NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 6/30-MONDAY 7/1/2019

(WORK IN PROGRESS THROUGH EARLY MONDAY)

Israeli attacks on Syria Sunday night with Damascus and Homs targeted.  The strikes occurred in the early hours of Monday morning with multiple sites in the areas of both cities being targets of attacks.

Syrian government media says the attacks originated from Lebanese airspace and that Syrian air defenses intercepted missiles south of Damascus and in the Homs area.

At least four dead and 21 wounded, civilian casualties according to Syria's SANA news agency.    Later reports said that five died. 

 

Coverage of the attacks from the "Within Sryia Blog" on Twitter.....LINK

Also this story published by "Israel National News".....LINK

Another story has been published by the "Southfront" website.....LINK

And this from Russia's Tass News Agency......LINK

President Trump and North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un pledging to restart nuclear talks after a surprise Sunday meeting on the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.

Trump and Kim shook hands on the border and held talks after the President tweeted an offer to meet the North Korean ruler on Friday.

"They tortured him so much that they killed him"

Those words from the wife of a Venezuelan naval captain arrested last Wednesday as a traitor as a traitor and rushed to a hospital as he feinted before a military tribunal Friday accused of being involved in an alleged plot to kill the leader of the country's regime Nicolas Maduro.

Venezuela's Interim President Juan Guaido saying that Captain Rafael Acosta was "savagely and brutally tortured".

Turkey promising retaliation if Libyan General Khalifa Haftar makes good on his Libyan National Army's intention to attack Turkish ships in Libyan waters and Turkish business interests in Libya.

The Turkish government is backing Libya's internationally recognized Government of National Accord in its fight with the LNA.

The Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said the Libyan National Army would pay a:

"very heavy price"

for any attacks at Turkish targets.


More from the pro-government "Yeni Safak" newspaper in Turkey.....LINK

Turkey also says that six of its citizens have been arrested by Haftar's forces.

On the battlefront in Libya, the GNA forces are repelling counterattacks from the Libyan National Army following the seizure of the town of Gharyan from the LNA last Thursday.    "Southfront" reports on the fighting in Libya.....LINK


Turkey's NTV news channel reporting that the Russian S-400 air defense system will be delivered to Turkey within the next 10 days.   Its been a source of dispute with the United States which has warned Turkey it will be excluded from the F-35 program as a result of taking the Russian system.
However, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has continued to insist even in recent days that the differences with the US will be resolved.

In Sudan Sunday it started with police firing tear gas at protesters demanding an end to military rule in the country.

At least five are reported dead as snipers later opened fire, but the state news agency is reporting seven dead and 181 wounded.

Thousands of protesters had gathered in multiple locations across the country when government forces began to employ tear gas attacks to break up demonstrations with leaders were pledging to bring a million people onto the streets.

The French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner wants a report from the Prefect of Police in Paris on how a group of "Extinction Rebellion" climate change protesters were dealt with last Friday.

Police used tear gas to clear a bridge that was being blocked and causing traffic problems in the center of the capital city.

Castaner had had fewer if any qualms about tear gas and projectiles being employed against Yellow Vests protesters who continued their demonstrations for the 33rd Saturday in a row over the weekend.

Hot weather but more than 10-thousand protesters still on the streets across France according to the "Yellow Number" Facebook page  (10,725 at 130 locations).    The government estimated just under 6-thousand Yellow Vests.

Texas US Senator Ted Cruz calling for a federal investigation and legal action against Portland, Oregon Mayor Ted Wheeler after left-wing demonstrators went on the attack Saturday against counter protesters.   Among those pummeled by the masked Antifa protesters was conservative writer Andy Ngo.

Reporter Jim Ryan of "OregonLive" posted videos of the demonstrations and violence....LINK

Andy Ngo's Twitter page is at this link...ANDY NGO TWITTER

On the anniversary of the end of British rule in Hong Kong Monday, police attacked protesters as an official ceremony was held in the city.   Protesters blocked roads in some parts of the city and held a parallel ceremony raising a black flag on the date that the UK turned Hong Kong over to Chinese authority in 1997.

In Hong Kong Sunday pro-Beijing demonstrators on the streets to counter massive protests by pro-democracy forces in its streets in recent weeks opposing the law to extradite Hong Kong residents to mainland China.

The theme of pro-Chinese regime protest,  "Support the Police".    Hong Kong police used rubber bullets and tear gas against the pro-democracy demonstrators injuring dozens of them during a recent demonstration.

Hong Kong police have pledged to go after the leaders of the recent demonstrations against the extradition law.

And a massive explosion Monday in the center of Kabul near Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense with deaths reported, as many as 34 according to the Chinese Xinhua News Agency.

The blast comes two days after peace talks resumed involving the US and Taliban in Qatar.

And that's the way it really is as we come into Monday morning July 1st, 2019.

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: SATURDAY NIGHT VERSION

Music Link:

'HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW'-OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN

Welcome to the summertime in 2019, remembering 50 year ago the summer of 1969.    A lot to remember.

I don't recall although I was paying attention to news on television back then the event in New York City called the "Stonewall Riots".    It was a weekend thing and I guess with all the protests going on in general one more almost seemed redundant.

But alongside the shouts against the war in Vietnam or "Black Power" when it came to race we now had shouts of "Gay Power" 50 years ago today.

Wikipedia details the story of "Stonewall".....LINK

And so here we are today 50 years later with debate about sexuality and rage and anger and fear and other emotions around us.

Lets go to Hamilton, Ontario in Canada where 20 some protesters who identify as LGBTQ came to the mayor's house on Friday morning at 715 for a demonstration that led to one arrest.

There was a scuffle earlier this month between LGBTQ protesters and other groups that led to five arrests in Hamilton.

The protesters claiming with signs;

"Mayor doesn't care about Queer People"

 Mayor Fred Eisenberger saying:

"Harrassment of my family, my neighbors or anyone is crossing the line."

The story from CTV News in Canada......LINK


There's music to remember from 50 years ago in the summer of 1969 and I didn't pay a lot of attention to popular music then.   Television was my place for entertainment.   Its in my adult life that I've looked back to what was popular in the summer of 69.....



Music Links:




'COLOR HIM FATHER'-THE WINSTONS


'CRYSTAL BLUE PERSUASION'-TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS


'GOOD MORNING STARSHINE'-OLIVER


Some big songs all working their way into the Top 10 as we moved out of June and into July 1969.

Sir Elton John getting into it with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Russian approach to  LGBTQ issues in general and the censorship of his "Rocketman" movie biography in particular.


Putin made his views clear in the "Financial Times" interview expressing his view that everyone should live in harmony but that some views should not be forced onto society and that is evidence of "liberalism" failing in the West...


'FINANCIAL TIMES' VLADIMIR PUTIN INTERVIEW 6/27/2019


I mentioned in the news summary posted Friday into Saturday when Putin met President Trump that it's "arguable" that they are the most hated leaders in the world today.....


Music Links:


'ONE'-THREE DOG NIGHT


'BAD MOON RISING'-CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL


'LOVE THEME FROM ROMEO AND JULIET'-HENRY MANCINI


Music from "Romeo and Juliet" with Henry Mancini and His Orchestra one of the popular songs from 50 years ago tonight.

Putin and Trump get their hate like Emmanuel Goldstein did in "1984" but another hated political figure Number 3 on my list seems to be Jeremy Corbyn of Britain's Labor Party.

The latest smearing of him is about his health and it comes from civil servants in the British government and Corbyn thinks the smearing needs to be investigated.

The BBC spins the story.....LINK

Corbyn gets a lot of crap thrown on him and its not that I like his policies per se but its like a giant smear machine is ginned up against this man.

Its dam*ed obvious, too dam*ed obvious.

More about Corbyn that I note with an "Amen" is his willingness to confront the government of Theresa May over its selling of arms to Saudi Arabia and the Saudi conduct of the war in Yemen.   Just like President Trump does for money, well Mrs. May is doing it, too.

Countries deep in the hole need to make money somewhere and Saudi Arabia and the UAE etc. etc. have money.

"The Independent" in the UK reports on Prime Minister May's meeting the Crown Prince Mohammed bin-Salman at the G 20 and Corbyn's criticism.


'THE INDEPENDENT'-THERESA MAY AND MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN WITH JEREMY CORBYN CRITICISM


This brings up back to the Democrats running for President in our country and one of them who's served in uniform willing to link the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Al-Qaeda and to 9/11 and there are not many willing to go there because of Saudi money and power......LINK


And as you watch this longer clip of Tulsi Gabbard from the Democrats debate you get the picture as to why folks like Jeremy Corbyn in the UK get trashed so hard so often.

Forget your Russian collusion how about your Muslim collusion with the United Arab Emirates and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with their Crown Princes and financial power.


TULSI GABBARD DEMOCRAT DEBATE


Music Links:


'LOVE CAN MAKE YOU HAPPY'-MERCY


'ISRAELITES'-DESMOND DEKKER


'IN THE GHETTO'-ELVIS PRESLEY



And some more of the hits being played on the radio 50 years ago tonight....


Moving onto the here and now.....

Tulsi Gabbard was talking about Afghanistan in that long video clip and President Trump has an Afghanistan representative and the talks between the US and the Taliban resuming Saturday in another rich oil kingdom, Qatar.   But more deadly fighting in that country as well.

The "New York Times" has the story....LINK

Attacks attempted on Saudi Arabia from the Houthi rebels in Yemen on an airport and late Saturday night a report from "Al Arabiya" news channel saying a residential area in southern Asir was the target of a drone that was intercepted....

Watch out for mass protests against military rule in Sudan in the coming hours.   The authorities raiding an opposition office Saturday.    More from the BBC.......LINK

The German tabloid "Bild" reporting that foreign intelligence agencies are looking for Chancellor Angela Merkel's medical records after two recent shaking incidents.    One when it was said she was dehydrated the other inside where there was air conditioning raising speculation as to what's going on with her health.


And yes President Trump in South Korea headed for the DMZ later with that offer to Kim Jong-un to come down and meet him there.


Good Night.   God Bless.    Hope you find the next right thing.


Music Link:



'KING OF HEARTS'-RANDY STONEHILL

FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 33:  PROTESTS IN THE HEAT WITH JUST OVER 10,000 ESTIMATED BY YELLOW VESTS, FEWER THAN 6,000 BY GOVERNMENT

Its been an a week of extreme heat in France and this Saturday temperatures in Paris around 99 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celsius.

Other locations in France south and west of Paris at or above 40 degrees Celsius or 104 degrees Fahrenheit amidst the heat wave.

Perhaps the heat contributed to what appears to be a halving of the number of Yellow Vests this week.

The first "Yellow Number" Facebook estimate is of 10,224 participants, roughly half the number estimated last Saturday.   The government estimate is 5,769 participants.

In Paris Yellow Vests gathering at 1230 pm local time (630 am Eastern US) for a 2 pm (8 am Eastern US) departure time for the Week 33 procession.   The police say 1300 participated.

The Paris march starting at the Porte de Clichy and heading through the northern part of the city

For a brief time an intersection was blocked but the procession moved on.  Summer clothing including yellow shirts instead of vests and riot police also visible in short sleeves.



The "Acte 33 (Week 33)" Twitter feed....LINK


The Sputnik video feed from Paris....


SPUTNIK VIDEO WEEK 33 PARIS


Yellow Vests marches today organized to remember those who were killed or injured during the protests.


Yellow Vests gathering in Marseille Saturday afternoon.....LINK

Video also from Toulouse of the gathering of Yellow Vests there in the midst of the heat.  Protesters there continuing the call to protest with media reports saying a few hundred were there....TOULOUSE ACTE 33 YELLOW VESTS


On this Saturday before the Fourth of July, Independence Day in the United States, an American theme in the midst of the Paris gathering of Yellow Vests as Old Glory was waved in the midst of the crowd being displayed upside down in the American tradition of displaying the Stars and Stripes upside down as a sign of crisis, of trouble.   You can see it at 3:37 into this video......LINK

Also in that video at the beginning the use of smoke in the midst of the protest.   Evidence of the presence of anarchist "black blocs" in the midst of the Yellow Vests it appears but the version on Twitter from the Yellow Vests themselves is that the smoky images on this video are the use of tear gas by the police.

Yellow Vests gathered in Brittany at Rennes and here is a some 47 minute video of today's protest  Authorities say hundreds participated there......RENNES WEEK 33 YELLOW VESTS

Also from Rennes this short video clip showing a confrontation between protesters holding a banner and four riot police officers who beat them back with nightsticks (clubs)   Three arrests reported there.....LINK

Also today, some 500 Yellow Vests reported in Lille in the north of France and 200 in Bordeaux in the southwest.   Media reports speak of a hundred Yellow Vests at Montpellier.   Lyon also the site of a Yellow Vests gathering.....LYON YELLOW VESTS ACTE 33

Some 600 Yellow Vests gathering at Montceau-les-Mines for an "Assembly of Assemblies" part of a strategy for the continuation of the Yellow Vests movement long term.    France 3 television posted a video report.....YELLOW VESTS ASSEMBLY-FRANCE 3 TELEVISION

A ban on protest reported in Reims with 18 arrested and nine kept in custody.


Additional Link To An "As It Happened" video stream of today's Yellow Vests protests:


MULTIPLEX VIDEO STREAM AND DISCUSSION OF YELLOW VESTS WEEK 33 6/29/2019

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 6/28-SATURDAY 6/29/2019 NEWSDUMP EDITION

(WORK IN PROGRESS THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING)

A death sentence from France's Court of Cassation for quadriplegic patient Vincent Lambert late Friday afternoon.

The ruling from France's highest court overturns a May 20th ruling from the Paris Court of Appeal that restored food and water to Lambert, injured in a 2008 traffic accident,  just hours after it was taken away.

This new ruling means food and water can be taken away from Vincent Lambert at any time.

Doctors and the French government contend that Lambert is in a "persistent vegetative state" justifying his killing while his parents insist that he is simply a disabled person deserving of life.

Lawyers for Lambert's parents said there will be a lawsuit for murder if he is put to death at the University Hospital in Reims.

An attempt by the federal government to compromise with environmentalists failed Friday morning as three groups that want an injunction to stop Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond from using federal land for grazing rejected it.

The Hammonds pardoned by President Trump last year after their case was brought to the world's attention by Ammon Bundy, his brother Ryan and LaVoy Finicum among dozens of others involved in 2016's Oregon Standoff protest.

Dwight and Steven Hammond in court Friday to hear the arguments.   US District Judge Michael Simon keeping a temporary restraining order in place until another hearing is held on July 17th.

Maxine Bernstein of "OregonLive" tweeting about the story.....LINK and publishing her "OregonLive" story Friday night....LINK

They are arguably the most demonized leaders in the world  and on Friday US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were together with President Trump in a jovial mood.

In front of the media President Trump wagging his finger at Putin and saying:

"Don't meddle in the election, please."

In response to a reporter's question about whether he would warn Russia not to interfere in the 2020 election.

The BBC spin of the story is here......LINK

Their 80 minute meeting in conjunction with the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan.

Iran, Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela among the topics discussed.

More on the meeting from Russia's "Tass" news agency.....LINK

The Russian leader also meeting the outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May at the G20, a resumption in high level talks between Russia and the UK following the poisoning incident involving Sergei and Yulia Skripal in England in March 2018.

Putin gave answers to May's questions regarding the incident, according to Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

President Trump also said after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping that trade talks would resume between the US and China.

President Trump tweeting about his next stop following the G20, South Korea.   The President offering to meet North Korea's Kim Jong-un at the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas for a handshake and to say "Hello!"

At Gallargues-le-Monteux in southern France Friday afternoon the temperature recorded at 45.9 degrees Celsius or 114.6 degrees Fahrenheit, the hottest temperature ever recorded in France.    The heat wave in Europe at its hottest in southern France and Spain with warm air from Africa working its way northward.

Four French departments under an extreme heat warning Friday with temperatures expected to reach as high at 110-115 degrees Fahrenheit in many places.

Dozens reported killed on both sides as Syrian government forces went on the offensive in northwestern Syria Friday morning.

The goal of the government forces to recapture two villages  (Jubayn and Tel Milh) taken by the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Al Qaeda).   The effort failed.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 51 died on the government side and 45 on the side of the jihadists.

The United Arab Emirates removing some of its military forces from Yemen to bring them home in the midst of increased tensions with Iran.

The UAE is a major player in the Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Iranian backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Also from Yemen's civil war the attack on Saudi oil installations last month claimed by Houthi rebels is believed by US officials to have come from southern Iraq.    The "Wall Street Journal" says US officials blame Iranian backed militias in Iraq for the attacks.

In Canada, the Ontario Supreme Court ruling Friday that the federal carbon tax is legal and valid citing the notion of "climate change".

A challenge to the law brought in the court by the Ontario provincial government of Premier Doug Ford.

The provincial government says it will appeal the decision.

More on the story from CTV News in Canada.....LINK

The United States announcing sanctions Friday against the son of Venezuelan ruler Nicolas Maduro.

Nicolas Ernesto Maduro Guerra is a member of Maduro's "Constituent Assembly"

Any assets he has in the US are now frozen and American businesses and individuals are prohibited from working with him.

Geert Wilders, leader of the Party of Freedom in the Netherlands, has his own take on a plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Noting the meeting in Bahrain this week involving a 50 billion dollar commitment on Israeli-Palestinian peace, Wilders said the Palestinian people need a homeland in Jordan and they should be moved there.

Wilders lived and worked in Israel on a collective farm in his youth.

More from Israel National News......LINK

Here in the US, James Alex Fields sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge Friday in Charlottesville, Virginia.   He pled guilty to 29 of 30 "hate crimes" charges against him.

Those charges in connection with his driving a car into a crowd of left-wing protesters after an attack by leftists on the nationalist rally he attended in Charlottesville in August of 2017.   One of them killed and others injured.

Fields apologized for his actions before sentencing.   He has already been sentenced to life in prison on state charges. 

The guilty pleas in the federal case were in exchange for  prosecutors dropping the death penalty.

Before his sentencing Nicolas Stix commented on the 'VDARE' website that Fields is getting neither justice or mercy in the case because of his lawyers.....LINK

After some 20 years of negotiations a trade deal announced Friday between the European Union and the Mercosur nations of South America,  Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

And that's the way it really is as we Newsdump into Saturday June 29th, 2019.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 6/27-FRIDAY 6/28/2019 JUNE NEWSDUMP EDITION

(WORK IN PROGRESS, ADDITIONS, EDITING, UPDATES POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY)

TWITTER WILL HIDE TWEETS FROM WORLD LEADERS AND POLITICIANS THAT BREAK ITS RULES, BUT NOT REMOVE THEM FROM THE INTERNET.

A NOTICE WILL BE POSTED COVERING HIDDEN TWEETS BUT THEY WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING.

THE HIDDEN TWEETS WILL NOT APPEAR IN SEARCH RESULTS AND NOT BE PROMOTED ON THE TWITTER APP. 

THE NEW RULE EFFECTIVE THIS FRIDAY JUNE 28TH.

THE BBC REPORTS ON THIS LATEST TWITTER CENSORSHIP MOVE.....LINK

Officials in Harney County, Oregon are urging a federal judge not to issue a preliminary injunction preventing ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond from using federal lands for cattle grazing.    US District Judge Michael Simon has already issued a temporary restraining order pending his decision Friday.

The judge is responding to lawsuit brought by environmentalist groups against the US government.

The Hammonds case brought to the nation's attention during the Oregon Standoff protest of early 2016 led by Ammon Bundy with President Trump granting pardons to the two ranchers, jailed under "terrorism" sentences for lighting a backfire to protect their land from a wildfire.

President Trump pardoning the Hammonds last July.

Maxine Bernstein of "OregonLive" is reporting on the story....LINK

US Chief Justice John Roberts joining four liberal justices in a 5-4 decision Thursday saying the White House has not provided a good enough reason to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

The case brought by groups challenging the 2020 census question sent back to a lower court for more consideration and its possible that Justice Roberts could change his mind if additional justification is provided as the case develops.

The US Supreme Court also ruling that federal courts do not have a say over legislative maps created by the states.    The decision a 5-4 one.

The two gerrymandering cases involving congressional district maps created in Maryland and North Carolina following the 2010 census.    Maryland seen as favoring Democrats and North Carolina being biased towards Republicans.

Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority opinion saying there is no federal constitutional amendment dictating "fair" congressional districts.

While the ruling of the court isn't denying that gerrymandering is a problem, the court majority says that it needs to addressed and is being addressed on the state level.

A second night of debate Thursday for Democrats who want to run against President Trump next year.    The second group of ten including high profile candidates like insider former Vice-President Joe Biden and outsider Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

President Trump and other world leaders at the G 20 Summit in Osaka, Japan.

Leaders meeting as a group and on the sidelines like Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

Putin gave "The Financial Times" his assessment of Donald Trump:

"Mr. Trump is not a career politician.....I do not accept many of his methods when it comes to addressing problems.   But do you know what I think?  I think he is a talented person.   He knows very well what his voters expect from him"

Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif tweeting in part Thursday that:

"Sanctions aren't alternative to war, they ARE war"

The US seeking to get NATO countries to denounce Iran for recent attacks on a US drone and oil tankers.    The Acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper also wants NATO allies to consider participation in a plan to use military forces in the Persian Gulf region to protect shipping.

Esper held closed door talks at NATO headquarters in Brussels and told the media afterwards that NATO allies could help move Iran from a military issue to a diplomatic one.

Russia's Ambassador in Israel calls it:

"fake news"

Its a report from Israel Defense Forces Radio (Galei Zahal) that says Russia is causing disruption of GPS systems at the Ben Gurion Airport in Israel.

Electronic measures taken to protect the Russian air base at Hmeimim in Syria about 220 miles to the north of Ben Gurion are said to be causing the GPS problems.   Pilots have to use alternative means to get accurate location information around Ben Gurion Airport.

On the battlefront in northwestern Syria Thursday attacks by HTS (formerly Al-Qaeda) jihadists on Syrian army positions at the Idlib-Hama provincial border.

The attacks repelled.   A Turkish observation post near the scene of the attacks was hit by shelling but no injuries reported.

But the Syrian government reporting an environmental disaster with oil pipeline sabotage along the Mediterranean Sea coast.

A pro-Syrian government twitter feed saying the sabotage likely caused by the United States or Israel.  More at the link......'WITHIN SYRIA BLOG'-TWITTER

In Tunisia two suicide bombing attacks with ISIS now claiming responsibility.     One outside the French embassy in Tunis where police were patrolling.          One police officer killed there with another office and three civilians wounded.  Four other police were wounded in an attack outside an anti-terrorism police unit's headquarters on the outskirts of Tunis.

In France, a shooting outside a mosque in Brest late Thursday afternoon.  Two wounded including the imam of the mosque.

The gunman found dead later after he committed suicide, shooting himself in the head.

A police investigation underway into the incident.

For the second time in eight days German Chancellor Angela Merkel was seen trembling during a public appearance.   Merkel became steadier during a ceremony with Germany's outgoing justice minister.

The earlier incident was attributed to dehydration and Chancellor Merkel left Berlin later Thursday for the G20 summit in Japan.   Her spokesman says she "is doing well".   Germany in the midst of a heat wave right now.

Those hot conditions in Europe sparking massive brush fires-wildfires in the eastern Spanish region of Catalonia, the worst in decades.   Officials say the tinderbox conditions could cause the fires to spread rapidly.

France also involved in the heat wave as well with 300 schools closed Thursday as temperatures in some areas soar over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

French politics and the niece of Marine Le Pen, Marion Marechal, meeting with "mainstream politicians" in France from "The Republicans" for dinner Tuesday evening.    "The Republicans" beaten badly in the European Parliament elections last month.

Speculation about whether this means that Marechal, who has distanced herself from the National Rally party of her aunt, is moving in some new political direction and whether this is the beginning of some future political alignment.

Both Marechal and her aunt Marine Le Pen have personal popularity ratings in the mid 40 percent range. 

In Canada, the Liberal Party government moving to declare new groups as outlawed terrorist groups.

The Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale naming three groups said to be linked to Iran's government and two "Neo-Nazi" groups as terrorist organizations.

"Blood and Honor" and an "armed" part of that group called "Combat 18" named as outlawed groups.

Mr. Goodale, speaking in Regina, Saskatchewan, said:

"small toxic segments of society continue to peddle vile, hateful intolerance"

And a Canadian healthcare story, typical of many seen in the last four plus decades of single-payer healthcare in Canada.

This time its the story of a 13 year old boy in British Columbia who needs a drug to treat Spinal Muscular Atrophy.  

The British Columbia Health Ministry has not given Miles Ambridge access to what his mother calls a:

"life saving and life changing drug"

The spin on this story from the CBC in Canada.....LINK


Coming up on Friday the highest court in France deciding on life or death for a disabled man.

Vincent Lambert's case being decided late on a Friday afternoon in Paris (5 pm local time) by the Court of Cassation.

And also Friday sentencing following his conviction on federal charges for James Fields in connection with his conduct during the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017 when left-wing protesters swarmed a nationalist rally in that city.


And that's way it really is as we Newsdump towards the end of June and come into Friday June 28th, 2019. 

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: SUMMER EDITION

Music Links:

'DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE'-THE MAMAS AND PAPAS

'SUMMER NIGHT CITY'-ABBA

'CADILLAC'-HEP STARS

There is a Swedish group from the 1960's, the Hep Stars, with "Cadillac".    Benny Andersson  of 'ABBA' fame part of that group.

Swedish politics is our first stop and with the rise of the Sweden Democrats other parties trying to adapt to a changing political climate.

The Sweden Democrats polling up around 19 percent now.    They got 17.5 percent in last year's general election.

The Christian Democrats and their leader Ebba Busch Thor fine tuning their appeal with Thor out in front on women feeling threatened in the aftermath of the migrant tide.

Thor raising the level of support for her party in public opinion polls with some showing support of 10 percent or more in recent months, that's up from the 5 percent or so support they got in the 2018 election.

Now its the turn of Sweden's Liberals and their leader to be who is in immigrant from Africa but someone who is saying there needs to be integration into Swedish life.

Nyamko Subuni says "speak Swedish" and she also has a track record of proposing a ban on the hijab for girls under 15 and even going so far as to propose mandatory gynecological exams for girls to combat FGM (Female Genital Mutilation).

Some Liberals are said to be balking at her rise to power with a party that's coming in at around 5 percent popularity.    You need 4 percent to get representation in the 349 seat Riksdag (Parliament) in Sweden.

Russia's "Sputnik" has this story.....LINK


President Trump off to the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan...

His son Eric Trump getting some bad treatment at a bar in Chicago with the statement from "The Aviary" reading in part:

"No customer should ever be spit on"

A link to the BBC story on this....BBC STORY-"ERIC TRUMP SAYS WAITRESS SPAT ON HIM..."


Music Links:


'STEPPIN OUT (I'M GONNA BOOGIE TONIGHT)-TONY ORLANDO AND DAWN


'WHO AM I'-PETULA CLARK


'GEORGY GIRL'-THE SEEKERS



Lest we forget Tommy Robinson back on trial in London next week Thursday July 4th to be exact.

Tommy has a website with lots of outside the mainstream media news stories worth checking out
and here's a link to it.



TR.NEWS


I go a lot of places to check what's happening out there and one place I go is to the page of John Lamb who took time out of his life to watch the trials in connection with the Oregon Standoff and Buinkerville Standoff.


John Lamb continues his work of talking about those unjustly dealt with by the:

"Criminal Justice System"

There's a pun for you.

And here's the link:

JOHN LAMB FACEBOOK-'LAST FREE MAN'

President Trump tweeting profusely as he heads to Japan for the G20 Summit......

Israel Defense Forces radio (Galei Zahal)  reporting that Russia is behind disruption of GPS systems at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport.    Here's a story from "Israel National News".....LINK

Good Night.  God Bless.   I hope you find that next right thing to do.

As I heard back then in the Contemporary Christian Music days and I even saw John Michael Talbot in person back then too as I recall....."Glory to God in the Highest"......

'GLORY TO GOD'-JOHN MICHAEL TALBOT

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 6/25-WEDNESDAY 6/26/2019

(WORK IN PROGRESS, MORE EDITING,  ADDITIONS ETC. ETC. LATER)

The British Conservative Party has set July 23rd as the day a new leader and new Prime Minister for the UK will be announced.

Conservative Party members are choosing between current Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the former Foreign Secretary and Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

Mr. Hunt told the BBC he thinks he can cut a deal with the European Union over Brexit.

In a series of tweets Tuesday President Trump blasted Iran, accusing it of spending money not on its people but on:

"Terror"

The President also saying that Iran's public statements are:

"ignorant and insulting"

President Trump warning that attacks on "anything American" will be met with "great and overwhelming force".

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has said that statements from President Trump saying he wants negotiations accompanied by a tightening of sanctions on Iran targeting its leaders do not make any sense.   Rouhani has said the inconsistency in US policy on Iran appears to reflect mental disorders at the White House.

The Qatar based Al Jazeera news channel reports that Rouhani told French President Emmanuel Macron that Iran will:

"respond in a most resolute manner to any new violation of Iranian airspace committed by the Americans"

Rouhani has also stated that he does not want war with the United States.

A frank assessment of the situation regarding Iran from Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Tuesday...

'very personal sanctions, which were announced yesterday by US President Donald Trump's administration against Iran's supreme leadership are alarming and sending a signal that the situation is unfolding under a very bad scenario'

More on this from Tass....LINK

The summit meeting in Israel between national security advisers from Israel, Russia and the United States Tuesday produced a frank exchange of differing views.

Russian National Security Adviser Nikolai Patrushev said the frequent Israeli airstrikes in Syria are "undesirable" and the continuing and increasing sanctions against Iran are "unacceptable".

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before the meeting urging agreement to remove foreign forces from Syria saying that Iran will not be allowed to have a permanent military presence there.

More on the story from Israel's "Ynet".....LINK

The meeting in Bahrain is underway discussing a 50 billion dollar economic plan that is part of the "Deal of the Century" peace plan promoted by President Trump as a way of bringing Israelis and Palestinians together.

In the forefront of promoting the plan is the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner who told the gathering that the US has "not given up on the Palestinians".

The future of the Jewish community in the southern Swedish city of Malmo seems in doubt with a declining Jewish population coming under increasing attacks in a city flooded by Muslim migrants.

Now the local government led by major Swedish political parties of the Left and Right is balking at a private donation to fund security for Jews in the city.

More from Israel National News......LINK

BREAKING NEWS:  A UNITED KINGDOM INDEPENDENCE PARTY (UKIP) TWITTER ACCOUNT 'WAR PLAN PURPLE' HAS BEEN SUSPENDED.

Meanwhile Facebook will give information about users it suspects of "hate speech" to France's courts at their request.

Previously such information sharing with judicial authorities in France was limited to matters involving violence or terrorism.

The highest level of court in France, the Court of Cassation, will rule Friday at 5pm Paris time in the right to life case involving Vincent Lambert.

Food and water was taken away from the 42 year old quadriplegic patient May 20th until the Paris Court of Appeals ruled it must be given to him again until his case could be heard in a hearing involving a United Nations disability panel.

His parents say Vincent Lambert is a disabled person while doctors treating him describe him as a person in a "persistent vegetative state" after a traffic accident in 2008.

The former Special Counsel Robert Mueller says he will testify before a House committee on July 17th.

Previously Mueller had said he would not testify before Congress saying his final report was his testimony.

A lawyer for President Trump, Jay Sekulow, told Fox News Tuesday evening that he expects Mueller's testimony to reflect his final report.   A report that found no collusion between President Trump and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.

From the White House, word that Stephanie Grisham will be the new Press Secretary, replacing Sarah Sanders.

Grisham has been working on the staff of First Lady Melania Trump.

And that's the way it really is as we come into Wednesday morning June 26th, 2019.

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: SUMMER EDITION

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'HEATWAVE'-MARTHA REEVES AND THE VANDELLAS

A  "heatwave", certainly a hot one in Paris with temps topping 100 Fahrenheit and the Heat Index well over 110.

The right to life case of Vincent Lambert in France is going to be in front of us on Friday with a court ruling coming then that may negate the Paris Court of Appeals ruling of May 20th.  

That ruling forced the University Hospital in Reims to restore food and water to Vincent Lambert hours after it was taken away from him.

Lambert is a  disabled man whose parents want to prevent him from being put to death like Terri Schiavo  was here in the USA in 2005.

Down in Mexico the word tonight is that 15-thousand Mexican troops are deploying near the US border to interdict migrants.

Fox News has a story online about that......LINK


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'RIDIN' MY THUMB TO MEXICO'-JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ


'FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE'-MATT MONRO


'MIDNIGHT IN MOSCOW'-KENNY BALL AND HIS JAZZMEN



"Midnight In Moscow" by Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen, a 1961 instrumental hit.


And Facebook is out with word that in 2016 the Russians spent a grand total of 97 cents US putting ads in favor of Brexit out during the referendum campaign.   This posted at the UKIP Twitter page...LINK

Russian interference is also being denied by the former Liberal Democrat leader in the UK who now works for Facebook, Nick Clegg.    Nigel Farage linked to this BBC story where Clegg puts out his denial but which also brings out the whole new universe of social media, politics, suppression of internet speech etc. etc.....


BBC NO EVIDENCE RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE STORY



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'SONG OF THE VOLGA BOATMEN'-GLENN MILLER



'SKYLARK'-HARRY JAMES AND HIS ORCHESTRA



'LOCH LOMOND'-BENNY GOODMAN



Well in the here and now Democrats will debate later this week two nights with two different groups.

I mean the Democrats running for President of the United States in 2020.

Bernie Sanders out with a proposal to cancel all student loan debt by taxing Wall Street.

Only Bernie could come up with that.


President Trump saying he will talk to Iran without preconditions even as new sanctions are dropped on Iran as in the Supreme Leader of the country Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Saudi Arabia driving all this, the United Arab Emirates many believe.   Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visiting with them talking about Iran.

And those jihadists funded by the Saudis and Gulf Arabs do their dirty work in Syria in the last 24 hours shelling 11 different locations in northwestern Syria.


The story from Russia's Tass News Agency....LINK


And yes the three astronauts are back from the International Space Station tonight US time including a Canadian astronaut.


Good Night God Bless.   Hope you find that Peace and Serenity in your life and that Sanity and Sobriety.


Ringo Starr to take us out tonight.


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'NO NO SONG'-RINGO STARR

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 6/23-MONDAY 6/24/2019

(WORK IN PROGRESS, UPDATES, ADDITIONS, EDITING ETC. THROUGH EARLY MONDAY)


US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Washington Sunday headed for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to align US policy with those oil rich Sunni Muslim countries that are adversaries of Shia Muslim Iran.

Pompeo telling the media that he wants to build an international coalition against Iran.


President Trump tweeting over the weekend that:

"major additional Sanctions"

will be imposed on Iran Monday.

National Security Adviser John Bolton said Sunday that President Trump looks forward to meeting 'Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit later this week in Osaka, Japan.

President Trump putting the brakes on deportation of thousands of illegal immigrants that was reportedly set to begin Sunday.

The President tweeting that he expects Democrats in Congress to agree with him on changes in asylum policy for migrants who want to enter the US.

The deportations of two thousand families among the millions in the USA illegally will begin in two weeks if Democrats don't agree, the President says.

The rerun of the election for mayor in Turkey's largest city Sunday.    Results showing a strong lead for the CHP opposition party over the AKP party of the national government..

At 99.4 percent of the vote counted :

Ekrem Imamoglu   CHP   4,698,782    54    percent

Binali Yildirim       AKP   3,921,201    45.1 percent

The winning candidate proclaiming a "new beginning" for both Istanbul and Turkey.

The secularist opposition CHP won on March 31st but the Islamist political party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the AKP challenged the result in court with a ruling in favor of Sunday's second election. 

Mr. Imamoglu was congratulated on his victory by President Erdogan.

Pro AKP media published a story before polls closed Sunday complete with video of a woman being told to remove her headscarf at a polling place....LINK

Democrat presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg back home in South Bend, Indiana Sunday confronting anger and frustration at a town hall meeting one week after police shot a black man they say was breaking into cars and wielding a knife.

Buttigieg reported by CNN to be "admitting failure" in terms of recruiting minorities to the police department and the failure of police body cams used by the South Bend Police Department to capture any video of the shooting.

More on the story from CNN.....LINK.

Republican state senators in Oregon continuing to resist efforts by Democrats to pass climate change legislation that the GOP says would hurt rural Oregon in favor of big city Portland interests.

The senators are absent from the State Capitol in Salem preventing any session to pass the legislation.

Democrat senate leadership imposing a 500 dollar fine each day the Republicans don't show up.

One Republican state senator interviewed by a television reporter in Boise, Idaho said he's been in three states in recent days.   Democrats in Montana tweeting that the Oregon Republican senators may be headed to their state.

The Democrats backed away from a senate session Saturday citing a "militia threat" but a peaceful crowd of protesters supporting the GOP showed showed up in Salem.

The Oregon Republicans mocked the notion of a "militia threat" in a tweet triggering counter tweets from Democrats alleging the promotion of violence by the Republicans.

In Ethiopia the army chief of staff shot dead by his bodyguard in the capital of Addis Ababa and the governor of a northern region also shot and killed in what is being described as a "coup attempt" in the northern region.

The government says the situation is under control after arrests were made but troops have been deployed in some areas and a manhunt is underway for the leader of the coup attempt.

The BBC is reporting on this story....LINK

A 7.3 magnitude earthquake Monday morning in the Banda Sea of Indonesia.   The epicenter off the coast of East Timor with the tremor felt many miles away including parts of northern Australia around Darwin.

No casualties or damage reported.

A crowd said to be in the hundreds of thousands rallied in capital of the Czech Republic, Prague, Sunday.

They were demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Andrej Babis.

Babis being investigated by the Czech state prosecutor and by the European Union accused of business irregularities and misuse of EU business subsidies.

The Yellow Vests protests continued in France on Saturday for the 32nd week in a row.

The "Yellow Number" Facebook page indicating over 27-thousand participants nationwide at 286 locations in a final count published Sunday.

One form of protest was the blocking of more than 60 toll booths along highways turned over to private companies by the government with traffic being waved on for toll free driving.

A protest at the Paris Disneyland also created free parking for visitors there Saturday morning.

Organizers vow to keep on protesting until November 17th to mark the first anniversary of the Yellow Vests protests.

The Russian woman convicted of being an agent for Russia's government, Maria Butina, is appealing her conviction.

Her lawyers have won a small victory during the appeals process.    She will be released from prison in the US on October 25th instead of November 5th, a ten day reduction of her sentence.

And back to Israel Folau who was fired from Australian rugby for being critical of homosexuality.

Folau trying to raise money online with a crowdfunding effort to support the appeal of his firing.

Now that crowdfunding effort taken down. 

And that indeed is the way it really is as we come into this Monday June 24th, 2019.

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: SATURDAY NIGHT VERSION

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'I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE'-MARVIN GAYE

'OCEAN FRONT PROPERTY'-GEORGE STRAIT

And here we are with everything from "Gaye" to "Straight" and everything in between.   We are all in this boat together, that's for sure.

Blogger Daniel Duquenal from Venezuela who is gay tells us about things down there on his blog and also via Twitter.   Here is his Twitter feed much of it in Spanish but some in English, too.....DANIEL DUQUENAL TWITTER

And on the straight and narrow side of things this from Judge Roy Moore, taking on the swamp again running for US Senate and this in his fundraising email Friday....

"Predictably the Establishment are on the attack.

They hate the fact that I live by my principles and that I'll vote that way too.

They know I won't sell out to the swamp serpents once safely in office as many of them did when they got to DC..."

God Bless Roy Moore and God Bless Daniel Duquenal.

I spent an hour or more in a waiting room watching DirecTV yesterday got to see some RT (Russia Today) and One America News along with Newsmax among other things.

The guy on Newsmax was saying "we lose a Senate seat" because Roy Moore is running.

Who is "we"?

His "we" is the GOP Establishment.    I look down there and I see Rand Paul standing for something other than the business as usual and the rest are not even trying.   I left Ted Cruz for Donald J. Trump in March 2016 after giving Cruz significant financial support.

In the House Kentucky has Tom Massie, God Bless him.

I guess a handful of others but beyond the Libertarians what?

The Establishment uses Donald Trump even though they never cared about him and still don't care.


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'AIN'T NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY'-HELEN REDDY


'I WRITE THE SONGS'-BARRY MANILOW


'I'M HENRY THE EIGHTH'-HERMANS HERMITS


"Henry the 8th" was a song I remember hearing out in the backyard of a nearby house in my neighborhood as a bunch of guys formed their own band in the summer back in 1965.

In the world around us what news is important and what news is not.

Take a look at this Twitter post from "AltNewsMedia" about what the news priorities in the UK are.....


LINK


"44 Groomers" refers to a child sex abuse ring with a new series of arrests in recent days and the stories of child sex abuse rings and industrial scale abuse involving Muslim defendants in the UK is something that's been out there for years with those who choose to expose it like Tommy Robinson set to go on trial in London on July 4th.


In Canada a religious symbols law affecting government employees in Quebec triggered by the influx of migrants who are often Muslims gets a response from a police force in another Canadian province.
A police force in the Greater Toronto Area thinks they can pick up some recruits from the whole thing.....LINK


Music Links:


'BIG IRON'-MARTY ROBBINS


'MY TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN HOME'-DOLLY PARTON


In the here and now Iran is on the table.

The new nuances from Washington are that the US launched a cyber attack on Iran instead of the "other kind" and that President Trump has new sanctions on Iran to announce Monday the President emphasizing that Iran cannot get nuclear weapons.


What did President Trump tweet in recent hours?

"I never called the strike against Iran "BACK". as people are incorrectly reporting, I just stopped it from going forward at this time!......LINK

And National Security Adviser John Bolton in Israel Sunday meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but probably more importantly sitting down with his Israeli and Russian counterparts.

Iran and Syria look to be at the top of their "bucket list".     A story from Russia's Tass....LINK


North Korea and much brouhaha about someone trying to get a picture of Kim Jong-un's letter to President Trump recently but the President has sent the ruler of North Korea a letter that is being praised in that nation's government media.   The BBC version of the story......LINK

And the world keeps moving forward and so Good Night, God Bless and I hope you find that next right thing to do.....


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'SOUND OFF'-VAUGHN MONROE

FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 32:  THE 'YELLOW NUMBER' OVER 25-THOUSAND, GOVERNMENT ESTIMATES HIGHER NUMBER OF 11,800 THIS WEEK

The Yellow Vests on the streets of Paris and marching and rallying in other locations in France today with a reported 25 percent increase in numbers from last week according to the "Yellow Number" Facebook page.

The government's Yellow Vest estimate this week was 11,800, up from 7-thousand last week.

In Paris 1100 Yellow Vests reported today,

YELLOW VESTS WEEK 32 PARIS RUPTLY VIDEO STREAM


MULTISTREAM VIDEO WEEK 32 YELLOW VESTS


Video of a protest in Annecy, France today....LINK


These videos also posted of what is being called a:

"blocage"

It appears in this video that a blocking of a highway is underway at Augny.......LINK

Jerome Rodrigues via his Twitter Feed today reporting 400 people blocking the A1 highway between Paris and Lille.

Another video of Yellow Vests 22 minutes long posted along those lines...YELLOW VESTS BLOCAGE NATIONAL


Also live video from a toll station in France where Yellow Vests are waving motorists through the various lanes.  Highways turned over to private contractors charging toll are one of the original Yellow Vests issues along with gasoline taxes imposed in the name of combating "climate change"....


TOLL STATION YELLOW VESTS FRANCE


This is video from Toulouse of a gathering of Yellow Vests today.  Media reporting estimated the protest to be involving a few hundred people.....TOULOUSE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 32 STREAM


Yellow Vests gathering in the port of Marseille today with media reports estimating 500 to 600 protesters present......MARSEILLE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 32


An overhead view of a toll station blockage.....LINK


Jerome Rodrigues tweeting during the day that more than 60 toll stations became toll free stations in France today because of the Yellow Vests.

Also the "Eurodisney-Disneyland" parking lot in the Paris area the site of a "toll free" protest Saturday morning to create free parking for visitors there.


In Bordeaux today media reports estimated some 750 Yellow Vests on the streets....YELLOW VESTS BORDEAUX WEEK 32


Media reports say a few hundred Yellow Vests were rallying in Lille today and a group of protesters were blocking at a ferry in Saint-Malo in northwestern France.

A Yellow Vest protester injured when a car drove into a blockage at Saint-Avold in the Moselle region.


In Belfort a protest against General Electric and its plans to cut one thousand jobs that included the political leader of the Left in France ("France Insubordinate"). Jean Luc-Melenchon, donning a Yellow Vest.   Here is video of that from BFM-TV....LINK

Some 5-thousand people there with Yellow Vests, union banners and the Red color of the Left being present as well.

Video from "France 3" television of that protest......LINK

The total Yellow Vests estimated by the "Yellow Number" Facebook page Saturday evening was 25,553 which represents a 25 increase in numbers from last week.

Protest personalities coming out with a call for continued protest until the first anniversary of the Yellow Vests in November (November 17th).

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 6/21-SATURDAY 6/22 NEWSDUMP EDITION

(WORK IN PROGRESS, STORIES MAY BE UPDATED, ADDED, EDITED ETC. ETC. THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY)

With restraint being the apparent message from Washington in recent hours, Iran seems to be sending out its own messaging in that vein.

Reuters is reporting that Iran refrained from shooting down a US Navy maritime patrol aircraft with 35 crew members on board before opting to shoot down a US drone Wednesday night.

President Trump tweeting Friday that his decision to back away from attacking three Iranian sites was based on an estimate that 150 would be killed in the attacks.

White House National Security Adviser John Bolton will be in Israel Sunday meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Bolton en route to a meeting in Bahrain next week that will discuss economic aspects of a possible deal between Israel and the Palestinians,   President Trump's "Deal of the Century".

"You expect black people to vote for you"

That was a sample of the response that Democrat Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg got in South Bend, Indiana Friday.

Some residents upset with their city's mayor following the shooting of black man by a police officer last Sunday.   The mayor trying to calm the crowd at a Friday rally saying he was committed to "fixing this".

The murder conviction of a Mississippi man, tried six times in a quadruple murder case from 1996, thrown out by the US Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision Friday.

Curtis Flowers on death row after his conviction in the sixth trial.

Two other trials resulted in hung juries and three times the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned convictions on the basis of prosecutorial misconduct including deliberate attempts by the prosecutor to keep African-Americans off the jury.

Attempts to racially gerrymander the jury by overzealous prosecutor Doug Evans cited in the court's majority opinion written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Evans is free to put Flowers on trial for a seventh time under the ruling.


The US Supreme Court also ruling Friday 7-2 in support of a man in the country illegally over his possession of a firearm.     The majority of the justices saying that United Arab Emirates citizen  Hamid Rahaif  could not be convicted without the government proving he knew of his immigration status.   More from "The Hill".....LINK

Nine are dead after a plane carrying skydivers crashed in Hawaii.   The plane crash northwest of Honolulu on the island of Oahu.

Oregon's Democrat Governor Kate Brown ordering Oregon State Police to round up Republican state senators who "left the building" Thursday to prevent the senate from acting on "climate change legislation".

500 dollar a day fines being imposed on the Republican senators and the Oregon State Police saying they are calling on "out of state" resources to help them round up the senators.

"Oregon Live" offers its interpretation of what the Republicans are concerned about.....LINK

New developments late Friday with a decision to close the Oregon statehouse Saturday.    The Associated Press reporting "a militia threat".    Militia groups reported to be planning a peaceful protest outside the State Capitol in Salem on Saturday and "Oregon Live" reporting that the Three Percent group had offered protection to the Republican state senators.....ASSOCIATED PRESS-OREGON LIVE STORIES

Protesters surrounding government buildings in Hong Kong Friday into Saturday.     The police headquarters and revenue building became protest sites Friday as demands continue for withdrawal of the bill that would extradite Hong Kong residents to the Chinese mainland for prosecution.

They also want protesters arrested in previous demonstrations released and investigations into violent tactics used by police.

The protests wound down Saturday morning.

The AFP news agency reporting that Hong Kong police vow to pursue the ringleaders of the protests....LINK

240 injured including dozens of police in the Republic of Georgia Thursday as protesters stormed into the parliament building expressing  outrage over a Russian parliament member speaking there that day.

Dozens of police among the injured as they used rubber bullets and tear gas against the protesters.

Sergei Gavrilov spoke jn the Georgian parliament as part of a meeting of parliament members from Orthodox Christian countries.

The speaker of Georgia's parliament Irakli Kobakhidze resigning Friday as demanded by the protesters.

Russia's Tass News Agency reports 305 protesters detained by police in the nation of Georgia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signing a decree temporarily suspending airline service with Georgia on Friday night but not taking effect until July.   There's an advisory for Russians to avoid travel there.

Another protest materialized outside the parliament building on Friday night with a more peaceful atmosphere but protesters expressing deep anger towards Russia.

British media abuzz over an incident at the apartment of the top contender to be next British Prime Minister.

Police arrived at the residence of Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds after a "loud argument" was overheard by neighbor.

The police say they checked on the welfare of all in the apartment shortly after midnight on Friday morning and found everyone to be OK.

The neighbor recorded the loud argument and shared the recording with "The Guardian" newspaper.

Johnson the former Foreign Secretary in a contest with current Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt to be the next Prime Minister with Conservative Party members voting in the next month.

British cabinet minister Mark Field suspended Friday after he grabbed and pushed an environmentalist activist away as she attempted to disrupt a black tie dinner in London.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has expressed concern over the matter and opposition politicians have called for Mr. Field to be fired.

Field is a cabinet minister in the British Foreign Office.

A special election has been triggered in a House of Commons seat.    In Brecon and Radnorshire petitions gained enough signatures to trigger the election after Conservative Party MP Chris Davies admitted he had submitted false expense claims.

In California Friday a state panel approving pay raises for Governor Gavin Newsom, state legislators and other top elected officials.

A four percent hike in pay set to take effect December 2nd. 

He was fired by the sport of rugby in Australia for expressing his views about homosexuality.

Now Israel Folau is trying to contest his firing before an Australian tribunal.

Folau is asking for donations to help him in a crowdfunding campaign launched Friday.

The BBC has more on this story.....LINK

And that's the way it really is as we come into Newsdump Saturday June 22nd, 2019

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 6/20-FRIDAY 6/21/2019

(WORK IN PROGRESS, ADDITIONS, EDITING, UPDATES POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY)

(THE 'NEW YORK TIMES' REPORTED LATE THURSDAY THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD APPROVED MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN AND HAD PULLED BACK FROM THE DECISION.   THE REPORTING GOING SO FAR AS TO SAY PLANES WERE IN THE AIR AND SHIPS IN POSITION WHEN THE DECISION WAS MADE TO PULL BACK FROM AN ATTACK)

(REUTERS CITED IRANIAN SOURCES SAYING THAT A WARNING OF AN IMMINENT ATTACK WAS GIVEN TO IRAN VIA THE NATION OF OMAN)

Congressional leadership attended a closed door briefing at the White House Thursday with Democrats telling the media that military action or "war" against Iran was something requiring Congressional approval.

Republicans speaking of the need for a "measured response".

"Iran made a very big mistake!"

That's how President Trump sees Iran's shooting down of an American drone via Twitter.

Without commenting in depth when asked what will be done in response to the attack Trump told the media:

"You'll soon find out"

Both the US and Iran confirmed the shoot down of the American drone.

The Iranians were the first to announce the downing of the drone saying it was shot down when it entered Iranian airspace.    Iran also said the drone turned off its transponder for the flight.

Iran has released a video of the shoot down.....IRANIAN SHOOT DOWN VIDEO

The Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif says that sections of the plane have been retrieved in "Iranian territorial waters".

(IRAN DISPLAYED THOSE PARTS OF THE DRONE THAT IT RECOVERED ON FRIDAY)

The US denied the Iranian announcement at first but later confirmed the shoot down saying it happened over the Strait of Hormuz at around 735 pm Eastern US time Wednesday.

The US Central Command said again Thursday that the drone was not in Iranian airspace.

The "Southfront" website says that the type of drone downed was the MQ-4C Triton, a craft that can operate some 60,000 feet in the air.     Speculation from that website about how Iran brought down the drone.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday evening that Iran has "intesnified" its aggression and urged other nations to support the United States against Iran.     More from "Israel National News"....LINK

India has sent two warships to the Persian Gulf region to conduct maritime safety patrols.    More from "Almasdar News" in Lebanaon......LINK

The Federal Aviation Administration issued an emergency warning for aircraft to avoid the Persian Gulf region Thursday evening.

Iranian forces in Syria are reported to be in a heightened state of alert also according to "Al Masdar News" in Lebanon.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that 108 airstrikes have been carried out in northwestern Syria by Russian and Syrian aircraft in the 24 hour period ending Thursday.

Speculation that the airstrikes are a prelude to a major ground offensive in the area by Syrian government forces.

We are now down to the final two candidates to be the next Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt will face off for a vote from some 160-thousand members of the Conservative Party.

The final round vote by Conservative MP's to determine the top two was Boris Johnson 160, Jeremy Hunt 77, and Michael Gove 75.

In the first of two elimination rounds of voting Thursday among Conservative MP's Boris Johnson at 157 votes, a clear majority of the 313 House of Commons Tories.    Michael Gove was at 61 votes with Jeremy Hunt at 59 and Home Secretary Sajid Javid eliminated only getting 34 votes.

In Alabama Judge Roy Moore is in the race for US Senate in 2020.   Moore launching his candidacy for with a fundraising appeal stressing that it's "obvious" that he was the first Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Judge Moore says he was targeted by the Left, the Democrats, the Media and even some Republicans with 'wrap and smear' allegations.

Moore seeking 200-thousand dollars in financial support to fuel his fight against the political establishment.   Moore hopes to get past the GOP challengers so he can face off again with Democrat Doug Jones, who narrowly defeated him in the Special Election in December 2018 amid sexual allegations leveled against him.

The US Supreme Court ruling Thursday that a 40 foot cross can remain on public land at an intersection in Bladensburg, Maryland, just outside Washington DC.   The highest court reversing a federal appeals court decision to remove the cross.

The cross was erected to remember those who lost their lives in World War I.

The court decision in favor was 7-2 with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor in the minority.

From Hong Kong Friday word that thousands have surrounded police headquarters calling for the bill that would extradite Hong Kong residents to mainland China for prosecution to be withdrawn.

Under the pressure of last weekend's massive protest, the Hong Kong government said it was "suspending" the legislation, not withdrawing it.

In the Republic of Georgia, thousands tried to storm the country's parliament building.    The mass protest against the appearance of a Russian delegation in the country.   Police contained the demonstrators in the end.

Russian parliament member Sergei Gavrilov addressing a meeting of parliament members from Orthodox Christian countries inside the parliament building.

The protesters angry over Russia's military actions against Georgia during the border dispute of 2008 calling Russia an "occupier".

Social media censorship takes on a new dimension in Spain with You Tube taking down the Spanish political party "Vox".

Vox, which opposes mass immigration into Spain and separatist movements in various Spanish regions, recently won seats in Spain's parliament and the European parliament.

Instead of de-platforming  an individual, this action is seen as an escalation to the de-platforming of a political party.

More from the "Kipper Central" website.....LINK

And that's the way it really is as we come into Friday morning June 21st, 2019.

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED:  SUMMER EDITION IRAN AND BEYOND.....

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'EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL'-RAY STEVENS

That's brings it back almost 50 years with Ray Stevens with a song that was out there during all the cultural divisions and anti-Vietnam War protests that played alongside pro-Win The Vietnam War protests as well.

A lot of money spent around 1970 the beginnings of our welfare state kicking in alongside wartime spending.

And 22 trillion dollars later with Persian Gulf counties rich in money and Sunni Islam Islam opposed to the Shia Islamic regime across the gulf, well here we are.

Earlier this week retired Army Lt. Col. Pat Lang, former military attache in the Middle East, offered some thoughts about what's on the way....PAT LANG-'SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS' BLOG

So that's the colonel's version of things to come.

We shall see....

A shortened edition  tonight........


In the here and now......


President Xi Jinping of China is visiting North Korea to meet with Kim Jong-un.

Also in the news the "Final Four" for British Prime Minister with Boris Johnson way ahead in MP votes following the Wednesday vote of MP's and the other three left being Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove and Sajid Javid.

In the end following the elimination votes one of the last three will face Boris Johnson in the vote of Conservative Party members in the UK (some 124-thousand) to be the next Conservative leader and British Prime Minister.


The next elimination vote by MP's set for Thursday.


And finally Iran saying it shot down a US drone in the southern part of its territory...

The story as published by "Israel National News"........LINK


Good Night, God Bless and forward we go......


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'MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC'-MAMA CASS ELLIOT

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 6/18-WEDNESDAY 6/19/2019

(MORE STORIES TO BE ADDED, EDITING ETC. AT INTERVALS UNTIL EARLY WEDNESDAY)



President Trump announcing his re-election campaign for 2020 at a rally in Orlando, Florida Tuesday night.

US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida in attendance and he tweeted this video.....LINK

The race to be the next British Prime Minister now down to five candidates.    Dominic Raab did not receive enough votes from Conservative MP's in the second round of voting Tuesday.   He got 30 votes, three short of the number needed to advance.

At the top of the results was Boris Johnson with 126 votes.    Jeremy Hunt had 46 votes, Michael Gove had 41 votes, Rory Stewart with 37 votes and Sajid Javid just reached the minimum number needed, 33 votes.

Two more rounds of voting Wednesday and Thursday with the final two candidates receiving the most votes going to the whole of the Conservative Party membership for a vote.

President Trump announcing that acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan is leaving and has withdrawn from consideration to be the permanent Secretary of Defense.   The President says that Shanahan wants to devote more time to his family.

Mainstream media reports surfaced in the last 24 hours regarding Mr. Shanahan's family raising issues that he said were:

"painted in an incomplete and therefore misleading way"

Army Secretary Mark Esper taking over as Secretary of Defense.

"a deliberate policy to instigate war"

Those comments from Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov Tuesday regarding the United States policy towards Iran.

Moscow is also saying that Russia's expectation is that Iran will adhere to the JCPOA nuclear agreement of 2015.

Russia also takes the view that any Iranian actions including its increasing stockpile of enriched uranium can be reversed.

The lower house of the Russian legislature, the Duma. passing legislation that suspends Russia's participation in the INF (Intermediate Nuclear Forces) treaty.

The upper house to consider it later.

Russia's move in response to the US decision to withdrawal from the INF treaty in February citing Russian violations of it.

A briefing on the situation in northwestern Syria at the UN Security Council Tuesday.    UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres spoke to reporters Tuesday urging respect for international law even when fighting terrorism.   Guterres urged Russia and Turkey to:

"stabilize the situation without delay"

A United Nations human rights expert probing the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi says there is credible evidence that Saudi officials including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman were involved.

Agnes Callamard has released a 101 page report calling for a criminal investigation to follow up the evidence in what is being called an "extradjudicial killing"

The Russian mission in Syria says several settlements in government held areas of northwestern Syria were shelled by jihadist and nationalist opposition forces in the 24 hour period ending Wednesday.

The former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi buried quickly after his death in a courtroom Monday.

There was a police presence as Morsi was buried with his family present at a cemetery in eastern Cairo.

Morsi collapsed during his latest trial, this one on charges of espionage with family members saying he has not received proper medical care during his imprisonment and trials.

Morsi was Egyptian president during the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood in that country.

His wife tweeted that he was a "martyr", a sentiment echoed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.    More on the reaction in Turkey from the pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper....LINK

And that's the way it really is as we come into Wednesday morning June 19th, 2019.

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And the Yellow Vests protests continued in France over the weekend with reduced attendance and the anarchist "black blocs" focusing their efforts on Toulouse with the police charging in, using tear gas and so on.

The government said only 7000 including 950 in Paris participated but the "Yellow Number" Facebook had a different accounting system pointing to 181 protests and 18500 participants which was their final count Sunday after posting a higher number of over 20000 on Saturday.

THE YELLOW NUMBER FACEBOOK

Some English mixed in with the French on that Facebook page talking about a re-evaluation of what's next and where the Yellow Vests movement should go into the future.

BREAKING NEWS.....MOHAMMED MORSI DIES

In Egypt the former President of Egypt in the days of Muslim Brotherhood rule Mohammed Morsi died in court Monday as he was facing trial for espionage.

The BBC reporting the story at the link above.

His son said Morsi was being poorly treated in prison and not receiving needed medical treatments.

President Erdogan in Turkey already calling Morsi a:

"martyr"

Quebec's National Assembly in a rare Sunday session passing a secularism bill clearly aimed at Islamic influence in the province but drawing some robust debate with plenty of controversy and media hype etc.etc.   The legislation a centerpiece of the new administration of the CAQ political party in the province.

See more at the link......CBC NEWS QUEBEC SECULARISM BILL

You read about the fears of "secularism police" in this CBC MSM spin but Canada already has "secularism policing" with its "hate crimes" laws  IMHO regardless of the truth or fiction in the allegations of the bill's opponents.

I visited Montreal in 2015 and one can see Islamic influences in that city distinctive from lets say Ottawa or even Toronto which were also on my itinerary.   There are strong feeling among the Quebecois who remain about what's happening around them.

I was asked by a Quebecois back in 2015 why I was in Montreal and I recall telling him my presence was for tourism to revisit the site associated with the Expo 67 World's Fair I visited as a child.

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I haven't been everywhere but I've seen a lot in the last five years or so to be sure.    One place I haven't been is the Persian Gulf and Iran which is where a lot of attention is being directed at tonight.

The latest word is that 1-thousand more US military personnel are en route to the region.

New photos out tonight as expected in the quarters where I've been reading and the "Jerusalem Post" published a piece about the notion that the US will launch a big attack on a single Iranian target in the coming days quoting United Nations's sources in New York as reported by Israel's "Maariv" newspaper.

If Iran is behind the tanker attacks then its pursuing a limited pressurization hoping to get the other nations of the world like the EU and Russia and China to come to their side of the dispute.

Energy supplies for China and Japan at stake here plus the European countries in any shutdown of Persian Gulf oil.

The link below is to a website which publishes restrained analyses but has over the top commentators offering comments which you may find and I sometimes find offensive.

It isn't a "Fox News" analysis to be sure:


MOON OF ALABAMA-IRAN TO EXCEED SOME NUCLEAR LIMITS-EU UNDER PRESSURE TO FULFILL ITS COMMITTMENTS



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Heading for the end in the here and now the jihadists and nationalists in northwestern Syria continue to shell and kill civilians in government held areas.    The jihadists killing the civilians not the Syrian government and Russian or Iranian allies as asserted in some quarters.

Tass reports on the situation....LINK


The US Supreme Court heading for the end of its session declining to hear the case of the cake shop fined 135-thousand dollars by Oregon authorities over the gay wedding cake but asking the Oregon court to reconsider the case based on US Supreme Court decision in the Colorado wedding cake case last year.

More on this from "OregonLive"......LINK


And a story that's got a court, fines, and a LGBT person all wrapped up in it.   Chelsea Manning refusing to testify before a grand jury with federal prosecutors trying to set up Julian Assange in connection with the Wikileaks case.

Now Manning facing daily fines for refusing to testify.    500 dollars a day set to go to 1000 dollars a day next month.

More from the "Wikileaks" Twitter page......LINK

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