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27 Apr 2014

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Pentagon considers assisting Iraqi forces as U.S. sends more intelligence officers 25 Apr 2014 The United States is quietly expanding the number of intelligence officers in Iraq and holding urgent meetings in Washington and Baghdad to find ways to counter growing violence by Islamic militants, U.S. government sources said. A high-level Pentagon team is now in Iraq to assess possible assistance for Iraqi forces in their fight against radical jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a group reconstituted from an earlier incarnation of al Qaeda [al-CIAduh], said two current government officials and one former U.S. official familiar with the matter.

US, UK-run secret jails found in Afghanistan 26 Apr 2014 An Afghan fact-finding committee says it has uncovered secret jails in southern Afghanistan run by US-led foreign forces. The commission, appointed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to probe jails run by US and British forces in the country, made the revelation on Saturday. "We have conducted a thorough investigation and search of Kandahar Airfield and Camp Bastion and found several illegal and unlawful detention facilities run and operated by foreign military forces," said Abdul Shakur Dadras, the head of the committee.

Helicopter crash kills 5 US-led troops in Afghanistan 26 Apr 2014 At least five US-led troops have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan's volatile southern region, sources say. Five US-led service members were killed after their helicopter crashed due to technical failure near the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday, the US-led forces and a provincial official said. The crash happened a few hours after a US drone went down in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar. Taliban militants claimed they had shot down the drone.

Pro-Russian separatists seize control of TV HQ in east Ukraine city --Crowd of 400 people outside chanted 'Russia!' 27 Apr 2014 Pro-Russian separatists on Sunday seized control of the offices of regional state television in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk and said they would take it off air and broadcast a Kremlin-backed Russian channel instead. A Reuters reporter said four separatists in masks, with truncheons and shields, were standing at the entrance to the building controlling access, while more separatists in camouflage fatigues could be seen inside.

Russia questions NATO military buildup near border 26 Apr 2014 The deployment of US and NATO aviation, ships and troops raises concerns, Russia's Chief of General Staff told his American counterpart. In a phone conversation the two also spoke of Russian military exercises and "substantial" Ukrainian troop buildup. "Our concern is caused by an increase of US air force and the American military personnel in the Baltic, Poland, and also the Alliance's ships in the Black Sea," the Defense Ministry said in a statement, quoting General Valery Gerasimov. NATO wargames in Eastern Europe are also "not helping" to normalize the situation, Russia's defense minister Sergey Shoigu said earlier.

Self-defense forces detain OSCE group in eastern Ukraine 25 Apr 2014 Anti-government activists have detained the OSCE observer mission near Slavyansk, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry has said. A protest leader in Slavyansk says they detained a vehicle carrying Ukrainian military, foreign citizens and bullet shells. The OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) military mission working in eastern Ukraine has been detained by a group of "terrorists," Kiev authorities said Friday.

NYT-State Dept 'Russians in Ukraine' image proof collapses 25 Apr 2014 Pictures presented by Washington and Kiev as evidence of Russia's involvement in Ukraine, and published on Monday by the New York Times, were unverified and in fact contradicted the claims they were to support. The US State department acknowledged the error and the New York Times back-tracked on its Monday story, which claimed "photographs and descriptions from eastern Ukraine endorsed by the Obama administration...suggest that many of the green men are indeed Russian military and intelligence forces".

Ecuador expels US military attaches 25 Apr 2014 Ecuador has ordered all 20 defence department employees in the US embassy's military group to leave the country by the end of the month, Associated Press says. The group was ordered to halt operations in Ecuador in a letter dated 7 April, said embassy spokesman Jeffrey Weinshenker. AP was first alerted to the expulsions by a senior Ecuadorean official who refused to be identified by name due to the information's sensitive nature.

US inciting civil war in Venezuela to get its oil - Bolivia's Morales 24 Apr 2014 Washington is pushing Venezuela towards a "civil war" because it wants access to the country's rich oil reserves, Bolivian President Evo Morales has warned. The Venezuelan government has also accused the US of fomenting a coup d’état. Addressing over 3,000 young people at a Latin American Youth Summit in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, Morales branded the US an "empire" with its eye on Venezuelan oil wealth. Morales said that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was blameless in the recent wave of unrest in the country and accused Washington of orchestrating a civil war. [*Exactly.*]

USociopaths trolling for more wars: Obama reminds North Korea of U.S. 'military might' 26 Apr 2014 President Barack Obama said on Saturday the United States did not use its military might to "impose things" on others, but that it would use that might if necessary to defend South Korea from any attack by the reclusive North. The North warned last month it would not rule out a "new form" of atomic test after the U.N. Security Council condemned Pyongyang's launch of a mid-range ballistic missile into the sea east of the Korean peninsula.

North Korea says army must develop to be able to beat U.S. 26 Apr 2014 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged the army to develop to ensure it wins any confrontation with the United States, the reclusive country's news agency said on Sunday, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama warned the North of its military might. Kim led a meeting of the Central Military Commission and "set forth important tasks for further developing the Korean People's Army and ways to do so", KCNA news agency said.

Norwegian flight makes emergency landing after bomb threat 25 Apr 2014 A Norwegian Air Shuttle flight made an emergency landing in the Swedish city of Gothenburg on Friday after a passenger made a bomb threat, Swedish police said. "A passenger said that he had placed a bomb in the cargo area," police said in a statement, adding that the pilot has reported that a "suspicious object" could be onboard. The Oslo-bound Boeing 737 from Copenhagen was carrying 94 people.

Phone Company Bid to Keep Data From N.S.A. Is Rejected --Since 2006, a series of judges on the secret surveillance court have repeatedly ordered companies to participate in program --Identity of co. censored in documents that were made public 26 Apr 2014 A telephone company asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in January to stop requiring it to give records of its cust-mers' calls to the National Security Agency, in light of a ruling by a Federal District Court judge that the N.S.A. program is likely unconstitutional, according to court papers declassified on Friday. But Judge Rosemary M. Collyer, another Federal District Court judge who also sits on the secret surveillance court, rejected the request -- and her colleague's legal analysis -- in a 31-page ruling on March 20, the newly declassified papers show.

FBI Releases Heavily Blacked-Out Sandy Hook Records 24 Apr 2014 The FBI has released about 175 pages of heavily blacked-out documents from the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre investigation. Of the 175 pages released in response to a Courant Freedom of Information request, 64 were completely redacted and most of the other 111 pages were heavily redacted. The names of all witnesses interviewed by federal agents have been removed and there are no references to attempts by federal authorities in Washington, D.C., to recover information from a computer disk that [alleged] shooter Adam Lanza [allegedly] destroyed.

Supreme Court rules anonymous tip is enough to stop driver 23 Apr 2014 In a case from Northern California, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police can pull a driver over based on an anonymous tip that he had forced another motorist off the road - evidence, the court said, that he might be drunk and dangerous. The 5-4 ruling upheld the convictions of two brothers from Mendocino County whose pickup truck was stopped by the California Highway Patrol on state Highway 1 in August 2008 after another driver called 911 to report that the pickup had just run her off the road.

KKK Forms Neighborhood Watch to Complement Police in Pennsylvania Town 22 Apr 2014 After a string of local break ins, a Pennsylvania chapter of one of America's largest hate groups is taking matters into its own hands. On Monday, the Ku Klux Klan established a neighborhood watch to monitor criminal activity in Fairview Township, Pennsylvania. According to the Imperial Wizard, Frank Ancona, the task force was developed to complement existing police efforts -- and people in the town have purportedly called on the KKK to do what local authorities aren't.

New York Republican congressman Grimm to be indicted, lawyer says 25 Apr 2014 Federal prosecutors intend to bring criminal charges against Michael Grimm, a Republican U.S. congressman from New York who has been under investigation for campaign fin-nce violations, his lawyer said on Friday. Attorney William McGinley condemned the expected charges as a "politically driven vendetta" [LOL!] against the congressman, who generated headlines in January when he threatened to throw a television reporter off a balcony after an interview in the U.S. Capitol building.

U.S. Attorney Issues Subpoena to Committee Probing George Washington Bridge Scandal 25 Apr 2014 New Jersey U.S. attorney Paul Fishman has issued a subpoena to a legislative committee investigating the George Washington Bridge closures for its documents pertaining to the matter, a sign that prosecutors are continuing to delve into the issue. The subpoena was issued by prosecutors for "any and all records" produced or obtained by the New Jersey Legislative Select Committee on Investigation in the course of its work, according to a copy viewed by The Wall Street Journal. The two-page subpoena was issued last week, and Democratic and Republican members of the committee were made aware of it Thursday night.

Arkansas Voter ID Law Struck Down 24 Apr 2014 An Arkansas law requiring voters to present government-approved forms of ID was struck down by a state circuit court judge today for being unconstitutional. Last April, the Arkansas legislature overrode its own governor's veto to pass the law, which still allowed voters without ID to cast a provisional vote that would only count if they were later able to provide ID to an official or demonstrate that they were too poor to obtain one. No provisions were included in the law to provide transportation for the people who were too poor to afford an ID. While student IDs from out of state schools were not considered acceptable forms of ID, concealed handgun carry licenses were.

Polar Bears on Thin Ice, Arctic Expedition Finds 22 Apr 2014 An expedition to the islands of Svalbard, Norway, to study how rising temperatures and melting sea ice are affecting polar bears concluded Monday (April 21). Over the 10-day trek, researchers outfitted female bears with satellite tracking collars that will send back data, giving researchers a picture of how shrinking sea ice may be affecting the polar bears' movements and denning patterns.

Global Warming: NASA On Alert as Giant Antarctica Iceberg Breaks Into Ocean --Iceberg is bigger than Chicago 24 Apr 2014 An iceberg bigger than Chicago is being monitored by Nasa after breaking into the ocean off Antarctica. The sheet, known as B31, is one of the biggest on the planet at 255 square miles (660 sq km). Nasa has been monitoring Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier since a crack was spotted in 2011, amid fears any iceberg could contribute to rising sea levels.

Tornados damage 200 homes in North Carolina 26 Apr 2014 Residents, meteorologists and emergency officials in eastern North Carolina were surveying the damage Saturday from multiple tornadoes that damaged more than 200 homes the previous day and sent more than a dozen people to the emergency room. The National Weather Service said Saturday that it confirmed an EF-3 tornado touched down in Beaufort County with winds estimated at 150 mph. It's the latest in the season that an EF-3 tornado or stronger has been recorded since records going back to 1950.

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