NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: THROUGH THE NIGHT
(830 PM EASTERN TIME, 230 AM PARIS)
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The whole world watching France tonight.
The plan in France earlier today was that President Emmanuel Macron was going to speak tonight at 8pm in France to lay out his response to grievances expressed in his "great debate" town hall meetings.
The whole town hall meeting scheme Macron's way of dealing with Yellow Vests protesting the gasoline taxes imposed in the name of saving the planet, the tax rates that favored the wealthy and private companies given concessions over the highways and setting up toll booths ("highway robbery").
But as I understand Macron was backing away from his plans late in the day even before what happened around 650 pm, 1250 pm in the Eastern US.
The outbreak of fire at a great national symbol of France, the Notre-Dame Cathedral.
The collapse of the roof and spire, the gutting of the building with the structure saved.
Government officials up to and including President Macron appearing on the scene. Support from President Trump and other leaders like Gerard Batten of UKIP tweeted.
From inside France Marine Le Pen of the National Rally supporting the firefighters in her first tweet, sorrow at the damage in the second.
An English translation of her latest tweet:
"It took all the courage of the soldiers of the fire to save the tunic of St. Louis and the crown of thorns, and to preserve the structure of Notre Dame. One of them is seriously injured. The whole Nation is proud of #ParisFirefighters."
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(1015 PM EASTERN)
The train keeps on moving down the track tonight on what is a pre-holiday Newsdump Week with the "redacted version" of the Robert Mueller report being dumped out Thursday.
Real things happening in the real world from Syria more shelling by jihadists from Idlib Province.
The former Al-Qaeda forces with their new HTS name killing 11 according to the Russian center in Syria.
More on this from Russia Tass News Agency.....TASS-SYRIA SHELLING
The Israeli air strike Friday night to the west of Aleppo in Hama Province with dozens injured using F-35's from Lebanese airspace.
Now word that US F-35's are going to the United Arab Emirates across from Iran. Iran's Revolutionary Guards now considered a terrorist group by the US which is legal justification for military attacks.
More after 145 am Eastern....
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'Back with you and more to come in moments....There's a meeting in Paris by officials related to the Notre-Dame fire at 2 am here, 8 am in Paris. They will discuss the stability of the cathedral following the blaze that gutted the interior and took down the spire of the cathedral but spared the exterior structure.
More on the way......
Reading some of the English translations of BFM-TV text I read that some works of art from inside Notre-Dame Cathedral that were saved were taken to Paris City Hall and they will eventually be transferred to the Louvre.
I just saw something related to Iranian sanctions on Israel National News. The US said to be upset with Poland because the state shipping company has registered six Iranian oil tankers under the Polish flag.
Of course as you watch those rising prices at the gas pump, remember that sanctions on Iran and Venezuela's oil exports help to make that possible. I'm just explaining for informational purposes.
Here's the Arutz Sheva Israel National News story......US MULLS POLAND SANCTION OVER HELP FOR IRAN
Music Links:
"THE WAH WATUSI"-THE ORLONS
"ALL I KNOW"-ART GARFUNKEL
"TRACKS OF MY TEARS"-LINDA RONSTADT
That Linda Ronstadt sound I heard via country music radio in the 1970's as she covered Smokey Robinson with "Tracks Of My Tears".....
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OK, all these Democrats running for President and my gut instinct is this. These folks like Beto O'Rourke and Pete Buttigieg and the list runs longer and longer all being "thrown up against the wall to see if they stick".
The Dems are like the GOP in 2016. In their case to stop anything too far Left in general but desperate to stop Bernie Sanders and get the acceptable or "electable" candidate Joe Biden over the top.
That desperation to stop Trump in 2016 was so sickening from the Bush crowd and the use of Fox News and Megyn Kelly back then. Where is she today? And Roger Ailes is gone to eternity after losing his job in the sexual harrassment scandal.
Fox News Channel was something Ailes turned into the "Fox Chick Channel: Breast and Leg".
I apologize for any offense caused.
But I saw a video of Jessica Savitch with David Letterman back around 1980 explaining that when she wore a skirt on an open set she deliberately used heavy duty tape to keep her legs together.
Here it is August 11, 1982 with Letterman and its around 2:15 into the video....JESSICA SAVITCH ON LATE NIGHT
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The fire at Notre-Dame in Paris now completely under control, the investigation underway with questioning of construction workers who were onsite already underway. A strong belief in the notion of a construction related accident. The fire started in an attic.
Back to Jessica Savitch, she died a tragic death in the early 1980's drowning with her dog and a boyfriend, the car backing over the side into raging waters. She resorted to drugs, had multiple relationships with men one after the other.
Back to Fox News. I still remember the day I was watching Gretchen Carlson, ironically, awarded so much money in a sexual harassment suit. Carlson dressed in some tight dress and I said to myself "I can't watch this anymore" and it was a major moment in my turn away from the lust and resentment breeding media exemplified by Fox News.
All they do is set people up for the next act of intoxication in their lives IMHO.
I'll attest to that being my expericence......
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"KICKS"-PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS
"MARGARITAVILLE"-JIMMY BUFFETT
"SUNDOWN"-GORDON LIGHTFOOT
(540 AM EASTERN)
Offers of help in the millions of dollars coming in to fix the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The government saying there is a meeting on a reconstruction plan underway now.
Voters in Ukraine choose the next president in the runoff this Sunday with incumbent Petro Poroshenko using drug testing challenges and debating an empty podium to stop the comedian-actor Volodymyr Zelensky who is the favorite to win.
Israel National News now saying that Prime Minister Netanyahu has the support of enough smaller parties reaching the magic number of 61 seats in the Parliament (Knesset) to form a new government.
And life is a journey, not a destination. Its a one day at time, one minute at a time, proposition.
My journey brought me to my go to music of the 1980's, Contemporary Christian Music.
I don't identify with evangelistic or "Conservative Christianity" anymore but there's nothing wrong with the Higher Power and so on. Heck, as Keith Green wrote and sang ("How Can They Live Without Jesus") if "you've been burned" by some acting in God's name "the Lord's not the one to blame".
Jamie Owens-Collins sang this song that reminds me not to turn back to doing wrong to myself or others.
Have a good day hope you find the next right thing to do.
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"LOOK HOW FAR YOU'VE COME"-JAMIE OWENS-COLLINS
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