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News Updates from CLG
11 Jul 2014

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Previous edition: Fukushima radiation 'ice plan' failing to take hold, which Google relegated to the spam bin, of course. Google subscribers: Google Filter Instructions for CLG Newsletter.)

Please share, repost, retweet this one, folks: Google Warns on CLG News: 'Be Careful With This Message,' Removes Every Link in Newsletter Posted by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 11 Jul 2014 In addition to relegating today's CLG Newsletter to the spam bin (which I assumed would happen as I had numerous references to Israel, the NSA, and Fukushima), I received a 'warning' in my own Gmail email account: 'Be careful with this message. It contains content that's typically used to steal personal information.' Additionally, NSAssociate Google removed every link in the email. If this happened to anyone else, please feel free to let me know: lori at legitgov.org, and I will forward you an uncensored version of Friday's CLG Newsletter.

Minor tsunami hits Fukushima area after strong quake --Sea levels cannot be gauged near the Fukushima nuclear plant as the tsunami monitoring system was destroyed in 2011. 12 Jul 2014 A minor tsunami hit large swaths of the Tohoku region early Saturday, including in a city near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, after a strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the country's Pacific coast. There were no immediate reports of damage following the quake and tsunami, however, with authorities lifting all advisories roughly two hours later...On Friday, the crippled plant was skirted by tropical storm Neoguri.

Japan earthquake near Fukushima triggers small tsunami --Powerful quake struck off the coast of Fukushima early Saturday 11 Jul 2014 A strong earthquake hit Japan's northern coast near the nuclear power plant crippled in 2011. The earthquake early Saturday triggered a small tsunami and injured at least one person. Japan's Meteorological Agency said the 6.8-magnitude quake struck 10 kilometres below the sea surface off the coast of Fukushima. The 4:22 a.m. quake shook buildings in Tokyo, about 250 kilometres northwest of the epicentre.

Typhoon Neoguri heads for Fukushima nuclear plant 10 Jul 2014 Typhoon Neoguri, the worst storm to hit Japan in 15 years, is likely to reach areas near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant by Friday morning, forecasters have warned. The site's operator said workers were bracing for the storm, which has been downgraded from a typhoon to a 'severe storm'. The storm's massive downpours present an extra headache for the plant where workers are locked in a daily struggle to contain huge amounts of contaminated water, used to keep the destroyed reactors cool, as well as tainted radioactive groundwater leaking into the sea.

C.D.C. Labs Closed After Anthrax and H5N1 Bird Flu Exposure Accidents --Also, two of six vials of smallpox recently found stored in National Institutes of Health laboratory contained live virus capable of infecting people 11 Jul 2014 After potentially serious back-to-back laboratory accidents, federal health officials announced on Friday that they had temporarily closed the flu and anthrax laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and halted shipments of all infectious agents from the agency's highest-security labs. The accidents, and the C.D.C.'s emphatic response to them, could have important consequences for the many laboratories that store high-risk agents and the few that, even more controversially, specialize in making them more dangerous. In one episode last month, as many as 75 80 C.D.C. employees may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria after potentially infectious samples were sent to laboratories unequipped to handle them. In a second accident, disclosed on Friday, a C.D.C. lab accidentally contaminated a relatively benign flu sample with a dangerous deadly H5N1 bird flu strain that has killed 386 people since 2003.

CDC says it improperly sent dangerous pathogens in five incidents in past decade 11 Jul 2014 Federal government laboratories in Atlanta improperly sent potentially deadly pathogens, including anthrax, botulism bacteria and a virulent bird flu virus, to other laboratories in five separate incidents over the past decade, officials said Friday. The incidents, which raise troubling questions about the government's ability to safely store and transport dangerous microbes, prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to halt operations at its bioterrorism rapid-response lab and an influenza lab and impose a moratorium on any biological material leaving numerous other CDC labs.

Russia ready to extend Snowden's asylum, immigration official says 11 Jul 2014 US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden can expect his request for an extension of his asylum in Russia to be extended in the next few days, an immigration official said Friday. "I see no problems with it," Vladimir Volokh was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. "Snowden's life is still in danger. Therefore, we have a basis to approve his application." Snowden's attorney Anatoly Kucherena said Wednesday that his client had filed a request for an extension with the Russian Migration Service.

'At least 30' Ukrainian military killed as militia shell convoy with Grad rockets 11 Jul 2014 Dozens of Ukraine's government troops have been reportedly killed after local militia shelled pro-Kiev military forces with Grad rocket launchers. President Poroshenko has vowed "killing hundreds" for each deceased soldier. Self-defense troops attacked a Ukrainian military unit at around 5:00am near Zelenopolye village in the Lugansk region, not far from the Russian border, Kiev's officials reported.

Sunni militants break into military base near Baghdad - report 11 Jul 2014 Sunni insurgents entered an army base northeast of Baghdad following fighting with government forces on Thursday, Reuters reported, citing a security source and local official. The base is located in Diyala province on the edge of Muqdadiya town, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad. The insurgents already had control of the northern side of the town before entering the military base.

Kurds seize two Iraqi oilfields and pull out of country's unity government 11 Jul 2014 Armed Kurdish forces seized control of two state-run oilfields on Friday in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk as the Kurdish political bloc withdrew from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government dictatorship, deepening the rift between the Kurds and the PM. Baghdad's national oil ministry has slammed the Kurdish takeover, as Arab workers were replaced with Kurdish employees at sites in Bai Hassan and Kirkuk, saying there would be serious repercussions if they didn't immediately withdraw, reported Reuters.

Man held at Luton airport on suspicion of terrorism 11 Jul 2014 A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism at Luton airport while trying to travel to Turkey. Scotland Yard said the suspect was held on Wednesday afternoon by officers from Bedfordshire police before he got on a flight to Istanbul. He was arrested on suspicion of being involved in the preparation of acts to commit terrorism and taken to a police station in south London, where he is still being questioned.

Ex-Bush lawyer convicted of trying to kill wife 11 Jul 2014 A former White House lawyer in both Bush administrations was convicted Friday of attempted murder and other charges in the beating of his wife at their Connecticut home four years ago. John Michael Farren, 61, who also was once general counsel for Xerox Corp., was allowed to sit out his trial after he said he wouldn't be able to handle the stress of it. But he was in the courtroom Friday when the jury returned guilty verdicts on charges of attempted murder, first-degree assault and risk of injury to a child.

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