NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 3/8/2019
(UPDATES, ADDITIONS, EDITING ETC. POSSIBLE UNTIL 645 AM EASTERN US TIME)
At the top of the news from the UK.....Tommy Robinson's "contempt of court" case for reporting outside a grooming gang trial involving Muslim defendants will go to trial on March 22nd.
Trial set for the Old Bailey courthouse in London.
That word from the British court system along with a ban on discussing the case.
This move comes just weeks after Facebook shut down Robinson after his number of likes surged over one million.
At the top of the news from the UK.....Tommy Robinson's "contempt of court" case for reporting outside a grooming gang trial involving Muslim defendants will go to trial on March 22nd.
Trial set for the Old Bailey courthouse in London.
That word from the British court system along with a ban on discussing the case.
This move comes just weeks after Facebook shut down Robinson after his number of likes surged over one million.
A video report on this and other UK matters from Katie Hopkins via Twitter.....LINK
Living proof of Venezuela's serious problems Thursday with a nationwide power outage.
Sporadic blackouts have been a way of life in recent years in country but this outage a lot more serious.
Nicolas Maduro's government blaming Interim President Juan Guaido and his supporters including the United States who are alleged to be plotting its overthrow.
Guaido tweeting that the massive blackout is proof of the Maduro government's "incompetence".
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeting in part:
"Power shortages and starvation are the result of the Maduro regime's incompetence"
A weekend of Yellow Vests rallies starting today in France. Its Week 17 of the Yellow Vests protests.
A call for a weekend long presence at the Champs-de-Mars near the Eiffel Tower starting this evening.
One call to action saying:
"All citizens of France who want to regain purchasing power, tax justice, healthy consumption and true ecological transition will remain on site throughout the weekend and beyond if necessary"
More protests planned in Paris tomorrow, Saturday.
Also a big Yellow Vests rally proposed tomorrow in Bordeaux as well and at other locations around the country.
Some 36 nations led by Iceland including 28 European Union nations have condemned Saudi Arabia for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October.
They issued a statement through a United Nations human rights forum saying in part that Saudi Arabia must:
"disclose all information available and fully cooperate with all investigations into the killing"
The "Washington Post", the media outlet that Khashoggi wrote for, is editorializing that the US Senate must hold President Trump accountable for not obeying a law that required him to report in writing whether he held Crown Prince Mohammed Bin-Salman responsible for the murder.
While the Saudis have charged 11 officials with the killing, it is widely believed that the highest level officials involved are not being prosecuted.
President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort went through his first sentencing hearing Thursday appearing in court in a green prison jumpsuit sitting in a wheelchair. Manafort sentenced in connection with case brought against him by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller for fraud.
US District Judge T.S. Ellis handing down a lighter sentence than demanded by the prosecution. 47 months the penalty imposed.
Next week Mueller will be sentenced for charges involving his lobbying work.
Before sentencing Manafort said he was deeply impacted by his ordeal and asked for compassion from the judge, who considered the demand for a 19.5 to 24 year sentence to be "excessive".
President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort went through his first sentencing hearing Thursday appearing in court in a green prison jumpsuit sitting in a wheelchair. Manafort sentenced in connection with case brought against him by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller for fraud.
US District Judge T.S. Ellis handing down a lighter sentence than demanded by the prosecution. 47 months the penalty imposed.
Next week Mueller will be sentenced for charges involving his lobbying work.
Before sentencing Manafort said he was deeply impacted by his ordeal and asked for compassion from the judge, who considered the demand for a 19.5 to 24 year sentence to be "excessive".
Jason Patrick, convicted in a rigged trial process for the second Oregon Standoff trial, was before the federal judge who helped rig the process Thursday.
Now Senior US District Judge Anna J. Brown said Patrick must among other things get a government issued ID and file "an accurate income tax return" by April 15th.
Patrick was brought to federal court in Portland, Oregon Monday accused of violating the provisions of his supervised release.
Patrick convicted in a second trial after leaders of the early 2016 Oregon Standoff protest were found not guilty in the first trial in October 2016.
The Oregon Standoff protest, led by Ammon Bundy, brought worldwide attention to the case of Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, who were pardoned by President Trump last July.
The Oregon Standoff protest, led by Ammon Bundy, brought worldwide attention to the case of Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, who were pardoned by President Trump last July.
In Belgium Medhi Nemmouche, the French born terrorist who fought in Syria for Islamic State, found guilty Thursday for murdering four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.
In May 2014 Nemmouche opened fire at the museum. Three died at the museum. One died later in hospital. He will be sentenced later.
In France Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyon, submitting his resignation to Pope Francis following his conviction in a French court for failing to report child sexual abuse involving a priest.
Barbarin was given a six month suspended sentence by the court.
The US House voting to condemn "hateful expressions of intolerance". Its a watered down version of what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat leaders were aiming for.
The vote 407-23.
This resolution followed the recent comments of Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota about the influence of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, in directing attacks against her and her comments that some people:
"push for allegiance to a foreign country"
Democrat Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, who served in the Israel Defense Forces, says that Omar's comments cross a line and that she is associating with:
"calamities like the Spanish Inquisition, the Russian pogroms and the Holocaust"
Suggesting dual loyalties for American Jews in his opinion would be like associating all American Muslims with terrorism.
A French police source says damage to a memorial marking the site of a synagogue in Strasbourg, France was caused accidentally by a car when a driver went into reverse after leaving a nightclub.
The incident was initially called "Anti-Semitic" by French politicians and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
More from Israel National News at the link......HERE
The crackdown on Internet Free Speech continues with Facebook-Instagram planning to take down accounts with criticism of vaccination on them.
Much like the "climate change" debate Facebook claiming the "science" is settled when it comes to vaccines and vaccination.
A French police source says damage to a memorial marking the site of a synagogue in Strasbourg, France was caused accidentally by a car when a driver went into reverse after leaving a nightclub.
The incident was initially called "Anti-Semitic" by French politicians and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
More from Israel National News at the link......HERE
The crackdown on Internet Free Speech continues with Facebook-Instagram planning to take down accounts with criticism of vaccination on them.
Much like the "climate change" debate Facebook claiming the "science" is settled when it comes to vaccines and vaccination.
And that's the way it really is Friday March 8th, 2019.
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