NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 8/6-WEDNESDAY 8/7/2019

(WORK IN PROGRESS THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY)

At least 18 killed and more than 100 wounded in an bomb attack on a police station in the Afghan capital Kabul Wednesday.

A Chinese government spokesman in Hong Kong is warning that "radical" protesters in the territory are bringing it to:

'the verge of a very dangerous situation"

His Tuesday statement comes after nine weeks in a row of protest which have expanded from demanding withdrawal of a bill to extradite Hong Kong residents to the Chinese mainland to include demands for the resignation of the Beijing appointed leader Carrie Lam and independent investigations into police violence against protesters.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is vowing to fight India's decision to take away the autonomy of Kashmir in forums including the UN Security Council and UN General Assembly.

Khan says he fears India's action will lead to ethnic cleansing in the Kashmir region.

India has shut off communications, telephones, the internet etc. in the majority Muslim territory of Kashmir as its parliament moves to revoke the article of its constitution that gave Kashmir some degree of regional autonomy.

Local leaders placed under arrest as well.

The status of Kashmir has been a source of conflict with neighboring Pakistan which said the Indian move was a dangerous one.

The upper house of India's parliament has already passed the legislation that revokes constitutional Article 370.

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok suing alleging he was wrongfully fired under political pressure because of his texts critical of President Trump.

Strzok opened the probe into allegations of collusion between the President's campaign and Russia.

He alleges that his First and Fifth Amendment rights were violated by the federal government.

The FBI opening a domestic terrorism investigation  into the attack on a garlic festival in Gilroy, California Sunday July 28th.   Three people killed in the attack.

Authorities saying that attacker Santino William Legan has a list of targets that included federal and religious buildings.

What is the level of FBI spying, surveillance and use of informants online?    Questions being raised after media reporting that the FBI knew about the mass murder attacker in El Paso before the attack.

The Twitter post from Patrick Henningsen at "21WIRE" asks the questions.....LINK

There are many comments being made in connection with the mass murder attacks last weekend in the United States.     

Many suggest some political motives for the attacks. but from the UK "Mail on Sunday" columnist Peter Hitchens offers early inconclusive commentary suggesting there could be something else other than politics involved in the killings.......LINK

Connor Betts, the attacker in Dayton, Ohio early Sunday morning, said he suffered from bipolar disorder and possibly obsessive compulsive disorder.

He showed a woman he was dating a video of last October's attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed 11 people.    

More on this from "Israel National News"........LINK

President Trump is visiting both Dayton and El Paso on Wednesday.

President Trump and the Republican Party suing the Democrat run state of California over its recently passed law that requires tax returns to be publicized by presidential candidates in the state.

They say the law is unconstitutional.

Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard on the move after last week's debate performance.

Gabbard moved past the 130-thousand donor level to stay in the next round of the debate following her intense one on one confrontation with Senator Kamala Harris of California.

She's now moved past 150-thousand donors and hopes to reach 160-thousand this weekend tweeting that 'its time the establishment takes our message seriously'.

The war of words over Brexit continues with the European Union saying it won't re-open negotiations unless the UK acts to "clarify" its position while a cabinet minister in the new Boris Johnson government says its the EU  is "refusing to negotiate" with the UK government over changes to the proposal agreed to by the former Prime Minister Theresa May.

Michael Gove says  he is "deeply saddened" by the EU's position on new talks.

Meanwhile the Brexit Party rolling out candidates for parliamentary seats across the country in case a general election is suddenly called.

By the end of Tuesday 150 parliamentary candidates are expected to announced according to the party's leader, Nigel Farage.

The Brexit Party has placed ads in newspapers across the UK warning that Boris Johnson's agenda in the end looks like the old Brexit plan with a new face on it......More on Nigel Farage's Twitter page......LINK

If a national election were held in Germany today the ruling party would win but with a reduced share of the vote.

The INSA poll conducted from last Friday through Monday shows the CDU-CSU of current Chancellor Angela Merkel at 27.5 percent down from 32.9 percent in the 2017 general election, the Greens at 23.5 percent and the anti-mass immigration Alternative for Germany in third place at 15 percent.     The Social Democrats trailing in fourth place at 11.5 percent.

Attention in Germany focusing on two eastern states where elections take place September 1st.

In Brandenburg around the city of Berlin and in the southeastern part of Germany's east, Saxony, voters will go to the polls.

The Alternative for Germany running strong in the polls here with over 20 percent of the popular vote likely to first or second place on election day.


And that's the way it really is as we come into Wednesday August 7th, 2019.