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Breaking: Judge strikes down
Nebraska law that allowed Keystone pipeline to proceed through
state 19 Feb
2014 A Nebraska judge on Wednesday struck down a law that allowed the Keystone
XL oil pipeline to proceed through the state, a victory for opponents who have
tried to block the project. Lancaster County Judge Stephanie Stacy issued a
ruling that invalidated Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman's approval of the route.
Stacy agreed with opponents' arguments that law passed in 2011 improperly
delegated the decision-making power to Heineman to give the company eminent
domain powers within the state.
Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure
Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks, Supporters 18 Feb 2014 Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency
and its British counterpart reveal for the first time how the governments of the
United States and the United Kingdom targeted WikiLeaks and other activist
groups with tactics ranging from covert surveillance to prosecution. The efforts
- detailed in documents provided previously by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden
- included a broad campaign of international pressure aimed not only at
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but at what the U.S. government calls "the
human network that supports WikiLeaks." The documents also contain internal
discussions about targeting the file-sharing site Pirate Bay and hacktivist
collectives such as Anonymous. One classified document from Government
Communications Headquarters, Britain's top spy agency, shows that GCHQ used its
surveillance system to secretly monitor visitors to a WikiLeaks
site.
NSA and GCHQ spying on
WikiLeaks 18 Feb 2014 Julian
Assange calls for the appointment of a Special Prosecutor to investigate the
NSA, after documents show US spying on WikiLeaks and its supporters. Today,
documents were published from the national security whistleblower Edward
Snowden, detailing US and UK spying efforts against the publishing organization
WikiLeaks. One document shows that as far back as 2010 the US National Security
Agency added WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to a "MANHUNTING" target list,
together with suspected members of al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh]. Another shows that the
NSA wanted to designate WikiLeaks as a "malicious foreign actor" in order to
expand the NSA's ability to target WikiLeaks staff, associates and supporters.
And a third document, from 2012, demonstrates that the NSA's UK partner GCHQ
also spied on WikiLeaks and its readers.
Discovery SIGINT Targeting Scenarios and
Compliance 18 Feb 2014
(Document)
Bomb attacks kill at
least 24 in Iraq capital 17
Feb 2014 At least 24 people were killed in bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital
late on Monday, including blasts near two Shi'ite Muslim mosques and at a busy
bus station, police and medics said. In Monday's deadliest attack, a minibus
packed with explosives blew up at a bus station in the mainly Shi'ite district
of Ur in northern Baghdad, killing at least 11 people, police and medical
sources said.
US diplomats given
48 hours to leave Venezuela 18 Feb 2014 Venezuela has given three American
'diplomats' from the US Embassy in Caracas 48 hours to exit the country after
President Nicolas Maduro leveled accusations of conspiracy and meeting with
students to incite anti-government sentiment. Following days of [CIA-backed]
opposition protests, three unnamed diplomats were declared persona
non grata by Maduro during a televised address on Sunday night. On Monday,
Venezuela's Minister of Foreign Affairs Elias Jaua announced that the US
diplomats in question were vice consuls Breann Marie McCusker and Jeffrey Elsen,
and Kristofer Lee Clark, who holds the rank of second secretary at the US
consulate.
Tepco took months to
release record strontium readings at Fukushima 13 Feb 2014 The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear
plant knew about record high measurements of a dangerous isotope in groundwater
at the plant for five months before telling the country's nuclear watchdog, a
regulatory official told Reuters. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said late on
Wednesday it detected 5 million becquerels per liter of radioactive strontium-90
in a sample from a groundwater well about 25 meters from the ocean last
September. That reading was more than five times the broader all-beta radiation
reading taken at the same well two months earlier.
Radiation alarm at New Mexico nuclear disposal plant spurs air
shutoff 17 Feb 2014 An alarm late
Friday night indicating higher than usual levels of airborne radiation led to a
first-of-its-kind response at a nuclear disposal facility outside of Carlsbad,
New Mexico, an Energy Department spokesman told CNN. An air monitor at the Waste
Isolation Pilot Plant detected the spike in an isolated area half a mile below
the ground. The incident prompted an immediate shutoff of filtered air from the
facility into the environment around it. "This is the first time we had to close
off air filtered by the facility to the outside," Energy Department spokesman
Gregory Sahd told CNN.
NORAD: 'Several' aircraft violate restricted airspace during
Obama visit 16 Feb 2014 Fighter jets
intercepted several airplanes that entered a restricted flight zone above Rancho
Mirage Saturday during President Barack Obama's visit. None of the airplanes had
proper clearances or communications Saturday afternoon, according to the North
American Aerospace Defense Command. Each plane was intercepted and escorted out
of the area by an F-16 fighter jet, according to NORAD.
'Why were 26 small Christmas Trees behind Sandy Hook Volunteer
Fire Department on 14 Dec. 2012?' --Sandy Hook: Free Homes and 'Big Bucks' Incentives for
Leaders and Players By James H. Fetzer, Ph.D. 17 Feb 2014 Wolfgang
Halbig –- a former Florida State Trooper, former school principal and nationally
recognized expert on school safety -- has brought a new level of expertise
[regarding] Sandy Hook. Halbig asks: "Why were NO trauma Helicopters requested
that morning when lives could have been saved? Why no paramedics or EMTs were
allowed into the school building instead they were told to set up triage? Who
declared all 24 school children and school staff legally dead within the first
11 minutes since only a doctor can do that -- not a police officer -- per CT
state laws? Two children supposedly died at the hospital which it took over an
hour to transport. Why?" ...The fascinating questions that Wolfgang has raised
include, "Why were 26 small Christmas Trees behind the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire
Department on 14 December 2012 and decorated on 15 December 2012?" They do not
have, say, 60 or 100 trees because, if they did, it would be obvious that they
would be having a Christmas tree sale. But instead we see that they have just 26
small trees all by themselves. That would seem to suggest there was a plan to
have 26 "victims" whose deaths were to be observed, but before the event to be
commemorated had taken place.
Bridge scandal: Fort Lee mayor won't cooperate with Chris
Christie lawyers 17 Feb 2014 The
mayor of Fort Lee said today he will not cooperate with lawyers hired by Gov.
Chris Christie's office to [pretend to] investigate the George Washington Bridge
scandal as the legal seesawing over the controversial lane closures continues.
In a letter sent today to Randy Mastro, a former federal prosecutor leading the
governor's legal team, an attorney for Mayor Mark Sokolich declines to have his
client sit for a private interview, or to voluntarily hand over documents
related to the closures. Mastro had requested both in a letter sent more than a
week ago.
Racist photo prompts Phillipsburg High School investigation of
students 17 Feb 2014 A photo of
seven boys believed to be Phillipsburg High School students is under
investigation by the school administration, Superintendent George Chando
confirmed today. The boys in the photo, wearing Phillipsburg school colors and
possible wrestling practice gear, smile and pose with a black wrestling dummy
hung by its neck from the ceiling with athletic climbing rope... The photo
appears to be to have been taken on school property, but Chando did not confirm
that.
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