NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 4/30-WEDNESDAY 5/1/2019

(WORK IN PROGRESS WITH UPDATES, ADDITIONS EDITING ETC. POSSIBLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING)


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer say the Democrats are moving forward with President Trump in agreement on spending some 2 trillion dollars on "infrastructure".

Pelosi and Schumer met with the President at the White House Tuesday.



Wednesday had been declared to be a day of nationwide peaceful protest in Venezuela to remove the regime of Nicolas Maduro from power.

But there were surprise developments Tuesday.

Interim President Juan Guaido appeared with soldiers at an air base near Caracas Tuesday morning with Guaido saying:

"At this moment I am meeting with the main military units of our armed forces, beginning the final phase of Operation Freedom"

The Interim President who is also the President of the elected National Assembly said that he has the support of "brave soldiers".

Guaido appeared with detained political leader Leopoldo Lopez, who had been freed by Venezuela's military.

Mr. Guaido called for a peaceful and democratic transition of power supported by the military.

The Maduro regime moved quickly shutting down social media in the country and calling militia units onto the streets.   Foreign news channels were removed from cable television in the country.

Members of the military wearing blue armbands in support of Juan Guaido were visible in the area of the La Carlota airbase with 

As the day moved on protesters in the streets and forces loyal to Maduro clashed in the streets of Caracas with Maduro claiming to have the support of the military while Guaido said there was no turning back in taking action to remove Maduro from power.

The total number of wounded in Caracas Tuesday is reported to be 109.

Guaido speaking to a rally in the streets early Tuesday afternoon.

At first the Maduro regime said it was dealing with "small coup" but admitted by afternoon that it had only "partially defeated" it.

President Trump warning Cuba against propping up Venezuela's Maduro regime threatening tougher sanctions.

Nicolas Maduro spoke Tuesday evening in a rambling speech saying that coup plotters had been arrested and were being interrogated.

Juan Guaido also spoke Tuesday evening saying his efforts are not a coup but a "peaceful rebellion".   He also said that the entire country must be on the streets Wednesday and that Maduro does not have the support of the military.

The latest videos and tweets in Spanish are being posted at "TV Venezuela Noticias" Twitter page....
TVVENEZUELANEWS TWITTER

An extradition hearing for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange set for Thursday at Westminster Magistrates Court in London.

The United States ostensibly wants Assange for hacking a computer according to the Justice Department but other charges lurk in the wings including the notion of espionage.

Assange appeared for a sentencing hearing Wednesday morning at 1030 am at Southwark Crown Court in London.    He was sentenced for 'failure to surrender' while seeking and obtaining political asylum.    His sentence 50 weeks.

The latest updates on the situation from Wikileaks Twitter page......LINK

Two dead and four wounded in a shooting at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte Tuesday evening.

A male suspect taken into custody.

Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor found guilty of murdering Australian woman Justine Damond.

Noor reached across his patrol car and opened fire on Damond as she approached on Juky 15th, 2017.

Noor had said during the trial that he feared an ambush.

Noor not convicted of the most serious charge against him, second-degree murder with intent to kill.  But the jury did find him guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

Accused synagogue attacker John T. Earnest in a California courtroom Tuesday.   Earnest charged with one murder and three attempted murders in last Saturday's attack at a Passover celebration at a synagogue in Poway.    They are considered hate crimes as well.    A judge deciding that the 19-year old Earnest will be held without bail.

He is eligible for the death penalty but the San Diego County District Attorney is not committing yet to asking for death in the case.

Fear of violence in Paris during May Day demonstrations Wednesday.    Black uniformed anarchists expected in among the usual trade unionists and left-wing protests.

3000 CRS riot police and mobile gendarmes are mobilized as part of a total police mobilization of 7400 in the French capital.

A late report from BFM-TV says that three Spanish citizens were arrested in Paris with incendiary devices Wednesday morning.

As of 715 am Eastern time US this morning 165 arrests in Paris with clashes between "black blocs" and police.

Word from the White House is that the United States is moving forward with plans to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.

Such a move would impose sanctions on groups and individuals who deal with the Muslim Brotherhood and even give the US legal grounds to attack it militarily.

The US decision follows the visit to the White House by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi three weeks ago.   Sisi overthrew a Muslim Brotherhood led government in Egypt in 2013.

From the war in Libya between General Khalifa Haftar's forces and the Government of National Accord, the BBC finding online video posting of prisoner executions and dead bodies being desecrated by Haftar's forces.

A video report containing disturbing images has been posted by the BBC......LINK

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu how many more terms he serves in office is up to the people:

"The decision whether this is my last term as Prime Minister is only in the hands of the people, of course.  As long as the public wants me to continue serving it, and as long as I can,  I'll continue to serve."

Netanyahu interviewed by Israel's 'Channel 12'.


Former Congressman Anthony Weiner, now in a halfway house after doing just over a year of federal prison time for "sexting" with a 15 year-old girl, is seeking a book deal.

Its reported that publishing houses are rebuffing his attempts.

No word on a title for his book but plenty of dark humor regarding that.

Perhaps a good starting point for a title would be:

"I WAS WRONG"

And that's the way it really is on this Wednesday morning May 1st, 2019.

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: THROUGH THE NIGHT

(EARLY SEGMENT)

'GILET JAUNE' (YELLOW VEST)-KOPP JOHNSON

To France and the Yellow Vests.

Jerome Rodrigues was making a video of a protest of Paris a some months back when he was suddenly hit in the eye by a police flash bang round.

Rodrigues was associated with Eric Drouet, a highly visible protest figure, who's been arrested and charged by police in one case for conducting an unauthorized as in unannounced in advance protest and another for allegedly advocating an invasion of the Elysee Palace of President Macron.

But Rodrigues appeared in front of the media with other injured Yellow Vests Monday,

Flash bang rounds along with tear gas and even the 73 year old woman pushed to the ground in Nice and rendered unconscious by he police examples of police violence injuries in France.   Over 2,000 injured by the police.

He explained that 19 people with 26 working eyes were in the room.

Dozens of people have been identified as losing the use of their eyes that were hit by the police weaponry.

Jerome Rodrigues calling for a protest on Sunday May 26th of the injured Yellow Vests.

His Monday news conference can been seen on this video that is almost one hour long.


JEROME RODRIGUES INJURED YELLOW VESTS NEWS CONFERENCE 4/29/2019


(830 PM EASTERN)


Music Links:


'COLOUR MY WORLD'-PETULA CLARK


'THERE'S A KIND OF HUSH'-HERMAN'S HERMITS


'DOWN ON THE CORNER'-CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL




Gasoline taxes helped to launch the Yellow Vests movement in France taxes ostensibly to save the planet but Republican Governor Mike DeWine's gas tax in Ohio was pitched a little more straightforward in saying its being used to fund road projects, the cost of government is the reason gas taxes were really increased in France with saving the planet just an emotional issue to fuel support IMHO.

Governor DeWine wanted 18 cents a gallon and he got 10.5 cents more in tax starting July 1st with diesel fuel tax going up 19 cents a gallon.

Another driving force behind the Yellow Vests was government policy in France of turning highways over to private companies to charge tolls.    Many a Yellow Vests protest on a French highway involves occupation of toll booths and allowing motorists to use the roads for free.

Privatizing infrastructure sounds like a whoopee good idea to a"Forbes" magazine contributor who cites it along with other ideas as something to do beyond gasoline taxes for "infrastructure funding"....The link is below.....

FORBES-GAS TAXES NOT LONG-TERM ANSWER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING


(1015 PM EASTERN)


Gasoline prices easing here in central PA back on the 289.9 level in the area where they were 8 days ago.

Our economic allies in the heartland of terrorism the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia along with OPEC coming through as President Trump indicated they would last week?

Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, is resigning.   That word out tonight.  The overseer of the Robert Mueller probe.

Mueller's report comes off as a political document for the Democrats to campaign on in 2020 and hurts the Republicans so Republican Rosenstein has clearly hurt the GOP and its no wonder so many are angry at him.

Local council elections in the UK on Thursday with the Conservatives in disarray as Theresa May betrays the Leave vote on Brexit in 2016, Labor running strong here.    No Nigel Farage Show-Brexit Party in these elections with the MSM in tow like is going on for the European Parliament elections sucking air out of everything else.

So voters can vote to make Brexit happen by supporting UKIP in the elections and Gerard Batten makes his case in this video.....GERARD BATTEN UKIP LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS MAY 2ND


Music Links:


'MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA'-GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS


'COULD IT BE I'M FALLING IN LOVE'-THE SPINNERS


(150 AM EASTERN)

Back with you....more on the way.....

When I was young I read a newspaper with an 8 column front page and smaller print that gave me 30 or more news stories on it from the nation and the world.   The local news fronted the back page with photos and I saw 15 or more stories locally.

And there was world, national and local content inside it, features etc.

Today it seems the "news" is limited in scope and focused to some singular event or group of events.

A problem is blown up and shoved at us with a "solution" offered to us involving loss of our freedoms enshrined in the Constitution.

March 15th indeed I wrote "beware the Ides of March" ala Shakespeare because the mass murder at the mosques in New Zealand was a dangerous event shoved into the world's face to create loss of gun rights and free speech rights that is likely to multiply infinitely as people enraged by the mass murder in New Zealand seek out revenge.

We had the Turkish born man (the New Zealand attacker was hater of Turks, it was written on his firearm) killing people in the Netherlands days afterwards.

In Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday a massive act of retaliation as indicated by Sri Lankan officials.

Now here in the USA the FBI arresting an Army veteran and Muslim convert ready to attack "white nationalists" and Jews and police.   Here is a BBC story.....LINK

We have drug fueled insanity meeting media obsession with singular events and crazy people ready to do crazy things.

Hopefully as many of us as possible can keep things in perspective and find good things and right things to do, maintain our own sanity as others choose insanity and not get caught up in the media obsession with events that promotes loss of freedom and baits the crazy people out there inclined to violence.

Glenn Beck on the radio trying to get people afraid of some leftist revolution.   The business people of Wall Street or The City in London always afraid of Communist revolution.   Fear of that by the business-rich elites caused the UK to enact tougher gun laws a century ago, to take away gun rights.

Fear is not good coming from any direction.   The Power greater than ourselves is needed to restore sanity......


Music Links:


'TELSTAR'-THE TORNADOS


'COTTON CANDY'-AL HIRT


'STRANGER ON THE SHORE'-ACKER BILK



(315 AM EASTERN)


The Kennedy and King assassinations in the 1960's singular dominating news events that drove anti-Second Amendment legislation that became law back then.

In all the emotions about "defending the Second Amendment" in our day one is not aware that the "right to keep and bear arms" is already watered down in this country.

When I think about the crazy, insane activities out there I'm reminded that there is a connection between drugs, alcohol, other intoxicants and the mass killers.    Peter Hitchens has written much about this on his blog.

Last week I shared a speaker named Clancy I (Clancy Imislund) with a message of experience, strength and hope about sobriety.

I have another hour of Clancy to link to and towards he end of the hour he says that sobriety and recovery for him means to:

"....change my perception of reality and make it a friendly place, to change my relationship to people so I live with some degree of dignity...."

CLANCY I


(415 AM EASTERN)

And as the night moves towards the dawn word that Sri Lanka has reopened social media in the country which was shut down after the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks...

A protest outside the "New York Times" over that cartoon in their international edition.....Israel National News with more......LINK


Music Links:


'VAYA CON DIOS'-LES PAUL AND MARY FORD


'THIRD MAN THEME'-ANTON KARAS


(545 AM EASTERN)


Coming to the end of the line with the Turks claiming air strikes on PKK Kurdish forces in northern Iraq.....The Pro-Government "Yeni Safak has the story.....TURKISH AIR STRIKES ON KURDS

A sentence will be handed down for Julian Assange tomorrow with a certain level of secrecy about the matter.   The sentence at the Southwark Crown Court in the UK for "failure to surrender"....follow things at Wikileaks Twitter......WIKILEAKS TWITTER


Have a good day and hope you find the next right thing to do.....


Music Link:


'ALFIE'-DIONNE WARWICK

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 4/28-MONDAY 4/29/2019

(WORK IN PROGRESS,  ADDITIONS, EDITING ETC., UPDATES TILL MONDAY MORNING)



Spain's Socialist Party achieved a first place finish in the country's general election.  Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez  improved the position of his party in Spain's Parliament, but fell short of a majority in the lower house.

Sanchez took power with minority support in the country's parliament when corruption allegations forced Mariano Rajoy, former leader of  Popular Party of  the "Right",  out of power.

Sanchez tried to mobilize voters based on fear of the newly emerging Vox Party that opposes mass immigration.  Vox has picked up more than 10 percent of the popular vote and two dozen seats in the 350 seat Chamber of Deputies.

At 99.9 percent of the vote counted, 123 Socialists, 66 Popular Party, 57 Citizens Party, 42 Podemos, 24 Vox with the leading Catalan pro-independence party at 15 seats, a gain of six with a smaller Catalan pro-independence party set to get 7 seats as well.   Other smaller separatist parties have won seats giving the Socialists options to gain a 176 seat majority in the lower house.

The Socialist Party can claim a majority in Spain's 265 seat Senate.    They won 121 of the 208 elected seats there and have 18 of the appointed seats for a total of 139.

Police in Sri Lanka killed the father and two brothers of the man believed to have organized the eight terrorist attacks last Sunday.

Police launched an operation on a house in the eastern part of the country Friday with 15 reported dead afterwards.

Terrorist leader Zahran Hashim is believed to have died in a suicide attack on one of the Easter Sunday targets, a hotel.

Christian churches were also targeted and churches were closed this Sunday for security reasons.

The president and prime minister of Sri Lanka attended a Christian service that was televised across the country.

On Monday Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sisirsena used an emergency law to ban face coverings in public.     The move taken to ensure national security.

Four people suspected of planning a terrorist attack on French police were arrested last Friday, April 26th.

France's domestic intelligence agency, DGSI, involved in the investigation.

Early word is that one of those arrested is a teenager who had done prison time for seeking to go to fight with jihadists in Syria.

One of two suspected spies for the United Arab Emirates committed suicide while in a Turkish prison.

That's the report from the government's "Haberturk" news channel Monday.

Later word from a spokesman for Turkey's justice ministry is that the suspect hanged himself at the Silivri prison, west of Istanbul.

The two were arrested earlier this month by Turkish authorities with a senior Turkish official saying the pair admitted spying on Arab nationals.

One of them being probed for any connection to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul last October.

The commanding officer of the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba relieved of command.

A month long investigation led to Rear Admiral John Ring losing his job due to what is called "a loss of confidence in his ability to command".

There are 40 detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

President Trump called Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, injured in the Saturday attack on a California synagogue, with the Rabbi asking:

"What are you doing about the anti-Semitism?"

In part the President responded:

"My love is for the Jewish people."

Rabbi Goldstein spoke with Israel Defense Forces radio (Galei Zahal) about his conversation with Trump.

More on this story from Israel National News.......LINK

Retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North being forced out as President of the National Rifle Association when his term expires Monday.

North says he won't be allowed to run for re-election.   North has alleged that NRA leaders have engaged in financial wrongdoing.

The NRA Chief Executive Wayne Lapierre accused North of threatening to remove him by releasing damaging information.

The chairman of the Conservative Party in the UK, Brandon Lewis, says his party's priority is cutting a deal with the European Union before the European Parliament elections take place on May 23rd to cancel them.

The party's hope is Prime Minister Theresa May will reach agreement with the Labor Party to force through her controversial "Brexit" agreement with the EU.

British voters go to the polls this Thursday in local government elections that the Tories are contesting along with Labor and the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) among others.

The Conservatives likely to lose local government seats because of Mrs. May's position on Brexit.

In the EU election campaign that's on for now, the sister of a prominent Conservative explains why she is running with Nigel Farage's "Brexit Party".

Annunziata Rees-Mogg, sister of Euroskeptic Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, tells the "The Telegraph":

"I don't want to damage the Conservatives"

More on the story from "The Telegraph".....LINK

Mainstream media in the UK that normally support the Conservative Party are giving big coverage to Farage's Brexit Party right now.

"Brexit Party" is running very strong in polling right now, almost even the Labor Party overall.

Its a news story that UKIP leader Gerard Batten is calling libelous.    The "Daily Mail" claiming that information has been passed to British police about UKIP's highest profile candidate in the European Parliament elections making online posts in favor of sexually abusing boys.

Carl Benjamin, also known online as "Sargon of Akkad", already having his Twitter campaign account suspended Friday.     He's also been attacked for comments about rape and a Labor Party politician years ago.

Benjamin is planning libel action against the newspaper.  Fake screenshots from years ago are said to be involved.   More at this link......HERE

In northern Syria, the second attack in 72 hours on the Russian air base at Hmeimim.   The unidentified objects approaching the base were intercepted early Sunday morning.

Russian Aeropsace Forces responded with air attacks on the positions of jihadists believed behind the attacks.

From Israel, the Attorney General telling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's lawyers they have until May 10th to schedule a pre-indictment hearing.  Netanyahu facing charges in three separate corruption cases.   AG Avechai Mandelblit said the hearing must take place before July 10th.

If no hearing is scheduled, Mandelblit said he will move forward with final decision making on Netanyahu's cases on the basis of evidence he currently has.

And that's the way it really is on this Monday morning April 29th, 2019.

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: SATURDAY NIGHT VERSION

Music Links:


'SOS'-ABBA


'WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE'-CLIFF RICHARD

'WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE"-THE KINGSTON TRIO


Welcome aboard, its Saturday night again and my mood in the music watching things move on by concerned about the pathways of people I have supported and admired in the past.

Nigel Farage is disdaining the party he once led, UKIP, and he's getting great mainstream media coverage.

Farage talks about being against "The Establishment" on Brexit, campaigning in an election campaign that Prime Minister Theresa May and Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn can put the kibosh on if they cut a new treaty they will call "Brexit" with the European Union by May 22nd.

There will be no European Parliament election if those two get a deal cut.

UKIP's best candidate in the election, Carl Benjamin (aka "Sargon of Akkad"), had his campaign account suspended by Twitter Friday.

The fix is in and it smells like Nigel Farage is part of it.

Nigel has said and done good things, but I did see him buddy up to the Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and then endorse the RINO, open borders, Chamber of Commerce candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith in the special election last year for US Senate down there.

And Nigel on Tommy Robinson being arrested last May 25th, summarily tried and jailed for reporting on a child sex abuse trial on an industrial scale involving Muslim defendants.   Nigel didn't like the reporting ban on his case but he was supportive of that travesty.

Tommy Robinson is getting in the European Parliament election as an Independent candidate running for a seat in North West England where 8 seats are up for grabs.

You can go to Tommy's website and see his video there.   Its worth watching.


VOTE TOMMY ROBINSON WEBSITE


When people criticize Islam they are demonized and marginalized.   Their views are being criminalized and even the serious conservative Peter Hitchens (not a Tommy Robinson supporter) says he is fearful of being in trouble with the law for criticizing Islam in his reserved tones at some point.

Nations that are deep in debt need Muslim money.   People in the US, UK and beyond do business with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arabs.

French reporters who revealed French weapons being sold for use in the Saud-led war in Yemen being summoned for questioning by the domestic intelligence agency.

When Donald J. Trump became president of our nation 20 plus trillion dollars in the hole he gave some foreign leaders special treatment back in early 2017.

He had Shinzo Abe of Japan and Xi Jinping of China down to Mar-a-Lago while other leaders got the standard White House visit.  Their countries have money in the bank.

Then he went to Israel, another deep in debt nation, enroute to Saudi Arabia, where he did the sword dance with Saudi leaders.....DONALD TRUMP SWORD DANCE

And after the terrorist attacks from Islamic State it took a Democrat running for President in 2020 to lay out some truth in regards to Saudi Arabia and terrorism....TULSI GABBARD ON SAUDI IDEOLOGY AND SRI LANKA TERRORISM

Saudi Arabia has money in the bank, too.    Money for the US, UK, France, Israel and anyone else that needs it.   Perhaps the reason criticism is not allowed when it comes to Islam in a general sense and Saudi Arabia in a particular sense.


And a famous French singer who died too young committing suicide in 1987 performs a song she recorded in 1979.


Music Links:


'LAISSEZ-LOI DANSER'-DALIDA


'GUANTANAMERA'-JOAN BAEZ


'LOVE PUT A SONG IN MY HEART'-JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ


My go to music in the 1970's was country music and Johnny Rodriguez one of the stars I listened to on the radio.   A number one great hit "Love Put A Song In My Heart".

In school back then a high school teacher hearing my outspoken conservative views said:

"You're like Joe Pyne"

Joe died of lung cancer at age 45 in 1970.

I don't recall watching any of his shows, he died before I really paid attention to things on TV.

But he was blazing a trail with his debating of liberal guests and callers, getting into guests, being confrontational.

There was a "Fairness Doctrine" so all points of view were expected and he worked within those constraints to make his points and create controversy and attention.

Here's Joe going at it with Anton LaVey of the "Church of Satan" from the 1960's....


ANTON LAVEY INTERVIEWED BY JOE PYNE 1966 OR 1967


Joe Pyne left his mark in Los Angeles and Southern California blazing a trail for conservative hosts and commentators who would follow and in the summer of 1974 a man was on his way to becoming a Congressman doing conservative commentary on TV. 

I heard a radio interview of him from a radio preacher-commentator Dr. Steuart McBirnie on his "Voice of Americanism" syndicated radio show broadcast on the famous Red Lion, PA radio station that ran afoul of the "Fairness Doctrine" in 1964.

Here is the man who would be called "B-1 Bob" Robert K. Dornan debating Ramona Ripston of the ACLU as the House Judiciary Committee was moving towards voting for impeachment of Richard Nixon.

BOB DORNAN ON KTTV LOS ANGELES 1974 DEBATING WITH LIBERAL OPPONENT


Music Links:


'REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE'-THE MARMALADE


'FIRE AND RAIN'-JAMES TAYLOR


'AVINU MALKEINU'-BARBRA STREISAND


I looked up a translation from the Hebrew of this Jewish song sung by Barbra Streisand and it goes like this:

Hear our prayer

We have sinned before Thee

Have compassion upon us and upon our children

Help us bring an end to pestilence and war, and famine

Cause all hate and oppression to vanish from the earth

Inscribe us for blessing in the Book of Life

Let the new year be a good year for us

Translation Link.....HERE

Before I consider the evil acts of others good to consider my status as a sinner and a wrongdoer.

More homicidal insanity in the real world with an attack on a synagogue during a Passover celebration Saturday in Poway, California in the San Diego area.

You can read more here as written by the "Los Angeles Times".....LINK

The attacker said he considered doing this for a month and it coincides with the insanity of the mosque attacks which apparently "inspired" him.

'THE GATEWAY PUNDIT' ON SYNAGOGUE ATTACKER


A construction crane collapsed in Seattle at the new Google campus with two people operating the crane and two people in cars below killed Saturday.   Three injured and taken to a hospital.  One treated at the scene.

Its election day in Spain Sunday and Socialist Party Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will  likely only improve his party by a few seats well short of a majority in the 350 seat House of Deputies forcing him into cutting deals with other parties to form a government.

Sanchez spreading fear of the Vox Party which is anti-mass immigration as a means of driving voters his way and pushing for a coalition government in the election's aftermath to exclude Vox from power.

Good Night.  I hope you find sanity and sobriety out there and work on keeping your side of the street clean instead of getting angry about the dirt on the other side.


Music Link:


'THERE IS LOVE' (WEDDING SONG)-NOEL PAUL STOOKEY

YELLOW VESTS WEEK 24:  23,600 ESTIMATED BY GOVERNMENT, 60,132 BY YELLOW VESTS, STRASBOURG MAJOR PROTEST SITE

(NEWS, COMMENT AND ANALYSIS)

With some saying they were waiting until May 1st (Wednesday), the Yellow Vests came out onto the streets with both sides estimating smaller numbers than last week.

2600 estimated protesting by the government on the streets of Paris.  Two processions including one aimed at media buildings in protest of biased media coverage.   Yellow Vests gathered at the Place de la Republique for the conclusion of the protest late in the afternoon.

Here is a Ruptly video stream of today's protest.....RUPTLY VIDEO PARIS WEEK 24 YELLOW VESTS

Police were seen during the day conducting checks of people including checking their bags.    Police say they conducted 13,500 "preventive checks" in Paris today.    One place they did this was on the Champs-Elysees in the vicinity of the Arc de Triomphe.  The police say they made 14 arrests in Paris.

Strasbourg was designated as a major protest site today and  as is often the case the "black blocks" of anarchists show up at such sites and the police used tear gas there.   Here is video from the AFP news agency of today's protest there.....LINK     The "Huffington Post" offered up a video showing confrontations with police and arrests being made.....LINK

Five arrests reported in Strasbourg.

A procession of cars and motorcycles part of the Yellow Vests protest in Lyon today.  Here is video from France 3 television.......YELLOW VESTS LYON WEEK 24

In the south of France the Yellow Vests again on the streets of Montpellier.....LINK   Marseille also the scene of a protest......LINK

In the north France 3 television reporting 600 Yellow Vests in Lille today.....FRANCE 3 VIDEO FROM LILLE

Caen in Normandy also the site of protest today as shown in a speeded up video.....LINK   This five minute video shows the Yellow Vests in Rouen today.....LINK


To wrap it up nationwide Yellow Vests protests continued in France today with lower numbers estimated by both the government and the Yellow Vests themselves.

President Macron has laid out his pension increases indexed to inflation and income tax cuts on Thursday, his response to the Yellow Vests protests.

But higher gasoline taxes remain without the planned increase of January 1st this year.

Public opinion polling indicated that 65 percent were not satisfied with Macron's proposals and only 37 percent found them "credible".

While 60 percent of the public surveyed in a poll don't want the protests to continue with highest numbers coming from the young (18 to 24) and the retired (over 65), those of working age are still more supportive of the Yellow Vests protests continuing.

Supporters of the Left political party ("France Insubordinate") of Jean-Luc Melenchon are 60 percent in support of the protests continuing according to the polling.   They no doubt because they believe in militant rebellion and see Macron as a pro-business elitist.

Also in support at a roughly 60 percent level of the Yellow Vests protests continuing are supporters of  Marine Le Pen's National Rally.    They are opposed to the gasoline taxation and the hardships that Macron's policies have placed on working people and advocate for reforms like a citizen referendum to change laws.

The Left will come out again to protest on Wednesday (May Day).     And it looks like there will be more Yellow Vests protests in the Saturday's ahead at a level that remains to be seen.

BREAKING NEWS:  FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 24 MACRON SPEAKS, POLLING PAINTS A MUDDY PICTURE

(LATEST NEWS AT THE BOTTOM)

For Emmanuel Macron proposing income tax cuts and pensions adjusted for inflation seemed to be the right response to the Yellow Vests.

But the early polling shows deep distrust and disbelief over his plans.  A poll for BFM-TV reveals that 65 percent were not convinced by his proposals.  Only 37 percent considered his proposals credible.

77 percent of those polled believed that Macron has not responded to the Yellow Vests with his proposals announced before the media Thursday evening.


(1015 PM EASTERN, 415 AM FRANCE)

A rainy day forecast Saturday in France.   That may impact Yellow Vests crowds.

Polling data before Macron's speech probably left him feeling comfortable coming out to speak because the polling said 60 percent of the people in France wanted the Yellow Vests protests to stop.

But majorities of supporters of two political parties think the Yellow Vests should carry on.

The Left "France Insubordinate" party supporters and supporters of the main opposition party, Marine Le Pen's National Rally, both very much in favor of a continuation of the protest, no doubt with their own reasons.

The Left for the sake of rebellion and the National Rally for the sake of gasoline tax relief and help for rural France, which has been hurt by President Macron's policies.

Polling for the European Parliament elections next month now shows National Rally at 24 percent with Macron's LaRem party at 21 percent.


(2 AM EASTERN, 8 AM FRANCE)


Looking at the political polling more we see "Les Republicans (The Republicans)" the new name for the old party of the "Right" back at 14 percent and further back than that we see a split and divided Left in France with the old Socialists at 6 percent, the "Green" faction around 8.5 percent and the "France Insubordinate" ex-Communist Left of Jean-Luc Melenchon around 7.5 percent.

Melenchon outspoken in his support of Yellow Vests protests.

But what has happened to the Left.    The "Socialists" talk social leftism like LGBTQ  and advocate open borders to bring in cheap labor and hurt working people.    The "climate change" Green left wants to tax little people to "save the planet".

That looks like a ploy to shift the tax structure away from corporations onto working people.

Where do working people go when political parties are failing their interests and supporting business interests instead?

The "Left" of Melenchon and his militancy or in some other direction.     Some former working class voters see Marine Le Pen and the National Rally wanting to limit immigration and speaking out against big corporations hurting working people so they happen to end up there.

Some voters on the Left also seduced into supporting Macron even though his end game is pro-business he can fool a few.

'So that's the political analysis, more on Saturday's (Today's) protest in minutes.....


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Today Strasbourg designated as an international Yellow Vests protest site.

Meanwhile in Paris biased media reporting a focus of Yellow Vests protests with a march starting at 1 pm, 7 am in the Eastern US from the Radio France (government media) building winding its way past other media outlets like CNews and BFM-TV.

The protest ban continues in Paris on the Champs-Elysees and at Notre-Dame Cathedral.



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Awaiting what comes next for now the BFM-TV live video link below.....


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At the top of the hour BFM-TV showing live video from the Champs-Elysees with police checking pedestrians and their bags etc etc. in the zone where protest is forbidden.

Authorities in Strasbourg banning protests in "historic areas" of the city and around the European Parliament building, the European Court of Human Rights and the Council of Europe.

Other cities involved in protest today include Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, Rennes and Rouen.

There will be a march in Cambrai and other Yellow Vests events across the nation.

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A lot of talk about Yellow Vests so far today with a procession in Paris set to begin in 90 minutes,

There is a multiplex video up right now showing interviews waiting for video of protests to materialize.

Here's the link.........(GILETS JAUNES)(YELLOW VESTS) MULTIPLEX ACTE 24


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Before I leave to return after 715 am Eastern this live stream not yet active is promising to begin at 7am Eastern US time with live video from the Yellow Vests protest in Strasbourg.....LIVE AUS STRASBOURG (LIVE FROM STRASBOURG).....



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The video streaming live from Strasbourg now and live video from Ruptly in Paris also....
RUPTLY YELLOW VESTS PARIS VIDEO STREAM


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Two protests in Paris right now with one of the two processions passing media buildings in protest of biased media coverage of the Yellow Vests.

Meanwhile some late video in from Lyon and Yellow Vests along a highway apparently stopping their vehicles as a method of protest.  Motorcycles also involved according to info with video....LYON YELLOW VESTS WEEK 24 (BLOCKING CURRENT OF THE DEVICE)

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The procession in Paris shows a giant sign advocating for the 'RIC'-Citizen's Initiative Referendum.

And now video from the south of France with sunny conditions for the Yellow Vests protest in Marseille.....YELLOW VESTS WEEK 24 MARSEILLE

Yellow Vests are on the march in Toulouse and here is a video clip.....GILETS JAUNES ACTE 24 A TOULOUSE (YELLOW VESTS WEEK 24 TOULOUSE)

Members of the CGT trade union also marching with Yellow Vests today.  There will be Yellow Vests participation in the May Day parades coming next Wednesday in France.

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And finally before we leave video from Lille in the north of France of today's Yellow Vests procession......LILLE WEEK 24 YELLOW VESTS

That's it for now....a wrap up tonight.


Link Below.......


BFM-TV LIVE VIDEO

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15 bodies found after Sri Lankan police engaged in a gun battle in the eastern part of the country with Islamic State terrorist suspects.    This is the latest in a series of raids being conducted following the terrorist attacks Easter Sunday on churches and hotels in the country that killed 253.

Media reports say there was an explosion at the suspected hideout before the gunfire began.

The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka cancelling all Masses this weekend citing a risk of further attacks.

A Russian woman accused of being a spy who targeted the National Rifle Association was sentenced to 18 months in prison Friday.

Marina Butina pled guilty to a federal conspiracy charge.   She will get credit for time served and after serving the remainder of her sentence she will be deported from the US.

Butina was arrested July 15th last year right before the Helsinki meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Russian view of the story from the news agency Tass…..LINK

Some French reporters in trouble for "compromising national secrets".    That's because they revealed information on French weapons being used in the Saudi-led war against Shia Muslim Houthi rebels in Yemen.

The French domestic intelligence agency (DGSI) has summoned three reporters who leaked a classified report about French weapons use in Yemen.

More on this story from Reporters Without Borders.......HERE

Week 24 of the Yellow Vests protests in France Saturday following President Emmanuel Macron's Thursday announcement of measures seen as a response to the Yellow Vests.

Macron announced 5.6 billion dollars of income tax cuts and the indexing of pensions to inflation.

But Yellow Vests figures telling French media they are not impressed by Macron's moves.

A poll for BFM-TV in France indicated that 65 percent did not find his message convincing and that only 37 percent found his proposals "credible".

A call for an "international protest" in Strasbourg, France Saturday.   Strasbourg is one of the places where the European Parliament meets.

Yellow Vests activity in Paris may center on media outlets protesting biased reporting against them.

The Yellow Vests story in depth at the Breaking News link for this blog.....BREAKING WEEK 24 YELLOW VESTS

Twitter suspending the campaign account of Carl Benjamin, UKIP candidate for European Parliament.

Benjamin has a massive Internet following and is also known as "Sargon of Akkad".

UKIP calls it "election interference".


More on Tommy Robinson's move to run in the European Parliament elections in the UK next month.

Robinson running as an independent for one of eight seats from North West England in the election set for May 23rd.

Among those on hand to support him at a barbecue in Manchester Thursday night was For Britain Movement leader Anne Marie Waters.   Her political party is not running any candidates in the elections but did contest a parliamentary by-election in Wales earlier this month winning one percent of the vote there.

Robinson said this among other things in his candidacy announcement:

"I'm with the people-the armed forces; the families who have suffered from Muslim gang rapes; the working class people who have been left behind economically.  People who have been mocked by the elites, who were told they just don't count"

More election news from Europe with the  Berlin branch  of the anti-mass immigration Alternative for Germany using a 19th century painting "The Slave Market" to make its case as the AfD contests the European Parliament elections next month in Germany.

Bearded men in turbans are shown in the picture looking at naked slave women.

Its warns "Europeans" to vote AfD  'so Europe does not become Eurabia'.

The Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts, which owns the painting, is condemning its use by the AfD.

In Syria, an attack on a Russian airbase Friday by jihadists firing Grad rockets.  Defense systems intercepted most of the rockets.   Russian Aerospace Forces responded with air attacks on jihadist positions in Hama and Idlib provinces.

More on this story with some embedded video from the "Soutfront" website...LINK

Turkey's Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday his country is fully committed to buying Russia's advanced S-400 air defense system and is still talking with Washington about a Patriot missile system purchase.

The US has warned Turkey it will not get the F-35 fighter delivered if it continues with the S-400 system purchase.  

Russia announced a speeded up delivery of the S-400 this week with its arrival in Turkey now expected in July.

A sweeping ruling Friday from the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas on abortion.

In an apparent effort to preempt any Pro-Life legislation at state or federal levels the court ruled that the Kansas Constitution endorses abortion.

"They have to get the shots, the vaccinations are so important"

The message from President Trump on the White House lawn Friday speaking about measles vaccinations which some parents object to on various grounds including religious ones.

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

Speaking at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting Friday, President Trump said the United States is withdrawing from the International Arms Trade Treaty that former President Barack Obama signed in 2013.

The President said he will ask the Senate not to ratify the treaty.

The leaders of some three dozen nations in Beijing for China's forum on its "Belt and Road" initiative to fund and build infrastructure projects around the world.

Leaders of neighboring countries like Vladimir Putin of Russia and Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar in attendance as well as leaders from far away nations like Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy.

The United States expressing its anxieties about China's plans but Conte saying Italy is looking out for any predatory actions by China even as it welcomes China's spending money in Italy.

Italy signed a memorandum of understanding with China about its "Belt and Road" initiative during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this year.

More from Italy's ANSA News Agency on Italy's involvement in "Belt and Road"......LINK

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North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un says the US acted in "bad faith" during his February summit meeting with President Trump in Hanoi.

The state news agency reporting Kim's comments in conjunction with a two day visit to Russia and a summit meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

The North Korean ruler also says peace on the Korean peninsula is entirely up to the US and its future position.

Kim reported telling Putin:

"the situation on the Korean peninsula and the region is now at a standstill and has reached a critical point"

Mr. Putin was invited by Kim Jong-un to visit North Korea and plans to take him up on the invitation.

Putin says North Korea needs international guarantees in order to scrap its nuclear program.

Putin saying in part:

"…..there is a need to restore a situation where international law and not the rule of force regulates global developments..."

More from the Russian news agency Tass…...LINK


The Muslim cleric wanted in connection with last Sunday's terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka is dead.

President Maithripala Sirisema said Friday that Zahran Hashim died in the attack on Shangri-La Hotel Sunday.    Hashim appeared in a video pledging allegiance to the Islamic State released Tuesday after ISIS claimed responsibility for the acts of terrorism.

More on this as reported by the Agence France Presse news agency and published by India's NDTV....LINK

The death toll in the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka revised downwards to 253.  The Health Ministry says there was an error in calculations.

Police continue to carry out raids across the country and have issued photos of new suspects wanted in connection with the attacks.

The total number of arrests now more than 70.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden in the race for president in 2020 attacking President Trump in a video posted Thursday morning.   Biden held a campaign rally in Wilmington, Delaware.

Biden is one of 20 Democrats seeking his party's nomination.  The large field of candidates appears designed to split up the votes against Biden and take them away from his main rival, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

The FBI raided the home of Baltimore's mayor Catherine Pugh Thursday morning.  There were also federal law enforcement searches at City Hall and a training center associated with the mayor.

Its reported that the FBI is assisting the IRS with an investigation of Pugh, on a medical leave of absence since April 1st.

One aspect of the investigation is the sale of a self-published children's health book written by Mayor Pugh to city entities.

Many of her fellow Democrats have called on the mayor to resign and on Thursday Maryland's Republican governor joined them.

A federal appeals court panel has ruled that 34 congressional and state legislative districts in Michigan are gerrymandered in favor of Republicans.

A US Supreme Court ruling on gerrymandering cases in North Carolina and Maryland could have an impact on Thursday's ruling.    That ruling expected in June.

In Massachusetts, a state judge and retired court official entered not guilty pleas in federal court Thursday.

Judge Shelley Joseph and Wesley MacGregor charged for helping an illegal immigrant get out through the back door of a courtroom to avoid arrest by federal authorities waiting outside the front door.

The incident happened in April of last year.

Word from Mexico that more than half (700) of the 1,300 mostly Cuban migrants have voluntarily returned to a detention center after they fled Thursday.

French president Emmanuel Macron opting to speak in front of reporters Thursday evening to present his response to concerns raised at his town hall meetings held in response to the Yellow Vests protests.

One firm decision was an income tax cut worth more than 5.6 billion dollars (5 billion euros) but his other proposals were not as clear, especially to his political opponents.

Macron said he wanted the people of France, who have a 35 hour work week with time off to "work more" and at least not retire early and to have equality of opportunity.

But the French president also said he had been slow in implementing policies that have been controversial like massive rises in gasoline taxes in the name of dealing with "climate change".

Some Yellow Vests reaction was that Macron was not listening.

The BBC has more.....BBC MACRON YELLOW VESTS

"He takes us for idiots"

was one example of Yellow Vests reacrtion in the French media.

Polling for the European Parliament elections next month in France from Opinion Way shows the National Rally party of Marine Le Pen leading President Macron's La Republique En Marche 24 to 21 percent with The Republicans back at 14 percent and the multiple parties of the Left lagging further behind.

A French warship intercepted in the Taiwan Strait earlier this month by China's navy.  Beijing revealed the April 7th incident Thursday.   The Chinese said they identified the warship and ordered it to leave waters it considers Chinese territory.

Responding to the announcement, France said it "reaffirms its commitment to the freedom of navigation, in accordance with the law of the sea".

Some 16-hundred civilians killed in the Syrian city of Raqqa by US led coalition forces in 2017 during the fight to oust ISIS.    That's the result of an investigation by two groups, Amnesty International and Airwars.    The groups went into Raqqa and conducted investigations at more than 200 sites hit by air attacks and artillery.

The groups urging the coalition to end "almost two years of denial" about the death toll.   The coalition only acknowledges 318 civilian deaths in the battle to take Raqqa from ISIS.

Two US carrier groups are in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time since 2016 leading to speculation about their purpose there.

Some suggest a show of strength against Russia while others suggest some action against Iranian interests following the recent declaration that the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is a terrorist organization giving a legal pretext for military action.

Also a possible target the Iranian allied Hezbollah group in Lebanon and its deeply entrenched positions harboring an arsenal of missiles and launchers that could be used against Israel.

Making some firm comments to US military personnel in the Mediterranean was US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman.

Huntsman said the aircraft carriers demonstrated that Russia:

"must cease its destabilizing activities around the world"

The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday that Huntsman should study history and how Russia had dealt with Napoleon and Hitler.

Zakharova also said:

"Regrettably, the language of threats and sanctions became the calling card of the US Department of State lately"

Voters in Spain go to the polls Sunday and the latest polling data shows the Socialist Party leading at around 26 percent of the popular vote and 107 seats in the 350 seat Chamber of Deputies.  The party of the "Right" the People Party at around 20 percent and 77 seats.   The "Left" Podemos Party at 14.1 percent and 44 seats, the "Right" Citizens Party at 15.1 percent and 53 seats.

Other parties in the polling include the anti-mass immigration Vox Party at 12.4 percent and 37 seats.  Vox called "far-right" by mainstream media.    The Catalan parties that favor independence for Catalonia poised to win 17 seats in the polling data as well.

If the scenario of this polling data plays out on election day it will be difficult for a new government to be formed.

Meanwhile, Facebook in Spain taking down networks said to be spreading "far-right" views to 1.7 million people.


IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS SET FOR MAY 23RD IN THE UK, ADD TOMMY ROBINSON TO THE LIST OF CANDIDATES.

ROBINSON HOLDING A BARBECUE EVENT THURSDAY EVENING IN MANCHESTER REVEALING THAT HE WILL BE A CANDIDATE FOR MEMBER OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FROM THE NORTH-WEST OF ENGLAND.  

TOMMY'S ANNOUNCEMENT AT THE LINK...….HERE

Boston Celtics great John Havlicek is dead at the age of 79.   Havlicek was on eight NBA championship teams and all time leading scorer for the Celtics.

And that's the way it really is on Friday morning April 26th, 2019.

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED:  THROUGH THE NIGHT

(EARLY SEGMENT)

Music Links:

"MOTHER'S LITTLE HELPER"-THE ROLLING STONES

"ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE"-BREWER AND SHIPLEY

Well there you go a couple of methods of intoxication in the music the pill way with the Rolling Stones and Brewer and Shipley's ode to the "weedy" way of getting high from 1971 that I remember hearing all over the radio back then.

One of the "conservative talk show hosts" asked on Monday after the terrorist bombings in Sri Lanka that targeted Christians:

"When will the Christians stand up?"

And I got an answer based on my personal experience:

"When the Christians get sober"

I am a great hypocrite and user of the Lord's name in vain by my wrong actions that hurt others and sent the wrong message.

I'm not here to preach down to anyone here just reflecting my own experience.


Preaching down to people coming back to bite in France for Emmanuel Macron's political party (LaRem-La Republique En Marche) with its lead candidate for the European Parliament elections next month, Nathalie Loiseau.

She condemns the "far-right" but it turns out that back in the 1980's as a student she was on a list of candidates for the "far-right" in a student election.

Calling her on her moralistic attitude 23 year old Jordan Bardella, the lead candidate of the National Rally Party of Marine Le Pen:

"What annoys me is that she thinks she is Jean Moulin thinking herself a high priestess of the fight against extreme right giving moral lessons to everyone, when in reality  she was caught with in the pot Nutella"

Polling in France on the Yellow Vests shows 70 percent of those over 65 and 59 percent of 18-24 year olds, along with 75 percent of business executives want the protests to stop.   Among the rank and file working people that's only 53 percent.

Overall the polling claims 60 percent of the people in France want the protests to stop.

President Emmanuel Macron now set to speak an offer his economic program to respond to the concerns of the Yellow Vests at 8 pm Thursday night, 2 pm Thursday afternoon in the Eastern USA.


Those "Christian Conservatives" who met with the "Butcher of Riyadh" Mohammed Bin Salman the other month talking about "people of faith" and so on but the latest terrorist outrage in Sri Lanka reminds us of the home of the terrorist ideology.

Watch this video.....SAUDI IDEOLOGY BEHIND TERRORISM HIDDEN BY TRUMP/PENCE


Politics to be sure from a Democrat Congresswoman running for President but plenty of truth mixed in.

In the religious media, I was listening to a religious radio station in the last year or so hearing Jay Sekulow on his radio.     Sekulow, a lawyer for the President in the Mueller matter, but also a conservative religious activist.

He was peddling a book to tell people that Iran is behind terrorism in the world.

Its been decided in high places that for the sake of Israel, Saudi Arabia needs to be supported do or die regardless of how women are treated in that country and the militant ideology they have spread around the world with disastrous consequences and the list goes on like the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

The Saudis executed 37 Shia Islamic militants the other day, one by crucifixion, for attacking a police station.    They are the competing brand of Islam and their lives are worth less.



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As the screws are tightened on oil exports from Shia Muslim Iran, Venezuela and as the fighting goes on in Libya, the oil price up.

Gasoline prices up a dime a gallon reaching 299.9 or 3 dollars a gallon essentially around these parts in south central PA.

President Trump tweeted that Saudi Arabia and OPEC would take care of this the other day.   Still waiting for gas prices to ease....


Music Links:


"HERO"-STEVE TAYLOR


"I HAVE DECIDED"-MICHAEL CARD



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Back and listening to singer-songwriter Michael Card brings back a reminder of my hypocrisy.  Years ago at a religious media event I was disturbed by my surroundings and I was bothered by all the women, glitz, glamour, personalities.   My problem, my disturbance but Mr. Michael Card was there and he seemed to be the sober and sane person in the room IMHO.

So much going with religious hypocrisy and part of my experience was switching churches wanting to see the wrong in each one and moving onto the next.

People switch religions too like Sinead O'Connor did this year coming out as a Muslim.

She was raised Catholic in Ireland and all that but of course tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on "Saturday Night Live" decades ago.    O'Connor talking about "the real enemy" as she did that.

Religious situations can hurt people in real and imagined ways but lets be real a lot of religious hypocrisy and I own my share of it that has harmed others and hurt them and confused them.


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Backing away from the news, we'll get to that later.

I like to listen to speakers like the one at this link.    Clancy I (Clancy Imislund) speaks from his experience as an alcoholic, a drunk like me.

The video goes by the title "The Grace of God" and there's no specific faith in the context of this message, but there is the Higher Power.    The power than myself that restores me to sanity.

Here is a link:


ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS SPEAKER CLANCY I.-THE GRACE OF GOD


Music Links:


"SHE'S A LADY"-TOM JONES


'SUMMER HOLIDAY"-CLIFF RICHARD


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Sir Cliff Richard with one of those great UK hits for him back in the early 1960's.

I was on "Bundy Ranch" Facebook this week and saw an update on Todd Engel, given a 14 year sentence after a rigged trial without the exculpatory, innocence proving evidence allowed.  The latest on his appeal at the link:


MARKOWITZ LAW FIRM-FREE TODD ENGEL UPDATE


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Also Julian Assange reported having access to his lawyers and still waiting for his hearing date.

You  can keep up with Julian Assange and Wikileaks at the Twitter page....WIKILEAKS TWITTER


Music Links:


"BABALU"-DESI ARNAZ


"THE PEANUT VENDOR"-STAN KENTON


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At the end of the line the top of the news from Vladivostok in the far east of Russia, the summit between Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin.   Putin said to be offering support for normalizing relations between North Korea and the US, but the BBC has a story.....LINK


And from India's NDTV more on the efforts following the terrorist attacks on Easter Sunday to increase security and hunt for suspects in Sri Lanka.....LINK


Fear is a tough thing for drunks like me and I'm sure there's plenty of it out there in the intoxicated world if you will.


There's gotta be a better way that a heart that rages inside with anger, fear etc, etc.


Glen Campbell sang this in those troubled times back around  1970....


Music Link:



"TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS"-GLEN CAMPBELL






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359 now dead in Sunday's suicide bombing terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka.     The Islamic State claiming responsibility through its media portal.  

Police in Sri Lanka investigating the local Islamic group NTJ with 40 suspects arrested but one of those in custody is reported to be a Syrian national.

The Minister of Mass Media and State Minister of Defense in Sri Lanka's government said Tuesday that the NTJ group launched the attacks in response to the attacks on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand last month.

Ruwan Wijewardene posted on Twitter that:

"Initial investigations reveal Easter Sunday attacks were by local extremists in response to the New Zealand Christchurch mosque attack"

Wijewardene also said this in parliament.

Mass funerals underway Tuesday for victims of the terrorist attacks.


In Syria, another shelling attack in the north.   This time a town in Latakia province hit by jihadist forces attacking in violation of a deconfliction zone in the region.

In Libya, the eastern forces of the Libyan National Army vow to step up their efforts to take the capital city of Tripoli from the Government of National Accord backed by the United Nations.

Claims and counterclaims amidst continuing fighting in Libya that has killed several hundred people in the recent weeks.

President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is talking about the "Deal of the Century" peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians set to be unveiled in June.

Kushner, who's been a key player in the drafting of the plan, says its "different" from past plans.

He also said the notion of a two-state solution, one Jewish state next to one Palestinian state, is an "old talking point".

Voters in Egypt approving constitutional amendments that could allow President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi to remain in power until 2030.    Sissi led the overthrow of the Islamist president in 2013 and has been in power since then.

88.83 percent of voters supported the amendments with 44.33 percent of voters turning out in a three-day national referendum held from Saturday through Monday.

Election Day Tuesday in Canada's smallest province, Prince Edward Island.   The results 12 seats for the Conservatives, 8 for the Greens and six for the Liberals with one seat set for a by-election in the next three months because of the sudden death of the Green candidate for that seat.   Its a Conservative minority government in the maritime province of Canada.

More on the story from the CBC.....HERE

The talks moving forward between Prime Minister Theresa May's government and the opposition Labor Party Tuesday.    The objective is an agreement to push Mrs. May's treaty with the European Union through.

Some tough differences remain to be overcome according to media reports.

May calls it Brexit, leaving the European Union, but opponents say it does not reflect the will of the majority of voters who opted for Leave in the 2016 referendum.   Others say it is "treason" with a number of Conservative Party MP's and leaders calling on Mrs. May to resign.   That's something May has said she will do if her plan is approved.

It appears her objective is to get the deal through by May 22nd to shut down the European Parliament elections set for May 23rd where her party is set to suffer a major defeat.

In nine days local government elections are likely to give the Conservative Party a jolt as it is.

In a sign that Prime Minister May does indeed plan to wrap up her agreement with the European Union by Wednesday May 22nd, an announcement Tuesday that President Trump will be in the UK for a state visit.

Mr. Trump visiting the UK Monday June 3rd to Wednesday June 5th is the word from Buckingham Palace.   Trump has spoken in favor of a full exit from the European Union saying the United States stands ready to conclude a good trade deal if the UK fully exits the EU.

The May "Brexit" plan would limit the ability of the UK to freely and fully trade with the United States and only a much smaller and limited deal would be possible during a Trump visit if May's plan goes through.

From Hong Kong, four pro-democracy activists given sentences of up to 16 months in prison for participating in protests.

Four others were given suspended sentences and one had sentencing deferred until June.

The nine found guilty for being part of the "Umbrella Movement" protests of 2014,

North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un has arrvied in Russia by train for a Thursday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.    Kim meeting with Putin in the far east of  Russia on an island in the city of Vladivostok.

One killed and four injured in three separate attacks on white farmers in South Africa Sunday and Monday.

More at this link from TR.NEWS......HERE

A woman said to have suffered a "severe brain injury" in a traffic accident  in 1991 is making what appears to be a miraculous recovery.

Munira Abdulla regained consciousness in a German hospital last year after being in a coma for 27 years.    Her son Omar Webair said this to "The National" newspaper in the United Arab Emirates:

"The reason I shared her story is to tell people not to lose hope on their loved ones, don't consider them dead when they are in such a state"

The BBC published a story about the matter.....LINK


And that's the way it really is on this Wednesday morning April 24th, 2019

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: THROUGH THE NIGHT

(EARLY SEGMENT)

Music Link:

"GYPSYS, TRAMPS AND THIEVES"-CHER


Cher singing one of her hits from back in the 70's, "they'd call us gypsys, tramps and thieves" and "every night all the men would come around and put their money down".

Good reminder to that big hypocrite and Pharisee named ME.


Hi and here we go again.    It was a weekend of different schedules and different posting times and so on.    That happens and here were are coming off a holiday weekend.

President Trump tweeting Monday afternoon:

"My friend Herman Cain, a truly wonderful man, has asked me not to nominate him for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board.   I will respect his wishes.    Herman is a great American who truly loves our Country!"

A six cent rise at the gas pumps today and its official that the US is tightening the world' oil markets by getting rid of waivers for some nations to import Iranian oil.

At the close here in the USA oil up almost 3 percent to 65.93 a barrel.

President Trump tweeting that Saudi Arabia and OPEC will take care of things but that's not changing the price you and I are paying right now.

"LOVE CAN MAKE YOU HAPPY"-MERCY

"LIKE TO GET TO KNOW YOU"-SPANKY AND OUR GANG

"THE FOOL ON THE HILL"-SERGIO MENDES AND BRAZIL 66


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Getting back to the turning of the screws on Iran what does the USA hope it will accomplish?  This was on Instant News Alerts Twitter....LINK

So you see its "hoped" that Iran under sanctions will try to close the Straits of Hormuz so US military action will be justified.

Japan was sanctioned once by the United States and FDR got the desired result with US entry into World War II because Japan was pressured into acting militarily.

Iran is getting the same treatment that Mr. Tojo got with same outcome hoped for.

Honestly I agree that the US needed to get into WW 2, but  WW 2 came out of the "original sin" of the First World War, the "war to end all wars" as Woodrow Wilson put it.


Music Links:


"TURN TURN TURN"-THE BYRDS


"PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON"-PETER, PAUL AND MARY


"CITY OF NEW ORLEANS"-ARLO GUTHRIE


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Back with you and the last info I had was that four Americans died in the terrorist mass murder suicide bombing spree in Sri Lanka.

The death toll now at 310.

A lot want to emphasize that an Islamic group was involved in this and NTJ are its initials as we understand it.

Inside job of Sri Lankans or inside job with outside help is what a lot of people are asking.

In Sri Lanka until 10 years ago a decades long conflict was underway that involved war and terrorism between the main groups in the country.    The Hindu Tamils of the minority versus the Buddhist Sinhalese of the majority so this kind of stuff was done in the country, just not by a Muslim group if you will.

The number of suspects arrested is now up to 40.

How about the notion of Islamic Terrorism....well you many of you know Mark Steyn and here is his perspective......STEYN ONLINE-TAQIYYA FOR EASTER

And why be worried about such stuff when the real enemy is Russia, Russia, Russia!!!!!

Peter Hitchens hits the spot on his blog with commentary on Ukraine where the comedian-actor Volodymyr Zelensky won the presidential election because of the corruption
 of a government installed by foreign intervention from the USA....HITCHENS ON UKRAINE


Music Links...….


"BLACK PEARL"-SONNY CHARLES AND THE CHECKMATES


"LA-LA MEANS I LOVE YOU"-THE DELFONICS


"LOVE ON A TWO WAY STREET"-THE MOMENTS


(405 AM EASTERN)

Back here there are elections about us and election campaigns.

In Canada's smallest province of around 150-thousand people its election day with the Green Party being touted as the party that may win the race for the 27 seat legislature.   Also voters deciding if the legislature will be elected 18 by district and nine by proportionally in future elections in a Yes or No vote.

More from the "Toronto Star"........LINK

Election Day in Spain this Sunday and two of the latest polls paint the notion that the Socialists will be the lead party short of a majority in the 350 seat Chamber of Deputies and the People's Party of the the "Right" finishing second. 

The new party of the "Right" Citizens in third and the new party of the "Left" Podemos behind that but the fast rising Vox Party (they only got .2 percent of the popular vote in 2014) is running with at least 10.4 percent of the popular vote and maybe 12.7 percent in one of the polls.

So Vox, the so-called "Far-Right" party could be taking the fourth place spot with over 30 seats this Sunday.  Vox outspoken about mass immigration into Spain.

The pro-independence Catalan parties are set for 17 or 18 seats and they could be potential king makers after the election.

Campaigning for the European Parliament elections underway and all the energy Nigel Farage is putting out right now for his "Brexit Party" could mean nothing as Theresa May pulls off a deal with Jeremy Corbyn and passes "Brexit" through the House of Commons cancelling in effect those May 23rd elections. 


Mrs. May can say she got "Brexit" just as sure as Chamberlain said he got "Peace" from Hitler in 1938.

Then May can walk off the stage for a new Prime Minister.

But the original party of Brexit is contesting the elections for local government,  UKIP running over 1200 candidates in the races for local councils nine days from now on May 2nd.

There are also "For Britain Movement" candidates running in those elections in some cases to choose from.

The Tories can be voted against sooner and for sure on May 2nd in these local elections.


Peter Hitchens noted in his column the other day that whatever rash or over the top things Julian Assange did his "real crime" was exposing the killing of civilians by US military forces in Iraq in 2007.

War is a horrible thing and after 9/11 our military forces fought in places other than the country the Al-Qaeda movement originated in.   Al-Qaeda the organization became an enemy but its homeland had money and oil and so it was overlooked.....


Music Links.......


"THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN"-JOAN BAEZ


"UNIVERSAL SOLDIER"-GLEN CAMPBELL


(545 AM EASTERN)


Well we head for the conclusion and as Theresa May rigs a fake Brexit and resigns as Prime Minister next month there's a new wrinkle here with a state visit to the UK by President Donald Trump.

The BBC says Buckingham Palace will announce this later today....LINK


And the Turks not happy with losing their waiver to import Iranian oil.  The US is tightening the embargo on Iranian exports.   The Turkish Foreign Minister saying his country rejects "unilateral sanctions and impositions on how to conduct relations with neighbors".

"Yeni Safak", the pro-government newspaper, has more on its English website......HERE


Hope you find the next sane and sober thing to do.    The violent insanity driven by intoxicants of all kinds and the darkness about us needs the action of light to shine.


Music Link:


"OOH CHILD"-THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS








More in minutes.......

(MORE TO COME)

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 4/21-MONDAY 4/22/2019

(EDITING, UPDATES ETC. ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MONDAY MORNING)

Eight churches and hotels were targets of bombing attacks in Sri Lanka Easter Sunday with 290 reported dead and about 500 wounded.      The acts of terrorism involved suicide bombers.

Foreign nationals are among the casualties including several Americans who are reported dead.

Police have taken 24 suspects into custody .

The Agence France Presse news agency reported that an intelligence warning was sent to top Sri Lankan police officials 10 days ago warning of suicide bombing attacks by the militant Muslim group NTJ on churches and the Indian diplomatic mission in the island nation just off the southeast coast of India.

The warning came from Sri Lanka's police chief  Pujith Jayasundra.

Link to story...….NDTV INDIA POST OF AFP STORY

The Saudi owned Al-Arabiya news channel based in the United Arab Emirates says a group called Jamaat al-Tawhid al-Watania is responsible for the terrorist attacks.

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said there will be an investigation into how the security forces acted in response to the warning information they had.

The BBC is running a blog on the story.....BBC BLOG SRI LANKA

A report published on "Israel National News" says that 24 were hurt in Munich when a man shouting "Allahu Akhbar" entered a church on Sunday and set off firecrackers.   Here is the report...LINK


The election results in Ukraine confirm the exit polls showing a landslide victory for Volodymr Zelensky, actor and comedian.  Zelensky receiving than 70 percent of the vote against incumbent president Petro Poroshenko.


Poroshenko has admitted defeat with Zelensky saying:

"I will never let you down"

The leader of Turkey's political opposition attacked at a soldiers funeral.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the  Republican People's Party CHP was moved to safety by security.

The FBI has arrested a man said to be part of a militia group that was detaining people who entered the United States illegally.

Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, is reported to have been accused of being a felon in possession of a weapon.

Video emerged in the media several days ago of a group called "United Constitutional Patriots" detaining a group that entered the United States that they eventually turned over to the Border Patrol.

New Mexico's Attorney General Hector Balderas said in part that:

"the rule of law should be in the hands of trained law enforcement officials, not armed vigilantes"

From the war in Libya eastern Libyan forces of General Khalifa Haftar staged airstrikes on military positions of the Government of National Accord in Tripoli early Sunday.

Precision guided missiles used in the airstrikes leading to speculation that a foreign power is helping to stage the attacks.   There are reports of United Arab Emirates military aircraft stationed in the eastern Libyan territory controlled by General Haftar.

In the aftermath of the removal of Omar al-Bashir from power in Sudan, the United Arab Emriates and Saudi Arabia have pledged 3 billion dollars of support.     500 million dollars will be deposited directly into Sudan's central bank.

But the leaders of the crowds of protesters on the streets of Sudan say they are breaking off contact with the currently ruling military council because it contains elements of the old Bashir regime.

They intend to escalate their level of protest.

Thousands protested in Morocco's capital Rabat Sunday.    The "march of the Moroccan people" calling for the release of 42 activists who were jailed for protesting against corruption in the country.

A court recently upheld prison sentences for the activists.

France's Yellow Vests protests continued by and large peaceful on Saturday, Week 23.

101,125 demonstrators estimated by the Yellow Vests themselves with the government's estimate just 27,900.

But in Paris the confrontation at the Place of the Republic  (Place de la Republique) was in front of the media and cameras as anarchists sought a fight with police hurling projectiles and in some cases "suicide" comments were offered up.     29 police suicides reported in France this year.

Police ended up using tear gas and water cannon.

Much media coverage and outrage from political leaders over the situation,     The First Deputy Mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Gregoire, says:

"the situation is not satisfactory" 

when it comes to security measures and they will need to be reviewed.


Two defeats for Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in special elections for  seats in the lower house of Japan's parliament Sunday.    His Liberal Democratic Party losing in Osaka to a business executive who ran as the "Japan Innovation Party" candidate and on Okinawa an Independent candidate opposed to the US military presence on the island defeated the LDP candidate.

The elections considered a run-up to the upper house elections in Japan this summer.

And also from Japan, another indictment of former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn on a new charge of "aggravated breach of trust".     The filing of a new charge justifies continued detention of Ghosn who has already been arrested four times as new charges slightly different from previous ones as the case against him has developed.

Lawyers for Ghosn are attempting to get him released on bail and Ghosn says he is being framed by hostile Nissan executives.


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

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: SATURDAY NIGHT VERSION

Music Links:

"I DO, I DO, I DO, I DO, I DO"-ABBA

"I'LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER YOU"-THE SEEKERS

"I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM"-HELEN REDDY

"THEY SAID IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE"-MICKEY AND BECKI MOORE

And wow some great music on a holiday weekend with some joyous sounds and some seasonal sounds with Passover and Easter upon us, at least that's the way I'm seeing it.

ABBA with the happy sound and The Seekers with a great film of their recording session in 1965 of a hit song that launched their fame and stardom.    Helen Reddy singing from "Jesus Christ Superstar" and an example of Contemporary Christian Music from a couple that performed it as I saw it back then some 40 years ago, Mickey and Becki Moore singing.

There's plenty of serious stuff in the world and we're getting there but I am trying to reflect too and celebrate some.

The Yellow Vests out again in France doing the peaceful things they normally do throughout the country like take over toll booths on privately run highways in France and making the day toll free or holding signs promotion a "Citizen's Initiative Referendum" or "RIC" as their signs.

But there are leftists and anarchists in the crowd too and they end up masked and dressed in black.   They call them "black blocs".  They do violence to provoke a crackdown from the police and government to create revolution in the old tradition.

The Left in France as in old "red guard" is hard pressed and so are the socialists.   More on the "Left" are set to vote for an environmentalist type party in the European Parliament election next month than the old Communist-Socialist parties.

Those people have drank the Kool Aid that the planet needs to be saved from climate change.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS A CON JOB TO PASS THE COST OF THE WELFARE STATE AS IN THE TAX BURDEN ONTO LOWER INCOME PEOPLE AND AWAY FROM BUSINESS.

That's the whole Macron game that led to these Yellow Vests protests in the first place.   Constantly rising gas prices from constant rising gas taxes impacting people in the suburbs and rural areas who drive a lot.

The Yellow Vests evening wrap up post for today is at this link.....HERE

After being banned and deplatformed and marginalized guess who isn't going away?    Tommy Robinson is finding his way over, under and around censorship and we'll tell you more.

Where were you when they came for Tommy Robinson the ghost of Pastor Niemoller asks?


Music Links:


"APPLES PEACHES PUMPKIN PIE"-JAY AND THE TECHNIQUES


"LETS HANG ON"-FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS


"TWISTIN THE NIGHT AWAY"-SAM COOKE



51 Years Ago These Immortal Words Were Spoken In The United Kingdom:

"Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood....

All I know is that to see and not to speak, would be the great betrayal."

The Conservative Party shunned Enoch Powell and marginalized him after he spoke those words reminding us that today the Conservative Party and those that the Tories seems to running to for cover like Nigel Farage under his Brexit Party banner shun modern day voices that sound an alarm like Anne Marie Waters of the For Britain Movement and Tommy Robinson who now supports UKIP.

Robinson hauled off to court summarily tried and thrown away for more than two months, most of it in a jail where he was taunted and threatened by Muslim inmates.

Tommy Robinson won his appeal and was released but his case is still on the docket being pushed off and kicked down the road several months at a time.

The Establishment has bigger things to fry I guess one would see with Brexit and they can't muddy the tense atmosphere with Robinson's case.

Nigel Farage was put off by the four day media ban on reporting last May but fully in agreement with the summary trial and judgement of Robinson.   Very telling for a man who has spoken many other good words, but dropped the ball here.

The strategy for now is to deplatform Tommy Robinson on social media and he's got his own TR News website going and Robinson explained his next move in a email sent out Friday:

"So I have been completely censored, de-platformed and pretty much erased from the face of the online earth by the establishment, the giant corporations and so called 'powers that be'.   Sadly things have got to such a level now that the general public and any innocent folk who even dare to simply just mention my name are now being penalized and met with a level of censorship which is no different that that of a communist dictatorship!!

The threat is absolutely insane and scary at the same time.  The threat is absolutely real and is clearer now for everyone to see than it has ever been before.   Even for those individuals who hate me with a passion it was become excruciatingly painful for them to now even remotely agree with me on what is happening and the ultimate effect that this level of censorship is having now and in the future.

So what are my plans I hear you ask.....

I AM GOING TO ATTEMPT TO BUY A BUS!!!.....

I am going to attempt to buy our very own TR.NEWS bus, however this isn't your typical bus or any old contraption with wheels and a shed load of seating capacity.   No this will be a state of the art bus with a huge external screen and multiple internal screens which can facilitate and double up as a studio where I can literally take to the streets to bring live shows where I can interview guests, stage particular demonstrations and interact, all without being "removed" or "shut down"....."

Tommy asking recipients of the email to help support him in the effort.

TOMMY'S PS TO THE LETTER IS A MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT THURSDAY IN WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER AND HE PROMISES MORE DETAILS LATER.


And to top off Tommy Peter Hitchens column for the "Mail on Sunday" is out.....He comments on the climate change protests in London....

"...And if you're wondering why the poice have been so useless in acting against these modish self-canonized saints-well, it is time you realized that the police are no longer on our side.   They're with the lefties, skateboards and all"

Hitchens out with opinion about Julian Assange as well biting and incisive.   You can read the column at the link.....

PETER HITCHENS MAIL ON SUNDAY 4/20/2019

Music Links:


"HOMEWARD BOUND"-SIMON AND GARFUNKEL


"GREEN TAMBOURINE"-THE LEMON PIPERS


"PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND"-OCEAN


"FOOLED BY A FEELING"-JAMIE OWENS COLLINS


The sound as I heard it back around 1980 with Jamie Owens Collins "Fooled By A Feeling" the sound of what was being promoted as "Contemporary Christian Music".


In the here and now the horror of war in Syria with the Al Qaeda terrorists still active under the banner of HTS (Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham).   After 9/11 it was Al Qaeda an organization that was targeted but not the movement nor the country that spawned the movement-the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

HTS from their Idlib bases attacking in Aleppo province in Syria killing 20 or more.

This is the version of the story from "Southfront"......HERE

And in Libya the big Newsdump story out Friday President Trump speaking with the Libyan National Army leader "Field Marshal" Khalifa Haftar, that's what General Haftar is said to be calling himself nowadays.  Trump spoke to Haftar last Monday with the news announced by the White House Friday in a clear Newsdump announcement.

The LNA attacking the Government of National Accord (GNA) ostensibly recognized by the UN and the USA.

General Khalifa Haftar reported by the "Wall Street Journal" eight days ago to have Saudi financial backing and reports from "Southfront" say his "air force" apparently includes air units from close Saudi ally the United Arab Emirates.

The GNA is fighting back and the BBC reports on the latest fighting......HERE


And that's it for tonight and more music for the season to go out with.....Happy Easter......


Music Links:


"CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY"-SCOTT WESLEY BROWN


"HE'S ALIVE"-DOLLY PARTON