News Updates from CLG
2 February 2015
2 February 2015
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Previous edition: Islamic State commander
confesses to receiving funding through U.S., which Google relegated to
the sp*m bin.
CLG exclusive Rec Report:
Why
Paul Krugman is Wrong, and the Greek Syriza-led Government Will
Fail By Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. | 1 Feb 2015 | In his recent
nostrum for the EU upon the election of the Syriza government in Greece, Paul
Krugman is both right and wrong. Usually he's merely wrong. But here he is
partly right, because the situation involves debt and credit within a putatively
democratic union of sovereign states. Within that supposed union, the question
is whether the larger whole will pay a greater price for the survival of a
member (Greece). If not, the democracy of the EU is a farce, as is the election
in Greece of national leadership opposed to austerity. So far, so good. But
Krugman is wrong when he fails to notice that the Central Bank of the EU is
subject to the same crisis of capitalism that is plaguing the global
economy.
U.S. ground troops could be needed in Iraq: Chuck
Hagel --Deployment would be in
addition to 4,500 U.S. troops already in Iraq | 30 Jan 2015 | Outgoing
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in an interview on Friday the United States
might eventually need to send non-combat ground troops to Iraq to help turn back
Islamic State forces. Hagel, who announced his resignation under pressure in
November, told CNN all options must be considered in Iraq, including sending
troops for non-combat roles such as gathering intelligence and locating Islamic
State targets. Hagel's comments echoed testimony by General Martin Dempsey,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to Congress last fall when he said U.S.
troops might have to take a larger role on the ground in Iraq.
U.S. Appears Edging Toward Arming Ukraine's Military Forces,
Officials Say | 1 Feb 2015 | Gen. Philip M.
Breedlove now supports providing defensive weapons and equipment to Kiev's
[Nazi] forces, and an array of administration and military officials appear to
be edging toward that position, American officials said Sunday. President Obama
has made no decisions on providing such lethal assistance. But after a series of
striking reversals that Ukraine's forces have suffered in recent weeks, the
Obama administration is taking a fresh look at the question of military
assistance...Fueling the broader debate over policy is an independent report to
be issued Monday by eight former senior American officials, who urge the United
States to send $3 billion in defensive arms and equipment to
Ukraine, including anti-armor missiles, reconnaissance drones, armored Humvees
and radars that can determine the location of enemy rocket and artillery
fire.
NATO to Surround Russia With 'Command
Centers' | 31 Jan 2105 | NATO
will establish command centers in six of its eastern countries in coming months,
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday, in part of a beefed-up response
to [so-called] Russian aggressiveness. The outposts will form a chain of
potential command centers for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's already
announced new rapid-response
force, which will consist of roughly
5,000 troops. Details are to be finalized at a meeting next week of NATO defense
ministers. The centers also will provide a link between NATO and the armed
forces of the six countries where they will be located--Poland, Romania,
Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
U.S. waters down global nuclear safety
standards --Weaker nuclear safety
standards pushed by Obama administration to protect nuclear industry, electric
utility companies | 30 Jan 2015 | The United States looks set to
succeed in watering down a proposal for tougher legal standards aimed at
boosting global nuclear safety, according to senior diplomats. Diplomatic
wrangling will come to a head at a 77-nation meeting in Vienna next month that
threatens to expose divisions over required safety standards and the cost of
meeting them, four years after the [ongoing] Fukushima disaster in
Japan.
CIA and Mossad killed senior Hezbollah figure in car
bombing | 30 Jan 2015 | On Feb. 12, 2008,
Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah's international operations chief, walked on a quiet
nighttime street in Damascus after dinner at a nearby restaurant. Not far away,
a team of CIA spotters in the Syrian capital was tracking his movements. As
Mughniyah approached a parked SUV, a bomb planted in a spare tire on the back of
the vehicle exploded, sending a burst of shrapnel across a tight radius. He was
killed instantly.
UN: Israel demolished homes of 1,177 Palestinians in Jerusalem and
West Bank in 2014 | 1 Feb 2015 | Since the
beginning of 2015, the Civil Administration of the Israel Defense Forces has
demolished 77 homes, livestock pens, farm buildings and other structures of
Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank, since they were built without building
permits. As a result, 110 people, around half of them children, lost
their homes at the height of the winter, according to a report compiled
by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Between January 19 and January 26, the Civil Administration demolished 41
structures, OCHA said, far higher than the weekly average for 2014 of nine
demolitions per week.
New ISIS Video Purports to Show Beheading of Japanese
Reporter | 31 Jan 2015 | A 66-second ISIS
[I-CIA-SIS] video purports to show the beheading of Japanese reporter Kenji
Goto, a gruesome end to a week of failed negotiations. There was no immediate
comment from Japanese or U.S. intelligence officials, but the video appears to
show the detached head of the 46-year-old reporter who was captured late last
year by the terror group while on assignment in Syria. The video, titled "A
Message to the Japanese Government," begins with Goto on his knees in a river
valley. A masked man with a knife in his hand speaks with a British accent
[MI6?], addressing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Armed 'hacker' enters Dutch TV station, demands
airtime --Gunman says, 'We are hired in by intelligence
agencies.' [*Of course.*] | 29 Jan 2015 | A gunman who stormed
into the headquarters of Dutch national broadcaster NOS demanding airtime
Thursday night claimed to be from a "hackers' collective," according to a
reporter who spoke to the man. NOS was off-air for around an hour. When it came
back on-air, it showed recorded footage of the man, wearing a black suit, white
shirt and black tie, and carrying a pistol. Speaking to a man off camera, the
man said, "We are hired in by intelligence agencies."
After revelation Sydney police killed
hostage: Police urge TV stations to scale back live coverage of any London
terrorist siege | 29 Jan 2015 | Television
news organisations are to be asked by Scotland Yard to consider not broadcasting
live images of police or special forces preparing to storm any terrorist siege
in London to avoid [the public seeing police] jeopardising the
lives of hostages or armed forces trying to 'rescue' them. Sir Bernard
Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner, said on Thursday he feared
live coverage could hamper the ability of police or the military to
respond...Metropolitan police officials held initial meetings with the UK's
major broadcasters last week, specifically about broadcasting after the Paris
attacks.
French dissenters jailed after crackdown on speech that glorifies
terrorism | 30 Jan 2015 | Lawyers and human
rights groups have raised concerns over the French government's crackdown on
speech that glorifies terrorism after a series of cases rushed through the
courts resulted in heavy prison sentences, including for people who had
drunkenly insulted police officers. The debate intensified this week after it
emerged that an eight-year-old boy was questioned by
police...The French justice ministry said that,
between 7 January and 29 January, there had been 486 legal cases linked to the
Charlie Hebdo attacks. Of these, 257 were cases of people accused of condoning
or provoking terrorism. Around
41 of those cases had been instantly rushed through the courts and 18 people had
been given prison sentences.
Sandy Hook: Adam Lanza's Name Won't Be in Report, Mother Not on List
of Victims --Report due in
February | 31 Jan 2015 | With final edits [Yup, lots and lots of
edits...] and approvals, members of the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission have
begun to think about the impact their report on the Newtown school massacre will
have on parents of victims and surviving children, as well as people who might
be reading the document 20 years from now. The much anticipated report, due out
in February, will be dedicated to the 20 first-graders and six educators killed
in the school that day, the Newtown community, and all victims of devastating
violence....Dr. Ezra Griffith, panel member, professor emeritus and senior
research scientist in psychiatry at Yale University, questioned why the draft
report uses Lanza's initials rather than his name. "The omission is quite
striking to me...I just don't know what we're trying to say about this,"
Griffith said.
FBI
foils its own terror attack plans, once again: US nuclear scientist secretly taped by FBI claiming he could bomb New
York | 29 Jan 2015 | A disgruntled, former
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist promised to build 40 nuclear weapons
for Venezuela and design a bomb targeted for New York City in exchange for
"money and power," according to secret FBI recordings released Wednesday. In the
recordings, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni tells an agent posing as a Venezuelan official
that the bombs would prevent the United States from invading the oil-rich nation
and brags to his wife that the passing of secrets would make him wealthy. The
recordings were played Wednesday in US District Court in Albuquerque before a
federal judge sentenced Mascheroni, 79, to five years in prison followed by
three years of supervised release as part of a plea agreement.
FBI's Cold War plans included martial law, rounding up 13,000
people | 31 Jan 2015 |Documents show the
FBI created a "Plan C" during the Cold War, which could have been triggered in
the event the US underwent a nuclear attack. It included putting the nation
under martial law, rounding up "subversives," and interning enemy diplomats. The
documents, acquired by transparency journalism organization MuckRock, detail the
FBI plan created in 1956, which was shared with several top officials from every
governmental department. The FBI also distributed papers regarding the plan to
its field offices.
NSA's Water, Power Supply Under Threat in State
Legislatures | 28 Jan 2015 | Congress
failed to agree last year on a measure that would reform the practice of mass
government surveillance, but privacy-minded state legislators have a back-up
plan for shutting down alleged violations of their constituents' constitutional
rights. In eight states, legislators are pushing bills they hope will either
boot National Security Agency facilities or ban the agency from setting up shop.
The bills would prohibit state and local governments from offering material
support to the agency, including use of public utilities that carry water and
electricity. Two of the bills would criminalize official cooperation with the
NSA and several seek to squeeze contractors out of work with the electronic spy
agency.
Rep. to Staff: Ask Muslim Visitors to Pledge Allegiance to U.S. With
Israeli Flag | 29 Jan 2015 | Freshman state
Rep. Molly White, R-Belton, is not in Austin today to celebrate Texas Muslim
Capitol Day. But she left instructions for the staff in her Capitol office on
how to handle visitors who are, including asking them to declare allegiance to
the United States. "I did leave an Israeli flag on the reception desk in my
office with instructions to staff to ask representatives from the Muslim
community to renounce Islamic terrorist groups and publicly announce allegiance
to America and our laws," she posted on Facebook. "We will see how long they
stay in my office."
Americans on hook for millions spent on Super Bowl's over-the-top
security while NFL still pays no taxes By
Lori Price, www.legitgov.org | 31
Jan 2015 | Recently, we learned: 'Black Hawk helicopters and
truck-sized X-ray machines that are typically
deployed along the U.S.-Mexico border have been brought to the Super Bowl venue
to assist with the security effort.' Additionally: 'The NFL just issued a
statement saying reps from the following agencies
are on board: Department of Homeland Security; Immigration and Customs
Enforcement; FBI; United States Secret Service; Phoenix PD and Glendale PD.' And
yet: 'NFL president Roger Goodell made $44
million last year, as head of a not-for-profit.
That's right -- even though the NFL teams raked in about $9.5 billion in
revenues last year, and the CEO of their industry association takes home one of
the highest paychecks in the land, the sports league pays no taxes.'
Super Bowl Security: FBI, Secret Service, Cops...We're All Working
Together | 28 Jan 2015 | Several
high-powered law enforcement agencies want everyone to know -- they're all
working TOGETHER to protect the Super Bowl. The NFL just issued a statement
saying reps from the following agencies are on board: Department of Homeland
Security; Immigration and Customs Enforcement; FBI; United States Secret
Service; Phoenix PD and Glendale PD.
Black Hawk Helicopters and X-ray machines added to Super Bowl
security | 28 Jan 2015 | Black Hawk
helicopters and truck-sized X-ray machines that are typically deployed along the
U.S.-Mexico border have been brought to the Super Bowl venue to assist with the
security effort. U.S. Customs and Border Protection showed off the technology
Monday as it helps with Super Bowl security. Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske was
on hand for a demonstration of the agency's Black Hawks and large mobile X-ray
machines that are used to detect contraband and explosives.
Forget Deflategate. Here's the Real NFL
Scandal | 29 Jan 2015 | Football fans are
unhappy with the cheating scandal that has roiled the Super Bowl. What should
worry them more is this: NFL president Roger Goodell made $44 million last year,
as head of a not-for-profit. That's right -- even though the NFL teams
raked in about $9.5 billion in revenues last year, and the CEO of their industry
association takes home one of the highest paychecks in the land, the sports
league pays no taxes. Not only is the NFL tax-exempt, so is an
organization called the NFL Management Council that undertakes "labor
negotiations on behalf of NFL Member Clubs."
UK Military Worker In Ebola Evacuation After Needle
Jab | 31 Jan 2015 | A British military
healthcare worker has been evacuated from Sierra Leone after being accidentally
jabbed with a needle while treating Ebola patients. The worker has returned to
England for monitoring, according to Public Health England (PHE). The woman was
flown back to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Friday night and then
transferred to an isolation ward at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead,
northwest London.
UK Military Worker In Ebola Evacuation After Needle
Jab | 31 Jan 2015 | A British military
healthcare worker has been evacuated from Sierra Leone after being accidentally
jabbed with a needle while treating Ebola patients. The worker has returned to
England for monitoring, according to Public Health England (PHE). The woman was
flown back to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Friday night and then
transferred to an isolation ward at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead,
northwest London.
The Ebola virus is MUTATING, and 'could become more contagious', warn
scientists who first identified the outbreak | 29 Jan 2015 | Scientists tracking the spread of the Ebola in West
Africa have warned the virus is showing signs of mutating, and could become more
contagious. It was a team of researchers from the Institut Pasteur in France who
first identified the outbreak in Guinea, in March last year...Human geneticist
Dr Anavaj Sakuntabhai, told the BBC: 'We know the virus is changing quite a
lot.'
UK Military Worker In Ebola
Evacuation After Needle Jab | 31 Jan 2015 |
A British military healthcare worker has been evacuated from Sierra Leone after
being accidentally jabbed with a needle while treating Ebola patients. The
worker has returned to England for monitoring, according to Public Health
England (PHE). The woman was flown back to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on
Friday night and then transferred to an isolation ward at the Royal Free
Hospital in Hampstead, northwest London.
USA Today columnist calls for arrest and imprisonment of vaccine
skeptics | 29 Jan 2015 | Now we finally
come to the real agenda of the vaccine industry. After vaccines have been
repeatedly documented by the Natural News Lab to contain neurotoxic chemicals such as
mercury, formaldehyde and
MSG; after vaccine shots have been repeatedly shown
to kill people who take
them; and after flu shots have been exhaustively
shown to be based on no science whatsoever -- with vaccine manufacturers
openly admitting there are no clinical trials to show they even work -- the rabid
vaccine pushers are unveiling their end game: throw vaccine resistors in
prison. This is the call by USA Today columnist Alex Berezow. "Parents
who do not vaccinate their children should go to jail," he writes in this USA
Today column.
Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll admired by 9/11 Truth
movement | 30 Jan 2015 | Seattle Seahawks
coach Pete Carroll has gained an unlikely following from the "9/11 Truth"
movement in the lead-up to his attempt to win back-to-back Super Bowls. Two
years ago, Carroll met with former Army chief of staff and four-star general
Peter Chiarelli and, according to Deadspin citing "sources," brought up many
popular conspiracy theories
concerned with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center and
quizzed Chiarelli about their veracity...At last year's Super Bowl, Brooklyn man
Matt Mills managed to bluff his way into the media entrance at the end of the
Seahawks' 43-8 victory over the Denver Broncos. As Malcolm Smith was being
presented with his MVP trophy, Mills rushed onto the podium and grabbed the
microphone before security could intervene. "Investigate 9/11," he said. "9/11
was perpetrated by people within our own government."
Koch-owned Senate passes controversial Keystone pipeline
bill | 29 Jan 2015 | The Koch-owned Senate
passed a bill Thursday to force construction of the controversial Keystone XL
oil pipeline, which President Barack Obama is certain to veto. The five-year
fight over the Keystone pipeline has become a proxy symbol for far broader
fights over climate change
global warming, energy and the economy, and for the conflict between Obama and
congressional Republicans [and their corporate owners]. The Senate voted 60-36
in favor of building the pipeline.
Sign petition to let bear
stay with his 'parents': Ohio couple seeks to keep
elderly rescued bear on their property --'Let an old bear live his remaining years with the family.
Shame on those trying to take him away.' | 1 Feb 2015 | An Ohio couple
may have to part with a pet they can't bear to be without. Jeff and Debbie
Gillium rescued the 40-year-old black bear Archie when he was six and have kept
him at their Lodi home. But now they may lose him since the Ohio Department of
Agriculture Nutjobs is
threatening to remove the animal because the family does not have the proper
permits, according to TV Station FOX8. "We rescued him from a bad situation [a
four-foot-high cage!] to begin with…I want him to stay here," Debbie Gillium
told the station. A change.org petition to get the state to change its
mind has gathered more than 4,300 signatures through Sunday [Let's hit 5K on
Monday!].
Mitt Romney tells supporters he will not run for president in
2016 | 30 Jan 2015 | Former presidential
nominee Mitt Romney told supporters on Friday that he would not make a third run
at the White House, putting an end to weeks of what appeared to be possible
preparation for such a bid. "After putting considerable thought into making
another run for president, I've decided it is best to give other leaders in the
party the opportunity to become our next nominee," Romney said in a statement to
supporters. The announcement came in a pair of conference calls with close
advisers and donors, who described the contents of the call to
reporters.
Cars With Faulty Airbags Are Recalled for Second
Time | 31 Jan 2015 | Toyota, Chrysler and
Honda are recalling about 2.1 million vehicles with airbags that might suddenly
deploy even when the vehicle is not in a crash after earlier recalls did not
sufficiently address the problem. Federal regulators said replacement parts
might not be fully available until the end of the year. The National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration said on Saturday that it knew of three injuries
but no deaths from unexpected airbag deployments. About one million of the
models are also covered by recalls for defective inflaters made by the airbag
manufacturer Takata that can deploy with too much force and send pieces of metal
into the interior of the vehicle.
Northeast Braces for Up to a
Foot of Snow as New System Targets Millions
| 31 Jan 2015 | A winter storm will wallop a swath from the Midwest to the
Northeast starting Saturday, and could drop up to a foot of snow on Chicago,
Cleveland, New York and Boston to make for a messy Monday morning commute.
Meanwhile, another winter storm was still lingering Saturday over New England
and dropping additional snow on the region -- parts of which were already
slammed with up to 3 feet earlier in the week. In total, parts of at least 15
states -- spanning from Nebraska and eastward to Massachusetts -- are under
either winter storm watches, warnings and advisories.
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