Wednesday, March 11, 2015

CLG: Senate GOP's Iran letter sparks American outrage, #47Traitors Twitter trend,



If you're outraged by the 47 GOP Nut Jobs, will you remember that next time you vote?





News Updates from CLG
11 March 2015



Previous edition: CIA to create 10 new centers, expand focus on digital espionage


US nutjobs trying to start World War III: 3,000 troops and military hardware from 3rd Infantry Division heading to Eastern Europe | 9 Mar 2015 | Thousands of troops and major hardware from the Army's 3rd Infantry Division are heading to the Baltic region to reassure NATO allies fearful of Russian aggression, according to the Pentagon. Approximately 3,000 soldiers from the division's 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team are bringing approximately 750 vehicles and pieces of heavy equipment with them, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, artillery pieces and helicopters. The gear arrived Monday via ship in Riga, Latvia, Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren told reporters.


US to Conduct Observation Flight Over Russia | 10 Mar 2015 | US and Czech military experts are expected to conduct a surveillance flight over Russia as part of the Open Skies treaty between March 9-14. Since 2002, Russia, the United States and a number of other signatories to the Treaty on Open Skies have allowed a limited number of observation flights over their turf. International agreements set the number of flights, the type of surveillance equipment on board and airports that can be used.


Zarif to U.S. senators: You are ignorant of international law | 10 Mar 2015 | The Iranian foreign minister on Monday reacted to an open letter to Iran's leaders by 47 U.S. Republican senators [Grade 'A' sociopaths] who had warned Tehran that any nuclear deal that the Islamic Republic signs with President Barack Obama's administration won't last after Obama leaves office. Mohammad Javad Zarif said the letter lacks "legal validity" and shows that the signatories of the letter are "ignorant of international law." "In our view this letter has no legal validity and is just a propaganda scheme," Zarif noted.


Senate GOP's Iran letter sparks American outrage, #47Traitors Twitter trend | 10 Mar 2015 | Twitter has turned on the nation's 47 traitors. Outraged Americans on Tuesday blasted the overwhelming majority of Senate Republicans for sending a letter to Iran's leaders, sparking a top trending #47Traitors hashtag on the social media site following the Daily News' front-page coverage of the unprecedented missive. Others took to social media to individually list the renegade lawmakers who sent an open letter to Iran's leaders warning them that a future President "could revoke" any nuclear deal not approved by Congress. The News condemned the dangerous treachery in Tuesday's scathing editorial -- and a chorus of patriots chimed in.


Letter by Republican Senators to Iran is 'unusual' and 'dangerous,' Obama, Biden and other Democrats say | 9 Mar 2015 | Senate Republicans who sent a letter to Iran's leaders in an unprecedented attempt to undermine nuclear talks are siding with America's enemies, President Obama and Senate Democrats charged Monday. "It's somewhat ironic to see some members of Congress wanting to make common cause with the hard-liners in Iran," Obama told reporters Monday. "It's an unusual coalition." Senate Democrats went further. "Let's be clear," Minority Leader Harry Reid said. "Republicans are undermining our commander-in-chief while empowering the ayatollahs."


Text of GOP Senators' [Loony] Letter to Iran's Leaders on Nuclear Talks | 9 Mar 2015 | Dozens of Republican senators wrote an open letter to the leadership of Iran, warning them that any nuclear deal signed between Iran and U.S. President Barack Obama might not last beyond his presidency, without Congress signing off on it as well. Here is the text of the letter.


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.


High-risk terrorism inmates on hunger strike over language ban: claim | 11 Mar 2015 | (Au) Relatives of high-risk terrorism inmates being held in the state's most notorious prison claim the prisoners are on a hunger strike in protest at a new rule preventing them from speaking Arabic. Prison officials have strongly denied any strike is taking place and have refuted other claims that Korans and prayer time have been taken away. On Sunday, NSW Attorney-General Brad Hazzard announced the policy banning 13 "extreme high-risk" terrorism inmates from speaking any language other than English during family visits, phone calls and in letters. All visits have also been restricted to non-contact, and previously approved visitors are being vetted again.


Language restrictions on NSW prisoners deemed 'high risk' despite no known terrorist threat | 8 Mar 2015 | (AU) A restriction on prisoners speaking languages other than English has been placed on "high-risk" inmates in NSW despite the state government acknowledging there is no known terrorist threat coming from inside the cells. Attorney-General Brad Hazzard said on Sunday that 13 prisoners, who are linked to terrorism, had been identified as "extreme high risk restricted" and would have language restrictions placed upon them. The restrictions are designed to prevent the prisoners from co-ordinating or inciting terrorism from jail, Mr Hazzard said.


Supreme Court rejects cases on Guantanamo prisoner treatment | 9 Mar 2015 | The Supreme Court on Monday spurned two appeals involving U.S. treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees prisoners, barring a Syrian man from suing the United States over alleged torture and blocking the release of images purported to show evidence of a Saudi man's mistreatment. The justices in both cases left intact lower-court rulings in favor of the U.S. government...Separately, the court handed a victory to the CIA by declining to take up a case in which a Washington-based civil liberties group, the Center for Constitutional Rights, was seeking access to videos and photographs of another prisoner, Saudi citizen Mohammed al-Qahtani.


NSA sued by Wikimedia, rights groups over mass surveillance | 10 Mar 2015 | The U.S. National Security Agency was sued on Tuesday by Wikimedia and other groups challenging one of its mass surveillance programs that they said violates Americans' privacy and makes individuals worldwide less likely to share sensitive information. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Maryland, where the spy agency is based, said the NSA is violating U.S. constitutional protections and the law by tapping into high-capacity cables, switches and routers that move Internet traffic through the United States.


Snowden files: Inside Waihopai's domes | 8 Mar 2015 | The Waihopai intelligence base looks oddly alien and out of place: huge white "golf ball" radomes like a moon station and silent buildings within two fences of razor wire, all dropped in the midst of vineyards and dry hills in New Zealand's Marlborough landscape. Documents about the Waihopai station leaked by US National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden show that the facility is as alien as is seems. Everything inside the top secret station except the staff is foreign. The electronic eavesdropping systems, the computer programmes that automatically index and search the captured communications, and the databases where details of a whole region's communications are stored: they are all standardised parts of the global surveillance system run by the NSA.


5 suspects arrested over Nemtsov murder, 1 'confessed' - court | 8 Mar 2015 | Moscow's Basmanny district court has arrested five people in connection with the murder of Boris Nemtsov, a prominent opposition figure, who was gunned down last week. Two judges are reviewing the charges against the five people brought before the court by the prosecutors on Sunday. Two of them are Zaur Dadaev and Anzor Gubashev, who were identified as key suspects in the killing of Nemtsov after their detention on Saturday.


FBI Investigates Purported ISIS Hacks of Several Western Sites | 8 Mar 2015 | The FBI is investigating the hacking of several U.S. websites by someone claiming to be affiliated with ISIS [I-CIA-SIS] over the weekend, which spread to Europe on Sunday night. Law enforcement and security analysts said they suspected no link to the Islamist terrorist group, however. "The FBI is aware of the reported incidents and is contacting the impacted parties," the agency said. In many cases, local investigators and analysts said they suspected a hoax.


False flag crumbling under idiocy and lies by FBI: FBI testimony in Boston Marathon bomb trial pulled apart by defence --Long morning of embarrassment for the FBI as agent misidentified Twitter account photo of Grozny as Mecca and tweets falsely attributed to Tsarnaev were revealed to be jokes from Comedy Central TV shows and pop lyrics | 10 Mar 2015 | Sparks flew in a federal courtroom in Boston on Tuesday in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – the younger and only survivor of two brothers accused of perpetrating the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing – as the testimony of an FBI agent and witness for the prosecution collapsed under cross-examination by the defence. Tsarnaev's defence attorney Miriam Conrad surgically deconstructed testimony given late on Monday by an FBI agent that looked at Tsarnaev's Twitter accounts – and embarrassed the FBI by showing them to have misidentified a picture of a mosque in Grozny, Chechnya, as the Muslim holy site of Mecca. [LOL! *Morons.*] The exposure of that mistake was just part of a long morning of embarrassment for the FBI, as Conrad poked gaping holes in their investigation into Tsarnaev's online persona. FBI special agent Steven Kimball was forced to admit that he did not know that several of the tweets the prosecution had highlighted yesterday – to damning effect – as pointing towards Tsarnaev's radicalisation and violence were actually lyrics from pop songs.


SC National Guard Drills: Humvees Outfitted With Machine Guns for Door-to-Door 'Wellness Checks' | 9 Mar 2015 | On March 7, 2015, a state-wide drill, entitled Operation Vigilant Guard, took place under the pretext of preparation for the inevitable destruction a hurricane would bring to South Carolina...Such door-to-door "wellness checks" also took place in Overton, S.C. The portion of the drills that were witnessed by this writer involved a setup of about 9 military tents outside of the Florence, SC, airport. A number of trucks were present as well as Humvees, many of which were outfitted with machine gun turrets and machine guns. A sign reading "Region 4: HRF" was posted outside of the airport. HRF stands for Homeland Response Force and Region 4 represents the FEMA region of the area...Numerous military vehicles were seen on the streets of Florence throughout the day.


Nearly 15,000 MN turkeys die in avian flu episode; four workers being monitored | 6 Mar 2015 | A strain of lethal avian flu is now being blamed for the deaths of nearly 15,000 turkeys in Pope County, and officials are moving quickly in an attempt to keep it in check. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture said Thursday that only workers handling the birds, all from the same commercial flock, are at risk of infection. Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) reports that four workers who had direct contact with the infected birds are being monitored by MDH for respiratory illnesses...The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the finding in Pope County, in western Minnesota, is the first appearance of the highly pathogenic H5N2 strain in the Mississippi flyway.


Hillary Clinton: Private email set up for 'convenience' --Hillary Clinton: 'I thought using one device would be simpler; obviously it hasn't worked out that way.' | 10 Mar 2015 | Hillary Clinton has told reporters she used private emails out of "convenience" during her time as secretary of state. But Mrs Clinton said it "would have been better" to have two accounts to separate work and personal emails. The issue of whether Mrs Clinton breached federal records rules has gained attention as she is expected to announce a run for president.


Ferguson City Manager Cited in Justice Department Report Resigns | 10 Mar 2015 | The city manager of Ferguson, Mo., who a Department of Justice report said was responsible for overseeing the city's operations as it engaged in racially biased and unconstitutional policing practices, has resigned. The announcement came during a City Council meeting here on Tuesday, about a week after the scathing Justice Department report. The manager, John Shaw, 39, had held the post since 2007. As Ferguson's chief executive, he is the city's most powerful official.


Ferguson judge behind aggressive fines policy resigns as city's court system seized | 9 Mar 2015 | A judge [sic] in Ferguson, Missouri, who is accused of running a modern-day debtors' prison while fixing traffic tickets for himself and owing $170,000 in unpaid taxes, resigned on Monday as state authorities seized control of the city's court system. Ronald J Brockmeyer stepped down as Ferguson's municipal court judge after Missouri's supreme court ordered that all the court's cases be transferred to the St Louis County circuit court, according to a source who was not authorised to speak publicly about the decision.


Wisconsin capital marked by third day of protests after police shooting | 9 Mar 2015 | Activists protested for a third day in Madison, Wisconsin, on Sunday over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman, the latest in a string of killings that have intensified concerns of racial bias in U.S. law enforcement. More than 100 people angry over the death of Tony Robinson Jr. marched through the streets of Madison toward the capital building on Sunday evening, carrying signs, beating drums and chanting "The people united will never be defeated."


As Two Oklahoma Students Are Expelled for Racist Chant, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Vows Wider Inquiry | 10 Mar 2015 | As the University of Oklahoma expelled two students Tuesday for leading a racist song that sparked outrage across the country, the fraternity involved said it would investigate incidents at other campuses as it faced questions over the chant's use by members at other universities. Former members of the fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, claimed on social media that the same chant was used at colleges in other states, and University of Oklahoma officials investigating the episode said they did not believe the song had originated on their campus.


University of Oklahoma fraternity suspended after racist chant | 9 Mar 2015 | A video of racist chant by men alleged to be fraternity brothers at the University of Oklahoma has brought widespread condemnation and the fraternity's suspension. The 10-second video features men said to be members of the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE)...The chant appears to be: "There will never be a n--r SAE/There will never be a n--r SAE/You can hang 'em from a tree, but it will never start with me/There will never be a n--r SAE." Early Monday, the fraternity's national organization said the University of Oklahoma's chapter would be suspended.


Iowa Elementary Students Raising Money to Save Polar Bears | 10 Mar 2015 | (Urbandale, IA) A group of 4th grade students at Karen Acres Elementary School are out to save the polar bears, one stuffed animal at a time. The students say they came up with the idea after learning about the effects of global warming on polar bears in class; as ice melts, polar bears are dying, and the students hope to raise m-ney to save as many as possible. After approaching the principal, the group is making stuffed polar bears and selling them - along with pins - as a f-ndraiser.



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