NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 7/10/2020  NEWSDUMP FRIDAY

(POSTING WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE FRIDAY)

BREAKING NEWS:   PRESIDENT TRUMP COMMUTING THE SENTENCE OF ROGER STONE WHO WAS DUE TO REPORT TO A FEDERAL PRISON IN GEORGIA TUESDAY AFTER HIS CONVICTION IN THE "RUSSIA COLLUSION" INVESTIGATION. 

THE WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT RELEASED TONIGHT SAYS IN PART THAT THE LONGTIME REPUBLICAN POLITICAL OPERATIVE WHO HELPED PRESIDENT TRUMP'S 2016 CAMPAIGN WAS:

"....a victim of the Russia Hoax that the Left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency.   There was never any collusion between the Trump Campaign, or the Trump Administration, with Russia.   Such collusion was never anything other than a fantasy of partisans unable to accept the result of the 2016 election...."

WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT ON ROGER STONE

ALSO IN THE MIX ALMOST AT THE SAME TIME WAS A PRESIDENTIAL INTERVIEW WITH THE SPANISH LANGUAGE TELEMUNDO NETWORK WHERE PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID THAT HE WOULD GIVE 'DREAMERS', CHILDREN OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, A ROAD TO CITIZENSHIP....FOX NEWS

How about "revenue raisers" or in plain language "higher taxes" to deal with tax revenue shortfalls and recovery from the coronavirus situation?

Government officials across the country beginning to broach the subject.     Among them New Jersey's Governor Phil Murphy telling Bloomberg Television "We're going to have to put some revenue raisers on the table as we go to our next budget"......BLOOMBERG STORY PUBLISHED BY YAHOO FINANCE

A Kentucky judge's order putting a cloud over Democrat Governor Andy Beshear's mask (muzzle) order taking effect at 5 pm today.        It raises questions about enforcement and or legality of the order....LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL...The Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron is asking the judge who issued the order to review the governor's muzzle mandate violates his restraining order......WDRB-TV LOUISIVILLE REPORT

"Over the past several weeks I have been asked repeatedly what the Town of Eagar plans to do about Covid-19, masks, visitors, riots etc.   It is somewhat alarming how many expect and almost invite a more drastic infringement on their freedoms"

That's the word put by Bryce Hamblin, Mayor of the Town of Eagar located in eastern Arizona.   You can read his letter in full with an introduction by Ammon Bundy at this link......FACEBOOK POST

TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN CONVERTING A FORMER ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CATHEDRAL THAT WAS A MOSQUE THEN MADE INTO A MUSEUM IN 1934 BACK INTO A MOSQUE.    A TURKISH COURT CLEARING THE WAY FOR THE ICONIC HAGIA SOPHIA TO BE A MUSLIM HOUSE OF WORSHIP AND PRESIDENT ERDOGAN SIGNING A DECREE FOR THE CONVERSION.....BBC NEWS....PRESIDENT ERDOGAN SAYS MUSLIM WORSHIP WILL BEGIN AT HAGIA SOPHIA ON FRIDAY JULY 24TH.......TASS REPORT

FACEBOOK REPORTED TO BE CONSIDERING A BAN ON POLITICAL ADS AHEAD OF THE ELECTION.     PRESSURE COMING FROM OUT IN THE OPEN OPPONENTS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP AND CORPORATE GIANTS WHO HAVE TAKEN ADS OFF THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM.........USA TODAY

AMAZON IS SAYING IT MADE A MISTAKE WHEN IT ORDERED EMPLOYEES TO REMOVE THE TIK TOK APP FROM THEIR DEVICES EARLY FRIDAY.   THEY SAID THE DIRECTIVE HAD BEEN SENT IN ERROR........CNN STORY

President Trump postponing an outdoor campaign rally planned for Portsmouth, New Hampshire tomorrow due to Tropical Storm Fay.   The event will be held in a week or two.........Tropical Storm Fay was slightly inland just north of Atlantic City, New Jersey at 5 pm with maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour and a continued north to northeast movement....by 11 pm the storm centered 15 miles northwest of New York City and continuing a northward movement and weakening.....TROPICAL STORM FAY ADVISORY 11 PM 7/10/2020

IRANIAN MEDIA REFUTING ANY NOTIONS ABOUT EXPLOSIONS CAUSING POWER OUTAGES WEST OF TEHRAN EARLY FRIDAY.      STORIES LIKE THIS ONE APPEARED IN ISRAELI MEDIA........THE TIMES OF ISRAEL....BUT THE FARS NEWS AGENCY OF IRAN DISAGREED WITH THOSE  REPORTS SAYING SOME NOISES LIKE ANTI-AIRCRAFT OR MORTAR EXPLOSIONS WERE HEARD AFTER MIDNIGHT,  BUT NO POWER OUTAGE RESULTED....PRESS TV IRAN

Russia and China exercising their veto power at the UN Security Council on Syria.   They vetoed a resolution that would have allowed humanitarian aid to flow through Turkey into Syria at two crossing points including one controlled by jihadist opposition forces.   Russia advocated for the aid to be channeled only into Syria through the government of Bashar Al-Assad that it supports in its fight against the jihadists.....BBC NEWS

BREAKING NEWS:  A SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT FILED FRIDAY AGAINST GHISLAINE MAXWELL......REUTERS STORY METRO

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers proposing five million dollars bail.    A 22-page filing from them today says Maxwell will not flee and faces a Covid-19 risk if she remains in a federal prison.    The close associate of convicted child sex offender the late Jeffrey Epstein will be confined to home with six other people guaranteeing her bond.      A federal judge set to hear bail arguments next Tuesday (July 14th)....BNN BLOOMBERG

Extraordinary measures being taken to keep Ghislaine Maxwell safe inside a federal detention facility in New York.   She has no sheets in her cell and is wearing paper clothing among other things......ASSOCIATED PRESS STORY PUBLISHED BY NEW ZEALAND HERALD

PROTESTS FOR A FOURTH NIGHT IN A ROW IN THE SERBIAN CAPITAL OF BELGRADE.   TONIGHT  DEMONSTRATORS ATTEMPTING TO STORM THE PARLIAMENT BUILDING AN POLICE USING TEAR GAS TO DISPERSE THEM.  ORGANIZERS OF THE PROTESTS SAY THEY ARE IN OPPOSITION TO THE PRO-RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT'S CORONAVIRUS POLICY.......AL JAZEERA QATAR REPORT

IN THE AFRICAN NATION OF MALI  ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS CONTINUED FRIDAY WITH ATTEMPTS TO OCCUPY KEY GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AND BLOCK MAIN ROADS.   THE PROTESTERS ARE DEMANDING THE RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT IBRAHIM BOUBACAR KEITA. AT LEAST ONE PERSON REPORTED KILLED TODAY.........VOICE OF AMERICA REPORT

How did two Nigerian man wanted in the United States for fraud and money laundering living in a country with no extradition treaty with the US end up in federal court in Chicago on July 3rd?

The lawyer for one of them says the FBI "kidnapped" them with police in Dubai, United Arab Emirates saying they were "extradited" to the United States?.......BBC NEWS

THE US SUPREME COURT, IN ONE OF ITS LAST RULINGS ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY, RULED 5-4 THAT ALMOST HALF OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, MOST OF ITS EASTERN HALF, BELONGS TO NATIVE AMERICANS (INDIAN TRIBES).    

JUSTICE NEIL GORSUCH, APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP, SIDING WITH THE COURT'S LIBERALS IN A CASE THAT CANCELLED THE RAPE CONVICTION OF JIMCY MCGIRT.

MCGIRT CONTENDED THAT TRIBAL CLAIMS TO THE LAND MEANT THAT ONLY FEDERAL PROSECUTORS COULD HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN HIS CASE.

JUSTICE GORSUCH SAID IN HIS OPINION THAT CONGRESS APPROVED A TREATY GIVING THE LANDS TO NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE RULING HOLDS CONGRESS TO ITS WORD.  

  

IN HIS DISSENT, CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS SAID THE RULING WILL DESTABILIZE STATE COURTS WITH MANY CONVICTIONS LIKELY TO BE THROWN OUT AND WILL ALSO IMPACT STATE TAXATION OF PEOPLE AND OTHER STATE REGULATION ON THE LAND INVOLVED.... BBC NEWS

FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON URGING ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU TO BACK AWAY FROM ANNEXATION PLANS FOR PARTS OF JUDEA AND SAMARIA (WEST BANK).     MR. NETANYAHU SAYING THAT ISRAEL INTENDS TO ABIDE BY "INTERNATIONAL LAW".     THE TWO LEADERS SPEAKING BY PHONE.....THE ALGEMEINER

Injuries and arrests on the streets of Athens, Greece late Thursday as thousands protested against a new law to curb public protest.    The law condemned by Amnesty International and the local bar association.    The law will hold organizers of protests accountable for any damage caused by vandalism associated with them.......DEUTSCHE WELLE STORY FROM AP, REUTERS

THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT IS TAKING RUSSIA TO THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOT DOWN OF A MALAYSIAN AIRLINER OVER EASTERN UKRAINE ON JULY 17, 2014.    THE MOVE WILL SUPPORT INDIVIDUAL CASES BEING BROUGHT TO THE COURT BY SOME RELATIVES OF THE 298 PEOPLE KILLED ON FLIGHT MH 17......ASSOCIATED PRESS STORY-GLOBE AND MAIL CANADA

Russia says that 30 foreign spy planes and two drones flew near its borders in the past week.   Eight times Russian fighter jets were sent to intercept foreign aircraft......TASS STORY

A police body cam transcript has been released that chronicles what was said during the last minutes of George Floyd's life........CNN STORY

Coronavirus stats for the USA today include 11,433 new cases in Florida according to Worldometers.......other state totals include 10,063 in Texas, 8,781 in California, 4,484 in Georgia and 4,421 in Arizona....The nationwide total of new Covid-19 cases according to Worldometers for the USA was 71,787.

Lockdowns starting in neighborhoods in five Israeli cities today.  Coronavirus fears with a thousand or more new cases being reported daily in the country in recent days...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS .....Israel's Health Ministry reported 1,464 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours its highest daily number yet but only four deaths reported at the same time....YNET NEWS ISRAEL

The coronavirus story around the world as seen by BBC News on its daily blog........BBC NEWS DAILY CORONAVIRUS BLOG 7/10/2020

In other news.........

The former South Korean President Park Geun-hye has a new prison sentence from South Korea's Supreme Court.     They reviewed her 25 year sentence on charges that included taking bribes and influence peddling and decided to reduce it to 20 years......TASS STORY

France says the Notre Dame Cathedral gutted in an April 2019 fire is going to be restored to it original state.        The goal of French authorities is for the cathedral to be reopened for the 2024 Olympics in Paris......NEW YORK POST STORY

And that's the way it really is Friday July 10th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of Covid-19.