CLG: Israeli officers disguised as Arabs burst into West Bank hospital, kill Palestinian, Paris shooting: Several killed and injured after 'Kalashnikov and grenade attacks' across French capital, Lebanon mourns 44 killed in Beirut bombings

 News Updates from CLG
13 November 2015

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Breaking: Army on Streets of France After Paris Shootings and 'Several Explosions' --Police say 100 Hostages Taken --Death Toll Rises to 35 --President Hollande Evacuated, taken to 'safe location' (MSNBC, wires) | 13 Nov 2015 | Dozens Dead In Paris Shootings and Blasts --Hostages are taken at a concert theatre as a number of attacks take place across the French capital. At least 30 people have been killed and around 100 others are being held hostage following a series of attacks in Paris on Friday night. Police say there have been multiple shootings and two explosions across the French capital.

 

Breaking: Paris shooting: Several killed and injured after 'Kalashnikov and grenade attacks' across French capital --Many people killed after several shootings and explosions across central Paris - live updates| 13 Nov 2015 | --'Several killed' after 'Kalashnikov attack' --Explosions heard outside Stade de France --Multiple attack sites across the French capital --Reports of suicide attacks and hostages taken 21:42 --'20 dead' French police union is now reporting 20 dead. It is still not clear how many of the attack sites are still active. According to the Alliance police union, there were two "suicide attacks" outside the Stade de France, where the France-Germany friendly is still underway. The explosions took place outside the stadium at gate D and H. Several believed dead.

 

Lebanon mourns 44 killed in Beirut bombings | 13 Nov 2015 | Lebanon on Friday mourned 44 people killed in a Hezbollah bastion in south Beirut in a twin bombing claimed by the Islamic State [I-CIA-SIS] group, the bloodiest such attack in years. The Red Cross said at least 239 people were wounded, several in critical condition, in the blasts that hit a busy shopping street in Burj al-Barajneh, a neighbourhood where the Shiite Hezbollah movement allied to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is popular.

 

U.S. drone strike targeted 'Jihadi John,' Briton linked to hostage beheadings --'Jihadi John' not confirmed killed | 12 Nov 2015 | The U.S. military launched a drone strike Thursday targeting "Jihadi John," the masked Islamic State terrorist who [allegedly] beheaded several Western hostages in Syria and came to symbolize the brutality of the militant group, U.S. officials said. But the Pentagon is still working to determine whether the strike actually killed the militant, Briton Mohammed Emwazi. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the strike took place around the Syrian city of Raqqa, the Islamic State's de facto capital.

 

'Are you really journalists?' Moscow slams Reuters for biased bombshell on Syria | 13 Nov 2015 | Moscow has condemned Reuters for its "exclusive" report which ignored a detailed statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry, in favor of the narrative predetermined by a "draft document" coming from an unnamed source and comments by anonymous officials. In its "exclusive" story published on November 10, Reuters claimed it had obtained a "draft" of Russia's plan for a "constitutional reform process of up to 18 months," prepared for the multilateral talks on Syria this week. The Reuters News Agency requested a comment from the Foreign Ministry, which it was given, but then decided to ignore it in their report.

 

'Assured unacceptable damage': Russian TV accidentally leaks secret 'nuclear torpedo' design --Sub apparently designed to bypass NATO radars and any existing missile defense systems | 12 Nov 2015 | The Kremlin has confirmed "some secret data" was accidentally leaked when Russian TV stations broadcast material apparently showing blueprints from a nuclear torpedo, designed to be used against enemy coastal installations. During President Vladimir Putin's meeting with military officials in Sochi, where the development of Russia's military capabilities were being discussed, a number of TV crews were able to capture footage of a paper that was certainly not meant for public viewing. The presentation slide titled "Ocean Multipurpose System: Status-6" showed some drawings of a new nuclear submarine weapons system.

 

Israeli officers disguised as Arabs burst into West Bank hospital, kill Palestinian | 12 Nov 2015 | Israeli security service operatives infiltrated a hospital in the Palestinian West Bank on Thursday, killing a bystander while attempting to detain a suspect who allegedly carried out a stabbing, local sources say. Jehad Shawar, director of Al Ahly Hospital in the West Bank city of Hebron, told Palestinian radio around 30 men arrived at the scene in two vans and entered the hospital building with a person pretending to be pregnant, Reuters reports. The Israeli forces infiltrated the hospital to arrest a Palestinian named Abdallah Azzam al-Shalalda, 27, who allegedly stabbed an Israeli settler near Hebron two weeks ago.

 

MPs debate citizenship anti-terror bill | 12 Nov 2015 | Federal MPs have begun debating draft laws stripping dual national terrorism suspects of Australian citizenship. Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles says the opposition will support the anti-terrorism bill. While revoking citizenship is a sensitive issue, the bill deals with legitimate national security issues about those who take up arms with a foreign army against the nation, he told parliament on Thursday.

 

UK government warned over new counter-terrorism legislation --Plan to ban non-violent extremists | 12 Nov 2015 | British Muslims must be at the heart of the creation of new counter-terrorism legislation if it is to be effective, one of the UK's largest Islamic organisations has warned. The challenge to the government was laid down by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) at a conference in central London on Thursday, aimed at formulating a response to tackling extremism and terrorism from the Muslim community. One of the MCB's biggest areas of concern is the plan to ban non-violent extremists, a particularly sensitive subject for the organisation, whose members feel sidelined by successive governments who believed the MCB harbours unpalatable viewpoints.

 

Toronto: East end given iodine pills as nuclear disaster precaution --200,000 Greater Toronto Area (GTA) homes and businesses have just received pills to 'protect them' from radiation | 10 Nov 2015 | If you live in Durham Region or Scarborough, you may have just been mailed a package of pills in a calming sky blue box. Those pills are meant to protect you in the event of a nuclear disaster -- a disaster on which you would be on the frontlines, living within a sensitive 10km zone surrounding the Pickering and Darlington Nuclear Generating Stations. 200,000 homes and businesses have just received potassium iodide (KI) pills in a $1.5 million OPG-funded project that is being run in conjunction with Durham Region and the City of Toronto. Also known as RadBlock, the pills prevent the thyroid gland from absorbing radioactive iodine, thus reducing the risk of thyroid cancer in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster.

 

Secret Service officer arrested, charged with crimes against children - report | 12 Nov 2015 | Federal and state authorities have charged a uniformed Secret Service officer from Maryland with sending obscene images and texts to someone he thought was a young Delaware girl, sometimes sending online communications while on duty at the White House. Unbeknownst to Lee Robert Moore, 37, the person he thought was a 14-year-old girl was actually an undercover Delaware police officer. According to a complaint unsealed Thursday in federal court in Wilmington, Moore surrendered to Maryland State Police on Monday after being placed on administrative leave last week.

 

New Haven police to seize unlocked property from cars in East Rock area - for 'safekeeping' | 01 Nov 2015 | If your computer is missing from your unlocked car, it may not be an opportunistic thief who snatched it. That important electronic device could be in the New Haven police property room, retrieved by your local walking beat officer. Stymied as to what to do to get residents to take seriously repeated police warnings to lock their vehicles and not leave valuables in them, Lt. Herbert Sharp said they are going to try something new in his policing district. Sharp, manager for the East Rock neighborhood, said confiscating goods that are invitations to thieves is one of the six exceptions in Connecticut law to the requirement for a search warrant. "It's called a caretaker," he said of the initiative he wants to implement this month.

 

Supreme Court Accepts Texas Abortion Law Case | 13 Nov 2015 | The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a challenge to a Texas law that would leave the state with about 10 abortion clinics, down from more than 40. The court has not heard a major abortion case since 2007, and the new case has the potential to affect millions of women and to revise the constitutional principles governing abortion rights. "Texas is the second-most-populous state in the nation -- home to 5.4 million women of reproductive age," abortion providers challenging the law wrote in their briefurging the court to hear the case. The case concerns two parts of a state law that imposes strict requirements on abortion providers.

 

Ben Carson's book is full of plagiarism and could be pulled from shelves | 11 Nov 2015 | Ben Carson has yet another problem in the honesty department. After a week in which many of the claims he's made in his books about his personal life in his various books have been exposed as phony, the issue has been compounded by the fact that long sections of one of the books have been copied and pasted from other people's work. The issue is serious enough that the publishing house is now being forced to reconsider the books based on their apparent plagiarism. Carson's 2012 book, America the Beautiful, contains instances of plagiarism from at least three different sources, including one conservative website and two books written by other authors. The irony here may be that in his book, Carson admits that he was caught plagiarizing other people's work in a similar manner while he was in college.

 

The Coddling of the American Mind |Sept. 2015| Something strange is happening at America's colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense...Two terms have risen quickly from obscurity into common campus parlance. Microaggressions are small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless. For example, by some campus guidelines, it is a microaggression to ask an Asian American or Latino American "Where were you born?," because this implies that he or she is not a real American. Trigger warnings are alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response. For example, some students have called for warnings that Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart describes racial violence and that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby portrays misogyny and physical abuse, so that students who have been previously victimized by racism or domestic violence can choose to avoid these works, which they believe might "trigger" a recurrence of past trauma.

 

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