NSA whistleblower was witness to 9/11 foreknowledge, Republicans derail Veterans Affairs bill in Senate et al

News Updates from CLG01 Mar 2014

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Breaking: Russian senators vote to use stabilizing military forces on Ukrainian territory 01 Mar 2014 Russia's Federation Council has unanimously approved President Vladimir Putin's request to use Russian military forces in Ukraine. The move is aimed to settle the turmoil in the split country. The upper house of the Russian parliament has voted in favor of sending troops to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which would ensure peace and order in the region "until the socio-political situation in the country is stabilized."

Thousands protest against new govt in eastern Ukraine, raise Russian flags 01 Mar 2014 Thousands of pro-Russian demonstrators across eastern Ukraine and Crimea are protesting against the new government, with administration buildings being seized in several cities. Gunshots have been reported as anti- and pro-Maidan protesters clash. Protesters in Kharkov and Donetsk stormed local government offices and removed Ukrainian flags, replacing them with the Russian tricolor on Saturday. Between 7,000 to 10,000 demonstrators gathered in the center of Donetsk, a large industrial city in eastern Ukraine.

Obama warns Russia against intervention in Ukraine [Right, only USociopaths are allowed to do that.] 28 Feb 2014 President Barack Obama warned Russia on Friday that any military intervention in Ukraine would lead to unspecified "costs," and expressed deep concern about reports of Russian military movements inside Ukraine. Obama made a hastily arranged appearance in the White House briefing room to try to head off Russia after reports that armed men had taken over two airports in the Crimea region of southern Ukraine. "We are now deeply concerned by reports of military movements taken by the Russian Federation inside of Ukraine," he told reporters. Obama said any violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity would be "deeply destabilizing."

Pierre Omidyar co-funded Ukraine revolution groups with US government, documents show 28 Feb 2014 Pando has confirmed that the American government -- in the form of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) -- played a major role in funding opposition groups prior to the [Ukrainian] revolution. Moreover, a large percentage of the rest of the funding to those same groups came from a US billionaire who has previously worked closely with US government agencies to further his own business interests. What's shocking is the name of the billionaire who co-invested with the US government - Pierre Omidyar. Yes, in the annals of independent media, this might be the strangest twist ever: According to financial disclosures and reports seen by Pando, the founder and publisher of Glenn Greenwald's government-bashing blog, "The Intercept," co-invested with the US government to help fund regime change in Ukraine.

'US, EU staged classic regime change in Ukraine' 25 Feb 2014 The EU and US have carried out a classic coup d'état in Ukraine using ultra-right forces as human material, anti-war activist Brian Becker told RT. And cementing that victory with an IMF aid package would place Ukraine on a Greek path into Europe... BB: Well the [EU-US] aid package comes because the United States and the EU have staged what is really a classic coup d'état ousting the elected government in Ukraine and carrying out the regime change which we felt was their agenda from the beginning ever since November when the EU gave Ukraine an ultimatum: "Are you with the EU, are you going to integrate into the EU -- which of course eventually means integration into NATO -- or are you with Russia?" ...A classic coup d'état has taken place. A rump session of parliament has ousted the existing, constitutionally-elected president. And now there is a reign of terror by semi-fascist and ultra-right groups against others.

Baghdad motorbike blast, other attacks kill 52 in Iraq 27 Feb 2014 At least 52 people were killed Wednesday as a motorcycle rigged with explosives detonated in Baghdad's Sadr City and militants targeted mostly Shi'ite neighborhoods around the country. The motorcycle was parked in a second-hand bike market in the Shi'ite Muslim neighborhood that was filled with people, mostly young men, when it exploded late Thursday afternoon, killing 31 and wounding 51 others, Iraqi medical and police sources said.

More trouble hits TEPCO's radioactive water 'cleanup' system 28 Feb 2014 The troubled radioactive water cleanup system at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was hit by a new problem Wednesday, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. An alarm went off at about 12:20 p.m. warning of a problem in one of the three lines of the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS), TEPCO officials said. The system is designed to remove most radioactive material from water used to cool damaged reactors at the power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ --1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone 27 Feb 2014 Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal. GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not. In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery -- including substantial quantities of [off-color] communications -- from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.

NSA whistleblower was witness to 9/11 foreknowledge 27 Feb 2014 In this video, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange talks to former NSA senior executive turned whistleblower, Thomas Drake. Drake speaks about 9/11 foreknowledge in which the NSA had information that, if shared, could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. The NSA whistleblower discusses his own personal story and describes a inspiring conversation he had with Edward Snowden.

FBI had placed 'high echelon source' in direct contact with bin Laden, hid from 9/11 Commission 26 Feb 2014 Several years before Al Qaeda the Bush regime launched its most devastating attack on the United States, in 2001, the FBI recruited a "high echelon source" with access to the likes of Osama bin Laden, according to newly cited testimony by FBI officials in a years-old discrimination lawsuit against the agency. On Wednesday, though, U.S. law enforcement sources were looking into a report in the The Washington Times and then elsewhere that the FBI had actively placed the source in direct contact with bin Laden and hid that fact from both the 9/11 Commission and congressional investigators. In fact, testimony in the lawsuit indicates the source had already met with bin Laden by the time an FBI agent recruited him.

FBI had human source in contact with bin Laden as far back as 1993 --U.S. learned of plans to finance terror attacks 26 Feb 2014 In a revelation missing from the official investigations of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the FBI placed a human source in direct contact with Osama bin Laden in 1993 and ascertained that the al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] leader was looking to finance terrorist attacks in the United States, according to court testimony in a little-noticed employment dispute case... "It was the only source I know in the bureau where we had a source right in al Qaeda, directly involved," Edward J. Curran, a former top official in the FBI's Los Angeles office, told the court in support of a discrimination lawsuit filed against the bureau by his former agent Bassem Youssef. Mr. Curran gave the testimony in 2010 to an essentially empty courtroom, and thus it escaped notice from the media or terrorism specialists.

'Traffic is a nightmare': Bridge scandal audio tapes reveal growing gridlock in Fort Lee 28 Feb 2014 Newly released 911 and police radio tapes reveal that on the first morning of the controversial George Washington Bridge lane closures last year, officers and emergency responders in Fort Lee were grappling with city-wide traffic gridlock. At 8:52 a.m. on Sept. 9, a dispatcher warned paramedics leaving a hospital about coming to the Bergen County borough. "Fort Lee traffic is a nightmare," the dispatcher said... At 9:02 a.m., a police officer was trying to help an ambulance plot ways to avoid inbound traffic.

Bridge scandal: Christie's press secretary meets with federal prosecutors 27 Feb 2014 Gov. Chris Christie's longtime spokesman and current press secretary, Michael Drewniak, met with federal prosecutors in New Jersey for "several hours" today to answer questions about his role in the September lane closings at the George Washington Bridge, his attorney said. Drewniak is the first member of Christie's inner circle to acknowledge meeting with federal authorities since an e-mail emerged linking a senior aide to the governor, Bridget Anne Kelly, to the decision to close the lanes, which caused massive traffic jams. It's unclear whether any other members of the governor's office have also been interviewed.

Republicans derail Veterans Affairs bill in Senate 27 Feb 2014 A broad Veterans Affairs bill that would have expanded benefits for former service members and repealed a military pension cut for future troops was rejected in the Senate on Thursday. The measure, sponsored by Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), did not garner enough Republican votes to waive a VA spending limit established under the budget Congress and President Obama approved in December. The measure was four votes shy of a [GOP-imposed] 60-vote threshold required for it to have advanced.

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