News Updates from CLG
10 Jun 2014
10 Jun 2014
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NYU Not Delivering CLG Newsletter Since 3
June By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 09 Jun 2014 New
York University has apparently decided to no longer deliver the CLG Newsletter.
Odd how this blockade was implemented shortly after CLG included some highly
critical news summaries about John Sexton and his international slave labor construction
ring. CLG will endeavor to rectify this
problem. In the meantime, NYU subscribers have been bcc'd, so that they can
receive the newsletter
Breaking:
Eric Cantor succumbs to tea party challenger
Tuesday 10 Jan 2014 In a stunning
upset propelled by tea party activists, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor
(R-Va.) was defeated in Tuesday's congressional primary, with insurgent David
Brat delivering an unpredicted and devastating loss to the second most powerful
Republican in the House who has widely been touted as a future speaker. The race
called shortly after 8 p.m. Eastern by the Associated Press.
War Gear Flows to Police Departments That Already Look and Act
Like Military Units 08 Jun 2014 As
President Obama ushers in the end of what he called America's "long season of
war," the former tools of combat - M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and
more - are ending up in local police departments, often with little public
notice. During the Obama administration, according to Pentagon data, police
departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000
ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision
equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft. The equipment
has been added to the armories of police departments that already look and act
like military units. Police SWAT teams are now deployed tens of thousands of
times each year, increasingly for routine jobs.
Mission accomplished! Insurgents seize
Iraq's 2nd-largest city 10 Jun 2014
In a stunning assault that exposed Iraq's eroding central authority,
al-Qaida[al-CIAduh]-inspired militants overran much of Mosul on Tuesday, seizing
government buildings, pushing out security forces and capturing military
vehicles as thousands of residents fled the second-largest city. The rampage by
the black banner-waving insurgents was a heavy defeat for Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki as he tries to hold onto power, and highlighted the growing strength
of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Russia launches Baltic drills alongside NATO Saber Strike war
games 10 Jun 2014 The Baltic Sea and
skies are getting crowded as Russia launches military training of its assault
forces in the exclave of Kaliningrad in answer to the double war-games being
conducted by joint NATO forces on the territory of the three Baltic States.
NATO's decision to conduct dual war games next to Russian borders in the Baltic
has not been left unaddressed by Russia's Defense Ministry, which prepared a
surprise training of first strike forces - marines, paratroopers and long-range
bombers - right in the backyard of the NATO military maneuvers. "We conduct
military training simultaneously with the international war games that have
started in Europe, Saber Strike-2014 and BALTOPS-2014," said the ministry's
press service.
Tanks, troops, jets: NATO countries launch full-scale war
games in Baltic 09 Jun 2014 A major
military exercise kicked off in Latvia, with 10 NATO member countries
participating. The war games involve 4,700 troops and 800 military vehicles.
Russia sees NATO's military build-up as a sign of aggression. The Saber Strike
ground forces exercise is being conducted for the fourth time this year and
coincides with Baltic Host 2014 and Baltops 2014 naval drills. Troops from the
US, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Norway and the
UK are taking part.
U.S. Air Force sends two B-2 stealth bombers to Europe as show
of force to Russia 09 Jun 2014 The
U.S. Air Force has further beefed up its bomber presence in Europe, deploying
two B-2 stealth bombers for military exercises in the region, according to Air
Force Times. The aircraft are assigned to the 509th Bomb Wing out of Whiteman
Air Force Base, Missouri. On Sunday, they joined three B-52 Stratofortress
aircraft already deployed to RAF Fairford, a British air base west of
London.
Five U.S. special operations soldiers killed by friendly fire
in Afghanistan after air support accidentally drops bombs on
them --Strategic B-1
bomber reportedly dropped its payload on soldiers --Fox News: Aircraft in
question is a B-1 Lancer, a strategic Cold War-era bomber that can carry a
payload of up to 125,000 pounds of explosives. 10 Jun 2014 Five
American special operations troops have been killed in southern Afghanistan
after a U.S. bomber accidentally bombed their positions when they called in for
air support on Monday night. One Afghan soldier was also killed in the incident
- which is being called the deadliest friendly-fire attack of the 13-year war in
Afghanistan. The soldiers were leading a security operation with Afghan National
Army troops in southern Zabul Province when they came under attack from Taliban
fighters and called in for an airstrike. However, instead of bombing the
insurgents, the NATO aircraft dropped its payload on the Americans, authorities
believe.
Japan underreports 80 nuclear bombs worth of plutonium to
IAEA [Can you imagine the
uproar if *Syria* did this?] 08 Jun 2014 Japan has failed to mention
having about 640 kg (1,411 lbs) of unused plutonium in reports it submitted to
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2012 and 2013. The unreported
amount is enough to make about 80 nuclear bombs. The missing 640 kilograms Japan
kept as Mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, a plutonium-uranium mixture that could be burned
in a reactor. It was found in an offline reactor in a nuclear plant in Saga
Prefecture in the southern Japanese town of Genkai. The MOX fuel was loaded into
the No. 3 reactor of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear plant in March
2011 during its regular checkup, shortly before the Fukushima Nuclear disaster
happened later that month.
U.S. Government Ties El Salvador Aid Package to Monsanto's GMO
Seeds 08 Jun 2014 The President of
the El Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technologies (CESTA), Ricardo Navarro,
has demanded that the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Mari Carmen Aponte, stops
pressurizing the Government of El Salvador to buy Monsanto's
[deadly] GM seeds rather than non-GMO seeds from domestic
suppliers. "I would like to tell the U.S. Ambassador to stop pressuring the
Government (of El Salvador) to buy 'improved' GM seeds," said Navarro, which is
only of benefit to U.S. multinationals and is to the detriment of local seed
production, Verdad Digital reported last week. In recent weeks, the U.S. has been pushing the El
Salvadoran Government to sign the second Millennium Challenge Compact. One of
the main conditions on the agreement is allegedly for the purchasing of GM seeds
from Monsanto.
Florida man guilty in alleged Tampa attack plot after buying
weapons from undercover FBI agent 10
Jun 2014 A Florida man who bought weapons
from an undercover FBI agent and planned to blow up popular
Tampa entertainment areas was found guilty on Tuesday and faces life in prison.
A jury found Sami Osmakac, 27, guilty of attempting to use weapons of mass
destruction and possessing an unregistered automatic firearm. Sentencing is
scheduled for Oct. 7. "The jury's verdict in this case represents another
victory in our fight against terrorism," U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley said in a
press release.
Oregon high school shooting: 'This is not a
drill' ['Drill gone
live'] --One student and the suspected gunman are dead; a teacher suffered
non-life-threatening injuries. 10 Jun 2014 When the shooting started at
her high school near Portland, Oregon, early Tuesday, student Jaimie Infante
didn't recognize the sound of the gunshot... In reality, a lone gunman [despite
the myriad accounts from *numerous students* asserting that there were two
shooters, once again the story morphs into the 'lone gunman' scenario] had
opened fire at the school, killing one student and forcing others to flee. An
assistant principal told students to go into lockdown mode. "At the end he said:
'This is not a drill,'" Infante told CNN.
Shooter at Oregon high school is dead:
police 10 Jun 2014 A person
suspected of opening fire at an Oregon high school was dead on Tuesday after the
school was placed on lockdown and students were evacuated following reports of
gunfire, law enforcement officials said. Gunfire had been reported at Reynolds
High School in Troutdale, north of Portland, a police official for the city
said. "All I know is there is a shooting at the high school," the official said.
The Multnomah County Sheriff's Department said in a Twitter message that the
shooter was dead and that the situation had been stabilized, but it gave no
further details.
Gunman, student dead after shooting at Oregon high school,
authorities say 10 Jun 2014
Authorities in Oregon say a gunman entered a high school outside of Portland
Tuesday morning and fatally shot a student before he was killed himself. The
Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that the situation is
stabilized at Reynolds High School in Troutdale. Scott Anderson, the chief of
the Troutdale Police Department, confirmed the deaths...Authorities did not say
how the shooter died.
Las Vegas Shooters 'Were White
Supremacists' 09 Jun 2014 The
married couple who fatally shot two Las Vegas police officers and a civilian
before killing themselves shared white supremacist ideologies, authorities say.
Jerad Miller and his wife Amanda Miller placed a note, revolutionary yellow
"Don't Tread On Me" flag and a swastika on the officers' bodies, assistant
sheriff Kevin McMahill said. He said the couple viewed law enforcement as the
"oppressor".
Tepco Hires U.S. Company to Filter Radioactive Water Stored at
Fukushima 09 Jun 2014 Tokyo Electric
Power Co. will deploy a second system to strip a dangerous [radioactive] isotope
from water stored at its wrecked Fukushima nuclear facility, as it struggles to
overcome problems with its existing water processor. The utility known as Tepco
has signed a contract with Kurion Inc. to remove strontium from about 400,000
metric tons of radioactive water stored at Fukushima using truck-mounted
filters, the Irvine, California-based company said in a statement today...The
system is designed to remove strontium, linked to bone cancer, and 61 other
isotopes from water contaminated by contact with highly radioactive reactor
fuel.
NC, VA sign deal with Duke Energy for Dan River
cleanup 09 Jun 2014 Environmental
and wildlife officials in North Carolina and Virginia have signed an agreement
with Duke Energy for the cleanup of toxic coal ash from the Dan River, which
flows through the two states. The agreement signed Monday requires Duke to pay
any cost associated with the Feb. 2 spill at its power plant near Eden, which
coated 70 miles of the river in gray sludge. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
is also a party to the deal.
Quick action: Stop the Northern Gateway Pipeline 09 Jun 2014 (NRDC) Canada's federal government is about to
decide whether or not to approve the Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline, which
threatens to destroy the coastal rainforest home of the Spirit Bear and First
Nations communities that have thrived there for thousands of years. Tell British
Columbia Premier Christy Clark to reject the pipeline and save the spectacular
Spirit Bear Coast!
BP Troll Jindal Signs
Bill Blocking Lawsuits Against Oil and Gas Companies 06 Jun 2014 Rejecting
the advice of his own attorney general and dozens of legal
scholars, Louisiana governor and potential presidential
contender Bobby Jindal (R-Obviously) effectively blocked a New Orleans-area
levee board from suing oil and gas companies for allegedly destroying the
state's coasts – and in so doing, may have also derailed state and local
claims against BP for damages and tax revenue lost following the 2010
Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Don Briggs, president of the Louisiana Oil
& Gas Association, was also quoted in the statement distributed by
the governor's office, hailing the measure as a "huge victory for the oil and
gas industry." The law, SB 469, essentially bars a levee district in New
Orleans' East Bank – the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, or SLFPA-E – from pressing forward in its lawsuit against 97
oil and gas companies.
Audit shows 100,000 U.S. veterans face long waits for
healthcare 09 Jun 2014 More than
100,000 veterans are experiencing waits of more than 90 days for appointments at
medical centers run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, according to an
internal audit released by the troubled agency on Monday. The survey revealed
that a scandal over cover-ups of long wait times at VA clinics, during which
some veterans are alleged to have died, was broader and deeper than initially
thought...The agency said staff at 76 percent of facilities surveyed reported
that they were instructed to misrepresent appointment data at least
once.
GOP has taken control of Va.
Senate, forced Democrats to cave over Medicaid impasse 09 Jun 2014 Virginia Republicans snatched control of
the state Senate on Monday, immediately ended a budget stalemate by forcing
Democrats to agree to pass a spending plan without Medicaid expansion -- and
saddled Gov. Terry McAuliffe with a General Assembly fully in the hands of a
party fiercely opposed to his agenda. The power shift forced [sic] Senate
Democrats to cave in a protracted budget-and-Medicaid battle that had threatened
to shut down state government in less than a month. DemocRATic budget negotiators sycophants emerged from
a closed-door meeting Monday saying they
had agreed pass a budget without expanding health coverage to 400,000 low-income
Virginians -- McAuliffe's top priority. [Democrats
weren't 'forced' to cave - they just do, because they're
*spineless.*]
Va. lawmaker to resign, paving way for jobs for self,
daughter, according to associates 08
Jun 2014 Republicans appear to have outmaneuvered Gov. Terry McAuliffe in a
state budget standoff by persuading a Democratic senator to resign his seat, at
least temporarily giving the GOP control of the chamber and possibly dooming the
governor's push to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Sen. Phillip
P. Puckett (D-Russell) will announce his resignation Monday, effective
immediately, paving the way to appoint his daughter to a judgeship and Puckett
to the job of deputy director of the state tobacco commission, three people
familiar with the plan said Sunday. The news prompted outrage among Democrats -
and accusations that Republicans were trying to buy the Senate with job offers
in order to thwart McAuliffe's proposal to expand health coverage to 400,000
low-income Virginians. Del. Scott A. Surovell (D-Fairfax) said Republicans were
unable to win the policy argument about Medicaid expansion, so they have
resorted to other means [aka bribery].
Chris Christie's record on civil liberties blasted in ACLU
report card 09 Jun 2014 Gov. Chris
Christie deserves only a D+ grade for the way his administration has handled
citizens' rights during his first term, according to a report card released
today by the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. The
report, which grades Christie in 12 categories, slams the Republican governor
for his record... It also accuses Christie - a potential 2016 presidential
candidate - of frequently making sweeping statements in support of civil
liberties but rarely following through.
Orphaned baby rhino snuggles up to keepers and won't sleep
alone after witnessing his mother's brutal killing --At the current rate of killing, it's
predicted the species could be extinct in the wild by 2026. 09 Jun 2014
Poignant new footage captures an orphaned baby rhinoceros seeking solace from
its keeper. Four-month-old Gertjie is seen nuzzling a female member of staff
from the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre in South Africa with his nose. In
a bid to get closer to her, the thick-skinned creature rolls down on to the
floor and affectionately lays his head on her lap...The adult rhino had been
brutally murdered by poachers for her horn. Staff at the Hoedspruit Endangered
Species Centre said it was a devastating sight finding Gertjie as the tiny
animal wouldn't leave his mother's side and was 'crying inconsolably' for her.
[Heroes need to *open fire* on poachers and hunters - it's the only way
to stop the terrorists.]
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