NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 4/14-MONDAY 4/15/2019

(EDITING, UPDATING CONTINUING, A WORK IN PROGRESS UNTIL MONDAY MORNING)

The Russian monitoring center in Syria reports three separate shelling attacks by jihadists in the north.     Towns in Latakia, Idlib and Aleppo provinces shelled Friday and Saturday.

Pro-government sources in Syria say 23 wounded in an Israeli airstrike late Friday night in northern Syria's Hama Province.    Three of them said to be members of the Syrian military.

A long range rocket launcher reported destroyed at Umm Haratyn, but the wounded reported in the town of Masayaf where a scientific research center, school of accounting and college of management were said to have been destroyed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Sunday at an event in Jerusalem for the families of fallen solders saying:

"We will continue to act on all fronts"

Talks between Netanyahu and conservative and religious party leaders are scheduled following last week's elections as the process of forming the next government gets underway.

The Finnish election Sunday and as is the usual case many parties getting a chunk of the vote.    The party currently leading the government, the Center Party repudiated in the election falling to 13.8 percent of the vote.

The Social Democrats finished first with 17.7 percent of the vote and their leader Antti Rinne, will attempt to form the next coalition government in Finland.   He has 40 seats in the 200 seat parliament.

The nationalistic Finns Party came in a close second at 17.5.    The Finns Party called "far right" by the mainstream media.   39 seats won by the Finns Party.   Finns Party leader Jussi Halla-aho  had urged a vote "for some borders" in the campaign.

Many other parties splitting the vote with this being the first time in a century that no political party gained more than 20 percent of the vote.

Many parties objecting to having the Finns Party in government.

The British political scene shaking up in recent polling for the European Parliament elections now on for May 23rd as Prime Minister Theresa May continues to delay Brexit until she can get agreement on help from the Labor Party to force through her plan called "fake Brexit" and a "sellout" by opponents.

Parties fully supporting a complete and total withdrawal from the European Union now command at least 29 percent of the popular vote.    The traditional Brexit party, UKIP, at 14 percent with Nigel Farage's vehicle for his re-election to the EU Parliament Brexit Party showing at 15 percent.

The Labor Party stands at 24 percent with the Conservatives at 16 percent and the Liberal Democrats at 8 percent.      The Green Party has 8 percent and the new anti-Brexit Change UK party at 7 percent of the vote.

Not mentioned in the polling a third pro-Brexit force the For Britain Movement which scored 1 percent of the vote in the recent by-election at Newport West in Wales.

Week 22 of the Yellow Vests in France with a 31-thousand demonstrators estimate from the government and 80,000 from the Yellow Vests for Saturdays demonstrations.

Toulouse was a center of protest on Saturday with "black blocs" infiltrating the demonstration and police using water cannon and tear gas.

Monday night at 8 pm  President Emmanuel Macron will announce his steps to respond to the grievances of protesters with tax cuts a possibility.

But protest organizers are not impressed with Macron's nationwide town hall meetings and any proposals he might offer.

The call for a major protest next Saturday in Paris is out and it looks like the Yellow Vests protests will continue with Week 23 across France.

In Sudan, the now ruling military council is beginning to round up former members of the regime of President Omar al-Bashir.    The council says it wants opposition forces that continue to protest in the streets for a new kind of government to name the next prime minister.

President Trump's daughter Ivanka on a tour of Africa.    Ivanka Trump's focusing her tour on visits to business enterprises run by women and on women's participation in the workforce.    Taxpayer dollars are being spent in Africa by the US Agency for International Development as part of a  Women's Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) initiative.

Tiger Woods winning his first major golf tournament in 11 years, the Masters in Augusta, Georgia Sunday.   It was Tiger's fifth Masters win.

And a message from the Bundy Family on the fifth anniversary of the Bunkerville Standoff near Bundy Ranch April 12, 2014.

Ammon Bundy telling supporters among other things that:

"Bundy Ranch remains one of the freest places on earth.   Why do I say such a thing?   Because my father is willing to claim the rights established by our forefathers through prior appropriation and beneficial use over 140 years ago...…

…...the American people have been duped into believing that our rights are maintained in the courts or in the houses of Congress.  I say today that this idea is incorrect.  Rights have never been maintained in the courts, in fact they are usually diminished there.   Rights are maintained on the principles of claiming them, using them and defending them....."

While key defendants were freed because of evidence hidden by the prosecutors of a surveillance camera and snipers being used by the federal government, three men are in prison because of Bunkerville.

They are Jerry Delemus, Todd Engel and Greg Burleson.    Delemus forced into a plea deal before the evidence was revealed with Engel and Burleson convicted in rigged trials before the evidence was revealed.

And that's the way it really is on this Monday morning April 15th, 2019 as we enter the Newsdump week before Easter.