NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 3/30/2020

(SERVICE SUSPENDING AT 10 PM MONDAY NIGHT)

Republican Governors issue orders to stay home giving them a new and different name but first.....

"We discussed with each other whether our rights can be taken by an order from a governor or an agency, and if they can be, what good are our rights?"

Ammon Bundy spoke those words Friday following a Thursday night meeting in Emmett, Idaho in response to the "stay at home" order issued by Idaho's Republican Governor Brad Little.

Bundy is an activist who was involved in defending his family's ranch in Nevada back in 2014 and in defending two Oregon ranchers jailed as terrorists when he led the Oregon Standoff protest in early 2016.

Bundy spoke at the meeting of providing a legal, political and physical defense for anyone being pressured by authorities in Idaho to comply with the coronavirus related order.

More on this story including an embedded Facebook video of the meeting as published by the "Idaho Press" last Friday March 27th.....IDAHO PRESS STORY

Other coronavirus news later but now other news.....

In Iraq the United States has deployed two Patriot missile batteries and is expected to eventually deploy at least four.   The US contending with repeated Iraqi militia attacks on US bases and facilities following the targeted assassination of an Iranian general and Iraqi militia leader in January.......MIDDLE EAST EYE STORY

THE SAUDI LED COALITION STAGING AIR STRIKES ON THE YEMENI CAPITAL SANAA TODAY.   THE ATTACKS FOLLOWING THE FIRING OF TWO MISSILES BY THE HOUTHI REBELS AT SAUDI ARABIA'S CAPITAL RIYADH SATURDAY NIGHT.....YENI SAFAK TURKEY NEWS REPORT

NORTH KOREA IS REACTING WITH DISDAIN TO US SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO'S HOPE FOR TALKS ON DENUCLEARIZAION  TO RESUME.   THE GOVERNMENT NEWS AGENCY SAYING POMPEO'S  "LUDICROUS LANGUAGE" MEANS "WE WILL WALK OUR OWN WAY".....THE GUARDIAN UK NEWS REPORT

North Korea says it tested "super-large" multiple rocket launchers over the weekend.    That word from the state media today.   It described the test as being "conducted successfully"....YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA REPORT....The US flew an intelligence gathering plane over South Korea on Sunday hours after the North Korean missile test....YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA REPORT

TALIBAN ATTACKS OVER THE WEEKEND KILLED AT LEAST 18 MEMBERS OF THE AFGHAN GOVERNMENT SECURITY FORCES....UPI NEWS STORY 

President Trump on the phone Monday with Russia's President Vladimir Putin and oil prices very high on the agenda.    Russia moved earlier this month to end a cap on oil production with Saudi Arabia following in its footsteps.    This led to a collapse in oil prices.    The leaders agreed to consultations between each country's energy ministers.....REUTERS NEWS STORY.....TASS NEWS STORY......Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov talking with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today.....TASS NEWS STORY

SAUDI ARABIA ANNOUNCING TODAY THAT IT WILL RAISE OIL EXPORTS TO RECORD LEVELS IN MAY.....AFP NEWS STORY VIA YAHOO NEWS

China making its financial moves Monday mimicking the actions of other nations in a more modest way.   China's central bank cutting the interest rate from 2.40 to 2.20 percent and a seven billion dollar injection of support into the country's financial system.....AFP NEWS STORY

The covornavirus story in the USA with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issuing a "safer-at-home" order for the four southeastern Florida counties until mid-May.   Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Monroe counties affected by the order.......THE HILL NEWS STORY

Another Republican governor adopting the apparent new catch-phrase for orders to stay home from governors who are Republicans.     Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee issuing a "safer-at-home" executive order.   The order starts at 1159 pm Tuesday and will be in effect for two weeks.....BRETBART NEWS STORY

PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYING TODAY THAT HE BELIEVES THE ECONOMY WILL COME BACK AND THAT HIS MAIN FOCUS NOW IS ON "SAVING LIVES"....VIDEO LINK

PRESIDENT TRUMP ALSO REVEALING AT HIS DAILY NEWS CONFERENCE TODAY THAT RUSSIA AND CHINA HAVE SENT MEDICAL AID TO THE UNITED STATES TO HELP DEAL WITH THE CORONAVIRUS.....TASS NEWS STORY

"If you are asking who helped us most, it was China and not Europe"

Those words from Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic in a television interview where he discussed the coronavirus situation in the southeastern European country.....TASS NEWS AGENCY STORY

Israel relying on its spy agency, the Mossad, for help in obtaining supplies to fight Covid-19......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS STORY

TONIGHT STRICTER MEASURES ANNOUNCED IN ISRAEL BY PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU INCLUDING BANNING OF OUTDOOR PRAYERS AND CROWDS OF TWO OR MORE PEOPLE OUTSIDE......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS STORY

Spreading "fake news" about the coronavirus could result in a fine that equals 88-hundred US dollars in Russia.....TASS NEWS STORY.....The lockdown in Moscow has now spread to Russia's second city St. Petersburg....TASS NEWS STORY

In Hungary parliament voting 138-53 more than the 2/3 majority required to allow Prime Minister Viktor Orban to rule by decree in light of the coronavirus situation.    Opponents of Orban in the "international community" are disturbed by the move....CNN NEWS STORY

Research at Hong Kong University says that the coronavirus is most active at approximately four degrees Celsius or 39.2 degrees Fahrenheit.     Warmer temperatures diminish its stability with the virus only able to last five minutes at the very hot temperature of 70 degrees Celsius or 158 degrees Fahrenheit.....TASS NEWS STORY

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAS CHANGED THE RULES ON ABORTION PILLS FOR THE CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN.   THEY CAN BE TAKEN AT HOME WITHOUT HAVING TO TRAVEL TO A CLINIC.....TIME NEWS STORY

BBC News is reporting the coronavirus story around the world today through a blog......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG MONDAY 3/30/2020

COVID-19 NUMBERS TONIGHT FIRST THE WORLD-WIDE JOHNS HOPKINS NUMBERS AT OF 935 PM EASTERN US TIME.....784,314 CASES.....37,638 DEATHS....165,288 RECOVERIES...THE WORLDOMETERS NUMBERS IN THE USA ARE .....163,844 CASES.....3,156 DEATHS....5,506 RECOVERIES

ONE LOCAL TAKEAWAY FROM THE STATS IS WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK JUST NORTH OF THE CITY WHERE THERE ARE 9,326 CASES WITH 10 DEATHS AND 0 RECOVERIES SO FAR....THE POPULATION THERE CLOSE TO ONE MILLION AND THAT AMOUNT OF CASES EQUAL TO SOME 80-THOUSAND CASES IN A POPULATION THE SIZE OF NEW YORK CITY WHICH IS NOW REPORTING SOME 38,087 CASES.

Other news today......

Police investigating the  early morning theft of a Vincent Van Gogh painting from an art museum in the Netherlands.      The Singer Laren museum east of Amsterdam targeted ...THE INDEPENDENT UK STORY

The left-wing ELN group in Colombia is declaring what it calls "humanitarian cease-fire" for the next month in its war against the Colombian government.......BBC NEWS STORY

An attempt to bring a court case against a rarely enforced law prohibiting homosexuality failed in Singapore with a presiding judge saying the law was "important in reflecting public sentiment and beliefs" in the southeast Asian city-state.....BBC NEWS STORY

That's the way it really is Monday March 30th, 2020.