News Updates from CLG
30 September 2016
30 September 2016
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Previous edition: Obama Vetoes Bill Allowing 9/11 Victims to Sue Saudi Perps
U.S. Military Is Building a $100 Million Drone Base in Africa | 29 Sept 2016 | Agadez, Niger, almost blends into the cocoa-colored wasteland that surrounds it. Only when you descend farther can you make out a city that curves around an airfield before fading into the desert...U.S. military documents reveal new information about an American drone base under construction on the outskirts of the city. The long-planned project - considered the most important U.S. military construction effort in Africa, according to formerly secret files obtained by The Intercept through the Freedom of Information Act - is slated to cost 100 million, and is just one of a number of recent American military initiatives in the impoverished nation.
Terrorists mull 'chemical attack' in Aleppo to frame Syrian govt - Russia's Defense Ministry| 29 Sept 2016 | Terrorist groups in Syria might use chemical weapons against civilians and the army in Aleppo in order to pin the blame for the atrocities on Damascus and further undermine the crumbling peace process in the war-torn country, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "It became known that terrorist groups are preparing provocative attacks with chemical weapons on Syrian army positions and residential areas in the east part of Aleppo to accuse government forces [of the attacks]," said Lt. Gen. Viktor Poznikhir, the first deputy chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff. The warning echoed Syrian UN envoy Bashar Ja'afari's proclamations earlier this week, when he told the UN Security Council that militants from the hardline Ahrar Al-Sham Islamist group are planning to use white phosphorus in an attack on civilians in order to later blame it on Syrian armed forces.
'US has always been main sponsor and creator of Islamic State' - former CIA contractor | 29 Sept 2016 | The US claim that Russian troops will go home in body bags if Moscow doesn't end its Aleppo offensive is absurd, former CIA contractor Steven Kelley told RT. He said Russia is the only answer to defeating ISIS. When asked about State Department spokesperson John Kirby's warning that Russia "will continue to send troops home in body bags" if it doesn't put an end to the offensive, Kelley said Washington is pretending to be fighting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL [but still I-CIA-SIS]) when it isn't doing so at all. "The US has always been the main sponsor and creator of Daesh (Arabic acronym for IS), so this charade that they are having anything to do with fighting Daesh in Syria is completely a farce, and I think the rest of the world is smart enough to realize that everything that comes out of the mouth of John Kirby or any of the State Department personnel is complete and utter balderdash," Kelley said. He advised Russian President Vladimir Putin to focus on "getting the job done," as Russia is the only way IS will be defeated in Syria.
ISIS may strike Europe with car bomb and chemical attacks, warns EU counter-terrorism chief | 27 Sept 2016 | Acknowledging that the terrorist threat in the EU has reached its peak in the last two decades, the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator warned the bloc's lawmakers that Europe could face new ISIS-coordinated attacks, possibly even involving chemical weapons. After a wave of bloody Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL [but still I-CIA-SIS]) terrorist attacks shook Europe in the summer, especially in France and Germany, Gilles de Kerchove warned members of the EU Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee that because of "multiplicity of the possible origins" of attacks, terrorism threat across the EU remains "very high." De Kerchove said that "at least six reasons" exist for keeping the alert level at its highest level in the last 20 years.
US Congress overrides Obama's veto of Saudi 9/11 victim bill | 29 Sept 3016 | Congress on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected President Barack Obama's veto of legislation allowing relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, the first veto override of his presidency, just four months before it ends. The House of Representatives voted 348-77 against the bill, hours after the Senate rejected it 97-1, meaning the "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act" will become law...Support was fueled by impatience in Congress with Saudi Arabia [aka ISIS on steroids] over its human rights record, promotion of a severe form of Islam tied to militancy and failure to do more to ease the international refugee crisis.
Senate votes 97 to 1 to override Obama's 9/11 bill veto --Vote is first override of Saudi-influenced Obama administration --Useless eater Harry Reid is only 'no' vote | 28 Sept 2016 | The US Senate voted to override President Barack Obama's veto of the bill that would allow Americans to potentially sue Saudi Arabia for 9/11. This is the first veto override during the Obama presidency. Obama vetoed the bill last week, explaining that the "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act" (JASTA) would erode the doctrine of sovereign immunity and expose the US to lawsuits around the world. JASTA, which passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate, allows US judges to waive sovereign immunity claims when dealing with acts of terrorism committed on American soil - potentially allowing lawsuits against Saudi Arabia over the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. [Odd how Obama doesn't give a d-mn about 'US sovereignty' while pushing his TPP corporate takeover.]
615 More Troops Heading to Iraq - U.S. Officials | 28 Sept 2016 | The Department of Defense is preparing to dispatch 615 more U.S. troops to Iraq to help government forces oust ISIS [I-CIA-SIS] from the city of Mosul, the White House announced Wednesday. The soldiers will provide logistics support for the Iraqi forces and not spearhead the attack, White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters on Wednesday. The troops, who will deploy in the coming weeks, will have a supporting role, helping with logistics and providing advice...Currently there are 4,647 U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
Blasts kill at least 17 in Baghdad - police, medics | 27 Sept 2016 | Three blasts killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 50 in predominantly Shi'ite Muslim districts of Baghdad on Tuesday, police and medical sources said. A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in a commercial street in the eastern Baghdad al-Jadida area of the Iraqi capital, killing nine people and wounding more than 30, they said. Another suicide attack hit a commercial street of Bayaa in western Baghdad, killing six and wounding 22, the sources added.
Israel's Shimon Peres, 93, dies in Tel Aviv - Israel Radio | 27 Sept 2016 | Former Israeli president and elder statesman Shimon Peres died in Tel Aviv on Wednesday aged 93, Israel Radio said. Peres was hospitalized following a stroke two weeks ago and had made some progress before a sudden deterioration in his condition on Tuesday. An official announcement of the death of the Nobel Peace laureate and former prime minister was expected at around 7 a.m. local time (04:00 GMT).
FBI Director James Comey: 'Don't call us weasels' | 28 Sept 2016 | FBI Director James Comey's agents aren't weasels, he told lawmakers Wednesday. Comey was defending his agency's actions regarding a federal probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. The investigation drew criticism from Republicans for not recommending charges against the Democratic presidential nominee. "You can call us wrong, but don't call us weasels," he told the House Judiciary Committee. "We are not weasels, we are honest people and we did this in that way."
Senators Press FBI Director on Response to Terrorism Threat | 27 Sept 2016 | Republican senators pressed FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday about whether anything more could have been done to prevent recent acts of extremist violence, including the Orlando nightclub massacre and the Manhattan bombing this month...The questions arose because the FBI has said it investigated Orlando gunman Omar Mateen a few years before the June shooting and interviewed him as part of that probe. The FBI in 2014 also looked into Ahmad Khan Rahami, the Afghan-born U.S. citizen accused in the explosion, but found nothing that tied him to terrorism. Two senators, in particular, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, said they were alarmed that both individuals had at one point been on the FBI's radar but were [allegedly] not intercepted.
Police in France arrest teenagers in Nice on suspicion of terrorism | 25 Sept 2016 | The suspects confessed to planning an attack in France, but allegedly later abandoned the plot. Several teenagers have been arrested in September on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks on French soil. Police said they had arrested two teenage women in mid-September in the French city of Nice on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack in the country, said the Paris prosecutors' office on Sunday.
Train crashes into N.J. station, killing one person and injuring 114 | 29 Sept 2016 | A New Jersey Transit commuter train crashed into Hoboken Terminal during rush hour Thursday morning, killing one person and injuring more than 100 at one of the busiest transportation hubs in the Northeast. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said 114 people were hurt, including the train's operator, who was critically injured. He said the engineer was cooperating with the investigation.
Mayors say state ordered them to keep Zika mosquito sites secret | 25 Sept 2016 | The mayors of Miami-Dade County and Miami Beach on Sunday accused the Florida Department of Health of lying after the state agency said last week that it never told local officials to hide the locations in Miami Beach where mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus were captured. Florida's health department strongly denied instructing local officials to keep the information confidential - and said the decision was entirely up to Miami-Dade - after the Miami Herald reported on Friday that a county attorney said the state agency had ordered them to keep it a secret. The statement was made during a court hearing for the Miami Herald's lawsuit against Miami-Dade seeking the locations of traps in Miami Beach where mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus were captured this month.
Clinton misrepresents stance on Trans Pacific Partnership 'trade' deal | 26 Sept 2016 | HILLARY CLINTON, denying Donald Trump's accusation that she called the Trans-Pacific Partnership the "gold standard" of trade [sic] agreements: "I did say I hoped it would be a good deal." THE FACTS: Trump is correct. As secretary of state, Clinton called the deal that was taking shape the "gold standard" of trade agreements, in a 2012 trip to Australia, and championed the agreement in other venues around the world...Clinton flip-flopped into opposing the trade deal in the Democratic primary when facing Bernie Sanders, who was strongly opposed to it.
Miss Universe Alicia Machado accused of threatening to kill judge in late '90s | 28 Aug 2016 |It turns out 1996 Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado, cited by Hillary Clinton in the first presidential debate as an example of Donald Trump's mistreatment of women [LOL!], has a complicated past. Shortly after she won her crown in the late '90s, a judge in Venezuela accused Machado of threatening to kill him after he indicted her then-boyfriend for attempted murder. Machado threatened "to ruin my career as a judge and...kill me,'' Judge Maximiliano Fuenmayor said at the time.
Miss Universe 'fat-shamed' by Donald Trump was accused of threatening to kill a judge and being an accomplice to a MURDER bid in her native Venezuela --Court documents in 1998 revealed she was accused of driving her boyfriend from the scene of a murder attempt - at a woman's funeral --A judge also claimed on national television that she threatened his life | 27 Sept 2016 | The former Miss Universe at the center of a bitter exchange in Monday's presidential debate was accused of aiding a would-be murderer and threatening to kill a judge, it has emerged. Alicia Machado was named by Hillary Clinton as having been shamed for her weight in 1996 by Donald Trump, when she was Miss Universe and he bought the beauty contest...But now two Associated Press reports from 1998 have revealed the Machado was accused of aiding attempted murder and threats to kill in Venezuela. DailyMail.com has asked the Clinton campaign whether they knew about the accusations, which do not appear to have ended in conviction, before the candidate spoke about her at the debate.
The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated | 26 Sept 2016 | Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump went head-to-head for the first time Monday night in a debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. The debate was moderated by Lester Holt of NBC News and came as polls both nationally and in swing states are increasingly tight. The complete transcript of the debate is posted herewith...
'Was Lester Holt auditioning for Hillary's press secretary?' NBC moderator is criticized for Clinton bias by failing to ask about her emails or Benghazi --One infographic showed Holt interrupted Trump 30 times, Clinton only 19 --Others noted she wasn't asked about Benghazi, her emails or foundation | 27 Sept 2016 | Lester Holt has been lambasted on social media with accusations he favored Hillary Clinton following Monday night's presidential debates. Some allegations against the NBC moderator included that he frequently interrupted Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and went easy on Clinton. Even Trump himself implied that he was disappointed the topics of Clinton's foundation, emails and Benghazi scandal were never raised. In an infographic, Vox dot com noted Trump was interrupted by Holt when he was speaking 30 times and he stopped Clinton only 19 times.
Debates to help half of U.S. voters decide between Clinton, Trump - poll | 26 Sept 2016 | Half of America's likely voters will rely on the presidential debates to help them make their choice between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 election, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday. The results show the stakes for the White House rivals as they prepare to face off on Monday at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, for their first of three one-on-one debates, a prime-time TV spectacle expected to draw a Super Bowl-sized audience of 100 million Americans. Some 50 percent of likely voters think the debates will help inform their decision of whom to support, including 10 percent who say they are not currently leaning either way, according to the opinion poll.
Outside Presidential Debate, 'Frostpaw the Polar Bear' to Urge Climate Action | 26 Sept 2016 | Following the hottest summer in recorded history, the Center for Biological Diversity's Frostpaw the Polar Bear will call for urgent action against global warming outside tonight's first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at Hofstra University. Holding a sign reading "Who Will Protect My Home?" Frostpaw will urge both candidates to announce plans for strong new measures to cut pollution and ward off the worst effects of climate change. Frostpaw the Polar Bear and other climate activists will hold signs outside the first presidential debate urging both candidates to fight global warming.
Stein escorted off Hofstra University campus | 26 Sept 2016 | Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein was escorted off the Hofstra University campus Monday after her prearranged media interviews because she didn't have credentials to be there. Stein's campaign told CNN that she was at the university doing press interviews and was escorted off after an interview with MSNBC. The Nassau County Police Department told CNN that Stein failed to provide the proper credentials at the university, which led to her being escorted off campus.
Ahead of debate, Trump endorsed by U.S. immigration officers | 26 Sept 2016 | Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump picked up the endorsement on Monday of the union representing 5,000 federal immigration officers, a boost of support for his immigration policy ahead of his first debate with Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump has laid out a hardline position on illegal immigration, proposing to build a wall along the U.S. southern border with Mexico and take other steps to crack down on the flow of undocumented people crossing into the United States. With immigration likely to be discussed at the debate, the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, a union representing 5,000 federal immigration officers and law enforcement support staff, announced it would support Trump, in what was described as its first endorsement of a candidate for elected office.
Hillary Clinton Just Flip-Flopped on Nuclear Power for the 9th Time --Nuclear industry celebrates as Clinton embraces nuclear power, just like Obama | 24 Sept 2016 | Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton told Scientific American the U.S. needed to explore using more [deadly] nuclear power, marking the ninth time the former secretary of state has flip-flopped on nuclear energy. Clinton's position changed from totally ignoring nuclear power in her 2016 platform to a tepid embrace of the technology...Clinton's new found position on nuclear power puts her at odds with the anti-nuclear environmental movement, including The Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, 350.org, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
'I guess I'm having another Aleppo moment!': 'Libertarian' Gary Johnson is stumped yet again when asked to name his favorite foreign leader --Earlier this month, Johnson replied 'What is Aleppo?' when asked about the refugee crisis in the war-torn Syrian city | 29 Sept 2016 | Libertarian [sic] Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson fluffed another interview on Wednesday night. Johnson was a guest at a live town hall on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, who asked him to name his favorite world leader. And the ex-governor of New Mexico failed to name a single leader he respects from any country on the planet. Johnson admitted to having 'brain freeze' and even tried to avoid the question by mentioning his gaffe from earlier this month. [Pea-brain Gary Johnson advocates mandatory vaccines. Ergo, he is no libertarian. (Hillary Clinton has spoken in support of mandating vaccination. Donald Trump has asserted on Twitter that vaccines have in 'many' cases caused autism [and other side effects, including death].) Johnson is just another corporatist dirt-bag inserted into the rigged race. --LRP]
Injuries reported in shooting at South Carolina elementary school | 28 Sept 2016 | Law enforcement and emergency crews are responding to a shooting at a South Carolina elementary school. Law enforcement was called to Townville Elementary School at about 2 p.m. in reference to an "emergency situation," according to WHNS. Multiple injuries have been reported and a suspect is in custody, the station reports.
KU bars gorillas from jungle-theme decoration due to 'masculine image' --An RA at the University of Kansas was advised against incorporating an image of a gorilla into a jungle-themed floor decoration because the animal apparently represents "a very masculine image." Assistant Complex Director Dale Morrow also noted that there are "stereotypes that surround this animal," and therefore its inclusion in the display would not be "inclusive."| 26 Sept 2016 | An RA at the University of Kansas was advised against incorporating an image of a gorilla into a jungle-themed floor decoration because the animal apparently represents "a very masculine image." In an email obtained by Campus Reform, a university employee with the school's student housing department writes to a resident advisor, who wishes to remain anonymous, to explain to him that he cannot use an image of a gorilla for a routine floor decoration.
Charlotte police HQ evacuated after suspicious package found | 27 Sept 2016 | The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) headquarters in uptown Charlotte was evacuated after a suspicious package was found Tuesday afternoon. The evacuation began around 4:30 p.m. Officials have not released many details, but tweeted that the evacuation came after a suspicious package was found...WBTV crews were there as a vehicle with the Bomb Squad arrived at the scene.
Charlotte protesters demand mayor's resignation over black man's slaying | 27 Sept 2016 | Dozens of protesters took their fight for racial equality in policing to the heart of Charlotte's power structure on Monday, demanding the resignations of the mayor, police chief, and lawmakers in the wake of the police slaying of a black man. Residents and activists, many of whom have participated in street demonstrations every day since the death of Keith Scott on Tuesday, spoke at a packed city council meeting of frustrations with racial discrimination in the North Carolina city of about 792,800 residents. Many speakers said city officials were responsible for ensuring police officers treat everyone fairly, and called on Mayor Jennifer Roberts, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney, and members of the city council to resign.
Protesters chant 'murder' in police shooting of black man in California | 28 Sept 2016 | Protesters yelled "murder" and demanded a federal investigation on Wednesday after a police officer in southern California shot and killed an unarmed black man, less than two weeks after similar incidents sparked outrage in two other U.S. cities. In the latest shooting, two officers responded to calls about an African-American man in his 30s walking in traffic and "not acting like himself," according to police in El Cajon, a city of about 100,000 residents some 15 miles (24 km) northeast of San Diego. Local activists and friends...said the man was mentally ill and that he may have been suffering a seizure in the moments before his death.
Matthew Rapidly Intensifies into a Category 2 Hurricane --Its potential U.S. impact later next week still remains unclear. | 30 Sept 2016 | Hurricane Matthew is now a Category 2 hurricane that continues to undergo rapid intensification. Matthew poses a danger to Jamaica...eastern Cuba, and the Bahamas early next week. Hurricane Matthew became the fifth hurricane of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season early Thursday afternoon.
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