News Updates from
CLG22 Feb 2014
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100 tonnes of highly radioactive water leak from Fukushima
nuclear plant 20 Feb 2014 Around 100
tonnes of highly radioactive water have leaked from a storage tank at Japan's
Fukushima nuclear plant, operator Tokyo Electric (Tepco) says. The toxic radioactive water may have
overflowed after a valve was left open by mistake, Tepco said. The latest leak
is the most serious since August, when the plant leaked 300 tonnes of water,
prompting Japan's nuclear agency to raise the incident's alert level. The water
from Wednesday's leak was radioactive, with a reading of 230 million becquerels
per litre of radioactive isotopes, Tepco spokesman Masayuki Ono told
reporters.
N.M. Nuclear Waste Site Stays Closed After Radiation Leak
Plugged 21 Feb 2014 A radiation leak
at a nuclear waste storage site below the New Mexico desert has been plugged,
but the facility will remain closed for at least the next three weeks, officials
said late Thursday. The facility near Carlsbad was cleared last Friday when an
underground air-monitoring alarm went off, indicating unsafe concentrations of
radiation inside the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). "Any type of release
outside of the facility or inside the facility is unacceptable and is
disconcerting," said Ryan Flynn, an official at the New Mexico Environment
Department. "From the state's perspective, one event is far too
many."
CIA Agent Captured in Ukraine Helping
Protesters 20 Feb 2014 A CIA agent
has allegedly been captured in the Ukraine, as shown in the video. The Special Activities Division (SAD) is a division in the United
States Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) National Clandestine Service (NCS),
responsible for covert operations known as "special activities". Within SAD
there are two separate groups, SAD/SOG for tactical paramilitary operations and
SAD/PAG for covert political action. Special Operations Group (SOG) is the
department within SAD responsible for operations that include the collection of
intelligence in hostile countries and regions, and all high threat military or
intelligence operations with which the U.S. government does not wish to be
overtly associated. As such, members of the unit (called Paramilitary Operations
Officers and Specialized Skills Officers) normally do not carry any objects or
clothing (i.e., military uniforms) that would associate them with the US
government.
Ukraine peace deal halts violence but 'crowds' still
angry 21 Feb 2014 A breakthrough
peace deal for Ukraine halted two days of violence that had turned the center of
the capital into a war zone and killed 77 people, bringing sweeping political
change that met many demands of the pro-European opposition. Russian-backed
President Viktor Yanukovich agreed to give up powers, hold early elections and
form a government of national unity. Parliament voted for changes to the legal
code that could see the release of Yanukovich's jailed rival, opposition leader
Yulia Tymoshenko. By nightfall, opposition leaders who signed the deal were
addressing peaceful crowds from a stage in Independence Square, which for the
previous 48 hours had been an inferno of blazing barricades and [CIA-backed]
protesters were shot dead by police snipers.
Russia's Lavrov slams EU and US for double standards on
Ukraine 20 Feb 2014 While the EU
continues to discuss possible sanctions against Ukraine and measures that could
be used to put pressure on Ukrainian officials, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
delivered a speech for the European Union and the United States, presenting a
whole bouquet of accusations to the West. "Our Western partners - in Europe and
the U.S. - blame the authorities of the country for everything. They do not
qualify the actions of extremists the way they should be qualified. This
concerns Russia a lot," Lavrov said at a news conference in Baghdad. "What we
have here is double standards, and instead they threaten with sanctions, and not
only threaten - the Americans have already imposed them, having thereby created
an additional incentive for the opposition to stand firm," Russian Foreign
Minister said.
Ukraine: sick fascist filth and gangland violence as political
opposition --'The Western media is
playing along as a propaganda tool for those behind the scenes.' 20 Feb 2014
With the release of a recent conversation between the US Ambassador to Ukraine
and Victoria Nuland plotting the downfall of the current legitimate elected
government in Kiev, it is clear who is behind the attempted coup in Ukraine.
US backed "activists" with sniper rifles and handguns are openly firing
on police -- something that would not be tolerated anywhere in the world, but
which is being portrayed by western leaders as being legitimate opposition
protest behavior.
Tweet by Nikola Mirkovic on Ukraine situation 'says it
all' 20 Feb 2014 Nikola Mirkovic
@1NikolaMirkovic - The 5
step Western plan 1. Provoke havoc 2. Send CNN 3. Destroy country 4. Change
regime 5. Sell country to the banks #Ukraine
U.S. seeks new bases for drones targeting militants in
Pakistan 16 Feb 2014 The Obama
administration is making contingency plans to use air bases in Central Asia to
conduct drone missile attacks in northwest Pakistan in case the White House is
forced to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan at the end of this year,
according to U.S. officials. American officials refused to say whether they are
seeking permission to base CIA drones in Tajikistan, which allows the U.S. to
ship military equipment and supplies through its territory. Officials say a new
jet-powered drone, called the Predator C, or Avenger, could figure in plans to
use bases outside Afghanistan.
Lawsuit brings to light secrecy statements required by
KBR 19 Feb 2014 One of the nation's
largest government contractors requires employees seeking to report fraud to
sign internal confidentiality statements barring them from speaking to
anyone about their allegations, including government investigators and
prosecutors, according to a complaint filed Wednesday and corporate documents
obtained by The Washington Post. Attorneys for a whistleblower suing Halliburton
Co. and its former subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root, said the statements
violate the federal False Claims Act and other laws designed to shield
whistleblowers... Tim McCormack, a lawyer who specializes in whistleblower
cases, said that he has seen numerous confidentiality agreements but that the
one used by KBR is particularly stark because it threatens employees with
termination and possible legal action if they speak out.
IED Shockwaves Inject Hidden Damage in Troops, Study
Claims 13 Feb 2014 Tens of thousands
of American combat veterans, many seemingly uninjured, carry higher risks of
developing neurological disorders -- and perhaps future organ ailments -- simply
because they were "exposed" to IED shockwaves, the Institute of Medicine
reported Thursday. As the signature weapon in Iraq and Afghanistan, the
improvised explosive device sends blast waves through the bodies of people even
hundreds of yards from the detonation, leaving some nearby outwardly unharmed
but disrupting their molecules and inner tissues. Years later, such changes
could lead to adverse symptoms, according to a new IOM study.
Feds green-light 2 more solar projects in Ivanpah Valley; over
2,000 desert tortoises in jeopardy
19 Feb 2014 The U.S. Interior Department announced Wednesday it was approving
two large solar projects in the Mojave Desert that may displace or harm more
than 2,000 desert tortoises. In a formal Record of Decision issued February 19,
Interior approved two projects on more than six square miles of public land in
California and Nevada for the Stateline and Silver State South solar projects,
which the Arizona-based firm First Solar wants to build near the Mojave National
Preserve south of Las Vegas. According to an assessment of the projects
released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2013, the two
projects are expected to displace, injure, or kill up to 2,115 federally
Threatened desert tortoises. Most of the mortalities will happen to
young tortoises and will likely be killed without even being detected,
the agency noted.
Emails link Scott Walker to secret email
system 19 Feb 2014 Thousands of
documents unsealed Wednesday link Gov. Scott Walker to a secret email system
used in his office that would avoid public scrutiny when he was Milwaukee County
executive. The records also show that on the day before he was elected governor
in 2010, the secret investigation into links between Walker's county government
staff and his political campaign was widened to include four more aides. That
same day, search warrants were executed on Walker's campaign and county offices,
as well as the homes of some of his assistants.
Arizona 'anti-gay' bill sparks
protests in two cities 21 Feb 2014
Protests have been held in Arizona against the state's passage of a bill
allowing business owners to refuse service to gays on religious grounds.
Hundreds rallied for demonstrations in the cities of Phoenix and Tucson, a day
after the bill was approved. Republican Governor Jan Brewer has not yet said if
she will sign the bill into law. Similar legislation has been introduced in
seven other US states, but Arizona is the only one to pass it.
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