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 News Updates from CLG
05 February 2017

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Record high fatal radiation levels, hole in reactor detected at crippled Fukushima nuclear facility | 02 Feb 2017 | Record high radiation levels that's lethal even after brief exposure have been detected at a damaged reactor at the Fukushima power plant in Japan. Specialists also found a hole, likely caused by melted nuclear fuel. Radiation levels of up to 530 sieverts per hour were detected inside an inactive Reactor 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex damaged during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami catastrophe, Japanese media reported on Thursday citing the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). A dose of about 8 sieverts is considered incurable and fatal.

 

Fukushima nuclear reactor radiation called 'unimaginable', highest since 2011 triple meltdown | 03 Feb 2017 | Radiation levels inside a damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station are at their highest since the plant suffered a triple meltdown almost six years ago. The facility’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said atmospheric readings as high as 530 sieverts an hour had been recorded inside the containment vessel of reactor No 2, one of three reactors that experienced a meltdown when the plant was crippled...in March 2011. The recent reading, described by some experts as "unimaginable", is far higher than the previous record of 73 sieverts an hour in that part of the reactor. A single dose of one sievert is enough to causeradiation sickness and nausea; 5 sieverts would kill half those exposed to it within a month, and a single dose of 10 sieverts would prove fatal within weeks.

 

Nuclear officials killed study on whether reactors posed cancer risk to nearby residents | 04 Feb 2017 | Federal regulators killed a rigorous examination of cancer in millions of Americans living near nuclear plants because they were convinced the study couldn't link reactors to disease and would be too c-stly, newly released records show. Doubts over the study's usefulness ran deep at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the agency overseeing [sic] America's aging fleet of nuclear plants...The previously unreported rift is captured in more than 1,000 pages of NRC documents obtained by Southern California News Group under the Freedom of Information Act.

 

Trump administration tightens Iran sanctions, Tehran hits back | 03 Feb 2017 | The Trump administration on Friday imposed sanctions on Iran, which it said were just "initial steps" and said Washington would no longer turn a "blind eye" to Iran's [alleged] hostile actions. The sanctions on 25 individuals and entities were the opening salvo by President Donald Trump who has vowed a more aggressive policy against Tehran and came two days after the administration had put Iran 'on notice' following a ballistic missile test...Iran denounced the sanctions as illegal and said it would impose legal restrictions on American individuals and entities helping "regional terrorist groups", state TV quoted a Foreign Ministry statement as saying.

 

9th Circuit Court declines to quickly reinstate travel ban | 05 Feb 2017 | A federal appeals court on Sunday ruled that President Trump's controversial immigration order will remain suspended for the time being, allowing those previously banned from coming to the United States at least another day to get here. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit preserves a lower judge's order to temporarily halt the ban -- and based on a schedule the court outlined, the stop will remain in place at least until sometime on Monday. The Justice Department said it would not elevate the dispute to the Supreme Court before that.

 

Trump: U.S. will win appeal of judge's travel ban order | 04 Feb 2017 | U.S. President Donald Trump said the Justice Department will win an appeal filed late Saturday of a judge's order lifting a travel ban he had imposed on citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries. "We'll win. For the safety of the country, we'll win," he told reporters at his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida shortly after the Justice Department filed a notice that it intends to appeal the order. The Justice Department did not say when it would file its appeal with the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals of the ruling made by Robart late on Friday that also lifted Trump's temporary ban imposed on refugee admissions.

 

Justice Dept. appeals block on Trump's immigration ban | 04 Feb 2017 | The Justice Department filed an appeal Saturday night seeking to overturn a ruling by a Seattle judge that halted President Donald Trump's immigration order. The ruling, which was issued Friday night, put the brakes on the executive order issued by Trump last week that restricted immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and halted Syrian refugees from coming to the United States. The Justice Department is expected to file an emergency stay motion as soon as Saturday night.

 

Agencies will reinstate travel after judge halts Trump's ban | 04 Feb 2017 | In a stunning reversal, two federal government agencies Saturday made separate announcements that for now halt implementation of President Trump’s travel ban against people from seven majority Muslim countries and refugees worldwide. The announcements from the State Department and Department of Homeland Security came after a federal judge in Seattle Friday issued a nationwide ruling that temporarily halted an order blocking travel for visa holders from those countries and suspending the refugee program. The State Department said it would reverse visa cancellations for those affected by the ban. A Homeland Security spokeswoman said the agency would follow the orders of US District Judge James Robart in Seattle even as the Trump administration vowed to fight it in court.

 

White House: DOJ plans to defend Trump's immigration ban | 03 Feb 2017 | U.S. District Senior Judge James Robart of Seattle on Friday issued a nationwide restraining order blocking the travel ban put in place by President Trump last week. Trump's ban, created through an executive order, sought to block people from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. In issuing his decision, Robart was siding with Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who filed a suit to block key provisions of the president's executive order...White House press secretary Sean Spicer released a statement Friday night saying the Department of Justice would seek an emergency stay of this "outrageous order."

 

Federal Judge Temporarily Halts Trump Order on Immigration, Refugees --Ruling temporarily blocks order and applies nationwide | 03 Feb 2017 | A federal judge in Seattle issued a ruling that temporarily blocks the executive order by President Donald Trump on immigration and refugees, a decision that applies nationwide to tens of thousands of people holding visas to travel to the U.S. The ruling by U.S. District Judge James Robart added a fresh round of confusion to series of legal challenges to the president's order. A week ago, Mr. Trump signed an executive order suspending immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen [Why wasn't Saudi Arabia included?] - for at least 90 days, calling it a needed move to keep terrorists from entering the U.S.

 

'You think our country is so innocent?': Trump doubles down on 'respect' for Putin and says 'US has a lot of killers' when told Russian president is 'a killer' for [allegedly] murdering journalists | 05 Feb 2017 | President Donald Trump raised eyebrows [by the corporate-owned US media and the globalist dirt-bags in Congress] once again on Saturday after he justified his 'respect' for Russian President Vladimir Putin by pointing out that the United States has 'a lot of killers' and asking, 'Well, you think our country is so innocent?' Trump made the remarks in a recorded interview with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly asked Trump about his feelings for Putin -- a topic that had been discussed frequently during the election campaign. 'I do respect him,' the president told O'Reilly.

 

Mass. Assistant AG Claire Masinton Violates State Ethics Laws by Posting 'F-ck Donald Trump' on Twitter | 03 Feb 2017 | A few people have sent us this tweet from the Assistant Attorney General for Massachusetts Claire Masinton: "I think this about sums it up. #F-ckDonaldTrump." ...[T]his is a direct violation of Massachusetts State Employee Ethics Laws, because you're not allowed to post your job title while espousing political statements like this.

 

'We need to start killing people. We need to start killing the White House': Preschool teacher is caught on camera spewing obscenities to Black Lives Matter demonstrators -- A self-proclaimed Seattle preschool teacher calls for killing President Trump | 04 Feb 2017 | An activist associated with the Black Lives Matter movement took to the megaphone to spew obscenities and voice her support for killing people. At 1:50 in the video, shot on January 29 during an anti-Trump protest in Seattle's Westlake Park, the unidentified woman wearing a jacket with Black Lives Matter written on the back rants: 'And we need to start killing people. First off, we need to start killing the White House', says the woman, who claims she's a preschool teacher. 'The White House must die. The White House, your f***ing White House, your f***ing presidents, they must go! F*** the White House'.

 

Royal Marine pleads guilty to preparing for terrorist attack | 03 Feb 2017 | A Royal Marine has pleaded guilty to preparing for a terrorist attack by stashing explosives in purpose-built caches in England and Northern Ireland. Ciaran Maxwell, 31, of Exminster, was arrested over the discovery of a terrorist arsenal in Northern Ireland in August last year. He pleaded guilty to terrorist acts between January 2011 and August 2016. According to the charge details, he had a stash of explosives in purpose-built hides in England and Northern Ireland. 

 

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