CLG: Terror fears after series of security breaches at nuclear power stations, 'PsyOps to build case against Assad', US government sent over 1.4 million guns to Iraq and Afghanistan

 News Updates from CLG
30 August 2016

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Terror fears after series of security breaches at nuclear power stations | 29 Aug 2016 | The police force charged with guarding UK nuclear power plants has admitted to a substantial increase in the number of breaches of security last year. There were 21 separate incidents involving stolen or lost smart phones and identity cards, up from 13 the previous year. In one case a Blackberry was taken in a "domestic burglary", and in another a SIM card was "accidently thrown in disposal chute at home address." Emails containing sensitive information, including an armoury access code and personal data, were sent in breach of security protocols...The revelations uncovered by the Sunday Herald have been condemned as well as prompting alarm from campaigners and politicians.

 

UK: Bomb disposal team called in after five arrested on terror charges | 27 Aug 2016 | A British Army bomb disposal team was called in to a site in Birmingham where five men were arrested on terror charges. The five men were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, West Midlands Police said. "The arrests were intelligence-led and part of an ongoing investigation," a police spokesperson said. "Police are searching a number of properties in the Stoke and Birmingham areas as part of the investigation; these searches are on-going,” he added.

 

Enemy within? German army looking for Islamist infiltrators in its ranks, report says | 29 Aug 2016 | German Military Intelligence (MAD) is looking into nearly 300 cases of potential extremists, including Islamist infiltrators in its ranks, and is mulling tougher screening for recruits because of the situation, Die Welt reports, citing military sources. "Currently the MAD is checking a three-digit number of suspected extremists in the armed forces: 268 right-wing extremists, 64 Islamists and six left-wing extremists," Die Welt reported on Sunday, citing an unnamed military official. According to the outlet, the MAD has tip-offs about plans to enroll so-called "short-term servicemen" into the German army (Bundeswehr) for them to get proper military training.

 

Indianapolis man arrested, accused of planning act of domestic terrorism | 29 Aug 2016 | An Indianapolis man was arrested and prosecutors say it appears he planned an act of domestic terrorism. Christopher Byrne, 31, was arrested on August 15 after Greenwood Police Department officer Eric McElhaney noticed Byrne driving in a suspicious manner through the Greenwood Park Mall parking lot. The officer pulled him over after a traffic violation at U.S. 31. When asked for identification, police say Byrne claimed to be a "sovereign national" and refused the request.

 

US government sent over 1.4 million guns to Iraq and Afghanistan | 24 Aug 2016 | Since the start of the so-called War on Terror, the US government has sent at least 1.4 million guns to arm Iraq and Afghan government forces, AOAV's research into US Department of Defence contracts can reveal. AOAV’s analysis of a wide range of open source data reports showed that the US government had sent at least 1,452,910 small arms to Iraq and Afghanistan (949,582 for Iraq; 503,328 for Afghanistan) since 9/11. In August 2016 the Department of Defense (DoD) sent AOAV two charts that they believed accounted for the small arms sent to Iraq and Afghanistan between 2004 and June 2016 for Afghanistan, and 2005 and June 2016 for Iraq.

 

'PsyOps to build case against Assad' | 26 Aug 2016 | The West doesn't want to acknowledge it enabled, and sometimes directly supported, groups in Syria that use chemical weapons as a pretext to put the onus for this on the Assad government, says retired CIA and US State Department official Larry Johnson. A joint investigation by the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) accuses the Syrian government of carrying out two chemical weapons attacks in the past two years, as well as ISIS for using mustard gas in one of them. RT: Commenting on the UN report, Washington said Assad must be held to account. But why did the US remain silent when so-called moderate rebels admitted carrying out a chemical attack in April this year, in Aleppo? Larry Johnson: The real problem with the chemical weapons - I call them 'so-called chemical weapons' - is that it has been almost entirely the rebels and not the government.

 

UK defense contractor BAE selling surveillance gear to Emirates - report | 27 Aug 2016 | The Danish subsidiary of a British defense contractor is selling surveillance gear to the United Arab Emirates, according to documents obtained by a Danish newspaper. The deal has sparked fears that the system will be used to repress political opponents. The papers from the Danish Business Authority show that it issued an export permit last month to BAE Systems Applied Intelligence A/S, which gives the company the right to sell an "IP monitoring and data analysis system relating to national security and the investigation of serious crimes" to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Dagbladet Information reported. The documents also show that BAE Systems already delivered such a system to the regime sometime before December 31, 2014, and that the new license is for "extension service, support, testing, and maintenance."

 

Mangled 'MH370 debris' found off the coast of Mozambique suggests the jet EXPLODED and was not under control of the pilot when it crashed | 28 Aug 2016 | Another piece of aircraft wreckage, believed to be from MH370, has added strength to the belief that the plane was not under the control of a pilot when it smashed into the southern Indian Ocean. A South African tour operator in Mozambique says he found the large triangular-shaped piece, measuring about a meter wide and a meter long, on the country's east coast. The fact that it is badly mangled with torn edges has led experts to conclude that the aircraft was not glided down for a 'soft' landing on the sea - a claim by those who believe pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah turned 'rogue' and took control of the aircraft on a suicide flight to end in the ocean where it would sink and drown everyone on board.

 

Federal judge won't block California's strict child vaccination law | 26 Aug 2016 | A federal judge won't immediately block a[n insane] California law that requires all schoolchildren to be vaccinated and is one of the strictest in the nation for eliminating exemptions based on religious and personal beliefs. The ruling Friday by U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego comes as the law faces its first test with the end of summer break. A lawsuit filed by 17 families and two foundations sought an injunction while the suit works its way through the courts. The law went into effect July 1 and eliminated religious and personal beliefs as reasons for opt out of the state's mandatory immunizations.

 

Parents wary of HPV vaccination requirements, study finds | 22 Aug 2016 | Despite a renewed push by health [sic] officials to promote HPV vaccination, a new poll finds that only a minority of parents believe laws requiring the vaccines "are a good idea." Others said they were worried the vaccines can cause serious side effects or that they're a ploy for pharma sales. According to the research, 21% of parents said they support laws mandating HPV vaccination as a school-entry requirement, but that number jumped to 57% if the laws were to include "opt-out" provisions. Additionally, researchers found that 23% of the parents questioned vaccine safety and 32% said HPV shots are a sales ploy by pharma companies, ABC News reports.

 

From the trenches: Refusing the Hep B Vaccine --My Incredible Opinion with Forrest Maready | 28 June 2016 | Want to hear what it was like for someone who refused the Hepatitis B vaccine for [his/her] 2-hour old infant? Here's a story you won't believe.

 

As Obamacare choices dwindle, feds face consumer, political backlash | 29 Aug 2016 | Up to 2.1 million people will likely have to change plans for 2017 due to insurers leaving states' Affordable Care Act marketplaces, up from more than 1.2 million who had to find new insurers last year...The new estimates, from data expert Charles Gaba of ACASignups.net, come as another analysis shows five states are expected to have just one company selling insurance on the 2017 Obamacare exchanges. Consumers in most counties in nine other states won't find any competition for their exchange business either, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

 

Assange: 'Unexpected' Clinton campaign leaks coming | 25 Aug 2016 | WikiLeaks expects to release information with some "unexpected angles" regarding Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign ahead of the general election, the organization's founder, Julian Assange, said Wednesday. "I think it’s significant. You know, it depends on how it catches fire in the public and in the media," Assange told Fox News. "I don’t want to give the game away, but it’s a variety of documents from different types of institutions that are associated with the election campaign, some quite unexpected angles, some quite interesting, some even entertaining."

 

Judge orders search of new Clinton emails for release by September 13 | 25 Aug 2016 | A U.S. judge ordered the State Department on Thursday to release by Sept. 13 any emails it finds between Hillary Clinton and the White House from the week of the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, among the thousands of additional emails uncovered by federal investigators. The order came after the Federal Bureau of Investigation gave the department a disc earlier this month containing 14,900 emails to and from Clinton and other documents it said it had recovered that she did not return to the government.

 

Trump vows crackdown on immigrants who overstay visas if elected | 28 Aug 2016 | U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump offered fresh details of how he would tackle illegal immigration on Saturday, saying he would crack down on those who overstay their visas as he sought to quiet criticism from conservatives. In a campaign speech in Des Moines, Iowa, Trump also cited the shooting death of a cousin of NBA star Dwyane Wade to urge African-American voters to rally behind him, calling it an example of violence that has to be addressed. Trump, speaking on the Iowa State Fairgrounds with hay bales stacked behind him, sought to clarify his views on how to overhaul the U.S. immigration system after saying earlier in the week that he was softening on his plan to deport all 11 million illegal immigrants.

 

Meet the 'Trumpocrats': Lifelong Democrats Breaking with Party Over Hillary Clinton to Support Donald Trump for President | 23 Aug 2016 | Meet the "Trumpocrats," or so the sizable collection of lifelong Democrats breaking with their party because of their disgust with nominee for president Hillary Rodham Clinton and supporting instead Republican nominee Donald J. Trump call themselves. Christian Rickers, the Virginia-based executive director of the Trumpocrats PAC--a Super PAC designed to help his like-minded lifelong Democrats...join the Trump movement--walked Breitbart News through why he is leading the effort among Democrats who support Trump for president. Rickers's argument centers on trade policy, and Trump's ardent opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) that Clinton supported publicly more than 40 times but now claims she opposes. He points back to Bill Clinton's backing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) from his time as president, and Rickers says Democrats everywhere should be terrified of how much further Hillary Clinton would go if she’s elected president.

 

Heavy Snow Closes US-212 (Beartooth Pass) in Montana | 25 Aug 2016 | Heavy SNOW caused the Montana Department of Transportation to CLOSE 10,947' Beartooth Pass on US-212 yesterday at 8:10pm. The closure goes from Vista Point on the Montana side to Long Lake on the Wyoming side. Road conditions will be reevaluated this morning around daylight. Pretty awesome that we're having road closures in Montana in August! [Yes, get me to Montana, NOW!]

 

Meet the Russian family that adopted a bear --Mostly, he seems to love a cuddle with his two pet humans. | 29 May 2016 | Svetlana and Yuriy Panteleenko live with a 136kg brown bear, Stepan. Stepan was found in the woods near to their home after having lost his mother. The couple adopted him when he was just three months of age, meaning he hadn't yet grown out of his gentle ways. He's now 23-years-old and 2.1m tall. As a big fella, Stepan eats over 25kg of food every day...Some of it at the family dinner table.

 

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