ShareThisChief CT Attorney: 'Truthers changed Freedom of Information landscape, so release of Sandy Hook details must be blocked' --CT bill would suppress Sandy Hook crime scene photos 22 May 2013 A bill was brokered Wednesday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy [regarding the crime scene] photos from the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. But civil libertarians oppose the legislation and Connecticut's newspaper and radio executives warned Wednesday that suppression of information could set a bad precedent and create unintended consequences. The bill, a draft of which was released by the governor's office late Wednesday afternoon, is crafted specifically to cover the crime-scene photos and 911 audio recordings of the December 14 shootings at the Newtown school. But it would also allow Town Clerk Debbie Aurelia to continue to withhold the death certificates for the 20 first graders and six adults murdered there... Chief State's Attorney Kevin T. Kane said Wednesday that while mainstream news media traditionally avoid the use of graphic photos, bloggers and so-called truthers -- who claim the Newtown murders are a hoax by officials with an anti-gun agenda -- have changed the Freedom of Information landscape. Kane was seeking broader powers to prevent photos and recordings of graphic 911 calls from public release, but the draft narrows the scope to those murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary.
ShareThisSecretly Drafted CT Bill: Sandy Hook Details Would Remain Blocked --The only reason the public was made aware of this bill, drafted in secret, was because The Hartford Courant obtained an email regarding the drafting of a 'special act.' Secretly Drafted Bill Would Leave Release of Some Newtown Investigative Records Up to Families 22 May 2013 A secretly drafted bill to block release of photos, tapes of 911 calls and death certificates related to the Dec. 14 Newtown elementary school massacre could be acted on in the General Assembly as early as the end of the week, officials said Wednesday. Family members of victims would have discretion over release of some of the records. A draft of the bill was released Wednesday afternoon by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office, which has been working behind the scenes in recent weeks on drafting the language with legislative leaders and the office of the state's top prosecutor, Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane. Word of the planned legislation was kept from the public until Tuesday, when The Courant obtained a copy of an email written by a Kane assistant that said Malloy's legal staff told him a draft of a "special act" would be quickly "forthcoming." A Courant story about the secret plan to withhold information on the Newtown investigation has sparked intense interest and concern in Connecticut and nationwide -- based both on what the bill would do and the way it was put together outside the normal legislative process, without a public hearing. Lawmakers at first were talking about trying to vote on the bill Wednesday, but they abandoned that idea as criticism mounted. [See also: Sandy Hook Shooting 'Oddities'.]
ShareThisWoolwich: 'Soldier Dead After Terror Attack' --A man is filmed trying to justify a deadly attack on a man thought to be a serving soldier. Warning: Contains distressing images. 22 May 2013 A man reported to be a serving soldier has been hacked to death in Woolwich, south east London, in what is being treated as a terrorist attack. Dozens of weapons - including a number of knives - and pools of blood could be seen on the ground in John Wilson Street, where a man said to be wearing a Help for Heroes T-shirt was attacked by two men. Witnesses say the pair appeared to deliberately drive their car at the victim, before getting out with various bladed weapons and launching their attack.
ShareThisWoolwich: EDL Demo and Mosques Attacked --Riot police contained an English Defence League demo following the Woolwich killing, while elsewhere two mosques were attacked. 23 May 2013 English Defence League [fascist sociopaths] supporters took to the streets of Woolwich and threw missiles at police after the suspected terrorist killing earlier in the day. Elsewhere, two men were arrested following separate attacks on mosques. In Woolwich, a group of between 75 and 100 men gathered at The Queen's Arms pub on Burrage Grove, where they sang nationalistic songs. Earlier, two men were arrested following separate attacks on mosques in the hours following the suspected terrorist incident in southeast London. A 43-year-old man is in custody on suspicion of attempted arson after reportedly walking into a mosque with a knife in Braintree, Essex.
ShareThisPentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison --Pentagon wants $450 million for maintaining, 'upgrading' Guantanamo prison [while Obusha, the GOP and their Wall Street overlords push to slash Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid? Start reading.] 22 May 2013 The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close. The budget request for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 calls for $79 million for detention operations, the same as the current year, and $20.5 million for the office of military commissions, an increase over the current amount of $12.6 million. The request also includes $40 million for a fiber optic cable and $99 million for operation and maintenance. The Pentagon also wants $200 million for military construction to upgrade temporary facilities.
ShareThisMission accomplished! BP to invest $2.85 billion in Iraq's largest oilfield 22 May 2013 Oil major BP has allocated $2.85 billion to develop Iraq's Rumaila oilfield in 2013, up from $2.2 billion last year, the head of the joint management committee for the field told Reuters On Wednesday. Boosting output from Rumaila, Iraq's most prolific oilfield is vital for the country to realize its US ambition of raising oil exports to 6 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2017. Salah Mohammad said production from the field would rise to 1.450 million bpd by the end of 2013 from around 1.4 million bpd now. [See: KBR Tells U.S. Army It Will Cost $500 Million and Take 13 Years to Close Its Iraq Contract. Hopefully, Iraqis will become busy little bees, and do what Hungary did with Monsanto. Hungarian farmers burned Monsanto's crops, then kicked the terrorists out of the country. Burn, then boot. Got it? --LRP]
ShareThisFBI agent kills man after questioning him about link to Boston bombing suspect 22 May 2013 An unidentified FBI agent shot and killed a man in Orlando, Fla., early Wednesday after questioning him about his link to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Dave Couvertier, a special agent and spokesman for the FBI's Tampa field office, told Yahoo News the shooting is under investigation. He identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, a 27-year-old Chechen-born Orlando resident and apparent acquaintance of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the brothers suspected of planning and carrying out the terror attack at last month's Boston Marathon.
ShareThisSoldier beheaded by two alleged terrorists, citing Allah, in London machete attack 22 May 2013 A major police operation was launched today after two alleged terrorists murdered a soldier in the street in broad daylight. Eyewitnesses said the victim was hacked to death, with some suggesting his attackers tried to behead him, before charging at police when they arrived on the scene in Woolwich, south east London. One of the men behind the attack in Woolwich, south east London, was filmed wielding a bloodied meat cleaver and saying, "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you", in footage shown on ITV News tonight. Metropolitan Police Commander Simon Letchford confirmed that the victim's two attackers were shot by armed officers.
ShareThisRiots grip Stockholm suburbs after police shooting 22 May 2013 Rioters have lit fires and stoned emergency services in the suburbs of Stockholm for the third night in a row after a man was shot dead by police. Incidents were reported in at least nine suburbs of the Swedish capital and police made eight arrests. On Sunday night, more than 100 cars were set alight, Swedish media report.
ShareThisUS Admits for First Time Drones Killed 4 Americans 23 May 2013 One day before President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan. In a letter to Congressional leaders obtained by The New York Times, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. disclosed that the administration had deliberately killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric who was killed in a drone strike in September 2011 in Yemen. The American responsibility for Mr. Awlaki's death has been widely reported, but the administration had until now refused to confirm or deny it. The letter also said that the United States had killed three other Americans: Samir Khan, who was killed in the same strike; Mr. Awlaki's son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was also killed in Yemen; and Jude Mohammed, who was killed in a strike in Pakistan.
ShareThisEarthLink removes block on CLG Newsletter's mail server by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 22 May 2013 Earlier today, I requested that EarthLink.net remove the block that they had imposed on CLG's mail server, hosted at MayFirst.org. The block was preventing EarthLink and MindSpring CLG readers from receiving their newsletter. See more, at: EarthLink (and MindSpring) blocking CLG Newsletter since 15 May 2013. Earlier, I received the following response, shortly after I sent my request for unblocking.
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Subject: Re: Blocked 209.51.172.11
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We have removed the block on mail originating from 209.51.172.11, please allow 2-24 hours for normal email traffic to resume. Please understand that IPs previously removed from the EarthLink Correct Connect database may be re-added in the future should the server be discovered to again be open for relay.
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ShareThisAnd, today's obstacle (so I can't get to posting news) is: EarthLink (and MindSpring) blocking CLG Newsletter since 15 May 2013 by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 22 May 2013 EarthLink and MindSpring (they merged in 2000) have been blocking delivery of the CLG Newsletter since 15 May 2013. A 'trouble ticket' has been submitted in the Tech Support forum of CLG's webhoster, MayFirst. EarthLink and MindSpring folks, here is a suggestion from CLG reader/EarthLink customer Jim: 'No block here. I've been getting mail. Your address is in my ELN [EarthLink Network] address book. Folks might want to do that. Also, never delete a message from a non spam source from the ELN known spam folder. Move it to the inbox, and delete it from there if desired. --JP'
ShareThisAnthony Weiner declares he's running for NYC mayor 22 May 2013 Former congressman Anthony Weiner (D) officially jumped into the race for New York City mayor, ending weeks of speculation by declaring his political comeback bid in a video posted late Tuesday on YouTube. "I am running for mayor because I have been fighting for the middle class and those struggling to make it my entire life, and I hope I get a second chance to work for you," Weiner said.
ShareThisAppeals court won't release Osama Bin Laden photos 21 May 2013 A federal appeals court has ruled that the Central Intelligence Agency is under no legal obligation to release photos of Osama bin Laden taken after he was 'killed by U.S. commandos at a hideout in Pakistan in 2011.' The unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said the photos were properly classified "TOP SECRET" and therefore exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. "The CIA's declarations [filed in the case] give reason to believe that releasing images of American military personnel burying the founder and leader of al Qaeda could cause exceptionally grave harm," the appeals court wrote in an opinion filed Tuesday. [See: News of Bin Laden's Death and Funeral - December 2001.]
ShareThisOklahoma tornado death toll in Moore at 24 21 May 2013 The search for survivors and the dead is nearly complete in the Oklahoma City suburb that was smashed by a mammoth tornado, the fire chief said Tuesday. Gary Bird said he's "98 percent sure" there are no more survivors or bodies to recover under the rubble in Moore, a community of 56,000 people. His comments came after emergency crews spent much of the day searching the town's broken remnants for survivors of the twister that flattened homes and demolished an elementary school. The storm killed at least 24 people, including at least nine children.
ShareThisOklahoma tornado packed more energy than atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima --EF-5 twister ranged from eight to more than 600 times that bomb's power 21 May 2013 The tornado that leveled Moore, Okla., on Monday contained more energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, five separate meteorologists have found. Using real-time measurements, the meteorologists contacted by the Associated Press calculated the energy released during the tornado's 40-plus minutes on the ground and concluded that it ranged from eight to more than 600 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. After surveying the full-scale damage to homes, shopping centers, and schools, the National Weather Service upgraded the storm to a top-of-the-scale EF-5 tornado with winds estimated between 200 and 210 mph.
ShareThisSenate panel approves sweeping business-friendly immigration bill 21 May 2013 The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved legislation that would bring about the biggest changes in U.S. immigration policy in a generation, setting up a spirited debate in the full Senate next month. By a vote of 13-5, the panel approved the nearly 900-page bill that would put 11 million illegal residents on a 13-year path to citizenship while further strengthening security along the southwestern border with Mexico, long a sieve for illegal crossings. The vote followed the committee's decision to embrace a Republican move to ease restrictions on high-tech U.S. companies that want to hire more skilled workers from countries like India and China [so they don't have to pay US workers living wages]. Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah said the changes made to visa rules governing high-skilled workers, which he had demanded on behalf of the U.S. technology industry, were the price of his support for the bill when the committee took its final vote.
ShareThisWall Street troll Obusha shows his true colors: Obama Admin. Approves ALEC Model Bill for Fracking Chemical Fluid Disclosure on Public Lands 20 May 2013 On May 16, the Obama Interior Department announced its long-awaited rules governing hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") on federal lands. As part of its 171-page document of rules, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), part of the U.S. Dept. of Interior (DOI), revealed it will adopt the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model bill written by ExxonMobil for fracking chemical fluid disclosure on U.S. public lands. ALEC is a 98-percent corporate-funded bill mill and "dating service" that brings predominantly Republican state legislators and corporate lobbyists together at meetings to craft and vote on "model bills" behind closed doors. Many of these bills end up snaking their way into statehouses and become law in what Bill Moyers referred to as "The United States of ALEC." BLM will utilize an iteration of ALEC's "Disclosure of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Composition Act" - a bill The New York Times revealed was written by ExxonMobil - for chemical fluid disclosure of fracking on public lands and will do so by utilizing FracFocus.org's voluntary online chemical disclosure database.
ShareThisTop IRS official will invoke 5th Amendment 21 May 2013 A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the 5th Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency's [alleged] improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups. Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won't answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening -- or why she didn't disclose it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor III. Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. "She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course," said a letter by Taylor to committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Hypocrite-Vista). The letter, sent Monday, was obtained Tuesday by the Los Angeles Times. [Incidentally, where were the investigations into the missing 'weapons of mass destruction' in Iraq and torture? I seemed to have missed those.]
ShareThisAnthrax drug brings $334 million to Pentagon adviser's biotech firm --The U.S. government remains the only customer, at a cost to date of about $5,100 per dose. 19 May 2013 Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a major threat to national security. Terrorists, he warned, could easily engineer a devastating killer germ: a form of anthrax resistant to common antibiotics... Danzig has energetically promoted the threat -- and prodded the government to stockpile a new type of drug to defend against it. Danzig did this while serving as a director of a biotech startup that won $334 million in federal contracts to supply just such a drug, a Los Angeles Times investigation found. [Gee, I wonder what the US government is going to do to 'justify' spending $5,100 per dose on an anthrax antibiotic in this illegal conflict of interest? Hmm. I'm thinking, 'big bioterror false flag,'and it will be riotous if the lamestream media blames 'al-Qaeda' when the anthrax spores will (again) be traced to Fort Detrick. --LRP]
ShareThisApple Seen Using Loopholes to Evade $9 Billion in Taxes 21 May 2013 Apple Inc. used "loopholes" to avoid paying $9 billion in U.S. taxes in 2012, U.S. Senator Carl Levin said at a hearing that brought the company’s chief executive officer, Tim Cook, to Washington to defend the strategies. "Apple executives want the public to focus on the U.S. taxes the company has paid, but the real issue is the billions in taxes it has not paid," said Levin, a Michigan Democrat. Apple employs "offshore tax strategies whose purpose is tax avoidance, pure and simple," he said. Today's hearing was called to air accusations the iPhone maker has created a web of offshore entities to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes.
ShareThisFukushima No. 1 can't keep its head above tainted water --94,500 tons of radioactive water remain inside Fukushima's basement floors 21 May 2013 More than two years into the triple-meltdown crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, workers continue to wage a desperate battle to keep the stricken reactors cool while trying to contain the 400 tons of radioactive water produced by the process each day. Tokyo Electric Power Co. must decommission the three reactors, but the water is thwarting the effort. The decommissioning, if it ever starts, will take decades. As of May 7, Tepco had routed 290,000 tons of radioactive water into some 940 huge tanks at the complex, but 94,500 tons remain inside the basement floors of the reactor buildings and other facilities.
ShareThisFBI: Agents fell to deaths training off Va. coast during 'maritime counterterrorism exercise' 21 May 2013 Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble during a "maritime counterterrorism exercise," an agency spokeswoman said Monday night. Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw were killed when they fell into the water Friday. Both were members of the bureau's elite hostage rescue team, a group known most recently for rescuing an Alabama boy from a kidnapper in an underground bunker. "The FBI agents were participating in a maritime counterterrorism exercise involving helicopters and a ship," Special Agent Ann Todd, an FBI spokeswoman, wrote in an email Monday night.
ShareThisOklahoma tornado: Dozens killed in Moore 21 May 2013 At least 91 people, including 20 children, have been left dead after a huge tornado tore through Oklahoma City suburbs, officials in the US state say. Worst hit was Moore, south of the city, where neighbourhoods were flattened and schools destroyed by winds of up to 200mph (320km/h). About 120 people are being treated in hospitals. President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma.
ShareThisGuatemala's top court annuls Rios Montt genocide conviction 21 May 2013 Guatemala's highest court on Monday overturned a genocide conviction against former dictator [Reagan crony] Efrain Rios Montt and reset his trial back to when a dispute broke out a month ago over who should hear the case. Rios Montt was found guilty on May 10 of overseeing the killings by the armed forces of at least 1,771 members of the Maya Ixil population during his 1982-83 rule. He was sentenced to 80 years in prison. However, in a ruling on Monday, the country's Constitutional Court ordered that all the proceedings be voided going back to April 19, when one of the presiding judges suspended the trial because of a dispute with another judge over who should hear it.
ShareThis2 FBI agents killed in Va. accident were elite hostage rescue members 20 May 2013 The two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast [Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw] were part of the agency's elite hostage rescue team, a group known most recently for rescuing an Alabama boy from an underground bunker. The FBI has declined to say what kind of training the men were doing when they were killed Friday. The team is trained in military tactics and outfitted with combat-style gear and weapons.
ShareThisDeath toll from new bird flu in China rises to 36, WHO reports 20 May 2013 Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from 131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The United Nations health agency said the four deaths were from cases that had already been identified [and created] in laboratories. Since May 8, there have been no new cases of infection with H7N9, it added.
ShareThisPentagon to take over some CIA drone operations: sources 20 May 2013 President Barack Obama's administration has decided to give the Pentagon control of some drone operations against terrorism suspects overseas that are currently run by the CIA, several U.S. government sources said on Monday. Obama has pledged more transparency on controversial counterterrorism programs, and giving the Pentagon the responsibility for part of the drone program could open it to greater congressional oversight. Obama will make a speech on Thursday at the National Defense University in Washington that will include discussion of the government's use of drones as a counterterrorism tool.
ShareThisOklahoma Tornado: At Least 51 Dead, 'Horrific' Damage 20 May 2013 A mammoth tornado carved a trail of destruction through the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, killing at least 51 people, including some children, and ripping apart two elementary schools today, local authorities said. David Barnes, the director of Oklahoma Emergency Management in Oklahoma County, told ABC News that a single twister tore through homes from Newcastle to Moore, a path of 12 miles. The damage was "widespread" and people's homes were completely destroyed, all the way to their foundations, he said. At least 51 people have been confirmed dead in the storm's aftermath, according to the Oklahoma Chief Medical Examiner's Office.
ShareThisArrests being made at NAACP protest at legislature 20 May 2013 More protesters have been arrested at the General Assembly for the fourth week in a row. The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP is entering its fourth straight week of protests at the state legislature that have resulted in nearly 100 arrests so far. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People plans the latest demonstration on Monday aimed at the policies of the Republican-led General Assembly.
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Arming the Left: Is the time now? By Charles Southwell 21 Oct 2003 As long as we pose no REAL threat to the powers-that-be, to what is shaping up into [is] a dictatorship, we will continue to be ignored. Right now, we are ignored because we present no organized power to fight this onslaught of anti-democratic, totalitarian government that we are up against...
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