NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 7/9-WEDNESDAY 7/10/2019

(WORK IN PROGRESS THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY)

No official word from Washington in response to British citizen journalist and activist Tommy Robinson's video asylum plea released Monday.

Robinson saying he is:

'days away"

from being:

"sent to death"

in the British prison system.

Robinson asked for the help of:

"Donald Trump, his Administration and the Republican Party"

 for 'political asylum' in the face of what he sees as impending death sentence.

Robinson convicted by British judges in a second "contempt" trial in London last Friday over his live stream outside a child rape gang trial in Leeds, England May 25th, 2018 involving Muslim defendants.

He won an appeal after his first conviction in a summary trial Robinson called "North Korean" and two months living in harrowing prison conditions threatened by Muslim inmates and losing 40 pounds.

British mainstream media stepping up the attack ahead of Robinson's Thursday sentencing hearing in London, reporting that the judges in the case will agree with a prosecutor's claim that Robinson was encouraging "vigilante" violence against the child rapists as he questioned them outside the courthouse in 2018.

Cyber activist Paul Joseph Watson, voted as most likely to be targeted by British authorities next, says Facebook has updated its policy to allow death threats and incitement of violence against him.

You can read his tweet about it as the link.....HERE

British Ambassador Sir Kim Darroch's Tuesday visit to the White House for a meeting with the President's daughter Ivanka Trump called off.

"I don't know the ambassador, but have been told he is a pompous fool"

was part of a Tuesday tweet from President Trump in the midst of the controversy following leaks of the ambassador's emails that show disdain for the White House.


The British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt taking aim at President Trump describing the President as "disrespectful" toward British Prime Minister Theresa May and the UK following his recent tweets about her approach to Brexit. 

The UK's Minister for International Trade Liam Fox was set to meet US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Tuesday but the meeting was cancelled.

THE LATE WORD WEDNESDAY MORNING IS THAT SIR KIM DARROCH HAS RESIGNED AS UK AMBASSADOR TO THE US.

Additional British and French troops are on their way to Syria to replace withdrawing US forces which will have a reduced presence in the country after President Trump backed away from his intention expressed late last year for a total withdrawal.

Other nations will provide military forces for Syria with the US helping to pay as well according to a story published by "Foreign Policy" magazine....LINK

US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford says the United States wants to create an international military coalition to patrol waters around both Iran and Yemen in light of the recent oil tanker attack incident.

Dunford describes the US role as being one of providing a command and control structure for other nations to participate in.

The sister of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Hassa bint Salman, on trial in Paris Tuesday in abstentia.   She is on trial in connection with a 2016 where she ordered a bodyguard to beat a workman at her Paris apartment with the bodyguard said to have ordered the workman to kiss the princess's feet.

The bodyguard was in court for trial Tuesday.   The charges involve violence with a weapon and kidnapping with the Saudi princess considered an accomplice.

There is an international arrest warrant for the princess...The BBC has a version of the story....LINK

Rap singer Nicki Minaj is pulling out of an appearance in Saudi Arabia amid an outcry from activists appalled at the country's record on women's rights and LGBT rights.

Police made dozens of arrests of Shiite Muslims in Nigeria's capital Tuesday after a policeman and a member of another security organization were shot and wounded.   Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria storming the National Assembly in Abuja over the imprisonment of their leader Ibrahim Zakzaky.

The National Assembly going on lock down because of the incident.

A Nigerian media report....LINK  and another Nigerian media post showing the aftermath of the incident....LINK

A US District Judge has ruled that the Justice Department can't change lawyers in the case over adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

Attorney General William Barr saying he sees a way forward to winning the case over adding the question to the census and wanting to change the lawyers, but US District Judge Jesse Furman stopping that with his ruling.

Tweeting about the ruling, President Trump noted that Judge Furman was an appointee of former President Barack Obama.

It was the largest migrant reception center in Europe, but a facility that once housed thousands closed Tuesday in Catania, Italy.

Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, also Interior Minister and leader of the League party, was on hand to hail a campaign promise kept in closing down the facility.

Local residents on the island of Sicily complained of crime, corruption and cheap labor disrupting normal life there.    Investigations into the facility found corrupt practices in its operation and authorities uncovered a drug trafficking operation being led by Nigerian migrants.

Migrants still at the facility, which once housed over 4-thousand, moved to another facility in Calabria on the southern mainland of Italy.

A protest vigil of 20 people gathered Tuesday evening outside the University Hospital in Reims, France one week to the moment that food and water was taken away from quadriplegic patient Vincent Lambert.

Lambert being put to death in the same way Terri Schiavo was in the United States in 2005 and also being described as someone in a "persistent vegetative state".

Lambert's parents tried to stop the killing but failed in France's court system.  They said Monday they are now resigned to his death.

The Chinese government demanding that the United States back away from selling arms to Taiwan.

A spokesman saying the plan to sell 2.2 billion dollars in weaponry including over 100 Abrams tanks and 250 Stinger missiles:

"undermines China's sovereignty and security interests"

The US State Department has signed off on the weapons sale to Taiwan as the process of its approval continues in Washington.


The State Department is warning Turkey about drilling off the coast of Cyprus.



The US statement says in part:

"This provocative step raises tensions in the region"

Other nations interested in the energy potential underneath waters around Cyprus include Greece and Israel.

The intrigues of Israeli politics.

First a transcript has leaked out related to the interrogation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in one of three corruption cases where he is facing indictment.

The Prime Minister is asked by Brigadier General Koresh Bar Nur, head of the police fraud unit if he asked for a military chopper to take an Israeli billionaire to a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah:

"Did you ask for a chopper to take Milchan to Jordan?"

Netanyahu's response:

"I don't remember.  possibly, I don't remember"

A pre-indictment hearing to review evidence in the three corruption cases is set for early October, a few weeks after Israel's September 17th election.

Case 1000 also involves allegations of expensive gifts being given to Prime Minister Netanyahu by Israeli billionaire Arnon Milchan and Australian businessman James Packer including Cuban cigars, champagne and jewels.

The Prime Minister and his supporters deny the allegations.

More from Israel's "Ynet".....LINK

There's a lot of talk about the former Justice Minister in Israel, Ayelet Shaked, prominent politician on the Right in Israel.

She envisions a grand union of political forces to the Right of Prime Minister Netanyahu's Likud for the September 17th election with members of the Likud saying she is not welcome in Likud,   Reports also being leaked out saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no objections to her joining Likud.

To the Left in Israel and research reportedly being conducted on how a Left leaning union of the Labor and Meretz parties with former Prime Minister Ehud Barak's new political party would fare in the upcoming election.

The latest polling data for Israel's September 17th election give Netnayahu's Likud 30 seats, the Blue and White Party 30, Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu nine seats, the Joint Arab List nine seats, United Torah Judaism and Shas religious parties eight and seven seats respectively, Labor seven seats, left-leaning Meretz at six seats.

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak's Democratic Israel at five seats, the Zehut-New Right at five seats and United Right at four seats.

Internet service at least partially restored in Sudan after a court ruling.

The internet shut down in that country as massive protests were underway against military rule on June 3rd.

In recent days military and civilian factions agreeing to share power ahead of eventual elections in the country.

Texas billionaire and two time independent presidential candidate Ross Perot dead at the age of 89.

Perot gained his wealth in electronics and computers decades ago.   He was a salesman for IBM, then formed his own company in the early 1960's.

Perot's company winning a federal government contract to computerize Medicare when it began in the 1960's.

Perot advocated on behalf of those missing in the Vietnam War saying many POW's were left behind.

He organized a mission to rescue two of his employees who were jailed in Iran in 1978.

But Perot's plain-talking sales pitch found its zenith in politics as he ran twice for President in 1992 and 1996, gaining 19 percent of the vote in 92 and eight percent in 1996.

Many believe that Perot helped Bill Clinton win presidential elections.

But one can also argue that his strong hostility to the then President George H.W. Bush in 1992 along with his ability to grab media attention and use of personal wealth to fuel his campaign was a prototype of what current President Donald J. Trump brought to the 2016 presidential campaign.

And finally some notes about a media freedom conference underway Wednesday in London where two names associated with "media freedom" by those who support them aren't being mentioned.....Julian Assange and Tommy Robinson.     That's the assessment of Ezra Levant from Canada's "Rebel Media" who's on the scene of this Canada-UK organized forum.    Levant also sees a very anti-American tilt there.

His tweets on his Twitter page Wednesday morning.....EZRA LEVANT TWITTER

But its also worth noting that the case of Jamal Khashoggi was presented at the conference as well on Tuesday and the BBC did report on that.....LINK

And that's the way it really is as we come into this Wednesday morning July 10th, 2019.