000 people.

Tough talk about the southern border from President Trump, suggesting it may be closed, BUT THE PRESIDENT IS TALKING ABOUT ACTING, NOT LITERALLY TAKING ACTION.

Attorney General William Barr is promising Congress release of the full Robert Mueller report by "mid-April" likely to coincide with the Easter holiday weekend.    The nearly 400 page report will be released with some parts missing.   Redactions related to "ongoing cases" and "intelligence" issues.

Democrats making noise saying they want the full report by Tuesday and threatening to launch an effort to subpoena the Special Prosecutor's report.

Amos Harel, defense reporter for Israel's "Haaretz" newspaper, writes that Israeli defense officials believe what Hamas is saying about a rocket that landed in a community north of Tel Aviv Monday injuring seven Israelis.

The story from Hamas was that the rocket was launched accidentally.

The defense officials quietly sharing their assessment since Israeli public opinion sees the government as being too soft on Hamas.

New documents have emerged Friday including an audio recording in the "SNC-Lavalin Affair" swirling around Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould's submissions to a parliamentary committee were released to the public Friday.

The audio recording of 18 minutes reveals that a senior civil servant was trying to get Wilson-Raybould to refrain from prosecuting the SNC-Lavalin construction-engineering firm and impose some sort of regulatory financial penalty instead through a "deferred prosecution agreement".

Michael Wernick is heard cautioning her about a "collision" with Prime Minister Trudeau.

More on the story from CTV News in Canada......HERE

The District Attorney may have dropped the charges against actor Jussie Smollett for filing a false police report about an alleged racist-homophobic attack by supporters of President Trump in January, but now the City of Chicago has sent him a letter demanding payment for police time to investigate the allegation.

The letter from the City of Chicago Department of Law demands payment of 130-thousand dollars within seven days with the heading:

"Re: Repayment of Investigation Costs for False Police Report"

A lawyer for Smollett says the mayor and police chief owe Smollett an apology for "dragging an innocent man's character through the mud"

Speaking days before crucial local government elections Sunday Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan saying that Hagia Sophia, once a Christian cathedral that became a mosque and finally a museum in 1935, will again be designated as a mosque.

Tourists flock to the historic site in Istanbul every year.

Thousands protesting on the streets of Algeria again on Friday calling for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to leave office.

Bouteflika is standing firm with the military asking for a constitutional provision to be invoked to declare Bouteflika incapacitated so he can be removed and replaced.

And that's the way it really is on this Newsdump Saturday morning March 30th, 2019.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 3/28-FRIDAY 3/29/2019

(A WORK IN PROGRESS, MORE STORIES LATER ADDING, EDITING, UPDATING THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING)

Prime Minister Theresa May making a renewed effort Friday to force through her Brexit plan with the EU.    Her latest scheme splitting the deal into two and only putting what is called the "withdrawal agreement" up for a vote.  A "political declaration" would come later.

Friday March 29th was set as the day for leaving the European Union after the Leave side won the 2016 referendum.

May's proposal set for a vote at 230 pm Friday in London, 1030 am Eastern US time.

As matters stand right now an up vote today (Friday) would put any Brexit back to May 22nd with a down vote creating a new April 12th Brexit date.

Mrs. May appears to be dozens of votes short of winning in Parliament Friday.

Supporters of a real and meaningful Brexit plan to gather outside Parliament at various locations starting at 3pm Friday afternoon for a massive protests.   They see the May plan as "Brexit In Name Only" and a sellout to the EU that keeps the UK in and doesn't take it out.

Posting on Twitter Thursday night United Kingdom Independence Party leader Gerard Batten reporting that police are moving in water cannon for tomorrow's protest and expressing concern that the police and or "provocateurs" may try to turn the Brexiteers peaceful protests violent.

Batten's Tweet is at the link......HERE

Tommy Robinson gave his view of the situation in the hours ahead in a video posted Thursday night...TOMMY ROBINSON-READY FOR THE DEMO

In Venezuela, the Maduro regime issuing a decree that Interim President Juan Guaido cannot hold public office for 15 years.

This could be a prelude to more arrests of either Guaido or people close to him by the Maduro government.

Russia expressing its concern that the United States will use the Dutch island of Curacao near Venezuela for military operations against Venezuela.

The Russians have deployed 100 soldiers to the country apparently to develop Venezuela's air defenses.

Russia would like to see Special Prosecutor's Robert Mueller's report.   Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that during an interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station.

Speaking at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan Thursday night President Trump said the "Russian hoax is finally dead" and that the Mueller report is a "total exoneration" of him.

Meanwhile,  Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow telling the media including the "Fox and Friends" show that


President Trump wants "comprehensive immigration reform"


Sekulow said:

"Lets focus on things for the American people.   The president said he is in favor of comprehensive immigration reform-let's get it"

The President has made comments saying he wants more people allowed into this country on grounds that the economy is booming on a number of occasions including his confrontation with CNN reporter Jim Acosta last November.

More on the story from the "Washington Watcher" at the VDARE website....HERE

James Alex Fields Jr. pled guilty to 29 federal hate crimes charges, each carrying a life sentence, Wednesday.   It was a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.  Fields guilty pleas in connection with the death of one left-wing protester and injury to others in the aftermath of the nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017.

Fields already convicted and sentence to life in prison on state charges of killing protester Heather Heyer and injuring others.

A larger group of left-wing protesters had surrounded the nationalist rally and Fields maintained that he rammed his car into crowd out of fear of the leftists.

A statement issued by US Attorney General William Barr in connection with the case reading in part:

"In the aftermath of the mass murder in New Zealand earlier this month, we are reminded that a diverse and pluralistic community such as ours can have zero tolerance for violence on the basis of race, religion or association with people of other races and religions."

In Christchurch, New Zealand Friday a memorial service for the victims of the mass murder attacks at two mosques two weeks ago that killed 50 people and injured dozens of others.

20,000 in attendance with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaking, Muslim leaders and a performance by Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, who converted to Islam in the 1970's.   One of the songs he sang was his hit  "Peace Train".

In the Canadian province of Quebec the new government of the CAQ Party introducing legislation to control display of religious symbols in government buildings by persons in positions of authority like judges, law enforcement officers and teachers.    

It would bring Quebec's laws more into the line of those in France where mainstream politicians have enacted this type of law in recent years.

Kippas, skull caps and turbans would be banned but the government is agreeing to allow the crucifix to be displayed in the provincial legislature.

The CAQ Party is moderately critical of social and cultural disruptions caused by mass immigration into the province primarily by Muslims and its views likely helped it to win last year's election in Quebec.

Speaking at the State Department Thursday, the US Ambassador for Religious Freedom said that China "must end" its "counterproductive policies" hostile to religious groups.

Sam Brownback citing persecution of Christians and Buddhists and also bringing up Chinese policies aimed at its Muslim minority including detention camps where sexual abuse and deaths have been reported.

The Chinese treatment of the Muslim minority Uighurs has become a major issue this year among governments and the media.

President Trump weighing on the decision by a Chicago prosecutor to drop charges against actor Jussie Smollett Thursday for making false allegations of a racist and homophobic attack by supporters of the President.

Trump's tweet saying:  

"FBI and DOJ to review the outrageous Jussie Smollett case in Chicago.   It is an embarrassment to our nation!"

The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rallying supporters with a social media livestream Thursday ahead of local government elections Sunday.   Erdogan blamed interest rate fluctuations of the Turkish currency on Western nations led by the United States trying to back Turkey into a corner noting:

"What happened to exchange and interest rate operations now?  They backfired"

Erdogan also said President Trump's endorsement of Israeli sovereignty in Syria's Golan Heights is:

"supporting Israel's Netnayahu to help him win the upcoming Israel elections on April 9th"

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says seven were killed in  Israeli airstrikes late Wednesday night.

The airstrikes in the Aleppo area were said to be on Iranian targets with SOHR group saying those killed were Iranians or linked to Iranian militias.

The Israeli attack comes within two weeks of Israel's general election on April 9th.

Israel's Acting Foreign Minister Israel Katz would not confirm an Israeli role in the attack he described as a "militarily challenging operation".

Word from the Syrian side is that seven bombs were used of the kind only used by F-35 aircraft.

Political polling in France this week two months before the European Parliament elections shows

President Emmanuel Macron's "La Republique en Marche" (LReM) Party in a virtual dead head with Marine Le Pen's "National Rally" (RN) Party.    Macron's party at 22.5 percent and Le Pen's at 22 percent.

Other parties showing in the polling include "The Republicans" (LR) AT 14 percent and the Socialists at 6 percent, the mainstream parties of the "Left" and "Right" in France.     The left-wing "France Insubordinate" (LFI) Party of Jean Luc-Melenchon shows up with 7.5 percent support.

And that's the way it really is as we come into this Friday morning March 29th, 2019.

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: THROUGH THE NIGHT

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'STOP THE WORLD'-RANDY STONEHILL

(1015 PM EASTERN)

"The political establishment is finished.   Its time for UKIP"

That from the Twitter page of the United Kingdom Independence Party tonight.

NO votes across the board on all eight proposals tonight in the House of Commons.

NO DEAL BREXIT OR REAL BREXIT ONLY GOT 160 VOTES WITH 400 AGAINST.

Peter Hitchens, who supports the "Norway Option", has observed in recent years that the Parliament-Government does not reflect the will of the people expressed in the 2016 Referendum where Leave the European Union won.


Lots of stuff on the table and more to come.    They had eight proposals tonight reminding me of an old English drinking song popularized by Hermans Hermits....


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"I'M HENRY THE VIII I AM"-HERMANS HERMITS


"CATCH US IF YOU CAN"-DAVE CLARK FIVE


(150 AM EASTERN TIME)


The Dave Clark Five from the "British Invasion" era of music they called the DC5 "The Tottenham Sound" of course Tottenham part of London, England but political leaders have another view one might argue is the view that the city is really London, EUSSR.

The political-banking-business leaders must do business across sovereign borders of nations, move populations across national borders to do work that needs to be done at a low cost.

So we institutions like the European Union that must be preserved at all costs.

The business-banking people buy parties like the "Conservative Party" in the UK and folks like Prime Minister Theresa May are expendable so she's ready to do anything including resign so that the powerful forces get their way.

And I'm sure if Mrs. May can keep the UK in the EU with her pretend Brexit I'm sure she will be well taken care of after she leaves Number 10 Downing Street.

Now twisting arms to get her way, standing in the way the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, founded by Dr. Ian Richard Kyle Paisley-Dr. Ian Paisley.

Paisley had to stand up constantly against "peace deals" for Northern Ireland and he made his mark one day telling the crowd "ULSTER SAYS NO".  

I have a poster with the crowd and "ULSTER SAYS NO" at the top autographed by Dr. Paisley given to me by a student at his theological school way back in the 1980's.


(210 AM EASTERN)


One place to go to see what the message is from the Party of Brexit, go to the UKIP leader Gerard Batten Twitter page....


UKIP LEADER GERARD BATTEN TWITTER


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From the pro-Israel "Instant News Alerts" a tweet about a Reuters story concerning nuclear energy assistance to Saudi Arabia authorized by the US Department of Energy....LINK

Facebook and Instagram to ban "white nationalism".     The problem is insanity and banning things ain't solving things.  Fear of lawsuits here?

Sad.   The teacher in fifth grade God Bless Her the do gooder liberal she was, preached against bullying and I was victimized but I felt like Rodney King in Los Angeles circa 1990's as the mob of students at recess swelled across the playground.

They bullied the poor bullies and bullying did not end that day.

Banning ideas isn't going to stop mass murder Facebook...…..

I'm a hypocrite and a drunk but I see some more of the same in this world from the powerful.


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"HARPER VALLEY PTA"-JEANNIE C. RILEY


"DELILAH"-TOM JONES


Israel striking in Syria near Aleppo late Wednesday night......More ahead.

(415 AM EASTERN)

"Southfront" reports with a video link on the Israeli airstrikes around 11 pm Wednesday night local time, 5 pm here in the USA.......SOUTHFRONT ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES SYRIA

Gaza the big story this week with seven Israelis injured by a rocket at a collective farm north of Tel Aviv. some 75 miles away from Gaza.

Israel hit back but conservative political forces like the "New Right Party" of Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked hit back at the bombing of empty buildings as an inadequate response by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

53 percent of Israelis polled said a tougher response was needed.

But its been said Hamas was put into Gaza by Israel to keep the Palestinians divided but one things for sure Israel has allowed tens of millions of dollars into Gaza courtesy of Qatar to try to pacify the situation.

This missile attack Monday was claimed to have been done by Iran to hurt Netanyahu in the election 12 days away so I guess that notion set the stage for Wednesday's airstrikes in Syria said to be on Iranian targets.

But even now the deal is being cut to pacify Gaza, were are told by one Israeli media outlet....

YNET NEWS ISRAEL: GAZA TERMS TAKE SHAPE

Back to Syria Russian aircraft went to Venezuela and there was a stop in Syria on the way.

I suspect those Russians who trained the Syrians to operate the S-300 systems on board to do the same for Venezuela and its Maduro regime which has some of those.

S-300 air defense systems may be needed to deal with an emerging Syrian type situation with perhaps a "No-Fly Zone" emerging if the foreign forces or insurgency forces enter the country to fight against the Communist style Maduro regime.  S-300's may target warplanes enforcing such a zone.

President Trump with Interim President Juan Guaido's wife Wednesday saying "all options are on the table" again as he urged the Russians to leave the country.

More regime change from the elites.....

Music Links:

'HOMEWARD BOUND'-SIMON AND GARFUNKEL


'LETS TWIST AGAIN'-CHUBBY CHECKER


(540 AM EASTERN)

At the end of the line but read this story from the BBC regarding the raid by a shadowy group on North Korea's embassy in Spain right before Trump and Kim met last month, a group linked to the intelligence community.

Why did the talks fail?

Why is North Korea doing what its doing most recently condemning US recognition of Israeli sovereignty in Golan, before that doing stuff at its rocket launch site and pulling people out of a joint office with South Korea?

Well maybe its about this......BBC STORY-NORTH KOREA EMBASSY RAID IN SPAIN

A "civil defense group" like those White Helmets in Syria that worked alongside the jihadists of Al-Qaeda for regime change.

What a story?

Easy to get angry with the hypocrisy of others but I have to be mindful of my own in the end.

Hope you find the next right thing to do?

Good Bye...God Bless.

Music Link:

'PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND'-OCEAN

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 3/26-WEDNESDAY 3/27/2019

(WORK IN PROGRESS WITH EDITING, ADDITIONS, ETC. UNTIL 545 AM WEDNESDAY)

The Battle of Brexit with plenty of words from political leaders and talking head pundits but in the end actions will speak louder than words.

The schedule of events Wednesday includes Prime Minister Theresa May facing Question Time in the House of Commons midday with votes on amendments Wednesday evening.

Those amendments will move Brexit away from the vision of a total withdrawal from the European Union envisioned by the Leave activists in the 2016 referendum when the Leave side won.

The March 29th deadline for Brexit also expected to be scuttled.

But before that happens Prime Minister May will address Conservative Party members of Parliament at a meeting of the "1922 Committee".

That meeting at 5 pm London time Wednesday, 1 pm Eastern US time may produce some last minute surprise before the later votes.

In recent days those who claimed to be Leave supporters as in  Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg of the "European Research Group" have moved in the direction of supporting Theresa May's Brexit plan considered to be a sellout to the EU by Brexit activists like "Mr. Brexit" Nigel Farage.

Rees-Mogg making his switch to May' plan official minutes ago

Another sign of the political machine's manipulation might be in the use of pink paper ballots for the Parliamentary votes Wednesday night.  The usual separation of House of Commons members into separate rooms to count them is out the door.

A "Make Brexit Happen" rally set to begin at Whitehall in London Friday afternoon at 3pm with UKIP leader Gerard Batten, Tommy Robinson and others participating.

Armed gangs of Nicolas Maduro supporters appeared outside Venezuela's National Assembly Tuesday threatening those trying to enter the building for the day's session,

A car carrying Venezuela's Interim President and National Assembly President Juan Guaido was attacked by a mob of Maduro supporters as it left the National Assembly building Tuesday.

Schools and workplaces were closed across Venezuela Tuesday as the country was again affected by a major power failure that began Monday afternoon and spread into the evening nationwide.

Its the second massive blackout in 20 days and the Nicolas Maduro government blames the power failure on a:

"new attack"

on the transmission and charging center of the national electric system.

Electricity appears to be 85 percent down in the country.

There is no cease-fire following a rocket attack Monday from Gaza that wounded seven Israelis in a community 75 miles away north of Tel Aviv.

The sudden and unexpected attack triggered attacks by Israel on Hamas targets in Gaza and retaliatory strikes by Hamas on Israel.

The situation remains tense and overnight into Wednesday Israeli forces continued to attack Hamas targets and missiles were fired from Gaza into southern Israel.

A prominent mosque leader in New Zealand has blamed Israel's Mossad spy agency for the recent mass murder attacks on mosques in Christchurch.

During an event in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, last Saturday, Ahmed Bhamji spoke saying in part:

"....I have a very strong suspicion that there's some group behind him and I am not afraid to say I feel Mossad is behind this....."

There was concern expressed by a Jewish leader in New Zealand about "conspiracy theories" that "put the Jewish community at risk".

More on this from "Israel National News"......'ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS' LINK

Austrian authorities raiding the home of Martin Sellner, leader of the Identitarian Movement Austria,  in connection with New Zealand mosque attacks.

Sellner says he received a large donation from someone named "Tarrant".  Brenton Tarrant is the man accused in the attacks.

Mr. Sellner he had nothing to do with the attacks stressing that his is a peaceful anti-mass immigration group.

The latest political opinion polling in Sweden shows the anti-mass immigration Sweden Democrats at 19 percent support, up from the 17.5 percent support they won in last year's general election.

The Ipsos poll taken this month shows the Social Democrats at 27 percent, down from the 28.3 percent they won in last year's vote. 

Rising strongly in the polls since the last election, the Christian Democrats at 9 percent versus their 6.3 percent share of the vote in the election last year.

Christian Democrats leader Ebba Busch Thor has taken a stronger stand against mass immigration since the election.   Her party and the Sweden Democrats are among the parties locked out right now in a complex arrangement designed specifically to exclude the Sweden Democrats out of government.

Rockland County, New York, a suburban county outside New York City, declaring a state of emergency in the name of preventing the spread of measles but with a tone of hostility towards opponents of vaccination.

"Non-vaccinated minors" are banned from gathering in a public place, that's any place where more than 10 are congregated.

153 cases of measles reported in the county.

Major vaccination campaigns in the county have been undertaken since last fall but health officials are disturbed about 27 percent of minors under 18 not being vaccinated and expressing their hostility to people who object to vaccination.

They say some people are "resisting" health inspectors with responses that are "unacceptable and irresponsible".

The Algerian Army Chief of Staff has called for application of the country's Constitution to remove President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika from office.

In a televised speech, General Ahmed Gaid Salah said a "solution" is needed within the constitution to the mass demonstrations demanding that Bouteflika  leave office.

Article 102 of the Algerian constitution provides for declaration that the president of the country is unable to exercise office because of serious illness.  Bouteflika has not been seen in public for years after he suffered a stroke in 2013 and recently returned to the country from medical treatment in Switzerland.

Bouteflika opted not to run in presidential elections for a fifth term because of the protests, but will not leave office.

The case against actor Jussie Smollett for alleging a racist-homophobic attack on him earlier this year dropped by prosecutors in Chicago, citing his record of community service and forfeiture of his bond.


Smollett will do 18 hours of community service as part of the deal for dropping the charges at Reverend Jesse Jackson's Operation PUSH organization.

Smollett appeared at court hearing where a judge sealed the case Tuesday.

Smollett said he has always "been truthful" from day one.


Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the dropping of charges was a:

"whitewash of justice"

The decision to drop charges called an:

"just disposition and appropriate resolution to the case"

by the Cook County State Attorney's Office.

Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson says he does not think justice is served by the decision saying among other things that the city is owed an "apology".

It is reported that a federal investigation of Smollett is underway for mail fraud because he is alleged to have sent a death threat letter through the mail.

In Europe, the European Union bringing new rules into force in 2022 that all cars will have speed limiting technology.

That means that cars will automatically set their speed to conform to the speed limit in the location they are operating.

The political party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for a European version of the FBI to fight organized crime and terrorism.

The Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union (In Bavaria) argues that:

"What we need in Europe is a security union"

The CDU-CSU wants the current European police agency Europol to be converted into an FBI-like agency.    They also argue for a Europe-wide database on anyone who is a potential terrorist.

These positions are being taken by Merkel's party for the European Parliament elections scheduled in May.

This story was reported by the Turkish Anadolu News Agency at this link.....HERE

Joint Russian-Turkish patrols in northern Syria's Aleppo and Idlib provinces have begun, that according to Turkey's Defense Ministry.

The patrols are in the more peaceful zones of Syria's north and not the lines of confrontation between jihadists and Syrian government forces in the north.

And that's the way it really is on this Wednesday morning March 27th, 2019.

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: THROUGH THE NIGHT

(905 PM EASTERN TIME)

I saw this morning that a man who was a popular music star of the 1960's passed away at the age of 76.  Scott Walker was born in Ohio in 1943 as Scott Engel and he formed a group with two other guys called "The Walker Brothers".

Walker bigger in the UK than in the US, but this song did make it up to Number 13 in the USA in 1966,  "The Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore".

Music Link:

'THE SUN AINT GONNA SHINE ANYMORE'-THE WALKER BROTHERS


The rockets coming in on Israel from Gaza tonight Israeli airstrikes aimed at Hamas in Gaza and you can get the latest from "Israel National News" at the link.    On the right side the scrolling ticker with the latest......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS-TICKER SCROLLING ON RIGHT SIDE

Other links.....the pro-Israel Instant News Alerts Twitter......INSTANT NEWS ALERTS TWITTER

Broadcasting Live In Hebrew On The Radio is Israel Defense Forces Radio "Galei Zahal" and I listen to the music side, the station called "Galgalatz".

I use a website in Germany to link to it.   News on the hour here plus interrupts for incoming rockets.

GALGALATZ


Music Links:

"CREEQUE ALLEY''-THE MAMAS AND PAPAS


'THE WAY WE WERE'-BARBRA STREISAND


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Barbra Streisand with some powerful music there.   A  DJ on KFI back in the days when KFI played music introed that song "definitely a turn on".

Back in the 70's guys put posters on their wall of women like Suzanne Somers or Farrah Fawcett and there was one of Streisand with Kris Kristofferson from that "Star Is Born" movie.

I did not put up posters because on the outside I was one person and on the inside another but Streisand would have been the poster I put up.


(155 AM EASTERN)

And my story is that I was sexually molested when I was young and I did some crazy things afterwards like using alcohol and experimenting with inhalants as I "grew up" in terms of physical age.

But I obsessed on girls, infatuation including celebrities like Barbra Streisand and I kept it inside as I became politically and religiously militant on the outside.

Streisand having trouble dealing with those accusing her longtime friend Michael Jackson of sexual abuse and I have my own story to share as I just did.    Some comments she is apologizing for and there's a lot of stories out there that might help her get into just how much harm is caused by sexual abuse.

Another story out there is from Laura Phillips who we all knew as McKenzie Phillips in the 1970's.

She used drugs and got fired from the TV series "One Day At A Time" and her story is that she had sex with her father, John Phillips, of  "The Mamas and Papas".

I wish Barbra Streisand the best, peace and serenity, sanity and sobriety in her own life.   That's how I'll leave it.

A song about infatuation and obsession to start up the next music segment.   A guy in a band over in England in the 1960's obsessed with a girl named Renee and a song written and performed about it.


Music Links:


'WALK AWAY RENEE'-THE LEFT BANKE


'THOSE WERE THE DAYS'-MARY HOPKIN


'PUPPET ON A STRING'-SANDIE SHAW


Sandie Shaw there singing the song that won the Eurovision Song Contest for Great Britain in 1967, "Puppet on a String" which ties into the current situation which finds the business-political elite struggling to keep the UK and its people puppets on the string of the European Union.

And it seems to be developing into quite a show with the public becoming increasingly aware that they are being had.

A key vote late night in Parliament with some Conservatives, "Independents" joining Labour to undercut Theresa May's gambit to force her deal called a "fake Brexit" by UKIP, Nigel Farage and so on.   May loses 329-302.

A majority has voted to move towards new proposals on Wednesday including other ideas that aren't real Brexit plus even going for a second referendum.   Didn't they get the message in the first one?

LEAVE THE EUROPEAN UNION.....


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UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) leader Gerard Batten touting the latest polling taken late last week showing rising support for UKIP (9 percent) with the Conservatives at 36 percent and Labour at 35 percent.

People are waking up to their betrayal slowly but surely and more may be ready to vote UKIP this week.

A likely scenario for the anti-Brexit forces including the ones that claim to be for it is some sort of election ranging from a new referendum or European Parliament elections in May if there is no Brexit in coming days or even dare we say it a sudden General Election.....

The BBC blog constantly updating developments all day long with new posts to start the new day in the UK within the last hour.....BBC POLITICS BLOG BREXIT LINK


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Back home here in the USA is the Republican Party as conservative and constitutional as they claim?

Heck President Trump and his Republican Administration did this "bump stock ban" after the mass murder in Las Vegas but that all gets drowned out in the rage and emotion of Mueller and the Democrats etc. etc. and we are emotionalized to vote GOP like robots.

A billion dollars released by the Pentagon for "roads and fencing" but no wall in there.

Zero miles of wall built even though you are told on Twitter heck 30 times or more "The Wall Is Being Built".

And yes we also have a resumption of "catch and release" of those entering the USA illegally covered up by all the noise about Mueller in the last week or so plus a budget plan cutting funding to e-verify involving employment in this country.

Read more about those two things at this link plus the notion of more cheap labor being allowed into the country by the Trump Administration.....VDARE WASHINGTON WATCHER TRUMP IMMIGRATION POLICY


Music Links:



'GREEN, GREEN, GRASS OF HOME'-TOM JONES


'WHAT IS TRUTH'-JOHNNY CASH


'POWER TO ALL OUR FRIENDS'-CLIFF RICHARD


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We're coming down to the end of the line and there was a rally in Nice,  France Monday evening for Genevieve Legay, 73, injured during a police charge a Yellow Vests Saturday.    Flags with "Peace" on them in the crowd and signs like "Justice for Genevieve".

In Israel "New Right Party" co-leader Education Minister Naftali Bennett in a kibbutz near the Gaza border Monday night saying something tough needs to be done, not just bombing of empty buildings and feeling good about it.

Bennett signaling that he is more of a patriot and a Zionist than Prime Minister Netanyahu.   Much criticism of the PM for sending Qatari money into Gaza (tens of millions) to pacify Hamas, then getting rockets back.

Link to the Israel National News story on Bennett.....BENNETT GAZA STORY NONSENSE TO BOMB EMPTY BUILDINGS

Back with posting late in the afternoon Eastern US time.....

Have a Good Day....God Bless....Hope Its Sober and Sane in your life.


'ERES TU'-MOCEDADES

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 3/24-MONDAY 3/25/2019

(STORIES ADDING LATER WITH UPDATES, EDITING ETC. INTO 545 AM MONDAY MORNING EASTERN US TIME)





A summary of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's report was sent to Congress Sunday by Attorney General William Barr and its conclusion is that there was no collusion or conspiracy with Russia by President Trump or his campaign in 2016.

"Total EXONERATION"

was part of President Trump's Twitter post in response to the news.

Some other reaction.   One of the President's attorney's, Jay Sekulow, spoke on the "Bill Cunningham Show" Sunday night saying that the outcome was "good":

"for the country" 

and:

"for the justice system".

One of the President's friends in the UK is "Mr. Brexit" Nigel Farage who tweeted in part:

"...apologies are owed to @realDonaldTrump and his family"

And from the Kremlin the Russian News Agency Tass quotes spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

"We have not read the report"

A surprise interview in Israel Saturday night as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left for his trip to the United States.

Netanyahu answering concerns  about submarine sales involving Israel and his involvement in them.

It all happened suddenly with anchors of the news on Channel 12 having short notice of Netanyahu's appearance on the set for a live interview.

A story about what happened was done by the French AFP news agency and published by the "Times of India"..... LINK NETANYAHU SUBMARINES-AFP-TIMES OF INDIA

Channel 12 was the media outlet that leaked out word the other week that Netanyahu's primary opponent in Israel's April 9th election,  Benny Gantz of the "Blue and White Party", had been victimized with Iran hacking his phone.

This information leaked out from Israel's intelligence community and led to talk of a "sex tape" of Gantz existing and the notion that Iran had compromised the former IDF Chief of Staff.  Gantz denied the reports as "political gossip".

LATE BREAKING NEWS FROM ISRAEL:  

A ROCKET FROM GAZA HIT A HOUSE ON A COLLECTIVE FARM IN CENTRAL ISRAEL NORTH OF TEL AVIV WOUNDING SEVEN PEOPLE, TWO OF THEM MODERATELY.     OTHERS IN THE AREA WERE TREATED FOR SHOCK.

HAMAS CLAIMS THE ROCKET FIRE WAS ACCIDENTIAL BUT ISRAEL IS MOBILIZING RESERVE FORCES AND PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU HAS HAD A CONFERENCE CALL FROM WASHINGTON WITH SECURITY OFFICIALS IN ISRAEL.

NETANYAHU WILL MEET PRESIDENT TRUMP MONDAY THEN RETURN HOME TO ISRAEL EARLY SKIPPING A PLANNED SPEECH AT THE AIPAC CONFERENCE.

Two more nations recognizing Israel's capital as Jerusalem and setting up their embassies there.   Romania and Honduras announcing their decisions.

"I remember that a police officer charged me and afterwards I do not remember anything"

That's what 73-year old Genevieve Legay told her daughter who she didn't recognize at first following a police charge into Yellow Vests protesters in Nice, France Saturday.

She is hospitalized for observation with several skull fractures.

A lawyer for Mrs. Legay's family says a complaint will be filed with prosecutors Monday and the prosecutors office says its opening an inquiry to determine how she was hurt.

Police were enforcing a ban on Yellow Vests protests in the center of the Nice amidst a crackdown on Yellow Vests in the 19th week of their protests in France.

Weighing in on Mrs. Legay's wounding by police President Emmanuel Macron in an interview with the Nice newspaper "Nice-Matin".   Macron wishing her a "speedy recovery" but he included more in his comments.

Macron saying:

"you do not go to places that are forbidden and you do not go into situations like this.  I wish her a speedy recovery, and perhaps a form of wisdom"

Legay's lawyer Arie Alimi responded to Macron's comments on BFM-TV Monday morning:

"the elderly can not express their beliefs in the street.   These remarks, beyond the legal debate, seem particularly rude and indelicate to me"

The Battle of Brexit and talk of a change at Number 10 Downing Street, but the political machine isn't planning a change in the direction of its policy steering away from the Brexit option now most popular, a "No-Deal Brexit" to pull out of the European Union.

Multiple options being bandied about including going back to voters in a second referendum, even though they approved Leave in the 2016 vote.

There may be parliamentary votes and or a political shakeup in the hours and days ahead with Prime Minister Theresa May stepping down.    Stay tuned.

"We should not back down, we should not be scared because the opponent takes offense and attacks us with the anger of the people who are exposed"

The tough talk of Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban as the campaign for the European Parliament elections in May heats up.

Orban's party was suspended from a mainstream "conservative" grouping in the EU parliament over its media campaign against EU Commission President Jean Claude-Juncker and billionaire George Soros.

In a Hungarian TV interview Orban noted the Dutch provincial election results that will dramatically change the Senate in the Netherlands.

Depending on the election results in May, Orban said his party may look for new political parties to align with in the European Parliament.

Two Russian military aircraft arrived in Venezuela on Saturday.   One of the planes that landed in Caracas carried 35 tons of supplies, the other about 100 members of the Russian military.

Russia says its soldiers are in Venezuela to fulfil military contracts.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has written to British Prime Minister Theresa May calling on her to adopt a definition of Islamophobia favored by his Labour Party and the Liberal Democratic Party in the UK.

The definition reads: 

"Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness"

Khan says that the Conservative Party needs to set "the strongest possible example to society" to deal with Islamophobia that he says has crept into the mainstream of British society and debate.

He also cited the recent mass murder attacks on mosques in New Zealand saying that Muslims in the UK needed reassurance.

Khan's Labor Party has taken a beating in the last year or so with accusations of Anti-Semitism in its ranks.

Elections in Thailand, the first since a military coup took over the country, with the military party leading in the race.   The results aren't official yet but it looks like the military backed political party will defeat the civilian party of the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

However, later word on this story is that the Election Commission is delaying official results amid conflicting counts over how many seats the military party and the opposition actually won.

And that's the way it really is on this Monday morning March 25th, 2019.

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: SATURDAY NIGHT VERSION

Music Links:

'JUKE BOX SATURDAY NIGHT'-GLENN MILLER

'LOCH LOMOND'-BENNY GOODMAN

'THAT'S ALL I WANT FROM YOU'-JAYE P. MORGAN

Here we go late Saturday evening for a short time I have a life beyond these blog post but got in the Yellow Vests update for today.

The protests continue and the government put on its show after the anarchists mayhem in Paris the other week.

Yellow Vests want reforms, a better tax structure instead of the one that hurts the little people on the pretense of saving the planet from climate change.

The climate change fraud to me seems like one designed by big business to con liberal progressive people into pushing through taxes and higher utility bills so the big business folks don't have to pay the freight of the big government welfare states of the world.

That's my two cents.

The world turns on Brexit Remainers hitting the streets Saturday and the lamentations of Peter Hitchens in his "Mail On Sunday"  column.

Read the whole thing don't get upset because he trashed President Trump.

Donald Trump is my President and I voted for him but he's not my Higher Power, he's not the Almighty.  I think Trump talks loud and that does not translate into meaningful action on issues in the end.

His decision to keep troops in Syria in the John McCain tradition masked by his trashing of McCain during a speech even as he carries out the McCain policy and keeps US soldiers in Syria.   The latest breaking from Syria is ahead.....

A lot in there about the Brexit thing and decline and fall of the UK, a lot in there to agree or disagree with.

PETER HITCHENS COLUMN MAIL ON SUNDAY 3/23/2019


Music Links:


'THIS OLE HOUSE'-ROSEMARY CLOONEY


'I WANT YOU TO BE MY GIRL'-FRANKIE LYMON AND THE TEENAGERS


'WHEN I FALL IN LOVE'-NAT KING COLE


Music from the Big Band Era up through the 1950's tonight I listened to Chuck Cecil's "Swingin Years" programs for decades and always enjoyed that music its part of my hard drive.

A political earthquake in the Dutch provincial elections with the Forum for Democracy emerging at the largest party in those elections with 86 out of 570 seats.    They didn't run in the last elections.
Geert Wilders Party of Freedom cut back to 41 seats from 66.

James Kirkpatrick writing at 'VDARE' offers his opinion about the new party and how its success could be emulated in this country, the land of the Republicans and Democrats who are both bought and paid for by big banks and business.

The link.......VDARE-'FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY'S SUCCESS IN DUTCH ELECTION SHOWS PATH FORWARD FOR PATRIOTS


Music Links:


'ACROSS THE ALLEY FROM THE ALAMO'-THE MILLS BROTHERS


''THE DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW'-PATTI PAGE


'YOU'RE A SWEETHEART'-TOMMY DORSEY


And in the here and now Syria much 'Trumpeting' about ISIS in eastern Syria but Al-Qaeda and Company, the HTS group and allies still occupying Idlib province in northern Syria,

The Russians have hit the jihadists with airstrikes in the last week or so.

Now tonight from Russia's Tass News Agency....

"At least 21 people were hospitalized in Syria after developing symptoms of toxic gas poisoning, the SANA news agency said in a Twitter post Saturday night..."

Tass quoting the Syrian government news agency there and here is a link to Tass

TASS STORY ON SYRIA 3/24/2019

Its also on "Southfront" tonight with a video link.....

'SOUTHFRONT' SYRIA STORY 3/24/2019

This attack happening in northern Hama province with projectiles launched from Idlib province by the militants there


Time to shut down and rest.   Hope you find that next right thing to do.  Better sober and sane than the other way.

The singer here from the pioneering days of Contemporary Christian Music says to 'turn it over' to the "Higher Power".

'HIGHER POWER'-DARRELL MANSFIELD

FRANCE YELLOW VESTS LATEST: WEEK 19 PROTESTS CONTINUE WITH CRACKDOWN

"I remember that a police officer charged me and afterwards I do not remember anything"

72-Year Old Woman Yellow Vests Protester Speaks To Her Daughter After Being Injured During A Police Charge In Nice  3/23/2019

"The Republican Order has been respected"

France's Interior Minister Christophe Castaner Speaks After Week 19 Of Yellow Vests Protests 3/23/2019

By the Yellow Vests own estimate more than 127-thousand protested Saturday March 23rd which is a lower number than last week.

The government's own estimate 40,500 which is up from last week.

Five thousand demonstrated in Paris and there were more than 100 Yellow Vests protests throughout the country.

The government message in the aftermath of the protests was one of satisfaction for "keeping order".

But the crackdown with new harsher tactics and protest bans in certain areas did not deter people from taking to the streets in Paris and elsewhere.

A massive demonstration, larger than usual, with 4500 demonstrating in the southern city of Montpellier.

Police used tear gas on the protesters there towards the end.....MONTPELLIER VIDEO LINK FULL FOUR HOURS

Tear gas in Paris at one point during the procession today.  Full video of Paris protest from Ruptly...
RUPTLY-YELLOW VESTS

Demonstrators tried to enter an area in Nice where demonstrations were banned during the afternoon. Police attacked demonstrators there seriously injuring a 72 year old woman.

She suffered several skull fractures and is under observation in a hospital.  The injured woman told her daughter later that she remembers the police charging, then nothing.

Here is video of her lying on the ground......YELLOW VESTS PROTESTER SERIOUSLY 
INJURED IN NICE

80 arrests in the Nice area.

Here is a look at the protest in La Rochelle on the Atlantic Coast.....WEEK 19 YELLOW VESTS LA ROCHELLE

And also a video of todays protest in Lyon at this.......YELLOW VESTS WEEK 19 LYON...and here was the scene in Strasbourg today......YELLOW VESTS WEEK 19 STRASBOURG....and finally a video from southwest of Lyon at Saint Etienne of today's Yellow Vests protest......GILETS JAUNES ACTE 19 SAINT-ETIENNE YELOW VEST

BREAKING NEWS:  WEEK 19 YELLOW VESTS PROTEST IN FRANCE WITH CRACKDOWN IN EFFECT

(LATEST NEWS WILL BE AT BOTTOM WITH UPDATES POSSIBLE UNTIL 830 AM EASTERN US TIME)

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"do not shoot"

French Left Political Leader Jean Luc-Melenchon's Message To French Soldiers On Duty Saturday During The Yellow Vests Protests Guarding "Fixed Points"

Its crackdown time for the government of President Emmanuel Macron after the "black blocs" of anarchists put on a riotous show along the Champs-Elysees and nearby it last Saturday.


(315 AM EASTERN US TIME, 815 AM FRANCE)

A few minutes ago a photo op began with the new police chief in Paris stepping out of his car.

The Arc de Triomphe was in Didier Lallemont's background as he began a walk down the Champs-Elysees talking to officers stationed there.

A walk continuing right now.

Lallemont was transfered up from Bordeaux where defended his officers when they beat up a member of parliament after a Yellow Vests protest there.

National Assembly member Loic Prudhomme bloodied in the ear in that incident.

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The video we have seen this morning includes pictures of riot police (CRS) walking up and down the sidewalks on the Champs-Elysees.

Meanwhile a protest set for Nice from Yellow Vests at 10am.   One of more than 100 protests announced across France today for Week 19.

The mayor in Nice imposing a ban on protests in Nice after 4 pm today and through Sunday.  His reasoning being the arrival of President Macron there as well as the Chinese President Xi Jinping, who's touring a number of nations now visiting Italy on his way to France.

(430 AM EASTERN US, 930 AM FRANCE)

The government show for the cameras continues in Paris with Interior Minister Christophe Castaner and Premier Edouard Philippe being brought into a police command center by the new Prefect of Police in Paris, Didier Lallemont.

(530 AM EASTERN US, 1030 AM FRANCE)

Various measures discussed by the new police boss in Paris including the use of two drones to monitor any demonstrations that materialize today.

Protest is expected in the Trocadero area of Paris today.

We are now seeing video from Nice of the protest underway there with large numbers of police visible.

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A hundred or so protesters with as many police present in Nice right now a calm atmosphere at the protest site.

Video feeds we are searching for them and see on You Tube something showing video from Nice with Paris blank in a split screen.

Link to feed.....ACTE 19 (XIX) des gillets jaunes (yellow vests).....

Back with more after 7am Eastern time.....


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Video from the Trocadero in Paris near the Eiffel Tower of today's protests.....PLACE DE TROCADERO

This is a live video now streaming from Paris.....DIRECT ACTE 19 GILLET JAUNE PARIS

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Police in Nice moved the Yellow Vests away from their protest site (Place Garibaldi) and six arrests were reported there.   They were moving towards a different location.

I was not correct in my reporting earlier since a ban did start in Nice not at 4 pm this afternoon but at 4 am this morning.

In Paris three different sites of protest are reported away from the banned areas.

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I am aware of the protest from Rouen in Normandy with a protester talking into the camera, but don't see video of the crowd.

This video from today's protest in Lille....."ACTE 19' MARCHE DE GILETS JAUNES ENTRE TOURCOING ET LILLE

(835 AM EASTERN, 135 PM FRANCE)

Yellow Vests figure Eric Drouet apparently among those arrested today for participating in an unauthorized demonstration with a fine imposed but Drouet refusing to sign papers associated with his prosecution.

A confrontation between some protesters and police in Paris but a procession now moving in the streets of the city.

The Ruptly live video is here.....RUPTLY YELLOW VESTS PARIS ACT 19

(840 AM EASTERN TIME, 140 PM FRANCE)

Its time to bring this to a close but one can see signs in the crowd with one sign visible in the Paris procession calling for the RIC (Citizen Initiative Referendum), a consistent demand of the Yellow Vests movement.

Protests going on today at over 100 locations in France.

Time to close this post but a summary will be published on the blog later in late afternoon-evening period.

And yes "La Repression En Marche" the sign at the front of the Paris procession a swipe at President Emmanuel Macron's political party called "La Republique En Marche".



Video link......


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NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 3/22-SATURDAY 3/23/2019 NEWSDUMP EDITION

(WORK IN PROGRESS WITH STORIES ADDED, UPDATES, EDITING ETC. UNTIL SATURDAY MORNING AT 545 AM EASTERN TIME US)

Good Morning.   The developments regarding Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller will be noted later in this Newsdump summary.

But first, the shakeup at a group hostile to supporters of President Trump and a broad range of conservative, religious and libertarian people and organizations continued Friday.

The president of the Montgomery, Alabama based Southern Poverty Law Center, Richard Cohen, announced in an email that he's leaving taking responsibility for unspecified "problems".

Last week SPLC founder Morris Dees was fired for an unspecified reason.

But the Cohen email mentions an outside party coming in to review the workplace environment.

Tina Tchen is a former chief of staff to Michelle Obama and currently works at a law firm that deals with racial and gender equality and sexual harassment in workplaces.

The French government's crackdown policies in force this Saturday for Week 19 of the Yellow Vests protests.

Bans on demonstrations, higher fines, deployment of military forces from anti-terrorist units at "fixed points", all part of the new policies said by media to ensure there will be injuries.

They follow last week's highly visible infiltration of the Yellow Vests by anarchists who staged attacks on buildings and cars and looted some businesses on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.

Breaking News updates on the Yellow Vests At The Link......HERE

More than 100 locations are designated for Yellow Vests protests in France Saturday.

British Prime Minister Theresa May releasing a letter to MP's Friday evening specifying her plans to force acceptance of her Brexit proposal considered to be a fake exit from the European Union by Brexit activists or else she will act to delay Brexit further.

She laid out four possible scenarios in the days ahead.

But Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, allies that give her a governing majority in the House of Commons, have affirmed their continued opposition to her Brexit plan saying she had failed to get changes acceptable to them.  The BBC spin on this story at the link.....HERE

New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters spoke Friday at an emergency meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul, Turkey.

Peters said the terrorist attack on the mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand was "an attack on us all" and that a thorough police investigation was launched in its aftermath.

He said that the attacker will spend the rest of his life alone in a cell.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu made a vow to stand against:

"all this hate speech, violence and terrorism with both our speech and practical steps"

Peters traveled to Turkey in part to address angry comments from Turkey's President Erdogan saying attacker Brenton Tarrant would be dealt with by Turkey if New Zealand couldn't handle it.

Tarrant expressed his hatred of Turks in his manifesto and the desire that all Turks in Europe be killed.   He wrote anti-Turkish messaging on the firearm he used.

In Utrecht, Holland Friday the Turkish born man charged with killing three people Monday and injuring five others admitted his guilt to a judge saying he acted alone.

Gokmen Tanis is accused of carrying out the attack with terrorist intent.

Prosecutors will not disclose the details of his confession citing the need for further investigation.

A 77 year old priest injured when he was stabbed during Mass at a church in Montreal Friday.

The service was being televised on a local station when a 26 year old man wearing a baseball cap rushed Father Claude Grau as he stood at the altar.

The church's security team quickly took the man into custody.

Police say the 26 year old man is known to them.   The priest received cuts to the upper part of his body.

Media reporting "no clear motive" for the attack in a city with a large Muslim population.

Ten arrests in Germany with those arrested suspected of plotting an "Islamist" attack.

Some 200 police carrying out raids in the Frankfurt area Friday to head off what they said was a planned attack with a car and guns.   11 were taken into custody by the police but only 10 will face charges.

The main suspects are associated with the Salafist Islamic community.

Turkey's President critical of President Trump's endorsement of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights Thursday.    Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke at the same meeting of Islamic nations in Turkey Friday.

Erdogan called Trump's comments endorsing Israeli sovereignty in the Golan "unfortunate".

He told the foreign ministers of the Islamic nations that:

"we cannot allow the legitimization of the occupation of the Golan Heights."

President Trump set to formalize recognition of Israeli sovereignty signing a document when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington next week.  Trump's action seen as a boost to Netanyahu's efforts at re-election on April 9th.

California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Friday to speed up forest management ahead of this year's fire season.

Last year's fire season saw massive fires with deadly consequences and extensive damage.

The emergency declaration will allow for environmental regulations to be ignored so dead trees and brush can be removed.

President Trump drew a barrage of criticism after last year's deadly Butte fire when he criticized the way forests were managed.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency exposed some 2.3 million disaster assistance applicants to possible identity theft.

That admission from the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General Friday,  A third party contractor received address and bank account data from those people.

Survivors of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and California wildfires put at risk.   The report said that no evidence of any misuse of the data has been found.

The Washington activist group Judicial Watch releasing the last batch of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.  The suit to get release of any government emails the FBI was able to recover that were transmitted through her private email system.

The FBI was able to get back 5000 of 33000 emails deleted by a person managing the private server.

One of the emails involves Clinton lawyer and confidant Lanny Davis offering to act as a private line of communication between Secretary Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

Judicial Watch wants the Department of Justice to launch a new investigation into Clinton's use of a private server for government emails.

And yes, here it is.....Late Friday afternoon a Justice Department spokeswoman put out word that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller has completed his investigation.    Much in the media talking about Mueller, the "investigaton", the "report" and so on but lets stick to the facts in this.

We are also told that no further charges will be filed in connection with Mueller's investigation.

Mueller's report is now with Attorney General William Barr who will make the call on its publication.

President Trump pulling back from imposing new sanctions on North Korea Friday.  His move comes on the same day that North Korea pulled its people out of a joint office with South Korea operating on the border between the two Koreas.

The United States imposing sanctions on Venezuela's development bank Bandes following the disappearance of Interim President Juan Guaido's Chief of Staff.

Roberto Marrero was seized by secret police of Venezeula's SEBIN at 2 am Thursday morning.  His whereabouts are not known.

Weapons were reported planted in his home as part of the secret police operation that took him away.

And in recent hours the US backed Syrian Democratic Forces claiming that they have taken control of the last pocket of Syrian territory held by the Islamic State.

And that's the way it really is on this Newsdump Saturday morning March 23rd, 2019.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY-FRIDAY 3/21-3/22/2019

(UPDATES AND ADDITIONS, EDITING ETC. POSSIBLE UNTIL 545 AM EASTERN TIME US)

The Battle of Brexit and Prime Minister Theresa May getting help from the European Union leaders with late night action Thursday.

The EU leaders agreeing to extension of the Brexit deadline beyond March 29th so May can continue to arm twist Parliament for her plan, called a "sellout" of British sovereignty by Brexit activists.

The EU says the deadline will be May 22nd if May's plan is approved next week and will be April 12th if its not.   

Brexit activists like United Kingdom Independence Party leader Gerard Batten and followers like Tommy Robinson along with Leave Means Leave that includes Nigel Farage and others calling for a pullout with and they will rally outside Parliament to that end next Thursday March 29th the deadline as it stands right now under British law.

Reacting to the overnight developments the tweet from "Mr Brexit" Nigel Farage Friday morning:

"Last night a national humiliation became an international humiliation."

A  top aide to Venezuela's Interim President Juan Guaido has been detained.  Guaido's Chief of Staff detained by secret police agents of SEBIN who raided his home early Thursday morning at 2am local time.  

Guaido demands his immediate release.   Roberto Marrero was taken away and his whereabouts are unknown.  Guaido tweeted that a grenade and two rifles were planted by the secret police in Marrero's home.

The home of an opposition legislator nearby Marrero's home also raided, but he was not detained.

There's concern this action signals a crackdown on the opposition.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted Thurday morning that the US 'condemns' the raid on Marrero's home adding:

"We call for his immediate release.   We will hold accountable those involved"

US National Security Adviser John Bolton called it a 'big mistake'.

Also condemning the secret police raid taking Marrero away House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeting in part:

"We condemn the Maduro regime's middle of the night raid and kidnapping of Roberto Marrero..."

The latest news on the Yellow Yests crackdown by authorities in France includes bans on demonstrations in Metz, Marseille and Nice.

There were already bans announced on the Champs-Elysees and at the Place de l'Etoile  (in front of the Arc de Triomphe) in Paris plus key locations in Bordeaux and Toulouse.

Another new dimension to the crackdown on Yellow Vests protests announced by the government of President Emmanuel Macron this week involves using soldiers.

French military units will be deployed to secure "fixed points" including government buildings Saturday.

This triggered debate between various political leaders in a televised debate Wednesday night.

France's leading opposition politician Marine Le Pen of the National Rally deplored the "military response" to the protests using the "Sentinel" units of the military designated to deter terrorism.

Leftist leader Jean Luc-Melenchon of the LFI (France Insubordinate) Party went further:

"A soldier is not a policeman!  You put a soldier and he is still assaulted what does he do, he shoots...You went crazy, come on!"

Police already committed to new tactics, especially in Paris where the anarchists infiltrated the Yellow Vests protests last week committing various acts of looting and vandalism.

Tactics said to ensure that injuries will occur if they are used.

Yellow Vests calls for Week 19 protests tomorrow are aplenty online in cities across the country and in the Trocadero area of Paris.

President Emmanuel Macron's personal popularity is back down to 29 percent after being up above 30 percent for the first few months of 2019.   That's the latest polling in France from the BVA polling organization.

47 are dead following an explosion at a pesticide factory in Yangcheng, China Thursday.  90 were injured in the blast which came after a fire started at the factory.

A 2.2. magnitude tremor was caused by the explosion.

North Korea told South Korea Friday that its withdrawing from a liaison office between the two countries.   North Korean staff leaving the office by the end of the day.  South Korea expressed its regret and urged the staff from the North to return soon to the office in the city of Kaesong on the border of the two countries.

The Muslim call to prayer broadcast in New Zealand Friday and there was a two minute silence to mark one week since the mass murder attacks on two mosques.  50 killed dozens wounded in the attacks in Christchurch.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pays a pre-election visit to the White House next week for a meeting with President Trump.   He's also in Washington for the annual AIPAC meeting.

News reports Thursday that Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, taken during the 1967 war,  would be supported by the United States.   President Trump affirmed US support for Israel's sovereignty in Golan with a tweet Thursday afternoon.

And then there's convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, seen doing something he needs permission from his parole officer to do.   Pollard sighted twice at Israel's consulate in New York, fueling speculation he will be allowed to move to Israel.

In November 2015 Pollard paroled with restrictions for five years while serving a life sentence for espionage connected to his spying for Israel.

Israeli politics with the main opponent of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu getting the Trump Treatment.    A sort of Michael Steele dossier has emerged from Israel's intelligence community aimed at former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz of the Blue and White Party.

The story points to Gantz being compromised by a foreign power with Iran hacking his cell phone.

In addition a story has been spread about concerning a Gantz "sex tape".   Benny Gantz dismissing the drama leaked into the media by Israel's intelligence community as "political gossip".

Russian airstrikes against jihadist forces in northern Syria early Thursday.   The Russians pounding positions of groups that have violated a demilitarized zone guaranteed by Russia and Turkey in Idlib province.

Nicaragua's left-wing government says all opposition prisoners detained since last year's protests will be released.   Some 700 prisoners are to be set free in the next 90 days.

Peace talks in the country ended when more than a hundred people were arrested last weekend.

A crackdown by the Sandinista government on opposition protests last year killed some 300 people in the country.

The former president of Brazil, Michel Temer, arrested on corruption charges Thursday.  Temer being investigated in several cases.   He replaced leftist Dilma Rousseff when she was impeached in 2016 and left office when Jair Bolsonaro became president in January.

The Dutch provincial elections Wednesday and of the 570 seats elected in provincial legislatures 86 went to the new party that had no seats before, the Forum for Democracy.   The FvD a populist anti-mass immigration party, emerging out of nowhere now holding more seats than the 80 of Prime Minister Mark Rutte's Liberals.

The Party of Freedom led by Geert Wilders was reduced from 66 to 41 seats in the provincial legislatures.

The legislators elected Wednesday elect the 75 Senators in the Dutch Senate November 27th and the governing coalition of Prime Minister Mark Rutte will no longer hold a majority afterwards.

Getting back to the new Forum for Democracy, its leader Thierry Baudet is strongly opposed to mass immigration and takes other populist positions including friendlier relations with Russia.

But his style is said to be less "harsh" than that of Geert Wilders and the range of issues more broad-based.

The White House scene and President Trump signing an executive order for free speech on college campuses.

Its a symbolic move and any teeth in it could be challenged in court.

But it does have emotional wedge appeal going into the President's re-election year next year.

Conservative activists very concerned about censorship of their speakers and their ideas on college campuses Thursday.

A former President of the United States in now the longest living president.   The 39th president Jimmy Carter becoming 94 years and 172 days old Thursday night, surpassing George H.W. Bush.   Bush died 94 years and 171 days old last November.

And that's the way it really is on this Friday morning March 22nd, 2019.