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 News Updates from CLG
04 June 2016

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Heads up on California primary day! June 7: FEMA, USNORTHCOM to hold drill to prepare for 9.0 Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami | 30 May 2016 | Starting on June 7th, FEMA will be conducting a large-scale drill that has been named "Cascadia Rising" that will simulate the effects of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone and an accompanying west coast tsunami dozens of feet tall. According to the official flyer for the event, more than "50 counties, plus major cities, tribal nations, state and federal agencies, private sector businesses, and non-governmental organizations across three states – Washington, Oregon, and Idaho – will be participating." In addition to "Cascadia Rising," U.S. Northern Command will be holding five other exercises simultaneously. According to the final draft of the Cascadia Rising drill plan, those five exercises are entitled "Ardent Sentry 2016," "Vigilant Guard," "Special Focus Exercise," "Turbo Challenge," and "Joint Logistics Over-The-Shore."

 

Al Qaeda-linked Syrian 'rebel' granted visit to U.S. so he could lobby policymakers | 21 May 2016 | A senior figure from a Syrian 'rebel' group with links to al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] was allowed into the United States for a brief visit, raising questions about how much the Obama administration will compromise in the search for partners in the conflict. Labib al Nahhas, foreign affairs director for the Islamist fighting group Ahrar al Sham, spent a few days in Washington in December, according to four people with direct knowledge of the trip and who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of U.S. relations with Syrian rebels...National security analysts say U.S. authorities likely knew of Nahhas's arrival - intelligence agencies for years have watched his group's interactions with al Qaida's Syrian branch, the Nusra Front.

 

NATO to create intelligence chief position | 03 June 2016 | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has a new position in the works that would likely be tasked with improving intelligence sharing on terrorist groups. The new post of assistant secretary general for intelligence will likely be approved by the alliance in July, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The Journal reported that whoever fills the new post will focus on providing strategic guidance to NATO's military commands and streamlining information sharing between members.

 

4 missing soldiers found dead, 9 killed in total in flood at Fort Hood | 03 June 2016 | Army aircraft, dogs and rescue watercraft on Friday were searching a 20-mile creek that winds through heavily wooded terrain at Fort Hood Army Base in Texas looking for four soldiers missing a day after their light vehicle overturned in fast-rising floodwaters, killing five soldiers. On Friday night, the bodies of the four missing soldiers who were swept away in the creek were found, the Associated Press reported. Three soldiers who were plucked from the swift floodwaters on Thursday were in stable condition, according to officials at the military facility in Killeen, in central Texas.

 

ISIS Sleeper Cell Planned to Blow Up Subway - German Federal Prosecutor | 02 June 2016 | Four Syrian nationals accused of being an ISIS sleeper cell are in custody after one in the group revealed a plot to unleash suicide bombs at a busy metro station in Germany, according to Germany's federal prosecutor. The plan, according to authorities, was to detonate two suicide bombs in a metro station in Dusseldorf in western Germany and then have at least one more attacker unleash gunfire and other explosives on bystanders. Planning for the attack went as far back as May 2014 when two of the men, identified as Saleh A. and Hamza C., received approval for the attack from ISIS leadership before slipping into Europe through Turkey and then Greece, according to a statement on the prosecutor's website.

 

No bomb found on flight from London to Newark airport | 02 June 2016 | No bomb was found on a flight from London that arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport Thursday afternoon after a bomb threat was called in, police said...Port Authority Police spokesman Joe Pentangelo said in an email that all cargo areas had also been cleared, and that the aircraft had been turned back over to British Airways. The flight was making its way across the Atlantic carrying 206 passengers and 13 crew, when police said the threat was phoned in.

 

Judge 'manipulated' 9/11 attacks case, court document alleges --Army colonel effectively conspired to destroy evidence to defend Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused architect of the terror attacks, according to court document | 31 May 2016 | The judge overseeing the premiere military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay effectively conspired with the prosecution to destroy evidence relevant to defending the accused architect of the 9/11 attacks, according to a scathing court document. Army Col James Pohl, who this week at Guantánamo is presiding over a resumption of pretrial hearings in the already troubled case, "in concert with the prosecution, manipulated secret proceedings and the use of secret orders", the document alleges, preventing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s defense team from learning Pohl had permitted the Obama administration to destroy the evidence.

 

Violence erupts as protesters chase and attack Trump supporters in San Jose --Trump supporters repeatedly attacked by protesters outside San Jose rally --Amid chaotic scenes, protesters burn US flag, throw eggs at rally attendees --Violence broke out shortly after candidate finished speaking | 03 June 2016 | Trump supporter has eggs thrown at her --NBC News correspondent Jacob Rascon tweeted early a photo of a woman being attacked by protesters with eggs and bottles...A videoposted by Tim Pool of Fusion shows a man coming up behind a Trump supporter in a yellow shirt and swinging something at the side of his head, striking him. (Updates)

 

California boy, 9, is banned from wearing Trump supporting 'Make America Great Again' cap in school but refuses to take hat off | 03 June 2016 | A nine-year-old in California has been banned from wearing a Trump-supporting 'Make America Great Again' hat at his elementary school. Logan Autry had to leave Powers-Ginsburg Elementary School early on Thursday because administrators felt his hat was a safety concern. Students began confronting Logan and having tense conversations with him about the presidential election, officials said. Logan wore his cap to school for three days and every day more students confronted the nine-year-old.

 

Paul Ryan endorses Donald Trump | 03 June 2016 | [Fearing a primary loss to Paul Nehlen,] House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday said he's voting for presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. In an op-ed for the Janesville Gazette of Janesville, Wisconsin, Ryan -- who sparked a political firestorm last month when he told CNN he was "just not ready" to back his party's nominee -- says he is now convinced Trump will advance the Republican agenda. Late Thursday afternoon, Trump tweeted his appreciation for Ryan's support.

 

Clinton bashes Trump in 'foreign policy' speech | 02 June 2016 | Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton delivered a speech full of criticism of Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump in San Diego, California, on a stage decorated with seventeen American flags. She talked about her foreign policy successes, but failed to mention Benghazi even once. She started by saying that Donald Trump's ideas "aren't just different, they are dangerous incoherent," calling them nothing but rants, personal feuds and outright lies...Clinton made caustic comments on Trump's mental state several times through her speech.

 

Fiery oil train derailment along Columbia River in Oregon --Train was operated by Union Pacific | 03 June 2016 | An oil train passing through the Columbia Gorge near Mosier has derailed. The accident happened just after noon. Flames and smoke can be seen from Interstate 84. The interstate was shut down from The Dalles to Mosier, transportation officials announced just after 1 p.m. Ken Armstrong, spokesman for the Oregon Department of Forestry, says the incident involves eight cars filled with oil and one is burning.

 

Court upholds storage of nuclear waste at power plants, rebuffing states --Rule [insanely] concluded that spent fuel rods can be stored safely at nuclear power plants indefinitely | 03 June 2016 | A federal appeals court Friday rejected a plea from four liberal [?] states to overturn a regulation allowing long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel at power plants. The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) followed all relevant laws and standards when it wrote its 2014 regulation and an associated environmental impact statement...The attorneys general of New York, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut filed the lawsuit shortly after the NRC voted to make its regulation and environmental impact statement final.

 

At least 33 US cities used water testing 'cheats' over lead concerns | 02 June 2016 | At least 33 cities across 17 US states have used water testing "cheats" that potentially conceal dangerous levels of lead, a Guardian investigation launched in the wake of the toxic water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has found. Of these cities, 21 used the same water testing methods that prompted criminal charges against three government employees in Flint over their role in one of the worst public health disasters in US history. The crisis that gripped Flint is an extreme case where a cost-cutting decision to divert the city's water supply to a polluted river was compounded by a poor testing regime and delays by environmental officials to respond to the health emergency. The Guardian's investigation demonstrates that similar testing regimes were in place in cities including Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee.

 

Blue Cross asking for 60 percent rate hike for Obamacare plans in Texas in 2017 | 01 June 2016 | The largest health insurer in Texas wants to raise its rates on individual policies by an average of nearly 60 percent, a new sign that President Barack Obama's overhaul hasn't solved the problem of price spikes. Texas isn't alone. Citing financial losses under the health care law, many insurers around the country are requesting bigger premium increases for 2017. That's to account for lower-than-hoped enrollment, sicker-than-expected customers and problems with the government’s financial backstop for insurance markets.

 

Doctors Name Larvicide Manufactured by Monsanto Partner Sumitomo Chemical as Cause of Brazilian Microcephaly Outbreak | 03 Feb 2016 | A report from the Argentine doctors' organisation, Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns, challenges the theory that the Zika virus epidemic in Brazil is the cause of the increase in the birth defect microcephaly among newborns. The increase in this birth defect, in which the baby is born with an abnormally small head and often has brain damage, was quickly linked to the Zika virus by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. However, according to the Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns, the Ministry failed to recognise that in the area where most sick people live, a chemical larvicide that produces malformations in mosquitoes was introduced into the drinking water supply in 2014. This poison, Pyriproxyfen, is used in a state-controlled programme [allegedly] aimed at eradicating disease-carrying mosquitoes.

 

UCLA gunman had 'kill list' and is linked to second slaying in Minnesota | 02 June 2016 | The gunman who [allegedly] killed a UCLA professor before committing suicide on campus Wednesday left behind a "kill list" and is suspected in the shooting death of a woman in Minnesota, authorities said. Mainak Sarkar, 38, a former doctoral student and Minnesota resident, left a list at his home in that state that included the names of the woman, UCLA professor William Klug and a second professor who is safe, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday. Sarkar shot Klug multiple times in a small office in UCLA Engineering Building 4 before taking his own life, authorities said. When detectives arrived at Klug's office on Wednesday morning and found both bodies, they also found a note from Sarkar listing his home address in Minnesota and asking someone to "check on my cat."

 

Medical student shot dead by UCLA gunman inside her home in Minnesota before he drove across the country to kill professor in LA and finish his 'kill list' | 02 June 2016 | A Minnesota woman was found murdered at her home yesterday, almost certainly at the hands of the [alleged] UCLA gunman before he drove to Los Angeles to kill his former professor. PhD graduate Mainak Sarkar was planning on carrying out more executions using a 'kill list' before he committed suicide, the LAPD revealed today. Sarkar, 38, who was born in India before coming to the US to study, is suspected of shooting the woman dead at her home near Minneapolis before driving to Los Angeles where he found and killed his former professor, William Klug, 39. The female victim, identified to the Star Tribune as Ashley Hasti, 31, was discovered by officers at around 12.30am carrying out a welfare check on behalf of the LAPD.

 

Muhammad Ali, boxing legend, cultural icon dies at 74 | 04 June 2016 | Muhammad Ali, the three-time heavyweight champion boxer whose electrifying prowess in the ring and controversial outspokenness outside of it made him one of the world's most recognizable personalities of the 20th Century, died after a battle with a respiratory illness. He was 74. Ali, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's syndrome in 1984, died at a Phoenix hospital.

Darwin Letter Recovered; FBI Returns 1875 Correspondence to Smithsonian Archives | 02 June 2016 | A handwritten letter by Charles Darwin that was stolen from the Smithsonian Institution Archives more than three decades ago was recovered by FBI special agents and returned last week to the care of the Smithsonian. The letter, written in 1875 by the British naturalist and geologist best known for his theory of evolution, was stolen in the mid-1970s from a collection of correspondence and documents relating to the history of North American geology. The letter, written to American geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, was part of the George Perkins Merrill Papers.  

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