NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 5/6/2020

(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE TONIGHT)

AN IMMEDIATE CALL FOR ACTION FROM OREGON TO DEFEND A BUSINESS DRAWS HUNDREDS.......

PRESIDENT TRUMP TALKS 'REOPENING AMERICA' THE REPUBLICAN POLITICAL STRATEGY FOR 2020 IT APPEARS.......BUT FIRST.......

ROCKET FIRE ON A MILITARY COMPLEX AT BAGHDAD'S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT THIS MORNING.    US MILITARY AND DIPLOMATS HAVE USED THE COMPLEX.   THREE ROCKETS FIRED AT THE FACILITY.   THE ATTACK COMING AHEAD OF AN IRAQI PARLIAMENT VOTE ON A NEW GOVERNMENT IN THE COUNTRY......THE NATIONAL UNITED ARAB EMIRATES STORY

INDIA HAS KILLED A LEADING KAHSMIRI REBEL LEADER AND THREE OTHERS IN A MILITARY OPERATION THAT BEGAN LATE TUESDAY.    THE INTERNET AND CELL PHONES SHUT DOWN ACROSS KASHMIR TODAY TO PREVENT LARGE CROWDS FROM GATHERING TO MOURN THE DEATH OF RIYAZ NAIKOO.    NAIKOO LED A GROUP CALLED THE HIZBUL MUJAHIDEEN.......TRT WORLD TURKEY NEWS REPORT

HERE IN THE USA  PATRIOT PRAYER GROUP LEADER JOEY GIBSON URGING A PEACEFUL WITNESS AT 1 PM LOCAL TIME, 4 PM EASTERN US TIME IN SALEM, OREGON WHERE AUTHORITIES THREATENED THE OWNER OF 'GLAMOUR SALON' WITH WITH A 70-THOUSAND DOLLAR FINE FOR RE-OPENING HER SHOP........FACEBOOK VIDEO....POLICE TODAY ISSUED A WRITTEN THREAT OF ARREST TO A GROUP PROTESTING OUTSIDE THE SALON IF THEY HANG OUT THERE FOR MORE THAN 10 MINUTES.

THE CALL TO ACTION FOLLOWING THE POLICE THREAT DREW HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE TO THE SALON AND SURROUNDING STREETS THIS AFTERNOON.

THE LOCATION IS GLAMOUR SALON, 195 LIBERTY ST. SE SALEM OREGON 97301

THIS LIVE VIDEO WAS BROADCAST AS POLICE CIRCLED THE PROTESTERS AT THE SITE OF THE BUSINESS AROUND 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON LOCAL TIME, 6 PM EASTERN US TIME.......FACEBOOK VIDEO

IN DALLAS HAIR SALON OWNER SHELLEY LUTHER SENT TO JAIL AND FINED FOR REFUSING TO CLOSE HER BUSINESS UNDER CORONAVIRUS RESTRICTIONS.   A JUDGE WANTED HER TO APOLOGIZE FOR OPENING HER BUSINESS AND BEING 'SELFISH' BUT LUTHER NOTED THAT 'FEEDING MY KIDS IS NOT SELFISH'.    THE BBC OFFERS ITS SPIN ON THE STORY........BBC STORY

ALSO IN TEXAS AN ARMORED VEHICLE USED AS LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND TEXAS STATE OFFICERS MOVED IN ON A BAR OWNER AND SIX MEN WHO WERE THERE TO PROTECT HER BUSINESS.......VIDEO LINK

PRESIDENT TRUMP TODAY ADVOCATING FOR A SHIFT IN FOCUS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TASK FORCE ON THE CORONAVIRUS TO ISSUES OF SAFETY AND REOPENING THE ECONOMY COMMUNICATING VIA TWITTER AND WITH THE MEDIA.....PRESIDENT TRUMP SPEAKS TO MEDIA AT WHITE HOUSE

(COMMENT AND ANALYSIS)

VARIOUS 'OPEN' GROUPS HAVE SPRUNG UP ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN KEY BATTLEGROUND POLITICAL STATES FOR THE PRESIDENT'S RE-ELECTION AND ONE MUST CONSIDER THAT THESE GROUPS AND THEIR ACTIVITIES MAY BE MORE DESIGNED TO PROMOTE POLITICAL CONFLICT WITH DEMOCRATS THAN TO PROVIDE AN ACTIVE DEFENSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESS OWNERS CURRENTLY BEING VIOLATED BY STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OPERATING UNDER MARTIAL LAW CONDITIONS.   THE PRESIDENT APPEARING AT THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY WITH REPUBLICAN IOWA GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS, ANOTHER KEY STATE.......THAT KIND OF ACTIVE DEFENSE BEING PROMOTED BY AMMON BUNDY WITH HIS PEOPLES RIGHTS GROUP IN IDAHO AND OTHER STATES......

Tyson Foods will begin limited operations at a pork processing plant in Waterloo, Iowa tomorrow after closing down the plant two weeks ago because of a coronavirus outbreak.    444 workers tested positive for Covid-19.   Workers will get a chance to tour the plant today to see enhanced safety measures ahead of tomorrow's opening.......NEW YORK POST STORY....In the video posted earlier from a White House meeting US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue projecting an improvement in US meat supplies in the next 7-10 days.....

A shooting incident involving a former police officer and unarmed black man in Georgia earlier this year is going to a grand jury.     A prosecutor called in to avoid any conflicts of interest said he will ask a grand jury to consider the fatal shooting of 25 year old Ahmaud Arbery by Gregory McMichael and his son Travis......REUTERS NEWS STORY

A federal judge ordering a Presidential primary in New York for Democrats with all candidates originally on the ballot who qualified (ten).     The state government led by Governor Andrew Cuomo cancelled the presidential primary on grounds of the coronavirus situation in the state......BUSINESS INSIDER STORY

A power outage across most of Venezuela's provinces on Tuesday with the Maduro government saying that an attack was detected on the country's power grid......TASS NEWS AGENCY REPORT

The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that some 11-thousand jihadists, most of them Syrian, have been recruited by Turkey to fight in Libya for the Government of National Accord against the Libyan National Army.      Most of them, more than 7-thousand, have received training and been sent to fight in Libya.

CONTROVERSY OVER POLAND'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THIS SUNDAY AS CONSERVATIVE FORCES WANT IT TO GO AHEAD AND OPPOSITION FORCES DO NOT WANT THE ELECTION TO HAPPEN.

THEY OPPOSE IT EVEN TO THE POINT OF BOYCOTTING THE POLL.    THE CORONAVIRUS AND THE LOCKDOWN ITS LED TO ALSO FIGURE IN THE STORY.......AL JAZEERA QATAR NEWS STORY

"We don't have certainty about whether it began in the lab...the intelligence community is still figuring out precisely where this virus began"

Comments today from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo regarding the coronavirus and a Chinese lab being involved in it.

Last Sunday Pompeo said there was:

"enormous evidence"

implicating a Chinese lab.

China's government reacted angrily to Pompeo's earlier comments calling him a "liar".........NEW YORK POST STORY (VIDEO EMBEDDED)

The coronavirus house arrest "lockdown" in the Netherlands set to ease beginning next Monday.  NOS Dutch television and radio news reporting details ahead of the speech this evening by Prime Minister Mark Rutte.    Beauty salons and barber shops can reopen for customers who make appointments,  elementary schools will reopen with smaller classes and rotated schedules.    Non-contact sports like tennis will be allowed.

BBC News is reporting from its perspective on the coronavirus story around the world today.......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 5/5/2020

In other news today.....

President Trump vetoing a congressional resolution to restrict his ability to make war against Iran.

The President calling the resolution that passed the House and Senate with support from members of both parties 'very insulting' and part of a Democrat attempt that involved "dividing the Republican Party".

The resolution approved in the aftermath of the targeted assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq on January 3rd...."THE NEW DAILY" AUSTRALIA STORY

An internal report from the European Union delegation to Armenia says that the UK and US governments have applied pressure on Armenia over a gold mining operation opposed by local residents on environmental grounds.     An Armenian media outlet republishing this story from the "Open Democracy" left-leaning website......OPEN DEMOCRACY NEWS INVESTIGATION

And a special note that an extra "Unplugged" post is up for tonight........NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: DC 19 SPECIAL BEAUTY SALON OWNER GETS SENT TO STALAG COVID-19 'COOLER'

And for now that's the way it really is Wednesday May 6th, 2020........