NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 3/6/2019

(UPDATES, EDITING, ADDITIONS ETC UNTIL 815 AM EASTERN TIME US)

A raging Nicolas Maduro calling on his supporters to come out after two days of massive protest across Venezuela for Interim President Juan Guaido.    The protests during and following Guaido's Monday return to the country.

Maduro wants "anti-imperialist" marches to coincide with the next rallies in support of Guaido on Saturday.   He claims a "crazed minority" is trying to remove him from power.

US Representative for Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, says more sanctions are being considered against the Maduro regime.

Juan Guaido, recognized as Venezuela's President by 54 nations, is working with government employee unions to organize strike action against Maduro's rule in the country.

Two French prison guards stabbed during a conjugal visit to a jihadist and seriously wounded.   Authorities calling it a "terrorist attack".

One guard was seriously wounded in the abdomen, the other slashed in the face and back.

Michael Chiolo was later detained after being shot and his female partner also shot, was killed.

During the attack Chiolo shouted:

"Allahu Akhbar"

Police in London investigating there packages said to contain explosives.    They arrived at Heathrow Airport, London City Airport and Waterloo Station.

The three packages with an Irish sending address and Irish police are assisting with the investigation.

The white bags with "Love and Wedding" stamps on them.

One of the packages caught fire when opened at Heathrow Airport but it was a small fire and that's all that the small amounts of explosives in the packages are apparently capable of.

And the big story in the mainstream media this morning is vague and indefinite information regarding satellite imagery from North Korea.   Pictures of a rocket testing facility where construction is said to be underway, but no definite time as to when the pictures were taken.

The sources obtaining the imagery said to be "think tanks" and "South Korean intelligence".

One could argue that the story is more designed for political spin in relation to last week's talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un on denuclearization of North Korea which ended early without an agreement.

European countries will urge Saudi Arabia to release women's rights activists and cooperate with a UN probe into last October's murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.

The statement being issued at a United Nations human rights forum following an initiative from Iceland.  Other countries beyond Europe may participate.

Google says that a controversial Saudi government app that allows Saudi men to control the movement of Saudi women does not violate its terms of service and will not be removed.

US Representative Jackie Speier along with others, wrote a letter calling for removal of the "Absher" app.    Saudi men can control where women travel on passports and cancel the passports for women, plus receive alerts when women leave the country using their passports.

There have been controversies lately involving Saudi women fleeing the country and what they say is an oppressive system.    Those women being stranded in third countries when they lose their passports enroute to sanctuary in other countries.

Former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn was picked up by a French embassy car at a Japanese prison today.

Bail of 8.9 million dollars was approved yesterday in a surprise decision by a Japanese court.

There was criticism of his lengthy detention on charges related to financial misconduct.

Ghosn says the charges against him are a frame-up by executives trying to stop his integration of Nissan with Japan's Mitsubishi company and the French automaker Renault.

Turkey says its planning a joint anti-terrorism operation with Iran against the Kurdish PKK Kurdistan Workers Party group.

That word today from Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu.

The United States warning Turkey against obtaining the Russian S-400 air defense system.

A "senior administration official" quoted:

"We made it clear to the Turks that acquisition of air defense systems from Russia would lead to a reassessment of Turkish participation in the US F-35 program"

Another message sent to both Turkey and India this week was the ending of special trade relationships with both countries that gave both countries preferences to allow goods into the US tariff free.

In relation to India, the US accused India of erecting trade barriers.  For Turkey, the US said Turkey's economy was not so advanced that it did not need the trade preference.

Politics, billionaire Michael Bloomberg will not be a candidate for President of the United States in 2020.  Bloomberg says his views are ultimately out of touch with Democrat primary voters.

Bloomberg pledged to support various liberal causes including gun control but his views are ultimately pro-business and he warned Democrats about going too "extreme" in 2020.

Hillary Clinton also took her name out of consideration for the White House this week.  President Trump tweeted Tuesday:

"Aw shucks, does that mean I won't get to run against her again?  She will be sorely missed!"

In Washington, the Democrats gearing up with a massive flood of subpoenas aimed at businesses related to President Trump.    Congressional hearings are planned in the Democrat controlled House.

President Trump signing an executive order Tuesday about the problem of suicide among veterans and ordering the creation of a task force to deal with the issue.

At the signing ceremony, the President describing veteran suicides as:

"a tragedy of staggering proportions"

He added:

"Supporting veterans is a very, very important thing to me"

And speaking of veterans, the co-chair of the New Hampshire Veterans Coalition for Donald Trump during the 2016 primary, Jerry Delemus, remains in a federal prison in Massachusetts in connection with the April 2014 Bunkerville Standoff near Bundy Ranch.    Also imprisoned Todd Engel at a California federal prison.

Plus Greg Burleson, who got a 68 year sentence dumped on him in connection with Bunkerville, transferred out of the Allenwood Federal Prison in Pennsylvania last month to the Oklahoma City transitional center, en route to a still unknown federal prison.

And that's the way it really is, Wednesday morning March 6th, 2019.