NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 10/24/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE THURSDAY)

The "New York Times" is reporting that the Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into how the probe of alleged Russian collusion involving President Trump got started.

Prosecutor John Durham is in charge and he will have the ability to impanel a grand jury and file criminal charges should violations of the law be found.

You can read what the "New York Post" is saying about the story......LINK

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants a General Election on December 12th.   Johnson anticipating a Brexit extension from the European Union tomorrow which causes him to want the election.

The opposition Labor Party will have to agree as it will take a two-third's majority of the House of Commons to call an election.

Johnson linking the election to giving Parliament more time to consider his "Great New Deal" on Brexit.

Reacting to the news on his radio show, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said:

"So Boris having to admit we're not leaving and I think he thought 'Well I've got to do something to try and divert attention away' so he's calling for a General Election"

You can watch the whole "Nigel Farage Show" for today here......LINK

Lebanese President Michel Aoun spoke to his country Thursday as protests against corruption and poor economic conditions in the country continued into an eighth day.

Aoun expressing a willingness to talk to protesters but not making any concrete changes including replacing members of the country's cabinet.

Banks in the country plan to remain closed tomorrow out of fear over the security situation.

With the Iranian backed Hezbollah seen as a major force behind Lebanon's government there is room to speculate about anti-Iran nations like Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United States being involved in recent developments in Lebanon.

Tightening of sanctions against Hezbollah in recent years are one contributing factor to the country's economic challenges.

Offering commentary and analysis on the situation is contributor David Rosenberg in Israel's "Haaretz".......LINK

Israel's Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi sees Israel's main security challenge lying on its northern border with Lebanon.

More from Israel's "Ynet".....LINK

FIGHTING REPORTED IN SYRIA TODAY WITH THE KURDS SAYING THE TURKS ARE VIOLATING THE CEASE-FIRE AGREED TO BY RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

'SOUTHFRONT' REPORTING TURKISH BACKED MILITANTS IN COMBAT WITH SYRIAN ARMY FORCES IN NORTHEASTERN SYRIA AND THE KURDS FIGHTING BACK REPORTEDLY INJURING TURKISH SOLDIERS.

OVERALL THOUGH THE CEASE-FIRE IS SAID TO BE HOLDING.

THE SYRIAN ARMY REPORTED LAUNCHING A GROUND OFFENSIVE IN NORTHWESTERN SYRIA AFTER DAYS OF AIRSTRIKES IN THE REGION BY RUSSIAN AND SYRIAN AIRCRAFT.

'SOUTHFRONT' IS FOLLOWING THE MILITARY ACTION IN SYRIA AND OTHER DEFENSE RELATED NEWS.....LINK

An unnamed Pentagon official telling "Newsweek" that the United States is planning to deploy as many as 30 Abrams battle tanks to Syria to secure the oil fields east of the Euphrates River.

The total number of US troops involved could be as many as 500.

Police in the UK say that the 39 people found dead yesterday in a trailer were all Chinese nationals.

Police found the bodies in the trailer, whose trip had originated  in Bulgaria, at an industrial park in Essex early yesterday morning.    The driver being held on suspicion of murder.

British authorities have begun the process of removing the bodies.

Bolivia's left-wing President Evo Morales claiming a victory in last Sunday's presidential election with a vote count that now shows him at 46.83 percent of the vote and his main opponent former President Carlos Mesa at 36.7 percent.     The ten percent plus margin is what is legally necessary for Morales to be elected outright in the first round.

The opposition has been crying foul and protesting over what they suspect is a rigged vote count to give Morales the victory.    The vote count is at 98 percent of the total.

Major League Baseball targeting an umpire for tweeting about the notion of a civil war over the political drama in Washington.

Rob Drake's tweet has been deleted and he has deactivated his account.    

Later in the day Drake apologized for his comments.

In the mix of mainstream media spin is the BBC......LINK

THERE WERE CLASHES BETWEEN POLICE AND PROTESTERS IN CHILE TODAY IN BOTH THE CAPITAL SANTIAGO AND THE SECOND CITY VALPARAISO.

PROTESTERS SAYING REFORMS OFFERED BY THE GOVERNMENT ARE NOT ENOUGH.

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden who leaked information about US government surveillance methods says he's now "trapped in Russia".

Snowden, who is facing charges of violating the Espionage Act in the United States, was interviewed on the "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast.

Snowden fled from prosecution in the US in 2013 and ended up being granted asylum in Russia.

Russia's Tass News Agency has more on this story......LINK 

The French Minister of State for the Interior, Laurent Nunez, says the authorities are tracking nine thousand people suspected of "radicalization" in the country and that 27 people working at police headquarters in Paris have been reported for "radicalization".

Nunez was interviewed Wednesday by BFM-TV.

Nunez admitting that there was an error because the troubling behavior of Michael Harpon, perpretrator of the terrorist attack at the police headquarters in Paris earlier this month, was known.

Four stabbed to death and one wounded in the October 3rd attack by Harpon, who was an adherent of Salafist Islam.

Fulfilling a political promise, Spain's Socialist Party caretaker goverment is acting days before the November 10th election to remove the remains of Spain's longtime ruler, Generalissimo Francisco Franco.

The remains being moved from a large mausoleum in the Madrid area to a less auspicious place by helicopter.

Live video is here......LINK

Wildfires raging in northern and southern California with some 40-thousand ordered to evacuate in Los Angeles County.

And for now that's the way it really is for Thursday October 24th, 2019.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 10/23/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE TONIGHT)

First we start with the political drama in Washington.    The "impeachment inquiry" takes place behind closed doors with Democrats taking depositions but today a group of House Republicans showed up to hear what's being said.

But Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff broke off questioning of a Defense Department official and left the room when the GOP House members showed up.

Israeli politics and the leader of the Blue and White Party, the colors of Israel's flag,  Benny Gantz given the one month mandate tonight to form a new government after Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party were unable to do so following last month's election.

Gantz wants to talk to Likud first seeking a unity government where he will be Prime Minister instead of Mr. Netanyahu.

39 bodies found in a tractor-trailer container in England early this morning.   The container, originally from Bulgaria, entered the UK last Saturday.

The truck driver arrested on suspicion of murder.

A multinational investigation now underway to trace the path of the container which may have gone through France and Ireland before entering the UK in Wales.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meeting with the Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as he continues to push his "Great New Deal" Brexit proposal.   No agreements with Corbyn with the Labor Party saying that Jeremy Corbyn supports a General Election if the "threat" of a clean break 'No Deal Brexit' on October 31st is off the table.

Meanwhile Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage arguing that Johnson's "deal" is "not Brexit".    More from Mr. Farage's Twitter feed.....LINK

There were clashes between protesters and Lebanese army troops on a major highway linking Beirut to the southern part of the country today.

Two injuries reported as soldiers used force to open up blocked roads.

Mass protests continued into the second week in spite of reforms announced by the government yesterday.

A senior US official at the State Department telling Reuters today that the Lebanese people are "rightfully angered" and have a right to protest peacefully for an end to corruption and reform in the country.

Turkey's Anadolu News Agency reports on protests earlier in the day......LINK

Chile's President rolling out a long list of reforms hoping to end violence in the country that broke out last Friday and has continued since.

Sebastian Pinera announcing an increase in the country's minimum wage, a prescription health insurance program, a 20 percent increase in the country's universal basic pension and a cancellation of a 9.2 percent price increase for electricity among other things.

18 are dead, more than 200 injured and over 26-hundred arrested in the country.

Mass rallies across the country today as a strike is underway.

Bolivia's President Evo Morales says a general strike over the suspicious vote count giving him a wider lead amounts to a "right wing coup".

The White House announced 4.5 million dollars of support for the controversial White Helmets group in Syria this week.

The White Helmets seen as a propaganda arm of Al Qaeda movement jihadists and other opposition forces in Syria, accused of producing "fake news" videos about chemical weapons attacks and other alleged atrocities by the Assad regime in Syria.

The statement from the White House praises the White Helmets:

"important and valuable work"

More on this story from "Southfront"......LINK

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper visiting Iraq today with Iraq's Defense Minister contradicting Esper's previous statements that US forces pulling out of northeastern Syria are staying in Iraq to fight ISIS.   

Najah al-Shammari saying the US forces are moving on to Kuwait, Qatar or the US within four weeks.  Iraq saying US troops do not have permission to stay in the country.

More from Saudi Arabia's "Al Arabiya".......LINK

A cabinet shakeup in Saudi Arabia with the foreign and transport ministers being replaced.

The new foreign minister is Prince Faisal bin Fahran Al Saud who among other things has been an adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.    Bin Salman considered to be the de facto ruler of the country.

President Trump said today that sanctions on Turkey will be lifted.

The sanctions imposed because of the Turkish military operation in northern Syria.

The President called on Turkey to commit to fighting the Islamic State and detain IS fighters.

The latest from the "Southern Poverty Law Center" and their list of "hate groups".    The pro-Israel Proclaiming Justice To The Nations being labeled  as one of the "hate groups" out there.

PJTN is an evangelical Christian group that opposes anti-Semitism and promotes laws to ban boycotts of Israel.

More from "Israel National News".....LINK

And from northern California tonight PG and E rolling out the blackout to 180-thousand customers fearing any legal liability for brush fires.    Conditions conducive to creating fires now exist in an area near San Francisco.

And for now that's the way it really is for Wednesday October 23rd, 2019.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 10/22/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE THAT WILL CONCLUDE LATE TUESDAY)

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson continuing to press Members of Parliament to pass his "Great New Deal" Brexit plan described by Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage as:

"not Brexit"

The House of Commons voting on whether to move forward with Johnson's "deal" after the Speaker rejected a vote in the House yesterday.

The vote became two votes in the end, one that approved the "deal" but then one that rejected a fast track consideration of it in three days.

What happens next remains to be seen with many possibilities and no certainties?

Earlier today Mr. Farage addressed the European Parliament explaining that Johnson's strategy is one aimed at helping the Conservative Party survive, not one taking the United Kingdom out of the European Union.  He said in part:

"It's the same story every time, it's about the Tory Party not about the country and what we need to do is build a Leave alliance of those across the political spectrum to fight and win the next General Election.   The only way we can leave this place is with a clean break Brexit"

Farage's full speech is here...... LINK 

Johnson is threatening to pull the "deal" and push for an election if his timetable to approve it is not supported by the House of Commons.

Social liberalism coming into force in socially conservative Northern Ireland today because of Parliamentary action in London.    Both abortion and same-sex marriage laws being overturned.

More on this from "Euro News".....LINK

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Russia today talking Syria and the Kurds with President Vladimir Putin.     Russian military police and air force units are operating with the Syrian military to replace the US backed "Syrian Democratic Forces" and US forces in northeastern Syria.

Mr. Erdogan insisting that the SDF pull back from the "safe zone" or else Turkey will resume its military action.

The outcome of the lengthy six hour meeting between the two leaders a new six day cease fire to facilitate Kurdish withdrawal from the 20 miles deep "safe zone" and joint Turkish-Russian patrols in the area.

Russia's Tass News Agency reported ahead of the meeting......LINK

After the meeting Tass reporting that the Turks considered the meeting to be the beginning of a "new era" in relations between the two countries......LINK

From the political drama in Washington President Trump calling the "impeachment inquiry":

"a lynching"

today.

And as for the "inquiry" a witness former ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor who testified that he:

"believed"

that there was some connection between US military aid to Ukraine and a Ukrainian investigation into the questionable activities of the Biden family.

But the White House saying such a statement was in essence:

"hearsay"

In Israel, the failure of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party to form a new government leading Israel's President Reuven Rivlin to give Benny Gantz of the Blue and White Party the opportunity to do so.

Gantz will be given the mandate tomorrow night.

In Chile President Sebastian Pinera planning to meet opposition leaders to forge a new "social contract" following days of rioting in the country.

But the Socialist Party rejecting a meeting with Pinera saying not all important groups in the country were invited to meet.

"a wonderful and hard fought victory"

President Trump offering his congratulations to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after his Liberal Party won the election in Canada Monday but lost its majority in the House of Commons.

Among those elected Monday was the former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, elected as an Independent.   Wilson-Raybould was ousted from her post by Trudeau after she refused to cut a non-prosecution agreement with the Quebec based construction firm SNC-Lavalin in a corruption case.

The SNC-Lavalin stock soared today following the victory of Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party.

Discrepancies in the vote count in Bolivia with a "quick count" showing the long-time leftist President Evo Morales near victory in the first round election and a more detailed count showing Morales barely ahead of his main rival, the former President Carlos Mesa, which would force a second round between the two candidates.

Last night there were protests and attacks on election offices in cities across the country and more protest is planned in the country today.

British police are headed to the United States to interview the wife of US diplomat involved in a traffic accident that killed a British man.

The parents of Harry Dunn were at the White House last week and rebuffed an offer to meet Anne Sacoolas there from President Trump.     They were told that Sacoolas would not return to the UK to face any British justice in the matter.

More from "The Guardian".....LINK

And for now in brief that's the way it really is for Tuesday October 22nd, 2019.....

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 10/21/2019

(FINAL UPDATING, POSTING WILL BE LATE TODAY)

Julian Assange denied a delay in his extradition hearing today.

The Wikileaks founder making an appearance in a London courtroom today raising his fist to supporters in the gallery.

Assange also made a comment:

"I can't think properly"

as he was led away.

A judge denying a request by his lawyers for a three month delay in the hearing set for February 2020.

The US wants Assange extradited so he can be tried for revealing secret information about possible war crimes committed by members of the US military in Iraq.

Protesters gathered outside the Westminster Magistrates Court in London today.   Here is video.....LINK

The controversial Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, rebuffing Prime Minister Boris Johnson's effort to have a vote on his "Great New Deal" for Brexit today.

The Lebanese cabinet has agreed to a package of reforms following days of mass street demonstrations in the country.

Reforms that include cutting in half the salaries of cabinet ministers.

Protests on the streets of Chile again Monday with curfews now in effect in major cities from 7 pm to 6 am.   Over the weekend looting and vandalism at stores and shops across the country. 

Three died when two supermarkets owned by Walmart were torched.    Dozens of other Walmart owned outlets among those vandalized and looted.

The death toll now reported at 11.

The protests continued through Monday with President Sebastian Pinera declaring Monday evening that he would meet with opposition leaders to forge a "new social contract" in the country.

Live news in Spanish with video from Chile's "24 Horas".....LINK

ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU RETURNING HIS MANDATE TO FORM A GOVERNMENT TO PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN.   THE MOVE TWO DAYS BEFORE THE MANDATE WAS TO EXPIRE.    BLUE AND WHITE LEADER BENNY GANTZ MAY NOW BE GIVEN A CHANCE TO FORM THE NEXT GOVERNMENT FOLLOWING LAST MONTHS ELECTION, ISRAEL'S  SECOND THIS YEAR.

Its election day in Canada.   A contest for 338 seats called "ridings" in the House of Commons.   The last election in 2015 gave the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a solid majority but the polls for today's contest were suggesting a different outcome.

The polling showing a close contest with Leader of the Opposition Andrew Scheer's Conservative Party and pointing to neither major party being able to command a majority.

The results tonight show a close contest in popular vote but an edge in seats for the Liberal Party.    

However, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is losing his majority in the House of Commons with media predicting a Liberal Minority Government.

The Liberals demonized the Conservative Party to scare left of center voters away from the New Democratic and Green parties to marginalize support for the smaller parties and pick up seats.

The Conservatives appear poised to gain 20 or more seats tonight and will be second largest party.

In Quebec the sovereignty oriented Bloc Quebecois has more than tripled its number of seats and will win over 30 of them it appears.

As the results come in tonight you can follow them via the links......CBC News...LINK.......CTV News......LINK   Also from Ezra Levant and "Rebel Media"......LINK

From Bolivia a late counting of the votes created a win for incumbent left-wing President Evo Morales and a cry of foul from his closest competitor, former President Carlos Mesa.

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal updated results to give Morales a 10 percentage point edge something that Mesa called "shameful".   Scuffles in the streets followed the shuffling of the votes in Bolivia tonight.

The headline in this late AP report on Bolivia from the "Globe and Mail" in Canada starts "rioting erupts"....LINK     This video posted on "You Tube" late Monday night.....LINK

Nine are dead following an exchange of fire between India and Pakistan along the "Line of Control" in Kashmir Sunday.   Others were wounded.    Both soldiers and civilians became casualties.

Tensions in the area running high after India's central government took control of Kashmir away from local government in August and imposed a communications blockade.

An Associated Press report on the story published by the "Toronto Star".....LINK

Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard taking to Twitter again to defend herself after Hillary Clinton called her a "Russian asset" late last week:

"Hillary & her gang of rich, powerful elite are going after me to send a msg to YOU: "Shut up, toe the line or be destroyed'"...

part of her tweet which includes a video.......LINK

Some of the other Democrats running for president have come to her defense like Andrew Yang and Beto O'Rourke.    Pete Buttigieg says he disagrees with Gabbard's views on foreign policy but that Clinton should back up her accusations with some evidence.

The Hong Kong Chief Executive for China Carrie Lam offering her apologies after the spraying of a mosque with water cannon Sunday.

With her shoes removed as is the custom, Lam entered the mosque and met Muslim leaders Monday.

The blue dye which is said to have toxic qualities to it was fired at the mosque in Kowloon as the police attacked protesters who defied a ban on protests Sunday.

The police said the spraying of the mosque was an accident and that as far as they are concerned:

"(We) respect religious freedom and will strive to protect all places of worship"

Iran's "Press TV" reports on the story......LINK

Israel is in the room with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Bahrain today.   An Israeli delegation participating in a two day conference of the "Working Group on Maritime and Aviation Security".   Its an alliance established by the United States in the name of security in the Persian Gulf.

The coalition's efforts are squarely aimed at Iran.   Israel's "Ynet" has more on the story......LINK

From Washington President Trump saying some US troops are staying in parts of eastern Syria to protect oil fields from ISIS.

That will also mean the US is denying them to the Syrian government of Bashar Assad in line with the inside the beltway policy agenda hostile to Syria, Iran and Russia.

The US also maintaining a presence at the Al Tanf base in the south of Syria near the Baghdad-Damascus highway, a key supply route for Iranian forces and interests in Syria and Lebanon.

More criticism of the President's policy in Syria today from inside the beltway.   This time Republican US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida claiming it sends the wrong message to Russia and China.

And for now that's the way it really is for Monday October 21st, 2019.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 10/20/2019

(SERVICE THROUGH LATE SUNDAY,  WILL BE EXPANDED LATER)

Is an attempt under way to destabilize Lebanon?   For the fourth day today protesters in the streets opposing taxes and corruption from a government backed by the Iranian supported Hezbollah movement, arch enemies of Israel also considered a terrorist organization by the United States.

"Newsweek" quotes local media reports of well over 1 million people in the streets of the country...LINK

Media reports also speak of demonstrators calling for a "revolution" in the country.   Yesterday a political party in Lebanon's Christian community, considered to be pro-US, withdrew its support from the government.

Street demonstrations led to the conflict in Libya that overthrew Muammar al-Qadaffi in 2011 and the eight-year long war in Syria that same year.

The government will roll out its plans for reform on Monday.

"We are at war against a powerful enemy, who is willing to use violence without any limits"

The words of Chile's President Sebastian Pinera late tonight speaking from army headquarters.

There are now five deaths reported  in the torching of a garment factory near Santiago, Chile after three deaths in the torching of a supermarket in the capital city itself,  the first fatalities in the rioting in the streets of Chile this weekend.

The nationwide death toll in the rioting is now 10.

Protests began several days ago against increased subway fares in the capital city and have expanded nationwide over the weekend.

By the middle of the day today protesters again on the streets of Santiago with tear gas being employed against them.

Curfews in effect in Chile's major cities overnight tonight.

Live reporting in Spanish with video from "24 Horas" news channel in Chile.....LINK

Reuters offering this late update on the situation in Chile......LINK

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says Prime Minister Boris Johnson has the votes to pass his "deal" on Brexit tomorrow.

A test vote came out of an amendment vote in Parliament Saturday showing Johnson seven votes short of victory in the House of Commons.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told "Sky News" today that the "European Research Group" Conservative Party members of the House of Commons who claim to support Brexit would never have voted for  Johnson's "deal" six months ago.   Farage saying the "deal" is "not Brexit".

Tens of thousands marching in Hong Kong Sunday defying a ban on protests.   After the democracy protesters marched there was an attack on a police station by a smaller group dressed in black.   Police used tear gas against them.

A man distributing flyers in Hong Kong Saturday to promote the Sunday protest was injured in a knife attack.

THE PROTEST CONTINUING IN SPAIN'S CATALONIA REGION TODAY.  DEMONSTRATORS ON THE STREET OF THE CAPITAL BARCELONA FOR THE SEVENTH DAY FOLLOWING SPAIN'S SUPREME COURT DECISION TO JAIL NINE CATALAN LEADERS FOR 100 YEARS IN CONNECTION WITH THE 2017 INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM.

A SMALLER RALLY OF HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE HELD IN BARCELONA TODAY BY THOSE WHO SUPPORT CONTINUED UNITY WITH SPAIN.  BUT THERE WAS A LARGER RALLY IN MADRID.   BOTH PRO-UNITY RALLIES ORGANIZED BY THE CIUDADANOS (CITIZENS) PARTY.

THE LEADER OF CIUDADANOS, ALBERT RIVERA,   SPOKE AT THE MADRID RALLY DEMANDING A CRACKDOWN ON CATALONIA INCLUDING SUSPENSION OF ITS AUTONOMY AND REMOVAL OF ITS GOVERNMENT FROM OFFICE.

LIVE VIDEO FROM "RUPTLY".....LINK

Election  news Sunday.   Bolivia's longtime left-wing president Evo Morales forced into a runoff.   Results counted so far from the first round showing Morales at 45 percent.   He will face former president Carlos Mesa who got 38 percent of the vote in the second round.

In Switzerland  after today's election the populist People's Party projected the top party again but gains for two Green parties in the complex system where election results are translated into distribution of power in the country.

In Syria Kurdish forces leaving the town of Ras al-Ain today pulling back from an area that's part of the "safe zone" designated by Turkey.

The Turkish Defense Ministry says one soldier was killed and one wounded by Kurdish forces and that its military fired back in self-defense near the town of Tell Abyad.

A five day cease fire is in effect to facilitate a Kurdish withdrawal from the northeastern part of Syria near Turkey's border.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper says withdrawing US forces moving to Iraq to fight ISIS.  British special forces also pulling out of northeastern Syria.

The Syrian government's SANA News Agency reporting that American forces are transporting wives of ISIS members from a camp in northeastern Syria.    More from "Southfront"......LINK

Also in Syria Russian warplanes hitting terrorist targets in northwestern Syria Sunday with 13 reported killed.

A protest for freedom of  the press by Australia's private owned media companies and the government funded ABC.    The protest over legislation banning reporters from "sensitive information".   Earlier this year Australian federal police raided the offices of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Sydney.   ABC was reporting on possible human rights violations by the Australian military deployed overseas.

The media also upset they could not report more openly about the criminal case against Cardinal George Pell when he was found guilty of child sex abuse charges.

London's "Daily Telegraph" reports......LINK

And the weather tonight stormy weather with at least one tornado reported touching down in the Dallas area.   CBS in Dallas reporting the story.....LINK

And for now that's the way it really is on this Sunday October 20th, 2019/

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED:  SATURDAY NIGHT VERSION HARD TRUTH ABOUT SYRIA AND 'THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARAPEIA'

(BATTLE OF BREXIT NEWS ABOUT TODAY'S DEVELOPMENTS IN LONDON ARE PART OF A SPECIAL POST SEPARATE FROM THIS ONE-LINK)

Music Links:

"WORKING AT THE CAR WASH BLUES"-JIM CROCE

"ONLY YESTERDAY"-THE CARPENTERS

"HAVEN'T GOT TIME FOR THE PAIN"-CARLY SIMON



"DANNY'S SONG"-ANNE MURRAY (LIVE)

Pop music from the 1970's and I certainly listened to popular music but on the fringes like crossover songs on country radio, shortwave radio which I listened to a lot back then.    Country music my go to music back then but in later years I discovered the other music sounds from back then.


Where does one start this weekend with the Brexit "deal" being arm twisted through Parliament in London this Saturday in a special session.

Canada going to the polls Monday and if the polls are correct a political deadlock on the way perhaps a minority government.

The mess in Syria that Donald Trump is helping to clean up by his decision making in recent days a scheme by inside the beltway political elites, the European elites, the financial power of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arabs.

The jihadists Al Qaeda movement Bin Laden admirers and followers unleashed on Syria and in the cauldron of the civil war migrants unleashed on Europe and some 3 million still bottled up in Turkey by the way.   Then the jihadists morph into ISIS, the Islamic State.

Murder, rape, torture unleashed on Syria bleeding over into Iraq and of course into Europe with the migrants.

The "DEEP STATE" of the government, business and media elites want you to cry for the Kurds but they never cried much less took the responsibility for what they did to lead us to Donald Trump's action to clean up the situation.

A lot of propaganda being ginned up about another alleged "chemical attack" by Syria with the final "report" on what happened in Idlib in the coming months.

Donald Trump would be facing pressure once the "report" comes out down the road for more military action against Syria so perhaps its time to unify the country and let Assad have it back.

The rage against Iran and I accept Iran is not a nice player justifies the mass murder and rape that was unleashed on Syria and beyond in recent years.

People in high places seem to think so and Donald Trump is our only hope it seems against them.

But lets remember that Republicans like Senator Rand Paul and Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky have some sense and Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is outspoken about the "regime change wars" in the Middle East as she was in the Democrat debate shindig....TULSI GABBARD DEMOCRAT DEBATE

How much Saudi Arapeian and Gulf Arab Al-Qaeda Land cash is in Hillary's orbit through the "Clinton Foundation"?    And Mitch McConnell is certainly worthy of consideration in this vein as well as others in the ranks of Uniparty leadership in this country who oppose keeping American soldiers out of these endless "regime change" wars like the one in Syria.

But the crimes of "The Kingdom" and I mean "The Kingdom of Saudi Arapeia" extend beyond Syria and Europe.  

Saudi citizens rape here in the USA and are spirited out of the country before they can face any justice for their crimes.

And Washington is so mum about it that it takes another anti-Trump Democrat to make some noise about it for his constituents back home in Oregon.

Ron Wyden of Oregon in on things with a speech on the Senate floor and says things like this:

"This is about manslaughter, rape and more.   This is about real people, real families, who have suffered immeasurable pain"

And all Wyden wanted and got a unanimous consent vote of approval on was disclosure of information in this legislation, not action to shut down the evasion of US justice by the $audis.

Read the story with video embedded from "Oregon Live".....LINK

And off to the music we go.......

Music Links:

"GO NOW"-MOODY BLUES

"ALL I EVER NEED IS YOU"-SONNY AND CHER



"WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED"-THE FREEDOM SINGERS



"REVOLUTION"-THE BEATLES



The protests raging around the world as people fight for some sort of freedom.   Catalans wanting independence from Spain reacting to the prison sentences of their leaders this week.    The continuing Hong Kong protests for democracy.....


In Lebanon the protests against corruption and higher taxes in recent days which have been under the radar of everything else.   Hezbollah a big player in Lebanon offering their opinion on the situation.


HEZBOLLAH-LEBANON PROTESTS

In a late development the Finance Minister of Lebanon saying no new taxes in a new budget for the county.

More trouble in Latin America this weekend.    Last weekend it was Ecuador now a state of emergency in Santiago, Chile.    The black hooded protesters attacking subway stations over higher fares and then setting fires including a high rise building the headquarters of an Italian energy company in Chile.

A state of emergency declared late Friday night and the military placed in charge of the city.

A Cuban and Venezuelan Communist counterattack on the sanctions regime of Washington to deal with them?

Well you have to be cynical with what happened in places like Libya, Syria and Ukraine.  Deliberate stirring up of trouble to change regimes with street protests.    Egypt also a manipulated situation.

But is violence the answer?

There are crazy people out there under the influence of the intoxicating agents from drugs to alcohol to porn and the list goes on and the government agents-informants-infiltrators to discredit protests.

There's a sense of no democratic choices in the world.    The people voted Brexit but they get fake "deals" from their political leaders.

The Uniparty in this country still wants to change things in Syria desperately as Donald Trump seems to take the rug out from under them with his recent decision regarding the Kurdish northeast of Syria.

I voted Trump because there is no difference between the two big parties and the business backed political machine gets their way in the end with the Mitt Romney's and Hillary Clinton's as prime examples with Joe Biden the latest example.

The noise about the "Right" and the "Left" and the other side being "extreme" hides the fact that politics is ultimately controlled by Big Business and Big Banks.

And they can't have things like Brexit?

Borders must be torn down to create superstates that are economically more powerful but also repressive and controlling and bureaucratic.

Super transnational governments that regulate so big business can thrive at the expense of small business and the individual.


More music with a big song from 1967 from a big star in the UK.    This song a big hit in the USA as well......



Music Links:



"TO SIR WITH LOVE"-LULU



"FERRY CROSS THE MERSEY"-GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS



'WHAT WOULD I BE"-VAL DOONICAN



"PUPPET ON A STRING"-SANDIE SHAW

There she is the UK's Sandie Shaw singing the winning song of:

"The 1967 Eurovision Song Contest"

And are we all just puppets on strings,  are the people of the UK to the EU monster's strings unable to leave?

It was Peter Hitchens who said "you can check out but never leave" when it comes to the European Union repeating the lyrics of "Hotel California".

And yes the Remainers pulling strings inside Parliament with the Letwin Amendment and outside with their protest rally. 

Johnson's deal is 95 percent as bad as Theresa May's one was and those who flat out want a 100 percent clean break from the EU not represented in Parliament at all.

BREAKING NEWS-SYRIAN SITUATION

The military action continues in the northeast and northwest of Syria with the Turks and the SDF Kurds accusing each other of violating the cease-fire.

The SDF reported to have recaptured positions east of Ras al-Ayn from Turkish backed militants.

The US forces continue their pull back from northeastern Syria with a late Friday evacuation of 50 US personnel from a northeastern Syrian airbase to Iraq.

35 Russian airstrikes in the Greater Idlib region of northwest Syria today.   That's the word from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the pro-jihadist Syrian opposition group that chronicles the casualties of the war in Syria.   More from "Southfront".....LINK

CHILE PROTESTS-STATE OF EMERGENCY 

The army and police on the streets of Santiago, Chile today after the outbreaks of protest that spread rapidly across the city yesterday originally about subway fares.

Groups of protesters manifesting themselves today and the water cannons in action at mid-day.

Live TV from "24 Horas" in Chile just click the small window to see the live video......LINK


I'M WATCHING '24 HORAS AS OF 7 PM EASTERN TIME SEEING VIDEO FROM OUTSIDE SANTIAGO OF STONE THROWING PROTESTERS IN THE SOUTH OF CHILE AT PUNTA ARENAS.

PROTESTS IN CATALONIA

The independence forces continue to manifest themselves in Barcelona with a big peaceful 500,000 people rally yesterday and these more militant groups getting into fights with police.

Its all about the sentences handed out to the Catalan leaders involved in the 2017 independence referendum.    100 years from the Spanish Supreme Court last Monday for nine people.

Here is a live picture as of 1 pm Eastern US time Saturday......LINK


Catalan leaders calling for talks with the Spanish government on "unconditional" terms.   This story from "France 24".....LINK

Music Links:



"THERE'S A KIND OF HUSH"-HERMAN'S HERMITS



"SAVE YOUR KISSES FOR ME"-BROTHERHOOD OF MAN



"SHE'S A LADY"-TOM JONES



"POWER TO ALL OUR FRIENDS"-CLIFF RICHARD




And a lot of the British sound in the music today on this Brexit news day.  Link at the top of the post to the Brexit story......

Johnson pushing the vote on his deal back to Monday as the test vote on that amendment came up seven votes short of a majority.

CHILE-SANTIAGO PROTESTS-BREAKING NEWS-PROTESTS SPREAD OUTSIDE THE CAPITAL CITY

As the protests continued in Chile's capital today the tear gas and water cannon in use there as police and soldiers faced protesters.       There were some incidents of pot banging in other cities as well.

But the latest is that President Sebastian Pinera is suspending the subway fare hike increases that led to the protests.   The BBC posting this story Saturday evening......LINK

BUT WE HAVE ADDITIONAL BREAKING NEWS FROM CHILE

VIA '24 HOURS VIDEO FEED ON THE LINK I POSTED EARLIER SEEING PROTESTS ALL THE WAY DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF CHILE ALMOST AT THE TIP OF SOUTH AMERICA IN PUNTA ARENAS LATE IN THE DAY SATURDAY.   THIS PROTEST FEATURING STONE THROWING PEOPLE FIGHTING THE POLICE.

ALSO SEEING VIDEO COMING IN FROM VALPARAISO, CHILE'S SECOND LARGEST CITY OF PROTESTS WITH FIRES BEING LIT IN THE STREETS.

Nowadays we have the internet to see things online as they happen.    I can watch "24 Horas" in Chile today to see the coverage of the protests.    Back in the 1970's the technology different I read a lot of newspapers and we had an eight-column local newspaper with world and national stories 20 or more on the front page.

I listened to distant radio stations on AM from the USA and Canada, Mexico and Cuba sometimes further.

But shortwave radio took me to a lot of places with local news from South Africa, Australia and New Zealand coming in via shortwave.    I listened to Israel which always had English language broadcasts from the time radio started there in 1936 as British territory.

I listened to Kuwait a lot and heard radio from all over the world picking up news and information and music.

In Venezuela there was a radio station in San Cristobal on SW for distant listeners in the countryside as well as AM locally  "Ecos del Torbes".    I read through Wikipedia that the radio station had its origin way back in 1947.

I used to listen to the station at night quite a bit and there was also another I remember from Costa Rica in Central America that used SW alongside AM back in the 1970's.   "Radio Reloj" which constantly provided "reloj" to its listeners as in "time" announcing the time with the clock ticking in the background.

Here is an online memory of "Radio Reloj"  from the winter of 1980......

SHORTWAVE RADIO AUDIO ARCHIVE RADIO RELOJ COSTA RICA


Another country I got on the shortwave radio was Rhodesia with much less solid reception but the broadcasting system there had English and African services on shortwave and even at times the popular music station Radio Jacaranda.

Colin Weyer used a cassette recorder to make some recordings of the Rhodesia Broadcasting Corporation and he has a memories page about the RBC ........


RHODESIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION MEMORIES



To the music we go with the "Real News Summary" ahead Lebanon, Catalonia and Chile all experiencing street protests this Saturday.


Music Links:



"BAD TO ME"-BILLY J. KRAMER AND THE DAKOTAS



"A WORLD WITHOUT LOVE"-PETER AND GORDON



"DO WAH DIDDY"-MANFRED MANN



"LEGEND OF XANADU"-DAVE, DEE, DOZY BEAKY, MICK AND TITCH



Those five guys singing on BBC "Top of the Pops" from 1968 a number one song in the UK back then "Legend of Xanadu".

LEBANON PROTESTS CONTINUE-ANOTHER LIBYA OR SYRIA IN THE MAKING?

As the brutal civil war in Syria moves towards God willing an end and some peace, one has to consider the strategy of those who helped to create it mentioned earlier in the post.

What is the plan to deal with Iran for instance?    Clearly its turning the economic screws to increase the suffering and by default the discontent of the people and leading the charge the USA.   Lebanon with the Iranian backed Hezbollah influencing the government is clearly a target for regime change.

Israel for instance can't launch a military operation because that would trigger the rocket barrage of all rocket barrages from Hezbollah's network of underground launching sites on Israel and it would be too costly in lives both military and civilian.

Why not bring down Iran and Lebanon economically?

The protesters on the streets now for three days in a row in the country.   Street protests are what ignited the messes in Libya and Syria one should remember.

"Al Jazeera" offers a picture of the situation with this story.......LINK


The Yellow Vests continue their protests in France and I created a video link oriented summary of what was going on today with that movement......FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49

Earlier we presented Tulsi Gabbard in the context of the Democrat debate and her comments on the "regime change wars" but by gosh by golly Hillary Clinton has come out slinging the stuff on the wall about Tulsi to see if it will stick.

If you oppose all the war making like in Syria you are a tool of Russia by default.

Angela Merkel has observed that the hostility to Russia drives it into the arms of China and in the end the contest for world domination is with the "People's Republic".   I think unlike other issues Merkel gets that right.

Is it Saudi money or Chinese money that leads to that excrement coming out of Hillary Clinton's mouth?

You must ask that question in this day and age.

The whole controversy through the lens of the "Moon of Alabama" website and they see the road to another Trump victory in all this....

MOON OF ALABAMA HILLARY HITS TULSI GABBARD

A lot of British music tonight but a singer popular in the UK just the same offers up this song....



Music Links:



"MY TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN HOME"-DOLLY PARTON



"HIGHWAY HEADIN' SOUTH"-PORTER WAGONER



"ONE'S ON THE WAY"-LORETTA LYNN



"I'M JUST ME"-CHARLIE PRIDE

THE REAL NEWS SUMMARY

A 10 pm to 7 am curfew is in effect in Santiago, Chile tonight as protests continued in the city on Saturday that were sparked earlier in the week by a subway fare hike.

Demonstrators took to the streets across the whole of Chile Saturday from Valparaiso in the north to Punta Arenas near the southern tip of South America.

Rocks thrown at police, fires set, stores looted.   Police using tear gas as protesters erected barricades in the streets.

President Sebastian Pinera announced today that the subway fare hike is suspended.    Last night around midnight Pinera declared a state of emergency in the capital city and ordered the army to join police in patrolling the city.

Live video from Chile on the "24 Horas" News Channel......LINK

The Lebanese Finance Minister announcing the government's new budget will not include tax hikes hoping to quell three straight days of protest about tax increases and corruption in the country.

All the forces behind Lebanon's government working on the situation including the Iranian backed Hezbollah movement and its leader Hassan Nasrallah who is urging the various political parties to work together accepting responsibility for the country's economic woes and working to correct them.

But one political party that represents part of Lebanon's Christian community decided to leave the government Saturday.  Iranian media describes the party as 'pro-US'.

France's AFP news agency paints a picture of the situation in Lebanon as published by the "Times of Israel"......LINK

In Spain the Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez rebuffing the call of Catalonia's President Quim Torra to start negotiations about autonomy for the region.

Six days of protest mostly peaceful but with militant elements confronting police at times has rocked Catalonia since nine Catalan leaders received a combined 100 years of prison time from Spain's Supreme Court for their role in a 2017 independence referendum.

More on this from "Deutsche Welle".....LINK

Sunday is election day in Bolivia with left-wing President Evo Morales seeking a fourth term.  Many younger voters considering voting for his main opponent Carlos Mesa out of concern that Morales is looking at being president for life.

In Canada Liberal Party Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Leader of the Opposition Andrew Scheer of the Conservative Party making their last minute appeals to voters ahead of Monday's election.

It looks like a close contest if the polls are correct with the strong possibility that neither party will win a majority of the 338 seats in the House of Commons.

The median of three different polls taken Friday and today puts the Liberals at about 32.4 percent, the Conservatives at 31.2 percent.

Four other parties competing including the New Democratic Party at 18 percent, the Green Party at 8 percent and the Quebec separatist Bloc Quebecois at 7 percent with all its votes concentrated in Quebec where it could reach 30 percent of the popular vote.

Also the new People's Party of Canada with a populist immigration skeptical platform showing around 2.6 percent of the popular vote.

From Ukraine an red-paint splattered effigy of a Jewish tycoon causing concern.   The country's Chief Rabbi wants the authorities to quickly catch and punish those who put the effigy on the steps of the main synagogue in the capital city of Kiev.

The effigy depicted Igor Kolomoisky who is a supporter of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Zelensky is also Jewish by the way.

More from "Israel National News".....LINK

And President Trump tweeting today that he's not going to be hosting the G 7 summit next year at the Doral resort that he owns in Florida.

The President citing:

"Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility"

And for now that's the way it really is on this Saturday night October 19th, 2019.

Good night everyone and I hope you find that next right thing to do in your life.    Peace and serenity, sanity and sobriety to all of you.



Music Links:



"GIVE ME LOVE (GIVE ME PEACE ON EARTH)-GEORGE HARRISON



"PEACEFUL"-HELEN REDDY



"PEACE TRAIN"-CAT STEVENS-1971 LIVE



"PEACE IN OUR TIME"-CLIFF RICHARD

FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49:  11,500 ESTIMATED PROTESTING AT MORE THAN 200 LOCATIONS

The Yellow Vests continue to come out every Saturday in France with a major anniversary weekend planned for the weekend of November 16th and 17th.

For now Yellow Vests in numbers estimated between 15 and 20 thousand have been on the streets and the highways and byways of France in recent weeks.

Police in France are stressed and strained by working conditions that have included massive overtime to deal with Yellow Vests protests in the past 11 months and at Givors a sickout by the entire night shift of police officers Thursday night in protest at working conditions.

A new development in the ranks of French police the terrorist attack by an IT employee who was a Salafist Muslim just weeks ago.    The attack led to some discipline in police ranks and the backlash of at least one Muslim officer in those ranks saying he felt "stigmatized".


And now video from Paris of Week 49 of the Yellow Vests.


YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49 PARIS


The focus of the protest is media and the government's France Televisions the site of protest.

A big story in the media today is the rail strike affecting the French railroad system.

The live video stream from Toulouse today.


YELLOW VESTS TOULOUSE LIVE


Also a shorter piece a four minute video of the Yellow Vests in Toulouse today....LINK


The Yellow Vests protest in Toulouse went to a fire station in solidarity with the grievances of firefighters and then made some smoke on the streets of the city.....LINK


Video from the Yellow Vests in Lille in northern France today......


YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49 LILLE

A BIG MARCH OF YELLOW VESTS ON THE SPANISH BORDER TODAY THE BORDER WITH CATALONIA WHERE MASS PROTESTS FOR INDEPENDENCE UNDERWAY THIS WEEK AFTER LEADERS OF REGION IMPRISONED BY THE SPANISH SUPREME COURT.

THE YELLOW VESTS BLOCKING THE A9 AUTOROUTE BETWEEN FRANCE AND CATALONIA......

FRANCE-CATALONIA BORDER YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49


Events elsewhere in the world and even in France overshadowing Yellow Vests in mainstream media coverage today.

But in Rouen the Yellow Vests were on the streets today as presented in this 38 minute video..


YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49 ROUEN 10/19/2019


Hundreds on the march in Montpellier with signs in support of firefighters and eventually a confrontation with police illustrated in this ten minute video as the tear gas begins around seven minutes in......


YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49 MONTPELLIER



A gathering of Yellow Vests in Tours today.....



YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49 TOURS


Boredaux also the scene of a Yellow Vests protest with a banner hung from a building and a protest clearly about Turkey and the Kurds in support of the Kurds......


YELLOW VESTS-KURDISH PROTEST BORDEAUX 10/19/2019


The protest in Belfort, France today with trade union banners of the CGT in the crowd....


YELLOW VESTS BELFORT-TRADE UNIONISTS 10/19/2019


And finally a short two minute video of the protest in Paris outside France Televisions.....


PARIS YELLOW VESTS WEEK 49


Again the Yellow Vests continued in France today and the numbers seem steady enough and we get specifics from the "Yellow Number" Facebook in the days ahead and will add it to this post.

The notion of 15-20 thousand protesters seems to be the rough estimate based on what the videos give us from the various locations today.

And in the end the "Yellow Number" Facebook estimate was 11,500 Yellow Vests at over 200 locations for Week 49 of the Yellow Vests.