Freedom Industries executive a two-time convicted felon,
benefited from 2009 federal stimulus 12 Jan 2014
(WV) Freedom Industries, the company [eco-terrorists] responsible for
contaminating the water of 300,000 Kanawha Valley residents, was founded by a
two-time convicted felon, benefited from the 2009 federal stimulus and at least
two of its executives have longstanding ties to the Charleston business
community. Since the chemical spill on Thursday, Freedom Industries executives
have entirely avoided media requests, except for a brief news conference Friday
night... In 2008, Freedom Industries secured a contract to distribute a line of
products called Talon that are used as a binder in coal processing, according to
a news release issued at the time. Talon is made by Georgia-Pacific Chemicals
LLC. Georgia-Pacific is owned by the billionaire industrialists Charles and
David Koch.
West Virginia Spill Prompts Drive for Tougher
Regulations 14 Jan 2014 A chemical spill that left 300,000 people in West
Virginia unable to drink their water is reviving calls for more stringent
regulation of thousands of chemical storage sites in the U.S., especially those
near water supplies. The Freedom Industries Inc. complex in Charleston that
leaked was subject to a patchwork of federal and state regulations that allowed
hazardous materials to be stored less than two miles upstream from a treatment
facility for drinking water.
The rest from CLG:
Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate
Government15 Jan 2014 - Part
2
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Previous edition: U.S.
appeals court strikes down FCC net neutrality rules 15 Jan 2014 - Part
1
U.S. courts oppose reform
proposals for secret surveillance court 14 Jan 2014 The U.S.
federal court system objects to key proposals by a presidential review panel to
reform the secret court that supervises the classified electronic eavesdropping
activities of the U.S. National Security Agency, a former chief judge of that
court said on Tuesday. Judge John Bates, the former head of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court, sent the objections in a letter to Sen.
Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He said he
submitted it on behalf of the federal judicial system as a whole, through an
entity called the Judicial Conference of the United States, of which he is
secretary.
NSA phone collection does
not prevent terrorism - report 13 Jan 2014 A new analysis
of 225 terrorism cases in the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks
indicates that the National Security Agency's massive collection of phone
records had a "minimal" on preventing acts of terrorism, according to a report
released Monday by the New America Foundation, a Washington nonprofit group.
Traditional law enforcement and investigative methods provided the evidence to
begin most cases. The study makes similar conclusion as an advisory group
appointed by President Barack Obama to examine the federal government's vast
surveillance programs.
Anonymous online critics
must be identified, says court 13 Jan 2014 Users who have
posted negative comments on the online review site Yelp must be identified, a US
court has ordered. The case involved the owner of a carpet-cleaning business who
told the court bad reviews written about his company were not from real
customers. The court said anonymous
users were not protected by the First Amendment, which allows free
speech, if the review "is based on a false statement". [Right, only corporations are protected by the
First Amendment.]
'Miami Protest to Close
Guantanamo Bay' marched in Doral on Saturday 14 Jan 2014 75 protesters
gathered outside the U.S. Southern Command over the weekend for the event,
"Miami Protest to Close Guantanamo Bay." Protesters in orange jumpsuits marched
in Doral. The words "Close Guantanamo Now!" were black and bold on a banner
protestors carried in a march along Northwest 87th Avenue in Doral... Protesters
also gathered in front of the White House.
Iran to get first 550 million of blocked 4.2 billion on
February 1 12 Jan 2014 Iran would
receive the first 550 million installment of a total of 4.2 billion in
previously blocked overseas funds on or about February 1, a senior U.S. official
said on Sunday. Under a November 24 nuclear agreement, six major powers agreed
to give Iran access to 4.2 billion in revenues blocked overseas if it carries
out the deal, which offers sanctions relief in exchange for steps to curb the
Iranian nuclear program. Some payments are contingent on Iran diluting its
stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium to no more than 5 percent enriched
uranium. [Why aren't the US and Israel forced to destroy *their*
enriched uranium?]
$1.1T spending bill: 85.2B for military ops in Afghanistan and
aid to Israel; funding for Wall St. oversight slashed 14 Jan 2014 Congressional negotiators unveiled a bipartisan
[DemocRATic surrender], 1.1 trillion spending bill Monday night that will reverse a 1 percent cut to
cost-of-living increases for disabled veterans and provide 1.525 billion in aid
to [the military dictatorship in] Egypt, among other provisions. The measure
fleshes out the details of the budget deal that Congress passed last month; it
would fund the government through October. Liberals are more likely to climb
aboard, but only after voting to give Obama about 6 billion more in Pentagon war
funding than the 79 billion he requested.
Christie, Official Who Arranged Bridge Closures Were Together
During Fiasco 14 Jan 2014 Gov. Chris
Christie (R) was with the official who arranged the closure of local lanes
leading to the George Washington Bridge on Sept. 11, 2013 -- the third day of
the closures, and well after they had triggered outrage from local officials
beset by heavy traffic. It isn't known what, if anything, Mr. Christie discussed
with David Wildstein that day, when the Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey official was among the delegation of Mr. Christie's representatives who
welcomed him to the site of the World Trade Center for the commemoration of the
12th anniversary of the terrorist attacks there. Mr. Christie addressed Mr.
Wildstein in a news conference last week, saying he had not encountered him "in
a long time."
Bridge controversy expands into new areas for Gov. Chris
Christie in New Jersey 13 Jan 2014
As New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) spent the day finalizing his State of the
State speech, Democratic lawmakers announced the creation of special
investigative committees with subpoena power to further scrutinize a scheme in which top aides
to the governor worked to paralyze traffic in Fort Lee, N.J., in an apparent
plot against the town's Democratic mayor. Meanwhile, new documents released by
Jersey City officials Monday suggest that the Christie administration punished
the Democratic mayor of that town last summer by cutting off his access to top
state officials when he declined to back the governor's reelection bid. And in
Washington, federal auditors have begun looking into Christie's use of Hurricane Sandy recovery money
to pay for an expensive tourism marketing campaign last year starring him and
his family.
Okla. Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down; Ruling on
Hold 15 Jan 2014 For the second time
in a month, a federal judge has set aside a deeply conservative state's limits
on same-sex marriage, this time in Oklahoma. U.S. District Judge Terence Kern on
Tuesday struck down Oklahoma's voter-approved ban, but headed off any rush to
the altar by putting the effects of his ruling on hold while state and local
officials complete an appeal. Like the federal judge who reversed Utah's gay
marriage ban in December, Kern determined that Oklahoma's constitutional
amendment violated the U.S. Constitution's equal protection clause.
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U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC net neutrality
rules 14 Jan 2014 A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected federal rules
that required Internet providers to treat all web traffic equally, a decision
that could allow mobile carriers and other broadband providers to charge content
providers for faster access to websites and products. The Federal Communications
Commission's open Internet rules, also known as net neutrality rules, required
Internet service providers to give consumers equal access to all lawful content
without restrictions or varying charges. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit struck down the regulation, which was passed in
late 2010 and challenged in court by [corpora-terrorists] Verizon Communications
Inc.
Responding to Sanders, NSA director denies spying on
Congress --Vermont
senator notes that agency's head failed to rule out collection of elected
officials' phone 'metadata' 14 Jan 2014 The National Security Agency’s
director, responding to questions from Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, says the
government is not spying on Congress. But a two-page letter from Gen. Keith
Alexander to the Vermont independent goes on to state that the agency can make
no guarantee that representatives or senators have not had their "telephone
metadata" caught up in broad government sweeps. "Nothing NSA does can fairly be
characterized as 'spying on members of Congress or other American elected
officials,'" Alexander wrote in the letter, dated Friday and released
Tuesday.
Iran nuclear deal to take effect on January
20 12 Jan 2014 Iran's interim
nuclear deal with six major powers will come into force on January 20, the
Iranian Foreign Ministry and the European Union said on Sunday. "Capitals have
confirmed the result of the talks in Geneva...the Geneva deal will be
implemented from January 20," Marzieh Afkham, spokeswoman for the Iranian
Foreign Ministry, told reporters in Tehran, the semi-official Mehr news agency
said. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton also confirmed the date, and said
the sides would now ask the United Nations' nuclear watchdog to verify the
deal's implementation.
Ohio Man Arrested With Bombs and AR-15 Was Intel Analyst With
Top Secret Clearance 12 Jan 2014 In
an odd twist of events an Ohio man was arrested after a traffic stop on New Year's Day which lead an officer
to uncover a slew of bombs, IEDs, a remote detonator, and an AR-15 rifle. Andrew
Scott Boguslawski, 43, of Moores Hill, Indiana, was stopped by Trooper W. Scott
Davis on westbound I-70 on January 1st, 2014, for speeding... Further
investigation uncovered 58 small improvised initiators, 25 IEDs, a medicine
bottle weighing 1.5 lbs containing explosive materials, four incomplete
improvised bombs, a remote detonator, and several loaded guns including an AR-15
rifle. Also in his possession were schematics for Muscatatuck Urban Training
Center in which he was employed as a groundskeeper. Boguslawski was trained as
an Intelligence Analyst Specialist in the Army National Guard and held a Top
Secret Clearance.
London Police Campaign to Boost Public's Counter-Terrorism
Role 12 Jan 2014 London's
Metropolitan Police, which oversees the U.K.'s national counter-terrorism
operations, begins a campaign today to remind members of the public they may
play a "vital role" in foiling an attack. The drive known as Operation Penna,
the second project of its kind run by the police force, ends Jan. 24. It will
involve high-visibility police patrols around crowded places such as shopping
centers and Underground railway stations across the capital's 32 boroughs,
according to an e-mailed statement.
New Homeland Security headquarters costing extra
billions --DHS
eye-sore is $3.2B over budget and ten years behind schedule 13 Jan 2014
Building a new Department of Homeland Security headquarters is not only taking
extra years, but extra billions of taxpayer d*llars. A new staff
report from Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., chairman of the House Subcommittee on
Oversight and Management Efficiency, says a "reality check" is needed about the
escalating costs and delays of the new DHS headquarters. DHS has also pushed
back the completion date of the entire facility, which includes new senior
leadership offices and other operations, to 2026 -- 10 years beyond the
originally scheduled finish time.
Fish testing at 124 times over radiation limit caught off
Fukushima 13 Jan 2014 Fish with
deadly levels of radioactive cesium have been caught just off the coast of
Fukushima prefecture, as scientists continue to assess the damage caused to the
marine food chain by the 2011 nuclear disaster. One of the samples of the 37
black sea bream specimens caught some 37 kilometers south of the crippled power
plant tested at 12,400 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium, making it
124 times deadlier than the 'threshold considered safe for human consumption,'
Japan's Fisheries Research Agency announced. The samples were caught at the
mouth of the Niidagawa river in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on November
17.
Wheelchair-bound sailor's blames radiation exposure at
Fukushima; DoD says 'no' 11 Jan 2014
A Maryland sailor says he's now wheelchair-bound, and he blames it on radiation
he was exposed to while representing his country at what's been called the
world's worst nuclear disaster since
Chernobyl. It was eight months after Steve Simmons served on the USS
Ronald Reagan when it was the first ship to respond to the March 2011
meltdown(s) at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant... Steve explains, "As
far as the big picture we still don't have a diagnosis of what this is, still
struggling to even get a doctor to acknowledge that radiation had anything to do
with it." Without the Navy acknowledging Steve wouldn't be in this situation if
it wasn't for his time in Operation Tomodachi, his retirement and pension are at
stake, plus he doesn't qualify for aid in the same the way he would if he lost
his legs in an IED explosion.
Kelly Thomas verdict:
Demonstrators gather at beating site
13 Jan 2014 Dozens of people gathered Monday night at the Fullerton transit
depot not far from where Kelly Thomas was beaten by police [sociopaths] in the
summer of 2011. The demonstrators, some of whom chanted or carried candles,
gathered just a few hours after an Orange County jury found two former Fullerton
police officers not guilty in the death of the homeless man who used to sleep on
benches at the transit center. Curtis Gamble, 53, who is homeless, said many of
his friends witnessed the beating. Thomas died five days later.
Ex-cops acquitted in beating death of homeless man in
California --'This is carte blanche to police officers to do whatever
they want.' --Victim's father, Ron Thomas 13 Jan 2014 A jury has
acquitted two former Fullerton, California, police officers on trial in the
beating death of Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill and homeless man. The verdict was
read in a Santa Ana courtroom Monday afternoon. Eight women and four men began
deliberating the case on Thursday. "I'm just horrified. They got away with
murdering my son," Cathy Thomas, the victim's mother, told reporters after the
verdict was read.
3 injured in N. M. school shooting; suspect
arrested --Shooter
opens fires at Roswell middle school shortly after 8 a.m. 14 Jan 2014 A
suspect was arrested Tuesday following a shooting at a Roswell, N.M., middle
school that left at least three people injured, according to local media
reports. Roswell police said the incident occurred around 8:11 a.m. local time
at Berrendo Middle School.
U.S. Rep. Pallone said he thought Christie's Sandy ad campaign
'smelled', called for investigation
13 Jan 2014 U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D) said today he asked federal officials to
look into the state's decision to use Hurricane Sandy aid for an advertising campaign that
featured Gov. Chris Christie's family because he thought it "smelled." The
television spots were meant to draw tourist back to the storm-battered Jersey
Shore - a worthy cause, Pallone said. But what's fishy, he said, is that the
firm chosen by the state to put together tourism advertisements -- the
politically-connected MWW -- submitted a bid that was *2.2 million more
expensive than another company that had no plans to put the governor in the
ads.
Jersey City Peace Movement rallies against Christie over GWB
scandal 12 Jan 2014 Wielding signs
emblazoned with "Political Terrorism" and "Christie Has Blood on His Hands,"
about 10 members of the Jersey City Peace Movement rallied against Gov. Chris
Christie over the unfolding GWB scandal in front of the PATH station in Jersey
City's Journal Square yesterday evening. In a press release announcing their
protest, the Jersey City Peace Movement demanded a "federal criminal inquiry"
against Christie and the Port Authority of NY/NJ for their allegedly "revengeful
bridge closure."
New report says millions of women at risk of falling into
poverty, economic ruin 12 Jan 2014
Although in recent decades women have made historic advances in nearly all areas
of American public life, a staggering number of women across the country are
still teetering on the verge of poverty and economic disaster, a new report
released Sunday shows. The report, co-authored by NBC News
and the Center for American Progress, takes a wide-angle snapshot of a national
economic crisis, seen through the eyes of women. The key findings paint a
portrait of an estimated 42 million women -- and 28 million dependent children
-- saddled with financial hardship.
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