ShareThisSenator Pushes Repeal of Secret 'Monsanto Protection Act' 16 May 2013 Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is planning to push an amendment to the upcoming farm bill that would repeal the secret provision known as the Monsanto Protection Act, a rider attached anonymously to a spending bill that sailed through Congress in March. An outcry greeted the news of the legislation once the public learned that it had been passed by Congress with no debate and signed into law by President Barack Obama. The provision allows Monsanto and other companies terrorist groups to continue selling genetically engineered seeds, even if a court has blocked them from doing so. Merkley will press for a floor vote on his repeal amendment when the farm bill is taken up next week, a Merkley aide told HuffPost.
ShareThisHead of Fort Campbell Harassment Program Arrested 17 May 2013 The manager of the sexual harassment and assault response program at Fort Campbell, Ky., was arrested in a domestic dispute and relieved of his post, authorities said Thursday. Lt. Col. Darin Haas turned himself in to police in Clarksville, Tenn., late Wednesday on charges of violating an order of protection, and stalking, authorities said Thursday. Master Sgt. Pete Mayes, a spokesman for the massive Army post on the Tennessee-Kentucky line, said Haas was immediately removed as manager of a program meant to prevent sexual harassment and assault and encourage equal opportunity.
ShareThisBoise Man Arrested on Terrorism Charges 16 May 2013 A Boise man appears in federal court at 8:30 Friday morning on terrorism charges. Fazladdin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested Thursday in Boise at an apartment complex near Borah High School. The arrest comes after an investigation by the FBI out of Salt Lake City and the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Kurbanov's Idaho indictment has three counts. The first two are conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and conspiracy to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization.
ShareThis7 Foreign Chemical Engineers Caught Trespassing at Boston Water Supply --Patrols Stepped Up Across State 14 May 2013 Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir. State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and "cited their education and career interests" for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates. The Quabbin, in Belchertown, is one of the country's largest man-made public water supplies. Boston’s drinking water comes from the Quabbin and the Wachusett Reservoirs... The FBI is investigating and routine checks of public water supplies have been increased following the incident.
ShareThisFifteen killed by suicide bomber in Kabul --Two Nato troops, four contractors killed in attack 17 May 2013 A suicide bomber drove his explosives-packed Toyota Corolla into armoured SUVs carrying Nato troops and civilians through Kabul, killing six passengers and nine Afghan civilian passersby, two of them children. The attack was the deadliest in Kabul this year, ripping through morning traffic in the western side of the Afghan capital at the peak of the morning rush hour. The blast was so loud it echoed across the city, and a huge plume of smoke rose from the debris as helicopters, US military vehicles and Afghan security services rushed to the site.
ShareThisInspectors find radioactive leak at Entergy nuclear plant 16 May 2013 U.S. inspectors have found the source of a [radioactive] water leak that forced the shutdown of Entergy Corp.'s Palisades Nuclear Power Plant is on the Lake Michigan shoreline. The inspection has turned up a crack about half-inch-long around a nozzle. New Orleans-based Entergy idled the plant May 5 , 2013, after operators found a tank leaking faster than regulations allow. Some slightly [?] radioactive water entered Lake Michigan, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says there's no health risk. ['Slightly radioactive.' Is that like being 'a little bit pregnant?']
ShareThisMuch like the fortuitous Mohamed Atta passport 'find:' Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left note in boat he hid in, sources say 16 May 2013 Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a note claiming responsibility for the April 13 attack on the Boston Marathon, reports CBS News. Sources tell CBS News that Tsarnaev wrote the note in the boat he was hiding in as police pursued him, and as he bled from gunshot wounds sustained in an earlier shootout between police and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It reads as part manifesto, part suicide note, and part justification for the killing and maiming of innocent civilians. The note -- scrawled with a marker on the interior wall of the cabin -- said the bombings were retribution for U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, and called the Boston victims "collateral damage" in the same way Muslims have been in the American-led wars. "When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims," Tsarnaev Craft International wrote.
ShareThisAT&T/Yahoo blocking the CLG Newsletter again by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 16 May 2013 AT&T, and all of its domains including Yahoo, is blocking the CLG Newsletter again. Here is the additional comment I posted on the 'trouble ticket' to CLG's webhoster:
Sadly, the issue at hand is censorship, which needs to be addressed at a level 'above' the email sender. Daily, I receive emails from CLG subscribers who tell me that no matter how many times they instruct the Google filter to mark the CLG Newsletters as 'not spam,' lo and behold, that's where the CLG Newsletter goes - the Google spam bin. And yet, no matter how many times I mark 'Rick's Digital Photo Editing' emails as spam, those emails arrive in my Google inbox, unmolested. The issue needs to be addressed by the webhoster, who has more 'clout' than the sender. Can MayFirst please make the email delivery issue/censorship by AT&T, Google, etc., a priority? Thank you, Lori Price
[Gee, here's a story for the mainstream media to cover, how corpora-terrorists will not allow this newsletter to pass, no matter what. Thanks, Obusha, for the free speech! --LRP]
ShareThisBoston fire chief criticized over bomb response has mayor's support 15 May 2013 A group of top Boston fire officials has criticized their chief's response to the deadly Boston Marathon bombing last month, but the mayor on Wednesday stood by him. Thirteen of the city's 14 deputy fire chiefs in a letter to Mayor Thomas Menino expressed no confidence in city Fire Chief Steve Abraira, the Boston Globe reported on Wednesday. Abraira, who had previously served in Dallas, in 2011 was named Boston fire chief, the first time an outsider was picked for that job.
ShareThisBoston fire chief gets vote of 'no confidence' in handling of bombings --Chief defends his actions to CNN, says incident was "well in hand" when he arrived 15 May 2013 Thirteen Boston deputy fire chiefs have signed a letter of "no confidence" in Fire Chief Steve Abraira regarding his handling of the Boston Marathon bombings, according to the letter, which CNN independently obtained from a deputy chief who signed it but requested anonymity. The deputy chiefs wrote of their displeasure to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino on April 26, according to the letter. "You can unequivocally consider this letter a vote of no confidence in Chief Abraira," the deputy chiefs wrote in the letter. They said the chief failed to assume command responsibility or show any leadership at the scene.
ShareThisKBR Tells U.S. Army It Will Cost $500 Million and Take 13 Years to Close Its Iraq Contract 15 May 2013 The recipient of the largest government services contract in U.S. history has told military officials it will take another 13 years and half a billion dollars to finish off its 'work' stemming from the Iraq war. This assessment from [Dick Cheney's corpora-terrorists,] KBR Inc., which won the $38 billion deal from the U.S. Army in 2001, is at the heart of a legal battle between the two sides. KBR was responsible for aiding virtually all American military support operations as part of the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) III in Iraq. [See also: Pentagon Lets $100 Million in Overcharges by KBR Go Uncollected and Pentagon Fines KBR…Then Gives it a $2.8 Billion Contract. Then, start reading.]
ShareThisNH city sues six parking meter 'Robin Hoods' who put money in expired meters 14 May 2013 The city has filed a lawsuit against six citizens, part of a group dubbed Robin Hood of Keene that patrols downtown armed with video cameras and pockets full of change to fill expired parking meters. Also known as Robin Hooders, the six are associated with the Free Keene group. "They say video recording or talking to them is harassing them, but I don't agree with that," "Robin Hooder" James Cleaveland said of parking enforcement officers. "So they want to establish a safety zone of fifty feet." Members of the group place cards under windshield wipers that read, "Your meter expired; however, we saved you from the king's tariffs, Robin Hood and his Merry Men. Please consider paying it forward," and includes an address where donations can be sent.
ShareThisPanel concludes Tsuruga nuclear reactor sits above active fault 15 May 2013 A panel under the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday concluded that a geologic fault running beneath a reactor in western Japan is active, raising the possibility of the unit's permanent shutdown. The move is expected to lead NRA commissioners to decide that the No. 2 unit of Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga plant does not meet the conditions for undergoing a safety assessment that the country's reactors need to clear in order to resume operations in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi complex disaster.
ShareThisRussia Claims It Caught CIA Spy Red-Handed 14 May 2013 Russian counter-intelligence claimed today it caught an undercover CIA agent in the act of trying to recruit a Russian agent. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), successor of the KGB, said in a statement on its website that Ryan Christopher Fogle was arrested late Monday night in Moscow with a stack of money, disguises and a letter with written instructions for a Russian citizen who was allegedly the target of recruitment. Fogle had been working under the guise of a third secretary in the political department of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, the FSB said, and his would-be recruit was only identified as a member of Russia's special services.
ShareThisRussia's CIA spy bust 'was linked to Boston Bombing': US diplomat was trying to recruit Dagestan expert who travelled to terrorist's home town when he was arrested --Letter allegedly found on him offers agents $1million per year to defect [aka carry out more false flags] 15 May 2013 The arrest of a US diplomat accused of being a CIA spy was linked to the Boston bombing, sources revealed today. Russian security officials reported on Tuesday that they had briefly detained Ryan Fogle in Moscow for allegedly trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer. Today sources revealed the man Mr Fogle was trying to 'recruit' was an FSB agent who specialised in 'Islamic extremism' in Russia and may even have travelled to the region where the bombing suspects came from. Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy, was carrying special technical equipment, disguises, written instructions and a large sum of money. The Ministry hit out at 'provocative acts in the spirit of the Cold War' and has ordered the expulsion of Fogle, arrested wearing a blond wig under his baseball cap.
ShareThisSecretive TPP Talks Re-Commence in Lima, Peru: They Can Shut Us Out, But They Can't Shut Us Up 15 May 2013 Today, trade negotiators from 11 countries meet again to secretively draft the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP). The TPP is a sprawling multinational trade agreement that includes expansive and unfair copyright provisions. If signed, the TPP will entrench these digital enforcement measures as a global standard, leading to harsh regulations that would be disastrous for Internet users worldwide. As with all the previous TPP talks, the public is completely excluded from the process. As during the ACTA negotiations, Hollywood and other Big Content industries have a stronghold over international policymakers.
ShareThisTritium found in water leak at Catawba Nuclear Station 15 May 2013 (SC) More than 100 gallons of water with traces of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, has been leaked from a discharge pipe at the Catawba Nuclear Station, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The leak has been classified as a "non emergency event" [!?!] by the NRC. The leak, however, has the potential to reach groundwater, according to the NRC. Duke Energy has initiated actions to fix the problem, which happened at 11:23 p.m. Tuesday, according to NRC officials.
ShareThisAl Qaeda-linked cell 'targeted' French, US embassies in Egypt 15 May 2013 An Al-Qaeda[al-CIAduh]-linked cell broken up in Egypt at the weekend planned to bomb the US and French embassies in Cairo, state news agency MENA quoted investigators as saying on Wednesday. "The accused planned suicide car bombings outside the embassies of France and the United States in Egypt," MENA said. In the case of the French mission, the motive was to register a protest "against French military intervention in Mali," investigators were quoted as saying.
ShareThisObama says Treasury Secretary requested, received resignation of acting IRS Commissioner 15 May 2013 President Obama announced Wednesday that acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller has resigned in the wake of the agency scandal in which conservative groups were targeted. The president made the announcement in a brief statement at the White House, following a meeting with Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and other top department officials in which they reviewed a highly critical inspector general's report on the practice. The report concluded poor management allowed agents to improperly target Tea Party and other groups for more than 18 months, starting in 2010. Obama said Lew asked for the resignation and Miller agreed, after being on the job since November 2012. [The IRS commissioner in 2012, Douglas Shulman, was appointed by George W. Bush.]
ShareThisRadioactive leak at Catawba Nuclear Station 15 May 2013 (SC) Federal regulators say more than 100 gallons of water, with traces of a radioactive hydrogen isotope, have leaked at the Catawba Nuclear Station. According to a report from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the leak was discovered around 11:23 p.m. on Tuesday night. Officials at the Lake Wylie-based nuclear station reported the leak to federal officials around 2:52 a.m. Wednesday morning. The report states that a "leak greater than 100 gallons containing tritium has the potential to reach groundwater."
ShareThisUK shale gas programme to 'accelerate', say ministers 15 May 2013 Britain is on track to "accelerate" its shale gas programme, according to Michael Fallon, the energy minister, as he confirmed a new licensing round for oil and gas explorers will take place next year. The Government will next year launch the UK's 14th onshore licensing round, he said, announcing that engineering consultancy AMEC has been hired to do the environmental assessment of plots' suitability for exploration.
ShareThis'Sandy Hook Advisory Commission' makes school safety recommendations 15 May 2013 Connecticut schools may get security upgrades as a result of the recommendations from Gov. Dannel Malloy’s Sandy Hook Advisory Commission. The commission, which was formed to find ways to prevent mass shootings spend taxpayer money to explode the surveillance state, released their interim report on Monday. The commission suggests increasing cell phone and wireless internet signals at schools for cameras to provide emergency officials with information. The report recommends that schools create emergency response plans to decide best practices in an emergency... The commission will begin to look at the topic of mental health issues beginning Friday.
ShareThisWhite House pushing new federal media shield law 15 May 2013 In damage control mode after revelations that the Department of Justice seized records from Associated Press reporters, the White House is pushing a federal media shield law that died in the Senate four years ago. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced the media-protecting legislation at the request of the White House, according to a White House official. The Free Flow of Information Act would protect journalists from being compelled to testify about their confidential sources, unless all other avenues are exhausted and exposure is in the public interest. [Republicans killed a federal media shield law in 2007, when unelected Dictator Bush was in charge.]
ShareThisMissing Nuclear Gauge Lost Between Pennsylvania, West Virginia 14 May 2013 The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and West Virginia state officials are searching for a missing portable gauge containing sealed sources of radioactive material that was lost in West Virginia on May 3, and are asking anyone with information on the missing gauge to report it to DEP. "It is critical for anyone who has information about the lost nuclear gauge to contact the Pennsylvania DEP, Nuclear Regulatory Commission or a local law enforcement agency immediately," DEP Bureau of Radiation Protection Director David Allard said. The gauge, a Troxler Model 3430 with serial number 32506, was lost when it apparently fell off the back of a truck on I-81 between the Pennsylvania and West Virginia border between mile markers 17 and 24.
ShareThisAttack kills 12, injures 3 in eastern Baghdad 15 May 2013 A group of unknown gunmen [Blackwater terrorists?] have attacked a line of stores in eastern Baghdad in the Zayouna neighborhood, killing at least 12 people and injuring 3 others. The attack took place on Tuesday shortly after sunset when the stores were at the peak of their business. "Gunmen in four SUV vehicles stopped near the stores and gunmen equipped with silenced weapons started shooting at everybody near the stores," Furat Ahmed, a policeman at the scene, said.
ShareThisMilitary sexual assault: Another prevention coordinator faces charges 14 May 2013 Just one week after an Air Force officer working in the sexual assault prevention office was arrested and charged with sexual battery, the Army has learned that another U.S. service member is being investigated for "abusive sexual contact" and other alleged misconduct. The U.S. Army Sergeant First Class who had been assigned as a coordinator of a sexual assault prevention program at Fort Hood, Texas, has been suspended from all duties. A defense official says that this Sergeant 1st Class is being investigated for forcing at least one subordinate soldier into prostitution, and for sexually assaulting 2 other soldiers. Stationed at the Army's 3rd Corps headquarters in Fort Hood, the sergeant also worked as an equal opportunity adviser.
ShareThisFBI opens criminal probe of U.S. tax agency, audit cites disarray 14 May 2013 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday he had ordered the FBI to open a criminal probe in a growing scandal over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups for extra tax scrutiny. Holder's announcement came about four hours before an inspector general's report on the IRS portrayed the tax agency as plagued by disarray and "insufficient oversight" during its struggles to review the cases of hundreds of advocacy groups that claimed they should be tax exempt.
ShareThisFate of Newtown death certificate bills in doubt 14 May 2013 The fate of legislation being pursued by the Newtown town clerk to restrict the public's access to death certificates appears to be in doubt as the General Assembly inches toward adjournment. Newtown Town Clerk Debbie Aurelia has refused to release death certificates requested for the 26 victims of the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and argues that information on death certificates can be misused, such as by identity thieves. [?!?] Two bills on the topic are before the Legislature. Rep. Ed Jutila, D-East Lyme, said he hasn't heard recently from advocates of the legislation, and notes there remains strong opposition to the concept of placing limits on information that has been available to the public for centuries.
ShareThisShell and BP raided in probe into petrol price fixing: Oil firms investigated over claims they manipulated cost for more than a decade 14 May 2013 BP and Shell are being investigated over allegations that they have fixed petrol prices for more than a decade. European Commission investigators raided the offices of several major oil companies yesterday as they launched a far-reaching probe into price manipulation. They fear prices have been driven up at the pumps for millions of motorists. The AA responded to news of the swoop by declaring: 'The lid is about to be blown off.' The commission said it suspected firms had 'colluded in reporting distorted prices' to agencies that publish the data used to set the price of oil and petrol.
ShareThisIRS targeted NAACP in 2004 13 May 2013 This isn't the first time the IRS has been in hot water for meddling in the politics of nonprofits. And if past is prelude, the Obama administration may have a years-long scandal on its hands. In 2004, the NAACP was hit with an audit over accusations of improper political activity for criticizing the Bush administration. "We have received information that during your 2004 convention in Philadelphia, your organization distributed statements in opposition of George W. Bush for the office of presidency," the IRS wrote in an audit notice that the group released to the media at the time. Auditors also notified the group that it could be subject to a 10 percent tax for political expenditures as well as a 2.5 percent tax on any manager that signed off on the political activity.
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CLG's Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. and Lori Price receive the Patrick Henry Think Tank's American Hero Award 02 Nov 2005 The Patrick Henry Democratic Club --A Think Tank working to give the government back to the people. "Give me liberty or give me death!"
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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