NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 9/15/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE THROUGH LATE SUNDAY)

The United Auto Workers on strike against General Motors Sunday night.   That's the word from the UAW after talks broke down with GM earlier Sunday.

"This is our last resort.  We are standing up for the fundamental rights of working people in this country"

That being said by the union's chief negotiator Terry Dittes.   

GM said it was "disappointed" by the union's strike decision saying it had presented a "strong offer".

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the attack on Saudi oil facilities early Saturday morning was done by Iran.

Pompeo also claiming in essence that the attacks were launched from Iran, not from Yemen by tweeting:

"There is no evidence the attacks came from Yemen"

This may be an attempt to goad the Houthi rebels of Yemen into revealing how their drones operate by providing more proof of their activities that can be used against them militarily.

The Iranian backed rebels from Yemen who've been fighting a Saudi-led military coalition backed by the United States claimed responsibility for the attacks and said they used 10 drones.

Saudi Arabia was forced to cut its oil production in half because of the attacks which amounts to five percent of the worlds oil supply.

Mr. Pompeo also saying the US is working with other nations to ensure energy supplies and to:

"hold Iran responsible for its aggression"

As for Iran, it says US accusations of their involvement are part of a "campaign of deceit".

Iran saying that it rejects the "lies" of the United States.

More from Iran's "Press TV".......LINK

The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has condemned the attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities and called on those involved in the situation to prevent any escalation.

President Trump's tweeting Sunday night included this statement:

"Saudi Arabia's oil supply was attacked.   There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!"

The President has authorized release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, if needed, to stabilize oil markets.

Early reporting on oil markets is that Brent crude is up 19 percent to $71.95 a barrel with West Texas Intermediate jumping 15 percent to $63.64.

Later reporting as of 11 pm Eastern time US Sunday indicates a stabilizing of oil prices at a rate 10 percent higher than before.

Boris Johnson backed Brexit to advance his political career.    That's what the former anti-Brexit Prime Minister David Cameron is saying in his new book.

To Israel and third parties on the Right say that the mainstream Likud Party is on the attack against them in the last days before Tuesday's elections.

The Yisrael Beiteinu Party first and one of its parliament members Eli Avadar telling "Ynet News" that Prime Minister Netanyahu is:

"hiring thugs to disrupt the public order"

Avidar says Likud operatives have been trailing him for two weeks and that Yisrael Beiteinu will document those who:

"try to disrupt the polling stations"

In April's election Likud activists deposited cameras at polling stations across the country in the thousands with police later showing up to seize them.     Likud was and is alleging voter fraud in Arab communities in Israel and tried to pass a camera law which failed in a parliamentary committee last week.

The leader of another party on the Right the Yamina Party says Netanyahu is engaging in an:

"unprecedented offensive"

Ayelet Shaked telling "Ynet" that Netanyahu wants to:

"destroy Religious Zionism and the ideological right"

More on Ayelet Shaked's concerns about voters being herded towards Likud from "Israel National News".....LINK

In France on Sunday Marine Le Pen speaking to her supporters in the south of France at Frejus.

The leader of the National Rally Party is gearing up for local government elections next year with the March 2020 municipal vote and regional elections in 2021 leading the way to the next presidential contest in 2022.

Marine Le Pen already seen in polling data as the leading opposition candidate to incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and her party, the National Rally, the leading opposition party in France.

She says the upcoming elections are:

"carabiners fixed on the wall to climb to the final goal"

France's Presidential Palace the Elysee.

Le Pen called for reforms of pensions in a different direction of those advocated by Macron, of a backing away from various privatization schemes of government assets.    She noted the "unprecedented social crisis" of the Yellow Vests movement.

"We want to live in France as French"

she noted warning about the threat of massive immigration.

And that's the way it is for Sunday September 15th, 2019.   I got to the gas pumps to fill up tonight and you might want to consider doing the same.