Saturday, November 7, 2015

CLG: Radioactive honey found near nuclear power station, Lawsuit targets nuclear waste permit at beach, Sen. Sessions on TPP: 'My Fears Confirmed' - Shut Off Fast-Track Now




News Updates from CLG
07 November 2015
 
Previous edition: $100M More Announced for Syrian 'Rebels' After $500M Recently Spent to Train Only 4-5 Militants
 
NSAssociate Google strips links from CLG Newsletter on Syria and warns readers by Lori Price,www.legitgov.org | 05 Nov 2015 | NSAssociate Google decided to remove all of the links from Tuesday's CLG Newsletter. The subject line of the email, sent the 3rd of November, was "$100M More Announced for Syrian 'Rebels' After $500M Recently Spent to Train Only 4-5 Militants." Additionally, Google inserted a warning to recipients of the CLG Newsletter: "Be careful with this message. It contains content that's typically used to steal personal information." A screenshot of Google's interference with the CLG Newsletter can be viewed here.
 
Russian plane crash: flight recorder captured 'sound of explosion' | 07 Nov 2015 | The sound of an apparent explosion can be heard on the flight recorder of the Russian-operated plane that came down over the Sinai peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, adding to mounting evidence that a bomb was smuggled aboard, French media sources said on Friday. An Egyptian-led international team of aviation experts, including some from France, successfully recovered the black box, the flight recorder, from the crash site. Several French media outlets, including the television station France 2, reported that the investigators had listened to it and concluded that a bomb had detonated, which would seem to rule out structural failure or pilot error. The pilots can be heard chatting normally, including contact with airport controllers, up until the apparent explosion.
 
DHS increases security measures amid suspicions bomb downed Russian jet | 06 Nov 2015 | The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it is bolstering security at some foreign airports amid growing suspicion that a Russian airliner was brought down by a bomb. Secretary Jeh Johnson said that the enhances include expanded screening applied to items on aircraft, airport assessment and offers of assistance to "certain foreign airports" related to aviation and airport security. Changes to screening passengers on flights coming into the U.S. had been under discussion Friday at a meeting of senior representatives that included officials from the State Department, the Defense Department and the CIA, as well as a White House counter-terrorism advisor, two sources told Fox News.
 
Russia suspends flights to Egypt due to security concerns after Sinai crash | 06 Nov 2015 | President Vladimir Putin has agreed with the Federal Security Service to halt all Russian flights to Egypt following an October 31 passenger plane crash in Sinai that killed all 224 people on board. "As long as we haven't established the causes of the incident, I consider it appropriate to suspend the flights of Russian aircraft to Egypt. This primarily applies to the tourist flow," FSB director Aleksandr Bortnikov told a meeting of the Russian Anti-Terror Committee on Friday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin agreed with the recommendations of the Federal Security Service (FSB).
 
Bomb by Islamic State likely caused Russian plane crash: security sources | 04 Nov 2015 | Evidence now suggests that a bomb planted by the Islamic State militant group is the likely cause of last weekend's crash of a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai peninsula, U.S. and European security sources said on Wednesday. Islamic State, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria and is battling the Egyptian army in the Sinai Peninsula, said again on Wednesday it brought down the airplane, adding it would eventually tell the world how it carried out the attack. The Airbus A321M crashed on Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula shortly after taking off from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on its way to the Russian city of St Petersburg, killing all 224 people on board.
 
Egypt flights on hold as UK says bomb may have caused Russian crash --US officials suggest bomb may have been planted by Isis | 04 Nov 2105 | The British government has suspended all flights between the UK and the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh after US and UK officials said they believe the Russian plane that crashed over the Sinai peninsula may have been brought down by an explosive device. The UK foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, said his government is now advising against all but essential travel through Sharm el-Sheikh airport in Egypt as there is a "significant possibility" that the plane was brought down by an explosion on board, the strongest remarks yet by an official on the cause of the crash. US intelligence now suggests a bomb was planted on the plane by Isis [I-CIA-SIS] or an Isis affiliate, according to several media reports, citing unnamed US officials.
 
25,000-30,000 foreigners fighting for ISIS - Russian deputy defense minister | 04 Nov 2015 | Russia's Air Forces are striking only confirmed terrorist targets, such as Islamic State militants [I-CIA-SIS] and are not after the so-called 'moderate' Syrian rebels, Russia's deputy defense minister said, revealing that ISIS employs up to 30,000 foreign extremists. "The aviation and other [combat] means are deployed exclusively against the terrorist formations on the territory of Syria. There are no strikes being conducted at any other targets, connected to, for example, the forces of the so-called 'moderate' opposition," Defense Ministry deputy head Anatoly Antonov said on Wednesday.
 
U.S. Navy plans two or more patrols in South China Sea per quarter | 02 Nov 2015 | The U.S. Navy plans to conduct patrols within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands in the South China Sea about twice a quarter to remind China and other countries about [so-called] U.S. rights under international law, a U.S. defense official said on Monday. "We're going to come down to about twice a quarter or a little more than that," said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about Navy operational plans. U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes on Monday said there would be more demonstrations of the U.S. military's commitment to the right to freely navigate in the region.
 
Did a nuclear missile get rear-ended in Montana? --Air Force would not say what was inside tractor trailer that was rear-ended | 05 Nov 2015 | It's possibly the most heart-stopping fender bender ever posted to YouTube: An Air Force tractor trailer that may or may not be carrying a nuclear weapon rear-ended by a security vehicle. Great Falls, Montana, resident Aaron Tedford videotaped the convoy of at least two police vehicles, a security forces truck, a Humvee and six security forces BearCat vehicles escorting a white tractor trailer through Great Falls when the minor accident happened Monday afternoon. Tedford later wrote on Facebook that several helicopters were also flying overhead at the time...Malmstrom Air Force Base, which is located nearby Great Falls, is home to the 341st Missile Wing.
 
30 chapters of corpora-terrorism on steroids: White House finally releases text of Trans-Pacific Partnership corporate takeover agreement | 05 Nov 2015 | The much-anticipated release of the final text of a sweeping Asia-Pacific trade corporate takeover agreement became a reality on Thursday morning, kicking off what is expected to amount to months of intensive debate on Capitol Hill. The U.S. Trade Representative's office dropped the details of the massive 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal -- 30 chapters and more than 2,000 pages -- exactly one month since the agreement was completed on Oct. 5 in Atlanta. The text, which has been going through a legal scrub since the deal was completed, can be found here. [Notice how fraud Obama waited for his ally, Paul Ryan, to take the helm before the White House released the TPP, so that they could pimp it as a team?]
 
Sen. Sessions on TPP: 'My Fears Confirmed' - Shut Off Fast-Track Now --'Bureaucrats from Brunei have the same vote as the United States.' | 05 Nov 2015 | U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) issued a statement today after the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was released. Congress voted in June to fast-track TPP before a page of the agreement had been made public. "The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership runs 5,554 pages. This is, by definition, anti-democratic...These 5,554 pages are like the Lilliputians binding down Gulliver. They will enmesh our great country, and economy, in a global commission where bureaucrats from Brunei have the same vote as the United States."
 
Million Mask march in London | 05 Nov 2015 | Thousands of people dressed in Guy Fawkes masks in Trafalgar Square were met by a 'significant policing operation', including thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest. (Chronicle of events, photos)
 
Over 100 Australians 'funding terrorism' | 04 Nov 2015 | More than 100 Australians are being monitored by Australia's financial intelligence agency, amid concerns they're funding terrorism. The Australian reports that AUSTRAC has recorded a 300-per-cent increase in suspicious activity linked to terrorism, prompted largely by Syria's civil war. More than 150 leaders and experts from at least 17 countries will meet in Sydney to discuss the issue.
 
Surveillance bill to include internet records storage --Critics will call this a snooper's charter | 04 Nov 2015 | (UK) Internet firms will have to store details of people's online activity for 12 months under a new surveillance law. The requirement is included in the government's draft Investigatory Powers Bill, to be published later. The government is promising strict safeguards including a ban on councils accessing people's internet records and a new offence of misuse of the data. Ministers are also facing calls for judges to sign warrants to access the content of digital records.
 
Second Circuit Refuses to Stop NSA's Telephone Records Program | 03 Nov 2015 | It's been a rough few weeks for legal challenges to NSA surveillance. First, a federal district court in Marylanddismissed a lawsuit brought by the ACLU challenging the NSA's Upstream surveillance of the Internet backbone. Then, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals refused to grant the ACLU a preliminary injunction against the NSA's bulk telephone records program, despite having previously found that the program was illegal. Essentially washing its hands of the case, the court refused to even consider the ACLU's arguments that the phone records program is unconstitutional because the program will stop in its current form at the end of November.
 
New Zealand ministry evacuated amid fire, thick smoke in high-rise near Parliament | 04 Nov 2015 | Office workers and passersby in downtown Wellington have been alarmed by black smoke billowing from a building adjacent to the New Zealand Parliament. The Ministry for Primary Industries, which is next to the burning high-rise, has evacuated its staff. The smoke is believed to have originated on the roof of the Prime Property Tower, located at 88 Lambton Quay. The Wellington TVNZ newsroom is located in the building.
 
#SorryNotSorry: French Monsanto research site damaged in suspected arson attack | 28 Oct 2015 | A Monsanto research centre in western France suffered heavy fire damage in a suspected arson attack early Wednesday morning, the official in charge of the site said. The official, Jakob Witten, said police investigators "strongly suspect it was a crime as no electrical or other sources were found." The fire was ignited from two different places at the site, where about 10 people work and which is specialised in maize research. The smell of petrol lingered near the building, which had heavy damage in its reception hall and offices.
 
President Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline Proposal | 06 Nov 2015 | President Barack Obama announced Friday morning that he is rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline proposal. The president, citing concerns about the impact on the environment and a political climate that overlyhyped the pipeline's benefit, said the effort "would not serve the interests of the United States." The pipeline would transport oil from heavy tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast.
 
Exxon Mobil Investigated for Global Warming Lies by New York Attorney | 05 Nov 2015 | The New York attorney general has begun a sweeping investigation of Exxon Mobil to determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change global warming or to investors about how those risks might hurt the oil business. According to people with knowledge of the investigation, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued a subpoena Wednesday evening to Exxon Mobil, demanding extensive financial records, emails and other documents. The investigation focuses on whether statements the company made to investors about climate risks as recently as this year were consistent with the company's own long-running scientific research.
 
Radioactive honey found near nuclear power station | 02 Nov 2015 |  Honey contaminated with nuclear waste has been found near a disused power station in Scotland, scientists have confirmed, with samples of the product testing positive for "elevated" radioactivity. The samples showed levels of radioactive caesium-137 that are 14 times higher than samples of honey from elsewhere in the UK, prompting scientists to call for an investigation into wider contamination at the site.
 
Lawsuit targets nuclear waste permit at beach | 03 Nov 2015 |  A permit to bury radioactive waste from the retired San Onofre reactors on low-lying land next to the Pacific Ocean was challenged in court Tuesday by a San Diego consumer advocacy group. The California Coastal Commission approved a permit in October to bury nuclear waste in concrete bunkers within 125 feet of a seawall and the beach at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear plant in northern San Diego County. A lawsuit filed by Citizens Oversight in state Superior Court in San Diego accuses the coastal commission of neglecting its obligation to protect the coastline and marine life from hazardous waste, and for failing to require that nuclear plant operator Southern California Edison show it had exhausted other reasonable alternatives.
 
Victory: Texas college town overwhelmingly votes to stop adding fluoride to drinking water | 04 Nov 2015 | Opponents of water fluoridation have finally earned a victory in the fight against fluoride! San Marcos, Texas, a college town located just 25 miles south of Austin, voted to stop adding the industrial toxin hydrofluorosilicic acid to the water yesterday with overwhelming support. The votes in favor of Proposition 1 to stop adding fluoride to the public water supply came in at about 61 percent, with 39 percent opposing the measure.
 
Supreme Court accepts challenge to health law's contraceptive mandate | 06 Nov 2015 | The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear another challenge to the Affordable Care Act, this time to decide whether religiously affiliated organizations such as universities, hospitals and charities should be free from playing any role in providing employees with contraceptive coverage. The case pits questions of religious liberty against a woman's right to equal health care access, and it is the fourth time in five years the court will consider some aspect of what has come to be known as Obamacare.
 
Donald Trump and Ben Carson Authorized for Secret Service Protection | 05 Nov 2015 | Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson will soon be protected by the agency that protects President Obama. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has authorized United States Secret Service protection for the two GOP candidates, according to a statement released today by the Department of Homeland Security.
 
Time for Grade 'A' sociopath, corporatist fraud, and fabulist Ben Carson to exit the race: Ben Carson Backs White House's TPP Corporate Takeover Deal | 06 Nov 2015 | Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Friday that he supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement negotiated by the White House -- aligning himself more with the GOP's establishment wing [dirt-bags] than with the social conservatives who have powered his campaign. Mr. Carson's backing of the 12-nation Pacific trade deal corporate takeover places him at odds with Donald Trump, his chief rival for support among anti-establishment Republicans. Still backing the 'trade' legislation are the party's establishment wing candidates: Sen. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and Govs. John Kasich of Ohio and Chris Christie of New Jersey.
 
Ben Carson admits fabricating West Point scholarship | 06 Nov 2015 | Ben Carson's campaign on Friday admitted, in a response to an inquiry from POLITICO, that a central point in his inspirational personal story was fabricated: his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The academy has occupied a central place in Carson's tale for years. According to a story told in Carson's book [of fables], "Gifted Hands," the then-17 year old was introduced in 1969 to Gen. William Westmoreland, who had just ended his command of U.S. forces in Vietnam, and the two dined together. That meeting, according to Carson's telling, was followed by a "full scholarship" to the military academy. West Point, however, has no record of Carson applying, much less being extended admission...When presented with this evidence, Carson's campaign conceded the story was false.
 
Marco Rubio said he wants to have a beer with Malala, an underage Muslim | 04 Nov 2015 | Today, presidential contender Marco Rubio fielded questions at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire. One of the questions he was asked was who he would like to "have a beer with" out of anyone in the world who is not a politician. Rubio replied he would like to have a beer with football legend Dan Marino, Russian chess prodigy Gary Kasparov and Malala Yousafzai. [Exit the race now, scum-bag. It's only going to get worse.]
 
Christie, Huckabee relegated to undercard at next GOP debate | 05 Nov 2015 | Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee have been bumped from the main stage at next week's GOP presidential debate, while George Pataki and Lindsey Graham have been cut from the lineup altogether. Debate sponsor Fox Business Network announced the moves Thursday evening, dealing a major blow to all four candidates, particularly Christie, the New Jersey governor, and Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, as they struggled to stand out in the crowded Republican field amid signs of momentum in states where the first primary contests will be held.
 
Businessman who has been likened to Trump wins Kentucky governor's race | 03 Nov 2015 | Republicans stole a key governor's seat in a hotly contested race in Kentucky on Tuesday, installing an outsider businessman who has drawn comparisons to Donald Trump as the state's next chief executive. Millionaire GOP investor Matt Bevin led Democratic state Attorney General Jack Conway 52-44 with 76 percent of precincts reporting. The race, which was perhaps the most watched among a series of lower-profile races in Tuesday's off-year election, has been called for Bevin...The national Democratic Governors Association cited the Trump parallels in explaining Conway's loss.
 
Ohio voters reject legalization of recreational marijuana | 03 Nov 2015 | Ohio voters on Tuesday shot down a proposal to legalize recreational marijuana, but advocates remained hopeful for another measure that could be on the ballot in 2016. The swing state of nearly 11.6 million people would have followed five other jurisdictions where both recreational and medicinal marijuana are now legal: the states of Oregon, Alaska, Colorado and Washington, along with Washington DC. The state's campaign was fraught with complexities and concerns from some legalization advocates who said it represented a corporatization of the national effort to end marijuana prohibition, with millionaires vying to latch on to a profitable industry leading the effort, rather than grassroots activists working to secure a victory.
 
Illinois police officer who spurred manhunt stole money, committed suicide | 04 Nov 2015 | An Illinois police officer whose mysterious death in September spurred a massive manhunt killed himself because he feared it was about to be discovered that he had been embezzling thousands of d-llars from his police department, authorities said Wednesday. The Lake County Sheriff's Department said Fox Lake, Ill., officer Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, 52, whose Sept. 1 death spurred a manhunt along the Illinois-Wisconsin border and had been treated as a homicide until now, died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. George Filenko, commander of the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force, told reporters that investigators concluded Gliniewicz's death was a "carefully staged suicide" by an officer who was on the cusp of being discovered for stealing from the village.
 
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