NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 12/12/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE THROUGH LATE THURSDAY)

FIRST THE POLITICAL DRAMA IN WASHINGTON.....

THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SPENT A LONG DAY INTO NIGHT WORKING ON THE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP.

FACED WITH A MIDNIGHT VOTE ON IMPEACHMENT THE DEMOCRATS CONTROLLING THE COMMITTEE OPTED TO ADJOURN FOR THE NIGHT AND HOLD THE VOTE AT 10 AM FRIDAY.

The British election today with a solid win for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party.

The campaign turned into a Boris Johnson versus Jeremy Corbyn contest with third parties pushed to the side.   The two big parties, Conservative and Labor, becoming the focus of the election.

Comment and analysis of the election at the link.........LINK......

Voter turnout very low in Algeria today for a presidential election with thousands of demonstrators in the streets protesting what they seem as a sham election involving five candidates rigged to ensure a continuation of business as usual policies.

Slogans like "there is no vote today" being shouted by the protesters.

The story as reported by Qatar's "Al Jazeera".....LINK

A FIRE ON RUSSIA'S AIRCRAFT CARRIER THE "ADMIRAL KUZNETSOV" AS IT WAS UNDERGOING REPAIRS IN THE PORT OF MURMANSK.

THE LATE WORD IS THAT ONE IS DEAD AND 11 INJURED IN THE INCIDENT.

DIESEL FUEL WAS REPORTED BURNING.

THE LATER NEWS FROM RUSSIA'S TASS NEWS AGENCY......LINK

MORE FROM RUSSIA'S TASS NEWS AGENCY AS PUBLISHED EARLIER IN THE DAY......LINK

A TRADE DEAL BETWEEN THE US AND CHINA IS EXPECTED TO BE ANNOUNCED IN THE COMING HOURS.    THE NEWS HAS LEAKED OUT TO THE EFFECT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS SIGNED OFF ON A LIMITED DEAL WHERE THE US DROPS TARIFFS AND THE CHINESE AGREE TO PURCHASE MORE US AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.

THE TOUGHER ISSUES WILL LEFT FOR RESOLUTION AT A LATER DATE.

In France the protests against Emmanuel Macron's pension reform continue with blockades of the ports of Le Havre and Marseille today.

A major rally being planned for Paris next Tuesday.

India sending in the military in the face of protests in the northeastern part of the country over the new citizenship law.     At least 3 are reported dead in the demonstrations.

It allows for non-Muslim illegal immigrants from three nearby countries to be given citizenship.

Indians in the northeast fearing an influx of Hindus from neighboring Bangladesh.

The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the bill will help those fleeing religious persecution.

THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION IN CANADA RESIGNING HIS PARTY LEADERSHIP.

ANDREW SCHEER STEPPING DOWN AFTER HIS CONSERVATIVES LOST TO THE LIBERAL PARTY OF PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU IN THE GENERAL ELECTION THIS FALL.

THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY WILL SELECT A NEW LEADER IN APRIL.

The former left-wing president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, arriving in Argentina.    The country's new left-leaning government granting Morales refugee status.

Morales resigned last month after mass protests in the streets and accusations of election irregularities in the first round of the presidential election on October 20th.   The suspicious vote count showed a victory for Morales.

The story of an Iranian in the federal criminal justice system here in the US.   Dr. Masoud Soleimani freed in a prisoner swap with the US Saturday says "justice" only exists in a Hollywood movie.

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

And  for now that's the way it really is Thursday December 12th, 2019........

THE BRITISH ELECTION UNPLUGGED:   WHAT DO DONALD AND NIGEL GET FOR ALLOWING BORIS TO WIN?

(POSTED AT 3AM EASTERN US,  8 AM UK TIME)

"I'd like to see Boris and you get together cause you really have some good numbers...."

Donald Trump speaks to Nigel Farage on his radio show October 31st

Back in October Nigel Farage's Brexit Party had support levels around 12 or 13 percent going into the campaign for the General Election.

But then Farage decided to heed Donald Trump's advice and take unilateral actions to implement the idea to "get together" with Boris.

For starters Farage himself announced he would not be a candidate for the House of Commons.

Then he pulled the Brexit Party out of seats where the Conservatives won in the last election.

All this enabled the Conservative Party to have more than 300 seats safe from any meaningful challenge on the "Right" and to focus its energies on the handful of seats it will need to move over the 326 seat thresh hold to give Boris Johnson a majority government.

Johnson claims that he is implementing Brexit with his election but Nigel Farage already stated clearly going the election campaign that Johnson's plan:

"is not Brexit"

Both he and President Trump agreed that the Johnson plan does not allow for free unrestricted trade between the UK and the US yet both were supportive of Johnson with Mr. Trump speaking the words and Mr. Farage taking the actions.

What's the deal?

What are they getting for this?


Perhaps Farage gets a title like "Sir Nigel" or something along that line for throwing the towel for Boris.    Maybe Nigel will get more media gigs with large salaries.


As for President Trump perhaps more British cooperation on certain issues including the British intelligence figures who are involved in tampering with the US Presidential election in 2016.

Yes that's an example of real foreign interference as British MI 6 associated individuals helped to launch the Russian collusion probe against President Trump and his supporters.


Well with Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party out of the way the Conservative Party could focus its energy on the Labor Party in the campaign.

The media obliging by staging debates unlike others in the past.    Debates that only featured Boris Johnson of the Conservative Party and Jeremy Corbyn of Labor.

Big business globalist interests not interested in Jeremy Corbyn's vision of economics and pro-Israel forces not wanting a Palestinian sympathizer leading the UK teaming up to tear him down.


The polling data now points to a Conservative Party victory with a majority allowing Boris Johnson to push through his Brexit plan that is far from the kind of Brexit envisioned by Brexit activists.   Its a plan that keeps the UK very much entangled with the EU.

Another factor in the race is the Scottish National Party which won 35 seats in the last election.    The polling data points to gains for the SNP which will bring it up over 40 seats out of the 650 in the House of Commons.

Scottish nationalism serves the Conservative Party well sucking away votes from traditional Labor areas in Scotland.



(115 PM EASTERN, 615 PM UK TIME)

One thing while other party leaders voted in person in front of the media today Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage voted via postal ballot (absentee) today.

Later in the night here in the US and towards dawn Friday in the UK more comment and analysis....


The BBC election blog link is here......

BBC GENERAL ELECTION BLOG LIVE

(1145 PM EASTERN US TIME,  445 AM UK TIME)

"Our electoral system is rotten to the core"

The words of Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party, who held onto her seat in the House of Commons but it was no surprise that the Labor Party was a big loser tonight and Boris Johnson was the winner with no effective pro-Brexit opposition on the Right.

Johnson now has a majority in the House of Commons and appears able to push through his Brexit plans with the European Union that have been described as "not Brexit" by pro-Brexit activists.

(1155 PM EASTERN US TIME, 455 AM UK TIME)

Jeremy Corbyn has said that he will not lead the Labor Party in future elections.  Corbyn a political casaulty of the night with the Labor Party expected to lose dozens of seats in the House of Commons and have fewer than 200 when all the results are counted.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 12/11/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY)

In France today Premier Edouard Philippe laying out the outline of President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform plan.

Philippe saying the plan that will combine 42 different French pension plans into one will create a fairer system "equal" for all the people of France.

But opponents say it will cut benefits and force people to work longer to get the reduced benefit.

A national strike led by railway workers that started last Thursday continues with strike organizers urging a major rally in opposition to pension reform in Paris next Tuesday.

The strike causing some 75-80 percent of passenger trains in France to be cancelled.

Police in Denmark arresting some 20 suspects Wednesday.    The 20 suspected of involvement in Islamic terrorism.

Raids were conducted at 20 different addresses in the country.

"incomplete and incorrect"

Those the words of the de-facto leader of Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

She and her country are accused of genocide against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Suu Kyi says that the Rohingya have been in conflict with the country's Buddhist majority for centuries and that the most recent violence that led to hundreds of thousands fleeing the country to neighboring Bangladesh was initiated by Rohingya attacks on police stations.

She said that if the police or military committed any excesses they will be prosecuted by Myanmar.

Suu Kyi repeatedly tried to get across a message that has been under reported in international media that her country is dealing with an Islamic extremist uprising.

There has been widespread condemnation of Myanmar including from the United States government over its treatment of Rohingya Muslims.

India passing a new immigration law through the upper house of its parliament.

The law allows for citizenship for illegal immigrants from neighboring countries who are not Muslims.

From Washington the political drama tonight as the House Judiciary Committee worked on the two articles of impeachment against President Trump in a public hearing.

The full committee vote tomorrow night to approve the articles with the full House debate and vote coming up next week.

The former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele defending his "Steele Dossier" that made salacious allegations against President Trump.

Steele responding to release of the Justice Department's Inspector General report on the origins of the Russian collusion probe in 2016.

The report noted an over reliance on Steele's dossier by the FBI.

More from the BBC......LINK

President Trump met in the Oval Office with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Tuesday.    Trump warning Russia against interference in next year's election and urging Russian support of US policy on Iran and North Korea among other things.

The President also urging global arms control to include both China and Russia.  More on the meeting as reported by Russia's Tass News Agency.....LINK

Israel is headed for a new election with the deadline expiring to form a new government tonight.   Early in the hours of Thursday morning the legislation dissolving parliament was passed.

This means Israel's third election in less than a year set for Monday March 2nd.

There was last minute talk of a compromise to form a "unity" government of the Likud and the Blue and White Party that would involve Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu giving up any immunity from prosecution in the face of his indictment in three corruption cases but that did not materialize.

Jersey City, New Jersey Mayor Steven Fulop says that the two attackers who fatally shot a police detective and then killed three others in a Kosher grocery store yesterday were definitely targeting the business because it was Jewish.     The mayor posting today on Twitter.

The investigation into the crime is said to have uncovered anti-Semitic social media posts from one of the killers.

One of the two attackers is identified is David Anderson, a former member of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement that believes its members are direct descendents of the tribe of Judah.

Debris has been sighted near where a Chilean C-130 aircraft with 38 people on board disappeared on a flight to Antarctica Monday.    The wreckage sighted in the Drake Passage.

There's a report from the "New York Times" that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has reached a settlement with more than 30 women who accused him of sexual misconduct.

The settlement said to be worth some 25 million dollars.

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

For now that's the way it really is Wednesday December 11th, 2019.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 12/10/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE TUESDAY)

President Trump speaking here in central Pennsylvania tonight about the impeachment process in Washington.

The President telling a rally in Hershey that the:

"far left Democrats"

and

"failed Washington Establishment"

are trying to undo his electoral victory in 2016 and among other things:

" overthrow our democracy"

Democrats and the White House agreeing on the United States Mexico Canada trade agreement.  The USMCA now assured of passage through Congress.

A NO FLY RULE IS IN EFFECT FOR SOME 300 SAUDI AVIATION STUDENTS IN THE US AFTER LAST FRIDAY'S ATTACK AT THE PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION THAT KILLED THREE AND WOUNDED EIGHT.

CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION FOR THE SAUDI PILOTS WILL CONTINUE.   

THE DECISION TO SUSPEND FLIGHT TRAINING FOLLOWS AN ORDER FROM DEFENSE SECRETARY MARK ESPER FOR A REVIEW FOLLOWING THE ATTACK PERPETRATED BY A SAUDI AVIATION STUDENT.

A Japanese news agency Jiji News reports that Iran's President Hassan Rouhani may visit Japan on December 19th.     Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is close to President Trump, said on Monday that there are discussion about a possible visit in the name of resolving the impasse with the United States.

When Abe visited Iran earlier this year and held talks with Iran's leaders, there was an incident involving oil tanker attacks attributed to Iran.

Google acted against Iran's "Press TV" and another Iranian media outlet today cutting their access to You Tube and Gmail,  More from "Press TV"......LINK.    

In Paris and across France a day of union led protest against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform plans.

The organizers say 885-thousand participated while the government says only 339-thousand protested.

The national strike that has shut down most of the country's rail transportation since last Thursday continuing today.

Tomorrow Premier Edouard Phillipe will announce specifics of a pension reform plan that's s expected to cut pensions for millions of people in France.

This video feed from RT shows the protest in Paris.........VIDEO LINK....

One police officer and three others are dead along with two gunmen in an incident that began in a cemetery and ended at a Jewish grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey.

More on the story from ABC 7 in New York.......LINK

Six people shot and killed at a hospital in the Czech Republic today.    It happened in the city of Ostrava.     Police called to the hospital at 719 am local time, 119 am Eastern US time.

The man suspected of being the gunman found dead in a car afterwards after shooting himself.

Back to the attack called by elected officials of the US government an 'act of terrorism' while not being called a terrorist attack by the President and Executive Branch officials.

The killing of three and wounding of eight at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida by a Saudi air force officer and pilot trainee last Friday.

Some of what President Trump tweeted in the aftermath:

"........THE KING SAID THAT  THE SAUDI PEOPLE ARE GREATLY ANGERED BY THE BARBARIC ACTIONS OF THE SHOOTER AND THAT THIS PERSON IN NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM REPRESENTS THE FEELINGS OF HE SAUDI PEOPLE WHO LOVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE........"

Responding on Sunday was Democrat presidential candidate Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii via a video on Twitter where she said in part:

".........AFTER A SAUDI LIEUTENANT CARRIED OUT A TERRORIST ATTACK THAT KILLED THREE SERVICE MEMBERS AND LEFT EIGHT OTHERS INJURED WHY IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND HIS SECRETARY OF STATE ACTING AS THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA.    IT IS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE AND SHAMEFUL...."

Gabbard added that the President's statement furthers the interest of a "theocratic, extremist Saudi Arabian kingdom".

Her video in full..........VIDEO LINK TULSI GABBARD

Tulsi Gabbard says she's not participating in the December 19th Democrat candidates debate, even if the polls say she qualifies.   Gabbard already has the 200-thousand supporters to qualify but is still short in polling numbers.    She's choosing instead to campaign in New Hampshire and South Carolina..

In the Netherlands at The Hague the International Court of Justice hearing the genocide case brought against Myanmar (formerly Burma) for its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority

The African nation of Gambia bringing the case against Myanmar on behalf of the Organizaion of Islamic Cooperation and saying in part at the opening hearing today that Myanmar needs:

"to stop these senseless killings, to stop these acts of barbarity"

Myanmar's de facto leader Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in the court today to defend her country's position that it is fighting against Muslim terrorism and extremism.

The BBC throwing a provocative question at her as she entered the court asking her if she is "defending the indefensible".       She is expected to address the court tomorrow.

In Nigeria the Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP) releasing an execution video this week showing the shooting of two Nigerian soldiers and a police officer.    The victims on their knees being shot by hooded fighters in camouflage shouting:

"Allahu Akhbar"

The ISWAP, a breakaway faction of the Boko Haram terorrist group, kidnapped 14 people last Wednesday.

One of the executioners also said in the video:

"We tell the Nigerian army that we will never spare those who are fighting against the people who follow the religion of Allah"

Bill Cosby's appeal of his sexual assault conviction rejected today.  Cosby's lawyers arguing that five other women who accused Cosby should not have been allowed to tesitfy at the trial where he was convicted of assaulting Andrea Constand.

Cosby now serving a 3 to 10 year sentence after his September 2018 conviction in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

A sixth day of blackouts in South Africa.     The state power company Eskom forced to make power cuts to save its system from total collapse.

The cuts are affecting South Africa's mining industry and mobile phone service.

President Cyril Ramaphosa cutting short an overseas trip and returning home for a briefing from the power company tomorrow.

And for now that's the way it is Tuesday December 10th, 2019.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 12/9/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE MONDAY)

"....last month we advised the Inspector General that we do not agree with some of the report's conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened..."

That is part of the statement of Special Counsel John Durham in response to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on the origins of the Russian collusion probe of President Trump and his campaign in 2016.

Durham conducting a criminal investigation into how the investigation got started and he was joined by the Attorney General William Barr in expressing disagreement with the Inspector General's report.

CNN published this story about the matter.....LINK

The political drama in Washington is at the House Judiciary Committee where the controlling Democrats are moving forward with articles of impeachment against President Trump.

The word tonight is that they will be "abuse of power" and "obstruction of Congress".

The final act of the show is the full House vote on impeachment which is anticipated Saturday December 21st right before Hanukkah and Christmas.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky face to face discussing the future of Ukraine in Paris today.

Also in the room with them French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The conflict in Ukraine began in early 2014 when the pro-Russian government was overthrown during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Russia and Ukraine agreed to full ceasefire by the end of this month and to work towards the withdrawal of forces from three disputed areas of eastern Ukraine by March of 2020.

French President Emmanuel Macron says further talks will be held in four months.

THE CHILEAN AIR FORCE SAYS ITS LOST CONTACT WITH A PLANE BOUND FOR ANTARCTICA CARRYING 38 PEOPLE.    CONTACT LOST AN HOUR AND 18 MINUTES AFTER TAKEOFF THIS EVENING.   

Five are dead after a volcanic eruption on New Zealand's White Island.      Eight others are missing and there are 18 injured survivors, some of them in critical condition with severe burns.

The eruption occurred at 211 pm Monday afternoon in New Zealand (811 pm Sunday night in the Eastern US).

New Zealand authorities say local and foreign tourists were on the island when the "moderate" eruption occurred.

And the authorities say this regarding the missing that there are no signs of life coming from the island.

Now its Tuesday in New Zealand and the focus will be on recovery of the bodies of the eight others believed to be dead on the island.

"One News Now" in New Zealand has summarized Monday's events in a blog......LINK

RUSSIA BANNED FROM MAJOR SPORTING EVENTS BY THE WORLD ANTI-DOPING AGENCY.

THE DECISION BANS RUSSIA FROM THE OLYMPICS IN 2020 AND THE WORLD CUP  OF SOCCER IN 2022.

WADA DECLARING RUSSIA NON-COMPLIANT SAYING IT MANIPULATED TESTING DATA.

RUSSIA CHALLENGING THE RULING AT THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF ARBITRATION.   

MORE FROM TASS NEWS AGENCY IN RUSSIA.....LINK    THE BBC ALSO REPORTS......LINK

A top North Korean official says his country has "nothing to lose".     That's the word Monday from Kim Yong Chol, who is close to ruler Kim Jong-un.     He adds that President Trump is in his words "abnormal and irrational".

The statement today responds to President Trump's tweet yesterday where the President urged North Korea not to move away from denuclearization talks and escalate tensions saying that Kim Jong-un has "too much to lose" if he acts in a "hostile way".

The general strike continued in France today led by railway workers with most rail service suspended in the country.    Some 20 percent of airline service inside France also affected.

Workers protesting pension reform plans of President Emmanuel Macron with union leadership calling for a more intense strike mobilization tomorrow ahead of the government's plan to announce its pension reform on Wednesday.

The leader of France's left-wing "France Insubordinate" party Jean-Luc Melenchon, given a three month suspended prison sentence and fined around 7,200 hundred US dollars by a French court today.

The sentence in connection with a search of party offices by authorities investigating its finances.   During the search Melenchon shoved a police officer and attempted to enter the building.   He was convicted by the court of intimidation of the officials conducting the probe.

IN IRAQ TODAY FOUR ROCKETS STRIKING A MILITARY BASE NEXT TO BAGHDAD'S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WOUNDING SIX MEMBERS OF IRAQ'S COUNTER-TERRORISM SERVICE.   TWO OF THEM REPORTED IN CRITICAL CONDITION.

THE US TRAINED COUNTER-TERRORISM SERVICE HAS BEEN USED TO SUPPRESS DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST IRAQ'S GOVERNMENT IN RECENT WEEKS.

US FORCES ARE ALSO PRESENT AT THE BASE AND THE US IS CONSIDERING SENDING MORE MILITARY FORCES TO THE REGION TO COUNTER WHAT IS SAID TO BE AN IRANIAN THREAT.

IRAQ CALLED IN THE AMBASSADORS OF FOUR WESTERN NATIONS TO ITS FOREIGN MINISTRY.     THE BRITISH, CANADIAN, FRENCH AND GERMAN DIPLOMATS REPRIMANDED OVER INTERFERENCE IN IRAQ'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS.

THE FOUR AMBASSADORS HAVE SUPPORTED DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE STREETS OF IRAQ AND CONDEMNED THE TACTICS OF IRAQ'S SECURITY FORCES USED AGAINST THEM.

A meeting in Washington tomorrow between Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.    He is coming to Washington at the invitation of Pompeo.

Issues like Syria and Ukraine said to be topics that will be discussed.

More from the Russian news agency Tass....LINK....It is being reported by Tass today that there are expectations of Mr. Lavrov meeting President Trump tomorrow as well.    

IRAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER JAVAD ZARIF SAYS HIS COUNTRY IS READY FOR A COMPREHENSIVE PRISONER EXCHANGE WITH THE US.    THIS FOLLOWS THE PRISONER EXCHANGE ON SATURDAY THAT INVOLVED AN AMERICAN BEING FREED BY IRAN AND AND IRANIAN BY THE UNITED STATES.

A genocide trial before the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands this week.    Myanmar accused in its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority.    Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled the country to neighboring Bangladesh following a government crackdown.

Myanmar says that its treatment of the Rohingya is based on its response to terrorist activity launched by the Rohingya.

The de-facto leader of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi is appearing before the ICJ for the trial with the United Nations judges expected to urge her to impose "provisional measures" to protect the Rohingya before the trial proceeds forward.

From the probe into the attack that killed three and wounded eight at the Pensacola Naval Air Station Friday we are being told this.

The Saudi military officer-aviation student responsible for what many outside the highest levels of government consider a terrorist attack was given a "derogatory nickname" by one of his instructors.

The name......

"PORN STASH"

described as a reference to the kind of moustache that a porn actor would have.

(COMMENT:   "Porn Stash" could also be considered a personal collection of porn.    Child pornography was found in a computer linked to the Charlie Hebdo terrorists in France of January 2015.     That prompted the then Mayor of London now British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to refer to the terrorists as "porn addicted losers")

The "New York Times" story that reported about the "derogatory name" matter.......LINK

And a reflection on that Friday attack at the Pensacola Naval Air Station. 

Retired Army colonel Pat Lang, former Arabic instructor at West Point and military attache to Saudi Arabia among other things, says this in part:

"Saudi Arabia was created by the conquest of the Arabian Peninsula after 1900 by tribes loyal to an extreme form of Wahabbi fanatic Islam based on the Hanbali school of Sunni Islam as reinforced by the extremist medieval scholar Ibn Taimmiya.  For him the only good non-Muslims were either slaves or corpses whose women had been taken as booty and distributed among the true Muslims.

This Saudi pseudo state remains largely motivated by the same ideas....."

More from Colonel Lang at this link to his "Sic Semper Tyrannis" blog.....LINK

And for now that's the way it really is Monday December 9th, 2019.

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 12/8/2019  THE PENSACOLA ATTACK UPDATE

The Pensacola attack that killed three US sailors and wounded eight others including two members of law enforcement is still not being called an "act of terrorism" by either President Trump or Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien also not flat out saying there was a terrorist attack but telling CBS:

"To me it appears to be a terrorist attack"

A Saudi military officer who was an aviation student at the Pensacola Naval Air Station opened fire Friday morning.     The attack called an "act of terrorism" by local Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz.

While Mr. Esper is not talking terrorism he said on "Fox News Sunday" that he is ordering a review of the screening process for foreign nationals undergoing military training in the United States.   He also said he ordered officials to look into security measures at military bases.

Information is leaking out in the investigation of the attack now firmly in the hands of FBI.

The FBI is saying it is operating:

"with the presumption that this was an act of terrorism"

according to FBI Special Agent In Charge Rachel Rojas from the FBI's Jacksonville office who's leading the investigation speaking at news conference today.

But she says that presumption is normal in "active shooter" incidents and is helpful to investigators.

Rojas also said this regarding Saudi Arabia:

"I thank the kingdom for their pledge of full and complete cooperation"

Among the information the dinner party that Mohammed Saeed Alshamrami hosted to watch mass shooting videos and his social media posting which is said to have echoed the views of Osama bin Laden.

Also being probed the filming of the attack by Saudi trainees at the scene.    Other Saudis at the base reportedly detained for questioning.

At the news conference on the attack today when asked if this was an act of terrorism Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said:  

 "Absolutely, yes"

More on the story from Pensacola as published by "Middle East Monitor".....LINK

Getting back to President Trump in his torrent of Twitter posts Saturday the President retweeted someone else's post that praised Congressman Gaetz for calling the attack an "act of terrorism".

As reported and commented on in the "Nextrush Unplugged" post Saturday night.....LINK.....the federal government does not work towards justice and addressing the facts of criminal cases when they involve Saudi cititzens.

The "Pro-Publica" journalism website discussed the issue earlier this year in a story entitled...

"Saudi Fugutives Accused of Serious Crimes Get Help to Flee While U.S. Officials Look the Other Way"

More from "Pro-Publica"........LINK

Organizers say some 800,000 people took to the streets of Hong Kong Sunday in a pro-democracy demonstration.      The police estimated the crowd at 183-thousand.

The authorities in Hong Kong decided to allow the protest.

More on the protest from the BBC......LINK

In France President Emmanuel Macron, Premier Edouard Philippe and cabinet ministers holding meetings Sunday evening to consider the government's response to the general strike that began Thursday.

CGT union president Philippe Martinez says the strike is on until the government drops pension reform plans that are expected to cut pension benefits for millions of French citizens.

The government's message in recent hours is that if something is not done to deal with pensions now more severe measures will have to be taken later.

BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT FROM NEW ZEALAND WHERE ITS MONDAY AFTERNOON WITH A VOLCANIC ERUPTION ON WHITE ISLAND.

THE SUDDEN ERUPTION HAPPENED WITH TOURISTS ON THE ISLAND AND CASUALTIES HAVE ALREADY BEEN BROUGHT TO SHORE FROM THE DISASTER.

SOME 100 PEOPLE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN ON ISLAND WHEN THE ERUPTION OCCURRED.  

MORE FROM "TV ONE" IN NEW ZEALAND.....LINK

IN LEBANON THE LEADING CANDIDATE TO BE THE COUNTRY'S NEXT PRIME MINISTER PULLING OUT OF CONSIDERATION.

SAMIR KHATIB SAYING THAT SUNNI MUSLIM LEADERS IN THE COUNTRY WANT PRIME MINISTER SAAD HARIRI TO CONTINUE AS PRIME MINISTER.

HARIRI RESIGNED HIS POST AMIDST MASS DEMONSTRATIONS RECENTLY DEMANDING REFORM IN THE COUNTRY.

IN RECENT PROTESTS IT HAS BEEN ALLEGED THAT KHATIB IS TOO CLOSE TO THE COUNTRY'S RULING ELITE. 

LATE WORD IS THAT MR. HARIRI IS NOW BACK IN THE RUNNING TO REMAIN AS THE COUNTRY'S PRIME MINISTER.

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North Korea's United Nations ambassador says that denuclearizaion is off the table with the United States.

Ambassador Kim Song told Reuters that the talks sought by the United States were a "time saving trick" ahead of the 2020 election campaign.

He also said:

"We do not need to have lengthy talks with the US  now"

North Korea also conducted a test at its satellite facility believed to be the testing of a rocket engine.

President Trump on Twitter today with a message mentioning North Korea's ruler saying in part that:

"Kim Jong Un is too smart and has far too much to lose, everything actually, if he acts in a hostile way.......

At least 43 are dead in a factory fire in India.   The fire broke out in the capital city of Delhi early Sunday morning.    Workers were sleeping inside the bag factory in the city's old quarter when the blaze broke out.      

  

"We are planning catch up"

Defense Secretary Mark Esper spoke at the Reagan National Defense Forum this weekend and was talking about hypersonic weapons which have become a major aspect of Russia's defense program.

The Russian News Agency Tass has more.......LINK

Iran planning to roll out new uranium enriching centrifuges.    That's the word from an Iranian official in the country's nuclear agency.     

"Israel National News" has more......LINK

And from Finland a new prime minister, the youngest ever.     The Social Democrats who lead a five party coalition government selected 34-year old Sanna Marin as their leader.    She replaces Antti Rinne who resigned last Tuesday.

More on this story from Turkey's "TRT World"......LINK

And for now that's the way it really is Sunday December 8th, 2019.

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED:  SATURDAY NIGHT VERSION RAPE, MANSLAUGHTER AND MASS MURDER IN THE USA, THE SAUDI CONNECTION  (THE LATEST NEWS NEAR THE END OF THIS POST)

Music Links:

PUTTIN ON THE RITZ-TACO

"RICH GIRL"-HALL AND OATES

"HEART OF GLASS"-BLONDIE

"WHEN A CHILD IS BORN"-THE SEEKERS

Lets start with some good news of a prisoner exchange.......

US-IRAN EXCHANGE PRISONERS

Chinese-American Xiyue Wang is freed from an Iranian prison and Iranian Massoud Soleimani is freed from a US prison.

That happening in this week's "Newsdump Period" the Friday-Saturday window......

The BBC reports......LINK

And the story of the Iranian scientist returning home from "Press TV" in Iran.....LINK

Good news in the midst of the all the sabre rattling about some Iranian threat to the US military in Iraq leaked out of the Pentagon this week.

This week there was also word of planning to send more members of our military to the Middle East to counter Iran.

But when the US military ended up taking casualties yesterday it was in Pensacola, Florida at the hands of a Saudi national.

That story continues to unfold and here is reporting from WEAR-TV. in Pensacola...

ABC: NAS PENSACOLA SHOOTER CONDEMNED US AS 'NATION OF EVIL' ON SOCIAL MEDIA POST

The attacker was an "aviation student" at Pensacola reminding us of those Saudi "aviation students" who came to our country 20 years ago and prepared themselves for the acts of 9/11.    15 of the 19 hijackers citizens of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

And we get this on Twitter from the President of the United States.......

......The King said that the Saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter, and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people who love the American people."-LINK

Moving beyond the crime that killed three and wounded eight yesterday called an "act of terrorism" by Congressman Matt Gaetz who represents Pensacola (and is a Republican making news in the impeachment farce) there are other crimes like hit and run manslaughter and rape that have been committed by Saudi citizens here in the US, more than a handful all over the country.

They are crimes where Saudis charged have been bailed out of jail and then been assisted by their government in escaping justice in the USA.

Here's the story as published by "OregonLive" in February of this year.....

STATE DEPARTMENT SAYS IT WON'T INTERVENE AFTER MANSLAUGHTER SUSPECT RETURNS TO SAUDI ARABIA

There are links in that link that detail the various cases that we know about and no doubt there are more we don't know about in other states.

Follow the money my friends and the money goes back to Saudi Arabia and the business deals and so on.

We can get angry when Mexicans commit these crimes but we shrivel up at the highest levels of our government when Saudis commit these crimes.

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NEWSDUMP UPDATE-TRUMP PUTTING HOLD ON TERRORIST DESIGNATION FOR MEXICAN CARTELS

A lot of news dumps out into the Friday-Saturday window to be hidden from your attention and knowledge.

One such story is the decision of President Trump to hold back his designation of drug cartels in Mexico as terrorist groups which would make them subject to US military action.

The President saying he will "temporarily hold off" on the designation at the request of the Mexican President Lopez Obrador.

More from "Time"........LINK

NEWSDUMP UPDATE-SWEDISH TELECOM FIRM ERICSSON PAYING JUST OVER 1 BILLION DOLLARS TO SETTLE US CORRUPTION CASES

Also this story not in the Newsdump post Friday the Justice Department cutting a deal to end its corruption investigations into the Swedish telecommunication company Ericsson.

The deal involves a "criminal penalty" of 520 million dollars plus 540 million dollars going to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Taxes by another name?

More on this from "Reuters".......LINK

Getting back to the POTUS again and the prisoner exchange with Iran a tweet that said in part:

"Thank you to Iran on a very fair negotiation.    See we can make a deal together!"-LINK

As I've said if the President can meet with North Korea's Kim Jong-un I don't see why the President cannot meet with Iran's leaders.    When is that going to happen Mr. President?

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THE RIGGED BRITISH ELECTION MOVES ON WITH THE THIRD PARTIES PUSHED TO THE SIDE

What more can one say the BBC doing what ITV did and putting Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn on a stage to "debate".

In essence telling people this is the choice excluding the Liberal Democrats and Brexit Party, not to mention the Scottish National Party.

Nigel Farage being told by Donald Trump that he is admired by Boris Johnson....

"He respects you a lot.   I can tell you that.   He respects you a lot"

And Nigel Farage willingly got under the bus and is only running his Brexit Party in areas won by Labor and other parties in the last election staying out of Conservative won seats giving Boris Johnson the ability to win a majority and have his way on Brexit and deliver what Nigel Farage has said is "not Brexit"

OMG

Rigged to be a Johnson-Corbyn contest with Corbyn smeared and demonized as extreme and anti-Semitic and so on.  

Working people are losing ground in this world and Corbyn does channel into that making him dangerous to the corporatist-globalist elites that have flooded our nations with cheap labor among other things.

The polling data has the Conservatives up over 40 percent for the election this Thursday and Labor over 30 percent higher numbers for both parties than last election with the Conservatives positioned for that majority.

The Liberal Democrats around 13 percent with 15 seats of the 650 I figure going their way.  Its just my educated guess at this point.

The Scottish National Party polling 3 to 5 percent nationally but only running for the 71 Scottish seats of the 650 in the House of Commons.

They won 35 seats last time but it they get up around 5 percent of the national vote Thursday they will win as many as 55 seats by my guesstimate.

And the Brexit Party out in the cold and Nigel Farage making himself a willing party to it.

This week some of the Tory stalwarts left to go back to the Conservative Party from the Brexit Party as in four of the 29 European parliament members elected earlier this year.

UKIP is still around fighting the fight where it can a shell of its former self.

I link to the Twitter page:

UNITED KINGDOM INDEPENDENCE PARTY TWITTER

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I PREDICT DECEMBER 21ST

Two weeks from today I guess we get this impeachment vote from the Democrats in the House to roll the issue out of the way for the election next year.

The Dems by my gut estimation appeasing their militant base and hoping to move on knowing they lose the trial in the Senate.

The Dems trying to protect the annointed candidate Joe Biden from harm.

Donald Trump sinned in their eyes by going after matters related to Joe Biden.

And the facts as I see them are 38 monthly payments to Joe's son Hunter Biden of 83-thousand dollars totaling over three million dollars.    They came from Ukrainian oil firm Burisma.  

Joe got his chance to say "liar" to someone questioning his ethics this week but ha ha the fact are listed above.

Of course President Trump's dealings with Saudi Arabia aren't on the table and won't be because the Democrats have their hands in that dough themselves.

What a scandal this country has become as Senator Rand Paul observed borrowing money from China so we can send it to Ukraine.

I do remember that Bill Clinton was impeached on the Saturday before Christmas in 1998 and if you remember the bombing in Iraq started a few hours later.

There is a case being made for military action in Iraq right now with the claim of a threat from Iranian backed forces in that country.

Words to the wise.

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Well here we are the holiday season and my wish for all a safe and happy one, sober and sane.


Clancy is his name and he's shared his experience, strength and hope for decades.


Here's a speech he made.......



CLANCY I.-AA SPEAKER-ONE OF HIS FUNNIEST TALKS EVER!




There's no controlling and managing my intoxication.   I have to stop my insanity....

Pearl Harbor remembered today.....

78 years ago today the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Japanese pilots tuned into KGMB radio station on 590 AM in Honolulu.    KGMB stayed on the air all night into Sunday morning with the US military buying the all night time broadcast since the station normally signed off at midnight.

Their intention to guide B-17 bombers flying in from the West Coast but the Japanese pilots got the benefit of tuning in for guidance as well.

Once the attack began KGMB announcing the attack with Station Manager Webley Edwards saying the attack was "the real McCoy".

A real attack not a fake one somewhere in Syria with "chemical weapons".......


Peter Hitchens talks about the fakery of Douma in April 2018 in this interview.....

NO EVIDENCE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACK IN DOUMA-RICO BROUWER AND PETER HITCHENS

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THE REAL NEWS SUMMARY

The Saudi air force officer shot by police following his deadly shooting attack that killed three and wounded eight at the Pensacola Naval Air Station Friday hosted a dinner party to watch mass shooting videos.

That's what's been told to the Associated Press by a "US official briefed on the situation".

Two other Saudis training at the military base are said to have watched the attack from a car.   Other Saudis at the base are said to be unaccounted for.

The attacker, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrami, is reported to have posted on his now suspended Twitter page material that echoed Osama bin Laden.

A story posted by "Business Insider"......LINK

IN SYRIA MORE THAN 60 AIRSTRIKES IN THE GREATER IDLIB REGION OF THE NORTHWEST ON SATURDAY.

RUSSIAN AND SYRIAN ATTACKS AIMED AT JIHADIST OPPOSITION FORCES IN THE REGION.

ATTACKED LAUNCHED BY THE JIHADISTS IN RECENT DAYS AIMED AT GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED TERRITORY.

MORE FROM "SOUTHFRONT" INCLUDING VIDEOS RELEASED BY OPPONENTS OF THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT.....LINK

A GROUP CALLED THE "SYRIAN NETWORK FOR HUMAN RIGHTS" CLAIMING RUSSIAN MISSILES HIT TWO SCHOOLS IN IDLIB 'CAUSING A MASSACRE'.

North Korean state media reporting a "successful test of great significance" at the Sohae satellite launch site.

The North Koreans have been demanding that the US meet a year end deadline to change its position in denuclearization talks or else...

The North Koreans also posing the question recently as to what kind of "Christmas gift" President Trump wants from them.

Its suspected that a test of a rocket engine may have taken place at the facility.

From Iraq the death toll in a Friday night attack on a protest camp in Baghdad has risen to 25 with another 130 wounded.

Unidentified gunmen in civilian vehicles broke into al-Khalani Square in the center of the city and opened fire.

The general strike in France will continue until President Emmanuel Macron backs down on his pension reform plans.

That's the word tonight from CGT trade union president Philippe Martinez.

Mass protests Thursday and lesser protests since including today with police and demonstrators clashing in some cases.

A call for an increased level of protest Monday and Tuesday in France ahead of the government's plans to announce the pension reform plan's specifics on Wednesday.

A roundup on the strike protests and the Yellow Vests Week 56 protests in France today at the link.....FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 56.......

And for now that's the way it really is Saturday night December 7th, 2019.

Wish you all the best tonight and on into the night with music we go........




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