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11 May 2016

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Previous edition: Ted Cruz suspends presidential campaign after big defeat in Indiana primary

 

Video depicts U.S. military MREs, uniforms, and weapons found in area held by ISIS --U.S. has spent $7BILLION on 5,000 air strikes against ISIS targets...but still struggles to convince Iraqis it doesn't support terror group | 08 May 2016 | Government-allied Shiite militiamen on the front-lines post videos of U.S. supplies purportedly seized from ISIS militants or found in areas liberated from the extremist group...While supervising the channel's war reporting last year, al-Ahad TV spokesman Atheer al-Tariq claimed to have witnessed incidents when U.S. forces helped ISIS. As Iraqi security forces prepared to enter the city of Tikrit in April, he said two U.S. helicopters evacuated senior militants. A few months later, during an operation to retake the Beiji oil refinery, crates of weapons, ammunition and food were dropped over militant-held territory, he said. 'Is it logical to believe that America, the source of technology and science, could fire a rocket or drop aid materials in a mistaken way?'he asked. Videos uploaded to social media by front-line militiamen purport to tell a similar story. One shows U.S. military MREs, 'meals, ready-to-eat,' as well as uniforms and weapons said to have been found in an area held by IS. Another shows the interrogation of a captured IS militant. 'Check out his boots, they are from the U.S. army,' a fighter says. Another fighter points to a pile of rocket-propelled grenades he says were made in the U.S. and shipped to ISIS.

 

Air Force suspends commander in charge of nuclear monitoring unit | 09 May 2016 | The head of the Air Force's center in charge of monitoring whether nations are following nuclear weapons treaties has been suspended. Col. Jennifer Sovada, commander of the Air Force Technical Applications Center at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, was temporarily suspended from command May 3, said Marcia Klein, a spokeswoman for the 25th Air Force. While there is no time period attached to Sovada's suspension, Klein said, she has not been relieved or removed from command.

 

Heads up! Fertile false flag staging area in play: Mock terror attack to be staged in one of England's largest shopping centres | 08 May 2016 | A major counter-terrorism exercise is due to be staged in one of England's largest shopping centres. A mock terror attack will begin at The Trafford Centre in Greater Manchester when it is closed between midnight and 06:00 BST on Tuesday. The three-day exercise will continue in locations including Redbank Community Home in Newton-le-Willows on Wednesday. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said it would "test the emergency response to a major terrorist incident".

 

Teenage terrorism suspects could be detained for two weeks under proposed NSW laws | 04 May 2016 | (AU) Children as young as 14 suspected of terrorism offences in New South Wales could be detained and questioned for up to a fortnight under new laws introduced by the Baird government. The legislation extends the amount of time a terrorism suspect can be held for questioning from 24 hours - in practice, up to eight days including "dead time" - to two weeks. A suspect will not need to be brought before a judge until the fourth day of questioning under the legislation, which the state premier, Mike Baird, said on Wednesday was about doing "everything possible to protect our community from terrorist threats". Similar powers already existed in the form of preventative detention orders, which allowed state police [in the police state] to detain a suspect for up to 14 days, but they could not be questioned.

 

Sadiq Khan Elected London Mayor, First Muslim to Lead UK Capital | 07 May 2016 | Sadiq Khan, the son of an immigrant bus driver, became the first Muslim elected mayor of a major Western city after winning the hard-fought contest to lead London. Khan, 45, was sworn in Saturday at a multi-faith ceremony in Southwark Cathedral, where he received a standing ovation surrounded by London's police chief, Christian and Jewish leaders, and stars of stage and screen. "Good morning. My name is Sadiq Khan and I'm the mayor of London," he told the packed Anglican cathedral, a few miles north of the state housing project where he grew up in the city's district of Tooting. "I will be a mayor for all Londoners."

 

White House suggests Trump's intelligence briefings may be limited [?] | 05 May 2016 | Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may not get the same level of briefing on intelligence that President Barack Obama receives, a White House spokesman said Thursday. "The decisions about how and whether and when and what to brief to the presidential nominees is a decision that will be made by our intelligence professionals," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Thursday. Those decisions, Earnest said, will be made by James Clapper, the director of national intelligence. Clapper told reporters last week that a plan for the candidate briefings is already in place. The candidates are due to start receiving intelligence briefings after they are formally nominated.

 

Spike in radiation levels after toxic waste leak at Washington nuclear site | 07 May 2016 | Radiation levels at the Hanford, Washington, nuclear waste site have spiked to "elevated risk" after thousands of gallons of toxic waste leaked in April. The site occasionally "burps" radiation, which now reached levels requiring evacuation, RT has learned. The recent readings from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) obtained by RT have revealed that a sharp spike in the radiation level had been registered in Richland on the morning of May 5. The readings show the random jump when the toxic fume rates briefly reached around 410 CPM [counts per minute], nearly the highest possible level.

 

State regulators reopen case on San Onofre nuclear plant | 09 May 2016 | State regulators announced Monday that they have reopened the case involving the premature shutdown of the San Onofre nuclear plant, which closed after a replacement steam generator leaked. The California Public Utilities Commission said it is reevaluating the settlement agreement that left ratepayers on the hook for 3.3 billion of the cost of closing the plant. The commission is giving parties involved in the case the opportunity to comment on whether the agreement was reasonable given that representatives of the plant's primary owner, Southern California Edison, engaged in secret talks with regulators over the closed nuclear plant.

 

Judge orders release of Bridgegate co-conspirator names | 10 May 2016 | A federal judge has ordered the release of the names of individuals who allegedly had knowledge of the scheme to shut down lanes at the George Washington Bridge before the Bridgegate scandal broke. In a ruling sought by a consortium of news organizations, including NJ Advance Media, U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton said the public had a right to know who else may have been involved in the high profile case or subsequent cover-up involving the politically motivated shutdown of local toll lanes at the bridge that led to criminal charges against William Baroni, the former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Bridget Anne Kelly, former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Chris Christie. The names of those individuals, who have not been charged, have been provided under seal to defense attorneys in the case, but kept secret from the public by federal prosecutors.

 

Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will oversee the vice-presidential search | 10 May 2016 | Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s traveling confidant and campaign manager, will be in charge of the team that will survey and vet potential vice-presidential candidates for the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, two top Republicans said. The two Republicans familiar with Lewandowski's responsibilities spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss their private conversations with the Trump campaign, which is planning to ramp up the vice-presidential search in the coming weeks. Lewandowski formally took charge of the hunt for a running mate last week and has since been described inside and outside of the campaign as the point person for all related questions and meetings, the Republicans said.

 

Sanders Wins West Virginia Democratic Primary | 10 May 2016 | Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has won the West Virginia Democratic primary, NBC News projects, a victory that will add yet more fuel to his argument that he should remain in the race despite badly trailing front runner Hillary Clinton in the overall delegate count. The win comes one week after Sanders prevailed in Indiana's Democratic primary and two weeks after Clinton dominated a series of contests in the northeastern United States. Democrats also voted on Tuesday in a presidential "beauty contest" in Nebraska, although the delegates from that state were all previously assigned during a March 5 caucus. In that contest, Sanders won 15 pledged delegates, compared to 10 for Clinton.

 

West Virginia, once Clinton Country, leans to Sanders | 10 May 2016 | Eight years ago, after her path to the Democratic presidential nomination had seemingly run out, Hillary Clinton found salvation in West Virginia. The state's still-dominant Democratic voters gave her a 41-point landslide victory, with wins in every county...Yet today, Clinton is expected to lose the state, having moved elsewhere as Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) barnstormed, and gone dark on the air, as she did in Indiana. In every West Virginia poll, the candidate who won every county last time is trailing the democratic socialist from Vermont.

 

Exit polls: Nearly half of W.Virginia Sanders backers would vote Trump | 10 May 2016 | Nearly half of the voters in the West Virginia Democratic primary who backed Bernie Sanders say they would vote for Republican Donald Trump in the fall presidential election, according to exit polls reported by CBS News. Forty-four percent of Sanders supporters surveyed said they would rather back the presumptive GOP nominee in November, with only 23 percent saying they'd support Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. And 31 percent said would support neither candidate in the likely general election match-up.

 

Trump wins West Virginia as he marches to nomination | 10 May 2016 | Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is projected to win the West Virginia primary. In the first contest since his competitors dropped out, Trump cruised to victory in what was expected to be prime territory for him. West Virginia is demographically designed to be Trump country.

 

Trump wins Nebraska Republican primary | 10 May 2016 | Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is projected to win the Nebraska primary. The last man standing in the GOP race, also won West Virginia's primary on Tuesday as he marches to the nomination. Earlier in the day, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Sociopath-Texas) floated the possibility of restarting his presidential campaign if he won Nebraska's primary, though he said he didn't expect to win the contest. [Yeah, that didn't happen.]

 

Cruz opens door to kick-starting suspended campaign --Cruz moving to lock down his delegates | 10 May 2016 | Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R), in an interview Tuesday with radio host and supporter [and Grade 'A' sociopath] Glenn Beck, opened the door just a crack to kick-starting his now-suspended campaign if he somehow starts winning primary contests again. Asked what he'd do if, for instance, Nebraska voters back him in Tuesday's primary, Cruz said he assumes that won't happen but added: "Let's be very clear, if there is a path to victory -- we launched this campaign intending to win." He said he suspended his campaign last week because he didn't see a viable path after his loss in Indiana, but, "If that changes, we will certainly respond accordingly."

 

Ryan says he would step down as convention chair if Trump asks | 09 May 2016 | House Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday that if Donald Trump wants him to step down as a chairman of the GOP convention, he will respect his wishes. "He's the nominee. I'll do whatever he wants with respect to the convention," Ryan said when asked about that scenario in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

 

House Speaker Paul Ryan: 'Not Ready' to Support Trump as GOP Nominee | 05 May 2016 | House Speaker [corporatist dirt-bag] Paul Ryan said Thursday that he couldn't yet lend his support to Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee, saying the billionaire businessman had "work to do" to unify the party and to demonstrate his commitment to conservative principles subjugating the US to full corporate control through the Obama/Ryan TPP. Asked if he would support Mr. Trump, Mr. Ryan told CNN: "I'm just not ready to do that at this point. I'm not there right now. And I hope to though, and I want to. But I think what is required is that we unify this party. And I think the bulk of the burden on unifying this party will have to come from the presumptive nominee."

 

Ted Cruz Backers Seek to Control Convention Platform | 09 May 2016 | Senator Ted Cruz's supporters are mounting an effort to seize control of the Republican platform and the rules governing the party's July convention, the first indication that Mr. Cruz will not simply hand his delegates over to Donald J. Trump. In an email sent Sunday to pro-Cruz convention delegates, a top aide to the Texas senator wrote that it was "still possible to advance a conservative agenda at the convention." ...With the assumption that the party's nomination would not be decided on the first convention ballot, Mr. Cruz spent considerable time this spring electing delegates favorable to him to the July convention in Cleveland. So while he is out of the race, [tragically] many of his [psychotic] supporters will still be delegates.

 

Kasich suspends his GOP presidential campaign | 04 May 2016 | Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday suspended his Republican presidential campaign, ending his underdog bid and hinting at a life perhaps beyond elected office. In a subdued, roughly 15-minute speech, Kasich first thanked his wife Karen, then other family members, staffers, volunteers, Ohio residents and those who contributed to his campaign. An underdog from the start, Kasich held on to become the last candidate standing against front-runner Donald Trump, despite his inability to win any contests beyond Ohio.

 

Maine Democrats to vote on eliminating superdelegates | 03 May 2016 | Officials from the Maine Democratic Party will vote on a rule change to eliminate superdelegates, the controversial institution that has a disproportionate role in choosing the party's presidential nominee without necessarily representing voters. State representative Diane Russell introduced a rule change that would require superdelegates in Maine to be assigned proportionally based on the state's caucus results, just like normal delegates are. The proposed change will be brought to a vote at this weekend's state Democratic Party convention in Portland.

 

FaCIAbook busted: Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative [and Libertarian] News | 09 May 2016 | Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential "trending" news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential section, even though they were organically trending among the site's users. Several former Facebook "news curators," as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially "inject" selected stories garbage into the trending news module, even if they weren't popular enough to warrant inclusion--or in some cases weren’t trending at all.

 

U.S. government and N. Carolina escalate legal fight over transgender law | 09 May 2016 | A fight between the Obama administration and North Carolina over a state law limiting public bathroom access for transgender people escalated on Monday as both sides sued each other, trading accusations of civil rights violations and government overreach. The U.S. Justice Department's complaint asked a federal district court in North Carolina to declare that the state is violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act and order it to stop enforcing the ban. Hours earlier, North Carolina's Republican governor, Pat McCrory, and the state's secretary of public safety sued the agency in a different federal court in North Carolina, accusing it of "baseless and blatant overreach."

 

North Carolina transgender law violates civil rights law - U.S. | 04 May 2016 | Federal authorities told North Carolina's governor on Wednesday that a new state law limiting restroom access for transgender people violates the U.S. Civil Rights Act. In a letter to Republican Governor Pat McCrory the Justice Department said North Carolina was "engaging in a pattern or practice of discrimination against transgender state employees." The letter, seen by Reuters, said the state had until Monday to say whether it would remedy the violations.

 

U.S. regulators ban e-cigarette, cigar sales to minors | 05 May 2016 | U.S. regulators on Thursday took their first steps to crack down on e-cigarettes and cigars, increasingly popular among American youth, and banned sales to anyone under age 18 in hopes of preventing a new generation from becoming hooked on nicotine. The Food and Drug Administration's action brought regulation of e-cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and hookah tobacco in line with existing rules for cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and roll-your-own tobacco. The new rules take effect in 90 days...Wall Street analysts expect the regulation to herald a new wave of consolidation led by big tobacco companies.

 

Pilot broke all the rules to fly trapped animals out of Fort McMurray as wildfire advanced | 10 May 2016 | A Canadian pilot broke the rules so he could rescue more than 40 animals trapped north of Fort McMurray. More than 80,000 residents of Fort McMurray were ordered to leave last Tuesday as the wildfire advanced on the city. Many of those residents left their pets and were barred from re-entering the city to rescue them. But some owners have been reunited with their animals, helped in no small part by pilot [hero] Keith Mann, who didn't think twice to break the rules and fly a number of them out of the city. 'We're all animal-lovers here,' he told Metro News.

 

Canada wildfire: Alberta blaze threatens neighbouring province | 08 May 2016 | A huge wildfire raging in the Canadian province of Alberta is growing further and could spill in to neighbouring Saskatchewan, officials say. Hot, dry and windy conditions are hampering efforts by hundreds of firefighters to tackle the blaze...The flames have already caused the evacuation of 80,000 people from the oil city of Fort McMurray, and thousands are still stuck to the north.

 

Canada wildfire: Thousands airlifted from Fort McMurray as blaze grows | 06 May 2016 | Canadian officials are airlifting some 8,000 people who fled north of Fort McMurray - the city which has been devastated by a massive wildfire. They also hope that the only motorway to the south will become safe on Friday to move the remaining 17,000 people, who are in danger of becoming trapped. The entire city - more than 88,000 people - was evacuated three days ago. Most fled south but some went north. The fire in the province of Alberta has grown to 850 sq km (328.2 sq miles).

 

The San Andreas fault is 'locked, loaded, and ready to go': Experts warn California to brace itself for a deadly earthquake --Thomas Jordan of Southern California Earthquake Centre made warning | 05 May 2016 | Californians are being told to brace for 'the big one' - a massive earthquake that typically occurs every 400 to 600 years and could leave thousands dead or homeless. An earthquake scientist has added to claims the dreaded event is overdue, warning the San Andreas fault is 'locked, loaded and ready to roll'. The fault is the longest in California and one of the state's most dangerous.

 

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