CLG: US troops enter Poland, 1st deployment at Russia's doorstep

 News Updates from CLG
15 January 2017

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US troops enter Poland, 1st deployment at Russia's doorstep | 12 Jan 2017 | American soldiers rolled into Poland on Thursday, fulfilling a dream some Poles have had since the fall of communism in 1989 to have U.S. troops on their soil as a deterrent against Russia. Some people waved and held up American flags as U.S. troops in tanks and other vehicles crossed into southwestern Poland from Germany and headed toward the town of Zagan, where they will be based. Poland's prime minister and defense minister will welcome them in an official ceremony Saturday.

 

US tanks and soldiers in Poland pose threat to Russia - Kremlin | 13 Jan 2017 | Russia sees the deployment of US tanks and other military vehicles, along with army personnel, as a threat to its national security and interests, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. "We see this as a threat. These actions pose a threat to our interests and security," Peskov told journalists on Thursday, stressing "especially, when a third country is beefing up its military presence along our borders with Europe. And this is not even a European country," he added. Eighty-seven battle tanks, 144 Bradley fighting vehicles, and over 3,000 soldiers are on their way from Germany to Poland.

 

Trump plans to hold summit with Putin in Reykjavik - report | 15 Jan 2017 | US President-elect Donald Trump has told British officials that he wants to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Reykjavik, Iceland, the Sunday Times reported. The meeting with Vladimir Putin is set to become Donald Trump's first foreign trip, and the US leader will start working on an agreement limiting nuclear arms within a "reset" in US-Russian relations, according to the newspaper. Sources close to the Russian Embassy in London said to The Sunday Times that Moscow would agree to a summit between Putin and Trump.

 

Beheadings and mutilations: How SEAL Team 6 'committed war crimes across Iraq and Afghanistan' and 'fought over the book rights to the bin Laden mission BEFORE they'd even killed him' --Bombshell expose quotes SEAL Team 6 members and military officials as saying that the celebrated unit tolerated culture of lawlessness --SEAL Team 6 operators were said to have mutilated the corpses of dead insurgents and were not punished by their superiors --SEAL officers had allegedly disregarded rules of engagement, resulting in the deaths of civilians | 11 Jan 2017 | SEAL Team 6, the US Navy's special forces team that gained worldwide fame for [allegedly] killing Osama bin Laden, have been accused of a litany of war crimes and depraved battlefield behavior, according to a damning new expose. The explosive claims made against the group, officially named the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, include allegations of revenge killings, the mutilations of enemy fighters, 'criminal violence', and a department that 'went rogue'. The allegations have been reported in a new story by The Intercept, which it claims are based off more than two years of research and 'interviews with 18 current and former members, including four former senior leaders of the command'.

 

The Crimes of SEAL Team 6 | 10 Jan 2017 | Officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6 is today the most celebrated of the U.S. military's special mission units. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of "revenge ops," unjustified killings, mutilations, and other atrocities - a pattern of criminal violence that emerged soon after the Afghan war began and was tolerated and covered up by the command's leadership.

 

US Army soldier based at Fort Hood is found dead - making him the TWELFTH GI from the Texas base to die in the last two months as investigators probe bizarre cluster of suicides, accidents and fatal fights at the base | 14 Jan 2017 | The United States Army launched an investigation on Friday into the mysterious death of a soldier who was found unresponsive at his post on the Fort Hood base -- the latest in a string of nearly a dozen deaths of soldiers serving in the massive Texas encampment. Sgt. Alex Mathew Dean Taylor, 23, a soldier assigned to the 15th Military Intelligence Battalion, was found dead while on duty, according to Stars and Stripes. Taylor had enlisted as an aviation operations specialist.

 

Three people are arrested as Belgian anti-terror police launch huge raid on the same street in 'Europe's jihadi capital' Molenbeek where Paris attacks mastermind Salah Abdeslam lived | 15 Jan 2017 | Streets in the 'jihadi capital of Europe' have been blocked off as anti-terrorism squads launch a major operation. Large areas have been cordoned off in the Molenbeek district of Brussels, which is known for being rife with ISIS sympathisers and is not far from the EU headquarters. A police helicopter has also spotted flying overhead. A spokeswoman for the Brussels prosecutor's office, Ine Van Wymersch, said that four searches were conducted and three people have been detained.

 

U.S. lists 17 nuclear reactors with parts from forge under probe | 10 Jan 2017 | The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Tuesday unveiled a letter showing that 17 of the country's nuclear reactors have parts from Areva SA's Le Creusot forge in France, which is under investigation for allegedly falsifying documents on the quality of its parts. The number of reactors was more than the nine the NRC had previously disclosed. Last month authorities in France opened an investigation into decades of alleged forgery of documents relating to the quality of parts produced at Le Creusot and used in power plants around the world.

 

Mystery order: Troops providing inauguration security to lose commanding general mid-ceremony | 13 Jan 2017 | Something unusual is set to happen during Donald Trump's inauguration: Nearly 8,000 National Guard troops protecting the nation's capital will lose their commanding general. It's unclear who approved the mid-ceremony change in command. As the commanding officer of the DC National Guard, Major General Errol R. Schwartz is a presidential appointee. Schwartz will not only oversee the 2,700 troops in DC's Army and Air Force National Guard during the inauguration, but also an additional 5,000 unarmed troops from 40 states and military air support that are part of the Joint Task Force-District of Columbia (JTF-DC). Schwartz will be removed from his post effective January 20 at 12:01pm local time - as soon as the United States commander-in-chief takes office, according to a memo obtained by the Washington Post.

 

Head of D.C. National Guard to be removed from post in middle of inauguration | 13 Jan 2017 | The Army general who heads the D.C. National Guard and has an integral part in overseeing the inauguration said Friday that he will be removed from command effective at 12:01 p.m. Jan. 20, just as Donald Trump is sworn in as president. Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz's departure will come in the middle of the presidential ceremony - classified as a national special security event - and while thousands of his troops are deployed to help protect the nation's capital during an inauguration he has spent months helping to plan. "The timing is extremely unusual," Schwartz said in an interview Friday morning, confirming a memo announcing his ouster that was obtained by The Washington Post.

 

John Lewis: Trump is not a 'legitimate' president | 13 Jan 2017 | Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis says he doesn't see President-elect Donald Trump as a "legitimate" commander in chief following Russian meddling in the 2016 election. "I don't see this President-elect as a legitimate president," Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, told NBC News' Chuck Todd in a clip released Friday. "I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton." Lewis also said he planned to skip Trump's inauguration next week, which he said would be the first ceremony he would not attend since coming to Washington.

 

Rosie O'Donnell calls for martial law and Trump's inauguration to be delayed | 12 Jan 2017| Donald Trump will be sworn in one week from tomorrow as the 45th president of the United States, and his nemesis Rosie O'Donnell has now gone into overdrive trying to find a way to stop him from taking office. On Wednesday, O'Donnell unveiled her latest plan to delay the inauguration, calling for the implementation of a military government and the suspension of all laws in the United States until Trump has been cleared of any role in the [alleged] Russian hacking scandal.

 

Donald Trump's top team don't all agree with him on Russia | 13 Jan 2017 | President-elect Donald Trump's relationship with Russia has never been under closer scrutiny. But this week, for the first time, the views of those who will serve alongside him at the highest level have also come under the spotlight. As Trump's prospective defense secretary, secretary of state and CIA director have been quizzed at confirmation hearings this week, important differences have emerged between how they see Russia and the views of the President-elect.

 

Mattis says Putin 'trying to break' NATO | 12 Jan 2017 | James Mattis, Donald Trump's nominee to head the Pentagon, testified Thursday that he supports efforts to engage with Russia but was doubtful the two countries would find ways to cooperate. "I have very modest expectations about areas of cooperation with Mr. (Vladimir) Putin," Mattis said. Trump has at times spoken somewhat admiringly of the Russian leader and has suggested the two countries could cooperate in fighting the Islamic State.

 

House Joins Senate in Approving Groundwork to Revoke Health Care Law | 13 Jan 2017 | The House joined the Senate on Friday in laying the groundwork for speedy action to repeal the Affordable Care Act, approving the budget blueprint passed by the Senate on Thursday that would allow Republicans to tear up the health care law without the prospect of a Senate filibuster. The House vote, coming a week before President-elect Donald J. Trump's inauguration, places Republicans squarely in position to fulfill their long-held desire to dismantle President Obama's signature domestic achievement.

 

Congress takes first steps to dismantle health care law | 12 Jan 2017 | Congressional Republicans are taking the first steps toward dismantling President Barack Obama's health care law, facing pressure from President-elect Donald Trump to move quickly on a replacement. "We have a responsibility to step in and provide relief from this failing law," Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told reporters Thursday...Yet Ryan said there are no "hard deadlines" for a GOP replacement in tandem with the repeal effort, underscoring the difficulty for Congress despite the president-elect's call to both repeal the law and replace it with legislation to "get health care taken care of in this country."

 

Vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. says he'll chair vaccine commission for Trump [Yes! Finally!] | 10 Jan 2017 | President-elect Donald Trump has asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a major source of disproved theories imputing harm to vaccines, to chair a "commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity," Kennedy told reporters after a meeting in Trump Tower on Tuesday. Kennedy, who said he accepted the assignment, has been insisting for over a decade that traces of mercury in a preservative 'formerly' used in childhood vaccines caused a massive increase in autism diagnoses. Kennedy and other vaccine skeptics have found a welcoming audience in Trump, who has repeatedly stated the belief that vaccines cause autism. Kennedy and other anti-vaxxers say a vast array of CDC, FDA and pharmaceutical industry officials have covered up evidence of vaccine damage.

 

10 Key Moments and More From Trump's News Conference | 11 Jan 2017 | President-elect Donald J. Trump made an important concession about Russia. He criticized American intelligence officials. He sparred with reporters and denounced "fake news." And that was all before he arrived at the ostensible reason for holding his first formal news conference since July: his plans to extricate himself from the operations of his vast business holdings. Here are the highlights from the whirling, hour-long news conference in Trump Tower.

 

Full Event: President-Elect Donald Trump Holds Press Conference at Trump Tower | 11 Jan 2017 | Wednesday, January 11, 2017: RSBN's Liz Willis is here LIVE as President-Elect Donald Trump will hold a press conference at Trump Tower in New York just days before taking the Oath of Office.

 

Christopher Steele, Ex-MI6 Intelligence Officer, Said to Have Prepared Dossier on Trump --Former spy is director of London-based Orbis Intelligence Ltd., along with Christopher Burrows | 11 Jan 2017 | A former British intelligence officer who is now a director of a private security-and-investigations firm has been identified as the author of the dossier of unverified allegations about President-elect Donald Trump's activities and connections in Russia, people familiar with the matter say. Christopher Steele, a director of London-based Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd., prepared the dossier, the people said. The document alleges that the Kremlin colluded with Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and claims that Russian officials have compromising evidence of Mr. Trump's behavior that could be used to blackmail him. Mr. Trump has dismissed the dossier's contents as false and Russia has denied the claims.

 

'You Just Published Fake News': Chuck Todd Hammers BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Over Trump/Russia Dossier | 11 Jan 2017 | Following the much-criticized publication by BuzzFeed of a dossier showing unverified claims about President-elect Donald Trump being compromised by Russia, MSNBC host Chuck Todd grilled the site's Editor-in-Chief over his decision to publish the document. After Ben Smith justified the publication by noting that high level government officials had seen it, saying that he felt it needed to be shared with readers, Todd hit back. "You talk about context and you talk about putting responsibility on the readers," the MTP Daily host stated. "But at the same time, don't you have responsibility of not spreading false information? Are you knowingly spreading false information?"

 

Russia says Trump intel claims a 'fabrication and utter nonsense' | 11 Jan 2017 | A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin has denied allegations that the Kremlin has collected compromising information about U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday dismissed news reports as a "complete fabrication and utter nonsense." Peskov insisted that the Kremlin "does not engage in collecting compromising material. It is an obvious attempt to harm our bilateral relations,” Peskov said, adding "In English, it is called pulp fiction. Surely, we should react to it with the same sense of humor." [Note: CLG News subjects news claims to rigorous scrutiny before posting or reporting it. We aim to filter out all fake news, regardless of whom it affects or what political implications it has. -- MDR]

 

Fake News: BuzzFeed Runs 'Unverifiable' Trump-Russia Claims | 10 Jan 2017 | The online news [sic] site BuzzFeed on Tuesday published a letter containing salacious allegations -- which even the left-leaning outlet acknowledged are unverified -- against President-elect Donald Trump. The letter, purporting to come from a retired British intelligence agent, details Trump’s alleged relationship with Russia and contends that the Kremlin has been "cultivating, supporting and assisting" Trump for at least five years...BuzzFeed acknowledges that it has not verified the accusations and even notes that the document contains a number of basic factual errors. Yet it published the full document.

 

MSNBC broadcast abruptly freezes and repeats the word 'Russia, Russia, Russia' over and over | 13 Jan 2017 | On Thursday night, MSNBC's signal abruptly froze during a broadcast of Hardball with Chris Matthews and repeated the word "Russia" over and over. As Mediaite.com reported, the broadcast froze just as Washington Post columnist David Ignatius was saying the word "Russia," which was repeated over and over during the freeze.

 

Senate probe into election hacking to review possible links between Russia, campaigns | 13 Jan 2017 | The Senate Intelligence Committee's review of [alleged] Russian meddling in the 2016 election will include a look at intelligence "regarding links between Russia and individuals associated with political campaigns." Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, the committee's chairman, and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, the committee's vice chairman, said in a joint statement that the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the election also will focus on Russian cyberactivity and "active measures" against the US. It was known that intelligence panels in both chambers of Congress were tapped by Republican leaders to probe the hacking, but Friday's announcement makes clear the scope and details about the review.

 

FBI, Justice Department to be investigated over Clinton probe | 12 Jan 2017 | The Justice Department's internal watchdog announced Thursday it has launched a probe into the department and the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server. The announcement, which was expected, comes after criticism of the Justice Department's handling of the investigation, particularly on how the public was notified about the controversy, which was a major issue on the 2016 campaign trail. It will likely mean questions over the role of FBI Director James Comey in the fading days of the election, which Democrats believe helped cost them the presidency, will linger on long into the administration of Donald Trump.

 

Justice department to review FBI's conduct in Clinton email inquiry | 12 Jan 2017 | The justice department's Office of the Inspector General announced on Thursday that it will conduct a review of the handling of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server during her time as secretary of state. The independent auditor said the sprawling review would include an examination of whether the FBI director, James Comey, violated policy or procedure when he sent Congress notification about new evidence his department had discovered, 11 days before the presidential election.

 

Assange agrees to extradition if US releases whistleblower | 12 Jan 2017 | WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will agree to be extradited to the United States if President Barack Obama grants clemency to the former US soldier Chelsea Manning, jailed for leaking documents, the company said on Thursday. Assange has been living in the Ecuadoran embassy in London since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations. The Australian former computer hacker said he fears Stockholm will in turn extradite him to the US, where he angered Washington over WikiLeaks' publication of thousands of US military and diplomatic documents leaked by former US soldier Manning.

 

Obama making changes to Cuban immigration policy --Obama ends visa-free path for Cubans who make it to US soil | 12 Jan 2017 | President Barack Obama announced Thursday he is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban who makes it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident. The repeal of the "wet foot, dry foot" policy is effective immediately. The decision follows months of negotiations focused in part on getting Cuba to agree to take back people who had arrived in the U.S.

 

Obama awards Biden Presidential Medal of Freedom | 12 Jan 2017 | President Barack Obama awards Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A teary-eyed Biden accepted the medal, the highest civilian honor, at a ceremony at the White House Thursday.

 

Full transcript of President Obama's farewell speech | 10 Jan 2017 | Here is an unedited transcript of President Obama's prepared remarks during his farewell address in Chicago, as provided by the White House.

 

Protesters shut down Milo Yiannopoulos event at UC Davis | 14 Jan 2017 | A speech by right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Davis was over before it even started Friday after protests erupted, forcing sponsors to cancel the event. Thirty minutes before the Breitbart tech editor was scheduled to speak, the UC Davis College Republicans canceled the controversial talk after consulting with the university's police department and student affairs officials..."I am deeply disappointed with the events of this evening," said Interim Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter.

 

Proposed Arizona law would ban college classes about white privilege | 13 Jan 2017 | Saying students are being taught hatred at public expenses, a Republican lawmaker from Flagstaff is proposing new limits on what and how schools, colleges and universities can teach...Thorpe said Thursday his bill is aimed specifically at things like a "privilege walk" exercise sponsored by the University of Arizona and a course entitled “Whiteness and Race Theory” at Arizona State University.

 

PC students demand white philosophers including Plato and Descartes be dropped from university syllabus | 07 Jan 2017 | They Kant be serious! They are titans of philosophy, without whose work an understanding of the subject is all but inconceivable. But now students at a University of London college are demanding that such seminal figures as Plato, Descartes, Immanuel Kant and Bertrand Russell should be largely dropped from the curriculum simply because they are white.

 

If colleges keep killing academic freedom, civilization will die, too | 10 Jan 2017 | No one can doubt that we should strive for civility. But problems arise when we are told that "uncivil" speech has made a campus "unsafe" - and that university officials should make a campus safe again by punishing uncivil speakers. To combat these threats to "safety," campus administrators have morphed into civility police. On some campuses, "bias response teams" investigate professors' online comments. Several universities, including Yale, may soon introduce a sm-rtphone app that lets users anonymously report offensive remarks. These anonymous reports will allow university bureaucrats - and perhaps even the public - to compile a directory of "subversive" professors in the spirit of dictatorial regimes. One can easily imagine dueling "watchlists" compiled by liberal and conservative activists with the shared aim of chilling unwanted speech.

 

Police Charge Student for Threat Made at Arundel High School | 11 Jan 2017 | The Anne Arundel County Police Department has charged a 14-year-old girl with a juvenile citation for sending a threatening tweet related to Arundel High School...The account, named @KoolkidsKlanKkk, reportedly sent out a tweet that read, "We're planning to attack tomorrow"...That person has been identified as a 14-year-old African American female who attends Arundel High School.

 

Dylann Roof sentenced to death for the murders of nine black church members | 10 Jan 2017 | Dylann Roof has been sentenced to death for the murders of nine black church members during a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof was convicted last month of 33 federal charges, including murder and hate crimes. They jury returned after deliberating over his sentence for about three hours on Tuesday to announce their decision that he should be executed.

 

Takata agrees to guilty plea, will pay $1B for hiding defect | 13 Jan 2017 | Takata Corp. has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal charge and will pay 1 billion in fines and restitution for a years-long scheme to conceal a deadly defect in its automotive air bag inflators. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit announced the deal Friday, hours after it unsealed a six-count grand jury indictment against three former Takata executives who are accused of executing the scheme by falsifying and altering test reports that showed the inflators could rupture...At least 11 people have been killed in the U.S. and 16 worldwide because of the defect. More than 180 have been injured.

 

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