News Updates from CLG
25 October 2015
25 October 2015
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Previous edition: NYPD using military-grade x-ray vans, bombarding unknown targets with radiation to spy on them
Vladimir Putin accuses US of backing terrorism in Middle East |24 Oct 2015 | The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has launched a stinging attack on US policy in the Middle East, accusing Washington of backing terrorism and playing a "double game". In a speech on Thursday at the annual gathering of the Valdai Club, a group of Russian and international analysts and politicians, Putin said the US had attempted to use terrorist groups as "a battering ram to overthrow regimes they don't like". He said: "It's always hard to play a double game - to declare a fight against terrorists but at the same time try to use some of them to move the pieces on the Middle Eastern chessboard in your own favour. There's no need to play with words and split terrorists into moderate and not moderate. I would like to know what the difference is."
Assad to Putin at Moscow talks: Terrorists would seize larger areas if Russia did not act | 21 Oct 2015 | Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad held talks in Moscow on Tuesday. The Syrian leader said Russia's actions have prevented the terrorists from seizing larger areas in his country...Bashar Assad thanked Russia for the support provided to Syria in fighting for its sovereignty and unity. "Terrorists would have occupied far greater territories if it were not for Russia's military assistance," President Assad said, adding that political steps are due to follow military action.
U.S. commando death in Iraq raises issue of 'mission creep' | 22 Oct 2015 | A U.S. special forces commando was killed in Iraq during a joint U.S.-Kurdish raid that freed about 70 hostages from an Islamic State prison, the Pentagon announced Thursday. He was the first American to die during combat there in almost four years. The assault on the Islamic State prison outside the town of Hawija, Iraq, 100 miles north of Baghdad, was the first time since the March 2003 U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq that American and Kurdish forces have conducted a rescue operation together. It was also the first time that American combat troops have undertaken a ground mission in Iraq since President Obama sent the first of 3,000 troops back there 16 months ago with orders that limited their activities to training, advising and equipping Iraqi soldiers.
CIA Director John Brennan's Email Contacts List Released by WikiLeaks | 22 Oct 2015 | A list of contacts as stored in the AOL email account of John Brennan. It mostly contains email addresses (people in active email exchange with the account holder) as well as some Instant-Messenger IDs (AIM). [CIA Director John Brennan's Email Contacts List Released by WikiLeaks [CLG mirror post] 25 Oct 2015.]
Australia to allow Facebook photos to be used in national surveillance database - report | 22 Oct 2015 | Photos from social media websites like Facebook could be used in an Australian counter-terrorism database. Critics are concerned about the system's lack of "transparency," but the new legislation can come into effect without being passed by parliament. Senior officials from the attorney general's office confirmed late on Tuesday that photos from social media could be used in the system, which is known as "the capability," the Guardian reports.
Insane in the membrane: US military aid to Israel to increase by $1bn as Social Security recipients get no raise | 22 Oct 2015 | The annual military aid provided by America to Israel is expected to increase by nearly $1 billion by the end of this decade, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. According to the newspaper, the total amount of aid given to Israel by America since 1962 has reached approximately 100 billion; 3.1 billion during the past year. The newspaper quoted informed sources as saying that during the renewal of the military aid agreements for the upcoming years, there will be an increase in the military aid budget, which will reach more than $4 billion a year starting from 2019. [See: Bad news for retirees: No Social Security cost-of-living increase, higher medical costs for many 15 Oct 2015.]
Netanyahu Criticised for Absolving Hitler --The Israeli PM [Grade 'A' sociopath] is forced to backtrack on comments suggesting a WWII Muslim leader came up with the idea of exterminating Jews. | 21 Oct 2015 | Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused of absolving Hitler of responsibility for the Holocaust. In a speech to the Zionist World Congress, Mr Netanyahu said the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Al Husseini, had played a "central role in fomenting the final solution" by trying to convince Hitler to destroy the Jews during a November 1941 meeting in Berlin. "Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews," Mr Netanyahu told the group.
Video shows blasts at nuclear waste dump site that shut down U.S. 95 | 20 Oct 2015 | A video of Sunday's explosions that preceded a fire in a state-owned radioactive waste trench at the US Ecology site 10 miles south of Beatty shows white smoke emanating from the soil before the ground erupts, shooting debris and more white smoke into the air. The 40-second cellphone video, released Thursday by the Nevada Department of Public Safety two days after the Las Vegas Review-Journal had requested it, was taken from a berm atop Trench No. 11 overlooking the soil cap of Trench No. 14. Trench No. 14 is where containers of low-level radioactive waste were buried in part of a pit the size of a football stadium in the 1970s.
Japan acknowledges possible radiation casualty at Fukushima nuclear plant | 20 Oct 2015 | Japan on Tuesday acknowledged the first possible casualty from radiation at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, a worker who was diagnosed with cancer after the crisis broke out began in 2011. The male worker in his 30s, who was employed by a construction contractor, worked at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima Daiichi plant and other nuclear facilities, a health ministry official said. Of total radiation exposure of 19.8 millisieverts (mSv), the worker received a dose of 15.7 (mSv) between October 2012 and December 2013 working at Fukushima, said the official.
Patricia, strongest landfalling Pacific hurricane on record, downgraded to tropical storm | 24 Oct 2015 | Former Hurricane Patricia was downgraded to a tropical storm Saturday morning just 13 hours after becoming the strongest hurricane ever known to make landfall on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Earlier Friday, Patricia became the most powerful tropical cyclone ever measured in the Western Hemisphere as its maximum sustained winds reached an unprecedented 200 mph (320 kph) and its central pressure fell to 879 millibars (25.96 inches of mercury). In addition to its unprecedented 200-mph (320-kph) sustained winds, Hurricane Patricia broke the record for lowest pressure in any hurricane on record...Around 1 p.m. CDT Friday, the minimum central pressure reached its lowest point, 879 millibars (25.96 inches of mercury).
Hurricane Patricia batters Mexico as one of strongest storms ever | 24 Oct 2015 | Hurricane Patricia, one of the most powerful storms on record, struck Mexico's Pacific coast on Friday with destructive winds that tore down trees, moved cars and forced thousands of people to flee homes and beachfront resorts. Hours after making landfall, the storm weakened but still packed winds of 130 miles per hour (210 km per hour). There were no reported casualties and officials said the damage might not be as catastrophic as feared.
'Potentially catastrophic' Patricia becomes strongest hurricane ever recorded, to slam Mexico today | 23 Oct 2015 | Early Friday, the behemoth Hurricane Patricia became the strongest hurricane ever measured by the National Hurricane Center. Patricia is forecast to make landfall on Mexico’s west central coast late Friday with destructive winds, torrents of rain, and a devastating storm surge. The Category 5 storm's maximum sustained winds strengthened to an astonishing 200 mph. "This makes Patricia the strongest hurricane on record in the National Hurricane Center’s area of responsibility (AOR) which includes the Atlantic and the eastern North Pacific basins," NHC said. "The minimum central pressure estimated from the aircraft data, 880 mb, is the lowest ever for our AOR."
Bad news for retirees: No Social Security cost-of-living increase, higher medical costs for many | 15 Oct 2015 | Tens of millions of seniors will see no annual cost-of-living adjustment in their Social Security checks in 2016, the government said Thursday, unwelcome news that also will flatten benefit payments for retired federal workers and service members. It is only the third time in 40 years -- all of them during the Obama administration -- that the Social Security Administration has not increased its payments. The raises are tied to the consumer price index (CPI).
Lincoln Chafee drops out of Democratic primary race | 23 Oct 2015 | Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee ended his long-shot bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, he announced at a Washington event Friday. The Democrat declared his presidential campaign in June, shortly after announcing that he had formed an exploratory committee. He has been one of the most aggressive candidates against frontrunner Hillary Clinton, calling her out at multiple times about her 2002 vote in favor of the Iraq War.
Mega barf alert *and* gag me with a chainsaw: TPP Lobbyist Paul Ryan Says He'll Run for House Speaker | 22 Oct 2015 | Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., informed his GOP colleagues late Thursday that he would run for House speaker, likely ensuring Republicans avoid what could have been a divisive battle to become the party's next leader in the lower chamber. Ryan's announcement comes one day after a majority of the House Freedom Caucus, an influential faction of conservative congressmen, said they would support the popular [Koch-owned] lawmaker. The 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee is expected to easily get the support necessary to succeed outgoing House Speaker John Boehner.
Clinton, back in the Benghazi hot seat, withstands Republicans' grilling | 22 Oct 2015 | Hillary Rodham Clinton easily parried barbed Republican questioning Thursday about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, emerging unscathed from a high-stakes congressional hearing with a smooth and sometimes poignant account of her role in the event that has loomed as among her largest political liabilities. Democrats defended Clinton's leadership and repeatedly accused Republicans of using the special investigative panel to hunt for damaging information about her. Republicans sought to establish a link between Clinton's decision-making -- before and during the attacks -- and the four deaths, but they clearly struggled to build a theory of the case that she was directly responsible or negligent. [George W. Bush continued to read 'The Pet Goat' 30 minutes after he knew that the US was under attack: No questions asked. (That's even if you don't believe that 9/11 was an inside job, as I do.) --LRP]
Full text: Clinton testifies before House committee on Benghazi | 22 Oct 2015 | Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton testified Thursday about the attacks that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. This is a full transcript of the hearing.
Benghazi hearing: On day he was killed, Amb. Chris Stevens reported to State Dept. he had met with al-Qaeda members | 22 Oct 2015 | It was revealed in today's Benghazi hearing that on the day he was killed, Ambassador Chris Stevens reported in a wire to the State Department that he had met with Wissam bin Hamid, a warlord with al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] connections. When Representative Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas) confronted Hillary Clinton with a picture of Bin Hamid and the head of the al-Qaeda's Ansar al Sharia group, Mohammed al-Zawahari, Clinton said she had no knowledge such a meeting took place. "Were you aware that our folks were either wittingly or unwittingly meeting on the ground with members of al-Qaeda hours before the attack?" Pompeo asked.
GOP primary poll: Donald Trump on top with 32% | 21 Oct 2015 | Donald Trump is yet again on top of the latest national poll of Republican voters, taking his biggest lead in weeks with 32% of support. And while Trump has spent recent days feuding with Jeb Bush over former President [sic] George W. Bush's legacy on [not] keeping America safe, the former Florida governor is stuck in the single digits with 7%, according to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll released Wednesday. "He's way down in the polls, he's doing very poorly," Trump said of Bush on Wednesday morning on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Joe Biden says no to 2016 presidential race | 21 Oct 2015 | Vice President Biden announced Wednesday he will not run for president, ending months of speculation about his political future. Biden, a former U.S. senator, sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008. "I've concluded it has closed," Biden said of the window to jump in the race.
Christie's blind spot on our most vulnerable (Star-Ledger Editorial Board ) | 18 Oct 2015 | What a week this was for thousands of poor and unemployable people with disabilities, many of whom rely on oxygen tanks and wheelchairs or suffer from severe mental illnesses -- and learned they could soon be homeless, thanks to some bureaucrats who work for Chris Christie. A state housing hardship program that had been paying most of their rent through vouchers is about to expire, and instead of arranging an alternative safety net -- as every other governor has done -- his administration abruptly began cutting off their aid...Some of the 3,000 people faced evictions and had hundreds of dollars drained from their bank accounts, because their rental vouchers suddenly didn't clear.
All CLGers, please sign and share: Petition to allow Pedals, the bear with crippled front paw who can only walk on hind legs, to be moved to a bear sanctuary | 24 Oct 2015 | Help Pedals the Bear go from a struggling life in a New Jersey neighborhood to a beautiful bear sanctuary in upstate New York. He is a bi-pedal bear and he can only walk upright. He is missing one front paw and the other is permanently injured. He roams the local neighborhoods that he calls home in NJ looking for his next meal. He does not have the capability of running from what he may consider a threat, he cannot climb trees as most black bears do. He sticks to the local neighborhood because he cannot compete with the much larger bears in the area or navigate some of the tough mountain terrain. He lies down in the middle of the road with exhaustion...Tell the NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife that we want to help Pedals get to sanctuary and tell them to make the right decision and let the sanctuary bring him to safety. Sign this petition and support Pedals to go from a struggling life to a peaceful place where he will be cared for the rest of his life.
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