CLG: I am a cook in the US Senate but I still need food stamps to feed my children By Bertrand Olotara, Food workers, janitors walk out on U.S. Senate, A chilling step closer to Australian secret police

When the Congressional GOP SLASHES FOOD STAMPS, why are Senate workers forced to receive FOOD STAMPS to feed their children?

Why is the GOP allowing so many Americans to live in poverty?

Republicans offer this level of ignorance when these people are WORKING?

The GOP long ignored the growing numbers of Americans lacking basic health care and rant about the successful "Obamacare" having nothing else to offer.

Why are so many Americans supporting the GOP, the Party of the Wealthy?

This defines the Moral Bankruptcy of the GOP.

News Updates from CLG
23 April 2015

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Previous edition: Radioactive Drone That Landed on Japan PM's Rooftop Also Carried Cesium in Liquid Container, Investigators Say (Hopefully, the problem of duplicate CLG Newsletters has been rectified, but we'll see.)

American, Italian Hostages Killed in January CIA Drone Strike | 23 April 2015 | A U.S. drone strike in January targeting a suspected 'al Qaeda' compound in Pakistan inadvertently killed an American and Italian being held hostage by the group, senior Obama administration officials said. The killing of American development [USAID aka CIA] expert Warren Weinstein and Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto is the first known instance in which the U.S. has accidentally killed a hostage in a drone strike. The mishap represents a major blow to the Central Intelligence Agency and its covert drone program in Pakistan, which President Barack Obama embraced and expanded after coming to office in 2009.

US drone strike kills American, Italian hostages in Pakistan | 23 April 2015 | The White House says that two hostages, an American and an Italian, died in Pakistan earlier this year as the result of a United States-launched drone strike that also killed two US citizens involved with Al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh]. "It is with tremendous sorrow that we recently concluded that a US government counterterrorism operation in January killed two innocent hostages held by Al-Qaeda since 2011," reads a statement released by the White House press office on Thursday morning. Officials say that an attack in January against a suspected terrorist compound caused the death of American development expert Dr. Warren Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian aid worker.

Ex-CENTCOM, CIA chief David Petraeus to be sentenced for leaking military secrets | 23 April 2015 | Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, was expected to be sentenced Thursday in federal court in Charlotte for giving her classified material while she was working on the book. Petraeus will appear at the sentencing, which comes two months after he agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material. The plea agreement carries a possible sentence of up to a year in prison.

Fukushima nuclear plant owner told to upgrade from Windows XP | 23 April 2015 | The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy complex, has been told to migrate 48,000 internet-connected PCs off Windows XP sooner rather than later. TEPCO was recently probed by Japan's Board of Audit, an organisation that oversees the finances of Japan's government and government agencies. The Board of Audit is interested in TEPCO because Japan is keen to see the company pay for cleanup of the Fukushima mess. The audit released in late March therefore examines TEPCO's operations in depth, the better to help it reach a state in which it can pay its dues.

A chilling step closer to Australian secret police --Foreign journalists are falling off their chairs in shock at the brutality of our data retention law, yet we hardly blink an eye. | 22 April 2015 | ...Meanwhile, nine days ago, the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015 became law, after passing through both houses of Parliament with Labor support...A record of your electronic communications - who you call, or text, or email, or message, when you do so, and where you are at the time - must now be kept by your service provider for a minimum of two years. And more than 20 law enforcement agencies will have access to those records without the need for a warrant, and without (needless to say) anyone informing you...And here comes the kicker: the clause that had those foreign reporters falling off their chairs, but was barely mentioned by anyone, so far as I can see, in the parliamentary debates about the bill. Section 182A of the new act says anyone who "discloses or uses" information about a journalist information warrant -- about whether one has been applied for, or has been granted, or exists, or even does not exist -- can be sent to prison for two years.

FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades | 18 April 2015 | The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000. Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory's microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country's largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.

Food workers, janitors walk out on U.S. Senate | 22 April 2015 | About 40 contracted workers from the United States Senate walked off their jobs Wednesday morning and joined more than 1,000 labor activists at a rally calling on President Barack Obama and Congress to require federal contractors to pay their workers more. The Senate workers -- employed at the upper chamber's cafeteria, on janitorial duty and in other food service jobs -- along with other federal contracted employees, are calling on the President to sign a "Model Employer Executive Order" that would give federal contracting preferences to companies that can pay their workers 15 an hour.

I am a cook in the US Senate but I still need food stamps to feed my children By Bertrand Olotara | 22 April 2015 | Every day, I serve food to some of the most powerful people on earth, including many of the senators who are running for president: I'm a cook for the federal contractor that runs the US Senate cafeteria. But today, they'll have to get their meals from someone else's hands, because I'm on strike. I am walking off my job because I want the presidential hopefuls to know that I live in poverty...I hate to admit it, but I have to use food stamps so that my kids don’t go to bed hungry.

Michael Brown's family to sue Ferguson, Mo. for wrongful death | 23 April 2015 | Michael Brown's parents will sue Ferguson, Mo., on Thursday for the wrongful death of their son, their attorneys confirmed to the Los Angeles Times. The specifics of the suit will not be released until after a news conference, which the family will hold at 10:30 a.m. local time in front of the St. Louis County courthouse, said Adner Marcelin, a spokesman for the Brown family attorneys, late Wednesday. Brown, who was black and unarmed, was shot to death Aug. 9 by white police Officer Darren Wilson, triggering months of protests and unrest in Ferguson, a predominantly black St. Louis suburb with a mostly white police force.

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