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:
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 :
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
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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