Nextrush Free: May 2020

Sunday, May 31, 2020

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: THE SUNDAY SPECIAL

Welcome, a special post for the events taking place around us but lets keep it all in perspective the DC 19 continues. People are not free and the house arrest restrictions around the world have caused economic damage and opened the door to people with agendas like "climate change" to get their way.

We see an economy being reordered in favor of big corporations and tech companies and more movement towards a cashless society in banking.

Peter Hitchens offers us commentary on the situation in the UK because of coronavirus panic policies.....

"They created a panic and lost control of it. They are now just hoping to get through the misery they caused without anybody realizing just what a mess they made, or punishing them for it."

"I don't like living in a country where what seem to me to be perfectly normal private actions can be observed and reported by informers. This is what happens when the police become the enforcers of Government's whims, rather than impartial servants of the law"

"There is still a total lack of evidence that all these closedowns have done any good. Countries which imprisoned their populations and stifled their economies, such as Belgium, have had high levels of deaths. New York State found that those who obediently stayed at home still caught the virus in large numbers."

The full commentary at the link.......

PETER HITCHENS COLUMN MAIL ON SUNDAY 5/30/2020

THE RIOTS UPDATED AND EXPANDED

The riotous events of the weekend are high on the agenda as well....There have been injuries to the police, the anarchists, the media etc. etc. Shootings with injuries and some fatalities reported but how they tie to the protests not clear.

Links will be posted here so you can the picture from the various sources in various cities as day gives way to night across the country......below some updates.....

ABC 6 PHILADELPHIA

WJLA WASHINGTON DC

WRTV THE INDY CHANNEL-INDIANAPOLIS

KOLO-TV RENO NEVADA

ABC 7 SAN FRANCISCO

KING 5 TV SEATTLE

ABC 7 LOS ANGELES

Some commentary on the situation from the "Moon of Alabama" website and its militant views.....Posts today and yesterday....MOON OF ALABAMA

115 PM EASTERN US UPDATE

Streets in the center of major cities like Los Angeles and Philadelphia being closed down as a pre-emptive measure. Philadelphia has asked for National Guard assistance as well. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says that New York State Police (some 200) will assist NYPD tonight.....

Closing the streets in the centers of cities does happen to be part of the "Green" agenda in the world today strangely enough.....

Limited posting and coverage but more will be put up later.....

445 PM EASTERN US UPDATE

In a tweet that ended up being covered up by Twitter as something that incites violence President Trump noted that "Looting" leads to "Shooting" of those who perpetrate such acts as in shooting by the police or National Guard during the riots of the late 1960's-early 1970's.

That tweet came ahead of the orgy of mayhem Friday and Saturday night. As noted in Saturday's unplugged the FBI has its people in all groups deemed "extreme". They were with the Klan during its violent reign of terror in the early 1960's for example.. Inside knowledge of what was to come?

Regardless, the President today tweeting that ANTIFA will be designated as a "Terrorist Organization"......BBC NEWS STORY

1115 PM EASTERN UPDATE

So much happening but getting back to Philly once the Center City area was completely shut down at noon today the looting switched to areas outside like the west bank of the Schuykill River in the area of the University of Pennsylvania. There was a protest at Police HQ (The Roundhouse) this afternoon. More than 200 arrests in Philadelphia so far with ten of them today. Also the protesters moved into Northeast Philadephia and looting was reported there as well. Five police officers injured today in West Philadelphia.

REPORTERS ATTACKED BY MINNEAPOLIS POLICE

A diplomatic note of protest resulting from an attack on a group of reporters by Minneapolis police. One of those journalists a Russian......TASS NEWS STORY

ARRESTED PEOPLE IN MINNEAPOLIS MOSTLY LOCALS

Government officials spoke of outsiders when they discussed the protesters in Minneapolis but it turns out the first batch of those arrested were mostly Minnesotans. The fact that such protests have broken out in all corners of the country should tell us that there are cadres ready to engage in this kind of activity everywhere........MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE STORY

110 AM MONDAY EASTERN US TIME

Its time to wrap it up for the night with the reports from Los Angeles of the looting and demonstrations moving outwards to Long Beach and Santa Monica this evening and up north similar events moving outwards from San Francisco and Oakland further east into Contra Costa County with stores and shops looted.......

Earlier today some Portland Police took a knee in solidarity with the protesters on the streets and then after the curfew began at 8 pm tear gas was used to disperse the crowd.....

KGW-TV TEAR GAS DISPERSING CROWD OF PROTESTERS IN PORTLAND,OREGON 5/31/2020

Some of us go to work in the morning like me so good night everyone.......

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 5/31/2020

(POSTING WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE TONIGHT)

(Some additional posting "Unplugged" with late night updating of the riots-protests etc........NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: THE SUNDAY SPECIAL

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of coronavirus restrictions on religious services but first.....

Peaceful protests started in US cities large and small on Saturday afternoon over the death of George Floyd. Floyd died after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin put his knee on Floyd's neck a week ago today.

Those protests led to marches and confrontations with police and or many incidents of vandalism, arson and looting in those cities across the United States as afternoon gave way to evening and night.

Dozens of cities involved including large ones like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Washington DC. Others like Miami, Seattle, Cincinnati and Nashville. And yet others ranging from Charlotte, North Carolina to Reno, Nevada to Fargo, North Dakota and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

In Portland, Oregon police launched attacks to drive protesters off the streets as soon as they had gathered....OREGON LIVE NEWS STORY

In Minneapolis after several nights of protest that led to arson and looting a massive military-law enforcement operation to attack and drive people off the streets last night. Tear gas, pepper spray and drawn weapons reported to have been used......MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE NEWS STORY...reporters among those injured in the police attacks....

National Guard mobilization and deployment now underway in numerous states with a major deployment in Los Angeles this morning.......ABC 7 LOS ANGELES STORY

Many arrests and injuries associated with the conflict across the country yesterday and into the night.....

And incidents of violence and vandalism, looting etc. continued across the country late this afternoon and into the evening in Chicago and Philadelphia and other cities.......Fires set near the White House tonight with protesters again on the streets.....This was the scene near the White House as reported by Australia's Nine Network just after 7 pm tonight....VIDEO LINK

Police swooped down and made 150 arrests of protesters in Minneapolis this evening...and on I-35 in Minneapolis a truck drove into a crowd of protesters and stopped. The driver arrested.....MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE

Some additional details on the situation today with Covid-19 and the protests in a special post.....NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: THE SUNDAY SPECIAL

ISRAEL'S DEFENSE MINISTER BENNY GANTZ OFFERING UP AN APOLOGY TODAY FOR THE ISRAELI POLICE SHOOTING OF AN UNARMED, AUTISTIC PALESTINIAN MAN.

IYAD HALAK GUNNED DOWN AS HE WALKED TO A SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS. POLICE SAID HE WAS SUSPICIOUS AND APPEARED TO HAVE A GUN.

NO WEAPON WAS FOUND. GANTZ SAYS THE INCIDENT WILL BE QUICKLY INVESTIGATED AND 'CONCLUSIONS WILL BE REACHED'......

ASSOCIATED PRESS STORY PUBLISHED BY YNET NEWS ISRAEL

President Trump backing away from holding a summit of the G 7 nations in the United States in late June. The President says it will held in September.

But he says he would like to see additional nations invited like Australia, India, South Korea and Russia. saying the current group is "a very outdated group of countries"......BBC NEWS STORY

AT LEAST EIGHT CIVILIANS KILLED IN A MINIBUS BOMBING IN SOMALIA TODAY. THE BUS RUNNING OVER A ROADSIDE BOMB. TERRORISTS HAVE CARRIED OUT BOMB ATTACKS IN THE AREA IN RECENT MONTHS......ASSOCIATED PRESS STORY PUBLISHED BY ABC-TV USA

At least 20 killed this weekend according to the BBC when gunmen stormed a cattle market in the West African nation of Burkina Faso. Jihadist groups including Al Qaeda have been active in the region.

The US, France and other nations providing military assistance to governments in the region. This earlier news report mentions a lower death toll but provides details about the terrorist attack.,...FRANCE 24 NEWS STORY

IT WAS A 5-4 DECISION CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS SIDING WITH LIBERAL JUSTICES TO UPHOLD CALIFORNIA DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM'S RULES LIMITING CHURCH ATTENDANCE DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS. A CALIFORNIA CHURCH ARGUED IT WAS GUARANTEED FREEDOM TO WORSHIP ACCORDING TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT.......NEWSWEEK STORY

AND WORD FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA THAT SOME CHURCHES HELD INDOOR SERVICES IN VIOLATION OF GOVERNOR NEWSOM'S ORDERS TODAY.....

The story of the coronavirus in the UK and around the world as interpreted by BBC News today on its blog.........BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 5/31/2020

And the NASA astronauts have successully docked with the International Space Station after yesterday's launch from Cape Canaveral.....TASS NEWS STORY

That's the way it really is Sunday May 31st, 2020.

Saturday, May 30, 2020

FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 81: THE NEW REALITY CAUSED BY HOUSE ARREST

Yellow Vests came out to protest today in France as events in the USA showed a manifestation of anarchist "black blocs" like those that have marred Yellow Vests demonstrations in France in the past.

Its a new world in France since the Yellow Vests went into house arrest two months ago. Thousands of workers laid off by Renault leading to a major trade union protest there yesterday....

RENAULT PROTEST OUTSIDE PARIS PLANT 5/29/2020

But the streets of Paris did see some Yellow protesters today as seen in this 10 minute video.......

YELLOW VESTS PARIS WEEK 81 5/30/2020

This video from Besancon as Yellow Vests with masks, some of them yellow, appeared for a rally and a march....

BESANCON FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 81 5/30/2020

Also a video from the Lille Yellow Vests in northern France today......

LILLE FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 81 5/30/2020

The five minute video from "Ternoise" posted online today a weekly event.....

GILETS JAUNES 30 MAI 2020 LA QUESTION DES LIBERTES ENFIN AU COEUR DU DEBAT SAMEDI ACTE 81 TOULOUSE

Also from Annecy which is a French town just south of Geneva, Switzerland this video of the Yellow Vests with one holding a "Macronavrus" sign to signify French President Emmanuel Macron......

YELLOW VESTS PROTEST ANNECY FRANCE WEEK 81 5/30/2020

And that is the story of the Yellow Vests for Week 81.........

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: WEEKEND VERSION DC 19 ARE YOU DISTRACTED YET? THE UNIPARTY POLICE STATE?

Music Links:

"CATCH US IF YOU CAN"-DAVE CLARK FIVE

"INCENSE AND PEPPERMINTS"-STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK

"UNEASY RIDER"-CHARLIE DANIELS BAND

Welcome to the weekend the Dictatorship of Covid-19 continues the "New Normal" emerging that isn't "True Normal".

I got an N95 mask this week to use at work in both my jobs which helps me to perform better on the jobs. No headache or shortness of breath side effects I have experienced with other masks......

Images have the power to outrage or enrage and in 1963 the race issue was propelled to the forefront in the United States when this was seen on television.....

BULL CONNOR FIRE HOSES AND POLICE DOGS BIRMINGHAM 1963

That's May of 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama

Fast forward to May of 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.....

DEREK CHAUVIN PUTS KNEE ON GEORGE FLOYD'S NECK

MILITARY POLICE FOR MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL BUT WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE COUNTRY AFTER LAST NIGHT'S NATIONWIDE OUTPOURING INCLUDING THE FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.....

Early this morning a tweet from Portland, Oregon Mayor Ted Wheeler rushing back to declare a state of emergency and impose a curfew which resumes tonight at 8 pm.....

PORTLAND OREGON MAYOR TED WHEELER TWITTER

Well is it all about race?

I think there's something deeper here the dehumanization of other human beings the elevation of some human beings as in law enforcement to some exalted god-like status.

I'm humbled by my weakness as a human being, my drunken religious hypocrisy, my intoxicated lifestyle. Before I get angry with others I humble myself here.....

Derek Chauvin, who has become the "Bull Connor" of our time, has a life story. His wife apparently wants to tell it because she has filed for divorce. That story from Minneapolis on Friday.....

The Wooten Memo told the story of law enforcement that is "drunk and disorderly" and it was brought up at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday as the US Justice Department tried to reinstate the charges against Cliven Bundy. The Assistant US Attorney Elizabeth White dismissing it as a "lurid tale".

That document has always come off to me as a realistic depiction of what happens in law enforcement becsuse law enforcement is only human like the rest of us......

LARRY WOOTEN LETTER ABOUT MISCONDUCT IN FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT INVESTIGATION OF CLIVEN BUNDY, HIS FAMILY AND SUPPORTERS

Wrongdoing in law enforcement fueled by drugs, alcohol and pornography but make no mistake it also fuels the anarchists in the streets right now........

From our Yellow Vests reporting and observations in France these people called "black blocs" whose normal uniform is the mask (now a government-business ordered-recommended uniform in the USA and beyond) want confrontation with law enforcement and seek it to promote revolution.

But as we learned from the Oregon Standoff trial one of the FBI informants sent out to deal with the "extremists" and "terrorists" at the wildlife refuge Terri Linnell was told by her FBI handler that they have people planted everywhere including the Antifa.

In France with the anarchists getting into the Yellow Vests protests the leading opposition politician Marine Le Pen offered up an opinion that this scenario of violence and mayhem was being allowed by the government in order to discredit the peaceful non-violent protesters and advance the agenda of President Macron's government.

The FBI has its people out there and I'm sure they were there in Minneapolis in recent days and hours. The FBI spied on the Klan and Martin Luther King in the 1960's.

"THEY WANT YOU DIVIDED"

does not seem so far-fetched to me at this moment in time. It seems like a realistic proposition in light of the circumstances we are living under at this moment.

The likes of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro always labeled their opponents "terrorists" and "extremists" and planted people in the midst of the opposition to do crazy things to discredit the opposition.

HEALTH FREEDOM IDAHO FACEBOOK POST

"LOOTING" AND "SHOOTING": PROTESTER SHOT AND KILLED IN DETROIT

A protester was attacked by an unknown assailant in Detroit late last night. The suspect in a gray Dodge Durango......

CNN STORY

Music Links:

"WALK AWAY RENEE"-THE LEFT BANKE

"THE WANDERER"-DION

"EVE OF DESTRUCTION"-BARRY MCGUIRE (lLIVE)

BREAKING NEWS: 'FULL MOBILIZATION' IN MINNESOTA WITH FEDERAL MILITARY SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL GUARD

A dead serious Newsdump Saturday media appearance in Minnesota this morning. Democrat Governor Tim Walz mincing no words to describe the violence and those perpetrating it.

His language included words like 'attacking civil society' and 'an organized attempt to destabilize civil society'.

"civil society"

the language of George Soros.

"domestic terrorism"

also on the lips of the Democrat Governor.

"international destabilization"

also spoken by Governor Walz. Can Russia and China be far behind that phrase as scapegoats?

The Minnesota governor has spoken with Defense Secretary Mark Esper and JCS Chairman General Mark Milley with his reporting to them and their reporting to him.

The Minnesota National Guard is now fully mobilized with additional law enforcement from rural Minnesota and National Guard forces from nearby states being drawn in.

Governor Walz promising an 'overwhelming' response to deal with the anarchists tonight....

GOVERNOR TIM WALZ MEDIA BRIEFING SATURDAY MORNING MAY 30, 2020

Governor Walz coming out to meet the media this afternoon with other "faith leaders" etc.......

PHILADELPHIA PROTEST RALLY

Video from a rally in Philadelphia this afternoon looks to be out on the Parkway northwest of City Hall........

AFP VIDEO PHILADELPHIA PROTEST LIVE MAY 30, 2020

PORTLAND, OREGON STATE OF EMERGENCY FOLLOWING "DESTRUCTIVE PROTESTS"

OREGONLIVE STORY

POLICE OFFICER KILLED IN OAKLAND LAST NIGHT

A federal government police contract police officer killed in Oakland last night and another wounded.

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE STORY

HERE'S A LIVE MULTIPLEX VIDEO OF THE PROTESTING FROM ALL ACROSS THE USA ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON.......

LIVE MULTIPLEX VIDEO FROM VARIOUS LOCATIONS MAY 30, 2020 PROTESTS

PHILADELPHIA PROTESTS: AT LEAST TWO POLICE VEHICLES BURNED

Its about 530 pm Eastern US time and this is from Philadelphia via ABC6 with aerial video. At least two police vehicles reported burned. The activity centered around Philadelphia's City Hall.

ABC 6 PHILADELPHIA STORY WITH VIDEO

Burning vehicles now visible on the northwest side of the City Hall building near the City Hall annex.....ABC 6 also reporting some have broken into City Hall.

As one can see from the crowd down there and in other cities there is no:

SOCIAL DISTANCING

Which the Republicans and Democrats urge upon or order upon us depending........

In our state capital city of Harrisburg a protest that involved a "hands up march" up the steps in front of the State Capitol building. Its over now. One protester was around holding a sign:

"Am I Next"

I hope not but in a world without sanity and sobriety anything is possible so I hope you find that sanity and sobriety in your life......

Getting back to that Philadelphia situation the anarchists have tactics and the City Hall move could just be a distraction to move onto other acts of destruction in other places.

CURFEW DECLARED IN PHILADELPHIA BY MAYOR JIM KENNEY FROM 8 PM TO 6 AM.

Plenty happening everywhere for the cameras and video feeds from all points across the USA tonight as we move past 8 pm Eastern can be seen on the cable channels but first back to Minneapolis......

MINNEAPOLIS UPDATE: INTERSTATE HIGHWAY NETWORK SHUT DOWN

The freeway-interstate highway network of Minneapolis -St. Paul shut down at 7 pm local time to either decrease mobility of the protesters or to increase the mobility of the military and police forces.

Music Links:

"HAWAII FIVE O"-THE VENTURES "

"CLASSICAL GAS"-MASON WILLIAMS (LIVE)

"007"-JOHN BARRY

Some news theme type of music at least the kind for the news programs of 50 some years ago like those at WLS-TV in Chicago with Fahey Flynn and Joel Daly. And the weather guy as you'll see in this video clip is none other than John Coleman who went on to be the founder of the Weather Channel and a meteorologist who had no time for the "climate change" nonsense that zealots have promoted for so long.

Now those zealots may get their way using coronavirus as an excuse.

WLS CHANNEL 7 FLYNN DALY EYEWITNESS NEWS 1971

How about John Coleman as a talk show host in Chicago in the 1970's with his show "Midnight" with some radio personalities as his guests. Plenty of blasts from the past I used to listen to Chicago radio AM and even FM (WFMT) from here in York, PA back in the 1970's and so on......Its politically incorrect conversation circa 1970's you could say in some parts of the show.....

MIDNIGHT CHICAGO RADIO WLS-TV JOHN COLEMAN

MINNEAPOLIS UPDATE: CURFEW NOW IN EFFECT

Here's a live video from Ruptly in Minneapolis and what I see at 920 pm Eastern US (820 pm Minneapolis) is the scene at the scene where Derek Chauvin put his knee on George Floyd's neck.......

MINNEAPOLIS PROTEST LIVE

WASHINGTON DC VIDEO UPDATE: TEAR GAS AND BALLS SHOT AT PROTESTERS

WASHINGTON DC LIVE VIDEO STREAM PROTESTERS TEAR GASSED

The video showing you the scene outside the White House where a second night of protest is underway with tear gas driving the protesters back......That protest at the Lafayette Park side.....

MINNEAPOLIS: POLICE LAUNCH TEAR GAS FLASH BANG ASSAULT ON PROTESTERS TONIGHT

The police took offensive action tonight as a crowd moved towards the Fifth Precinct police station in the south of Minneapolis with the group split into two by the attack at an intersection......This video lifted from CNN......flash bangs, pepper round along with tear gas apparently.

POLICE ATTACK ON PROTESTERS WITH TEAR GAS, FLASH BANG ROUNDS

NASHVILLE TENNESSEE PROTEST AT CITY HALL

This video posted tonight showing a fire being set at the Metro City Hall in Nashville......

METRO CITY HALL SET ON FIRE IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA PROTEST

LIVE VIDEO FROM WCNC-TV.........WCNC CHARLOTTE LIVE VIDEO

SEATTLE PROTEST SCENE DOWNTOWN THIS EVENING VIDEO REPORT FROM KING-TV

SEATTLE PROTEST 8 PM EASTERN US TIME, 5 PM LOCAL TIME 5/30/2020

THE LIVE VIDEO FROM KING5 TV IN SEATTLE NOW DOWNTOWN......KING5 TV SEATTLE LIVE VIDEO

THE MIGHTY "F" WORD RINGING OUT IN WASHINGTON DC NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE THE PROTEST ON THE NORTH SIDE OF WHITE HOUSE AT THE LAFAYETTE SQUARE AREA.....WUSA9 WASHNGTON DC LIVE VIDEO

We could keep up the coverage of the mayhem unleashed across the USA tonight all night long till I collapse at the keyboard but lets move forward at this point.........

Music Links:

"MAKE YOUR KIND OF MUSIC"-MAMA CASS

"OOH CHILD"-THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS

"I'M A BELIEVER"-THE MONKEES

"CITY OF NEW ORLEANS"-ARLO GUTHRIE

Well here we are and what we need right now is encompassed in this skit........

THE SERENITY PRAYER-THE SKIT GUYS

Moving on the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals hearing the attempt by the federal government as in the US Justice Department as in Attorney General William Barr and the US Attorney for Nevada to reinstate charges over the April 2014 Bunkerville Standoff.

They want to continue to go after people for exercising their First Amendment and Second Amendment rights when the federal government set up snipers outside the Bundy home at Bundy Ranch.

The judge in the case threw the charges out because that information and so much more was kept out of the material provided to defense lawyers. Evidence that would have helped the Bundys and other prove their innocence in court. It was hidden by the federal prosecutors who now claim it was a small unintentional mistake.

I Thank God for people that Love God and Love Thy Neighbor like Ammon Bundy....Good Night. God Bless.

Music Links:

"GET TOGETHER"-THE YOUNGBLOODS

"ONE TIN SOLDIER"-THE ORIGINAL CASTE

"GAMES PEOPLE PLAY"-JOE SOUTH

'WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE"-JACKIE DESHANNON

Friday, May 29, 2020

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 5/29/2020 NEWSDUMP FRIDAY

(LIMITED AND SPORADIC POSTING THROUGHOUT THE DAY WITH POSTING LATE TONIGHT PAST MIDNIGHT EASTERN US TIME)

The situation in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area is being followed by the "Minneapolis Star-Tribune" at this link........MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE...More on the situation below as the day progresses.

Demonstrations and some violence in other cities over the killing of George Floyd. In Atlanta this evening a police car burned and acts of vandalism at the headquarters of CNN among other things....

Demonstrations in Washington DC and Los Angeles this evening as well, also in San Jose, California and in Denver. Other cities with reported protests included Cinncinati and Oakland and Sacramento. In New York City tonight dozens were arrested..........NBC NEW YORK VIDEO...........HUNDREDS GATHERED THIS EVENING OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE.....ASSOCIATED PRESS VIDEO

In Louisville, Kentucky tonight fires lit on the streets and a news crew from WAVE-TV ordered back from their position by a police officer firing pepper rounds that hit a reporter......WAVE-TV STORY WITH VIDEO EMBEDDED

Russian fighter jets intercepting a pair of US B-1B bombers that approached Russian airspace today. Russia says its interception was conducted in line with international rules......PRESS TV IRAN STORY

A US citizen jailed in Russia on espionage charges is back in prison after undergoing emergency surgery. Paul Whelan, who hold citizenship from three other nations, underwent surgery Thursday for an inguinal hernia. The US Ambassador has spoken to Whelan who is set to be sentenced on June 15th.......TASS NEWS AGENCY STORY

Russia also reported to be planning new military facilities in Syria......SOUTHFRONT STORY

THE US NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS HEARD TWO APPEALS TODAY IN SAN FRANCISCO IN CONNECTION WITH THE APRIL 2014 BUNKERVILLE STANDOFF NEAR BUNDY RANCH IN NEVADA.

THE FIRST APPEAL THAT OF THE US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SEEKING TO REINSTATE CHARGES AGAINST KEY DEFENDANTS IN THE CASE INCLUDING CLIVEN AND AMMON BUNDY. A US DISTRICT JUDGE THREW OUT THE CHARGES OVER GROSS MISCONDUCT BY FEDERAL PROSECUTORS.

ASSISTANT US ATTORNEY ELIZABETH WHITE ARGUING THAT WITH FAILURE TO TURN OVER THE DOCUMENTS DID NOT WARRANT DISMISSAL OF CHARGES WITH ATTORNEY AMY CLEARY ARGUING THAT THE EVIDENCE HIDDEN FROM DEFENSE LAWYERS BY THE FEDERAL PROSECUTORS PROVES THAT THE ACCUSED WERE 'SINCERELY AFRAID' AND 'FELT THEY WERE IN DANGER BY GOVERNMENT OVERREACH'........OREGONLIVE MAXINE BERNSTEIN STORY

THE OTHER APPEAL IS THE ONE OF TODD ENGEL, CONVICTED IN WHAT WAS SEEN AS A PROCESS SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE KEY DEFENDANTS WITH PROSECUTORS WITHHOLDING EVIDENCE FROM THE DEFENSE THAT WOULD HAVE PROVED HIS INNOCENCE.

MORE AT THIS FACEBOOK PAGE INCLUDING A LINK TO THE COURT'S VIDEO LINK....FACEBOOK LINK

Fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin arrested today. He's charged with third degree murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. Chauvin was seen in videos resting his knee on Floyd's neck after he was arrested and handcuffed Sunday. Floyd became unconscious and died Monday. He's being charged by the Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman. Chauvin in the Ramsey County Jail.

A federal investigation into Chauvin continues. The move by local authorities comes following protests in the greater Minneapolis area that have become increasingly violent with demonstrators demanding justice for Floyd.

A CNN REPORTER AND CAMERA CREW ARRESTED DURING A LIVE BROADCAST FROM MINNEAPOLIS THIS MORNING. THEY WERE LATER RELEASED.....BBC NEWS STORY

TONIGHT IN THE MINNEAPOLIS AREA A CURFEW BUT PROTESTERS ON THE STREETS YELLING "*UCK UOU" AMONG OTHER THINGS WITH A LARGE CROWD OUTSIDE THE FIFTH PRECINCT POLICE STATION......UNICORN RIOT LIVE VIDEO FROM MINNEAPOLIS.....REPORTING FROM MINNEAPOLIS THAT OUTNUMBERED POLICE ARE PULLED BACK AGAIN TONIGHT.

The US Justice Department announcing indictments of 28 North Korean citizens and five Chinese citizens in connection with a banking network that provided financial support for North Korea's nuclear program........ASSOCIATED PRESS STORY PUBLISHED BY YAHOO NEWS

This week the US Justice Department dropping investigations into three US Senators over insider trading related to knowledge about the coronavirus situation. The Senators inolved Republicans Kelly Loeffler of Georgia and James Inhofe of Oklahoma along with Democrat Diane Feinstein of California.

But the probe of another US Senator is continuing. Republican Richard Burr of North Carolina still being investigated......NBC NEWS STORY

The Justice Department also moving this week on its probe into the origins of the Russian collusion probe of President Trump and his 2016 election campaign.

A federal prosecutor from West Texas appointed to help an ongoing criminal investigation by Connecticut federal prosecutor John Durham. John Bash will focus on how General Michael Flynn was 'unmasked' by top officials in early 2017 during the Obama Administration......CNN STORY

The Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassifying conversations between former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and the Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. These conversations before Flynn assumed his post part of the Russian collusion investigation that led to the prosecution and conviction of Flynn.

The Justice Department wants the case dropped against Flynn but US District Judge Emmet Sullivan, presiding in the case, is resisting.....DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS MICHAEL FLYNN RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR CONVERSATIONS

PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCING A SERIES OF ACTIONS RELATED TO CHINA FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN A LIVE NEWS CONFERENCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

THE PRESIDENT SAYING THAT CHINA MISLED THE WORLD ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS AND THAT THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION IS UNDER CHINESE CONTROL. HE ANNOUNCED THAT THE UNITED STATES IS WITHDRAWING FROM PARTICIPATION IN THE WHO.

PRESIDENT TRUMP ALSO ACTING TO LIMIT US INVESTMENT IN CHINESE FIRMS AND ACCESS TO US UNIVERSITIES FOR CHINESE SCHOLARS.......PRESIDENT TRUMP'S STATEMENT VIDEO

THE PRESIDENT ALSO CRITICIZED CHINA'S ACTIONS RELATED TO HONG KONG WHICH WERE DISCUSSED BY THE UNITED STATES AND UNITED KINGDOM AT A UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL VIRTUAL CLOSED SESSION TODAY....REUTERS NEWS STORY

A lawsuit filed Friday on behalf of four women who claim they were sexually assaulted by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein is currently serving a 23 year prison sentence in New York after being convicted of rape and sexual assault......THE INDEPENDENT UK NEWS STORY

Police in the UK are saying that any violation of house arrest lockdown rules by a key aide to British Prime Minster Boris Johnson would have been a "minor" one. That opinion being offered by Durham Police over the 250 plus mile trip taken by Dominic Cummings in spite of the coronavirus emergency rules . Opposition parties and 40 MP's from the Prime Minister's Conservative Party want Cummings to be fired. Mr. Johnson sees the matter as now settled.....BBC NEWS

The coronavirus story around the world today from the BBC News blog......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 5/29/2020

For now that's the way it really is Friday May 29th, 2020 Newsdump Friday......

Thursday, May 28, 2020

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 5/28/2020

(SPORADIC SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE THURSDAY)

Protests and looting continued today and into the night in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area following the police killing of George Floyd. One person now reported dead in the sometimes violent confrontations. That person killed last night in the area of the protests with a suspect in custody.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey calling for calm and assistance from the National Guard. GOVERNOR TIM WALZ CALLING UP THE GUARD LATE THIS AFTERNOON WITH 500 MEMBERS ACTIVATED......

Bus service being suspended this afternoon in Minneapolis. All bus and commuter rail service suspended through the weekend.

Another Target store looted today, this time in the city of St. Paul. Target closing 24 stores in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area........MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE

The mayhem in the Minneapolis streets captured in a live Australian television report just after 530 pm Minneapolis time, Friday morning in Australia. A stabbing incident caused police to intervene in the midst of the rioters.....NINE NEWS AUSTRALIA VIDEO

Late tonight fires set in both Minneapolis and St. Paul with large numbers of protesters on the streets in both cities.

The Third Precinct police station near where Floyd was killed torched late tonight by the protesters......

UNICORN RIOT LIVE VIDEO FEED

KARE-TV MINNEAPOLIS LIVE VIDEO

ALSO TONIGHT IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY A PROTEST OVER THE DEATH OF A BLACK WOMAN DURING A NO-KNOCK POLICE RAID IN THAT CITY MARCH 13TH WITH GUNSHOTS HEARD AS A CROWD ATTACKED A PRISONER TRANSPORT VEHICLE. FIREWORKS FROM PROTESTERS AND TEAR GAS REPORTED FIRED BY POLICE......WHAS-TV NEWS REPORT.......WLKY-TV REPORT

Russia says that the latest US sanctions will not stop Iranian efforts to reconfigure their nuclear facilities only slow them down. The Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova characterized the US moves to suspend sanction waivers and sanction two Iranian nuclear scientists as harmful......TASS NEWS STORY

In China the parliament approving the new security law for Hong Kong.....China's leadership to approve the legislation next......BBC NEWS STORY

President Trump signing an executive order regarding social media in response to Twitter's move to "fact-check" a Presidential tweet on voter fraud earlier this week.

On Twitter the President hailing today as:

"Big Day for Social Media and FAIRNESS!"....TWITTER POST

Details of his order will emerge as we move into Newsdump Friday but the President said he is supporting free speech and enabling the Attorney General of the United States and state's attorney general's to go after deceptive business practices of social media companies.......

The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying that groups of six people will be allowed to meet starting next week provided they meet outdoors......

Russia's representative to the World Health Organization warning of an "anti-vaccine lobby" that "gets louder and omnipresent". Melita Vujnovic making her comments to the Russian Academy of Sciences saying the health care system cannot fight against it alone....TASS NEWS STORY

South Korea moving its capital city Seoul into a mild lockdown status advising against large gatherings among other things because of a spike in coronavirus cases.

According to the estimate by John Hopkins University, the number of COVID-19 deaths in the US wen't over 100,000 Wednesday evening......

The coronavirus story around the world as reported by BBC News today on its blog.......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 5/28/2020

In brief that's the way it really is Thursday May 28th, 2020........

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 5/27/2020

(SPORADIC POSTING WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY)

A Canadian court ruling that the extradition proceeding against Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou can proceed. The Chinese telecom executive was detained in December of 2018 by Canadian authorities with the US seeking her extradition in relation to US sanctions against Iran.

British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Heather Holmes said the offense Meng is wanted for in the United States would be a crime in Canada......CBC NEWS STORY

Hundreds arrested in Hong Kong today as pro-democracy protesters took to the streets to oppose a new security law proposed by the Chinese government........CBSN VIDEO REPORT

US SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO ANNOUNCING THE END OF SANCTIONS WAIVERS FOR IRAN RELATED TO THE JCPOA NUCLEAR AGREEMENT IN A PROCESS DESIGNED TO GIVE COMPANIES INVOLVED A 60 DAY WINDING DOWN PERIOD

SANCTIONS ALSO IMPOSED ON TWO IRANIAN NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS......SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO STATEMENT....

THE US REPRESENTATIVE FOR IRAN BRIAN HOOK SAYS THAT IRAN MUST "NEGOTIATE WITH US OR MANAGE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE"....

TODAY AND TONIGHT IN MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTS CONTINUE OVER THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD. HE WAS ARRESTED BY POLICE SUNDAY NIGHT AND SEEN IN A VIDEO SAYING "I CAN'T BREATHE" AS A POLICE OFFICER APPLIED PRESSURE TO FLOYD'S NECK WITH HIS KNEE. FLOYD DIED MONDAY NIGHT.

THE FBI AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATING THE MATTER WITH FOUR MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICERS FIRED.

A TARGET STORE WAS LOOTED AND PROTESTS CONTINUED AT THE SITE OF THE INCIDENT AND AT THE NEARBY POLICE PRECINCT......LOOTING VIDEO....PROTEST OUTSIDE POLICE PRECINCT....LIVE VIDEO FROM THE PROTEST TONIGHT AT 1040 PM EASTERN US TIME......LIVE VIDEO FEED MINNEAPOLIS PROTEST.....

IN MINNEAPOLIS TONIGHT FIREBOMBS HAVE BEEN THROWN WITH AT LEAST ONE BUSINESS TORCHED. OTHER BUSINESSES HAVE BEEN LOOTED......

A US surveillance aircraft intercepted by two Russian fighter jets in the Mediterranean Sea. The US Sixth Fleet says this was the third such incident in two months and that the Russian pilots flew in an "unsafe and unprofessional manner". The Tuesday incident said to have lasted for an hour.

The US flies spy flights close to the Syrian coast where a Russian air base is located supporting the Syrian government's fight against jihadist opposition forces......USNI NEWS STORY (WITH VIDEO OF INCIDENT EMBDEDDED)......TASS NEWS STORY

The US pointing to Russian involvement in the conflict in Libya saying Russian aircraft are on the ground there in the territory of the Libyan National Army. Turkish intervention in Libya on behalf of the Government of National Accord has driven the GNA out of major parts of western Libya in recent months. Russia denies the US assertions......TASS NEWS STORY

The third of five Iranian tankers arriving in Venezuelan waters Tuesday. They are carrying fuel for an oil producing country facing a severe gasoline shortage caused by US sanctions on offshore refining facilities normally used by Venezuela.......PRESS TV IRAN STORY

A US official said to be upset with conservative opposition to President Trump's "Deal of the Century" plan for Israel and the Palestinians. The plan recognizes Israeli sovereignty over 30 percent of Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank"). But it also includes the notion of a Palestinian state.

The unnamed US official is saying conservative Israelis should be grateful at the friendly attitude of President Trump towards Israel as opposed to that of the former President Obama. The story published by "Israel Hayom" a newspaper owned by US Republican Party supporter Sheldon Adelson.....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS

The coronavirus story as presented by BBC News on its daily blog........BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 5/27/2020

The Space X launch was scrubbed today due to bad weather with the next window coming on Saturday to take two astronauts to the International Space Station.......

In brief that's the way it really is Wednesday May 27th, 2020.......

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 5/26/2020

(SPORADIC SERVICE THROUGH LATE TUESDAY EVENING)

Baker County, Oregon Judge Matthew Shirtcliff standing by his preliminary injunction against Oregon Democrat Governor Kate Brown's emergency orders over the coronavirus.

Shirtcliff was given a deadline by the Oregon Supreme Court of 5 pm today to either drop his order or justify it.

The Supreme Court will now have to review his injunction and issue its own ruling on it next month.

OREGON LIVE STORY

Controversy in Canada over comments by the Energy Minister of Alberta. Sonya Savage of the United Conservative Party said to an energy industry group:

"Now is a great time to be building a pipeline because you can't have protests of more than 15 people"

Both the Conservatives and Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in full support of oil pipeline construction. Mr. Trudeau opposing pipeline building during the Obama presidency in line with Obama's views, then switching to supporting pipeline building when pro-pipeline Donald Trump became President of the United States.......BBC NEWS STORY

"In new 'best estimates' the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has lowered the fatality rates for Americans infected with COVID-19 symptoms to 0.4%...CDC=CENTERS FOR DEMOCRATIC CONTROL"

Talk show host Michael Savage's tweet about the new dramatically lowered estimates of the severity of the coronavirus that have been dumped out over the Memorial Day Holiday Weekend by the CDC. Savage holds a doctorate in nutirition but also a master's degree in epidemiology .......TWITTER FEED MICHAEL SAVAGE A SAVAGE NATION

THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED SYRIAN ARAB NEWS AGENCY REPORTS ADDITIONAL US MILITARY EQUIPMENT DEPLOYING INTO NORTHEASTERN SYRIA. THE CONVOY INCLUDING ARMORED VEHICLES COMING IN FROM IRAQ WILL INCREASE THE CAPABILITY OF THE US FORCES IN THE AL-HASAKAH GOVERNATE. THOSE FORCES DEPLOYED IN AND AROUND SYRIAN OIL FIELDS......TASS NEWS STORY

In Minneapolis four police officers fired after the death of a man arrested Sunday night who died Monday night. George Floyd was said to be resisting arrest before one officer kneeled on his neck for what appeared to be seven minutes on a video of the arrest......CBS MINNESOTA STORY......Floyd is black and the FBI is investigating the incident........THERE HAVE BEEN CLASHES IN MINNEAPOLIS THIS EVENING BETWEEN POLICE AND PROTESTERS WITH FLASH BANGS AND TEAR GAS EMPLOYED AGAINST THE PROTESTERS. DEMONSTRATORS STILL OUTSIDE A POLICE STATION AS OF 11 PM TONIGHT EASTERN US TIME, 10 PM LOCAL TIME......CBS MINNESOTA STORY

President Trump tweeting tonight that social media giant Twitter is:

"completely stifling free speech, and I, as president, will not allow it to happen"

The President responding after a previous tweet of his on mail-in voting was flagged as "misleading"......

In Israel a former director of the country's health ministry says the coronavirus has been exaggerated in its severity.

Dr. Yoram Lass told Radio103 FM in Israel this morning:

"The public wants the answer to one question: 'Am I more likely to be killed by the coronavirus than by the flu?' and the answer is 'No'".......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS STORY

Libertarian activist Ammon Bundy says some 24-thousand Americans have signed up to defend "People's Rights" mostly in the Pacific Northwest and they are organized in the various states by region to help defend rights being violated under coronavirus orders. His comments near the end of this video......FACEBOOK VIDEO WITH COMMENTS AT 7:00 INTO THE VIDEO

The Food and Drug Administration is relaxing rules on food labeling because of the coronavirus to support the food supply chain. The announcement was made by the FDA last Friday.......FDA RELEASE MAY 22, 2020

BBC News with its coronavirus blog for today........BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 5/26/2020

That's the way it really is Tuesday May 26th, 2020.......

Monday, May 25, 2020

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 5/25/2020

A police raid on a business operating in spite of a Republican governor's emergency orders but first.....

"Analysts have long talked about the end of an American-led system and the arrival of an Asian century. This is now happening in front of our eyes. If the 21st century turns out to be an Asian century, as the 20th was an American one, the pandemic may well be remembered as the turning point of this process"

The words of the European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaking to a conference of German ambassadors today.

Borrell also said there is now pressure on nations to choose between the US and China with Europe facing an "existential crisis"......NEWSWEEK STORY

IN IDAHO LAST THURSDAY STATE POLICE RAIDING THE HARDWARE BREWING COMPANY IN KENDRICK. THE RESTAURANT OPERATING IN SPITE OF IDAHO REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR BRAD LITTLE'S ORDERS WITH DINE IN SERVICE.

THEY TOOK SURVEILLANCE VIDEO AND COMPUTER INFORMATION WITH A MAY 9TH TRAFFIC ACCIDENT CITED AS THE REASON. A MOTORCYLIST INOLVED IN THE SINGLE VEHICLE ACCIDENT BROKE HIS LEG. THE BUSINESS SERVES ADULT BEVERAGES.

THE OWNERS BELIEVE THAT AUTHORITIES USED THE ACCIDENT AS A PRETEXT TO ENFORCE THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER AND ATTEMPT A SHUT DOWN THE BUSINESS.

IDAHO LIBERTARIAN ACTIVIST AMMON BUNDY POSTED AN ALERT VIDEO DISCUSSING THE SITUATION TODAY NOTING THE RESTAURANT IS STILL OPEN. THEY HAVE RECEIVED A LETTER FROM ALCOHOL AUTHORITIES THREATENING TO TAKE THEIR LICENSE IF THEY REMAIN OPEN. BUNDY SAYS IN THE VIDEO THAT ALCOHOL WILL CONTINUE TO BE SERVED EVEN IF THE GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWS THE LICENSE.

HE URGED IDAHO STATE POLICE TO BE ON THE SIDE OF THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE AND ALSO TO RETURN THE PROPERTY THEY TOOK IN LAST THURSDAY'S RAID. HE ALSO NOTED THAT 28-HUNDRED IDAHO RESIDENTS IN THAT REGION ARE PLEDGED TO DEFEND THE BUSINESS IN ANY WAY THEY CAN FROM ACTION AGAINST IT......

AMMON BUNDY VIDEO IDAHO POLICE RAID

MOSCOW-PULLMAN IDAHO DAILY NEWS STORY

A new set of rules coming from California's Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom that would allow churches to reopen but with no more than 100 people gathered to worship written into the rules. Newsom responding after President Trump called Friday for houses of worship to be allowed to open immediately......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS

A rally for freedom in New Jersey today at the Silver Lake parking lot in Point Pleasant Beach. The rally called in opposition in Democrat Governor Phil Murphy's house arrest orders for the state. At least one Democrat and one Republican legislator indicated they would be speaking at the event. Police say that because of the large crowd they will have a large presence at the rally.

A report on MSNBC about the protest with protesters sending a message to the media.....MSNBC VIDEO REPORT

ADVOCATES FOR FREEDOM ARE WARNING THAT THERE'S MORE THAN ECONOMICS INVOLVED IN THE MANY RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED IN RECENT MONTHS. GOVERNMENTS EVEN HAVE PARTNERS IN BUSINESS PROMOTING RESTRICTIVE POLICIES........FACEBOOK POST

A Russian prosecutor wants an 18 year sentence for Paul Whelan on espionage charges. Whelan, an American with multinational citizenship, was detained by Russian authorities in December of 2018.

Whelan denies the charges with his defense attorneys saying they are made up. Sentencing is set for June 15th.........TASS NEWS AGENCY

Children of a Saudi intelligence official who fled the country three years ago ahead of a purge by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman were taken into custody earlier this year.

Dr. Saad al-Jabri's eldest son Khalid said the two were seized as "hostages" in a raid carried out on March 16th in Riyadh......BBC NEWS STORY

The CEO of Russia's Roscosmos space organization says that the Moon is not a place for minerals to be extracted for the benefit of business interests.

Dmitry Rogozin told a Moscow radio station during an interview:

"We will not, in any case, accept any attempts to privatize the Moon. It is illegal, it runs counter to international law."

Rogozin laid out Russia's plans for lunar missions in the coming years as the US and China both gear up for additional missions in space. ....TASS NEWS STORY

The coronavirus story in Chile today some 4,895 new cases reported with continuing street protests over government policy to deal with the virus. Barricades established today in one part of the capital city of Santiago which is in a lockdown. Police moving in to break up the blockades....24 HORAS LIVE NEWS CHANNEL IN SPANISH FROM CHILE CLICK WHITE ARROW IN PICTURE

In Ecuador protests on the streets of major cities today in opposition to President Lenin Moreno who has imposed economic austerity measures on the country to deal with the economic impact of the coronavirus house arrest restrictions. Government workers seeing their hours cut 25 percent and wages 16 percent as part of those measures......TRT WORLD TURKEY NEWS STORY

TOP ADVISER TO BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON DOMINIC CUMMINGS EXPLAINING HIMSELF ABOUT A 260 MILE JOURNEY HE TOOK WITH FAMILY DURING THE CORONAVIRUS HOUSE ARREST IN THE UK. HE SAID HE ACTED 'REASONBLY' AND WITHIN THE LAW WHEN HIS WIFE DEVELOPED COVID-19 SYMPTOMS....BBC NEWS

The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lifting the state of emergency in his country today over the coronavirus. Meanwhile his personal popularity dropping in recent polling over a scandal involving a top prosecutor who resigned last Thursday. The prosecutor involving in betting with newspaper reporters during house arrest restrictions in the country.......BLOOMBERG STORY PUBLISHED BY STRAITS-TIMES SINGAPORE

PART OF THE WEEKEND NEWSDUMP THE CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS OF THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL WITH THE NEW INFORMATION NOT SO SCARY AS INFORMATION RELEASED PREVIOUSLY......FACEBOOK POST HEALTH FREEDOM IDAHO

The coronavirus story as reported on the BBC News blog today.....BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 5/25/2020

In other news.......

Billionaire entrepeneur Richard Branson's rocket launch attempt failed today. The "Launcher One" rocket dropped from a jumbo jet today off the coast of California but then developed a problem which forced termination of its flight.....NEW YORK POST STORY

The US Navy is deployed around the world today and here is a look at the deployment of the Navy as of today.......USNI NEWS FLEET AND MARINE TRACKER: MAY 25, 2020

And on this Memorial Day clips from the true story of soldiers in World War II "To Hell And Back"........VIDEO LINK

That's the way it really is Monday May 25th, 2020 Memorial Day.....

Sunday, May 24, 2020

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 5/24/2020

(FINAL POSTING IS LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AROUND MIDNIGHT EASTERN US TIME)

BIG BEN MIDNIGHT CHIMES

In San Jose, California today Pastor Mike McClure of Calvary Chapel told worshipers at an outdoor service that the church will reopen for a regular indoor service next Sunday regardless of any local orders mandating closure of the church.

He said the church will "never" close its doors again.

His comments came hours after a US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that upheld California Governor Gavin Newsom's ban on indoor church services. A three member panel of the federal court split 2-1 in favor of Newsom rejecting a request for a temporary restraining order........SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS STORY

The Oregon Supreme Court telling a local judge to throw out his injunction against Governor Kate Brown's coronavirus emergency orders or explain why he shouldn't by 5 pm Tuesday.....OREGONLIVE STORY

NORTH DAKOTA REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR DOUG BURGUM GETTING EMOTIONAL AT HIS FRIDAY MEDIA APPEARANCE OVER THE DIVIDE ON WEARING FACE MASKS. THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT FOR FACE MASKS IN NORTH DAKOTA.

BURGUM SAYING THE MASK DOES NOT REPRESENT POLITICAL DIFFERENCES OR IDEOLOGIES BUT MAY SIMPLY REFLECT THE HEALTH CONCERNS OF INDIVIDUALS. HE BROKE DOWN AS HE IN ESSENCE URGED PEOPLE WHO DON'T WEAR MASKS NOT TO GET ANGRY WITH THOSE WHO DO......

THE GUARDIAN VIDEO LINK

RIOTING AND FOOD SHORTAGES REPORTED IN THE CHILEAN CAPITAL OF SANTIAGO AS THE GOVERNMENT PURSUES A STRICT QUARANTINE REGIME AND PROMISES TO DISTRIBUTE FOOD. THIS VIDEO POSTED SATURDAY SHOWS A FIREBOMB ATTACK ON A POLICE VEHICLE.......

VIDEO LINK SANTIAGO CHILE RIOTING 5/23/2020

TODAY CHILE'S PRESIDENT SEBASTIAN PINERA SAID THE COUNTRY'S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS 'VERY CLOSE TO THE LIMIT' WITH MORE THAN 69-THOUSAND CORONAVIRUS CASES REPORTED IN THE COUNTRY.......REUTERS NEWS STORY

The corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu getting underway today in a large courtroom in Jerusalem where rules of "social distancing" will be observed and masks will be worn.

The prosecutor arrived at the trial with a security detail. Mr. Netanyahu said as he entered the courtroom "I request that the hearings be broadcast live". He also said that he comes to court with his "head held high".....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS EMBEDDED VIDEO OF NETANYAHU ENTERING COURTROOM

Outside the court building a large crowd of protesters in support of the Prime Minister......VIDEO FEED LIVE

This story was written by the Associated Press and published by Ynet in Israel following the first day's court proceedings.......AP STORY PUBLISHED BY YNET

North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un making his first public appearance in 20 days holding a military meeting today discussing strengthening the country's nuclear forces. The official news agency called the meeting one where increasing the country's "nuclear war deterrence" and putting the "strategic armed forces on a high alert operation".....ASSOCIATED PRESS STORY

HONG KONG POLICE USING WATER CANNON AND TEAR GAS ON PROTESTERS TODAY. THE PRO-DEMOCRACY DEMONSTRATIONS OPPOSING A NEW CHINESE GOVERNMENT 'SECURITY' LAW......BBC NEWS

WHEN SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO MADE A VISIT TO ISRAEL EARLIER THIS MONTH AMIDST THE CORONAVIRUS SITUATION HE HAD A DEAD SERIOUS MESSAGE FOR ISRAEL'S LEADERS ABOUT THE COUNTRY'S RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA AND THE NEED TO CHANGE IT.......JERUSALEM POST STORY

THE US IMPOSING TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS FOR PEOPLE ARRIVING IN THE US FROM BRAZIL AS CORONAVIRUS CASES 'SPIKE' IN THAT COUNTRY. FOREIGNERS WHO WERE IN BRAZIL DURING A 14-DAY PERIOD BEFORE THEIR ATTEMPT TO ENTER THE UNITED STATES AS OF 1159 PM THURSDAY NIGHT WILL NOT BE ALLOWED ENTRY.....BUSINESS INSIDER STORY

A POLITICAL STORM SURROUNDING BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON OVER HIS CHIEF ADVISER DOMINIC CUMMINGS WHOSE GOINGS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN BROKE THE RESTRICTIONS.

JOHNSON REAFFIRMING SUPPORT FOR CUMMINGS TODAY: "I THINK HE FOLLOWED THE INSTINCTS OF EVERY FATHER AND EVERY PARENT, AND I DO NOT MARK HIM DOWN FOR THAT".

CUMMINGS TOOK HIS WIFE AND SON TO HIS PARENTS FARM SOME 264 MILES AWAY FROM LONDON DURING THE LOCKDOWN.

BUT TONIGHT A NEW POLICE INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY WITH AN ALLEGATION THAT CUMMINGS DROVE 30 MORE MILES TO A LOCATION WITH A SCENIC VIEW (BARNARD CASTLE)........THE GUARDIAN UK NEWS STORY

In France the protest against coronavirus restrictions in the port city of St. Nazaire led to tear gas from police this weekend........VIDEO LINK

In Germany the crackdown on "unauthorized" protest goes beyond those supporting freedom and opposing coronavirus martial law restrictions. Water cannon and arrests in Hamburg yesterday for the Antifa who came to oppose pro-freedom demonstrators who they call "right-wing extremists"......POLICE IN HAMBURG GERMANY CRACKDOWN ON ANTIFA PROTESTERS 'UNAUTHORIZED' PROTEST

There are plenty of statistics to go around when it comes to the coronavirus and the ones being compiled by the World Health Organization today showed 101-thousand new cases in the previous 24 hours around the world.....TASS NEWS STORY

The coronavirus story around the world as interpreted by BBC News on its daily blog......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 5/24/2020

That's the way it really is Sunday May 24th, 2020.......

Saturday, May 23, 2020

FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 80: GOVERNMENT MOVING FORWARD WITH JUNE 28 LOCAL ELECTION VOTE, PROTEST BROKEN UP IN SAINT NAZAIRE

The second round of voting in France's municipal elections postponed when the coronavirus lockdown began in March will be carried out on Sunday June 28th.

The government apparently wanting to take advantage of a political atmosphere where its Premier Edouard Philippe has a popularity greater than that of President Emmanuel Macron.

Complaints some 71 in total filed against various government officials in France over the handling of Covid-19 with one person involved the government party's candidate for Mayor in Paris and former Health Minister Agnes Buzyn.

The first Yellow Vests video of the day posted this morning......

GILETS JAUNES BLOUSES BLANCHES ACTE 80 SAMEDI 23 MAI 2020 SOIGNANTS AND MASQUES DE LA COLERE VS ELUS

A Yellow Vests protest materialized alongside a highway in the Nimes area. Police moved in on this protest a half-hour after it started.....

YELLOW VESTS PROTEST-5/23/2020-LES GILETS JAUNES DEPLOIENT LEUR

PANCARTES

Police swarming all over the center of Montpellier in the south of France today to confront any protest......

POLICE OPERATION AGAINST YELLOW VESTS MONTPELLIER 5/23/2020

The Yellow Vests out Saturday afternoon at 2:30 in Besancon.......

BESANCON: GILETS JAUNES ACTE 80 MANIFESTATION STATIQUE

The video from Lille today showing Yellow Vests back this time wearing masks and practicing "social distancing"......

YELLOW VESTS LILLE 5/23/2020 WEEK 80

AND A PROTEST AIMED AT OPPOSING THE CORONAVIRUS RESTRICTIONS IN FRANCE BROKEN UP BY POLICE IN BRITTANY AT THE PORT CITY OF SAINT NAZAIRE....

VIDEO LINK OF SAINT NAZAIRE PROTEST 5/23/2020

And that is a look at Week 80 of the Yellow Vests in France.........

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: WEEKEND VERSION DC 19 THE "SOCIALIST PARTIES" WANT "SOCIAL DISTANCING" AND MASKS

Music Links:

"I WONDER COULD I LIVE THERE ANYMORE"-CHARLEY PRIDE (LIVE)

"SUPERMAN"-DONNA FARGO

"LIZZIE AND THE RAINMAN"-TANYA TUCKER

Country music in the 1970's great memories of good times listening to the country sounds on the radio and that's how I spent so much of my teenage years a unique experience for some of us back then.

The "Dictatorship of Covid 19" continues with all the negative effects of a totally disrupted society that is nowhere near back to real normal..

I am reminded of a movie I saw at a religious festival back in the 1980's made in 1981 and here is the trailer for "Early Warning"........

FAN TRAILER FOR THE CHRISTIAN THRILLER "EARLY WARNING"

What a world we live in today where the truth gets no respect. It gets banned on Facebook....

And when I grew up "No Respect" meant the comedy of Rodney Dangerfield. Here he is performing for President Ronald Reagan and other dignitaries in 1981.......

RODNEY DANGERFIELD HAS PRESIDENT REAGAN LAUGHING UP A STORM (1981)

DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WANT SOCIAL DISTANCING AND MASKS, OTHERS NEVER SUPPORTED THOSE OR ANY OTHER RESTRICTIONS RELATED TO THE CORONAVIRUS

The two big spending socialist parties in this country who have a track record of doing it back in March a price we all will pay for sooner or later are both in their own ways saying wear masks and practice social distancing with one party louder than the other about it.

Politics with Don Lemon having a fit on CNN or was it Anderson Cooper heck the message more important than the messenger. They got it right that President Trump's powerful tweets serve a purpose of distraction. Distraction to keep his enemies from focusing on bad news or issues that may hurt the President in the long run.

Much attention paid to the fact that Trump did not wear a mask for the speech in the Ford plant this week but that he was wearing a mask before and after his on camera appearance.

So even Donald J. Trump is wearing a mask off camera but the folks like Ammon Bundy don't wear masks all the time. They always put liberty ahead of following the bureaucratic fear mongering.

The exercise of freedom of religion was being carried out by the likes of Ammon Bundy way back on Easter Sunday six weekends ago before President Trump discovered it on a Friday afternoon going into a holiday weekend.

Late Friday evening Dr. Deborah Birx telling people to go out this weekend but maintain distance and have masks available when she spoke at the White House.....ASSOCIATED PRESS VIDEO

DC 19: PROTEST IN SPAIN

A compliant protest in Madrid today from Spain's Vox Party as protesters stayed in cars to "social distance" and honked their horns.....

VIDEO LINK TO SPANISH PROTEST

DC 19: POLAND PROTEST

A protest today in Warsaw, Poland as the government's chains continue in modified form there.....

VIDEO LINK TO WARSAW PROTEST-AFP

DC 19: DISPERSED BERLIN PROTESTS TODAY AND DOZENS ARRESTED

The government, the regime of Angela Merkel, enforcing restrictions that limit the size of protests with some 40 separate protests "registered" in Berlin today. They are anti-martial law dictatorship protests in some cases others left-wing attempts to oppose "the Right". Police taking down personal info on people who as "Berliner Zeitung" newspaper puts it offer up:

"insult and resistance to law enforcement officers and violations of the Infection Protection Act"

and here is a video of Germany's 21st Century "Gestapo" in operation today in conjunction with one of the protests.....

PROTEST IN BERLIN TODAY 5/23/2020

Also from Berlin a protest outside the Reichstag.....

BERLIN PROTEST AT REICHSTAG SHORT VIDEO CLIP OF CROWD 5/23/2020

This longer video version about an hour........

PEOPLE PROTEST LOCKDOWN BERLIN SPUTNIK VIDEO

Dozens arrested in Berlin and police reported injured as the protesters exercised their rights not to adhere to restrictions imposed in the name of fighting the coronavirus......

IRAN PRESS TV STORY

IN FRANCE THEY ARE ALLOWING WORSHIP SERVICES IN CHURCHES BUT YOU MUST WEAR A MASK.......

ALL ACROSS THE WORLD "FREEDOM DIAPER WIPES" ARE BEING USED PROLIFICALLY RIGHT NOW AS THEY HAVE BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN THE FUTURE.....

Standing up for their freedom people all over the world today.....

Video from Passau Germany........

RALLY FOR FREEDOM (FREIHEIT) IN PASSAU GERMANY 5/23/2020

The rally for freedom in Canada at Toronto's Queens Park today........

FREEDOM RALLY (ANTI-LOCKDOWN PROTEST TORONTO) 5/23/2020

My musical experience include the sounds of the "Big Bands" brought to me over the years by host Chuck Cecil with his "Swingin Years" program.

The theme song of that program "The Mole" by Harry James

Music Links:

"THE MOLE"-HARRY JAMES

"PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000"-GLENN MILLER

"LOCH LOMOND"-BENNY GOODMAN (MARTHA TILTON VOCAL)

"YOU'RE A SWEETHEART"-TOMMY DORSEY (EDYTHE WRIGHT VOCAL)

And now let's get some serious news in........

NEWSDUMP ALERT: PRESIDENT TRUMP SPEAKS WITH TURKISH RULER PRESIDENT ERDOGAN ABOUT LIBYA AND SYRIA

US President Donald Trump on the phone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today.

The White House speaking of reopening world economies in wake of what the White House spokesman Judd Deere calls:

"the coronavirus pandemic"

President Trump also reported to have offered up his concern about "worsening foreign interference" in Libya and the need for "rapid de-escalation" in Libya.

Regarding Syria this from the White House:

"President Trump reaffirmed the urgent need for rapid de-escalation President Trump and President Erdogan reaffirmed the urgent need for a political resolution to the conflict in Syria, as well as unimpeded humanitarian access throughout the country."

REUTERS NEWS STORY

(COMMENT AND ANALYSIS)

The fight in Libya is between the Government of National Accord recognized by the United Nations and the Libyan National Army of the eastern part of the country.

GNA has received massive Turkish military assistance in recent months including a roughly 10-thousand man jihadist ground force recruited from forces that had been fighting in Syria against the Assad regime.

LNA is backed by Russia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and France.

In the days leading up to the Trump-Erdgoan conversation both the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have spoken the GNA leader Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj about the need for fighting to end and for negotiations.

Is the US trying to stop Turkey from winning the war for the GNA or just demonizing the other side backed by Russia when the White House expresses its disapproval of foreign involvement in Libya or is there opposition to what Turkey is doing?

A Russian publication "Reporter" published a story about the massive Turkish intervention in Libya and how that has turned the tables from being in favor of the LNA to the GNA........

"THE TURKISH FLEET SIMPLY CLOSED THE SKY OVER LIBYA"-TRANSLATED BY BULGARIAN MILITARY NEWS

In Syria Turkey has reinforced its military position in the "Greater Idlib Region" to impede any Syrian-Russian-Iranian attempts to defeat the Al Qaeda and the other jihadist forces there. The jihadists appear to be attempting to re-emerge in southern Syria with anti-Syria-Iran US bases and Israel nearby.

Goals of the US and or Israel said to be driving out Iran from Syria and ending the current Assad government in Syria.

Trump and Erdogan appear to be on the same page in Syria still siding with the jihadists and claiming humanitarian motives for doing so.......

HUAWEI-CHINA NEWSDUMP ALERT: BORIS JOHNSON MAY BACK DOWN FROM ALLOWING CHINA INTO UK 5G SYSTEM

Some new developments in the new coronavirus world we live in as anti-China forces in the British Conservative Party appear to be having an impact on Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Instead of allowing the Chinese telecom firm Huawei into parts of the country's 5G system as he announced earlier this year, Johnson now considering a plan to reverse course and shut out Huawei from 5G in the UK completely by 2023.

This "Press TV" story from Iran links to British media reports on the situation......

PRESS TV STORY

(COMMENT)

The new world we are in makes the USA powerful in spite of its debts and makes the smaller nations weaker with the debts they incur because of the coronavirus panic more acute.

My passion is for real news, not political propaganda disguised as "News/Talk" or "News Channel" etc. etc.

Its the floods, the fires, the insurrections. I was trained in authentic journalism which has faded out in so many prominent places.

A REAL NEWS EVENT ON MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 1977 AS IT HAPPENED

165 dead and more than 200 injured in northern Kentucky just outside Cincinnati. It was the Saturday night of the Memorial Day weekend at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky.

It was about 9 pm when the fire started and when it was time for the 11 pm news on WKRC Channel 12 Cincinnati reporters from that station were on scene trying to utilize the new "Electronic News Gathering" truck they promoted as "EDGE" to provide live video and audio. Audio failed in combination with video so the news crews improvised with the 2-way radios installed in their vehicles and the portable models called "walkie-talkies" to combine with the video feed.

This 52 minute video is a short version of what was broadcast for a 4.5 hour period on WKRC 12 that night. The main anchor of the TV station appears near the end of the video one Nick Clooney whose sister was famous in her day and whose son gained fame in more recent times.

This was a traumatic combat experience for all there including the journalists. There was death and destruction in their midst......

BEVERLY HILLS SUPPER CLUB FIRE: BROADCAST.....

Howard Ain, who was one of the reporters you see in that video, recounted three years ago on the 40th anniversary of the disaster his recollection of that night......

HOWARD AIN RECALLS COVERING THE BEVERLY HILLS SUPPER CLUB FIRE 40 YEARS AGO

Remembering the various kinds of music I have enjoyed in my life I think next of this new kind of music I discovered in the late 1970's and early 1980's that I embraced for almost a decade.

They called it CCM (Contemporary Christian Music).

The first song a sample from the early 1980's by a group called "The Seventy Sevens" and their song titled "Caught In An Unguarded Moment".......

Music Links:

"CAUGHT IN AN UNGUARDED MOMENT"-THE SEVENTY-SEVENS

"MYSTERY"-SHELIA WALSH

"BLAME IT ON THE ONE I LOVE"-KELLY WILLARD

"MANSION BUILDER"-SECOND CHAPTER OF ACTS

THE STANDOFF CASES: UPDATES FROM OREGON WITH GOOD NEWS AND BUNKERVILLE WHERE THERE ARE NEW INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS

We'll go to Oregon first and when there's a federal case against you what do you do? Hire an expensive lawyer or plead guilty to one charge of the piled on charges designed to make sure prosecutors in our federal.....

CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

keep up their 98 percent conviction rate.

Ryan Payne opted to plead guilty and he did his time and went into "supervised release". Now US District Judge Anna J. Brown granting Payne an early end to that "supervision"......

OREGONLIVE STORY

BUNKERVILLE APPEAL SET FOR FRIDAY IN SAN FRANCISCO AS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WANTS CHARGES AGAINST CLIVEN BUNDY, AMMON BUNDY, RYAN BUNDY ETC. REINSTATED

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals set to hear the Justice Department's appeal of the dismissal of charges against key defendants in the April 2014 Bunkerville Standoff. Charges thrown out because of "gross misconduct' involving prosecutors in the case. They withheld evidence that was "exculpatory" as in proving the innocence of the accused.

This was supposed to happen in Las Vegas in March but was postponed in the face of the coronavirus panic.

"HIKERS" COMPLAIN ABOUT RYAN BUNDY'S IRRIGATION ACTIVITIES ON "FEDERAL LAND" THE BUNDYS USE TO GRAZE CATTLE

This story emerging in the last week and reported in one of our news summaries.....Out in Nevada some "hikers" say they came on Ryan Bundy working on an irrigation system and decided to file a complaint in this election year 2020 with the federal government's Bureau of Land Management.

"E and E News" reporting that the BLM has launched an investigation into "illegally built new irrigation infrastructure"......

E AND E NEWS STORY 5/13/2020 BUNDY'S TRENCHES......

Could there be more trouble on the way involving the Bundy Ranch? I strongly suspect that the "hikers" were there to create an election year issue or incident....

BREAKING NEWS: IRANIAN GASOLINE TANKER REACHES GASOLINE STARVED VENEZUELA TONIGHT

One other item on the Iranian gasoline tankers front word that one of the Iranian vessels has reached Venezuela tonight unmolested by the US military under the guard of Venezuelan forces of the Maduro regime. This version of events from the left-wing "Telesur" media outlet......

TELESUR NEWS STORY

Good Night and God Bless.......

Here's some music to take us into the night.......

Music Links:

"RAMBLIN MAN"-THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND

"GYPSYS, TRAMPS AND THIEVES"-CHER (LIVE)

"GOLDFINGER"-SHIRLEY BASSEY

"THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC"-ABBA

"PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON"-PETER, PAUL AND MARY