News Updates from CLG
29 August 2014
29 August 2014
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Lockdown in Cardiff: City turned into high security 'prison'
with 10 mile 'ring of steel' ahead of Nato conference 27 Aug 2014 Cardiff city centre has been turned into a high
security 'prison' with 10 miles of fencing - which is being dubbed the 'ring of
steel' - ahead of the Nato conference next week. Police have erected the nine
feet high security fencing around Celtic Manor resort in Newport where Barack
Obama, David Cameron and other world leaders will meet in Wales on September 4
and 5, as well as the city centre. It comes as former foreign office minister,
Kim Howells, issued fears that home grown Islamic State terrorists could be
planning to attack the 2014 summit.
Former MI6 counter-terrorism chief warns against rush to
overhaul UK laws 25 Aug 2014 Britain
should resist a rush to overhaul its fundamental legal principles in the face of
an "unproven threat" from homegrown militants fighting in Syria and Iraq, the
former global counter-terrorism director of MI6 has said. In an interview with
the Guardian, Richard Barrett criticised government plans for new laws to tackle
British extremists and warned against Boris Johnson's suggestion that Britons
who travel to Iraq or Syria should be presumed guilty of involvement in
terrorism unless they can prove their innocence...In a newspaper column
described as "draconian" by the former attorney general, Johnson called for
British jihadists to lose their citizenship, proposed the return of control
orders and urged David Cameron to intervene against Islamic State (Isis)
militarily. The home secretary, Theresa May, said last week that banning orders for extremist groups would be considered
again -- even if they "fall short of the legal threshold for terrorist
proscription" -- alongside powers to stop radical
preachers.
Activist website Indymedia shuts down after police
raid --The Bristol
site is 'now officially closed for good' following the police raid. 28
Aug 2014 (UK) Police accessed servers belonging to the Bristol branch of
activist news website Indymedia in a move that later 'forced organisers to close
it down'. The raid is believed to be the latest effort in the long pursuit of
the "Bristol unabomber". A copy of the production order, marked restricted but
seen by The Times, authorises officers to seize "special
procedure" journalistic material.
Al Qaeda magazine hints of imminent attack; urges bombing of
military targets, oil tankers 28 Aug
2014 A new English-language Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] magazine features a how-to
article on making car bombs and suggests terror targets in the United States,
including casinos in Las Vegas, oil tankers and military colleges, and implies
that an attack is imminent. The online publication [likely produced in
Langley, Virginia], called "Palestine-Betrayal of the Guilty Conscience
Al-Malahem" and put out by the media arm of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,
or AQAP, calls for Muslims around the world to follow "the recipe" provided to
set off car bombs in crowded venues...There is a suggested list of targets for
lone-wolf, or individually executed, terror attacks, including New York's Times
Square, casinos and night clubs in Las Vegas, oil tankers and trains, the
Georgia Military College, the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, and
General Atomics defense contractor in San Diego.
US intelligence: 300
Americans fighting alongside Islamic State [Yeah, that would be their handlers.] 27 Aug 2014
The United States government is tracking as many as 300 Americans supposedly
fighting with Islamic State, the jihadist group with a heavy presence in parts
of Syria and Iraq, according to senior US officials. Washington is worried that
radicalized foreign fighters could become a risk to the US if they return to
employ skills learned overseas to carry out attacks, anonymous US officials
said, according to the Washington Times. "We know that there are several hundred
American passport holders running around with ISIS in Syria or Iraq," a senior
US official said.
Second American killed fighting for
ISIS 28 Aug 2014 A second American
from the Minneapolis area has been killed while fighting for the Islamic State
of of Iraq and Syria, according to family and friends. The death follows that of
Douglas McCain, an American who grew up in Minnesota. McCain, 33, was killed
while fighting for ISIS in Syria over the weekend. According to jihadist tweets
and social media, the second American was not killed in Syria but was killed in
Iraq on or around August 17.
American killed fighting for Isis, White House
confirms 26 Aug 2014 An American
fighting for the Islamic State was killed over the weekend in Syria, US
officials have said. The United States had been aware that Douglas McCain, 33, a
one-time aspiring rapper and basketball fan from California, was in Syria, the
White House said, confirming his death. McCain, who converted from Christianity
to Islam about a decade ago, was killed in fighting against the al-Nusra Front,
a group linked to al-Qaida [al-CIAduh] and blacklisted by the United States, US
media reports said.
Video of James Foley beheading 'may have been
staged' 25 Aug 2014 A film
purporting to show the beheading of James Foley was probably staged, according
to a forensic science company, which suggests the American journalist's
execution may have been carried out off-camera. A blip in the footage, released
on social media last week by Islamic State militants, indicated that Foley may
have had to repeat a line as he read a script to camera while kneeling in the
sand with his hands tied. The footage was most likely edited later using "slick
post-production techniques", according to the analysis for The Times in London by an unnamed international
forensic science company that has worked for police forces across Britain, the
news organisation claimed.
U.S. relies on Persian Gulf bases for airstrikes in
Iraq 26 Aug 2014 The U.S. military
is relying on bases in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere in the Middle East to
carry out airstrikes in Iraq, but is masking the locations and other details
about the units and aircraft involved to avoid embarrassing partners [aka other
terrorists] in the region. The Persian Gulf monarchies have long hosted U.S.
forces to bolster their own security. But most have shied away from
acknowledging the American presence and are even more reluctant now with U.S.
warplanes bombing Iraq.
On Behalf of Monsanto: GMO Food Crops for Ukraine's Bread
Basket --The Role of
Public Relations Firm Hill and Knowlton 24 Aug 2014 On July 28, the
California-based Oakland Institute released a report revealing that the World
Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under terms of their 17 billion
lo-n to Ukraine, would open that country to genetically-modified (GM) crops and
genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture...The U.S.-Ukraine Business
Council's 16-member Executive Committee is packed with U.S. agribusiness
companies [terrorists], including representatives from Monsanto, John Deere,
DuPont Pioneer, Eli Lilly, and Cargill. The Council's twenty "senior Advisors"
include James Greene (Former Head of NATO Liason Office Ukraine); Ariel Cohen
(Senior Research Fellow for The Heritage Foundation); Leonid Kozachenko
(President of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation); six former U.S. Ambassadors
to Ukraine, and the former ambassador of Ukraine to the U.S., Oleh Shamshur.
Shamshur is now a senior advisor to PBN Hill + Knowlton Strategies – a unit of
PR giant Hill + Knowlton Strategies (H+K). H + K is a subsidiary of the
gargantuan London-based WPP Group, which owns some dozen big PR firms, including
Burson-Marsteller (a long-time Monsanto advisor).
Swiss President Says Concerned With US Plan to Supply Nuclear
Fuel to Ukraine 28 Aug 2014 Swiss
President and Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE Didier Burkhalter shared
Russia's concern over nuclear security due to US intention to supply nuclear
fuel to Ukraine and urged Moscow to address the International Atomic Energy
Agency. "We share your opinion regarding the nuclear security problem. Nuclear
security represents a key problem for the Swiss nuclear policy," Burkhalter
wrote in a letter to Vladimir Gutenev, first deputy chairman of Russia's State
Duma committee on industry.
Is there any region on God's green earth free from the US pig snout?
Two NATO warships
heading to Black Sea - report 26 Aug
2014 A US Navy destroyer and a French frigate are expected to enter the waters
of the Black Sea next week, a diplomatic and military source said. "Two NATO
warships at once will arrive in the Black Sea on September 3. They are US Navy's
destroyer USS Ross and frigate, Commandant Birot, of the naval forces of
France," the unnamed source told RIA-Novosti news agency. There's currently one
NATO ship present in the Black Sea, with French surveillance ship, Dupuy de
Lome, expected to remain in the area until September 5.
Kiev loses control of Novoazovsk, rebel troops advance in
southeast Ukraine 28 Aug 2014 Kiev's
troops had to leave the eastern Ukrainian city of Novoazovsk to save their
lives, said the country's Security and Defense Council. The authorities admitted
that self-defense forces are advancing and leading a counteroffensive in the
southeast. Along with Novoazovsk, Kiev troops have lost control over the
villages of Amvrosiivka and Starobeshevo in the Donetsk Region of Eastern
Ukraine. According to Ukraine's Security and Defense Council, on Wednesday
Kiev’s troops were shelled by Grad rocket launchers and then attacked by two
military columns of self-defense troops.
Putin calls on Ukraine militia to let blocked Kiev troops to
cross into Russia 28 Aug 2014
President Putin has called on the self-defense militias in Ukraine to provide
Kiev's military units blocked in the east of the country with a safe
humanitarian corridor to cross into Russia. "It is obvious that the militia has
reached a considerable success in curbing Kiev's military operation, that had
been a deadly threat to the population of Donbass and already led to heavy
casualties among civilians," the Russian leader said in a statement. As a result
of militias' counter-offense, large numbers of Ukrainian troops - many of whom
were taking part in Kiev's so-called anti-terrorist operation "against their
will" and "just following orders" - have been surrounded, the President
added.
Number of Ukrainian refugees in Russia close to 1
million --Ukrainian
refugees should be given the right to live where they want, says Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov 27 Aug 2014 The number of Ukrainian refugees in
Russia has nearly reached 1 million, Russia's top diplomat said Wednesday.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also said at the Seliger-2014 all-Russian youth
forum in the Tver Region northwest of Moscow that Ukrainian refugees should be
given the right to live where they want. The minister cited UN data in line with
which more than 22,000 people left Donetsk and Lugansk last week, adding that
refugees are afraid to use the so-called humanitarian corridors provided by Kiev
as they are unsafe.
Ebola Outbreak Could
Infect 20,000 People 28 Aug 2014
More than 20,000 people could become infected with the deadly ebola virus, the
World Health Organisation has said. The UN health agency warned the actual
number of current ebola cases in hard-hit areas could be 12,000 - four times
higher than the number confirmed at present. In what amounted to be a bleak
assessment of the disease, the WHO said it believed the virus was still being
spread in a "substantial number of localities" and added that "the outbreak
continues to accelerate".
Fukushima court rules against Tepco in suicide
case 26 Aug 2014 The Fukushima
District Court ruled Tuesday that Tokyo Electric Power Co. was responsible for a
woman's suicide following the March 2011 nuclear disaster, ordering the utility
to pay 49 million yen in damages in a landmark ruling that could set a precedent
for other claims against the utility. It was the first ruling on a lawsuit in
which compensation has been sought over a suicide linked to the disaster that
created serious radiation contamination. Some 125,000 Fukushima residents
continue to live as evacuees.
Sister of Alleged Boston Marathon Bombers Arrested for Bomb
Threat 27 Aug 2014 The sister of the
alleged Boston Marathon bombers was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly
threatening a Harlem woman. According to the New York Police Department, Aliana
Tsarnaeva, who lives in North Bergen, New Jersey, allegedly called the victim on
Monday, saying, "I have people that can go over there and put a bomb on you."
The NYPD believes that the alleged victim is the mother of Tsarnaeva's
boyfriend's child.
Sanders weighs Clinton challenge 26 Aug 2014 Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) is gearing up for a
presidential primary challenge against Hillary Clinton and hopes to capitalize
on Democratic concerns over Clinton's coziness with Wall Street banks [and the
US war machine]. Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats,
plans to travel to two crucial presidential battleground states next month.
Sanders has not said whether he would run as an independent or a
Democrat.
White House considers proposals by corporate lobbyists to
sharply increase legal immigration, provide hundreds of thousands of new green
cards for high-tech workers 27 Aug
2014 The White House is considering proposals from business and immigrant rights
groups that are pressing President Obama to provide hundreds of thousands of new
green cards for high-tech workers and the relatives of U.S. citizens and
permanent residents. The behind-the-scenes lobbying comes as Obama prepares to
announce a series of executive
actions that could include plans to defer the
deportations of millions of people living in the country illegally, most of whom
are Hispanic. Opponents of such proposals, including many Republicans, have
argued that increasing the number of immigrants allowed into the country to work
could harm American workers in search of jobs in an economy still recovering
from the effects of a global recession. "The increases in foreign
workers demanded by corporate lobbyists would be in addition to the
administration's plan to implement amnesty by executive fiat, providing work
permits to 5 to 6 million illegal immigrants and visa overstays who will be able
to take any job in any industry, public or private," said Sen. Jeff
Sessions (R-Ala.), a leading opponent of relaxing immigration
policy.
Useless is as useless does: Harry Reid backs
military gear to local police 26 Aug
2014 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he supports keeping the flow of
military surplus equipment to local police departments -- though he backs
increasing oversight on how it is used. The protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have
drawn a police response that includes law enforcement officials armed with
weaponry that several lawmakers have criticized as over-militarized in
appearance, with camouflage-clad officers wielding heavy weapons and armored
vehicles. Many local police departments are able to acquire military-grade arms
and equipment through the Defense Department's "1033" program, established by
Congress in the '90s, which allows that equipment to trickle to the
police.
Protesters March on Hartford Police Department After Teen Is
Shot With Taser 27 Aug 2014
Community activists are protesting the arrest of a Hartford teen who police shot
with a Taser last week and demanding that the officer be charged instead. They
gathered at Albany Avenue and Main Street to march on Hartford police
headquarters Wednesday evening. "Drop those charges! They tased him!" protesters
shouted during the rally.
Rally outside US Embassy to support parents of teenager
Michael Brown 27 Aug 2014
Anti-racism activists are staging a protest outside the US Embassy following the
shooting of black teenager Michael Brown in Missouri. The demonstration was
organised by campaign group Stand Up To Racism and called on the US government
to punish police officers involved in the shooting of the unarmed 18-year-old. A
number of high profile speakers spoke at the event in Grosvenor Square,
including Labour MP Diane Abbott, Marcia Rigg and speakers from Unite Against
Racism.
NJ Subpoenas Christie Phone Records in Bridge Jam
Scandal 28 Aug 2014 New Jersey
lawmakers investigating the George Washington Bridge lane closures have
subpoenaed AT&T for phone records of a top aide to Gov. Chris Christie.
Lawmakers are requesting a month of data, including text messages, sent or
received by Regina Egea. She testified in July that she texted the governor her
thoughts about December testimony on the bridge probe but later deleted the
messages. It is not clear whether AT&T will turn over the records without a
search warrant.
Global warming impacts 'severe, widespread, and irreversible',
UN warns --Urgent
action needed to tackle man-made climate change, leaked report warns 27
Aug 2014 The world faces "severe, widespread and irreversible" effects of
climate change unless it takes urgent action to limit global warming by cutting
back on burning fossil fuels, the United Nations has warned in a leaked draft
report. Man-made global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions is already
here and its effects "might already be considered dangerous", according to the
draft of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
Extreme weather such as floods, heat waves and droughts are expected to become
more common while climate change may even worsen the risk of violent conflicts,
the report warns.
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