NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY-MONDAY 3/10-3/11/2019

(EDITING, UPDATES, ADDITIONS ETC. UP THROUGH 7 AM EASTERN TIME US)

"In reality of course 'major sections of the wall' have not been built"

That response came from the "Washington Watcher" post of the anti-mass immigration 'VDARE' website Sunday night following President Trump's attack on commentator-columnist Ann Coulter via Twitter Saturday evening when he called Coulter a:

"Wacky Nut Job"

and asserted:

"I am winning on the Border.  Major sections of Wall are being built..."

VDARE's "Washington Watcher" sees the Administration moving in the direction of more immigration through cheap labor work visas while the "Border Wall" debate gets the media spotlight.

The anonymous inside the beltway source says the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner is apparently working on liberalizing guest worker visas:

"Jared Kushner is currently leading negotiations with the Cheap Labor Lobby to craft a bill that will likely increase guest worker visas.   Its unclear what exactly will end up in this legislation, but it is guaranteed to enrage immigration patriots"

You can read details at this link.....HERE

157 are dead from more than 30 nations the passengers and crew of an Ethiopian airliner that crashed after taking off from the Addis Ababa airport.

The Boeing 737 Max 8 went down six minutes after leaving the airport. on flight to Nairobi, Kenya.

The pilot had called the airport saying he was having difficulties and asked for permission to return.

There is concern about the safety of the Boeing 737 Max 8 with this being the second crash of such an aircraft in five months.   Ethiopia and China ordering grounding of the aircraft for safety checks.

And late word is that the flight recording data box, the "black box" from the plane, has been recovered.

As of Sunday night, 21 people are reported to have died at hospitals across Venezuela because of the massive nationwide power outage that started late Thursday afternoon.

And there is a report of 80 deaths at a neonatal unit of a hospital in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

The Maduro government blames a cyberattack from outside the country for the massive power failure.

Interim President Juan Guaido points to the incompetence of the Maduro government as he seeks to rally support for an eventual gathering of demonstrators from across the country in Caracas for a major rally.

The blackout situation also leading to scenes of anarchy with looting of stores in the country.

Russian authorities call it a:

"provocation"

and want an explanation from the US Embassy.

Its the discovery of a mortar shell in the luggage of a US embassy employee leaving Moscow headed for London Saturday morning.

A bomb squad was called Sheremetyvo Airport and in the end the shell was determined to be mostly hollowed out with only traces of explosives.

The American embassy employee said the mortar shell was part of his personal collection.

The Russians seized the shell but the American allowed to move on to London since he has diplomatic immunity.

Commenting on the situation, the "Southfront" website notes:

"...mainstream media outlets have been mostly silent over the incident.   However, it's easy to imagine their reaction if it would be a Russian diplomat with a mortar somewhere in New York or London"

More on this from Russia's Tass News Agency.....LINK

Russian airstrikes late Saturday night against Al-Qaeda jihadist targets in northern Syria's Idlib province. 

Jihadist forces have launched numerous attacks in violation of a deconfliction zone administered by Russia and Turkey in the region.

Italy's government has decided not to take construction bids on a transnational railroad project between Italy and France.

The TAV project is highlighted by a 36 mile long tunnel through the Alps.   The multi-billion dollar project will fill the coffers of big corporations.

The Five Star Movement, leading party in Italy's national government, has been opposed to the project while the smaller League party has supported it.

There are tensions between Italy and France over migration-immigration and Italian political leaders offering their support to Yellow Vests protests in France.

Yellow Vests protests nationwide across France Saturday on Week 17 of the protest movement.

A video of a brutal police beating in Quimper, France in Brittany on Saturday emerging on social media.  A man knocked down and beaten on his head and fingers by police.

Yellow Vests  street medic Lionel Botorel who recorded  the video and treated the injuries of the demonstrator, named Max, said:

"I treated him with a huge bruise on the calf. on the right side of the head. bleeding from the nose and scalp."

Botorel said he saw Max being hit by a police flash bang round before the beating   He saw him hit in the back nine times and at one point the police took his shoe, spat on it and threw it into the water.

You can see the video here......LINK

There were demonsrations across France on Saturday in Paris, Normandy, Brittany and other portions of the Atlantic coast like Bordeaux.    Also protests in other major cities in the south, east and north of France.

The government claims fewer than 30-thousand protesters were out on a rainy and windy day in many parts of the country, but the Yellow Vests say the numbers were greater.

A group of 35 opthamologists have written to French President Emmanuel Macron calling for an end to use of flash bang rounds by police.     The eye doctors are faced with hundred of eye injuries caused by the police use of the "non-lethal" rounds during Yellow Vests protests.

More than 2-thousand injuries caused by the police in the nearly three months of Yellow Vests protests in France.

The Algerian President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, was flown home from Geneva, Switzerland Sunday.

Bouteflika receiving medical treatment there.

He returned home in the midst of mass demonstrations against his decision to stand for re-election to a fifth term next month.

Three German reporters are being expelled from Turkey.   The three given 10 days to leave the country in what is seen as a new crackdown by the Erdogan government.

Dozens of Turkish journalists thrown in jail in recent years following the July 2016 coup attempt against Erdogan.   A coup attempt blamed by Turkey on foreign interests using Turkish operatives.

The German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called the decision "unacceptable".

An Indonesian woman held in connection with the assassination of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un's
half-brother, Kim Jong-nam released.

Siti Aisyah was on trial along with a Vietnamese woman, Doan Thi Huong, when the prosecutor requested her murder charge be dropped.  

The judge in Malaysia dropping the charge and ordering Siti Aisyah freed with that country's Justice Ministry writing a letter to its Indonesian counterpart acknowledging considerations raised by Indonesia and good relations between the two countries.   The letter says the dropping of charges is not considered an acquittal.

The nerve agent VX was put on Kim Jong-nam's face at the Kuala Lumpur airport in February 2017 in what the women say they believed to be a TV prank.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set the dates for his country's general election.   Voting will start on April 11th and end May 19th as it moves across India's massive land mass to various states.

The counting will happen on May 23rd.

Modi's BJP party faces the opposition Congress Party and his popularity appears to have been boosted by the recent confrontation with Pakistan.

Modi also removed and or lowered sales taxes  on numerous items in recent months.

A big controversy stirred up by Modi's government was its initiative in the direction of a cashless society.   The Modi government taking large denominations of cash out of circulation.

The Battle of Brexit, with less than three weeks to go before the March 29th deadline, and Prime Minister Theresa May planning what appears to be some sort of squeeze play regarding the deal she cut with the European Union.

A plan denounced by those who campaigned on the "Leave" side in the 2016 referendum, the side that won, as a sellout and betrayal of "Leave".

Commenting on Twitter today United Kingdom Independence Party leader Gerard Batten said regarding the EU treaty on leaving:

"Act 50 is a trap designed to prevent a country from leaving the EU and not a means of facilitating it.

I said we should ignore Article 50 & leave by means of unilateral and unconditional withdrawal.   The only way."

The R. Kelly case and Attorney Gloria Allred in the mix now.   Allred passed a video tape along from a man named Gary Dennis showing sexual abuse of underage girls alleged to have been done by R. Kelly.

Mr. Dennis says he found the tape with "R. Kelly" written on it and alleges to have seen R. Kelly giving instructions to the girls about what to do in front of the camera.

Gloria Allred saying she is not certain R. Kelly is on the videotape but the tape has been passed on to the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in New York City.

A denial from a lawyer for R. Kelly of any wrongdoing.

Kelly already charged in a separate matter involving sexual abuse of four victims with three of them being minors.

And that's the way it really is on this Monday morning, March 11th, 2019.