News Updates from CLG
04 December 2015
04 December 2015
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Previous edition: Up to 20 shot in San Bernardino, Calif., 'active shooters' sought
FBI investigating California massacre as 'act of terrorism' | 05 Dec 2015 | The FBI is investigating the massacre of 14 people in California by a married couple armed with assault rifles as an "act of terrorism," officials said on Friday, noting the wife was believed to have pledged allegiance to a leader of the militant group Islamic State. Tashfeen Malik, 27, a native of Pakistan who lived in Saudi Arabia for more than 20 years, and her U.S.-born husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, were killed in a shootout with police hours after the Wednesday attack during a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center social services agency in San Bernardino, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles. If the mass shooting proves to have been the work of people inspired by Islamist militants, as investigators now suspect, it would mark the deadliest such attack in the United States since [the false flag on] Sept. 11, 2001.
FBI says San Bernardino attacks considered act of terrorism; shooter pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader | 04 Dec 2015 | The FBI director said Friday that the San Bernardino massacre is being treated as an act of terrorism, and investigators are scrutinizing the digital footprints of the husband-and-wife killers to determine who, if anyone, may have known about the plot. "The investigation so far has developed indications of radicalization by the killers and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations," FBI Director James Comey said...For two days the FBI would not say if the shooting at the Inland Regional Center was terrorism or an unusually elaborate case of workplace violence. One pivotal shift in the investigation appeared to be the discovery of a Facebook post [allegedly] attributed to Tashfeen Malik, 27, who police say carried out the killing spree alongside her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28.
Alleged San Bernardino shooter pledged allegiance to Isis, reports say | 04 Dec 2015 | One of the two people accused of killing 14 at a holiday party in California apparently pledged allegiance to a leader of Islamic State militant group, according to numerous reports on Friday. Reuters, the Associated Press, CNN and the New York Times all reported that Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and the terror group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Facebook, with some saying she used an alias and then deleted the messages before the attack. The media organizations citied unnamed US law enforcement or government sources. CNN reported that one US official said Malik had pledged allegiance to Baghdadi on Wednesday, the day of the attack.
Arsenal of explosives, ammunition found at home of San Bernardino attackers as FBI seeks motive --Two of the 14 people killed and three of the 21 people injured were not county employees, police said Thursday. | 03 Dec 2015 | Authorities said Thursday they are looking for a motive behind the deadliest U.S. mass shooting in nearly three years, even as they revealed that the attackers had amassed a stockpile of explosives and ammunition. Police said Thursday night that a total of 30 of the 35 people shot on Wednesday were county employees...Four hours later, 23 law enforcement officers from seven different agencies engaged in a frenzied shootout that left the two suspects dead on a residential street. The FBI has taken over the investigation, with authorities scrutinizing three crime scenes: The Inland Regional Center, the site of the mass shooting; the street in San Bernardino where the police and the suspects had their gun battle; and the rented home in Redlands where authorities said the suspects had an arsenal of pipe bombs and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
San Bernardino Shooters Used Four Guns, Explosive Device: ATF | 03 Dec 2015 | The suspects in the San Bernardino holiday party shooting were armed with four guns, an explosive device and several magazines of ammunition in a "well-planned" attack, police and federal officials said. Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, a U.S.-born health inspector for San Bernardino County, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were carrying two .223-caliber assault rifles and two semi-automatic handguns...An "explosive device" was found at the scene of the Wednesday's shooting spree, while items made to look like pipe bombs were thrown during the pursuit, according to Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokeswoman Meredith Davis.
'She said she thought it was a drill:' Starting last year, center's staff began completing active shooter drills | 02 Dec 2015 | Today, we read: San Bernardino mass shooting leaves multiple dead, authorities say - At least 14 people were killed and up to three suspects were being sought in a mass shooting Wednesday on the grounds of a social services facility in Southern California, authorities said. San Bernardino County sheriff spokeswoman Coral Castro told Newsday that San Bernardino police are still searching for the trio of suspects. Authorities said 14 people were killed and at least 14 more were at area hospitals, some with "significant injuries."...A witness told CNN his daughter was evacuated from the building. "She said she thought it was a drill," he said. Starting last year, the staff began completing active shooter drills. [San Bernardino County participated in an active shooter exercise YESTERDAY. 'It looks the three actors have been caught.' Wow, blatant. (MSNBC) See also, for historical perspective: Active shooter drills held in Rancho Cucamonga | 01 Aug 2013 | Various law enforcement agencies in San Bernardino County worked together Thursday for hands-on drills simulating an active shooter inside a movie theater. They gathered at the Victoria Gardens Shopping Center in Rancho Cucamonga. During an early-morning drill, girls came out screaming for help, and the sheriff's department went into the movie theater in full tactical gear and guns drawn as if it were a real event. Officials have been practicing the drill all week. The Rancho Cucamonga Fire Department was one of the agencies participating in the event... Members of the fire department will go in with a team of armed law enforcement officers before the scene has been deemed completely safe to treat the seriously wounded. It's a technique modeled after what combat soldiers do to treat the wounded in a war zone. Also, see: Active-shooter drills held in Rancho Cucamonga by KABC – Los Angeles - Law enforcement agencies in San Bernardino County worked together for drills simulating an active shooter inside a theater.(Video)]
Ah, then came the dawn. VVC Alerts Public to Upcoming 'Active Shooter' Training | 27 Nov 2015 | (Victorville, CA) Victor Valley College officials would like to inform students and area residents that there will be an "active shooter" training exercise on the VVC campus on Monday, November 30th. There will be significant police presence at this time according to Chief Leonard Knight who said this training will last several hours. In order to avoid any confusion, the public is being notified ahead of time. Victor Valley College Police Department (VVCPD), San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department (SBCSD), Victorville Police Station, San Bernardino County Fire Department (SBCFD), Victorville Fire Station, and American Medical Response (AMR) have planned for and are conducting this exercise to ensure coordinated, timely and effective response to the college community, as well as enhance safety at Victor Valley College.
Pentagon spent $150 million on privately-owned villas for employees in Afghanistan | 03 Dec 2015 | The Pentagon is under fire again for excessive spending in Afghanistan. Following reports of the $43 million gas station, a government watchdog says nearly 150 million was spent on villas, meals, and security guards for a "handful" of employees. On Thursday, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in which SIGAR chief John F. Sopko asked for more information about 150 million that was authorized by the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO), a small division of the defense department charged with stabilizing the economies of Iraq and Afghanistan...The letter also calls on the Pentagon to disclose more information on who had stayed at the l-xury villas and who approved the expenditures.
In historic decision, Pentagon chief opens all jobs in combat units to women | 03 Dec 2015 | Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said Thursday that he is opening all jobs in combat units to women, a landmark decision that ends a three-year period of research with a number of firsts for female service members and bitter debate at times about how women should be integrated. The decision opens the military's most elite units to women who can meet the rigorous requirements for the positions for the first time, including in the Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces and other Special Operations Units. It also opens the Marine Corps infantry, a battle-hardened force that many service officials had openly advocated keeping closed to female service members.
UK launches air strikes on Isis in Syria | 03 Dec 2015 | Britain has launched air strikes on Syria, hours after MPs overwhelmingly endorsed David Cameron's plan to bomb what he called the "medieval murderers" of Isis [I-CIA-SIS]. Four Tornado bombers took off from the RAF Akrotiri air base in Cyprus and struck targets in Syria, news agencies reported, quoting government officials. The sorties follow a day of high drama at Westminster on Wednesday, when dozens of Labour MPs ignored their leader Jeremy Corbyn and backed military action.
Cairo restaurant firebomb attack 'kills 16' | 04 Dec 2015 | At least 16 people have been killed in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after firebomb was thrown into a restaurant, reports say. The attack happened in the Agouza area, in the city centre. The Cairo Post newspaper said three masked men threw the device into the venue before fleeing.
Thousands Pay Last Respects in Russia as Fallen Su-24 Pilot Laid to Rest | 02 Dec 2015 | As many as 10,000 residents of the western Russian city of Lipetsk defied cold, snowy weather to attend the funeral of Oleg Peshkov, the airman who piloted the Russian Su-24 bomber that was shot down by Turkish fighter jets in Syria last week. Despite a mixture of snow and freezing rain, thousands of citizens of the city of Lipetsk in western Russia gathered to honor the memory of Oleg Peshkov, the pilot of the Russian Su-24 bomber that was downed by Turkish F-16 jets in Syria on November 24. Lipetsk is Peshkov's hometown, where he is survived by a wife, a 16-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son.
Most Russians want Putin to remain president after 2018 - poll | 03 Dec 2015 | Two-thirds of Russian citizens say that after 2018 they would like to see Vladimir Putin or his personally proposed successor as president after the elections. Less than 20 percent of Russians say that the nation should choose someone with a different approach. According to a poll conducted by the independent agency Levada Center in late November, 57 percent of respondents would prefer to see Putin reelected as president in 2018. Eleven more percent said that the incumbent president should be replaced by someone he himself proposes as his successor.
Higher levels of Fukushima cesium detected offshore | 03 Dec 2015 | Scientists monitoring the spread of radiation in the ocean from the Fukushima nuclear accident report finding an increased number of sites off the US West Coast showing signs of contamination from Fukushima. This includes the highest detected level to date from a sample collected about 1,600 miles west of San Francisco. The level of radioactive cesium isotopes in the sample, 11 Becquerel's per cubic meter of seawater (about 264 gallons), is 50 percent higher than other samples collected along the West Coast so far, but is still more than 500 times lower than US government safety [sic] limits for drinking water...
Former Massey CEO found guilty of conspiracy in West Virginia mine blast | 03 Dec 2015 | Former Massey Energy Chief Executive [eco-terrorist] Don Blankenship was found guilty in federal court on Thursday of conspiring to violate safety standards at the Upper Big Branch mine, the site of a 2010 blast that killed 29 people. Relatives of those killed and prosecutors hailed the decision as sending a message on mine safety in coal-rich West Virginia even though the jury found Blankenship not guilty of making false statements and of securities fraud. Sentencing was set for March 23 in U.S. District Court. Blankenship, 65, faces a maximum 250,000 fine and up to a year in prison.
White House plans executive action to expand background checks for gun sales | 03 Dec 2015 | White House officials are seeking a way to use executive authority to close the so-called gun show loophole that allows thousands of people to buy guns each year without a background check, but complicated legal issues have slowed the process. Almost three years ago, President Obama asked Congress to change the law to require background checks for weapons sold at gun shows, but a bill to do so died in the Senate - dashing administration hopes for legislative action to address the loophole...Since then [October], White House officials have been trying to draft an executive order that would effectively reinterpret existing law to require all or most such sales to go through the background check system.
Donald Trump opens 'yuge' lead over GOP field in CNN/ORC national poll | 04 Dec 2015 | Donald Trump is the top choice of more than one out of every three Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters, according to the results of a new CNN/ORC poll released Friday. And it's not even close -- at 36 percent, Trump's closest competitor for the GOP presidential nomination is Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, at 16 percent...Following the retired neurosurgeon, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio earned 12 percent, with no other candidate finishing in the double digits.
Marco Rubio 'Mistress Bomb' About to Detonate - Sources | 02 Dec 2015 | U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is about to be rocked by a "mistress bomb," multiple sources familiar with the allegation tell FITS. In fact, we're told this explosive rumor could detonate in wide circulation within the next forty-eight hours. "There is a decent chance you are about to see this picture all over the place," one of our sources said, directing us to the corporate webpage of a female Washington, D.C. lobbyist. Details of the forthcoming scandal are not yet clear, although the allegation involving Rubio and the female lobbyist is reportedly being leaked to "multiple mainstream media outlets" this week. All the operative would say was that the woman was identified by researchers during a deep dive into Rubio's disastrous personal finances.
Global warming could suffocate life on Earth as oxygen levels fall, research shows | 01 Dec 2015 | Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to researchers from the University of Leicester published in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. A study led by Sergei Petrovskii, Professor in Applied Mathematics from the University of Leicester's Department of Mathematics, has shown that an increase in the water temperature of the world's oceans of around six degrees Celsius -- which some scientists predict could occur as soon as 2100 -- could stop oxygen production by phytoplankton by disrupting the process of photosynthesis.
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