CLG: Radioactive waste from Hanford Nuclear Reservation spread across Washington highway, Just Before Voting Closes in Nevada, Rubio Affair Scandal Surfaces

News Updates from CLG
23 February 2016

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Previous edition: Donald Trump wins South Carolina; Hillary Clinton takes Nevada

Google Again Warns on CLG Newsletter, Strips All Links; Censors 'Firm With Saudi Ties Works on Air Force One' --Also, Yahoo relegated Saturday's CLG Newsletter to spam bin By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org | 21 Feb 2016 | Below is a screenshot showing just how far NSAssociate Google is determined to go to ensure that *no one* can read the CLG Newsletter. A message from Google appeared at the top of the body of Saturday's edition, which read: 'Be careful with this message. It contains content that's typically used to steal personal information.' [To read about another attempt by Google in February to censor the CLG Newsletter, see:Google Censors CLG Newsletter on Zika, TPP, and Snowden Rendition Plan; Warns Readers of 'Identity Theft' 01 Feb 2016.]

What inspired Google to warn all email recipients of the CLG Newsletter that it was a hazard, and to strip the links to all article summaries? Could it be this nugget, which would have been the lead - if not for the breaking political news on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton?

Firm with Saudi ties works on Air Force One, other VIP jets | 17 Feb 2016 | A company owned by a Saudi investor works on Air Force One and other VIP aircraft that fly Cabinet secretaries and other dignitaries around the world, USA TODAY has learned.

Maybe Google didn't want this item to reach CLG readers:

French judge summons former Guantanamo chief in torture probe | 19 Feb 2016 | A French judge has summoned retired US General Geoffrey Miller, the former Guantanamo Bay prison chief, to appear in court on March 1 over allegations of torture, a lawyer for one of the plaintiffs told FRANCE 24 on Thursday.

Maybe this interesting nugget tripped Google's sp-m filtration system:

US military burn pits built on chemical weapons facilities tied to soldiers' illness | 16 Feb 2016 | Vice President Joe Biden's son, Beau Biden, arrived in Iraq in 2008, and spent the next several months serving as a Jag officer at Camp Victory, just outside of the Baghdad airport, and Joint Base Balad, nearly 40 miles north of Baghdad.

Also, readers have told us that Yahoo relegated Saturday's CLG Newsletter to the sp-m bin.

If you are Gmail or Yahoo email recipient, please feel free to write lori at legitgov dot org, if you want to be forwarded a replacement copy of the news-laden 20 February 2016 edition--with links included. (If you were forwarded this item and want to subscribe to the CLG Newsletter, click here.)

Radioactive waste from Hanford Nuclear Reservation spread across Washington highway --Fall windstorm spread radioactive contamination across Route 4 north of Richland | 21 Feb 2016 | The Environmental Protection Agency has called the uncontrolled spread of small [?] amounts of radioactive waste at Hanford Nuclear Reservation "alarming" after a Nov. 17 windstorm. Surveys six miles north of Richland after the winds subsided found specks of [radioactive] contamination had spread beyond Route 4, the public highway from Richland out to the Wye Barricade secure entrance to Hanford. The contamination had blown from the 618-10 Burial Ground, which is being cleaned on the west side of the highway. The search also turned up previously undiscovered specks of radioactive waste believed to have been spread by plants or animals outside known contaminated areas.

Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan leaking radioactive water amid nationwide restart --34 liters of radioactive water - about 64,000 becquerels of radioactive waste - spilled. | 21 Feb 2015 | A nuclear power station in Japan is leaking, this time the Takahama plant, about 380km west of Tokyo. The radioactive water leak comes amid a nationwide push to restart reactors after the catastrophic meltdown[s] at Fukushima five years ago...The push by the government and utility companies came amid protests across Japan against the continued reliance on nuclear energy, prompted by failures to get the Fukushima crisis under control. Now Kansai Electric Power says about 34 liters of radioactive water have escaped the plant's reactor No. 4. An investigation is underway.

Trump Vows: 'Elect Me and You'll Find Out Who Really Knocked Down the Twin Towers' --'You may find it's the Saudis.' | 18 Feb 2016 | GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has promised to make public currently guarded secrets surrounding the 9/11 attacks, should he be elected president. Speaking at a campaign event in Bluffton, South Carolina, Trump continued his onslaught on the Bush presidency [sic] by once again raising the issue of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. "But it wasn't the Iraqis, you will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center. Because they have papers in there that are very secret, you may find it's the Saudis, okay? But you will find out."

Guantanamo Bay: Obama in bid to close controversial prison | 23 Feb 2016 | The White House has presented to Congress a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, one of the president's long-standing goals. It wants to transfer the remaining 91 detainees to their home countries or to US military or civilian prisons. But Congress is deeply opposed to terror suspects being held on US soil and is expected to block the move. The prison costs $445m (316m pounds) to run annually and closing it was a 2009 promise from President Barack Obama.

Guantánamo Bay: Obama reiterates call to close prison in final plan to Congress | 23 Feb 2016 | A final plan by Barack Obama to fulfill his pledge to close Guantánamo Bay - functionally identical to what he has already proposed - has already run into heavy political opposition, underscoring the likelihood Guantánamo will remain a detention facility after Obama leaves office. The plan, released on Tuesday in accordance with a congressional request, reiterates previous administration insistences on closing Guantánamo rather than proposing a long-elusive new option with the chance of breaking through more than seven years of GOP refusal on Capitol Hill. Obama, expressing frustration at what has been for seven years a futile battle, again implored Congress to "go ahead and close this chapter", portraying Guantánamo as "counterproductive to our fight against terrorists".

Afghan troops pull out of second Helmand district | 22 Feb 2016 | Afghan government forces have pulled out of a second district in Helmand, officials said on Monday, leaving the Taliban in control of most of the northern part of the province after troops withdrew from Musa Qala district last week. The surprise withdrawals nonetheless leave the Taliban poised to move on the nearby Kajaki district, the site of a huge hydroelectric dam built with millions of U.S. dollars [but there's no money to replace the poisonous water pipes in Flint, Michigan,] as part of a drive to provide power to Helmand and neighbouring Kandahar provinces. U.S. Special Forces units have been in the region to help train the Afghan army and hundreds more American troops were sent to reinforce security for the training mission.

Didcot Power Station explosion in Oxfordshire; casualties feared | 23 Feb 2016 | One person has died and three people are missing following the collapse of a building at Didcot A Power Station. A major incident was declared at the site in south Oxfordshire after initial reports of an explosion at 16:00 GMT. Thames Valley Fire Control Service confirmed the fatality and also reported four people were injured in a "very severe incident".

U.S. Marshals secretly tracked 6,000 cellphones | 23 Feb 2016 | Federal marshals have secretly used powerful cellphone surveillance tools to hunt nearly 6,000 suspects throughout the United States, according to newly-disclosed records in which the agency inadvertently identified itself as the nation's most prolific known user of phone-tracking devices. The fact that the U.S. Marshals Service uses cellphone trackers, commonly known as StingRays, has long been among law enforcement's worst-kept secrets, though the agency still refuses to acknowledge it.The Marshals Service confirmed its use of the devices to USA TODAY only in the process of trying to keep it secret, rejecting a Freedom of Information Act request for a copy of its log of cases in which agents had used StingRays. The Marshals Service's response to that request included an almost totally censored spreadsheet listing its StingRay cases, with information about the cases stripped out line by line, which made it possible to count the number of entries the agency had made on its log of StingRay uses.

'Second Amendment solutions' will be required in corporate America's war to privatize the water supply: Nestlé is pumping pillions of gallons of water from the Great Lakes for free while Flint pays for poison | 18 Feb 2016 | One of the most infuriating aspects of the Flint water crisis is that residents are not only still being charged for their poisoned water, but they're being charged higher rates than almost anywhere in the country. Residents continue to pay 864 a year for water that is making them sick, more than double what most Americans pay for water service...Meanwhile, less than two hundred miles away, multi-billion dollar corporation [terrorist group] Nestlé has been pumping millions of gallons out of Lake Michigan for free. In fact, they receive 13 million d-llars in tax breaks to do it.

Witness on Kalamazoo rampage suspect: 'After phone call, he started driving erratically, running stop signs' --Kalamazoo rampage suspect: Who is Jason Brian Dalton? | 22 Feb 2016 | Jason Brian Dalton's life was so innocuous, police had never heard of him. Neighbors said he was a "real nice guy." By all accounts, the 45-year-old seemed harmless. That changed over the weekend when, police said, Dalton went on a shooting rampage in Michigan that left six people dead...For almost seven hours Saturday, police say, Dalton drove around Kalamazoo County,stopping to shoot people...And between the shootings, Dalton picked up and dropped off passengers for Uber, police say...Matt Mellen said he rode in Dalton's car shortly before the rampage started. "We got about a mile from my house, and he got a telephone call," Mellen toldCNN affiliate WWMT-TV. "After that call, he started driving erratically, running stop signs. We were kind of driving through medians, driving through the lawn, speeding along and then finally, once he came to a stop, I jumped out of the car and ran away." [Was Jason Brian Dalton - described as a 'real nice guy' by neighbors - programmed in a psy-op to commence a shooting spree after he received the message/command. Who called Jason Dalton, to trigger this mass-shooting? FBI: Are you demanding cell phone access? --LRP]

6 Dead, 3 Hurt in Apparently Random Shootings in Michigan | 21 Feb 2016 | Six people were killed and three others were wounded in a series of apparently random shootings in Michigan Saturday, Kalamazoo County sheriff's official said. "We seem to be dealing with a worst case scenario, someone driving around shooting," Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas told NBC News. Matyas said there are three shooting scenes. None of the victims at the three scenes appear connected, he said.

Nevada caucus results: Trump poised for big night | 23 Feb 2016 | (Elko, NV) This state that has long embraced its reputation as the Wild West of politics is expected to embrace anti-establishment candidate Donald Trump in a blowout in the Nevada Republican caucuses on Tuesday night...In interviews with dozens of Republican voters across the state over the last week, many said without hesitation that they were standing firmly with Trump and had given little thought to the other Republican candidates. That has meant a pitched battle for second place here between Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) and Sen. Marco Rubio (FL), who both made a final push in Reno and Nevada's rural areas on Monday.

Just Before Voting Closes in Nevada, Rubio Affair Scandal Surfaces --Records are publicly searchable on The Florida Times-Union website. | 23 Feb 2016 | As the Nevada GOP primary caucus is underway, reports of an extramarital affair Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) had with a Washington, D.C., lobbyist have surfaced. Per sources in Florida, Marco Rubio while serving as the Speaker of the Florida State House of Representatives - used an American Express credit card from the Florida Republican Party to pay for AT LEAST 17 separate trips for Rubio and lobbyist Amber Stoner. Strangely, she would frequently end up in the same destinations, at the same time.

WV poll: Sanders leads Clinton, 57 to 29 percent | 22 Feb 2016 | A new poll shows Bernie Sanders leading rival Hillary Clinton by nearly two-to-one in West Virginia. Sanders has 57 percent support, while Clinton takes 29 percent, according to the MetroNews West Virginia poll.Sanders's strength is among 18- to 34-year-olds, but he has majority support among all age groups except seniors. [How will the West Virginia primary be stolen? It's going to be more difficult than rigging the Iowa and Nevada caucuses.]

Trump wins additional New Hampshire delegate --New total leaves Donald Trump with 68 delegates toward national convention, far ahead of second-place Ted Cruz with 11 | 22 Feb 2016 | Donald Trump is walking away with one more delegate in New Hampshire than media estimates predicted, at the expense of Marco Rubio. The New Hampshire secretary of State's office released the certified GOP delegate count Monday, showing Trump with 11 delegates to the national convention. That's a slight difference from The Associated Press's estimation from primary night, which had 10 delegates for Trump and three for Florida Senator Marco Rubio [who now has two].

Ted Cruz fires top staffer for spreading false story about Marco Rubio and Bible | 22 Feb 2016 | Ted Cruz fired a top aide on Monday after he promoted a false story questioning Marco Rubio's commitment to the Bible, a move the Texas senator described as "a grave error". Cruz sacked Rick Tyler, his national spokesman, after he circulated a video on Sunday that allegedly showed Rubio walking by a Cruz staffer in a hotel lobby who was holding a Bible. Although the audio was fuzzy, some assumed Rubio to have remarked: "Got a good book there, not many answers in it." In fact, Rubio had said "all the answers in it".

 

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