Tuesday, April 18, 2017

CLG: SweDoctors: Syria's gassed babies video fraud, North Korean envoy at UN warns of nuclear war possibility




 News Updates from CLG
18 April 2017
 
 
North Korean envoy at UN warns of nuclear war possibility | 17 April 2017 | North Korea's UN deputy representative, Kim In Ryong, on Monday unleashed at a hastily called UN press conference a torrent of threats, war scenarios and rhetoric aimed at the United States. The press event was held hours after US Vice President Mike Pence visited the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. Pence warned North Korea not to test the resolve of the United States "or the strength of our military forces." In New York, North Korea's UN ambassador condemned the US naval buildup in the waters off the Korean Peninsula, plus the US missile attacks on Syria. Kim said, "It has created a dangerous situation in which thermonuclear war may break out at any moment on the peninsula and poses a serious threat to world peace and security."
 
U.S. May Launch Strike If North Korea Reaches for Nuclear Trigger | 13 April 2017 | The U.S. is prepared to launch a preemptive strike with conventional weapons against North Korea should officials become convinced that North Korea is about to follow through with a nuclear weapons test, multiple senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News. North Korea has warned that a "big event" is near, and U.S. officials say signs point to a nuclear test that could come as early as this weekend. The intelligence officials told NBC News that the U.S. has positioned two destroyers capable of shooting Tomahawk cruise missiles in the region, one just 300 miles from the North Korean nuclear test site.
 
U.S., allies weigh options after North Korea's missile test - Trump adviser | 16 April 2017 | The United States, its allies and China are working together on a range of responses to North Korea's latest failed ballistic missile test, U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser said on Sunday, citing what he called an international consensus to act. H.R. McMaster indicated that Trump was not considering military action for now. The Trump administration is focusing its North Korea strategy on tougher economic sanctions, possibly including an oil embargo, a global ban on its airline, intercepting cargo ships and punishing Chinese banks doing business with Pyongyang, Reuters reported last week, citing U.S. officials.
 
North Korea displays apparently new missiles as U.S. carrier group approaches | 15 April 2017 | North Korea displayed what appeared to be new long-range and submarine-based missiles on the 105th birth anniversary of its founding father, Kim Il Sung, on Saturday, as a nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier group steamed towards the region. Missiles appeared to be the main theme of the giant parade, with Kim's grandson, leader Kim Jong Un, taking time to greet the commander of the Strategic Forces, the branch of the military that oversees the missile arsenal.
 
China moves 150,000 troops and medical supplies to North Korean border | 11 April 2017 | China has moved 150,000 troops and medical supplies to its North Korean border fearing a refugee crisis in the event of US airstrike, it has been claimed. Donald Trump's decision to launch missiles into Syria last week in retaliation for President Assad's gas attack caused widespread alarm in China, it is believed.
 
North Korea warns it is 'ready for war' after U.S. 'recklessly' deployed armada of warships to waters off the Korean Peninsula as China moves 150,000 troops to their border --USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and its battle group sent to Korean Peninsula --North Korea insists it is ready for war, calling US Navy deployment 'reckless' --Pyongyang warned it can respond to 'provocateurs' with 'powerful force of arms' | 11 April 2017 | North Korea has warned it is ready for war and can defend itself with 'powerful force of arms' after the U.S. deployed an armada of warships to the Korean Peninsula. Pyongyang said there would be 'catastrophic consequences' to Washington's 'outrageous actions' after the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and its battle group was dispatched to the region for US-South Korea war games...'The DPRK is ready to react to any mode of war desired by the U.S,' he added. It comes after China moved 150,000 troops to its border to deal with possible North Korean refugees amid fears President Donald Trump may strike Kim Jong-un following the surprise US missile attack on Syria last week.
 
North Korea threatens US with nuclear strike as American warships approach | 11 April 2017 | North Korean state media on Tuesday warned of a nuclear attack on the United States at any sign of a U.S. pre-emptive strike as a U.S. Navy strike group led by a nuclear-powered aircraft steamed towards the western Pacific. Tension has escalated sharply on the Korean peninsula with talk of military action by the United States gaining traction following its strikes last week against Syria and amid concerns the reclusive North may soon conduct a sixth nuclear test. North Korea's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said the country was prepared to respond to any aggression by the United States.
 
Syria: 126 killed as bomb hits buses with evacuees, group says | 16 April 2017 | he death toll from a bomb attack targeting evacuees leaving besieged Syrian towns has risen to 126, a monitoring group said Sunday. The blast hit a convoy of buses Saturday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which reported the higher death toll. The blast struck buses of people leaving their towns as part of a rebel-regime terrorists-government swap. At least 109 of those killed were evacuees from the pro-regime Shia villages of Al-Fu'ah and Kafraya while the rest were aid workers and rebels guarding the convoy, according to the Syrian Observatory. At least 68 children were among those killed in the attack on Saturday.
 
Blast hits Syrian bus convoy near Aleppo: state media, monitors | 15 April 2017 | An explosion near a bus convoy waiting to enter the Syrian city of Aleppo killed or wounded several people on Saturday, pro-government media outlets, pro-opposition activists and a monitor reported. A military media unit run by Damascus ally Hezbollah said a suicide attacker had detonated a car bomb near the convoy. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported casualties, saying the explosion appeared to be caused by a bomb.
 
Afghan official: Massive US bomb death toll rises to 94 | 15 April 2017 | The number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military has risen to 94, an Afghan official said Saturday. Ataullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor in Nangarhar, said the number of Islamic State group dead was up from the 36 reported a day earlier. A Ministry of Defense official had said Friday the number of dead could rise as officials assessed the bomb site in Achin district. "Fortunately there is no report of civilians being killed in the attack," Khogyani said.
 
36 Isis militants killed in US 'mother of all bombs' attack, says Afghan ministry | 14 April 2017 | Up to 36 suspected Islamic State militants were killed in Afghanistan when the US dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat, the Afghan defence ministry said on Friday. To target what the military described as a “tunnel complex” used by the Isis’s Afghanistan affiliate, the US for the first time used what the military colloquially calls the “mother of all bombs”, the GBU-43/B. Dawlat Waziri, an Afghan ministry spokesman said of Thursday’s strike: “No civilian has been hurt and only the base, which Daesh used to launch attacks in other parts of the province, was destroyed.”
 
US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan | 13 April 2017 | The US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan Thursday, the first time this type of weapon has been used in battle, according to US officials. A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the "mother of all bombs," was dropped at 7:32 p.m. local time, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission. A MOAB is a 30-foot-long, 21,600-pound, GPS-guided monition. The bomb was dropped by an MC-130 aircraft, stationed in Afghanistan and operated by Air Force Special Operations Command, Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump told CNN.
 
US army makes largest deployment of troops to Somalia since 'Black Hawk Down' | 16 April 2017 | The US army has deployed dozens of troops to Somalia to train forces fighting Al-Shabab Islamist militant group in the largest deployment of troops to the country since 1993, when 18 US soldiers died in a battle dramatized in the movie Black Hawk Down. A US military official told Voice of America that the team will train-and-equip Somali and AMISOM (African Union Mission in Somalia) forces, with the mission expected to last until the end of September. The new deployment will consist of dozens of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division, who specialize in air assault operations. The division has also seen activity in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
White House and Russia trade heated charges over poison gas attack in Syria | 11 April 2017 | The White House and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged heated charges Tuesday over last week’s poison gas attack in Syria, stoking fresh tensions as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Moscow with demands that Russia withdraw support for the Syrian government. The Trump administration released a declassified intelligence report that it said provided evidence that Russia’s explanation for the deadly April 4 chemical attack was false and that Moscow engaged in a deliberate cover-up to protect its embattled ally, Syrian President Bashar Assad.
 
SweDoctors: Syria's gassed babies video fraud | 09 April 2017 | The photos of gassed Syrian babies, which visibly moved US President Trump, and were displayed as a major piece of evidence against President Assad at the UN by ambassador Nikki Haley, are in the centre of an international scandal accused of fraud. Swedish Doctors For Human Rights (swedhr dot org) analysed videos - the rescue operations after an alleged chemical attack by Syrian government forces. The doctors found that the videos were counterfeit, where even Arabic stage directions were overheard, and that the alleged "rescue" in actuality is a murder. On first analysis, it looked as though the doctors working on the child assumed he was already dead. However, after broader investigation, our SweDoctors team ascertained that the boy was unconscious from an overdose of opiates. The video shows the child receiving injections in his chest, perhaps in the area of the heart and was eventually killed while a clearly fake adrenaline injection was administered.
 
28 Killed in Church Bomb Attack in Egypt's Tanta | 9 April 2017 | A bomb exploded Sunday at St. George's church in Egypt's Al Gharbeyya governorate, killing and injuring dozens. The attack came hours before another in Alexandria that struck St Mark's Cathedral. The explosion in Tanta left 28 dead and 71 injured, according to the Health Ministry in Gharbiya. According to preliminary reports in state media, a bomb had been placed inside the church underneath a seat.
 
Mentally ill man who drove car through Wollongong mall admits terrorism motive | 15 April 2017 | A mentally ill Wollongong man who drove down a packed city mall during a night market in February told police he wanted people to think it was an act of terrorism. John Caddle was detained by security guards after he drove his Hyundai Accent 150 metres into the western end of Crown Street Mall while honking his horn on the evening of February 16...Caddle said he hoped the incident was videoed and uploaded to social media to prove that mainstream media news was full of lies and incidents such as the Paris bombings and the September 11 attacks in the USA were "fake news events".
 
Two Secret Service officers are fired over White House fence jumper after surveillance footage shows he 'lingered' for 17 minutes as agents were 'lackadaisical' in tracking him --Intruder 'tied his shoes, peered into windows, and even jiggled a doorknob' | 13 April 2017 | Two Secret Service agents have been fired after a White House fence jumper was able to make to the front door of the mansion while President Trump was home. The Uniformed Division officers were sacked after shocking surveillance footage showed intruder Jonathan Tran, 26, scaling the fence and lingering on the White House grounds for 17 minutes, even peering into windows while the alarms were blaring, before the Secret Service intervened...Both the agents that were fired in the wake of the incident had been with the Secret Service for less than one year and were assigned to guard the Treasury Building and the entrance to East Executive Avenue, a source told CNN.
 
Fresno State Professor Tweets: 'Trump Must Hang' | 8 April 2017 | A Fresno State professor's tweets aimed at President Donald Trump have landed him in hot water. History professor Lars Maischak sent out two tweets in February. The first said: "To save American democracy, Trump must hang. The sooner and the higher, the better. #TheResistance #DeathToFascism". Two days after that, Maischak tweeted this: "#TheResistance Has anyone started soliciting money and design drafts for a monument honoring the Trump assassin, yet?". On Saturday, Fresno State President Joseph Castro responded to the tweet on his own Twitter account, posting: "He is a lecturer at Fresno State. Statements on his social media accounts are his alone and do not reflect the position of the University." [But I'm not allowed to criticize safe spaces and bias reporting lines! -- Michael Rectenwald]
 
21 arrested as hundreds of Trump supporters and counter-protesters clash at Berkeley rally | 15 April 2017 | Hundreds of pro-Trump demonstrators and counter-protesters clashed Saturday at a "Patriots Day" rally in Berkeley, the third time the groups engaged in violent confrontations on city streets in recent months. Fistfights broke out near Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, where Trump supporters had scheduled a rally. Fireworks and smoke bombs were thrown into the crowd, and a few demonstrators were doused with pepper spray...About 250 police officers were deployed to the scene by mid-afternoon after officials sought assistance from the neighboring Oakland Police Department.
 
Daily Mail pays Melania Trump $2.9 million to settle lawsuit | 12 April 2017 | The Daily Mail has apologized to Melania Trump and agreed to pay damages to settle a lawsuit filed by the first lady after the publisher made false claims about her work as a professional model. The settlement was announced in a joint statement from the Daily Mail and Trump's lawyers. Trump will be paid about 2.9 million in damages and costs, according to a source familiar with the settlement.
 
Classified docs contradict Nunes surveillance claims, GOP and Dem sources say | 11 April 2017 | After a review of the same intelligence reports brought to light by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides have so far found no evidence that Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal, multiple sources in both parties tell CNN. Their private assessment contradicts President Donald Trump's allegations that former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice broke the law by requesting the "unmasking" of US individuals' identities. Trump had claimed the matter was a "massive story." However, over the last week, several members and staff of the House and Senate intelligence committees have reviewed intelligence reports related to those requests at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.
 
WikiLeaks: CIA used 'Grasshopper' framework to infect Windows users | 10 April 2017 | The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) targets Windows users via a framework called Grasshopper that it uses to customize and execute malware, according to 27 documents published by WikiLeaks in the latest installment of its Vault7 leaks. The agency can use custom installers tailored to the version of Windows and antivirus software a user is running. The documents also detail persistence mechanisms, those tools that malware uses to evade detection. In one mechanism, Stolen Goods, the CIA use Carberp financial malware that first appeared in 2013.
United Airlines and The Outrage Industry, by Michael Rectenwald | 13 April 2017 | I was asked by a friend how I would characterize the United Airlines controversy in terms of moral outrage. My answer is that the UAL controversy represents an outrage fetish, an event of relatively little importance eliciting an amount of outrage far out of proportion to its significance. The reasons for this outsized outrage have to do with the fact that outrage is produced by an outrage industry whose outrage products must find a home for expression in everyday events.
Good riddance: Gov. Dannel Malloy of Connecticut Will Not Seek a Third Term | 13 April 2017 | Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut, known nationally for seeking stronger gun laws after the [*alleged*] school shooting in Newtown and for welcoming a Syrian refugee family rebuffed by Mike Pence when he was governor of Indiana, announced on Thursday that he would not seek a third term. Mr. Malloy, who is also chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, said he would complete his second term as governor, which ends in January 2019. The list of Republicans and Democrats interested in the position has been growing in recent months.
Alabama governor resigns as scandal leads to criminal charges | 10 April 2017 | Alabama Governor Robert Bentley resigned on Monday after pleading guilty to two misdemeanors related to campaign finance violations and linked to his relationship with a former adviser, ending a year-long scandal that has enveloped the state's government. The guilty pleas were part of an agreement with prosecutors that called for him to step down, said Ellen Brooks, special prosecutor appointed by the state Attorney General Steve Marshall to investigate Bentley.
Strange odor at a Home Depot in Florida sparks coughing and vomiting that leaves three people hospitalized and eight others sick --Officials said they didn't know what caused the incident at the store Friday night | 09 April 2017 | Three people were hospitalized and nearly a dozen were reported feeling sick from a strong odor at a Home Depot in Florida Friday night. The unidentified odor was detected at the Home Depot located at 163rd Street in North Miami Beach and briefly evacuated, Local 10 News reports. Some customers and employees reported they began coughing and vomiting before they went outside, where they were checked out by paramedics, according to local reports.
Melania Trump brings Easter baskets and presents to girls at a Palm Beach domestic violence home | 16 April 2017 | Melania Trump made a surprise visit to a domestic violence shelter on Friday to bring Easter gifts to a group of girls. The First Lady stopped by HomeSafe in Lake Worth in Palm Beach armed with Easter baskets and bunnies and spent 45 minutes chatting with girls who live there and touring its amenities. As she got to know the girls, all of whom are aged between 12 and 17, President Trump squeezed in another round of golf. 
Cleveland police widen manhunt for Facebook murder suspect | 17 April 2017 | The manhunt for a murder suspect who police said posted a video of himself on Facebook shooting an elderly man in Cleveland widened on Monday as authorities asked the public for help and pleaded with the suspect to turn himself in. Police said they have received "dozens and dozens" of tips about the possible location of the suspect, Steve Stephens, and tried to convince him to turn himself in when they spoke with him on his cellphone on Sunday after the shooting. But Stephens remains at large as the hunt for him expanded nationwide, police said.
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