NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 6/19/2020  NEWSDUMP FRIDAY

(POSTING WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT)

BIG BEN CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT  (TRUMP ADMINISTRATION)  WILL NOT APPEAL A JUDGE'S RULING THAT REVOKED A GRAZING PERMIT FOR OREGON RANCHERS DWIGHT AND STEVEN HAMMOND.

ENVIRONMENTALIST GROUPS HAD WON A RULING AGAINST THE HAMMONDS, PARDONED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP IN JULY 2018,  FROM US DISTRICT JUDGE MICHAEL SIMON........OREGON LIVE NEWS STORY

THE US ATTORNEY FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, GEOFFREY BERMAN, RESIGNING.     BERMAN TO BE REPLACED BY JAY CLAYTON, CHAIRMAN OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION.    THE US ATTORNEY FOR NEW JERSEY, CRAIG CARPENITO, TO TAKE OVER AS ACTING US ATTORNEY FOR SOUTHERN NEW YORK JULY 3RD........

THAT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM WASHINGTON CONTRADICTED LATE TONIGHT BY MR. BERMAN WHO SAYS HE HAS NOT RESIGNED.......BBC NEWS.....US ATTORNEY SDNY TWITTER

MAINSTREAM MEDIA ATTENTION FOCUSED ON BERMAN'S INVOLVEMENT IN CASES SURROUNDING ASSOCIATES OF PRESIDENT TRUMP BUT BERMAN INVOLVED IN OTHER MATTERS LIKE THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE ALLEGED SEX TRAFFICKING OPERATION OF THE LATE JEFFREY EPSTEIN.......

NY 1 NEWS ASSOCIATED PRESS STORY

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said today that one of the police officers involved in the March 13th killing of Breonna Taylor will be fired.     Brett Hankison was one of three officers on administrative duty after they opened fire with their weapons during a no-knock raid.   Taylor's boyfriend thought intruders had entered the apartment and fired his weapon in self-defense and she ended up being shot eight times.....  THE INDEPENDENT UK NEWS STORY    

The Air Force Inspector General is investigating the flights of surveillance planes over protests in Washington DC and Minneapolis earlier this month........TALKING POINTS MEMO

THE US NAVY IS NOT GOING TO REINSTATE THE FORMER CAPTAIN OF THE USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT, BRETT CROZIER.     THE NAVY ALSO PUTTING ON HOLD ANY PROMOTION FOR CROZIER AND PLANNING PUNISHMENT FOR HIM.

CROZIER  HAD ADVOCATED FOR MEASURES TO BE TAKEN TO PREVENT SPREAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS ON HIS SHIP AND HIS MESSAGE GOT TO THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND DREW WORLDWIDE ATTENTION.   MANY MEMBERS OF HIS CREW CONSIDERED HIM A HERO FOR HIS ACTIONS.

AFTER ALL THE PUBLICITY THE NAVY BROUGHT CREW MEMBERS ASHORE FOR QUARANTINE AND TOOK OTHER MEASURES TO PREVENT COVID-19 SPREAD.......USNI NEWS

Also in Washington the new boss at the US Agency for Global Media firing three senior officials as a "housecleaning" appears to be underway with Michael Pack nominated by President Trump and now approved to lead the organization.......BBC NEWS

Iran rejecting a resolution adopted today by the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors.    It was sponsored by the UK, France and Germany and called for access to Iranian nuclear facilities.    The Iranians saying it was "based on false and unfounded accusations" and promising retaliation........TASS NEWS AGENCY.....PRESS TV IRAN

Two Canadians detained in China now charged with espionage.     Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor accused in what's believed to be a move by China to pressure Canada over its arrest of Huawei telecom executive Meng Wanzhou for extradition to the United States.......ASSOCIATED PRESS STORY-CBC NEWS.....Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying he is "disappointed" by China's move......CBC NEWS STORY

INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI MAKING A FRIDAY NIGHT SPEECH SAYING HE IS 'HURT AND ANGRY' OVER THE KILLING OF 20 INDIAN SOLDIERS BY CHINESE FORCES IN THE KASHMIR REGION BUT HE ALSO PUT OUT THE WORD THAT THERE WAS NO CHINESE INCURSION INTO INDIAN TERRITORY.

MODI SAYING THAT INDIA'S MILITARY 'WILL SPARE NO EFFORT TO PROTECT OUR NATION'.......AL JAZEERA QATAR NEWS STORY

An Indian military source has shared a photo with BBC News said to show the kind of weapons used in the fight earlier this week when Chinese soldiers killed 20 Indian soldiers in Kashmir's Galwan Valley.   The clubs are studded with nails......BBC NEWS

TWITTER PERMANENTLY SUSPENDING BRITISH POLITICAL ACTIVIST KATIE HOPKINS. HOPKINS, WHO HAD MORE THAN ONE  MILLION FOLLOWERS, TWEETED OFTEN IN SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP.  SHE ACCUSED OF VIOLATING A POLICY AGAINST "HATEFUL CONDUCT"......BBC NEWS REPORT

Russian military aircraft intercepting a pair of US B-52 bombers off the eastern coast of Russia........TASS NEWS STORY

A US Navy amphibious assault ship has entered the Black Sea near southern Russia to join a US destroyer already on patrol there.......TASS NEWS STORY

IN ARIZONA TODAY 3,246 NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES REPORTED A RECORD DAILY TOTAL......KVOA TUSCON NEWS REPORT.....FLORIDA REPORTING A RECORD DAILY TOTAL OF 3,822 NEW CASES OF COVID-19.

APPLE DECIDING TO CLOSE 11 STORES IN FLORIDA, ARIZONA, NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA AS A PRECAUTION BECAUSE OF INCREASED NUMBERS OF COVID-19 CASES.....BNN BLOOMBERG

Israel reporting 349 new coronavirus cases today, the highest daily total since April......The government moving to establish "restricted zones"where there are large numbers of cases.....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SAYS THAT THE SPREAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS IS ACCELERATING AND THAT THE PANDEMIC HAS REACHED A 'NEW AND DANGEROUS PHASE' AFTER A RECORD NUMBER OF CASES WORLDWIDE WERE REPORTED ON THURSDAY......NEW ZEALAND HERALD STORY

BBC News reporting on coronavirus around the world via its blog......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 6/19/2020

In other news........

A former Arizona official entering a guilty plea to federal charges for running an adoption fraud scheme.   Paul Petersen was also an adoption lawyer and he was accused of bringing pregnant women to the US to give birth.....CNN STORY

And that's the way it really is Friday June 19th, 2020  Newsdump Friday and another day in the Dictatorship of Covid-19.