NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 7/11-FRIDAY 7/12/2019

(WORK IN PROGRESS THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY, MORE WILL ADD LATER ETC. ETC.)

"Jailed for Journalism"

Tommy Robinson's t-shirt read as he headed into court Thursday morning at the Old Bailey in London for sentencing.

And afterwards he was taken to same prison that houses another jailed journalist, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Tommy Robinson got a nine month prison sentence for live streaming outside a child rape gang trial involving Muslim defendants in Leeds, England on May 25, 2018.

Time taken off for his summary trial imprisonment last year and cut in half to mean he will serve nine and a half weeks.

Robinson ended up at Her Majesty's Prison Belmarsh in London from where he called his wife and said he was in isolation and safe for now.

He feared being killed by Muslim inmates like those who threatened him during his two month plus imprisonment last year where he lost 40 pounds not sure if the prison food was safe.

In France quadriplegic patient Vincent Lambert died Thursday some nine days after the process of his killing began.

Food and water taken away from Lambert at the University Hospital in Reims beginning Tuesday July 2nd.   His parents issued a statement urging "meditation" upon the occasion not just on his death itself but on the "state crime" committed to kill him.

 Pierre and Viviane Lambert tried to work in courts and through the United Nations to save his life but France's highest court ruled to kill their 42 year old son injured in a 2008 motorcycle accident last month.

The parents saw their son as a disabled person but the government and media as in the case of Terri Schiavo in the United States in 2005 said Vincent Lambert was in a "persistent vegetative state".

More at the Breaking News post.....LINK

President Trump made it official Thursday saying he is backing down from trying to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

Last week the President tweeted "FAKE NEWS" when Justice Department lawyers and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said that the citizenship question would not be included in the census.

The President issuing an executive order for agencies to try and obtain the information through other means saying:

"We will leave no stone unturned"

A bill passed the US House this week with bipartisan support to enable people from India to work in the tech industry on H1B visas.

The legislation is seen as benefiting big tech companies and Indian outsourcing interests.

The US Senate is the next stop for the bill followed by a trip to President Trump's desk.

The "Economic Times" from India reports on the story......LINK

Around Washington House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talking about the on again off again plan President Trump has been dangling to stage raids in major cities to arrest several thousands of the millions who are in the country illegally.

The plan may be on again for this Sunday?    Pelosi urging faith leaders to get involved in stopping the immigration raids saying they are responsible for President Trump's election.

Pelosi taking heat from outsider Democrats on the Left.    Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that Pelosi is targeting "women of color" in the Democrat caucus in the House, an apparent reference to her and others labeled Progressives among the Democrats.

And at the White House President Trump staging a social media summit and blasting the political bias of the social media companies against conservatives.

Mainstream media representatives from Canada took a stand Thursday in London at the Media Freedom Conference sponsored by the British and Canadian governments.

It happened when Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland wanted to take questions from group of media representatives but insisted on excluding conservative internet journalists Shelia Gunn-Reid and Andrew Lawton.

The representatives of the CBC, CTV and Global networks along with Toronto's "Globe and Mail" were among those who refused to participate unless the conservative reporters were included.

Eventually Freeland's office relented and all of the reporters were allowed in and each was allowed to ask one question of her.

"I have never taken a ruble, a euro, a dollar or a bottle of vodka from Russia"

Turkey has received the Russian S-400 air defense system as anticipated in reports leaked to the media previously.

The United States has warned Turkey not to get the S-400 or risk being cut out of the F-35 aircraft program.

Those the words of Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini to the ANSA Italian News Agency this week.

Salvini responding to the latest allegations in the media regarding ties to Russia involving himself and his political party, the League.

He noted that he was filed lawsuits for defamation in the past against media making such accusations and he will do so again.

Populist and anti-mass immigration politicians and political parties are commonly accused of being somehow tied to Russia.

From the battlefront in northwestern Syria a ground attack late Thursday by Syrian government forces retaking a hill and town in northern Hama province.   Pro-Syrian government media say dozens of jihadists were killed in the operation.

The music artist R. Kelly arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.   Reportedly 13 federal charges against him including possession of explicit images and obstruction of justice.

Kelly has already entered not guilty pleas to 21 sex abuse charges in the state of Illinois.

Tropical Storm Barry continues to move slowly off the coast of Louisiana with maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour.

The storm expected to cross the coast making landfall early Saturday with winds currently forecast be at around 70 miles per hour just short of hurricane strength.

The National Hurricane Center also warning of the possibility of the storm reaching hurricane strength right before landfall.

And that's the way it really is as we come into Friday July 12th, 2019.