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The United States is calling for a UN Security Council meeting on Venezuela for Saturday.... BREAKING NEWS: The arrest this morning of Roger Stone, a longtime Republican political operative who's worked with numerous political candidates from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to Bob Dole and Arlen Specter, among many others...... The Senate failed to get the 60 votes needed under current rules and pass legislation to fund a barrier on the nation's southern border Thursday..... The Battle of Brexit or perhaps more appropriately the Sellout of Brexit...... And that brings us to a story from Her Majesty's realm about a...

Good Morning.... Israel on the attack in Syria, first a mid-day strike on a southeastern Damascus airport.... The next installment of Qatari Arab cash is on its way to Gaza...... Israeli politics and a Likud party member Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely challenging one of the leaders of the "New Right" Party Education Minister Naftali Bennett...... The womens marches of Yellow Vests in France Sunday.... In the African nation of Zimbabwe last week widespread street demonstrations against the high price of fuel said to be the highest in all of Africa lead to a government crackdown with live ammunition.... Meanwhile...

The Israeli Air Force launched a strike from over the Mediterranean Sea aimed at the Duwali International Airport in southeast Damascus today. The strike coincided with the arrival of an Iranian airliner which turned around instead of landing. Seven missiles were reported downed by the Syrian air defenses with missiles seen in the skies over the Golan Heights. Links below..... Russia's National Defense Management Center says seven Israeli missiles were successfully intercepted by Syrian air defenses and there was no damage at the airport targeted. The attack occurred at 5:32am Eastern Time US this morning, 1232pm Damascus time. The Israel...

President Trump says there will be a major announcement at 3pm Eastern time in the US regarding the situation on the nation's southern border and partial government shutdown..... ..the "New York Times" reports that the Democrats have added one billion dollars in "border-related" spending to their budget plan... The President welcomed the right hand man of North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un at the White House Friday and it was announced that there will be a second summit meeting between Kim and President Trump in weeks.... Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke received an 81 month sentence Friday after his...

(LATEST NEWS AT BOTTOM OF POST) (215 AM EASTERN, 815 AM IN PARIS) Another day and perhaps another weekend of protest in Paris as Act 10 of the Yellow Vests gets underway. Social media has spoken of the notion of protests both days this weekend but a major theme is "Back to Paris" and that's one of the numerous places in France where protests are expected today. Places for protest to name a few Marseille, Bordeaux, Dijon, Clermont-Ferrand and the list goes on.......

When you have a President of the United States who has a close friend named Vince McMahon, you can expect a good fight show....... A top North Korean official carrying a note from that country's ruler Kim Jong-un has arrived in Washington for a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo..... Twenty were killed and dozens injured in a car bomb attack in Colombia's capital Bogota Thursday........ Act 50 of the European UnUUnion treaty invoked for Brexit explicitly states that if there is no deal to withdrawal a member nation can leave without one..... "Back to Paris" is the...

Good Morning. The third attempt to form a new Swedish government since last September's General Election is underway this week..... The British Prime Minister Theresa May making her final pitch for her controversial Brexit plan considered a sellout to the European Union by those who campaigned for a total separation from the EU when Brexit was approved in the June 2016 referendum..... The leading political party in the polls in France right now, the National Rally led by Marine Le Pen, held a national convention over the weekend to roll out its list of candidates for the European Parliament elections...

(LATEST INFORMATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST) And here we are early in the morning in the USA, already a winter's morning in France with a late sunrise and as the day progresses we will see what kind of protest activity will emerge. A week of intense government propaganda with government media and "private" media of the big coroporations aligned with the regime, if you will, of banker turned politician Emmanuel Macron........

Good Morning. Our top Newsdump story comes with President Trump's announcement of a more secure future for some foreigners working in the United States. The President says the H1B visas will be reformed and streamlined offering the foreign workers who are in this country on them a pathway to citizenship..... Civil litigation is affected by the situation as well including the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of LaVoy Finicum, the Oregon Standoff protest spokesman gunned down by an Oregon State trooper in an FBI led operation.... The Act 9 of the Yellow Vests protest underway in France today........

As we enter the Friday-Saturday news window when things happen to avoid publicity about them one wonders what might be next in the dispute between President Trump and Democrats over funding a barrier on the southern border.... The Battle of Brexit. Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn on the attack ahead of next Tuesday's expected vote rejecting Prime Minister Theresa May's proposal for withdrawal from the European Union..... To France where a cabinet minister in the government of President Emmanuel Macron says she is looking into foreign power giving support to the Yellow Vests protests..... US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talking...

Emphasizing among other points that they are not feminists, women were protesting in groups in various French cities Sunday with some 300 estimated in Toulouse for example where a large banner was used by the protesters. In Paris, Toulouse and Caen among other places the protests occurred. The women were sometimes with children and in Caen they shouted in the streets:.....

The harsh language of President Emmanuel Macron calling Yellow Vests racists and anti-Semites and homophobes in essence by calling them the forces of "hate" and his call for order "without compromise" aroused feeling in their own right Monday night when he spoke them on New Year's Eve.......

In Paris today Act 8 of the Yellow Vests protests coming out of the holiday period with renewed vigor..... Another Friday in Sudan meant another day of protests against that country's government..... A protest set for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in Jerusalem this evening..... 3 dead and 4 wounded in a shooting incident at a bowling alley in Torrance, California, near Los Angeles..... More meeting and talking at the White House today..... There is no timeline for the US withdrawal from Syria. That's what the US State Department is saying....

Yellow Vests protester Eric Drouet says he attempted to stage a protest in Paris Wednesday night to: "show the French that we are not free"..... In Washington the political change with a new session of Congress Thursday...... Seven are dead and eight injured, some critically, after a fiery accident on I-75 near Gainesville, Florida Thursday..... A legendary Chicago machine politician is under federal indictment for attempted extortion...... A group of 11 men are being tried in Saudi Arabia for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi..... Israel's Attorney General Avechai Mandelblit says: "I an working with the Chief Prosecutor and spend...

Good morning. Today is the last day Republicans control both houses of Congress amidst a failure to pass funding President Trump wants to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico. There is also a partial shutdown involving five federal government departments.... Writing in an opinion piece for the "Washington Post" incoming Republican senator from Utah and former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney said this about President Trump among other things: "Trump's words and actions have cause despair throughout the world"...... President Trump tweeted Sunday evening that he looks forward to a meeting with North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un.......

Happy New Year to all..... In Tokyo just after midnight a car plowed into pedestrians injuring eight, one seriously..... In the United Kingdom a man reported shouting by an eyewtiness: "Allah" stabbed three people at the central railway station in Manchester, England around 850pm local time New Year's Eve..... The US Ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson says the country is: "in need of leadership" over Brexit..... In France, the year end message from President Emmanuel Macron promised order in the country "without compromise"...... The word from Washington is that the withdrawal of US military forces from Syria will be...

In his end of the year message at 8pm local time tonight French President Emmanuel Macron denounced the "hateful crowd" among the Yellow Vests protesters. He denounced those who use the protests an "excuse to speak on behalf of the people" and those who: "attack the elected officials, the police, the journalists, Jews, foreigners, homosexuals" as he put it. Macron also trashed 'misinformation' being spread about issues like migration and the recently approved UN agreement on migration in Marrakesh, Morocco. Macron said from henceforth that order in regards to protests would be applied: "Without compromise" Reacting to his speech online,...

President Trump urging action Friday to provide border wall funding as the old Congress reaches its last days.... On Friday police in Bakersfield, California arrested the suspect in the murder of a Stanislaus County, California Sheriff's officer early Wednesday..... In Syria Friday announcements from various sides that they were marching towards or taking control of the city of Manbij at the western edge of the Kurdish part of Syria...... The United Arab Emirates annnounced Thursday the re-opening of its embassy in Damascus, a sign of return to normalcy in relations after support for the Syrian government's enemies in the last...

President Trump and the First Lady taking phone calls from children as part of the "Santa Tracker" program of NORAD on Christmas Eve as Santa made his way to the USA to deliver presents. Early elections have been called in Israel. April 9th is the date. Elections could have been delayed until November of next year, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the call saying it was difficult to pass laws.... Turbulence on Wall Street in the shortened Christmas Eve session...... A federal judge ruled Monday that North Korea should be paying over 501 million dollars to the family of...