NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 8/8-FRIDAY 8/9/2019

(WORK IN PROGRESS THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY)

Hundreds of the millions in the United States illegally are in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement following raids in Mississippi. but half of them have now been released.

680 is the number established by ICE of those originally arrested but now some 300 are freed.

Those arrested working at chicken processing plants in six Mississippi towns including a Koch Foods plant in Morton.    

Wednesday's raids led to children of those arrested being gathered at a local gym when they returned home to find their parents missing.

The issue of adults being needed to care for children led to the release of large number of those originally detained.

Some 600 ICE agents involved in the raids.

The actions this week come following word from Washington and President Trump earlier in the summer that immigration enforcement raids were about to take place in ten major cities.    The raids said to be planned were shunned by local civic leaders and officials and triggered tough responses from Democrats.

But in the end those raids did not materialize.

"The same Democrat Party that has left places like Jackson, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago and Houston to suffer under the tyranny of violent criminals wants us to believe they have the solution to mass shootings"

That's part of the latest message from 2020 Republican US Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore in Alabama who's also noting that many in the Republican Party seem to be moving in the direction of the Democrat "solution".

Moore says in part:

"....many Republicans, too, are working to push this dangerous 'Red Flag' gun confiscation legislation.

'Red Flag' laws--also known as EPRO's or EVRO'--amount to little more than another step in the plan to confiscate guns from law-abiding gun owners.

Red Flag laws will adversely affect our United States military veterans.  These are men and women who've been trained to use firearms...."

Moore also notes that other Republicans seem to want to keep their heads down and stay quiet at this time rather than defend the constitutional rights of Americans in general and veterans in particular.

"We took a historic decision as one nation"

Those words spoken Thursday night by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he explained the government's decision to take action to end the autonomy of Kashmir.

In response to anger and unrest in the territory following the arrest of hundreds of leaders and suspension of communications in the territory ahead of the government's decision, Modi urged the people of Kashmir to work together with the government.

Modi stressed the need to move forward with improvements in infrastucture and economic development in Kashmir.

He said the action to take away the autonomy of Kashmir was one to fight terrorism and separatism in the majority Muslim territory.

From Syria's northwest advances on the ground for government forces continued Thursday night with two more villages taken from jihadist opposition forces.     A report on this from the "Southfront" website.....LINK

There has been fighting all week following the failure of last week's cease-fire to stick.   Another village taken during the day Thursday after two more on Wednesday.

The Syrian army backed by air and artillery support including Russian Aerospace forces.

The Russians say that jihadist opposition forces fired four rocket at their Hmeimim  airbase in northern Syria at 9am Eastern US time Thursday.    No damage at the airbase with the rockets landing in a village just over a mile away from it.

From Yemen's civil war the Houthi side says two of its drones attacked the Abha International Airport in Saudi Arabia late Thursday night and scored hits including the control tower.

Saudi Arabia says its defenses intercepted and shot down the drones.

An Israeli solider found stabbed to death Thursday morning in the "West Bank" territories.

Its believed that he was killed during a botched kidnapping attempt.

Israeli troops searched a town near where his body was found.

Dvir Sorek's funeral was quickly held with his burial Thursday evening.

Italian politics and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini making a move to assert more power in the coalition government involving his League party and the Five Star Movement.   He wants cabinet ministers associated with the Five Star to resign or else he will move to dissolve the current government.

Salvini appearing to set a Monday deadline for his demands to be met.  His political party, the League,   issued a statement Thursday saying the alternative to the present situation is new elections.

Public opinion polls in Italy show the League of Salvini with popular support between 35 and 40 percent, more than twice its support in the last election.   Meanwhile, the Five Star Movement has seen a decline in its support since the last election from a third of the vote to around 17 percent support in opinion polls.

This week parliamentary motions by the Five Star Movement to stop a transnational rail link between Italy and France failed in the upper house of Italy's parliament when the League joined the "mainstream" opposition parties to oppose them.

But one possible outcome of the situation if the current government falls could be a government of unelected individuals (technocrats) being appointed by Italy's President.

More protests planned in central London in support of imprisoned activist Tommy Robinson on Saturday August 24th.

That word from Danny Tommo, spokesman for Robinson.

Last Saturday's protest in the Oxford Circle area that marched to the BBC Broadcast House on Portland Place came under assault from Antifa protesters and there are even acts of police violence documented against the supporters of Tommy Robinson.

The latest information can be found on Danny Tommo's Twitter page......LINK

Canadian Jews are working to raise 10 million dollars to provide security for Jewish institutions in Montreal.      A Community Security Network initiative involves a partnership of 32 organizations.  A Jewish man wearing a yarmulke recently assaulted in Montreal. 

Montreal has seen a dramatic increase in its Muslim population in recent years.


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

A federal judge has ruled that former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning be jailed for an additional 400 days and be fined 441-thousand dollars upon release.

US District Judge Anthony Trenga's decision in connection with Manning's refusal to testify before a grand jury in the Wikileaks case.

Daily fines that started at 500 dollars a day and were later raised to 1000 dollars a day have already been imposed on Manning.

Federal prosecutors attempting to create a case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for publishing secret US documents detailing misconduct by US military forces in Iraq.

The journalist who received leaked documents from former CIA contractor Edward Snowden given a protection order by a Brazilian Supreme Court judge this week.    

The judge's order prohibiting authorities from taking actions against Glenn Greenwald of "The Intercept" on the basis of freedom of the press.

Political leaders in the current government in Brazil calling for Greenwald's prosecution following his publication of leaked conversations between a prosecutor and judge appearing to show collusion in the prosecution of former left-wing Workers Party leader Lula da Silva who wanted to run for president in the 2018 election.

The US State Department says that China is demonstrating that it's a:

"thuggish regime"

for disclosing personal details of a US diplomat including private information, pictures and the names of children.

The diplomat had met with opposition leaders in Hong Kong.

(LATE NEWS:  PROTESTERS IN HONG KONG GATHERING AT THE AIRPORT TODAY.  THEY WILL BE THERE THIS THIS WEEKEND TO BRING AWARENESS OF THE EXTRADITION LEGISLATION AND POLICE CRACKDOWN ON DEMONSTRATIONS TO PEOPLE VISITING THE TERRITORY)

The regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela breaking off talks with the opposition led by Interim President Juan Guaido.

The move in retaliation for a major US move to squeeze Maduro into making concessions at the talks.

President Trump signed an executive order Monday that takes control of Venezuelan government assets in the US among other things and puts Venezuela under embargo conditions similar to those involving Iran, North Korea and Cuba.

In the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan, the former president is now in custody after a second raid by special forces on his home.

Stun grenades were used in the attack that took Almazbek Atambayev into custody and returned him to the country's capital city of Bishek.

An earlier raid failed when his supporters opened fire on attacking security forces.

Current President Sooronbai Jeenbekov spoke of Atambayev committing a serious crime and he is to be questioned about allegations of corruption during his presidency.

From France word that a "technofest" will be held in October called "TechSteveAll" or "Tek'SteveAll" in honor of Steve Maia Canico.

His body was pulled from the Loire River in Nantes last week more than a month after police stormed a music festival that was going on early into the morning of June 22nd using rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades.

There's been outrage over a police investigation publicized a day after the body was discovered saying law enforcement bore no responsibility for Canico's death.

Exact location for the event not announced other than the northwestern part of the country with the event described as a:

"tribute to Steve and all the victims of police and government oppression"

And finally the latest advice from a United Nations report on climate suggests that "climate change" could be slowed down if we all eat less meat.  To be specific, red meat.

The 1200 page report is also arguing that there has been a 1.53 degrees Celsius increase in temperature since the beginning of the industrial age in the last few hundred years.    It also claims food supplies in the world could be threatened once the change reaches 2 degrees Celsius.

That's the way it really is as we come into Friday August 9th, 2019.