CLG: Saudi embassy branded 'Daesh bank' in Berlin projection stunt, EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo disappears from radar,

News Updates from CLG
18 May 2016

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Previous edition: 9/11 judge and prosecutors should step down over 'destroyed evidence', defense demands

 

Breaking: EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo disappears from radar --59 passengers, 10 crew on board (CNN) --Airline says plane, which took off from France’s Charles de Gaulle airport late on Wednesday night, has gone missing | 18 May 2016 | Contact lost at 2.45am Cairo time --More information now from EgyptAir: It says flight MS804 lost contact with radar at 02:45 Cairo time. The plane was at 37,000 ft and disappeared 80 miles (around 10 minutes) before entering Egyptian airspace. Search and rescue teams are being assembled.

 

Oops! CIA inspector general's office admits it 'mistakenly' destroyed its only copy of Senate torture report:Senate report on CIA torture is one step closer to disappearing | 16 May 2016 | The CIA inspector general's office - the spy agency's internal watchdog - has acknowledged it "mistakenly" destroyed its only copy of a mammoth Senate torture report at the same time lawyers for the Justice Department were assuring a federal judge that copies of the document were being preserved, Yahoo News has learned. Although other copies of the report exist, the erasure of the controversial document by the CIA office charged with policing agency conduct has alarmed the U.S. senator who oversaw the torture investigation and reignited a behind-the-scenes battle over whether the full unabridged report should ever be released, according to multiple intelligence community sources familiar with the incident. The deletion of the document has been portrayed by agency officials to Senate investigators as an "inadvertent" foul-up [LOL!] by the inspector general.

 

Snowden Archive - The SIDToday Files | 16 May 1016 | SIDtoday is the internal newsletter for the NSA's most important division, the Signals Intelligence Directorate. After editorial review, The Intercept is releasing nine years' worth of newsletters in batches, starting with 2003. The agency's spies explain a surprising amount about what they were doing, how they were doing it, and why. The Intercept's first SIDtoday release comprises 166 articles, including all articles published between March 31, 2003, when SIDtoday began, and June 30, 2003, plus installments of all article series begun during this period through the end of the year. 

 

Three bombings in Baghdad kill 70 in worst violence so far this year | 17 May 2016 | At least 72 people were killed and more than 140 wounded by three bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday, police and medical sources said, extending the deadliest spate of attacks in the Iraqi capital so far this year. Islamic State claimed one suicide bombing which killed 38 people and wounded over 70 in a marketplace in the northern, mainly Shi'ite Muslim district of al-Shaab. A car bomb in nearby Shi'ite Sadr City killed at least 28 dead and 57 wounded, and another car blew up in the mixed Shi'ite-Sunni neighborhood of al-Rasheed, south of the capital, killing six and wounding 21, the sources said.

 

Saudi embassy branded 'Daesh bank' in Berlin projection stunt | 16 May 2016 | The embassy of [top US ally] Saudi Arabia in the German capital has been decorated with an ISIS flag and labeled the "Daesh Bank" in a projection stunt performed by human rights activists in an effort to draw attention to the kingdom's purported links to terrorist organizations. Artist Oliver Bienkowski and the Pixel Helper collective performed the stunt to draw public attention to Saudi Arabia's egregiously bad human rights record and country's alleged support of extremist groups. [Yeah, for accuracy's sake, they should have also done that w. the US embassy.]

 

Terrorist attack was 'imminent' police say as Sydney teenager arrested | 16 May 2016 | A Sydney teenager has been arrested on suspicion of preparing to commit a terrorist attack and trying to travel to Syria. Police said an attack was "imminent" when they arrested the Macquarie Park man, 18, on Tuesday. The teenager's Macquarie Park home, where he lives with his family was raided by police on Tuesday.

 

Trump identifies 11 potential Supreme Court nominees | 18 May 2016 | Presumptive Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday released the names of 11 judges he would consider, if elected, to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia in February. Scalia's replacement could tip the ideological balance of the court, which now is evenly divided with four conservative justices and four liberals. Trump said in a statement that his "list of potential Supreme Court justices is representative of the kind of constitutional principles I value and, as President, I plan to use this list as a guide to nominate our next United States Supreme Court Justices."

 

Bernie Sanders cruises past Hillary Clinton in Oregon primary | 17 May 2016 | Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders fended off a late charge by Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in Tuesday night's Oregon primary. Sanders locked up the win by establishing insurmountable leads in Democratic strongholds including Multnomah and Lane counties. The win restored some needed momentum to Sanders's campaign, while offsetting an apparent Clinton win earlier in the night in Kentucky's Democratic primary. At stake are a total of 74 delegates, which will be awarded on a proportional basis.

 

Hillary Clinton declares victory in tight Kentucky race | 18 May 2016 | US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has declared victory in the Kentucky primary as she moves nearer the presidential nomination. With most of the votes counted in the state and less than 0.5% ahead, Mrs Clinton was declared the unofficial winner by one state official. In the night's other primary contest Senator Bernie Sanders won in Oregon.

 

Trump wins Republican presidential primary in Oregon | 17 May 2016 | Donald Trump has won the Republican presidential primary in Oregon, adding another state to the presumptive GOP nominee's tally of victories. The billionaire businessman started the day by picking up nine delegates in Guam, and was fewer than 100 delegates shy of clinching the Republican nomination for president headed into the Oregon vote. There were 28 delegates at stake in Oregon's Republican primary.

 

Donald Trump could visit UK before US elections | 17 May 2016 | The government is preparing for the possibility of presidential hopeful Donald Trump visiting the UK before the US elections, the BBC has learned. Diplomats expect Mr Trump to come after his formal nomination as the Republican candidate in July...Ministers and diplomats quietly preparing for Mr Trump to visit the UK in the coming months.

 

Justices, Seeking Compromise, Return Contraception Case to Lower Courts | 16 May 2016 | The Supreme Court, in an unsigned unanimous opinion, announced on Monday that it would not rule in a major case on access to contraception, and instructed lower courts to explore whether a compromise was possible. The ruling was the latest indication that the eight-member Supreme Court is exploring every avenue to avoid 4-to-4 deadlocks, even if the resulting action does not decide the question the justices had agreed to address. The case, Zubik v. Burwell, No. 14-1418, was brought by religious groups that object to providing insurance coverage for contraception to their female employees. Less than a week after the case was argued in March, the court issued an unusual unsigned order asking the parties to submit supplemental briefs on a possible compromise.

 

Workers evacuated from 12 Alberta oil camps due to wildfire | 16 May 2016 | About 4,000 workers from oil camps north of Canada's main oil sands city are being ordered to evacuate because of an approaching wildfire. The Rural Municipality of Wood Buffalo calls it a precautionary evacuation of 12 camps. Officials say the wildfire is moving 30 to 40 meters (33 to 44 yards) per minute and is expected to burn six kilometers (3.7 miles) in two hours. Earlier Monday, officials warned the air quality in the Fort McMurray area was dangerously poor. 

 

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