Friday, June 7, 2019

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 6/7-SATURDAY 6/8/2019 NEWSDUMP EDITION


(WORK IN PROGRESS, MORE TO FOLLOW UNTIL SATURDAY MORNING)


"an obscene act by an agent of the state"


Those words spoken in a Minneapolis courtroom Friday by John Ruszczyk, father of Justine Damond, killed by a now former Minneapolis police officer in July 2017 as she approached a patrol car to report a possible rape.

The sentence handed down for Mohamed Noor in connection with the killing was 12 years and six months.

Noor was from the Somali community in Minneapolis and outside the courtroom protesters claiming he was a victim of racism because he was "black", "Muslim" and an "immigrant".

The BBC with more on this story.....BBC MOHAMED NOOR SENTENCING


The deal has been reached to satisfy the insistence of the United States that Mexico do more to stem the flow of migrants through its territory and into the US through its southern border.

President Trump tweeting Friday night that a:

"signed agreement" 


has been reached.

Mexico deploying six thousand troops to its border with Guatemala and pledging to take "decisive action" to deal with organizations that smuggle migrants through its territory.



Five percent tariffs were set to be imposed on Mexican goods if no deal was reached.

The leader of the Brexit Party in the UK, Nigel Farage, at Number 10 Downing Street Friday to deliver a letter asking for inclusion of the Brexit Party at the negotiating table with the European Union.    Joining him was the party's chairman, Richard Tice. 

More from "Leave.EU" Twitter......LINK


Russia says that an American warship passed within 160 feet of a Russian warship at 1135 pm Eastern US time Thursday night.

The incident in the East China Sea-Philippine Sea area involved the US cruiser Chancellorsville and the Russian destroyer Admiral Vindogradov.

Both sides blame the other for the incident with the US version being that the Russian vessel got to within "50 to 100 feet" of the American warship acting in an "unprofessional" manner.

Syrian government forces resuming forward movement on the ground in northwestern Syria taking several villages in northern Hama province in recent hours.

The Syrian ground forces on the move against Al Qaeda movement jihadists and Turkish backed nationalists retaking the villages following the jihadist counteroffensive that took the villages previously.

The government offensive backed by massive Syrian and Russian air strikes with President Trump tweeting condemnation of "indiscriminate killing" of civilians last Sunday evening.

Similar statements by the President in the past have been the prelude to an allegation of chemical weapons use by the Syrian government side followed by US and allied missile strikes on Syria.

An Israeli TV report says that Iran is enriching uranium.    Iran had indicated that due to sanctions pressure from the United States it would begin to move away from the JCPOA nuclear agreement of 2015.    One move Iran announced was uranium enrichment to 20 percent.

Israeli experts say they believe Iran is six months away from being able to develop a nuclear weapon and Israel has also revealed via its Air Force commander in recent days that an Israeli navy "reconnaissance group" is in the region of Iran.

Russia will deliver two batteries of the S-400 air defense system to Turkey in two months.   That's the word from Russia's Interfax News Agency.

Turkish purchase of the S-400 has caused the United States to make moves to keep Turkey out of the F-35 warplane program.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says there is no firm word on whether President Trump will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin when the two men are at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan later this month.

Peskov also says that details are still being worked out for a visit by President Putin to Saudi Arabia with no firm date yet.

14 people accused of helping the three Islamic terrorists who killed 17 people at the "Charlie Hebdo" magazine offices and a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 set to go on trial from April to July next year.

The gunmen killed by police but this group of `14 will go before a special criminal court in Paris accused of providing support to the terrorists.


Also in France, the aunt and the niece Le Pen offering differing views on the future of French politics.

Marion Marechal, who's dropped her last name "Le Pen", says that the National Rally currently led by her aunt Marine Le Pen  needs to form a "grand coalition" with the traditional "Right" in France like the "Republicans" who are currently splintering following a poor showing of just over 8 percent of the vote in the recent European Parliament elections.

But Marine Le Pen told BFM-TV Friday that her niece's assessment of the situation is "pessimistic" and that what's happening in France politically right now is a dividing of voters between the:


"globalists and the nationalists"



and that this division which saw the National Rally win more votes than Emmanuel Macron's La Republique En Marche in the recent European Parliament elections is continuing to unfold.

Opinion polling in France gives both Marine Le Pen and her niece who's dropped the "Le Pen" from her name, Marion Marechal, roughly equal personal popularity with Le Pen at 44 percent and Marechal at 43 percent.

The storm Miguel wreaking havoc on the UK and Western Europe with 70 mile per hour plus winds.

Three dead and one fisherman missing when a rescue boat capsized off the French coast.     Three of the seven rescue boat crew killed as it attempted to reach the fishing boat in distress.

42-thousand homes in France without electricity.

And that's the way it really is on this Newsdump Saturday morning June 8th, 2019.

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