News Updates from CLG
5 January 2015
5 January 2015
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Previous edition: Palestinian president
signs up to join international criminal
court
Obama's Lists: A Dubious History of Targeted Killings in
Afghanistan 28 Dec 2014 ...The child and
his father are two of the many victims of the dirty secret operations that NATO
conducted for years in Afghanistan. Their fate is described in secret documents
to which SPIEGEL was given access. Some of the documents concerning the
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the NSA and GCHQ intelligence
services are from the archive of whistleblower Edward Snowden. Included is the
first known complete list of the Western alliance's "targeted killings" in
Afghanistan. The documents show that the deadly missions were not just viewed as
a last resort to prevent attacks, but were in fact part of everyday life in the
guerilla war in Afghanistan. The list, which included up to 750 people at times,
proves for the first time that NATO didn't just target the Taliban leadership,
but also eliminated mid- and lower-level members of the group on a large
scale.
Obama's Afghanistan Joint Prioritized Effects List aka Kill List
Published by SPIEGEL 4 Jan 2015 The
material SPIEGEL was able to review is
from 2009 to 2011, and falls within the term of US President Barack Obama, who
was inaugurated in January 2009. For Obama, Afghanistan was the "good" war and
therefore legitimate -- in contrast to the Iraq war. The president wanted to end
the engagement in Iraq as quickly as possible, but in Afghanistan his aim was to
win. Key Documents Cited in Text:
US Document from 2009: Including the Drug Trade in the War Against
the Taliban [Right, the CIA wants *all* the
drugs--no sharing.]
Israel to ask US Congress to halt aid to Palestinian
Authority --Move follows freeze on
millions in tax revenues after ICC bid; Palestinians looking to resubmit
statehood bid 5 Jan 2015 Israel was weighing its options Sunday for
further punishing the Palestinians after freezing millions in tax revenues as a
first response to their bid to join the International Criminal Court. A senior
Israeli said Jerusalem would lobby pro-Israel members of the US Congress to
enforce a law that would halt 400 million in annual American aid to the
Palestinian Authority, Israeli daily Haaretz reported.
Iraq death toll doubles to 15,538 in 2014, the worst in seven years,
says government 2 Jan 2015 Violence in Iraq
caused the deaths of more than 15,000 civilians and security personnel in 2014,
government figures show, making it one of the deadliest years since the 2003
US-led invasion. Last year's toll of 15,538 was more than double the 6,522
people killed in 2013. It was the worst in seven years, the Iraqi government
said, almost reaching the toll of 17,956 during the height of 'Sunni-Shiite'
sectarian killings in 2007. The UN put the number of civilians killed in Iraq
during 2014 at 12,282.
What happens when the Pentagon 'merges' the CIA with Fort
Detrick? --ISIS fighters 'have contracted Ebola': World Health Organisation
investigating reports militants showed up at Iraqi hospital with lethal
disease --Militants allegedly
attended hospital in Mosul showing signs of disease --Disease reportedly brought
to Mosul by 'terrorists from several countries' 2 Jan 2015 The World
Health Organisation is investigating reports that I-CIA-SIS militants have been
showing up at an Iraqi hospital with Ebola. According to three media outlets an
undisclosed number of militants displaying signs of the disease attended a
hospital in the ISIS-held city of Mosul, 250 miles north of Baghdad. According
to a report in Iraq's pro-government newspaper, al Sabaah, the disease was
brought to Mosul by 'terrorists' arriving 'from several countries' and
Africa.
Al-Qaeda terrorist suspect dies days before his trial in New
York 3 Jan 2015 A suspected al-Qaeda
[al-CIAduh] terrorist died Friday night, just days before he was slated to go on
trial in federal court in New York on charges of helping to plan the 1998
bombings outside the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya that killed 224
people, his lawyer said. Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai was diagnosed with advanced
liver cancer after U.S. commandos and FBI agents captured him in 2013, outside
of his home in a suburb of Tripoli, Libya. In a letter to the trial judge filed
early Saturday, Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of
New York, said Ruqai, 50, "was taken from the Metropolitan Correctional Center
to a New York hospital due to sudden complications arising out of his
long-standing medical problems." Bharara said "his condition
deteriorated rapidly."
Pakistan to alter constitution to form special terrorism
courts 2 Jan 2015 Pakistan's leadership
[sic] has decided to amend the constitution and the army act to form special
[kangaroo] courts for the trial of alleged terrorists, a minister said Friday.
Information minister Pervaiz Rasheed said that a marathon session headed by
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and including the country's entire civilian
political and military 'leadership,' produced a unanimous agreement to alter the
constitution in order to form the alternative court system. The proposed special
courts were the most controversial of the 25 anti-terrorism measures proposed by
Sharif late last month. [Who is funding Pakistan's military
dictatorship? See: US Congress to give $532 million to Pakistan to
'defend against' terrorism, grow other sectors 30 Dec
2014.]
Obama imposes new sanctions against North Korea in response to Sony
hack [ing themselves] 2 Jan 2015 The US has
[insanely and arbitrarily] imposed economic sanctions against
several North Korean government agencies and senior officials in retaliation for
the country's alleged role
in hacking Sony Pictures' systems and
threatening US moviegoers. Despite some continued claims from outside the US
government that the hack may have been the work of disgruntled
employees instead, the White House on Friday followed through on its threat to
seek revenge, blaming the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for
"provocative, destabilizing, and repressive actions and policies, particularly
its destructive and coercive cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment".
Following an executive order by Barack Obama, the US Treasury has designated
three state-run organisations and ten North Korean government officials for
specific actions, including the country's intelligence agency, an arms exporter
and a defence procurement agency.
CIA has to approve every script for spy drama 'The
Americans' 2 Jan 2015 The Cold War TV spy
drama The Americans is a fictional account of two Soviet spies living
in the United States. It may be fiction, but that doesn't stop American
intelligence agencies from being concerned about the show's content. In fact,
the CIA has to approve every script before it's even shot.
The Americans was created by Joe Weisberg, a former CIA agent. And
since he knows all kinds of stuff that the CIA would like to keep secret,
they've reserved the right to censor anything they don't like on the show. This
isn't really that unusual for many TV and movie scripts. In fact, the FBI has an
entire unit devoted to making sure it's
viewed in the best possible light.
CIA should pledge to a ban on recruiting
journalists [LOL! What would CNN,
The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post do, without a staff?!] 4
Jan 2015 Does the CIA recruit journalists? ...The practice of recruiting
journalists, and of placing intelligence agents under cover as reporters, was
apparently banned in 1977. But appearances can be deceptive. Two decades later,
in 1996, President Clinton’s CIA director, John Deutch, revealed that the CIA
had retained the right to use journalists as spies and to have spies pose as
journalists. Since then, the issue has not gone away, in part because the CIA
refuses to fully swear off
these practices.
AirAsia flight QZ8501: airline was not allowed to fly route, says
Indonesia --It was unclear how the
airliner had been able to fly without the necessary authorisation. 2
Jan 2015 The AirAsia plane [Flight 8501] that crashed off Indonesia was flying
on an unauthorised schedule, the country's transport ministry said on Saturday,
adding it had now frozen the airline's permission to fly the route. As two large
parts of the plane were found on the sea bed late on Friday by the international
search team, director general of air transport Djoko Murjatmodjo said the doomed
airliner's flight time had not been cleared by officials. "It violated the route
permit given, the schedule given, that's the problem," he told AFP.
Cook Nuclear Plant reports 2-month oil leak into Lake
Michigan --2,000 gallons of oil
leaked into lake 3 Jan 2015 An oil cooling system on the turbine of a
southwest Michigan nuclear power plant leaked oil into Lake Michigan for about
two months, according to plant officials. Officials with the Donald C. Cook
Nuclear Plant near Bridgman reported the leak to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, as well as state and local authorities, on Dec. 20, according to an
event notification posted on the NRC's website. Plant officials believe 2,000
gallons of oil leaked into the lake, and a retroactive examination of system oil
levels leads plant personnel to believe the leak may have been ongoing since
about Oct. 25, said Bill Schalk, communications manager for the Cook Nuclear
Plant.
Married couple's private phone calls are evidence in S. Florida
terrorism case 2 Jan 2015 When two South
Florida brothers go to trial this year on terrorism charges, federal prosecutors
plan to use secretly recorded phone conversations between one of the men and his
wife to help prove their case. The defense is trying to prevent the recordings
from being used on the grounds that -- with some important exceptions -- husband
and wife can't be forced to testify against each other, and their private
conversations can't be used against them. Raees Qazi, 22, and his brother,
Sheheryar Qazi, 32, of Oakland Park, were arrested in November 2012 on charges
they provided material support to terrorists and conspired to use a weapon of
mass destruction by planning to set off a bomb at a New York City tourist
attraction.
York City School District will be run by businessman, judge
decides --The plan is opposed by
York City parents, educators, school board members, local leaders and Gov.-elect
Tom Wolf, a Democrat from York County. 26 Dec 2014 (PA) A York County
judge has sided with a state petition to put the York City School District in
the hands of a local businessman. President Judge Stephen Linebaugh issued his
ruling on Friday - a decision that could lead to the public district's full
conversion to charter schools...Receivership gives David Meckley unilateral
authority to enact that plan, overhauling destroying the public
school system and sending the district's 7,500 students to be educated [sic] by
Charter Schools USA, a for-profit operator. The full conversion to charter schools is a plan
that's never been installed at any other school district in the
country. [Stop this insanity: Sign Citizens Against Privatizing Public
Schools.]
Dothan, AL Police Shoot and Kill Man for Refusing to Show ID When
Bringing Stray Dog to Animal Shelter --Suspect in Police-Involved Shooting at Dothan Animal Shelter Passes
Away 31 Dec 2014 At the request of the
Dothan Police Department, the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) is
investigating the officer involved shooting that occurred at the Dothan City
Animal Shelter on Tuesday, Dec. 30. Robert Earl Lawrence, 30, was transported to
the Southeast Alabama Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 9:50 p.m.
last night... 'At approximately 12:30 pm [30 Dec], officers made contact with
Robert Lawrence at the Dothan City Animal Shelter after he attempted to turn a
stray animal over to an employee. Lawrence, a sovereign citizen [?], became
disorderly after being told he could not leave the animal without producing
identification. After repeatedly being told to calm down, Lawrence was advised
he was being placed under arrest. A physical altercation ensued, to which
Lawrence was shot in the abdomen.'
WPB Court Documents: Pro-Torture Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Shared
Underage Sex Slave With Prince Andrew 2 Jan
2015 A new motion in the case of millionaire
Palm Beach Jeffrey Epstein filed in federal court in West Palm Beach names
British royal family's Prince Andrew and famed lawyer [sociopath]
Alan Dershowitz as two of the men who shared one of Epstein's under-ge
s-x slaves, a Royal Palm Beach area girl who was then 15 years old. The
motion filed Tuesday is to allow two unidentified women to join a federal
lawsuit originally filed by two other local women who claim the federal
government violated their rights when it allowed Epstein to obtain an unusual
no-prosecution agreement. The agreement has
been kept secret from the public, and it made the politically-connected Epstein
immune to federal prosecution.
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