Sunday, March 2, 2025

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 3/2/2025*NEWSDUMP WEEKEND*GROUP OF NATIONS COUNTER TRUMP ON UKRAINE*JUDGE RULES AGAINST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FIRING*VICE-PRESIDENT AND FAMILY MOVED IN FACE OF PRO-UKRAINE PROTESTERS*

 


(SERVICE WHEN ABLE WITH FINAL POSTING 1130 PM-12 MIDNIGHT EASTERN US TIME)




                  LATE NEWS TONIGHT:




THIS WEEKEND IN ISRAEL THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT AN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER HAD A REPORT DETAILING SUSPICIOUS HAMAS ACTIVITY HOURS BEFORE THE OCTOBER 7TH, 2023 ATTACK.


THE OFFICER CHOSE NOT TO PASS THE INFORMATION ON TO PRIME MINISTER BENJAMING NETANYAHU BECAUSE IT WAS NOT PRESENTED AS URGENT...TIMES OF ISRAEL




Four people hurt in a shooting incident at a suburban Moscow shopping center.  


It began when security guards refused entry to a man who sprayed the contents of a gas cylinder.  He left the building and returned with a pistol firing several shots.


The man was detained...RIA Novosti Russia (Translation Prompt) (Video Embed Of Confrontation)



AN OIL TANKER SAILING FROM RUSSIA SEIZED BY FINLAND LAST DECEMBER IS NOW FREE.


THE 'EAGLE S' WAS PRESUMED BY FINNISH AUTHORITIES AS BEARING RESPONSIBILITY FOR COMMUNICATIONS CABLE DAMAGE.



A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AGAINST THE CREW CONTINUES WITH THREE CREW MEMBERS STILL NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE FINLAND...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




(Ukraine) In the United Kingdom a summit of 18 nations that includes Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky.


The group of nations opposing US President Donald Trump's initiatives towards ending the Ukraine War.



A counterproposal being drafted to present to Mr. Trump that is said to be a plan for 'peace' that includes accommodation of Trump's desire for increased defense spending by Canada, the UK and other NATO countries.


The nations at the meeting pledging additional support including military aid for Ukraine...


                          BBC NEWS BLOG 




"Hamas making big mistake...there will be further consequences"



That's the message from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following a cutoff of humanitarian aid to Gaza.


This follows Israeli agreement with the proposal of the US envoy Steve Witkoff for a hostage release plan and a ceasefire to take place during Ramadan and Passover...Israel National News



"What I told Zelensky is that we have to respect what Trump has done so far"


NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte calling on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to 'find a way to restore the relationship with Trump'.


This following a confrontational conversation at White House Friday involving Mr. Zelensky, President Trump and Vice-President JD Vance...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)



                           "Go ski in Russia"



PRO-UKRAINE DEMONSTRATORS LOUDLY BOOING VICE-PRESIDENT JD VANCE AS HE AND HIS FAMILY ARRIVED AT A VERMONT SKI RESORT.


MR. VANCE AND HIS FAMILY THEN MOVED TO AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION...HINDUSTAN TIMES INDIA...



                                                FOX NEWS VIDEO REPORT...






F-16 warplanes intercepting three private aircraft that approached the Mar-a-Lago resort where President Trump is staying this weekend.


Flares fired at two of the planes as they were escorted away...MSN-Daily Mail




ON SATURDAY A RULING FROM A FEDERAL DISTRICT JUDGE AMY BERMAN JACKSON AGAINST THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S FIRING OF HAMPTON DELLINGER.


DELLINGER AN APOINTEE OF FORMER PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN TO HEAD THE 'OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL' WHICH DEALS WITH ISSUES LIKE WHISTLEBLOWERS INSIDE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT...THE HILL USA





IN BUCHAREST ROMANIA 200,000 PROTESTERS SUPPORTING POPULIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CALIN GEORGESCU.


AUTHORITIES ARRESTED GEORGESCU THURSDAY MAKING ACCUSATIONS AGAINST HIM RELATED TO THE CANCELLED ELECTION WHERE MR. GEORGESCU FINISHED IN FIRST PLACE AFTER THE FIRST ROUND.


THE DEMONSTRATION CALLING FOR RESUMPTION OF THE SECOND ROUND OF THE ELECTION.


MR. GEORGESCU TELLING THE CROWD AT THE PROTEST:


"Let's be together and with each other and walk on the path of freedom"...



                     DAILY ROMANIA "X" (Video Embed)




Israel's military told to prepare to defend a suburb of Damacus.  


Fighting in the city of Jaramana between the local Druze forces and jihadist forces of the new Syrian government...Times of Israel



ISRAEL AGREEING TO THE PROPOSAL OF US MIDDLE EAST ENVOY STEVE WITKOFF FOR A RAMADAN-PASSOVER CEASEFIRE IN GAZA.


THE DEAL DESIGNED TO INCLUDE THE RETURN OF ALL ISRAELI HOSTAGES LIVING OR DEAD.


HAMAS HAS NOT YET AGREED TO THIS PROPOSAL ACCORDING TO ISRAELI OFFICIALS...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS




(Updated) Seven killed after an avalanche in northern India.  Construction workers were swept away in the village of Mana on the border with Tibet...AFP France-The Peninsula Qatar...BBC News (Earlier Story before search completed reports four killed)




AN ARMY GENERAL IN CHARGE OF MEDICAL CARE FOR THE US MILITARY AND ITS DEPENDENTS ABRUPTLY RETIRING.


LT. GENERAL TELITA CROSLAND'S RETIREMENT BEGAN FRIDAY MORNING IT IS BEING SAID SHE WAS TOLD TO RETIRE.


SHE WAS IN CHARGE OF THE DEFENSE HEALTH AGENCY (DHA).


CROSLAND DESCRIBED AS 'ONE OF THE MOST SENIOR BLACK FEMALE OFFICERS IN THE ARMY'...THE HILL



New York politics former Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo announcing a run for Mayor of New York City.


His candidacy comes amid discontent among Democrats over Mayor Eric Adams support for immigration policies of President Donald Trump


Cuomo with issues surrounding his time as New York governor related to nursing homes and COVID as well as sexual harassment allegations..."X" Trending





PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNING AN EXECUTIVE ORDER SATURDAY DESIGNATING ENGLISH AS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE UNITED STATES...THE HILL USA




   THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                        (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)


ATTACK ON GAS PIPELINE STATION IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA


                      TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS


       RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



Russia says that Ukraine carried out a drone attack on a pumping station of the Turk Stream natural gas pipeline in southern Russia.


The three drones downed before they could reach the station.


Turk Stream a source of Russian natural gas for European countries including Hungary...Tass Russia



In other news...



THIS WEEKEND THE KURDISH TERRORIST GROUP PKK FORMALLY CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE WITH TURKEY (TURKIYE).


THE ANNOUNCEMENT FOLLOWS JAILED PKK LEADER ABDULLAH OCALAN'S CALL FOR AN END TO THE CONFLICT...SVT SWEDEN (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



A GROUP OF ARMED INDIVIDUALS ATTACKING A POLLING STATION IN THE RUSSIAN REGION OF ABKHAZIA.


TWO PEOPLE HURT AS LAW ENFORCEMENT INTERVENED SEEKING TO ARREST THE ATTACKERS.



THE SECOND ROUND OF A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS HELD ON SATURDAY...TASS RUSSIA




Saturday, March 1, 2025

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED WEEKEND*"FREE WORLD NEEDS A NEW LEADER" SAY WHAT?*SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC*I HEARD THIS IN CHURCH*DID YOU SIKH IT COMING?*THE ONLY REAL TARIFFS SO FAR...*DOWN UNDER 50 YEARS AGO*

 


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Money is tight right now this month five years ago the floodgates of inflation were released I knew back then these days were coming.


But in spite of the money crunch I hope some can join me in supporting Free Republic.


I first started lurking in earnest on FR 20 years ago Rush Limbaugh made many references to FR and I dropped in now and then since I got on the internet in 2001.


But 20 years ago this month as Terri Schiavo was put to death and Jeb Bush put his political career to death I got closer to FR eventually joining and eventually giving regular financial support.


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NEWSDUMP ALERT:  EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF SAYS FREE WORLD NEEDS NEW LEADER AFTER TRUMP DEMANDS PEACE IN UKRAINE



      "The free world needs a new leader"


Those words from the former Prime Minister of the Baltic nation of Estonia now European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas.


That's her reaction to President Trump's insistence that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky move to end the Ukraine War against Russia...



"The free world needs a new leader', EU foreign chief warns...."_The Independent UK



Compared to the European Union I think the "free world" already has leadership.



(THE US GOVERNMENT STARTED THIS UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA AS I SEE IT AND THE US GOVERNMENT HAS A RIGHT TO END IT)


Hope we can away from the anger here I feel like resorting to 12-Step Literature for the moment...



"This brave philosophy, wherein each man plays God, sounds good in the speaking, but it still has to meet the acid test: how well does it actually work?  One good look in the mirror ought to be answer enough for any alcoholic.


Should his own image in the mirror be too awful to contemplate (and it usually is), he might first take a look at the results normal people are getting from self-sufficiency.


Everywhere he sees people filled with anger and fear, society breaking up into warring fragments.



Every such pressure group, if it is strong enough, self-righteously imposes its will upon the rest.


And everywhere the same thing is being done on an individual basis.   The sum of all this mighty effort is less peace, and less brotherhood than before.


The philosophy of self-sufficiency is not paying off..."

Alcoholics Anonymous "Twelve and Twelve" Step Three (pg. 37)



"But he said to me 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' 

 Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me"

                            I Corinthians 12:9 NIV Bible

                              


This was originally a Chuck Berry song with 1960's Civil Rights history weaved into it.


Freddy Weller of "Paul Revere and the Raiders" recorded this as a country song in the early 70's...


                                          "THE PROMISED LAND"-FREDDY WELLER





                         "MICHAEL (ROW THE BOAT ASHORE)"-THE HIGHWAYMEN






                                                         "THESE SIGNS"-LEON PATILLO






Your currently sober drunk host with you again seeking media excellence.


That last song there an example of  Contemporary Christian Music from 1979 based on this passage from the "Good Book":


"And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons, they will speak in new tongues; 

they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison; it will not hurt them at all; 

they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well"

                                    Mark 16:17-18 NIV Bible 



In church last Sunday I heard this message coming up on video.


The message from Pastor Ben Lawrence comes at 52 minutes Acts Chapter 4 pretty interesting stuff those who followed Jesus hauled into court by the "Sadducees" among others I rate "Sadducees" as "Liberals".


These Liberals not happy with the miraculous healing of a man done in the name of Jesus.


But the "Pharisees" the "Conservatives" like me have an even bigger place in denying the Lord and being critical of those who follow Him.


How many times in my life did I put some other agenda ahead of that of my Lord Jesus Christ?


                                                   Countless times indeed.








               FOREIGN INFLUENCES ON US POLICY 



What about "foreign influence" over our government here in the USA???



On social media I suggest influence that may be coming from like the countries that start with "I".



First reaction to the middle of the night social media video from President Trump early Wednesday morning.

That video showing his vision of Gaza he sits on the beach with Benjamin Netanyahu among other things...



"That certainly exemplifies @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk the real Gaza looks like Berlin in May of 1945. The difference being that the Germans surrendered to the Red Army. Hamas hasn't surrendered to Israel a major challenge to @netanyahu and @realDonaldTrump"



In Canada this week New Democrat Party leader Jagmeet Singh who is indeed Sikh making noise saying Donald Trump should be banned from Canada.  His party sagging in the polls.


A Sikh nationalist leader murdered in Canada Justin Trudeau linked it to India's Hindu nationalist government.   

The FBI probing Indian government intimidation of Sikhs here in the USA but now a Hindu is in charge of the FBI.

Will that Hindu nationalist government of India still be under scrutiny for threats to Sikhs???



"Jagmeet Singh looks Sikh to me in the Biden Administration the @FBI was probing Indian government efforts to intimidate and even kill Sikhs advocating for independence from India. Similar probing in Canada by the @RCMP. What will @FBIDirectorKash be doing. Kash Patel?"



                        This news story from last October...


"US charges Indian government employee in failed Sikh separatist murder plot"-Al Jazeera



Getting back to last year's Republican Primary campaign it's worth noting that Nikki Haley was challenging President Trump.


Haley besides being a Neocon also has Sikh heritage and President Trump was tough on her???


Getting back to Kash Patel Douglas Wilson offers an opinion from his "Christian Nationalist" perch...







                                         "MY SWEET LORD"-GEORGE HARRISON (LIVE)





                                              "A DIFFERENT KIND OF LIGHT"-THE 77s




                                                  "HEART OF HEARTS"-MARK HEARD





Mark Heard Classic Christian Music from the early 1980's the music of my life back then...




It's a China Update so far the only real tariffs from President Trump are on China (10%) and he's announced the second ten percent tariff on China here's Carl Douglas singing....





Amidst all of the Ukraine Drama Economic Warfare with China is heating up and China doesn't like being dumped on over things like "fentanyl":



"The fentanyl issue is just an excuse the US uses to impose tariffs on, pressure and blackmail China"

CHINESE COMMERCE MINISTRY STATEMENT FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28, 2025


That's part of what China said in response to the new ten percent Trump tariff on top of the previous ten percent Trump tariff...


 "China accuses US of 'blackmail' after Trump warns of increased tariffs"-The Hill



                   A social media post take on all this...



"The economic warfare with #China the fight for AI supremacy was inevitable @JoeBiden or @KamalaHarris would be eating the same poop sandwich now. There will be economic consequences more than anything else that @realDonaldTrump will have to deflect and distract from"




AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT EASTERN US TIME THE SUNDAY NEWS SUMMARY BEGINS TO POST A BIG PROTEST FOR THE PERSECUTED AND PROSECUTED ROMANIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CALIN GEORGESCU AMONG THE STORIES.



The story from France this week a lot of Trump and Ukraine in it..."France Yellow Vests Week 328*Trump-Macron 'Tug Of War'*Former President Says Hit The US Economically Amid Tariff Threat*Macron Talks Support Of Ukraine As Trump Seeks To End War*Paris Protest*



    50 YEARS AGO TODAY COLOR TV BROADCASTING IN AUSTRALIA


In the USA we took color television programs for granted by 1975 but in Australia the government got in the way wanting all channels to go color at the same moment and they did on March 1, 1975...






                     NINE NEWTORK 'A CURRENT AFFAIR' SEGMENT


And here's a clip of the first newscast on television in color from ABC-TV in Australia 50 years ago today...





                                                               Good Night. God Bless.


                                              This song in the Top 10 on March 1st, 1975...



                         "HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW"-OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN






           "I REMEMBER THE YEAR THAT CLAYTON DELANEY DIED"-TOM T. HALL




                                                    "I AM A SERVANT"-LARRY NORMAN






FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 328*TRUMP-MACRON 'TUG OF WAR'*FORMER PRESIDENT SAYS HIT THE US ECONOMICALLY AMID TARIFF THREAT*MACRON TALKS SUPPORT OF UKRAINE AS TRUMP SEEKS TO END WAR*PARIS PROTEST*

 


               (NEWS, COMMENT AND ANALYSIS WITH MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES)



"Donald Trump reacts only to the wallet, the money"


This week former French President Socialist Francois Hollande saying that US President Donald Trump needs to be hit financially.

Hollande calling for France and Europe to be 'on the front line' in hitting the United States economically.

He made his remarks at the agricultural fair in Paris on Thursday...


Economy: "We must hurt" Donald Trump, says Francois Hollande (BFM-TV Video) (Translation Prompt For Text)


"Former French President makes bold statement about Trump"-RIA Novosti Russia (Translation Prompt)



President Trump is threatening the European Union with 25 percent tariffs.




The differences over Ukraine War had visible moments as President Emmanuel Macron visited the White House Monday meeting with President Donald Trump.  



The two leaders in front of the cameras had moments when the hands were carrying a message Macron grabbing Trump's arm at one point to disagree on how Europe supports the war.


The Macron-Trump handshakes often looked like a sort of tug of war...








 Mr. Trump and Vice-President JD Vance confronted Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House Friday trying to prod him in the direction of peace.


This led to reaction in favor of the Ukraine War from European countries and their leaders including President Macron.


Macron affirming support for the war and policies related to it during a visit to Portugal.


He said in part:



"I think we were all right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago and continue to do so"


Macron broaching the idea of joint nuclear deterrence with the United Kingdom...



"'You are never alone': Europe United Behind Ukraine After Zelensky-Trump Clash"-BFM-TV (Translation Prompt)



18 nations including France meeting in London on Sunday in support of the Ukraine War with President Zelensky in attendance.





FROM PARIS ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON YELLOW VESTS PROTEST VIDEO DEMONSTRATORS BEING INTERVIEWED...



                Yellow Vests Protest Paris Week 328 Video Stream Interviews



ANOTHER LIVE STREAM CHRONICLES THIS AFTERNOON'S PROTEST MARCH IN THE STREETS OF PARIS.


DRUMS AT THE FRONT OF THE MARCH AND A PROTEST BANNER ALONG WITH DOZENS OF PARTICIPANTS DRESSED FOR COLD WEATHER.



                                     Yellow Vests Protest Paris Week 328 3/1/2025






Today President Emmanuel Macron speaking with US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.


Macron speaking of the need for 'calm, respect and recognition'.



                                                         That's the story for this week.






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