NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 11/7/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE THURSDAY)

The political drama in Washington and Democrats issuing a new subpoena in their "impeachment inquiry".     Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney summoned tonight to testify tomorrow.

Meanwhile, supporters of the President outing the "whistle blower" who ignited the whole process.

Pictures of the man who works for the CIA also publicized showing him with prominent Democrats.

The billionaire and former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, getting ready to enter the Democrat race for President to oppose President Trump next year.

Bloomberg said to be unhappy with the positioning of the current field of Democrat candidates.

The favorite of political insiders former Vice-President Joe Biden has been trailing in some of the polling data.

At least ten reported dead and dozens of others wounded in new protests in Baghdad today.    Sources are telling mainstream media that live ammunition was used on the protesters today.

FIVE ARE DEAD AND 300 INJURED IN NORTHWESTERN IRAN AFTER A MAGNITUDE 5.9 EARTHQUAKE STRUCK THE REGION.

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran says the country's uranium enrichment capacity is headed for pre-nuclear agreement (JCPOA) levels.  Spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi discussed the enrichment plans in a media interview today.    

Iran is moving away from the JCPOA following the US decision to walk away from it and impose increasingly stringent sanctions.

Iran's "Press TV" has more.....LINK

Iran has cancelled the accreditation of an international inspector prevented from entering its Natanz nuclear facility last week.    The woman who represents the International Atomic Energy Agency triggered an alarm as she walked into the facility and was suspected of carrying "suspicious material".

The Associated Press reports that Iran is alleging the inspector tested positive for traces of explosives.

The BBC reports its version of the story.....LINK

Israel's Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran is a threat to the world and Europe must take action.

Meanwhile Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard says the US needs to get back into the nuclear deal with Iran to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Gabbard says the US pullout moves the US "closer to war with Iran".

Gabbard spoke with "Breitbart"......LINK

IN NORTHWESTERN SYRIA TODAY MORE THAN 20 AIRSTRIKES BY THE RUSSIAN AEROSPACE FORCES (AIR FORCE) AGAINST ANTI-SYRIAN GOVERNMENT JIHADISTS.

THE SYRIAN OBSERVATORY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS SAYS THAT THREE OF THE JIHADISTS WERE KILLED IN THE ATTACKS.

From Brazil a Supreme Court ruling today ending mandatory imprisonment of convicted criminals after they lose their first appeal.

The ruling restores the previous rule that all appeals must be exhausted before prison sentences begin.

The ruling could lead to freedom for former left-wing President Lula da Silva who was convicted in a corruption case.

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants his old Senate seat back.  Sessions entering the US Senate race in Alabama hoping to win the Republican nomination to face Democrat Senator Doug Jones.   It looks like a crowded field that now includes Mobile area Congressman Bradley Byrne, former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville and former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. 

French police cleared two migrant camps in northern Paris today.    This move comes a day after the government of French President Emmanuel Macron announced new restrictions on non-European Union migrants.     France still obliged to allow EU migrants in which means cheap labor from Eastern European counties.

37 killed in the African nation of Burkina Faso in an attack on a convoy of mine workers.

Tensions are running high in Bolivia as supporters and opponents of left-wing President Evo Morales take to the streets in the dispute over last month's election results.  Another protester killed this week in a fight in the town of Cochabamba.

The final polling ahead of Spain's second election this year on Sunday points to another deadlocked parliament.   Support slipping from the Socialists who won 123 seats last time.  The Peoples Party, the "mainstream" party of the 'Right" rising some.    But the big numbers coming from the anti-mass immigration Vox Party which promotes a hard line on Catalan independence.

Vox may get 15 percent of the popular vote and some 50 seats in the 350 seat lower house of parliament if the polls turn out to be accurate.   That would more than double the 24 seats won in the previous election.

The Catalan independence parties will get between 20 and 25 seats as well, maintaining their level of support from the election earlier this year.

The British election campaign in full swing with leader Nigel Farage of the Brexit Party focusing on Labor Party areas of the country.

Farage continuing to push for a Leave alliance with Prime Minister Boris Johnson but Johnson rebuffing Farage as exemplified by this tweet......LINK

The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Washington and meet with President Trump next Wednesday.    The two leaders spoke yesterday and confirmed the visit.   

There had been doubts about the Turkish leaders visit following recent passage of a resolution by the Democrat controlled House that called the atrocities against the Armenians by Ottoman Turks a century ago.

President Erdogan says the US is not fulfilling its commitment to withdrawal of the Kurdish forces from the northern border zone of northeastern Syria.

And for now that's the way it really is Thursday November 7th, 2019.