News Updates from CLG
03 May 2016 - Part 2
03 May 2016 - Part 2
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Breaking: Trump Wins Indiana Primary, Setting Path to GOP Nomination | 03 May 2016 | Donald Trump will win the Indiana Republican presidential primary, NBC News projects, crushing the hopes of GOP foes who waged a frantic campaign to halt his march to the party's nomination. The win sets Trump on a likely path to secure the 1,237 delegates necessary to secure his party's nomination before the convention in Cleveland this summer. Barring a catastrophic collapse in upcoming primary states, Trump is poised to clear the decisive threshold that rivals Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich pledged to block from his reach. The Indiana contest between the Democrats remains too early to call.
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders compete in Indiana Democratic primary | 03 May 2016 | 7:00 p.m. ET: Polls have officially closed in Indiana. 6:14 p.m. ET: Caring about people and the candidates' honesty are the top qualities that mattered most to Indiana Democratic primary voters. While Republicans say the campaign has divided their party, about three-quarters of Democratic primary voters in Indiana say the campaign has energized their party. Nearly nine in ten Indiana Democratic primary voters say the country is ready to elect a woman president.
US Navy SEAL killed by ISIS militants in northern Iraq | 03 May 2016 | An U.S. Navy SEAL was shot and killed Tuesday by "direct fire" from Islamic State militants who stormed through defenses set up by Kurdish Peshmerga troops in northern Iraq, the U.S.-led coalition and officials said. The unnamed service member was advising Peshmerga forces in the region but was less than 2 miles behind the front lines, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement. A defense official told Fox News the service member was killed by small arms fire, likely from an AK-47 rifle.
Iraq car bombings kill 31, wound dozens | 01 May 2016 | Officials say dual bombings in southern Iraq have killed 31 people and wounded more than 50. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility in an online statement, saying they were carried out by suicide attackers targeting police. A police officer says the blasts occurred in two parked cars packed with explosives that were detonated within minutes of each other in the city of Samawah.
Joint Chiefs of Staff chair acknowledges US troops are fighting in combat operations in Iraq | 28 April 2016 | While the White House maintains that U.S. troops supporting the fight against Islamic State militants are not in a combat role, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff acknowledged Thursday that troops are fighting and dying in combat operations in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter about the status of operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Afghanistan, or ISIS, also known as ISIL [also known as I-CIA-SIS], Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford answered a line of questions from Alaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan about the March 19 death of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin due to indirect fire at a small outpost in northern Iraq.
More Belgians close to nuclear facilities get iodine pills --Officials say the country's revision of its nuclear emergency plan has nothing to do with terrorism. | 01 May 2016 | As part of revising its nuclear emergency plan, the Belgian government says it will distribute iodine pills to more of its citizens in the event of a nuclear emergency, Health Ministry spokesperson Els Cleemput told CNN on Friday. The Belgian government already provides emergency-use iodine pills to citizens living near nuclear facilities. The High Health Council decided it would be beneficial to expand the radius of iodine pill distribution around the country's nuclear sites from 20km (12 miles) to 100km (62 miles)...
U.S. secret spy court rejected zero surveillance orders in 2015 - memo | 02 May 2016 | The secretive U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court did not deny a single government request in 2015 for electronic surveillance orders granted for foreign intelligence purposes, continuing a longstanding trend, a Justice Department document showed. The court received 1,457 requests last year on behalf of the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for authority to intercept communications, including email and phone calls, according to a Justice Department memo sent to leaders of relevant congressional committees on Friday and seen by Reuters. The court did not reject any of the applications in whole or in part, the memo showed.
FBI Setting Up 'Shared Responsibility Communities' in New Jersey to Stop Home-Grown Terrorism | 01 May 2016 | The Federal Bureau of Investigation is setting up shared responsibility committees in New Jersey to help stop home-grown terrorism. WCBS 880 reported this partnership between communities and the FBI looks to use identification and mental health counseling as tools to those who might head down a path of extremism. The committees would include community leaders, clergy members and mental health professionals whose goal would be to identify those who might support terrorist activities and stopping it before ideas turn into plans. The Record reported that some in the Muslim community in New Jersey are worried that this program will effectively turn community members into government informants.
TTIP risks to health and environment, 'US pressure on EU' revealed in secret docs leaked by Greenpeace | 02 May 2016 | The controversial trade corporate takeover deal between the EU and the US could affect public health, people's rights, internet privacy and the environment badly, Greenpeace says, citing leaked negotiation texts. The US is pressuring the EU over the deal, a report on the texts alleges. The 248 pages of classified negotiation papers on The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) were released by Greenpeace Netherlands on Monday... Washington is blocking European car exports into the US to force the EU to buy more environmentally risky US farm produce, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported after analyzing the documents.
'D.C. Madam' attorney forbidden by Supreme Court to disclose records 'relevant to present election cycle' --Supreme Court issues 'denial-without-explanation' to 'D.C. Madam' attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org | 03 May 2016 | On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court "denied a stay sought by Montgomery Blair Sibley, who had asked to be released from a lower court restraining order that barred him from sharing the records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the 'D.C. Madam'" (The Washington Post). Sibley, attorney for the late Palfrey, seeks to release the sealed records that he has maintained are "relevant to the present election cycle."
In his a blog entry posted Tuesday, entitled 'My Next Steps...,' Sibley discussed his next course of action. "Yesterday, the Supreme Court docketed the denial of my Application. They gave no reason for the denial of my request to review the refusal of the District Court Clerk to file my Motions for Modification of the Restraining Order which I believe prevents me from releasing information relevant to the present election cycle. So now what is my next step? Torn as I am that I should not be gagged from First Amendment political speech by a restraining order that I am being denied the opportunity to even asked to be dissolved...I will continue to press Obama Supreme Court nominee Chief Judge Garland of the D.C. Circuit Court to expedite the resolution of thePetition I placed before him on March 9, 2016."
'America is a better country without you': Ted Cruz heckled and jeered on eve of Indiana primary --Candidate is heckled by a child, quizzed about his birthplace and facing questions over whether he’s a serial killer ['Zodiac Ted'] - all while polling behind in Indiana | 02 May 2016 | Politicians who run for president are used to scorn, mockery and a healthy skepticism from the American people. But few have been heckled by a 12-year-old, questioned about their Canadian birth, or had their spouse field questions about their resemblance to a serial killer. All in one day. Ted Cruz suffered all this and more on Monday in Indiana, a state where he desperately needs to do well if he wants to preserve any hope of winning the Republican nomination for president...Cruz's allies did not have much a better day. His wife, Heidi, was asked by Yahoo News to comment on a string of jokes at this weekend's White House correspondents dinner, made at her husband's expense. On Saturday, the comedian Larry Wilmore invoked an internet meme that pretends the senator is the Zodiac Killer, the enigmatic and never-captured murderer who puzzled authorities with coded notes and claimed to have killed several people in the late 1960s and early 70s. [LOL!]
Poll: Donald Trump leads Ted Cruz by double digits in Indiana | 01 May 2016 | Just days ahead of Indiana's crucial primary, Donald Trump has taken a double-digit lead over Ted Cruz, with a majority of Republican voters looking unfavorably at the recent collaborative efforts between Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, according to a new poll. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist survey, released Sunday, found Trump with a 15-point advantage over his closest rival among likely GOP primary voters in Indiana: Trump sits at 49 percent of support, while Cruz has 34 percent...Fifty-eight percent of likely Republican voters also disapprove of the alliance between Cruz and Kasich, who announced their collaborative efforts last week.
Is this Ted Cruz's father with Lee Harvey Oswald? Presidential candidate furiously denies paper's claim that his dad is the mystery man in photo with JFK's assassin | 25 April 2016 | Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has denied all claims made by a newspaper that his father helped Lee Harvey Oswald distribute leaflets promoting Fidel Castro's communist government in 1963. The National Enquirer published photos of [one of] John F Kennedy's [alleged] killer[s], claiming to have concrete evidence the man beside him is Cuban-born Rafael Cruz. The images, released by the US government amid an investigation into JFK's 1963 assassination, show Oswald and a group walking around a street in New Orleans in 1963 handing out leaflets to passers-by. 'They [the photos] seem to match,' Carole Lieberman, a University of California, Los Angeles forensic psychiatrist, told the Enquirer. The images were the only source of evidence the newspaper cited for its May 2 cover story headlined 'Ted Cruz Father Now Linked to JFK Assassination!'
Ted Cruz's Campaign Rocked By 'Monumental' Scandal That May Sink Him for Good | 25 April 2016 | Ted Cruz's campaign for president has been rocked by a new controversy, which could end it once and for all! As Radar reported, The National ENQUIRER obtained a shocking photo of what appears to be Cruz's Cuban-born dad, Rafael, in New Orleans - alongside Lee Harvey Oswald - just three months before the [one of the alleged] assassin[s] murdered President John F. Kennedy. Political consultant George Arzt weighed the political consequences of the bombshell photograph and what they mean for the beleaguered Texas senator. "If the man in the photo is Ted Cruz's father standing next to Lee Harvey Oswald, it will be a monumental story with monumental damage to the Cruz campaign," explained Arzt.
Republicans plan to sue VA Gov. McAuliffe over order restoring rights to felons | 02 May 2016 | Republican leaders in the Virginia General Assembly have hired a top conservative lawyer to guide an expected lawsuit against Gov. Terry McAuliffe's executive order that restored voting rights for about 206,000 felons. Charles J. Cooper - a former assistant attorney general under President Ronald Reagan who once was named "Republican lawyer of the year" - will lead the effort to challenge the Democratic governor's order, GOP leaders announced Monday. McAuliffe has said he has the legal and constitutional authority to restore voting and civil rights for all felons who had completed their sentences, probation and parole by April 22.
Detroit teachers: Pay us what we're owed | 03 May 2016 | While schools across the nation celebrated Teacher Appreciation Day, hundreds of Detroit Public Schools teachers packed the sidewalks outside the Fisher Building today to demand guarantees that they will be paid for their work. "If I do go in to work, I don't know if I'm going to get paid," said Mike McGowan, a music teacher at the Blackwell Institute, who protested outside the school district headquarters in Midtown. The protest came on a day when 94 schools in DPS were closedbecause of teacher absences. Sickouts closed schools across the district on Monday also.
Polar Bear Parts Trade Won't Be Opposed By the U.S. Anymore | 02 May 2016 | The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to stop pushing for an international ban on the trade in polar bear parts - an effort that has been strenuously opposed by Inuit and the [sociopaths in the] Canadian government. The U.S. agency has been trying for years to have skins and other parts put in the same category as elephant ivory. It sponsored votes at the last two meetings of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species that would have prevented Inuit hunters from selling hides or teeth even after eating the meat. Late last week, the service quietly dropped its campaign.
Resettling the First American 'Climate Refugees' | 02 May 2016 | (LA) In January, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced grants totaling 1 billion in 13 states to help communities adapt to climate change, by building stronger levees, dams and drainage systems. One of those grants, 48 million for Isle de Jean Charles, is something new: the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the impacts of climate change. The divisions the effort has exposed and the logistical and moral dilemmas it has presented point up in microcosm the massive problems the world could face in the coming decades as it confronts a new category of displaced people who have become known as climate refugees. "We're going to lose all our heritage, all our culture," lamented Chief Albert Naquin of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, the tribe to which most Isle de Jean Charles residents belong. "It's all going to be history."
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