ShareThisCIA agent 'intercepted in Moscow by FSB' 14 May 2013 An alleged CIA agent has been briefly detained in Moscow for allegedly trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer, Russian media report. The man, named as US diplomat Ryan Fogle, was held overnight before being released to US officials, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said. Russia has declared him "persona non grata" and ordered his expulsion, the foreign ministry said on its website. The US ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaul, had been summoned, it added.
ShareThis2 hurt in explosions, fire at W.Va. gas plant --Cause of exploding tanks 'not known' 13 May 2013 Two workers were injured Monday when highly flammable gas used in welding exploded at a West Virginia industrial site, officials said. Fire crews were sent at about 3:20 p.m. to Airgas, a distributor of specialty gases in Poca, outside of Charleston. Putnam County emergency management director Frank Chapman said the explosion involved about 50 tanks of acetylene that were at Airgas waiting to be refilled. Chad Jones, a firefighter with the Bancroft Volunteer Fire Department, said four cylinders continued to burn Monday evening and that crews were letting them "burn out." They were dousing other tanks with water to keep them from exploding, said Jones, whose station was one of several to respond to the scene.
ShareThisPhone Records of Journalists Seized by U.S. 14 May 2013 Federal investigators secretly seized two months of phone records for reporters and editors of The Associated Press in what the news organization said Monday was a "serious interference with A.P.'s constitutional rights to gather and report the news." The A.P. said that the Justice Department informed it on Friday that law enforcement officials had obtained the records for more than 20 telephone lines of its offices and journalists, including their home phones and cellphones. It said the records were seized without notice sometime this year. The organization was not told the reason for the seizure.
ShareThisU.S. to provide $100 million in new Syria aid, but not to arm 'rebels' 08 May 2013 The Obama administration is providing $100 million in new Syria aid, U.S. officials said Wednesday, but the money is for humanitarian purposes only and not linked to any decision on arming Syrian rebels terrorists. The announcement will be made by Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday in Rome, where his diplomacy includes a meeting with Jordan's foreign minister, the officials said... Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, said Tuesday the U.S. will likely act soon to arm the Syrian opposition.
ShareThisJudge: U.S. soldier guilty of premeditated Iraq killings 13 Apr 2013 A military judge found Army Sgt. John Russell guilty of premeditated murder Monday in the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq. Russell now faces a sentencing phase of his court martial to determine whether he will face life in prison with or without the possibility of release. The 14-year veteran from Sherman, Texas, had previously pleaded guilty to unpremeditated murder in exchange for prosecutors taking the death penalty off the table. Under the agreement, prosecutors were allowed to try to prove to an Army judge at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state that the killings were premeditated.
ShareThisGov't obtains wide AP phone records in probe 13 May 2013 The Justice [sic] Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012.
ShareThisSpecial CLG essay: Police-Staged Reality and its Implications for Politics (Part I) by Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., www.legitgov.org 14 May 2013 Within a Police-Staged Reality (PSR), counter activities of all kinds are perpetrated by the state itself... What becomes of political activity, for example, when the state can and does produce its own enemies only to later silence and/or kill them with nary a shred of justification? What becomes of "real" opposition when the state arms its supposed terrorist opponents (as in Libya and Syria), while disarming its own citizenry? Political activity is a "blend" of simulation and "real," a mixed bag of committed, sincere actors, along with paid and state-induced actors, all performing on a stage, the limits of which are provided by the apparatuses of surveillance and an all-abiding potential for annihilation.
ShareThisWHO says new coronavirus may be passed person to person 12 May 2013 The World Health Organization says it appears likely that the novel coronavirus (NCoV) can be passed between people in close contact...This comes after the French health ministry confirmed a second man had contracted the virus in a possible case of human-to-human transmission...Two more people in Saudi Arabia are also reported to have died from the virus, according to health officials...NCoV is known to cause pneumonia and sometimes kidney failure.
ShareThisAfghans Say an American Tortured Civilians 12 May 2013 The authorities in Afghanistan are seeking the arrest on murder and torture charges of a man they say is an American and part of a Special Forces unit operating in Wardak Province, three Afghan officials have confirmed. Authorities say they have testimony and documents implicating Mr. Kandahari and his unit in the killings or disappearances of 15 Afghans in Wardak. Mr. Kandahari is of Afghan descent but was born and raised in the United States, they say. Included in the evidence, the Afghan officials say, is a videotape of Mr. Kandahari torturing one of the 15 Afghans, a man they identified as Sayid Mohammad.
ShareThisSyria conflict: US and UK pledge to bolster opposition 13 May 2013 The US and the UK say they will work to strengthen the moderate opposition in Syria and create a transitional body to replace President Bashar al-Assad. US President Barack Obama said such a body would be be the goal of a meeting in Geneva in "the coming weeks". The US recently won Russian support for the conference. [What nerve! Where's the 'transitional body' to replace President Barack Obama?]
ShareThisGuantánamo hunger strikers subject to harsh new method of force feeding --Lawyers for inmates say humiliating body searches instituted for prisoners who wish to talk to their representatives 13 May 2013 Hunger-strikers being force fed at Guantánamo Bay are shackled to a chair, fitted with a mask and have tubes inserted through their nose and into their stomachs for up to two hours at a time, according to revised guidelines in use at the camp. The guidelines, which were updated after the latest protest by inmates began in February, detail the process of involuntary feeding and how after the sessions, detainees are kept in a "dry cell" to prevent them vomiting. News of the 30-page Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) manual – which was first published on Monday, by al-Jazeera, and has since been confirmed to be genuine by the US military – comes amid fresh questions over the ethics of force-feeding protesters at the prison.
ShareThisUS Supreme Court finds for Monsanto in seed patent battle 13 May 2013 The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Monsanto Monday over an Indiana farmer accused of having pirated the genetically-modified crops developed by the agribusiness giant. [More control of the food supply and ownership of life by the monstrous Monsanto -- MDR]
ShareThis2 new diseases - 1 related to SARS and 1 new bird flu - could both spark global outbreaks 13 May 2013 Two respiratory viruses in different parts of the world have captured the attention of global health officials -- a novel coronavirus [well, not so 'novel' to its US creators] in the Middle East and a new bird flu spreading in China...Last week, the coronavirus related to SARS spread to France, where one patient who probably caught the disease in Dubai infected his hospital roommate. Officials are now trying to track down everyone who went on a tour group holiday to Dubai with the first patient as well as all contacts of the second patient. Since it was first spotted last year, the new coronavirus has infected 34 people, killing 18 of them. Nearly all had some connection to the Middle East.
ShareThisPotential flu pandemic lurks 10 May 2013 A new study from MIT reveals that there are many strains of H3N2 circulating in birds and pigs that are genetically similar to the 1968 strain and have the potential to generate a pandemic if they leap to humans. The researchers, led by Ram Sasisekharan, the Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, also found that current flu vaccines might not offer protection against these strains. The study, which appears in the May 10 issue of the journal Scientific Reports, also offers the World Health Organization and public-health agencies' insight into viral strains that should raise red flags if detected.
ShareThis19 injured by gunfire at New Orleans Mother's Day parade 12 May 2013 Nineteen people were injured on Sunday when gunfire erupted at a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, police said. Two young children were among the victims. Shots rang out at 1:45 p.m. local time as the second line of the parade passed the 1400 block of Frenchmen Street in the city, New Orleans Police Department spokesman Garry Flot said. Ten men and seven woman were shot along with a 10-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy.
ShareThisNSA buddy Google relegating CLG Newsletter to spam bin 13 May 2013 Folks, if you use Gmail and don't receive too many CLG Newsletters, check your spam folder. I am hearing from numerous CLG readers that Gmail will not allow the CLG Newsletter to reach their inboxes. Instead, NSA buddy Google relegates them to the spam folder. So, if you receive your newsletter via Google and wonder where it is, please check your spam or junk folder. Suggestion from CLG reader Nick: "Suggest you tell your Google mail people that in order to prevent the mail from going to spam, they use the reply pull down menu, where there is a choice for 'filter messages like this' and then explicitly mark where it says, 'never send to spam.' That handled the problem for me permanently. However, I now get a red line in all the CLG mail that says: 'This has not been sent to spam because you set a filter to prevent it. Do you want to change that?' As I said it does work, but them message in red in all CLG mail, is still to promote the idea to get CLG readers to trick them into accidentally get CLG mail to re-route to spam..."
ShareThisIRS targeted groups critical of government, documents from agency probe show 12 May 2013 At various points over the past two years, Internal Revenue Service officials singled out for scrutiny not only groups with "tea party" or "patriot" in their name but also nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general. The documents, obtained by The Washington Post from a congressional aide with knowledge of the findings, show that the IRS field office in charge of evaluating applications for tax-exempt status decided to focus on groups making statements that "criticize how the country is being run" and those that were involved in educating Americans "on the Constitution and Bill of Rights."
ShareThisNorth Korea slams US aircraft carrier's arrival --North Korea calls arrival of the fleet 'a grave military provocation' 12 May 2013 North Korea has criticised the arrival of the US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the South for a joint drill as an "extremely reckless" provocation and a rehearsal for war against the communist state. A US naval strike group led by the nuclear-powered Nimitz arrived off the South's southern port of Busan on Saturday for the drill to be staged this week, following joint exercises that infuriated North Korea in recent months. The 97,000-ton Nimitz, one of the world’s largest warships, will participate in joint search-and-rescue operations as well as "sea manoeuvring" around the Korean Peninsula, the South's defence ministry said.
ShareThisBreak-in thwarted at Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station - Police 10 May 2013 Security officers at Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station chased two would-be burglars who were breaking into a storage trailer there early Thursday morning. At the Lay Road plant in Peach Bottom Township, at approximately 4 a.m., security spotted two people at a storage trailer, state police said. They'd broken the window screen and were pushing up the unlocked window when security officers on patrol spotted them, police said. The two would-be burglars ran off, headed toward Booker Road, police said.
ShareThisUtility investigating vibrations that caused shutdown of nuclear reactor 11 May 2013 Dominion Virginia Power had a crew of about 20 working Friday to determine what caused the shutdown of its North Anna power facility's Unit 2 nuclear reactor earlier in the day. The utility was in the process of restarting it, and the unit was at 60 percent power shortly after 6 a.m. Friday, when operators detected greater-than-normal vibrations in part of the mechanism used to start the reactor. They manually shut it down. The excessive vibrations were detected in the exciter, which is used during start-up to initiate the flow of electricity from the generator to the grid.
ShareThisSharif declares victory for Pakistan Muslim League-N in election 11 May 2013 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) has won Saturday's parliamentary election. "Results are still coming in, but this much is confirmed: we're the single largest party so far," Sharif said during a speech to jubilant supporters in Lahore on Saturday night. "We should thank Allah that he has given PML-N another chance to serve you and Pakistan," the PML-N leader stated.
ShareThisI.R.S. Apologizes to Conservative Groups Over Application Audits 11 May 2013 The Internal Revenue Service apologized to Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations on Friday for what it now says were overzealous audits of their applications for tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, the director of the I.R.S. division that oversees tax-exempt groups, acknowledged that the agency had singled out nonprofit applicants with the terms "Tea Party" or "patriots" in their titles in an effort to respond to a surge in applications for tax-exempt status between 2010 and 2012. She insisted that the move was not driven by politics, but she added, "We made some mistakes; some people didn't use good judgment."
ShareThisMystery Aircraft Frightens Quincy, Mass. Residents 09 May 2013 A mystery in Quincy, Massachusetts, continues to deepen: Who is flying around the city from dusk to dawn, for the past ten days or so? "It's frightening, not just weird, but frightening," said one resident of the Wollaston section. Every night for nearly the last two weeks, residents have spotted a low-flying aircraft doing loops over the city. WBZ has learned the FAA knows what's going on, but the agency isn't telling. "I mean it is strange. I don’t know if they're looking for somebody, I have no idea," one resident told WBZ.
ShareThisBritain, U.S. hold secret talks on how to arm terrorists in Syria 11 May 2013 Britain and the U.S. have been secretly discussing plans to arm foreign-backed terrorists fighting the popular government of president Bashar al-Assad in Syria, it has been disclosed. The revelation comes amid an escalation of hostilities in the region with Israel already launching invasion against Syria, when the country is fighting to ward off the threat of an all-out civil war with al-Qaeda affiliated terror groups. According to reports, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond held talks with counterpart Chuck Hagel during his visit to the States over how to push for arming rebels, mercenaries and terrorists who have teamed up to topple the Syrian government in a conflict now in its third year.
ShareThisTerrorist drill held for Fukushima nuclear plant 12 May 2013 Police and the Japan Coast Guard conducted a joint drill Saturday to prepare for a possible terrorist attack on the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. About 150 officers and other people, including members of a special assault team of the police, participated in the drill at the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant, about 10 km from Fukushima No. 1. Both plants are operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. The National Police Agency fears the stricken Fukushima No. 1 could make for a tempting target for terrorists because the cooling systems there are still highly fragile.
ShareThisJudge: nun, 2 other convicted nuclear protesters to stay in jail until sentencing in the fall --Protesters face up to 10 years in prison 11 May 2013 A judge has ruled that a nun and two other nuclear protesters must remain in jail until they are sentenced in September for breaking into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee. Sister Megan Rice and protesters Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed were convicted Wednesday of interfering with national security and damaging federal property during last year's incursion. An attorney for the defendants asked the judge Thursday to allow their release until their Sept. 23 sentencing.
ShareThisSmoke forces evacuation of White House press room 11 May 2013 Reporters and photographers were evacuated briefly from the West Wing of the White House early Saturday because of smoke from an overheated transformer in a mechanical room. U.S. Secret Service spokesman Max Milien said that at about 7 a.m., smoke was seen coming from a mechanical room closet on the first floor. "Early this morning, an electrical transformer near the West Wing malfunctioned and set off a smoke alarm in the West Wing," a White House official said in a statement.
ShareThisBiometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in 'Immigration Reform' 10 May 2013 The immigration reform [aka allowing the creation of a permanent corporate-owned underclass which will drive down wages across the board and destroy unions] measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system. Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named "photo tool," a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver's license or other state-issued photo ID. Employers would be obliged to look up every new hire in the database to verify that they match their photo.
ShareThisPakistan's historic election could bring change to military ties with US 11 May 2013 Pakistan’s historic election today could have immense consequences for the region and the so-called war on terror. Opposition leader and leading candidate to be the next prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has warned he will stop Pakistan's involvement in the war on terror. Asked whether he would stop military cooperation with the United States in the war, in an interview with the BBC he said, "Yes, we have to." Another leading candidate in the Pakistan election, Imran Khan, a former international cricketer and now Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which draws its support from large sections of the poor, has warned if he wins the election he would go even further by shooting down U.S. drones if they enter Pakistan territory.
ShareThisBlast kills 9, injures more near polling station in Pakistan 11 May 2013 An explosion has killed at least 9 people and injured many others near a polling station in the southern city of Karachi as voting is underway for general elections in the country.
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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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