NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 8/23/2019 NEWSDUMP FRIDAY

(LIMITED SERVICE INTO EARLY SATURDAY MORNING)

.....we need to win the hearts and minds of the public.   Not to give the police the excuse they need for more heavy hand tactics....."

Tommy Robinson's latest letter from prison explains the reasoning behind  cancellation of a Saturday demonstration in his support set for Central London.

Robinson explained his concern about more people getting injured like they did at the hands of left-wing activists and even the police during a previous demonstration August 3rd.

He explained that any future protests should be well organized to keep participants safe and from being put into situations where they may get arrested.

You can read Tommy's letter in full at this link to TR.News......LINK

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro says that French President Emmanuel Macron's call for fires in the Amazon to be discussed this weekend at the G7 summit smacks of "colonialism".    Bolsonaro also said that Macron was talking up the fires to make political points with some voters in France and that the nations in the Amazon region should be allowed to deal with the Amazon.

Mr. Macron raising the tempo of his attack saying that President Bolsonaro lied to him about climate change and that France will not support a European Union trade deal with Brazil unless it takes more action to deal with the fires.    The BBC has more on this story with the anti-Brazilian position explained in more detail.....LINK

LATE FRIDAY PRESIDENT BOLSONARO MADE A SPEECH ANNOUNCING THAT THE BRAZILIAN ARMY WILL BE USED TO FIGHT THE FIRES.

The economic conflict between the United States and China Friday saw China announce tariffs on American goods followed by a US response.

President Trump putting out the word that planned or existing tariffs on Chinese goods will be raised by five percent.

President Trump traveling to France Friday night for the G7 summit in the French town of Biarritz near the Spanish border.  Other leaders there include the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and China's President Xi Jin-ping.

Syrian forces continuing their advance against jihadist and other opposition forces in northwestern Syria.   Latest word is that the town of Kafr Zita is now in government hands in Hama province.

Russia's fighter jets scrambled 20 times to intercept foreign aircraft approaching its air space in the last week.    More on this story from the Tass News Agency.....LINK

The associations of Jeffrey Epstein in the news.    "Bloomberg" publishing a story last weekend about a modeling agency owned by Jean-Luc Brunel and its business dealing with major retailers.

More from "Bloomberg".....

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From France Friday word that a rape investigation is underway into the alleged sexual assault of three then 12-year old girls in Paris by Epstein.

In Israel 17-year old Rina Shnerb buried late Friday after she died in a terrorist attack earlier in the day.  She was hiking with her brother and father in an area 9 miles north of Jerusalem when a bomb went off.     Her brother and father seriously wounded by the explosion.

A Special Prosecutor sworn in Friday to look at the Jussie Smollett case.    Former US Attorney Dan Webb probing both Smollett's false claim of a "hate crime" attack on him in Chicago earlier this year and the sudden decision of the local prosecutor to drop the case against Smollett for lying.

A serial killer executed in Florida early Friday morning just after Midnight by lethal injection.

Gary Ray Boles was dubbed the "I 95 Killer" and he was put to death after a last ditch appeal to the US Supreme Court failed.

The BBC's spin on the story.......LINK

A  US Supreme Court announcement Friday that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been treated for a cancerous tumor in her pancreas.

Ginsburg underwent three weeks of radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

And in brief that's the way it really is as we Newsdump into Saturday August 24th, 2019.