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24 August 2016

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29,000 defense contractors outnumber U.S. troops in Afghanistan 3-to-1 - report | 17 Aug 2016 | Defense [sic] Department contractors in Afghanistan still outnumber U.S. troops by a 3-to-1 margin according to new research released this week, raising questions again about the role those workers play in the ongoing wars overseas and the oversight they receive. The data, compiled by the Congressional Research Service and first reported by Politico, shows contractor numbers in both Iraq and Afghanistan dating back to fiscal 2007. Combined, the Defense Department spent more than $220 billion on contractors in both war zones for a variety of services and support...The latest figures available, for the first few months of 2016, show nearly 29,000 defense contractors still in Afghanistan, with fewer than 9,000 U.S. troops stationed there.

 

Yemen's ex-president says could work with Russia to 'fight terrorism' | 21 Aug 2016 | A newly-formed governing council in Yemen could work with Russia to "fight terrorism" by allowing Moscow use of the war-torn country's military bases, Yemen's former president said on Sunday. Ali Abdullah Saleh, a former counter-terrorism ally of the U.S. who was toppled by mass protests in 2011, told state-owned channel Russia 24 that Yemen was ready to grant Moscow access to air and naval bases. "In the fight against terrorism we reach out and offer all facilities. Our airports, our ports...We are ready to provide this to the Russian Federation," Saleh said in an interview in Sanaa.

 

Pentagon: US ready to down Syrian, Russian jets | 23 Aug 2016 | The warning came after US fighter jets had tried to engage Syrian Arab Air Force aircraft in Syria last week, but the showdown was avoided as government planes left before the Americans arrived. The Pentagon has announced that the USA is ready to down Syrian and Russian planes that they claim threaten American advisers who by international law are illegally operating in northern Syria. On Friday, Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis claimed that US jets attempted to intercept Syrian planes to protect the American advisers operating illegally with Kurdish forces in Syria after Syrian government jets bombed areas of Hasakah when Kurdish police began an aggression against the National Defense Force.

 

Western media's latest propaganda campaign | 20 Aug 2016 | Western media has received video and photos of propaganda from alleged "activists in Aleppo". And Western media is spreading this propaganda like wildfire. Fact: The Obama administration wants Bashar al-Assad out so that the current democratic system of government will be replaced with an Islamic one. These photos and video are faked and are propaganda...they are meant to trick you. This propaganda is designed to make you think "government forces" or "Russian air strikes" have hit civilians. This is a lie...At one point, you see a person in the background wearing a White Helmet. And there you have it - the final d-mning evidence that this is yet another staged propaganda video created by the notorious White Helmets. Who are the White Helmets? The White Helmets were created by a collaboration of Islamists inside the US and the UK in 2013. The White Helmet "rescue" workers shown in their propaganda photos have been filmed socializing with opposition, participating in civilian executions, waving al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh], al-Nusra and other "opposition" flags.

 

Germany to require citizens to stockpile supplies in case of catastrophe - report | 21 Aug 2016 | A civil defense plan to be debated by the cabinet would require citizens to stockpile supplies in case of a catastrophe. The plan says people should prepare for an unlikely event that "could threaten our existence."  For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the German government plans to encourage its citizens to prepare for a catastrophe or armed attack by stockpiling food, water and other supplies, the FAS reported on Sunday. Citing the government's "Concept for Civil Defense" paper to be discussed by the cabinet on Wednesday, the government will require people to stock 10 days worth of food and five days of worth of drinking water.

 

Judge orders FBI to turn over terrorism task force documents | 18 Aug 2016 | A federal judge has ordered the Boston office of the FBI to disclose information about its Joint Terrorism Task Force in Massachusetts, including the number of agents assigned to the task force, the resources it uses, and the number of open cases it had as of 2014. The order was in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, which first requested the information nearly three years ago in a public records request under the Freedom of Information Act. US District Judge Allison D. Burroughs rejected the FBI's argument that the documents are exempt from public records laws because they would disclose law enforcement techniques and procedures.

 

Bombing at wedding in southern Turkey kills at least 30 | 21 Aug 2016 | At least 30 people were killed when a suspected suicide bomber detonated his explosives among people dancing on the street at a wedding party in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep on Saturday, security and hospital sources said. President Tayyip Erdogan said it was likely that Islamic State militants had carried out the late-night attack, one of the deadliest this year in Turkey, which faces threats from militants at home and across the border with neighboring Syria.

 

Assassination attempt? Panic for Julian Assange as intruder scales Ecuadorian embassy wall --An attempted break-in at the Ecuadorian embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is living was foiled this morning. | 22 Aug 2016 | Security was scrambled at the London building sparking international concern Assange was the target of the intruder. A statement was put out by WikiLeaks this morning. It stated: "16 mins ago at 2:47am a 'cat burgler' [sic] scaled the side wall+window of the Ecuadorian embassy in London; fled after being caught by security." Mr Assange has been living inside the embassy for more than four years and has been granted political asylum by Ecuador.

 

14 arrested for smuggling Fukushima-irradiated seafood in Shandong | 23 Aug 2016 | Customs authorities in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, detained 14 people for smuggling frozen seafood from Japan, including irradiated high-end seafood from waters near Fukushima prefecture, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Monday. The group has smuggled over 5,000 tons of frozen seafood - including shrimp and king crab - valued at 34.5 million - into China over the past two years, according to an announcement by the Qingdao Customs District (QCD) posted on its official website on Monday. Some of the high-end products were from Fukushima, one of 12 Japanese prefectures from which China has banned any seafood imports due to the contamination of their waters after the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, according to CCTV.

 

At least 8 dead after 6.2 earthquake in central Italy, reports say | 24 Aug 2016 | At least eight people were killed Wednesday after a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck central Italy, according to local news reports. Several people were reported dead after the earthquake struck near Norcia, roughly 105 miles from Rome, and a series of aftershocks hit, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Two people were killed in Pescara del Tronto, a small town in the Ascoli Piceno province, and a family of four was killed in Accumoli La Repubblica reported.

 

Shallow 6.2 quake strikes Italy, strongly felt in Rome | 24 Aug 2016 | A powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked central Italy some 76 kilometers southeast of the city of Perugia at 1:36 a.m. GMT. Social media has been flooded with reports of strong tremors felt in the country's capital, Rome. The town of Norcia, home to some 5,000 residents, lies just 10km southeast of the quake’s epicenter, according to US Geological Survey (USGS)...The earthquake hit 126km north of Rome, the largest and most populous city of the region with 2.6 million people.

 

Zika panic DEET chemical part of brain-damaging binary weapon being carpet bombed across America's cities | 21 Aug 2016 | With every ignorant news organization across America now pushing Americans to slather their skin with DEET chemicals as a defense against Zika mosquitoes, there's something every American needs to know: DEET is one chemical component of a binary chemical weapon system currently being carpet bombed onto U.S. civilian populations...In this article, I'm going to lay out the science for you that proves all this, citing published scientific studies, government research papers, historical accounts of military actions and molecular citations from the world's most authoritative sources on chemistry. As far as my own science background goes, I am the lab science director of CWC Labs, an internationally accredited, ISO-17025 accredited forensic food analysis laboratory. I personally run mass spec (LC/MS-TOF) systems with a special focus on pesticides, herbicides and chemical toxicology.

 

Florida announces Zika case hundreds of miles from Miami | 23 Aug 2016 | Florida officials on Tuesday announced the first case of Zika transmitted by mosquitoes in Pinellas County, located some 265 miles (425 km) from Miami, where the first locally transmitted U.S. cases were reported. Steve Huard, acting spokesman for Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County, said the case involves a woman without a significant travel history, indicating the virus was contracted locally. He did not know the timeline on the case, only that it had been confirmed within the past day.

 

Number of Zika Cases in US Military Rises to 55 | 19 Aug 2016 | The number of Zika virus cases among military personnel has continued to rise, with 14 more cases reported in recent weeks to increase the total number from 41 to 55, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday. In addition, 12 military dependents have been diagnosed with Zika, an increase of five cases over the seven among military dependents reported earlier this month...Earlier this month, government-funded human trials began on a possible Zika virus vaccine. [Yeah, the same bioterrorists who created the Zika virus (and dengue fever, etc.) are going to develop a vaccine to 'prevent' it. No thank you. --LRP]

 

Zika spreads to Miami Beach, U.S. expands travel warning | 20 Aug 2016 | Federal health officials on Friday warned pregnant women not to travel to trendy Miami Beach after Florida confirmed that the mosquito-borne Zika virus was active in the popular tourist destination. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also suggested that pregnant women who are especially worried about exposure to Zika...might consider avoiding all of Miami-Dade County...The new warnings heighten concerns over Zika's spread in the continental United States.

 

Obama Readies Big September Push for TPP Corporate Takeover | 21 Aug 2016 | President Obama is readying one final push for approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the largest regional trade agreement corporate takeover ever, between the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations. And though the odds may be long, a presidency defined by partisan stalemate may yet secure one last legacy -- only because of Mr. Obama's delicate alliance with the Republicans [Obama's fellow corporatists] who control Congress... Although the administration's push will begin in September, no vote on the accord will occur before the election. [Right, Obama, Paul Ryan and the other scum-bags are going to try to ram the TPP through in a lame-duck session of Congress.]

 

Judge orders State Department to review 14,900 Clinton emails | 22 Aug 2016 | A judge ordered the U.S. State Department on Monday to review for possible release 14,900 of Hillary Clinton's emails and attachments that the FBI found when investigating her use of a private email server as secretary of state. The judge also scheduled a Sept. 23 hearing on when to release the emails, a deadline that raises the possibility some will become public before the Nov. 8 presidential election between Democrat Clinton and her Republican rival, Donald Trump.

 

Every CLGer, please sign: YouTube: Take down horrifying video of hunter slaughtering bear with a spear --Bowmar also glorifies his use of a spear, which animal experts say can leave a bear suffering for up to 20 hours while it escapes and slowly bleeds to death. | 20 Aug 2016 | American hunter sociopath Josh Bowmar is featured in a horrifying 13-minute video just released on YouTube showing him killing a black bear with a homemade spear...He cheers with joy. He lifts the bear up to show its organs spilling out. This is not a video of a hunt. It's a disturbing celebration of animal cruelty. YouTube should immediately take it down and suspend Bowmar's account. Any video showing animal slaughter is disturbing, but Bowmar's video goes beyond celebrating a "sport". Even hunters are calling the video disgusting and lacks any respect for the life he takes.

 

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