NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 6/4-WEDNESDAY 6/5/2019
(WORK IN PROGRESS THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING)
A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order preventing Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, pardoned by President Trump last July, from using federal land near their ranch for grazing.
US District Judge Michael Simon ruling from bench in Portland Tuesday in response to action filed by environmentalist groups objecting to the Interior Department's action granting grazing permits to Hammond Ranches Inc. following the Hammond's pardon by President Trump.
The Hammonds jailed as terrorists with five year mandatory sentences for lighting a fire to protect their land from a brush fire and the backfire damaging some federal land.
The Hammonds case brought to the attention of the world by the Oregon Standoff protest at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge led by Ammon Bundy in early 2016.
Maxine Bernstein of "OregonLive/The Oregonian" reports on the court order...LINK
Charges against the sheriff's deputy on duty guarding Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida when the mass murder attack took place on February 14th, 2018.
Scot Peterson charged with seven counts of neglect of a child, three of culpable negligence and one of perjury.
Charges filed after an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order preventing Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, pardoned by President Trump last July, from using federal land near their ranch for grazing.
US District Judge Michael Simon ruling from bench in Portland Tuesday in response to action filed by environmentalist groups objecting to the Interior Department's action granting grazing permits to Hammond Ranches Inc. following the Hammond's pardon by President Trump.
The Hammonds jailed as terrorists with five year mandatory sentences for lighting a fire to protect their land from a brush fire and the backfire damaging some federal land.
The Hammonds case brought to the attention of the world by the Oregon Standoff protest at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge led by Ammon Bundy in early 2016.
Maxine Bernstein of "OregonLive/The Oregonian" reports on the court order...LINK
Charges against the sheriff's deputy on duty guarding Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida when the mass murder attack took place on February 14th, 2018.
Scot Peterson charged with seven counts of neglect of a child, three of culpable negligence and one of perjury.
Charges filed after an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
A 45 year old suspect is in police custody.
A witness saw a man holding a pump action shotgun enter a hotel looking for someone named "Alex" and firing multiple times.
More on this story including arrest video from the ABC in Australia......ABC DARWIN SHOOTINGS
The offices of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney raided Wednesday by federal police probing news reports about unlawful killing and misconduct allegations against Australian special forces in Afghanistan.
Two ABC journalists working the story based on hundreds of pages of secret Australian defense department documents leaked to them.
Three federal police officers and police IT technicians entered the ABC building, met with ABC lawyers and began their search...
More on the story from the ABC.....LINK
Australian Federal Police also raided the home of a News Corporation journalist in the capital city of Canberra earlier Wednesday.
The police raid more than a year after Annika Smethurst's story was published in the Australian "Daily Telegraph" newspaper saying the government was planning to give spy agencies power to spy on Australian citizens.
President Trump promising a "phenomenal" trade deal with the United Kingdom after Brexit. The president spoke Tuesday on the second day of his state visit to the UK.
While Trump met the current British Prime Minister Theresa May Tuesday he also had a phone chat with one of her prospective successors, former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
Trump praised Johnson in an interview last week with "The Sun" newspaper.
"He absolutely believes in Brexit"
That's the word from Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage who had a private meeting with Mr. Trump.
Anti-Trump protests at Trafalgar Square Tuesday with an inflatable "Trump baby", a 16-foot "Trump robot" that talks sitting on a toilet and even a vendor hawking "Trump toilet paper". Here is a link to that......TRUMP TOILET PAPER VENDOR
Getting back to Boris Johnson. Johnson campaigning to be the next Conservative Party leader saying the Tories face extinction if they don't deliver on Brexit by the current October 31st deadline.
Johnson saying he's best positioned to put Nigel Farage:
The Syrian military backed by Russian airpower continuing its offensive in northwestern Syria taking three more villages from Al Qaeda and Turkish backed nationalist forces.
The Syrian government moving into regions of three provinces (Hama, Idlib and Latakia) from where rockets have been fired at civilians in government held areas.
A Syrian reporter made in a video in one of the three villages taken by government forces....LINK
The US says a Russian SU-35 fighter approached a US Navy P-8 A spy plane in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Syria Tuesday harassing it. The US says the Russian pilot acted in an "irresponsible" way and placed the US plane in an "unsafe" position.
The United Nations and United States condemning a military operation against civilian protesters in Sudan Monday that killed more than 35 people.
The military breaking off negotiations with civilians on the country's future following the removal of a military regime earlier this year.
The civilian group behind the protests in the country calling for continued civil disobedience.
The military forces continuing their crackdown with at least 60 dead at last word.
US National Security Adviser John Bolton will meet his Israeli and Russian counterparts in Israel later this month. They will discuss Iran during their meeting.
Sanctions tightening up on Cuba with US cruise ships and tour groups banned from going to the Communist ruled island nation.
Meanwhile in Moscow Cuban officials getting a promise of increased aid from Russia in the face of increased US sanctions.
Those the words of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday saying that his country is moving forward with purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system.
The United States has warned that Turkish acquisition of the Russian weapons system would severely hurt relations between the two countries and lead to sanctions against Turkey by the US.
Getting back to Boris Johnson. Johnson campaigning to be the next Conservative Party leader saying the Tories face extinction if they don't deliver on Brexit by the current October 31st deadline.
Johnson saying he's best positioned to put Nigel Farage:
"back in his box"
The first round of voting for the new Conservative Party leader among MP's in the House of Commons set for June 13th.
Eventually the top two finishers in a final round of voting will be submitted to the 124,000 members of the Conservative Party for a vote.
Eventually the top two finishers in a final round of voting will be submitted to the 124,000 members of the Conservative Party for a vote.
The Syrian military backed by Russian airpower continuing its offensive in northwestern Syria taking three more villages from Al Qaeda and Turkish backed nationalist forces.
The Syrian government moving into regions of three provinces (Hama, Idlib and Latakia) from where rockets have been fired at civilians in government held areas.
A Syrian reporter made in a video in one of the three villages taken by government forces....LINK
The US says a Russian SU-35 fighter approached a US Navy P-8 A spy plane in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Syria Tuesday harassing it. The US says the Russian pilot acted in an "irresponsible" way and placed the US plane in an "unsafe" position.
The United Nations and United States condemning a military operation against civilian protesters in Sudan Monday that killed more than 35 people.
The military breaking off negotiations with civilians on the country's future following the removal of a military regime earlier this year.
The civilian group behind the protests in the country calling for continued civil disobedience.
The military forces continuing their crackdown with at least 60 dead at last word.
US National Security Adviser John Bolton will meet his Israeli and Russian counterparts in Israel later this month. They will discuss Iran during their meeting.
Sanctions tightening up on Cuba with US cruise ships and tour groups banned from going to the Communist ruled island nation.
Meanwhile in Moscow Cuban officials getting a promise of increased aid from Russia in the face of increased US sanctions.
"We are determined"
Those the words of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday saying that his country is moving forward with purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system.
The United States has warned that Turkish acquisition of the Russian weapons system would severely hurt relations between the two countries and lead to sanctions against Turkey by the US.
The board of the French automaker Renault deciding to back away from immediate action on a merger proposal from Fiat-Chrysler.
Renualt will study the proposal for now, a plan that would create the world's third largest auto company in the world.
And that's the way it really is on this Wednesday morning June 5th, 2019.
Renualt will study the proposal for now, a plan that would create the world's third largest auto company in the world.
And that's the way it really is on this Wednesday morning June 5th, 2019.
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