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Chinese government media has produced a video purported to be that of a Muslim Uighur musician reported to have died in a Chinese detention facility. The video dated Sunday shows Abdurehim Heyit saying he is in good health..... The ISIS holdouts are under assault from the US backed Kurdish forces in eastern Syria in what is reported to be the final assault to take the Islamic State out..... Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat Senator from Minnesota, announced her candidacy for President Sunday..... Politics in Israel and Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer, chairman of the Central Elections Committee, ordered a probe into...

At the top of the Newsdump this morning. President Trump is refusing to report to Congress on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October..... Later this month the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner is expected to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin-Salman on his visit to five Arab countries to lay out financial plans... But media attention will be on another meeting at that time, this one in Hanoi, Vietam between the President and North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un..... A second rape allegation against Virginia's Lt. Governor, Democrat Justin Fairfax.... The private investigator...

Amazon magnate, the world's richest man and owner of "The Washington Post", Jeff Bezos, says he's being blackmailed by the "National Enquirer", a media outlet friendly to President Trump...... The Justice Department filing its opening brief in the appeal of last year's dismissal of charges against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, two of his sons and another key defendant in the Bunkerville Standoff case...... France has pulled its ambassador out of Italy for consultations two days after the leader of one of Italy's governing parties met Yellow Vests protesters in Paris.... After all the conflict or at least it appeared to...

President Trump will meet North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un for a second time February 27th and 28th in Vietnam.... Restrictions on protest in France of individuals and groups passed in the National Assembly Tuesday. 387 in favor, 92 against with 74 abstentions.... Authorities in Paris believe an apartment complex fire Monday night was deliberately set... The Battle of Brexit or is it the Betrayal of Brexit. Prime Minister Theresa My intends to talk with the EU later this week and was in Northern Ireland Tuesday talking the "Irish backstop" issue Tuesday..... Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says if the Kurdish...

France's leading opposition politician says President Emmanuel Macron is ultimately responsible for the Yellow Vests protests and any violent incidents surrounding them. National Rally leader Marine Le Pen told BFM-TV Sunday that new elections for the National Assembly and the Citizen Initiative Referendum are needed.... A Syrian army artillery position attacked in an air strike by the US-led coalition late Saturday night followed by an ISIS ground attack..... President Trump says the US military is "slowly" withdrawing from Syria...... If there's an invasion of Venezuela as some say is coming it looks like the first wave is humanitarian relief.... Today...

"I am 18 years old, a non-violent man. I hope you will recognize your fault" Louis Boyard Tweet Following His Injury By Police "Flash Bang-Flash Ball" Shot 2/2/2019 Directed At French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner Louis Boyard is the president of a high school union in France, the UNL. Today he was hit by flashbang shot and transported to a hospital during the Yellow Vests protests. Boyard says he was shot in the foot. The government claimed 10,500 protesters in Paris but a count done by an independent firm for BFM-TV put that number at 13,800. 33 arrests reported in...

Todays protests focused on the violence of the police against protesters with injury totals in the thousands over the last three months of protest in the country. The weapon of choice causing most of the injuries the "flash bang" or as its called in France the "flash ball"......

Good Morning and at the top of the newsdump.... They say a picture is worth a thousand words and a word and a picture are creating controversy surrounding the Governor of Virginia, Democrat Ralph Northam..... Its Act 12 of the Yellow Vests protests in France as the protests focus on the thousands injured by the police using in most cases "flash bang" rounds.... Opposition protesters taking to the streets of Venezuela on behalf of Interim President Juan Guaido and in favor of new elections in the country today.... Meanwhile, the government of Turkey is being pressured to stop buying gold...

In Venezuela the opposition to Nicolas Maduro taking to the streets and in support of the interim President Juan Guaido today (Wednesday). Venezuela's Supreme Court, controlled by Maduro, has ruled that Mr. Guaido cannot leave the country and frozen his bank accounts...... The Battle of Brexit and two amendments approved Tuesday in Parliament that appear to be the fruit of a closing of ranks in the British Conservative Party..... There's a high level Russian delegation talking Syria and Iran on a visit to Israel this week.... Israeli politics and the new face in Israeli politics, retired Chief of Staff Benny...

President Trump came out Friday afternoon announcing a deal in relation to the dispute over border security funding. The legislation was passed by Congress and signed by the President Friday evening..... "At the crack of dawn 29 FBI agents arrived at my home with 17 vehicles with lights flashing. They terrorized my wife and my dogs" That's Roger Stone's public response to the pre-dawn raid on his home in Florida in connection with Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigation..... Today is the third anniversary of a deadly FBI operation that killed Arizona rancher LaVoy Finicum, spokesman for the Oregon Standoff protest........

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...

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...

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.......