FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 56:  IN THE MIDST OF THE STRIKE TENS OF THOUSANDS PROTEST

LIVE VIDEO YELLOW VESTS PARIS WEEK 56-RT

The Yellow Vests today are on the streets in the midst of a nationwide strike that began Thursday against the pension reform plan of President Emmanuel Macron.

The government estimates that some 806-thousand took to the streets Thursday while organizers believe 1.5 million participated.

On Friday the Premier Edouard Philippe said the government would roll out details of the plan next Wednesday prompting a call for another mass demonstration this coming Tuesday.

On Saturday afternoon the Prefecture of Police in Paris proclaimed a protest ban for Tuesday on the Champs-Elysees, at the Elysee Palace of the President, the Matignon Hotel of the Premier, the National Assembly and Notre-Dame Cathedral.

While the Yellow Vests procession is underway in Paris out on the highways attempts to impede traffic by the strikers slowing down traffic to a snails pace on some highways in France today.

Truck drivers in the vanguard of road blockages today protesting higher diesel fuel prices.


Video and still pictures at this link......TRUCK DRIVER ROAD BLOCKS FRANCE 12/7/2019



Protesters in Nantes today estimated to be 2800 by the government with hundreds of black blocs anarchists among them.


Video from Nantes today......



YELLOW VESTS WEEK 56 NANTES



In Marseille the protest crowd estimated by the authorities at 1800 with strikers and Yellow Vests mixed together........


YELLOW VESTS WEEK 56 MARSEILLE



This was the scene in northwestern France today with demonstrators on the streets of Rouen......


YELLOW VESTS WEEK 56 ROUEN



Getting back to Paris here is a video of the protest in Paris from the AFP news agency........



YELLOW VESTS WEEK 56 PARIS AFP NEWS VIDEO



Left-wing French political leader Jean-Luc Melenchon calling for a code of non-violence in the protests over Macron's "pension reform" today.

By late Saturday the government's official estimate of protesters in the street nationwide was 23,500.     

Breaking down numbers in some of the other cities again according to the government....

In Caen some 1,200 protesters reported.

In Bordeaux some 1,100 by official estimate.

800 reported in Lille........FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 56 VIDEO

800 in Le Havre.

700 in Lyon.......YELLOW VESTS WEEK 56 LYON





HERE IS A FOUR HOUR VIDEO OF THE GOINGS ON IN TOULOUSE TODAY WITH JUDITH MUIJSERS PROVIDING AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMMENTARY WITH A WARNING OF ROUGH LANGUAGE AND THIS VIDEO INCLUDES THE CONFRONTATIONS WITH POLICE AND HER OBSERVATIONS AND ANALYSIS OF POLICE TACTICS TO BREAK UP THE PROTEST PLUS OTHER COMMENTARY THAT ONE COULD CALL 'THE ANATOMY OF A PROTEST'......



TOULOUSE WEEK 56 YELLOW VESTS PROTEST

While the government has its estimate the "Yellow Number" Facebook has its count and 63,226 is the count for Week 56 of the Yellow Vests.

One other late news development in France is word that cabinet ministers and President Macron meet Sunday night at 7:30 to discuss pension reform.

Plus also word from the CGT trade union president Philippe Martinez that the national strike continues until the government backs down on pension reform.

Whether the mass of protesters choose to wear Yellow Vests or not the reality of the situation now is that the Macron government is again facing mass demonstrations in the streets and will be formulating its response for maximum success and achieving its goal of cutting pension benefits to make France more economically competitive with other nations.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 12/6/2019 NEWSDUMP FRIDAY

(LIMITED SERVICE WITH LATE NIGHT POSTING INTO SATURDAY MORNING 1 AM EASTERN US TIME)

THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTING TONIGHT THAT SIX SAUDI NATIONALS HAVE BEEN DETAINED FOR QUESTIONING IN PENSACOLA, FLORIDA.

THIS AFTER A SAUDI AVIATION STUDENT AT THE PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION IN FLORIDA, MOHAMMED SAEED ALSHAMRANI, OPENED FIRE IN A CLASSROOM TODAY.    HE KILLED THREE AND WOUNDED EIGHT AND IS HIMSELF DEAD.

TWO MEMBERS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AMONG THE WOUNDED.

THE SIX OTHER SAUDIS WHO WERE DETAINED BY THE FBI WERE NEAR THE SCENE OF THE SHOOTING WITH THREE OF THEM SEEN FILMING THE ATTACK.  THIS ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK TIMES.

AN INVESTIGATION REPORTED UNDERWAY TO DETERMINE IF THE ATTACK WAS AN ACT OF TERRORISM.

LOCAL CONGRESSMAN MATT GAETZ CALLING THE ATTACK AN ACT OF TERRORISM.

MORE FROM WEAR-TV......LINK

12 anti-government protesters killed and dozens of others wounded late Friday night in Baghdad.

Unknown assailants attacked a protest camp in the Iraqi capital.

The US moving to sanction Iranian backed groups in Iraq Friday accusing Iran of meddling in Iraq.

Iran contends  that the US, Israel and other nations are behind the mass movement that has emerged in the last two months demanding reform in the country.

The second day of the national strike in France on Friday with train service disrupted and other sectors also affected.   BFM-TV in France says that only 30 percent of schools in Paris are closed today.  The number was much higher yesterday.

The protests aimed at the pension reform plans of President Emmanuel Macron which are expected to cut pension benefits. 

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said today that the government will roll out details of its pension reform plan next Wednesday (December 11th).

Now labor unions are calling for a renewed all out strike on Tuesday.     Strike actions will continue through the weekend with less intensity.

The live video feed of BFM-TV in France......LINK

BFM-TV website translated into English......LINK

The British Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says that contrary to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's assertion of no border with Ireland in his Brexit plan, there will be a hard border.

That's based on a secret government document that has been leaked out.

The minor parties again left out of the debate Friday night held by the BBC with Corbyn and Conservative Party Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the stage.   The General Election in the UK is next Thursday.

WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL PAT CIPOLLONE TELLING THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE THERE WILL BE NO PARTICIPATION IN IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS NEXT WEEK.

CIPOLLONE'S LETTER TO THE DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED COMMITTEE DESCRIBES THE PROCESS AS A 'CHARADE' AND URGES THE COMMITTEE TO 'END THIS PROCESS NOW'.

The US House voting Friday to endorse a two state solution involving Israel and the Palestinians.

The resolution sponsored by 193 Democrat lawmakers passed 226 to 188.

The US Supreme Court decided Friday that lower court rulings blocking federal executions can stay in place, but it directed the federal appeals court to act "with appropriate dispatch" in resolving the matter.

The lower courts are preventing the Justice Department from resuming executions of federal death row inmates planned to resume this month.

Movie producer Harvey Weinstein is violating the terms of his bail ahead of his trial for rape and sexual assault next month.

That's how New York Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon sees the situation citing 56 violations involving disabling his tracking device.

At a court hearing Friday, she called for bail to be raised from one million to five million dollars.

The judge in the case refused the prosecutor's request for a gag order on Weinstein's defense attorney Donna Rotunno who she says is tainting the jury pool with her media appearances but will consider the bail increase request when the hearing resumes Wednesday.

More from the "New York Daily News".....LINK

CALIFORNIA'S PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC ANNOUNCING TONIGHT A 13.5 BILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES FROM WILDFIRES IN CALIFORNIA.

THE SETTLEMENT WILL HELP TO PAVE THE WAY FOR THE UTILITY'S BANKRUPTCY.

MORE FROM THE "SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE".....LINK

The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to again allow cyanide traps to be used to kill foxes, coyotes and wild dogs.

Collette Adkins of the Center for Biological Diversity called the EPA decision "appalling" and one that will "endanger" people, pets and endangered species.

The US Department of Agriculture is saying that the traps will protect livestock from predators and also protect endangered species.    It is also being said that the traps will prevent the spread of disease.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday.    Iran and Syria said to be among the topics discussed plus the reduction of friction between Russian forces in Syria and the Israel Defense Forces.

In Samoa the vaccination drive continued Friday as a result of a measles epidemic that has killed dozens.

Emergency powers assumed by the government of the South Pacific island nation have led to the arrest of an anti-vaccination activist that may put him in prison for two years.

Late word from Samoa where its now Saturday is that some 90 percent of the country's population has been vaccinated against measles.

More on the story from "Al Jazeera"....LINK

Federal prosecutors dropped a new charge on singer R. Kelly who's already facing sexual abuse charges in Chicago and New York courtrooms next year.

Kelly accused of bribing an official in New York to get fake ID for an underage 15-year old girl he married in 1994.    Media reports say the marriage was to the singer Aaliyah.

The sexual assault report rate for Uber rides in the United States comes out to roughly 1 in every 385,000  over the years 2017 and 2018.

Uber out with a safety report saying it is committed to "improving safety".

The report shows a lower rate of sexual assault reports in 2018 as compared with 2017 with 5,981 sexual assault reports out of 2.3 billion rides in the two year period.

More from the BBC......LINK

China is waiving high tariffs on some US products.     The country's Ministry of Finance announced Friday that the levies on US soybeans and pork will not be imposed while trade talks between the US and China continue.

Unemployment last month with the rate down to 3.5 percent.    266-thousand new jobs added in November.

Elon Musk is the winner in a defamation suit brought by a British caver Vernon Unsworth.   Unsworth was involved in last year's rescue of school boys trapped in a cave in Thailand.

That's when Musk described Unsworth as "pedo guy".     The jury in the case deciding that those words did not constitute defamation.

A story on the case published by the BBC.....LINK

And for now that's the way it really is Newsdump Friday December 6th, 2019.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 12/5/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE THURSDAY)

From Washington the political drama today of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing that the Democrats are drafting articles of impeachment against President Trump.

Pelosi citing the oath of office to "defend the Constitution of the United States from enemies foreign and domestic" and saying "all roads lead to" the Russian President Vladimir Putin.

President Trump responding via Twitter that "the Democrats have gone crazy".

The House impeachment vote expected the weekend before Christmas.

Democrat Presidential contender Joe Biden today involved in an incident where an 83-year old man in Iowa told Biden he was no different from President Trump because of his son's lucrative job on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.

Biden responding that the man was a "damn liar".

A CIRCLING OF DEMOCRAT ESTABLISHMENT WAGONS TODAY WITH ENDORSEMENT OF BIDEN COMING FROM THE 2004 DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL STANDARD BEARER JOHN KERRY.

President Trump reported considering the movement of more US military personnel to the Middle  East, some 14-thousand.     The "Wall Street Journal" reporting that.    The reason:

"The Iranian threat"

The notion being leaked out to the media of an increased Iranian threat to US military personnel already in the region and this has been reported by CNN.

This comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Lisbon, Portgual urging more pressure to be put on Iran.

The economic sanctions already in force are creating a scenario similar to that involving Japan back in December of 1941, if not worse.

Netanyahu wants European nations to join in the ratcheting up of the sanctions.

France, Germany and the United Kingdom sending a letter to the UN Secretary-General saying that Iran has developed missiles that could potentially carry nuclear warheads.

Iran's Foreign Minister calling the letter a "desperate falsehood".    More from Iran's "Press TV"......LINK and the BBC.....LINK

JAPAN IS WORKING ON A PLAN TO USE 270 MEMBERS OF ITS MILITARY TO GUARD SHIPS SUPPLYING JAPAN IN THE PERSIAN GULF REGION.  THE JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER SHINZO ABE ALSO CONSIDERING A JANUARY VISIT TO SAUDI ARABIA AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

 ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES.....LINK.... REPORTED TO HAVE OCCURED IN EASTERN SYRIA LATE ON WEDNESDAY AIMED AT IRANIAN FORCES.  MORE FROM 'SOUTHFRONT' AT THE LINK ABOVE......

North Korea says that if President Trump chooses to be confrontational with it again then he is a "dotard" which is defined as someone who is "old and weak".

North Korea with an end of the year deadline for the US to give North Korea a more favorable offer in denuclearizaion talks or else.......

The general strike in France today aimed at President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform plan and public transport was impacted with no trains and deserted train stations in many cases.    

Mass rallies also scheduled with the mainstream media and government expressing fears of violence.

Anarchists have interjected themselves into the Yellow Vests protests during the last year in France.

A quarter of a million are estimated to have rallied in Paris today and some 500 anarchists also manifested themselves mid-afternoon in the city.

Tear gas used against demonstrators in both Nantes and Paris today.

Official government estimates by late Thursday of 806-thousand protesting nationwide but organizers saying the number was 1.5 million.

Live video in French from BFM-TV.......LINK

Google Translation To English of BFM-TV website.......LINK

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals hearing the federal government's appeal of the dismissal of charges against key defendants in the Bunkerville Standoff case March 20th of next year in Las Vegas.

The standoff near Bundy Ranch in Nevada in April  2014 led to charges against more than 20 people with three ending up in prison in what are considered to be rigged proceedings.

Charges dismissed against key defendants in January of 2018 with US District Judge Gloria Navarro citing "gross misconduct" by federal prosecutors for withholding evidence from defense lawyers proving he innocence of the accused including Cliven Bundy and two of his sons.

A two-day lock down in the South Pacific island nation of Samoa because of the measles epidemic that has killed 62 so far.     The lock down is facilitating a vaccination campaign for the country.

Teams fanning out across Samoa to administer the measles vaccine at homes where red flags are displayed.

More from France's AFP news agency as published by "The Japan Times"....LINK

10 civilians killed and 12 more wounded in northern Syria's Aleppo province.   The Russian reconciliation in Syria reporting a mortar attack by jihadist forces opposed to the Assad government.

Five Turkish soldiers said to have been killed in a Wednesday night attack on a convoy in northeastern Syria in a Turkish occupied city.   More from "Southfront"......LINK

Prosecutors in Israel announcing charges including bribery and money laundering against former officials in connection with Israel's purchase of naval vessels including submarines.  They include the former chief of Israel's navy and a former adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

More about "Case 3000" from "Israel National News"......LINK

A lawsuit filed by George Zimmerman, the man acquitted of murder for shooting black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012.

The 100 million dollar suit aimed at the federal and state governments as well as the Martin family and their lawyers among others.

The suit alleges a fake witness was used to attempt to convict Zimmerman.

Activist attorney Larry Klayman is representing Zimmerman.

And for now that's the way it really is Thursday November 5th, 2019.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 12/4/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY)

The "impeachment inquiry" entering a new phase today in the House Judiciary Committee with four scholars testifying, three of them supporting impeachment of President Trump and one opposed.

The process underway expected to lead to an impeachment vote in the House of Representatives right before Christmas.

A SHOOTING AT THE PEARL HARBOR BASE IN HAWAII TODAY.   A SAILOR KILLING TWO CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES AND WOUNDING ANOTHER AT THE PEARL HARBOR NAVAL SHIPYARD THEN KILLING HIMSELF.

MORE ON THIS STORY FROM KGMB HAWAII NEWS NOW.....LINK

The Iranian Navy will hold joint drills with Russian and Chinese naval forces later this month.

The drills called "Maritime Security Belt" will be held in the Indian Ocean beginning December 27th.

More from Iran's "Press TV"......LINK

Iran's President Hasaan Rouhani says his country is ready for dialog if the United States lifts the economic sanctions on his country.    Rouhani says Iran will talk with the group of nations involved in the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement  (China, France, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom and United States).

Supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu making their case as to why he should lead a "unity" government with next week's deadline to form a new government approaching.    No new government likely to lead to new elections next February, Israel's third in less than a year.

The Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz says its all about Iran and with Iran under tremendous economic pressure (My Comment:  Like Japan was 78 years ago this week) it will either buckle under at a negotiating table or "explode in a powerful war in the Middle East".    

Either way, Steinitz says that Netanyahu's leadership is needed at this time.    His interview with an Israeli radio station in full via "Israel National News".......LINK

Netanyahu leaving Israel today to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Lisbon, Portugal.    He is said to be urging President Trump to "pressure Iran".

A senior Pentagon official John Rod being quoted as saying Iran is "likely to take aggressive action" under the present circumstances.

Tomorrow in France the General Strike against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform plans.   The railroads expected to a center of strike activity with other sectors involved including education with many teachers walking out.

Macron's Minister of Education already estimating 55 percent of schools will be impacted with 35 percent in rural areas and 78 percent in Paris being shut down.

An opinion poll for BFM-TV says 58 percent of the French support the strike.

Yellow Vests protesters may appear in the streets and the authorities are sounding the alarm about possible "black blocs" acts of violence by the anarchists dressed in black.

Interior Minister Christophe Castaner promising police that specifics in their pension plan like early retirement would remain intact under the government's proposal just hours before the strike was set to begin amid calls from some police unions to join in the strike.

There's been a lot of drama lately over the delay in US military aid to Ukraine but another delay in military aid drawing some attention.     It was just last week that military assistance was allowed to go to Lebanon totaling 105 million dollars.

The aid delayed in the months when Lebanon went into a political crisis with mass demonstrations in the streets against the government.

In Australia, star rugby player Israel Folau reaching a settlement with Rugby Australia.   Folau kicked out of the rugby organization after social media posts reflecting his Christian beliefs about homosexuality.

Folau had been asking for 9.5 million dollars in compensation but the final settlement is confidential.

More from the BBC......LINK

And for now that's the way it really is Wednesday December 4th, 2019.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 12/3/2019

The political drama in Washington with the House Intelligence Committee compiling a 300 page report claiming a case for the impeachment of President Trump.

The "impeachment process" moves to the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow.

President Trump says that the comments of French President Emmanuel Macron that the NATO alliance was 'brain dead'  were 'very, very nasty' and 'very disrespectful' of the other nations in the alliance.

The President speaking in London at a news conference today.     He's there for the NATO summit.

More from the BBC........LINK

France's leading opposition politician Marine Le Pen says that President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform plan should be put to the people in a referendum.    Le Pen interviewed this morning on BFM-TV.     The National Rally leader speaking two days ahead of a national strike in France that's expected to cause massive dispution in the country. 

The French national railway company hopes to maintain 10 percent of its normal service on Thursday.

Rockets hitting a military base in Iraq where US troops are housed.    But there are are no causalties reported.

President Trump says that Iran killed thousands of protesters in recent riots against a gasoline price hike.    The group Amnesty International says 208 were killed.

The Iranian government is reporting hundreds arrested in the protests Iran's "Press TV" describe as "deadly" and says weapons were used by both the security forces and protesters.

It is said there is no official estimate of the number of people killed in the demonstrations.

More from Iran's "Press TV"....LINK

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to Lisbon Portugal tomorrow and Thursday.

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

In Israel the leader of the Blue and White Party, Benny Gantz, meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.    Today's meeting just eight days before the deadline to form a new government Israel but so sign of the deadlock between Netanyahu's Likud Party and the Blue and White ending.

President Trump saying today it may be better to wait until after the election next year for a new trade deal with China.   He added that China wants a deal now but:

"we will see whether or not the deal is going to be right"

THE US HOUSE HAS VOTED 407 TO 1 IN FAVOR OF A RESOLUTION CONDEMNING CHINA FOR ITS TREATMENT OF THE MUSLIM UIGHUR MINORITY.   THE UIGHUR HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY ACT HAS ALREADY PASSED THE SENATE.

THE LEGISLATION REQUIRES THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO EVALUATE WHETHER SANCTIONS SHOULD BE IMPOSED ON CHINESE OFFICIALS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.

The president of a Louisiana bible college is charged with abusive sexual contract with a 19 year old male student on an airline flight from Tel Aviv to Newark.    65-year old Cornelius Tilton of New Orleans arrested by FBI agents last Saturday when the plane arrived in the United States.

Its alleged that Tilton touched the student inappropriately and grabbed the students hand to force his hand to touch Tilton in a sexual manner.

This Associated Press story was published by CBS in Philadelphia.....LINK

Democat Kamala Harris is out of the contest for President in 2020.  The California US senator was once rated near the top of the candidate heap among the Democrats.

And for now that's the way it really is Tuesday December 3rd.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 12/2/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE WITH POSTING LATE TONIGHT)

"I had just been abused by a member of the royal family"

That's some of what Virginia Roberts Guiffre told the BBC "Panorama" program in her interview that aired tonight.

Guiffre recounting her first sexual encounter of what she says were three with Prince Andrew when she was 17 years old and closely involved with the convicted child sex offender and accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

She says that Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell instructed her to do for the Duke of York what she did for Epstein.

CBS News broadcast a story that included several clips from Guiffre's interview....VIDEO LINK

The lawyer for five women who've accused Jeffrey Epstein of abusing them, David Boies, says he wants Prince Andrew to tesify in their cases because he witnessed massages being given during his visits to Epstein's homes.

More on all this from the BBC......LINK

The US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia denying a Justice Department request to overturn a preliminary injunction from a lower court preventing executions.

The Justice Department was planning to resume executions of convicted federal felons next Monday.  The last federal execution was 16 years ago.

The United States is preparing retaliatory tariffs against France for its new internet services tax.

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer says the tax unfairly targets American tech firms.

China retaliating Monday for President Trump's signing last week of the "Human Rights and Democracy Act" in support of democracy protesters in Hong Kong.

China banning US military ships and aircraft from Hong Kong.   Sanctions also imposed on five US based non-governmental organizations including Human Rights Watch and the National Endowment for Democracy.

More from Reuters.....LINK 

11 killed and 26 wounded in a Turkish artillery attack in northern Syria.    Eight children reported to be among the dead in the town of Tal Rifaat.     The Kurdish town located north of Aleppo and south of the Turkish border.

THREE RUSSIAN MILITARY POLICE OFFICERS INJURED SLIGHTLY IN NORTHERN SYRIA MONDAY WHEN AN IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE DETONATED NEAR THEIR ARMORED VEHICLE.    THE RUSSIAN MILITARY POLICE ACTING AS RECONNAISSANCE FOR JOINT RUSSIAN-TURKISH PATROL.

MORE FROM "SOUTHFRONT"......LINK

Russian President Vladimir Putin signing a bill into law today that extends existing government regulation of foreign funded media including bloggers and social media accounts.

Media covered under the law required to register as foreign agents.

Opposition groups in Russia see the law as a restriction on freedom of expression and empowerment of the government to crack down on opponents.

Russian natural gas is now flowing to China via a new pipeline.   More from the Tass News Agency.....LINK

And former President Jimmy Carter is hospitalized in Plains, Georgia for treatment of a urinary tract infection.    He was admitted to hospital over the weekend.

And that's the way it really is Monday December 2nd, 2019.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 12/1/2019

(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE SUNDAY)

"This baseless and highly partisan inquiry violates all past historical precedent, basic due process rights, and fundamental fairness"

That's part of the letter from White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to the Democrat controlled House Judiciary Committee Sunday evening.

The White House declining to to part of the "impeachment inquiry" as its launched in the judiciary committee this Wednesday while the President will be attending the NATO summit meeting outside London.

Friday's terrorist attack front and center in the British election campaign.    Two dead and three wounded in the stabbing attack at London Bridge.

Attacker Usman Khan, shot dead by police, was convicted of terrorism, then paroled halfway through his sentence.

Commentary on the "Spiked" website discusses how political leaders in the UK are not dealing with the terrorist threat.....LINK.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that 74 cases of terrorists being released on parole are now under review.

But in a video posted Saturday British political leader Anne Marie Waters of "For Britain" says in part that:

"the British state is making a decision.  Its deciding to let you walk the streets unsafe.....23-thousand known jihadists are walking the streets of the UK.    We know who they are because they're under surveillance......"-VIDEO LINK

On Friday night in London's Stamford Hill neighborhood a visiting rabbi assualted and left bleeding on the ground.    The two teenage attackers shouting:

"kill the Jews, f*** the Jews"

Local Rabbi Herschel Gluck told "Israel National News":

"For a government that claims to care about anti-Semitism, this is another in a long sequence of such incidents where there is no credible response or follow-up"

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

At least 14 killed in an attack on a church in the African nation of Burkina Faso.  Many others injured.    

The attack in an area where Muslim jihadists are active.    The gunmen involved fled on scooters.

Police in the Netherlands say that the stabbing attack Friday night in The Hague does not appear to be a terrorist attack.  

Three teenagers were wounded and a 35 year old homeless man was taken into custody Saturday in connection with the attack.

Protesters attacked and dispersed by police in Hong Kong Sunday night.     Thousands gathered in a shopping district after an earlier march to the US consulate.    There protesters thanking the US for the "Human Rights and Democracy Act" approved by Congress and signed by President Trump last Wednesday.

This two hour plus video shows tonight's protest and the police action against it......VIDEO LINK

11 people shot and wounded in the French Quarter of New Orleans early this morning.    The shooting incident on Canal Street around 320 am local time, 420 am Eastern US time.

Two of them said to be in critical condition.

A suspect detained and being questioned by police.

More from WDSU in New Orleans.......LINK

In Iraq parliament approving the resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi.    Mahdi will remain on in a caretaker capacity while the effort to form a new government is underway.

His resignation coming after weeks of unrest in the county.

Later Sunday in Iraq another torching of the already burnt Iranian consulate in the city of Najaf.

Video of the protest in the streets of Najaf today from "Russia Today".....LINK

PRESIDENT TRUMP AND ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SPOKE WITH EACH OTHER SUNDAY BY PHONE.

A BRIEF STATEMENT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE SAID IN PART 'THE LEADERS DISCUSSED THE THREAT FROM IRAN, AS WELL AS OTHER CRITICAL BILATERAL AND REGIONAL ISSUES'.

MORE FROM THE 'TIMES OF ISRAEL'......LINK

The Prime Minister of the Mediterranean island nation of Malta, Joseph Muscat, says he will resign in January of next year.    He plans to resign as leader of his Labor Party on January 12th and after the party picks a new leader he will resign as prime minister.

Muscat under pressure to resign over the 2017 car bomb murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.  Galizia was blogging about corruption involving government and business on the island.

On Saturday a multi-millionaire businessman said to have links to the government arrested and charged with complicity in the journalist's murder.

Muscat's former chief of staff has been questioned by police and two cabinet ministers have resigned in recent weeks over the murder.

THE FRENCH PRIME MINISTER EDOUARD PHILIPPE MEETING WITH TOP OFFICIALS AT HIS PARIS RESIDENCE SUNDAY AHEAD OF A NATIONAL STRIKE PLANNED FOR THURSDAY.

THE STRIKE LED BY RAILWAY WORKERS WITH OTHERS JOINING IN IS AIMED AT STOPPING PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON'S PLANS FOR PENSION REFORM.

THE PENSION REFORM SCHEME EXPECTED TO CUT PENSIONS FOR MILLIONS OF FRENCH WORKERS AND IS OPPOSED BY FORCES ON THE "LEFT"  AS WELL AS MARINE LE PEN AND THE NATIONAL RALLY.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris on December 9th.

Plenty of tensions in relations between the two countries including the continuing separatist conflict in the eastern part of Ukraine.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hopes progress will be made at the meeting.

More from Russia's Tass News Agency.....LINK

And for now that's the way it really is Sunday December 1st, 2019.