CLG: Obama approves $75 million in 'non-lethal' aid to Ukraine

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13 March 2015

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US roads have potholes that could swallow SUVs whole, but the maggots running Ukraine always get their American fix, so they can continue to carry out war crimes (that the US media doesn't cover) on a daily basis: Obama approves $75 million in 'non-lethal' aid to Ukraine | 11 Mar 2015 | The United States will provide Ukrainian forces fighting Russia-backed separatists 75 million in 'non-lethal' equipment, including small reconnaissance drones, radios and military ambulances, a senior administration official said. President Obama has also approved the transfer of 30 armored Humvees and up to 200 unarmored Humvees under a separate authority, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter and requested anonymity.

U.S. to send $70 million in 'non-lethal' aid to Syrian opposition [aka ISIS] | 13 March 2015 | The U.S. State Department said on Friday it was working with Congress to provide about 70 million in new 'non-lethal' assistance to the Syrian opposition fighting President Bashar al-Assad. The aid comes as the U.S. military separately prepares to train and equip Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State militants in Syria. The 'non-lethal' aid, announced on the fourth anniversary of the [CIA-backed] revolution against Assad, brings total U.S. support to the Syrian opposition to nearly 400 million since the start of the revolution, the State Department said. [See comment on previous story, in 'Obama approves $75 million in 'non-lethal' aid to Ukraine' and start reading.]

Canadian intelligence service agent arrested on suspicion of helping three British girls travel to Syria to join ISIS | 12 March 2015 | The foreign spy arrested on suspicion of helping three British schoolgirls travel to Syria to join the Islamic State was working for the Canadian intelligence service, it has been reported. Turkish foreign minister Mehmet Cavusoglu earlier said the suspect works for the intelligence agency of a country that is part of the US-led coalition fighting ISIS but did not identify the country, saying only that it was not the United States or a member of the European Union. However, an Istanbul-based newspaper has reported that the spy was working for the Canadian government.

Spy from U.S.-led coalition helped three British girls cross into Syria to join ISIS | 12 March 2015 | A spy who worked for a country in the U.S.-led coalition that is fighting Islamic State had helped three British girls to cross into Syria to join the militants and has been caught, the Turkish foreign minister said on Thursday. The minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, told broadcaster A Haber in an interview: "He was caught. It turned out to be someone who works for the intelligence of a country from the coalition." A European security source familiar with the case of the three girls said the person in question had a connection with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) spy agency. [Yup, it's the US-UK-Canadian I-CIA-SIS pipeline.]

22 Iraqi soldiers killed in 'friendly fire' Anbar U.S. airstrike -sources | 12 March 2015 | Soldiers from an Iraqi army unit in the western province of Anbar have been killed in an apparent 'friendly fire' incident, an Iraqi military officer and a police source said on Thursday. The military source said 22 soldiers had been killed when an aircraft bombed the headquarters of an army company on the edge of Ramadi city, Anbar's provincial capital. The source said he believed the bomb was launched from a U.S.-led coalition aircraft, but coalition spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gilleran said the only strike it carried out in the area did not result in any "friendly casualties".

Islamic State conflict: Iraqi troops advance in Tikrit | 11 Mar 2015 | Iraqi government forces have retaken a large part of north-western Tikrit as they battle IS militants to recapture the city, security officials say. Soldiers and Shia militiamen have reportedly raised the Iraqi flag at a hospital in the Qadisiya district, two-thirds of which is under their control. But they have so far not made much progress in Tikrit's south and west. The operation to retake the hometown of Saddam Hussein is the biggest offensive yet by the Iraqi government.

Australia probes claim teenager was Islamic State suicide bomber in Iraq | 12 March 201 | Australian authorities are investigating claims by Islamic State that an Australian teenage recruit died after blowing himself up in Iraq, and local media reported that bomb-making materials had been found at his family home in Melbourne. A blog post believed to be written by 18-year-old Jake Bilardi, written under his pseudonym Abu Abdullah al-Australi, revealed how he had considered carrying out attacks on home soil. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Thursday that security agencies were trying to verify reports that Bilardi had carried out a suicide attack in the Iraqi city of Ramadi.

ISIL youngster shoots dead 'Israeli spy': Video | 10 Mar 2015 | A video released by the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group apparently shows a young militant shooting and killing an Israeli man, claimed by the group to be a spy for Israel's spy agency Mossad. The group released the 13-minute footage on Tuesday. The victim is shown in the video identifying himself as 19-year-old Mohamed Said Ismail Musallam and alleging how he was recruited by Israeli intelligence. The video bore the hallmarks of the group's previous videos, including its dressing of the victims in orange jumpsuits.

Kerry tells Republicans: you cannot modify Iran-U.S. nuclear deal --'You don't have the right to modify an agreement reached executive to executive between leaders of a country.' | 11 March 2015 | U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Republicans who control Congress on Wednesday they would not be able to modify any nuclear agreement struck between the United States and Iran. Kerry said he responded with "utter disbelief" to an open letter to Iran on Monday signed only by Republican senators that said any deal would only last as long as U.S. President Barack Obama, a Democrat, remains in office.

US Army Arrives in Bulgaria --Military drills will take place over the next three months and involve US armored personnel carriers, helicopters and tanks | 13 March 2015 | NATO allies Bulgaria and the United States will stage a series of joint military drills over the next three and a half months, the Bulgarian defense ministry said on Friday, amid increased tensions with Russia over the Ukraine crisis. Some 350 U.S. Army officers will arrive in the Balkan country to take part in the bilateral drills, which begin on Sunday and will be conducted at the Novo Selo training range in southeastern Bulgaria. The exercises will also involve U.S. armored personnel carriers, helicopters and tanks.

Eleven U.S. service members presumed dead in crash off Florida coast: official | 11 Mar 2015 | Seven Marines and four soldiers were presumed dead after an Army helicopter crashed during a nighttime training mission off the Florida coast, where some remains have washed ashore and search efforts were hampered by heavy fog, U.S. military officials said on Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the Eglin Air Force Base in north Florida did not provide details on the remains. "This is still considered a search and rescue mission," spokeswoman Sara Vidoni said in a statement, adding that heavy fog hampered search efforts.

Secret Service agents disrupted bomb investigation at White House | 12 March 2015 | Two Secret Service agents suspected of being under the influence while striking a White House security barricade drove through an active bomb investigation and directly beside the suspicious package, according to current and former government officials familiar with the incident. These and other new details about the March 4 incident emerged Thursday from interviews and from police records obtained by The Washington Post.

Secret Service Investigating Agents' Crash Near White House | 12 March 2015 | The Homeland Security Department is investigating two senior Secret Service agents accused of crashing a car into a White House security barrier, an agency spokesman says. Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback said Wednesday that recently appointed Director Joseph Clancy has been briefed on the March 4 incident. Clancy has asked the Homeland Security Department's Inspector General's Office to investigate the incident.

Julian Assange to be questioned by Swedish prosecutors in London | 13 March 2015 | Lawyers for Julian Assange have claimed victory after a Swedish prosecutor bowed to pressure from the courts and agreed to break the deadlock in the WikiLeaks founder's case by interviewing him in London. Marianne Ny, who heads the investigation into accusations of rape, coercion and sexual molestation against Assange, made a formal request to interrogate him in the Ecuadorian embassy - the first sign of movement in a case that has been frozen since August 2012. The prosecutor will also ask the UK government and Ecuador for permission to carry out the interviews at the embassy in London, where Assange has been staying for more than two-and-a-half years to avoid extradition to Sweden, from where he fears being handed over to the US to face espionage charges.

750 tons of Fukushima plant radioactive water leaked - TEPCO --The leak has likely made its way to the ground - officials | 12 March 2015 | In yet another major leak at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) reported that 750 tons of contaminated radioactive rainwater have escaped the plant. The water overflowed from mounds where storage tanks for radioactive water are located, The Japan Times quoted TEPCO as saying. Rainwater within that perimeter had up to 8,300 becquerels per liter of beta particle-emitting radioactive substances, such as strontium-90.

Fukushima disaster: Radiation levels posing cancer risks on fourth anniversary of triple nuclear meltdown | 11 March 2015 | Four years ago today Japan was hit with a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and massive tsunami, triggering a[n ongoing] crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The triple nuclear meltdown was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. About 120,000 people still cannot return their homes because of high radiation levels, but the issue of long-term health implications like cancer are causing the greatest concern and controversy in Japan. Before the disaster, there was just one to two cases of thyroid cancers in a million Japanese children but now Fukushima has more than 100 confirmed or suspected cases, having tested about 300,000 children.

American diagnosed with Ebola to be flown to US from Sierra Leone | 12 March 2015 | An American healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while fighting the outbreak in Sierra Leone will be brought to the US for treatment, the National Institutes of Health announced on Thursday. The healthcare worker is due to arrive at the NIH facility in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday. The patient, who has not been identified as male or female, was volunteering in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone.

Ebola: British health worker tests positive for Ebola | 11 March 2015 | A female Army medic has tested positive for the Ebola virus while serving with the British military’s aid mission in Sierra Leone. The RAF is preparing to evacuate the unnamed soldier back to the UK for treatment while another soldier she came into contact with is also awaiting tests. The medic is being treated in a British-built clinic on the outskirts of the country's capital, Freetown, and sources said she was likely to be flown out as soon as possible.

Edits to Wikipedia pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo traced to 1 Police Plaza | 13 March 2015 |Computers operating on the New York Police Department's computer network at its 1 Police Plaza headquarters have been used to alter Wikipedia pages containing details of alleged police brutality, a review by Capital has revealed. There are more than 15,000 IP addresses registered to the NYPD, which employs 50,000 people, including uniformed officers and civilians. Notable Wikipedia activity was linked to about a dozen of those NYPD IP addresses.

Alleged threats to police lead to terrorism charges | 12 March 2015 | Two Lansing men face terrorism charges [!?!] after prosecutors say they made death threats against law enforcement following the recent fatal shootings involving Eaton County deputies. Both men have been charged in separate incidents with threatening "to commit an act of terrorism" -- a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison...Adam Thaddeus Wood's Okemos-based attorney, Toby White, said about Wood: "I don't think what he did qualified as a terrorist act." White declined to comment further.

3 reportedly questioned in shooting of 2 cops outside Ferguson police department | 12 March 2015 | Police were questioning three people in connection with the shooting of two Missouri police officers early Thursday at a protest outside the Ferguson police headquarters...The police officers, not members of Ferguson's force, were part of a 25-man police line at the embattled headquarters, where Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson had announced his resignation hours earlier. Witnesses reported hearing as many as four shots and seeing the flash of a muzzle about 125 yards away from the police.

Two officers shot outside Ferguson police headquarters | 12 March 2015 | Two police officers were shot during a protest outside the Ferguson, Missouri police headquarters early on Thursday, police said, just hours after the city's police chief quit following a damning justice report into his department. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told reporters that a 41-year-old officer from his department was struck in the shoulder and a 32-year-old officer from the nearby Webster Groves Police Department was hit in the face around midnight as the crowd was starting to break up.

2 police officers shot as Ferguson protests turn violent | 12 March 2015 | Two police officers were shot in Ferguson early Thursday morning as demonstrations that began as a celebration of the police chief's resignation gave way to violence and gunfire. One, a St. Louis County police officer, was struck in the shoulder; the other, a Webster Groves officer, was hit in the face, said St. Louis Police Chief Jon Belmar. The officers were hospitalized and conscious, he said. [Lest we forget: The protests in Ferguson may have 'turned violent' -- but Ferguson police have been violent from the get-go.]

Ferguson, Missouri police chief Thomas Jackson resigns | 11 March 2015 |The embattled police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, is to resign a week after his department was accused of racial bias in a scathing report by the US government, he announced on Wednesday. Thomas Jackson told colleagues in a resignation letter that "with profound sadness" he would quit as police chief effective 19 March. Jackson, 58, is the sixth senior Ferguson official to lose his job since the Department of Justice last week sharply criticised the city's criminal justice system. Investigators concluded police and court authorities targeted black people disproportionately and frequently violated their constitutional rights.

Giuliani: To Redeem His Legacy, Obama Should Channel Cosby | 13 March 2015 | Just weeks after coming under fire for saying he didn't think President Barack Obama loved America, former New York Mayor [unindicted 9/11 co-conspirator] Rudy Giuliani (R) is making headlines again for remarks he made Thursday on a Big Apple radio talk show. Offering advice on how Obama could redeem his legacy, tarnished in part by the anti-police "tone" he has set [rape is OK; anti-police tone -not OK] -- resulting in police being shot, according to Giuliani, the president should take a page from comedian [alleged rapist] Bill Cosby's book and censure black men "about the large incidence of crime" they commit, the Washington Post reports.

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