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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Thursday, November 27, 2014

CLG: Regin Spyware Likely Made by NSA, UK, Leaked: The Oil Lobby's Conspiracy to Kill California's Climate Law



News Updates from CLG
27 November 2014
Previous edition: 'Breaking: Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson will not be indicted - St. Louis County grand jury.'
Ferguson protesters target Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: Activists plan to stop New York extravaganza 27 Nov 2014 Demonstrators in New York who have been protesting the grand jury decision in Ferguson this week are plotting a revolt against the Thanksgiving Day Parade to 'make people stop and listen' and 'make history'. The hashtag #StopTheParade set social media on fire on Wednesday night, after thousands took over the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn on Tuesday after police officer Darren Wilson escaped charges over the shooting death of Michael Brown. The New York Post is reporting that those protests - in which 10 of an estimated 3,000 were arrested - have inspired a bigger plan to use the spotlight surrounding the parade to push what they say is injustice.
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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