News Updates from CLG
27 November 2014
Ferguson fallout: Scores arrested in
Calif. unrest 27 Nov 2014 Dozens of
protesters in Los Angeles and Oakland were arrested late Wednesday during a
third night of demonstrations linked to the shooting protest in Ferguson,
Missouri. Police said at least 130 demonstrators who refused to disperse during
a Los Angeles protest were arrested, while 33 people were detained in Oakland
following a march that deteriorated into unrest and vandalism.
More than 400 arrested as Ferguson protests spread to other U.S.
cities 26 Nov 2014 National Guard troops
and police aimed to head off a third night of violence on Wednesday in Ferguson,
Missouri, as more than 400 people have been arrested in the St. Louis suburb and
around the United States in unrest after a white policeman was cleared in the
killing of an unarmed black teenager. There have been protests in Boston, New
York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta and other cities decrying Monday's grand jury
decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9 shooting death of
18-year-old Michael Brown in a case that has touched off a debate about race
relations in the United States.
Prosecutor Bob McCulloch's
bizarre press conference clearing Darren Wilson and instead blaming the
'insatiable appetite' of news outlets and social media 'for anything to talk
about' --He turned on the media and
internet users by hinting they were responsible for the tension after the
shooting - rather than the shooting itself 25 Nov 2014 St Louis County
Prosecuting Attorney [sic] Robert McCulloch announced on Monday night that
Darren Wilson would not be indicted in a bizarre press conference that instead
found others to blame. In the 25-minute announcement, he slammed news outlets
and social media - suggesting they were responsible for the tension after the
August 9 shooting, rather than the shooting itself. 'The most significant
challenge encountered in this investigation has been the 24-hour news cycle and
its insatiable appetite for something, for anything to talk about, following
closely behind with the non-stop rumors on social media,' he said. McCulloch
also turned on the witnesses, saying their statements were largely inconsistent
and 'some were completely refuted by the physical evidence'.
The moment Cleveland cop shot dead a 12-year-old boy in the
playground: Footage captures moment officer killed Tamir Rice after mistaking
his BB gun for a real weapon 27 Nov 2014
Cleveland police have released video footage showing the moment 12-year-old
Tamir Rice was shot dead by a rookie officer who mistook his BB gun for a real
weapon. The boy was shot by Timothy Loehmann, 26, on Saturday after a 911 caller
reported seeing a juvenile waving around a gun - but did not know whether or not
it was real. Newly-released audio showed that the 911 dispatcher did not pass on
this concern to the responding officers. At a press conference on Wednesday,
authorities released the 911 call, police dispatch calls and a grainy video
showing the moment the officers arrived and shot the boy...Police officers
fatally shot him just two seconds after pulling up in their cruiser, the footage
shows.
British embassy vehicle hit in suicide attack in Kabul; at least five
killed 27 Nov 2014 A suicide bomber on
motorcycle blew himself up within a convoy of foreign troops in the east of the
Afghan capital, Kabul, on Thursday. Medics report of five dead and 34 injured.
At least five people were killed, two of them foreigners, and many bystanders
were wounded, Reuters reports, citing a witness who saw at least three bodies
from the blast in a nearby hospital.
U.S. to leave more troops in Afghanistan than first planned -
sources --Washington may provide up
to 1,000 extra soldiers 25 Nov 2014 The United States is preparing to
increase the number of troops it keeps in Afghanistan in 2015 to fill a
gap left in the NATO 'mission' by other contributing nations, according to three
sources with direct knowledge of the situation. The final numbers are still
being agreed, but there will be at least several hundred more than initially
planned, one of the sources said. The additional U.S. troops will be assigned to
a 12,000-strong NATO force staying in Afghanistan to train, advise
and assist Afghan forces through a new mission called Resolute Support [to
protect the CIA's opium production], said the sources, who declined to be
identified.
Counter-terrorism Bill: What it contains --Critics say the measures amount to
'internal exile'. 26 Nov 2014 Theresa May,
the Home Secretary, will today introduce legislation [the Counter-Terrorism and
Security Bill] to the Commons intended to give Britain some of the "toughest
powers in the world" against terrorism. The measures involve: Passport seizures
at the airport - At present, the Home Secretary has to personally authorise each
seizure of a passport by Royal Prerogative. Under the reform, police and border
officials will be granted a power to temporarily confiscate the passport of
suspected terrorists on the spot...Upgraded TPIMs - Terrorism Prevention and
Investigation Measures replaced the Labour-era's Control Orders, used to
restrict the activity of suspected terrorists who had not been convicted. They
effectively imposed house arrest on suspects, denied them access to the internet
and phones, and could oblige them to be relocated in the UK to prevent them
consorting with other extremists.
UK counter-terrorism bill to
include campus ban on 'extremists' 24 Nov
2014 New powers for the home secretary to order universities to ban 'extremist'
speakers from their campuses are to be included in the counter-terrorism bill to
be published on Wednesday, Theresa May has announced.
The bill will also place a statutory duty on schools, colleges, prisons
and local councils to help prevent people from being drawn into
terrorism, the home secretary said. She said universities would have to
show that they have put in place policies to deal with extremist
speakers.
Regin Spyware Likely Made by NSA, UK 24 Nov 2014 Britain's GCHQ and the United States' National Security
Agency are probably behind the newly discovered Regin super-spyware, evidence
gathered by four different security firms indicates. The clues include the
countries and industries targeted (and those not targeted), internal file names
and the working hours kept by Regin's developers. Regin is linked to a GCHQ
operation described in NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden, and it bears
similarities to both the Stuxnet worm, used against Iran in 2010, and the Flame
spyware, which mapped out the Iranian networks Stuxnet attacked.
Robbers Steal Cooler Containing Ebola-Contaminated Blood Sample in
Guinea --Government uses public
transportation to ship Ebola blood samples 25 Nov 2014 Authorities in
Guinea are alarmed that a cooler containing the contaminated blood of an Ebola
victim has gone missing, after bandits robbed the public taxi in which the blood
was being transported. The Agence France-Presse reports
that Guinea authorities only confirmed the disappearance of the blood samples on
Monday, though reports began
circulating of the theft as early as last week. The news from Guinea's national
law enforcement officers was not good -- they do not believe they will ever find
the blood samples.
Leaked: The Oil Lobby's Conspiracy to Kill California's Climate
Law 25 Nov 2014 ...Created by the Western
States Petroleum Association (WSPA), one of the most powerful oil and gas
lobbies in the U.S., the slides and talking points comes from a Nov. 11
presentation to the Washington Research Council. The P-werPoint deck details a
plan to throttle AB 32 (also known as the California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006) and steps to thwart low carbon fuel standards (known as LCFS) in
California, Oregon, and Washington State....Specifically, the deck from a
presentation by WSPA President Catherine Reheis-Boyd lays out the construction
of what environmentalists contend is an elaborate "astroturf campaign." Groups
with names such as Oregon Climate Change Campaign, Washington Consumers for
Sound Fuel Policy, and AB 32 Implementation Group are made to look and sound
like grassroots citizen-activists while promoting oil industry priorities and
actually working against the implementation of AB 32.
NYU Exploits Interns as Cheap Labor for
Startups 25 Nov 2014 The
three engineers are paid $11 an hour or less by New York University's
Polytechnic School of Engineering, which has placed them in internships at small
companies. Their work is at the center of a battle between NYU's administration
and the graduate student union, which is demanding higher wages for interns at
the university's startup incubators. Engineers who do jobs comparable to those
of Polytechnic's interns make roughly 43 per hour, according to Glassdoor, a
website that tracks salaries.
Businesses to receive incentive for hiring illegal immigrants, report
says 26 Nov 2014 Businesses reportedly will
have a 3,000-per-employee incentive to hire illegal immigrants over native-born
workers under President Obama's sweeping action on illegal immigration. Because
of a kink in ObamaCare, businesses will not face a penalty for not providing
illegal immigrants health care, The Washington Times reports. Illegal immigrants are
ineligible for public benefits such as b-ying ins-rance on ObamaCare’s health
exchanges. Congressional aides condemned the loophole saying it puts illegal
immigrants ahead of Americans in the job hunt.
-52C in Siberia: Over 70 passengers 'push' frozen plane to
runway 26 Nov 2014 Freezing temperatures
didn't stop intrepid passengers from "helping out" a Russian plane that couldn't
move, because its wheels were frozen to the ground. 74 passengers, who were on
board, offered the seven-member crew and technical staff to help move the frozen
Tupolev Tu-134 plane to the takeoff runway on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the
UTair company told TASS. "The passengers disembarked to lighten the weight, and
then they volunteered to move it," she said.
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