CLG: TPPimp/Social Security slasher Paul Ryan considering running for House speaker, Ex-Benghazi investigator says U.S. panel targeted Clinton: media, President Putin rockin' it out, destroying Saudi/Mossad/US-backed I-CIA-SIS in *days:*

News Updates from CLG
13 October 2015

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WikiLeaks release of TPP deal text stokes 'freedom of expression' fears --Intellectual property rights chapter appears to give Trans-Pacific Partnership countries' countries greater power to stop information from going public | 09 Oct 2015 | WikiLeaks has released what it claims is the full intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the controversial agreement between 12 countries that was signed off on Monday. TPP was negotiated in secret and details have yet to be published. One chapter appears to give the signatory countries (referred to as "parties") greater power to stop embarrassing information going public. The treaty would give signatories the ability to curtail legal proceedings if the theft of information is "detrimental to a party's economic interests, international relations, or national defense or national security" – in other words, presumably, if a trial would cause the information to spread...Obama has pledged to make the TPP public but only after the legislation has passed.

 

TPP Treaty: Intellectual Property Rights Chapter | 09 Oct 2015 | Today, 9 October, 2015 WikiLeaks releases the final negotiated text for the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP encompasses 12 nations representing more than 40 per cent of global GDP. Despite a final agreement, the text is still being withheld from the public, notably until after the Canadian election on October 19. The document is dated four days ago, October 5th, or last Monday, the same day it was announced in Atlanta, Georgia that the 12 member states to the treaty had reached an accord after five and a half years of negotiations...Hundreds of representatives from large corporations had direct access to the negotiations whereas elected officials had limited or no access. Political opposition to the TPP in the United States, the dominant member of the 12 negotiating nations, has increased over time as details have emerged through previous WikiLeaks disclosures.

 

The Trade Creature Walks Among Us! | 08 Oct 2015 | Die, monster, die! Every time you think that beast called the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- TPP for short -- is finished, it comes back like a bad penny; or in this case, trillions and trillions and trillions of bad pennies...Like all manmade, fantastical creatures, this TPP thing has been conceived in secret. Top secret. You could even go to jail for divulging its contents.Few have been able to see the actual text -- all 30 chapters of it -- except for some 600 "cleared advisors," the majority of whom are from big business, and even they have been restricted in what they're allowed to examine.

 

Julian Assange: London ends 24-hour guards at Ecuador embassy front door | 13 Oct 2015 |London police ended the round-the-clock guards at the Ecuadorian embassy, where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has taken refuge since 2012 in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning in a sexual-assault case. A fully visible police presence is "no longer proportionate," London's Metropolitan Police Service said in an e-mailed sentence. Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012, after exhausting options in UK courts to avoid extradition over rape allegations stemming from a 2010 trip to Sweden. He has refused to return to the Scandinavian country, citing risks he will be extradited to the US over the release of secret documents by WikiLeaks.

 

Iranian parliament passes bill approving nuclear deal | 13 Oct 2015 | Iran's parliament passed a bill on Tuesday supporting the government in implementing a nuclear deal with world powers, state news agency IRNA said, in a victory for the government over conservative opponents of the deal. Some lawmakers have opposed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that President Hassan Rouhani's government reached with world powers on July 14, and Tuesday's vote removes a major obstacle to putting the agreement into practice. "The bill to implement the JCPOA...was passed in a public session on Tuesday with 161 votes in favor," IRNA said. There were 59 votes against and 13 abstentions.

 

Pentagon to ditch $500M Syrian 'rebel' training program --Officials have acknowledged the lack of results of the program. | 09 Oct 2015 | The United States dropped its 500 million failed effort to train and equip large groups of moderate Syrian rebels in the 'fight against' the Islamic State, instead focusing on vetting and equipping selected leaders of existing rebel groups to battle the militants. The announcement Friday marks the end to the short-lived training program that produced few rebels to combat the IS [I-CIA-SIS]. The United States will begin vetting and training group leaders and giving them "basic equipment packages," Christine Wormuth, undersecretary of defense for policy told reporters Friday in Washington.

 

US trained only 'four or five' Syrian fighters against Isis in $500m effort, top general testifies | 16 Sept 2015 | A 500m effort to train Syrian forces against [sic] the Islamic State has resulted in only a handful of fighters actively battling the jihadi army, the top military commander overseeing the war has testified. "We're talking four or five," General Lloyd Austin, commander of US Central Command, told a dissatisfied Senate armed services committee on Wednesday. The training initiative is Barack Obama’s linchpin for retaking Syrian territory from Isis.

 

President Putin rockin' it out, destroying Saudi/Mossad/US-backed I-CIA-SIS in *days:* Russian Air Force destroys 29 ISIS camps in Syria in 24 hours | 10 Oct 2015 | Russian warplanes in Syria have bombed 29 terrorist field camps and other facilities of the militant group Islamic State in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. "Our aviation group over the past day has destroyed two militant command centers, 29 field camps, 23 fortified facilities and several troop positions with military hardware," ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Saturday. The Russian Air Force conducted 64 sorties and hit a total of 55 targets, he said. He added that the Russian effort has "considerably degraded" the strength of the terrorist forces in Syria.

 

Turkish officials claim 'concrete evidence' of Isis link to bombings | 12 Oct 2015 | Turkish officials said they had firm evidence linking Islamic State to the twin suicide bombings that killed scores of people at a peace rally in the country's deadliest ever terrorist attack...Turkish government sources told the Guardian there was "concrete evidence" linking Isis [I-CIA-SIS] to the bombing, and that they had established links to a July bombing in the southern border city of Suruç that had also been blamed on the militant group. Officials said that at least 97 people had been killed in the bombings, although rally organisers put the death toll at 128.

 

Pentagon to make 'condolence payments' to families of victims in US Kunduz hospital attack | 10 Oct 2015 | The Pentagon said Saturday it will issue payments to the families of the civilians killed and injured during last week's deadly U.S. strike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. The U.S. government has regularly issued payments to Afghans for property damage, injuries and deaths throughout its military presence in the embattled country. The Oct. 3 attack on the hospital run by Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian aid group, killed 22 people and wounded 37 more.

 

2 Brits, 2 US, 1 French service personnel killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash | 12 Oct 2015 | Two British servicemen have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed on Monday. The crash also killed two US servicemen and one French member of the armed forces. The pair, who served with the Royal Air Force, died after the Puma Mk 2 aircraft crashed at NATO headquarters in Kabul. The two British military personnel were among five people killed in the crash. A further five were injured.

 

5 troops killed and 5 injured in helicopter crash in Afghanistan | 11 Oct 2015 | Five members of a NATO-led effort to train and support Afghan military troops -- the Resolute Support [Poppy Fields] Mission -- died Sunday in a helicopter crash, the U.S. military said. The crash occurred "due to a non-hostile incident" [?] about 4:15 p.m. near Camp Resolute Support in Kabul Afghanistan, the military said in a press release...Five other troops were injured in the crash.

 

Suicide Car Bomb Attack on Coalition Convoy in Kabul | 11 Oct 2015 | A suicide car bomb struck a convoy of coalition forces in the Afghan capital of Kabul Sunday, officials said. Casualties were reported in the explosion, which rocked central Kabul at around 9:15 a.m. local time. U.S.-led coalition forces spokesperson Col. Brian Tribus confirmed that their forces were the target of the explosion. "A RS (Resolute Support) convoy was struck by an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) in Kabul this morning," Tribus said.

 

Ex-Benghazi investigator says U.S. panel targeted Clinton: media | 10 Oct 2015 | A former investigator for the House of Representatives Select Committee on Benghazi is accusing the Republican-led panel of targeting Democrat Hillary Clinton to scupper her presidential bid, the New York Times and CNN reported on Saturday. They said Major Bradley Podliska, an intelligence officer in the Air Force Reserve on active duty in Germany, alleged that he was fired for resisting pressure to focus his investigation into the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi on Clinton's role. They said he planned to file a complaint in federal court next month.

 

Ebola detected again in British nurse Pauline Cafferkey as she is flown to London isolation unit | 09 Oct 2015 | A nurse diagnosed with Ebola in December last year has been flown to an isolation unit after falling ill. Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was flown from Glasgow to London this morning, back to the Royal Free Hospital. She spent almost a month in an isolation there earlier this year.

 

Measure to repeal California's mandatory vaccine law won't be on ballot | 08 Oct 2015 | Proponents of an effort to repeal California's new stricter law requiring mandatory vaccines for school children failed to submit enough signatures [!?!] to qualify a ballot initiative asking voters to repeal the law. County election clerks reported receiving fewer than 234,000 of the 366,000 signatures needed to ask California voters to repeal the law, according to figures provided to the secretary of state's office and posted online Thursday. The new state law struck down the state's personal belief exemption for immunizations, a move that requires nearly all public schoolchildren to be vaccinated. Six counties reported they received the petitions after the Sept. 28 deadline for submission. [Yeah, right!]

 

1 Dead, 1 Wounded in Shooting Near Texas Southern University | 09 Oct 2015 | One person was killed and another was wounded in a shooting near Texas Southern University on Friday, police said. The shooting occurred around 11:30 a.m. CT near the university's student housing complex. Two people had been detained for questioning, police said. A third suspect was being sought, police said. A motive in the deadly shooting was unclear.

 

Poll: Trump maintains lead with 27 percent | 11 Oct 2015 | Donald Trump maintains his spot atop the 2016 GOP presidential field, according to a new CBS News poll that shows outsider candidates drawing 63 percent of the vote. The real-estate mogul garners 27 percent support in the poll, the same number he drew in the last edition of the poll one month ago. Ben Carson continues to place second with 21 percent support, down 2 points since the last poll...Eighty-four percent of respondents say Trump has strong leadership qualities, compared to 72 percent who said the same of Carson and 60 percent who thought former business executive Carly Fiorina was a good leader.

 

Ted Cruz says Donald Trump won't be the GOP nominee | 09 Oct 2015 | Ted Cruz said Thursday that he did not think Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee, his harshest criticism yet of a candidate he has assiduously avoided even brushing with judgment. Asked by WABC Radio's Rita Cosby whether he believed that "eventually, you could beat him, based on your principles," Cruz said he could. "I think that's right. I think that, in time, I don't believe Donald is going to be the nominee and I think, in time, the lion's share of his supporters end up with us," Cruz said in an interview taped Thursday that will air in full on Sunday.

 

Paul Ryan Likely to Strong-Arm Obama Trade Deal as Speaker of the House | 11 Oct 2015 | Anyone voting for Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) for Speaker of the House should think twice when it comes to passing President Obama's trade agenda, as Ryan was one of the strongest advocates to grant Obama fast-track trade authority under the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which only gives Congress an up or down vote – without issuing any amendments – on a trade deal. Earlier this summer, Breitbart News reported about the secrecy and controversy surrounding Obama's pending trade agenda, which includes the recently finalized Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), as well as the Trades in Services Act (TiSA) and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Breitbart News exposed the secretive natureof the trade deal, highlighting that it was being kept in a secured room on Capitol Hill. The press and public are not able review the list of the members of Congress that actually read the deal prior to voting on it, and in fact, members of Congress are not allowed to even bring their staff with them or take notes out of the room.

 

TPPimp/Social Security slasher Paul Ryan considering running for House speaker [Obama is dying to work with this fraud, so they can work on bad budgets together and ram the secret TPP corporate takeover deal through Congress.] | 09 Oct 2015 | Rep. Paul Ryan is telling House Republicans privately he is considering running for speaker, several members say. Ryan informed several members on the House floor of his deliberations, Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, told CNN. Stewart added that he urged Ryan to run, with the Wisconsin Republican replaying that he was "thinking and praying on it." Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Sociopath-California, said that Ryan told him privately he is thinking about it as well.

 

Kevin McCarthy's Exit Came After Personal Threat Over Affair Allegations --'Why not resign like Bob Livingston?' | 08 Oct 2015 | In the hours before House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) abruptly withdrew his candidacy to be the next speaker of the House, he was sent an email from a conservative activist threatening to expose an alleged affair with a colleague. The subject line: "Kevin, why not resign like Bob Livingston?" The email, sent just after 8 a.m. on Thursday, came from Steve Baer, a Chicago-based GOP donor known for mass-emailing conservative figures and Republican lawmakers. It was addressed to McCarthy and numerous others, including the personal account of Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.), who conservative media sites have suggested is tied romantically to McCarthy.

 

Tamir Rice shooting was 'reasonable,' two experts conclude | 11 Oct 2015 | The police shooting death of a 12-year-old Cleveland boy with a pellet gun was reasonable, two experts say in reports prepared for the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor. Tamir Rice was killed by an officer in training outside a Cleveland recreation center in November 2014. The shooting sparked controversy given Tamir's age and the fact that he had a gun that resembled a handgun but fired pellets...Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty said a grand jury will decide whether Officer Timothy Loehmann and his partner, Frank Garmback, will face charges.

 

Google Docs goes dark | 09 Oct 2015 | Google Inc said some of its services including Drive and Docs were facing disruptions. Google's status page showed that its file-sharing services such as Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Classroom were facing disruptions. "We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Drive. We will provide more information shortly," the company said on its page at 2:55 p.m. ET.

 

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