News Updates from CLG
20 January 2016
20 January 2016
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Previous edition: Breaking: Iran Complies With Nuclear Deal; Sanctions Are Lifted
Saudi Arabia is buying up farmland in US Southwest | 15 Jan 2016 | [I-CIA-SIS best buds] Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries are scooping up farmland in drought-afflicted regions of the U.S. Southwest, and that has some people in California and Arizona seeing red. Privately held Fondomonte California on Sunday announced that it bought 1,790 acres of farmland in Blythe, California -- an agricultural town along the Colorado River -- for nearly 32 million. Two years ago, Fondomonte's parent company, Saudi food giant Almarai, purchased another 10,000 acres of farmland about 50 miles away in Vicksburg, Arizona, for around 48 million...Back in Blythe, the purchase of farmland comes as urban residents of California face state-mandated water cutbacks due to a fourth year of severe drought.
Under pressure from Pentagon, Congress removed ban on funding neo-Nazis from its year-end spending bill | 14 Jan 2016 | In mid-December 2015, Congress passed a 2,000-plus-page omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2016. Both parties were quick to declare victory after the passage of the 1.8 trillion package. The office of House Speaker Paul J. Ryan touted the bill's "64 billion for overseas contingency operations" for, among other things, assisting "European countries facing Russian [sic] aggression." It would be safe to assume that one of the European countries which would stand to benefit from the omnibus measure...would be [the terrorists running] Ukraine, which has already, according to the White House, received 2 billion in loan guarantees and nearly 760 million in "security, programmatic, and technical assistance" since February 2014. Yet some have expressed concern that some of this aid has made its way into the hands of neo-Nazi groups, such as the Azov Battalion.
Poland hopes to buy U.S. Patriot missiles | 16 Jan 2016 | Poland hopes to buy the American Patriot air and missile defense system, Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz said on Saturday, signaling a 5 billion deal may be struck despite the new conservative government's initial doubts. In April 2015, Poland's centrist government said it would buy Raytheon's Patriot missiles, a deal which the then opposition conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party said it would review should it come to power.
US sanctions illegal as American arms used against Palestinians, Yemenis - Iranian FM | 18 Jan 2016 | Iran has accused the US of hypocrisy and said that new sanctions imposed by the US are illegal, as arms sold by Washington are being used against people in Palestine and Yemen, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has stated. A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, says that Tehran will continue to enhance its missile capabilities, despite Washington introducing fresh sanctions, following a missile test by Iran in October, Press TV reports. "The US sanctions against Iran's ballistic missile program...have no legal or moral legitimacy," Reuters cited Ansari as saying in a televised news conference.
Israeli defense minister: If I had to choose between Iran and ISIS, I'd choose ISIS [*Of course.*] | 19 Jan 2016 | Speaking at the Institute for National Security Studies' (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv on Jan. 19, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon made a bold statement: If he had to choose between Iran and the Islamic State, he told the audience, he'd "choose ISIS." Ya'alon reasoned that Iran had greater capabilities than the Islamic State and remained the biggest threat for Israel. He argued that if Syria were to fall to one of the two powers, he would prefer it were the Islamic State rather than Iran or Iran-backed groups.
3 Americans Are Missing in Baghdad, Embassy Says | 17 Jan 2016 | The American Embassy is working with the Iraqi authorities to locate three American citizens who have gone missing in the capital, an embassy spokesman said late Sunday. Their disappearance raised fears that Westerners were once again becoming targets for the myriad militias and criminal gangs that are known to kidnap foreigners...
Alleged terrorism plot involving Virginia men created by U.S. government - attorney --'They create cases, and then they prevent them from happening.' | 19 Jan 2016 | An attorney for a Virginia man accused of helping an acquaintance try to join the Islamic State said his client was a victim of anti-Muslim hysteria and efforts by the government to manufacture -- then stop -- terror threats. After a brief court hearing Tuesday, Ashraf Nubani, the attorney for 25-year-old Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan, said that his client is innocent and that the charges against him were based largely on the word of three government informants who were "looking for people they thought they could get in trouble." He asserted that in Elhassan's case and in others, federal agents have engineered a threat, then publicized their efforts to convince the American people that they are being protected.
Twitter sued for helping ISIS | 14 Jan 2016 | A US widow [And which corporate backers?] has filed a lawsuit against Twitter accusing the social network of facilitating communication between terrorists and fueling the growth of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) [but still I-CIA-SIS]. Twitter has knowingly permitted IS to spread propaganda and recruit members, she said. The lawsuit was filed in the federal court in Oakland, California on Wednesday..."While we believe the lawsuit is without merit, we are deeply saddened to hear of this family's terrible loss," Twitter said in a statement.
Lock up all Muslim male refugees in asylum centers: Dutch MP | 18 Jan 21016 | Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders says all Muslim male refugees should be incarcerated in their asylum centers in Europe, claiming it to be necessary for protecting women on the streets. Wilders made the remarks in a Monday video for his Freedom Party (PVV) following the recent sexual assaults against women in the German city of Cologne on New Year's Eve. In the video released in both Dutch and English, he urged the Dutch government to shut the country's borders to all "asylum-seekers from Islamic countries."
21 killed, over 20 injured as gunmen attack Bacha Khan University in Charsadda --Casualties feared to rise dramatically | 20 Jan 2016 | (Pakistan) Blasts and heavy gunfire were heard from inside Bacha Khan University in Charsadda as gunmen broke into the premises early Wednesday morning. Emergency has been declared at all hospitals and schools have been closed in the area. Security personnel and army troops are carrying out an operation in the area.
No doubt cleanup at Fukushima nuclear plant radiated rice crops in 2013 - researchers | 18 Jan 2016 | Radioactive substances that contaminated rice paddies here in 2013 came from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, an international group of researchers said, rejecting a denial [lie] issued by Japan's nuclear safety authority. The researchers, led by Akio Koizumi, a professor at Kyoto University's Graduate School of Medicine, reached the conclusion after analyzing radioactive substances and taking spot readings of radioactivity levels around Minami-Soma..."The cause of further contamination was the radioactive particles dispersed from contaminated rubble during the cleanup effort at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant," Koizumi concluded in the report.
California officials delay plans to mitigate massive gas leak | 16 Jan 2016 | Southern California air quality officials on Saturday delayed plans to capture and burn off natural gas leaking from an underground well near an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood, citing the possible risk of a fire. The move came at a public hearing where Porter Ranch residents, many of whom have been displaced or sickened by the methane leaking from the underground storage well, expressed frustration over the failure of the state or the utility, Southern California Gas Co, to stop the leak. The leak was first detected on Oct. 23 at an underground natural gas field in Porter Ranch, which is home to more than 30,000 people.
Class-action lawsuits filed over Flint water crisis | 19 Jan 2016 | Two new class-action lawsuits on behalf of Flint citizens, who believe they were exposed to lead-tainted water and Legionella bacteria, were announced Tuesday afternoon at the University of Michigan-Flint campus. The lawsuits, which list four Flint families as plaintiffs, name Gov. Rick Snyder, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, the state Department of Environmental Quality and several government officials. One complaint, filed in Genesee Circuit Court, asked Judge Archie Hayman to seek a preliminary injunction against the city of Flint over planned water shutoffs and to declare Flint users to be exempted from past or future bills for water use.
Turkeys test positive for bird flu at nine Indiana farms | 17 Jan 2016 | Turkeys tested positive for bird flu at nine more Indiana farms near the location where authorities first confirmed a strain different from the one that ravaged the U.S. poultry industry last summer, Indiana authorities said on Saturday. Farmers began euthanizing turkeys at the new farms even before final results of whether the birds were infected with the H7N8 strain, said Denise Derrer, spokeswoman for the Indiana State Board of Animal Health...The nine farms are located in Dubois County, about 70 miles from Louisville, Kentucky.
Bird flu outbreak recorded outside restriction zone in France | 13 Jan 2016 | A bird flu outbreak has been recorded in France outside a restriction zone that was established earlier by the Ministry of Agriculture. French authorities have recently introduced sanitary measures to tackle the highly pathogenic virus. Authorities have recorded at least 69 outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of avian flu in eight administrative districts in southwestern France since November 24. "One new case was found in Haute-Garonne," a farm ministry official said, as cited by Reuters. The district was not included in the restriction zone.
Useless and risky: Flu vaccine reducing risk of illness by only 23 percent this year, CDC says | 15 Jan 2016 | The flu vaccine is barely protecting people this year - reducing the risk of serious disease by just 23 percent, federal health officials said Thursday. It's not the worst year ever for the flu vaccine - there have been years when the flu vaccine was only 10 percent effective. But it's not good news for people trying to avoid the flu.
Sanders Thrives in Democratic Debate, Despite Sharp Attacks by Clinton | 18 Jan 2016 | Bernie Sanders shined in Sunday night's Democratic debate here, at times overpowering Hillary Clinton in a format she typically controls. With polls showing Clinton on the ropes in Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders's strong performance may have further imperiled Clinton's once-inevitable path to her party's presidential nomination. Touting his surging poll numbers in the two key early states, Sanders was prepared and in command throughout the two-hour debate sponsored by NBC News and YouTube.
The 4th Democratic debate transcript | 17 Jan 2016 | Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley participated in Sunday's NBC/YouTube Democratic primary debate in Charleston, S.C. (Transcript)
Carson campaign volunteer dies after car accident in Iowa | 19 Jan 2016 | A volunteer for the presidential campaign of Ben Carson has died after being hospitalized with injuries suffered in a car accident in western Iowa that hurt three other campaign workers. Carson was in South Carolina at the time of the Tuesday morning accident and has suspended his campaign events. An official for a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, says the Carson campaign volunteer, 25-year-old Braden Joplin, died late Tuesday afternoon.
Sarah Palin endorses Donald Trump | 19 Jan 2016 | Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin endorsed Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump Tuesday at an Iowa campaign stop, delivering a raucous speech full of Palin-isms during her return to the presidential campaign trail. The 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate said she was "proud to endorse" Trump. The official endorsement will be followed by a joint appearance on Wednesday morning in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Donald Trump unloads on Ted Cruz: 'Nasty guy...Nobody likes him' | 17 Jan 2016 | With just two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the battle between Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz is getting personal. During an interview Sunday on ABC’s "This Week," Mr. Trump took shots at Mr. Cruz's character, saying the Texas senator is a "nasty guy" and a "hypocrite" and that "nobody likes him."
LOLOL: Chris Christie: Keep the White House out of the cafeteria [Yeah, so he can eat *everything!*] | 17 Jan 2016 | If Chris Christie becomes the next president schools probably won't be required or even encouraged to serve lunches filled with fruits and vegetables. That's because Christie said he doesn't believe the president should have a say in school lunches. Those, he told voters in Council Bluffs, Iowa should be up to the parents. "Doesn't the president of the United States have anything better to do than to worry about what you are having for lunch? Let me tell you this, I don't care," Christie said Monday when 11-year-old Jacob Royal, who traveled from Nebraska to hear Christie speak, asked the New Jersey governor what he would do to make the lunches better.
U.S. top court takes up case on Obama immigration plan | 19 Jan 2016 | The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear President Barack Obama's bid to resurrect his plan to shield more than 4 million illegal immigrants from deportation [and continue to provide an endless steam of cheap labor for Obama's corporate handlers, driving down wages across the board], a unilateral executive action he took in 2014 to bypass the Republican-led Congress. Obama's action was blocked by lower courts after Texas and 25 other Republican-governed states sued to stop it, contending he exceeded his presidential powers under the U.S. Constitution. The case will be argued before the high court in the coming months, with a ruling due by the end of June.
Judge rejects Obama's executive privilege claim over Fast and Furious records | 19 Jan 2016 | A federal judge has rejected President Barack Obama's assertion of executive privilege to deny Congress access to records pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, a gunrunning probe that allegedly allowed thousands of weapons to flow across the border into Mexico. U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department's public disclosures about its response to the so-called "gun walking" controversy undercut Obama's executive privilege claim.
Black Lives Matter protesters block San Francisco's Bay Bridge | 18 Jan 2016 | Protesters with the Black Lives Matter movement blocked traffic on the westbound span of the Bay Bridge that connects Oakland and San Francisco as part of a long weekend of protests aimed at reclaiming Martin Luther King Jr's legacy of radicalism. Shortly after 3.30pm, a caravan of cars slowed to a stop on the five-lane bridge. Passengers in the first line of cars passed chains through their windows and locked themselves to both sides of the bridge, bringing all westbound traffic to a stop.
Scientists Warn Californians of Possible Giant Tsunami: Report | 14 Jan 2016 | Geologists warn that tension from clashing tectonic plates in Alaska could produce underwater earthquakes and send tsunamis slamming into Hawaii and the California coast, NPR reported Thursday. The tsunamis, which can move hundreds of miles per hour and are caused by landslides and underwater earthquakes, would originate from the seafloor along the Aleutian Island.
New York could get nearly one foot of snow this weekend as first big flakes of the year are set to sweep across the East Coast --At its full potential, the snowstorm could develop into a severe blizzard | 18 Jan 2016 | A snowstorm is set to hit New York City and Washington, D.C., on Friday, potentially shutting down highways and airports and dumping up to one foot of snow. The first snowflakes fell in New York on Sunday after a remarkably mild Christmas in the Northeast. But this week weather experts predict a wave of icy temperatures will sweep across the coast, bringing up to a foot of snow. If it reaches its full potential, the storm could develop into a blizzard with severe thunder and lightning.
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