NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 4/11-FRIDAY 4/12/2019
(WORK IN PROGRESS, ADDITIONS, EDITING, UPDATES ETC. POSSIBLE THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING)
Julian Assange arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London Thursday after his asylum was revoked. Assange arrested on an extradition request from the US related to the case involving Chelsea Manning.
The indictment against Assange was unsealed in the United States Thursday.
The indictment against Assange was unsealed in the United States Thursday.
British Home Secretary Sajid Javid tweeted in part:
"....I can confirm Julian Asaange is now in police custody and rightly facing justice in the UK....No one is above the law..."
The "no one is above the law" talking point repeated by Prime Minister Theresa May speaking to the House of Commons.
The Leader of the Oppposition, Jeremy Corbyn, says the British government should oppose Asaange's extradition to the United States.
Gerard Batten, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, decried Assange's initial arrest in the UK years ago under a European Arrest Warrant part of the UK's entanglement with the European Union. Batten said that deportation to Australia would have been a better option.
Supporters of Assange contend his work exposed the murder of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan and is protected by the First Amendment's "Freedom of the Press" clause.
The talking point for the US Justice Department in promoting its prosecution of Assange is that his journalistic work involved hacking a computer.
Ecuadorian authorities have arrested a man described as being "close" to Assange as he tried to leave the country. The man arrested said to be a Swedish software developer.
A reporter for British activist Tommy Robinson's "TR.NEWS" website detained at Los Angeles International Airport. Avi Yemini was questioned for six hours by the FBI and is now facing deportation.
More from "TR.NEWS"...….REPORTER DETAINED AT LAX
President Donald Trump offered no criticism of the British Prime Minister when he tweeted about Brexit late Wednesday night.
Trump tweeting in part that its:
"Too bad that the European Union is being so tough on the United Kingdom"
In the House of Commons Thursday MP Bill Cash of the Conservative Party said in part during Prime Minister's Question Time:
"Does the Prime Minister appreciate the anger that her abject surrender last night has generated across the country, having broken 100 times promises not to extend the time....does she not admit that this withdrawal agreement undermines democracy, the constitutional status of Northern Ireland, our right to govern ourselves, control over our laws and undermines our national interest, would she resign?"
A poll taken before her latest extension agreement with the EU, shows support for May's Conservative Party sharply dropping.
The April 2nd to 5th BMG poll put the Conservatives down 10 percent to 29 percent. The opposition Labor Party lost support going down to 31 percent. The new anti-Brexit Change UK Party at 8 percent, the Liberal Democrats at 8 percent as well.
In the pro-Brexit camp, UKIP showing at 7 percent with the Brexit Party being formed by Nigel Farage showing 6 percent.
Farage will formally launch the Brexit Party in a series of rallies with the first in Coventry Friday.
In Sudan the military moving to remove President Omar al-Bashir from power Thursday. Troops moving into the presidential compound.
Protesters who have been on the streets of the country in recent months gathered in even greater numbers today and even looted some offices of the government's intelligence agency.
The country's defense minister appeared on television to say that Bashir will be arrested and taken to a 'safe place'.
Defense Minister Awad Mohammed Ahmed Ibn Auf also said there will be a three month state of emergency and a two year transition period to a new government led by a military transitional council.
He said that human rights will be respected and asked that citizens tolerate security measures that will be put into place.
But protest leaders asked people to stay put because they say the military is part of the corrupt Bashir regime and protests continued in defiance of a 10 pm curfew Thursday night.
On Friday the military issued a statement saying that solutions will come from the people in the streets but that the military will not allow any chaos.
In France, a decree published Thursday containing the new stricter anti-protest law designed by President Emmanuel Macron's government to suppress the Yellow Vests protests. The law already passed the legislative branch of France's government. The country's Constitutional Court excising a provision the would have allowed individuals to be specifically banned from protest.
Meanwhile, demonstrations again banned Saturday on the Champs-Elysees in Paris and at other key buildings for Week 22 of the Yellow Vests protests. Bans also in Rouen and Lyon and other towns involving city centers and shopping areas. Yellow Vest.s planning to rally and march in Paris with a major rally set for the city of Toulouse.
A Friday night rally set for the northern town of Dunkirk by the Yellow Vests.
A report in Israel Friday that President Reuven Rivlin will ask Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu to form a national unity government with former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz's Blue and White Party before other options are explored.
This report from the Israeli newspaper "Maariv".
The final results of Israel's General Election on Tuesday have been published by the Central Elections Committee. They show the Likud Party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leading with 36 seats in the 120 seat parliament. The main opposition Blue and White Party was at 35 seats.
Ex-Pope Benedict has linked liberal sexual attitudes of the 1960's to the clergy sex abuse problem in the Roman Catholic Church. Benedict's views mirror those of many conservatives in the church who often disagree with the current Pontiff, Pope Francis, on many matters.
His views expressed in a 55-hundred word letter published in a German Catholic magazine,
But protest leaders asked people to stay put because they say the military is part of the corrupt Bashir regime and protests continued in defiance of a 10 pm curfew Thursday night.
On Friday the military issued a statement saying that solutions will come from the people in the streets but that the military will not allow any chaos.
In France, a decree published Thursday containing the new stricter anti-protest law designed by President Emmanuel Macron's government to suppress the Yellow Vests protests. The law already passed the legislative branch of France's government. The country's Constitutional Court excising a provision the would have allowed individuals to be specifically banned from protest.
Meanwhile, demonstrations again banned Saturday on the Champs-Elysees in Paris and at other key buildings for Week 22 of the Yellow Vests protests. Bans also in Rouen and Lyon and other towns involving city centers and shopping areas. Yellow Vest.s planning to rally and march in Paris with a major rally set for the city of Toulouse.
A Friday night rally set for the northern town of Dunkirk by the Yellow Vests.
A report in Israel Friday that President Reuven Rivlin will ask Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu to form a national unity government with former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz's Blue and White Party before other options are explored.
This report from the Israeli newspaper "Maariv".
The final results of Israel's General Election on Tuesday have been published by the Central Elections Committee. They show the Likud Party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leading with 36 seats in the 120 seat parliament. The main opposition Blue and White Party was at 35 seats.
Ex-Pope Benedict has linked liberal sexual attitudes of the 1960's to the clergy sex abuse problem in the Roman Catholic Church. Benedict's views mirror those of many conservatives in the church who often disagree with the current Pontiff, Pope Francis, on many matters.
His views expressed in a 55-hundred word letter published in a German Catholic magazine,
The contract of a rugby player in Australia is being terminated because of an Instagram post about gay people and others expressing conservative religious sentiments.
Israel Folau posted that "hell awaits" gay people and he also posted that:
"drunks, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists and idolators"
should:
"repent"
and that:
"only Jesus saves"
Folau made similar comments on Twitter and the Australian rugby statement says:
"the expectation of him as a Rugby Australia and NSW Waratahs employee is that he cannot share material on social media that condemns, vilifies or discriminates against people on the basis of their sexuality"
Israel's Beereshet spacecraft made it to the Moon Thursday but unfortunately it was not a successful landing. The unmanned probe crash landed.
Israel intends to try again.
Gasoline prices here in south central Pennsylvania up 10 cents a gallon since last weekend. In California they are now approaching four dollars a gallon.
Policies driving prices higher include US sanctions on oil producing nations like Venezuela and Iran plus environmental regulations forcing changes in gasoline grades for the summer season.
The conflict in Libya also contributing to higher oil prices.
And the latest word from Libya is that the fight continues in the suburbs of Tripoli as the Libyan National Army of General Khalifa Haftar continues to press its attack on the US-UN backed Government of National Accord.
Fears about civilians caught up in the fighting and about migrants in camps around the Tripoli area as well.
And that's the way it really is on this Friday April 12th, 2019 as we enter the Newsdump Hours.
And the latest word from Libya is that the fight continues in the suburbs of Tripoli as the Libyan National Army of General Khalifa Haftar continues to press its attack on the US-UN backed Government of National Accord.
Fears about civilians caught up in the fighting and about migrants in camps around the Tripoli area as well.
And that's the way it really is on this Friday April 12th, 2019 as we enter the Newsdump Hours.
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