NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 7/5-SATURDAY 7/6/2019 NEWSDUMP EDITION

(WORK IN PROGRESS THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY)

"There is no free press"

Those just some of the words spoken by Tommy Robinson following the guilty verdict at his contempt trial in London Friday.

Robinson found guilty of contempt for live streaming outside a child sex abuse trial in Leeds, England on May 25th of last year.

He was summarily tried then and imprisoned for more than two months until won an appeal, losing 40 pounds during his imprisonment under conditions where he was threatened by Muslim prisoners.

He faces the potential of two years in prison with sentencing set for next Thursday July 11th following conviction on this new contempt charge developed by the Attorney General of Prime Minister Theresa May following his successful appeal last year.

Robinson sending out an email to supporters Friday evening saying:

"It is looking like I am going to be sent back to jail in six days time"

The Breaking News post is here.....LINK    The earlier in the day aspects of the trial are here...LINK

In Norway a secret verdict Wednesday in a sexual abuse trial involving a prominent politician.

Former regional governor and cabinet minister Svein Ludvigsen found guilty in a case where he was accused of forcing young men who were asylum seekers, one 17 years old at the time, to have sex with him in exchange for jobs and housing.

Ludvigsen sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay damages to the three victims.    The sentence was not revealed to the public until 24 hours after it was handed down.

He maintains his innocence and will appeal the verdict.

A civil lawsuit against actor Kevin Spacey has been dropped by a man who accused Spacey of groping him.

His mother had said that Spacey bought her then 18 year old son alcohol and groped him on the island of  Nantucket in Massachusetts.

A criminal case against Spacey was launched there and Spacey pled not guilty to a charge of indecent assault and battery earlier this year.

His defense lawyers want access to the young man's phone which they say contains text messages that would support Spacey's defense.

A judge has scheduled a hearing for the accuser, his mother and lawyer on Monday if the phone cannot be found as his lawyer now contends.

There are other sexual misconduct allegations against Spacey.

AN EARTHQUAKE FRIDAY EVENING IN THE SAME GENERAL AREA AS THURSDAY'S TREMOR IN CALIFORNIA, THIS ONE STRONGER.

THE QUAKE CENTERED 11 MILES NORTH NORTH EAST OF RIDGECREST AND MEASURING 7.1 ACCORDING TO THE US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

THE TREMOR REPORTED AT 819.52 PM LOCAL TIME AND FELT ACROSS WIDE AREAS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN NEVADA.\

AND AGAIN THERE HAVE BEEN INJURIES AND FIRES CAUSED BY GAS LEAKS JUST AS ON THURSDAY.

SEISMOLOGISTS BELIEVE A SEQUENCE OF QUAKES ARE UNDERWAY IN THE AREA OF RIDGECREST.

Justice Department lawyers told Maryland US District Judge George Hazel on Friday that the Trump Administration is exploring options to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

The judge wanted answers by a Friday 2 pm deadline after a Presidential tweet contradicted what the lawyers told him Tuesday.    The message then was the citizenship question was being dropped from the census and it was confirmed in a public statement from Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross Tuesday evening.

Then President Trump tweeting "FAKE NEWS" Wednesday morning.

The path forward for the President is not clear since the Supreme Court ruled the citizenship question cannot be on the census form next year unless a better argument can be made to the court to justify it.

The Supreme Court in the British territory of Gibraltar has authorized 14 more days of detention for an Iranian oil tanker seized off its coast by British marines Thursday.

The tanker seized on suspicion of hauling oil to help Syria's government fight opposition forces including Al-Qaeda forces backed by Gulf Arab interests.

An Iranian official who advises Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, says Iran should respond ''without hesitation" to the oil tanker seizure.

Mohsen Rezaei tweeting in part:

"....if Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities duty to seize a British oil tanker.."

Contrasting scenes Friday in Venezuela on that nation's Independence Day.

The regime of Nicolas Maduro staging a military parade that included goose stepping soldiers.

Meanwhile Interim Presidenr Juan Guaido walking through the streets of the nations capital, Caracas, speaking with a bullhorn to crowds gathered around him.

In Sudan the military and opposition have agreed to a three year or more power sharing arrangement after months of turmoil in the country and deadly violence.

There were street celebrations following the agreement.

The military and civilian opposition will rotate control of the country's sovereign council until elections can be held.

Turkey's "Haberturk" news channel reports that the Russian S-400 air defense system will be loaded onto an aircraft in Russia Sunday and arrive in Turkey next week.

The Russian Tass agency quotes a Kremlin official as saying that S-400 delivery is going on according to plan.

The United States has threatened to keep Turkey out of the F-35 aircraft program if it takes delivery of the S-400.

The fight to be the next British Prime Minister continues with the latest leak to the media putting Boris Johnson in a bad light.

The story is that Prime Minister Theresa May and some intelligence officials were trying to keep secret information from Johnson fearing he couldn't keep it secret.

Johnson for his part says he had access to all the information he needed when he was Foreign Secretary.

Johnson's opponent in the Conservative Party leadership race, current Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, telling the media that access to intelligence information "does depend on some discretion by the foreign secretary".


In Tunisia a decision to ban the Muslim face covering, the niqab.

The ban announced by Prime Minister Youssef Chahed for government offices is needed:

"for security reasons"

There have been terrorist attacks in the country including ones that target government buildings.

Employment statistics released in Washington Friday with a record number of Americans employed, 157,005,000, during the month June.

224-thousand new jobs added last month.

The rate of unemployment at 3.7 percent, up .1 percent from the month of May.

And that's the way it really is as we come in Saturday July 6th, 2019.