CLG: Clinton researcher Victor Thorn found at top of mountain near his home, an apparent victim of gunshot wound, Obama predicts TPP 'trade' deal will be ratified after election, Exelon, Entergy Hazardous Nuclear Reactors Get $500 Million in Subsidies From New York

News Updates from CLG
03 Aug 2016

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Previous edition:  Growing fears Rio Olympics could be hit by an ISIS radioactive 'dirty bomb'

 

Breaking: Woman killed and five people injured in a 'terrorist knife attack in central London' --Scotland Yard said the incident is being treated as possible terror offence | 03 Aug 2016 | A woman has died and up to five people have been injured after a man allegedly 'went on the rampage' in a possible terror-related knife attack in central London. Police confirmed a man was arrested after he was seen 'brandishing a knife' and 'injuring people' in front of horrified onlookers in Russell Square last night. Fears that the knifeman operated with an accomplice were raised in the early hours as the Met refused to rule out further suspects. One witness said he saw 'a man flee on a motorbike'.

 

Mass stabbing in central London leaves woman dead and six injured --Police explore possibility of 'terrorism' after man arrested following the incident in Russell Square in the centre of the city | 03 Aug 2016 | A woman has been killed and up to six people have been injured in a mass stabbing in the centre of London. The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that at least six people were injured in the incident at Russell Square. A statement said a woman was treated at the scene but was pronounced dead a short time later.

 

Anti-terror cops on permanent alert for France-style attacks in UK | 02 Aug 2016 | UK counter-terrorism cops are going on permanent standby amid fears of a Europe-style assault on targets across Britain. Specialist armed police units will provide 24 hour coverage ready to respond to attacks like those in Nice in July if there is an attempt to replicate them on British streets. London Police Chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe wrote in the Mail newspaper that his force was "training hundreds of extra officers so they are ready to supplement our numbers during an attack similar to that seen in Paris. This increases armed officers by 600 to 2,800."

 

Bomb threat at Rio Olympic pool sees athletes evacuated just before the Australian swim team was due to train | 02 Aug 2016 | The Olympic aquatic centre in Rio has been evacuated after the discovery of a suspicious package. Bomb squads descended on the facility 90 minutes before the Australian swim team were due to train on Tuesday night. According to reports the package was in fact an electrician's tool box which was discovered during a security sweep.

 

DC Metro Transit police officer charged with aiding ISIS | 03 Aug 2016 | A Washington, D.C., Metro Transit police officer who was a convert to Islam and once dressed up as Jihadi John for Halloween was charged on Wednesday with attempting to provide material support to ISIS [I-CIA-SIS] -- the first time a law enforcement officer has been charged with an ISIS-related crime. Virginia resident Nicholas Young, 36, who had served with the department since 2003, was arrested Wednesday morning by FBI agents at Metro Transit Police headquarters in Washington, DC. Young, 36, will be held in Alexandria until his detention hearing, which is set for Friday at 2 p.m.

 

Insane in the membrane: Struggling U.S. Gives Israel Largest Aid Package Ever | 01 Aug 2016 | By many yardsticks, Israeli citizens enjoy higher living standards than US citizens. With more unemployed people than at any time in U.S. history, President Obama next week is scheduled to sign the most lavish foreign aid package in the country's history - $3.1 billion in military assistance to Israel - raising an urgent question: can the U.S. afford it? The United States already transfers 3.1 billion in taxpayer m-ney to Israel every year, far more than any other country, but the deal that will be signed into law next week will guarantee foreign aid to the country until the year 2027, a decade after Obama has left office.

 

Clinton researcher Victor Thorn found at top of mountain near his home, an apparent victim of gunshot wound --Prominent AFP Clinton Researcher Found Dead | 01 Aug 2016 | Prolific author, American Free Press writer and seasoned Clinton researcher Victor Thorn was found at the top of a mountain near his home, the apparent victim of a gunshot wound. Family and some close friends contend Thorn took his own life on his birthday, August 1. Thorn would have been 54. At the peak of his writing career, the author of some 20 books and 30 chapbooks, Thorn had reported for this newspaper for over a decade, writing thousands of articles on myriad subjects from conspiracy to health-related topics. Best known for his investigate research on the Clintons, Thorn wrote the Clinton trilogy--three definitive works that delved into the history of the power couple. 

 

Exelon, Entergy Hazardous Nuclear Reactors Get $500 Million in Subsidies From New York | 01 Aug 2016 | Exelon Corp. and Entergy Corp. have won subsidies totaling about 500 million a year for their m-ney-losing nuclear reactors in New York, the first state to [insanely] throw such a lifeline to an industry struggling with weak demand and low prices. The state Public Service Commission voted for the funding on Monday as part of a broader plan to spur the development of clean energy. [?!?] Exelon Corp. said following the decision that it would invest about 200 million in two nuclear plants next year and continue discussions to buy a third from Entergy that is slated to close.

 

Newborn dies from whooping cough weeks after pregnant mom is given pertussis vaccine | 29 July 2016 | A California couple grieving the loss of their infant son from whooping cough is vowing to raise awareness of the disease. Ty'Ree Rodgers of San Diego told ABC News that his 3-week-old, Jaxon Rodgers, died July 15 from the effects of whooping cough...Jaxon was born healthy on June 6 and was brought home from the hospital three days later, Rodgers said. He added that Jaxon's mom, Lema, breastfed the whole way...One week before Jaxon was born, his mother was offered a vaccine for pertussis at the medical clinic she attended, Rodgers said. Rodgers said he would like to explore further whether the time frame in which Jaxon's mother received the vaccination may have contributed to the child's death. [Maybe the vaccine itself 'contributed to the child's death.']

 

The people will stop this, dirt-bag: Obama predicts TPP 'trade' deal will be ratified after election | 02 Aug 2016 | President Barack Obama dismissed Hillary Clinton's [phony] opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement corporate takeover Tuesday and suggested that her disapproval of the deal may be politically motivated. [*Duh.*] "Right now, I'm president, and I'm for it," he said at a news conference with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong...While Obama and Lee were speaking, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was addressing supporters at a rally in Ashburn, Virginia, just miles from the capital. In a statement, Trump said a victory by him in November is the only way to stop a "TPP catastrophe."

 

Trump acolytes campaign to defeat Ryan | 03 Aug 2016 | With the relationship between [TPP-pusher] Paul Ryan and Donald Trump already increasingly fraught, POLITICO has learned that a group of former Trump campaign hands is quietly working to defeat the House speaker in his primary election next week. More than half a dozen of Trump's former campaign staff members or leading volunteer organizers from around the country -- and many more local volunteers -- have signed on to the long-shot campaign of Ryan's primary challenger, businessman Paul Nehlen, who openly embraces Trump and casts Ryan as an impediment to Trump's agenda...Nehlen, in an interview conducted Tuesday during a break in door-knocking here in Ryan's hometown, accused the speaker of taking "every opportunity to undermine Mr. Trump. He's not been loyal to him."

 

Green Party's Jill Stein Selects Human-Rights Activist Ajamu Baraka as Running Mate | 01 Aug 2016 | Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate running for President against Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump,announced Monday that she has selected Ajamu Baraka, a human-rights activist and intellectual, as her prospective Vice President. Stein, a doctor turned politician who also ran for the country's highest office in 2012, described Baraka as an "activist, writer, intellectual and organizer with a powerful voice, vision, and lifelong commitment to building true political revolution" in a statement. Baraka, the founding executive director of the U.S. Human Rights Network, is known for his decades-long social-justice efforts and his opposition to the death penalty.

 

 'World's saddest polar bear' is still stuck in Guangzhou aquarium; 500,000 sign petition calling for animal's release | 29 July 2016 | The Grandview Aquarium, located inside a sprawling shopping mall in Guangzhou, has become notorious for its questionable treatment of its animals, in particular one very sad-looking polar bear named Pizza. Day in and day out, people crowd around the outside of Pizza's pen prison, tapping on the glass, trying to get the mopey bear to move around and pose for a good picture. The blinding flash of cameras has become a non-stop annoyance for the poor creature. In March, the animal welfare group Animals Asia posted a video featuring Pizza -- "the world's saddest polar bear." They followed that up byreleasing a petition [now at over 520,000 signatures] calling for the aquarium to be closed and Pizza freed. [Please sign petition.] 

 

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