ShareThisUS government considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist until 2008 07 Dec 2013 From the White House to the halls of Congress, U.S. government officials have responded to the death of Nelson Mandela with a hail of testimonials to the late South African president's leadership in the struggle for freedom and human rights. Until five years ago, however, the U.S. officially considered Mandela a terrorist. During the Cold War, both the State and Defense departments dubbed Mandela's political party, the African National Congress, a terrorist group, and Mandela's name remained on the U.S. terrorism watch list till 2008.
ShareThisCIA's anti-terrorism effort called 'colossal flop' [Right, but their pro-terrorism effort is a complete success.] --CIA spent at least $3 billion on program 08 Dec 2013 Twelve years after the CIA began a major push to get its operatives out of embassy cubicles and into foreign universities, businesses and other local perches to collect intelligence on terrorists and rogue nations, the effort has been a disappointment, current and former U.S. officials say. Along with other parts of the CIA, the budget of the so-called Global Deployment Initiative, which covers the NOC [CIA officers given 'non-official cover] program, is being cut. "It was a colossal flop," a former senior CIA official said in sentiments echoed by a dozen former colleagues, most of whom spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a classified program.
ShareThisGreens call for end of Ranger uranium mine operations after slurry spill 08 Dec 2013 (AU) The Greens are calling for a permanent end to operations at the Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory after a radioactive spill at the site yesterday morning. A tank containing up to a million litres of uranium ore and acid split, damaging the crane that was trying to repair it and surrounding infrastructure at the mine near Kakadu National Park. Mine operator Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) says it has contained the spread of the slurry, and has temporarily shut down processing operations at the site.
ShareThisFormer flight attendant looks to sue over link between Parkinson's and pesticide 09 Dec 2013 (AU) A former Qantas flight attendant is hoping to be able to sue the Commonwealth, claiming a connection between his Parkinson's disease and mandated pesticide spraying on long-haul flights. Brett Vollus, 52, worked with the airline for 27 years and is claiming he developed the disease because of insecticide spraying on international flights arriving in Australia. His Sydney lawyer, Tanya Segelov, says there is medical evidence that the chemicals used are linked to the disease, and she is investigating a possible test case for airline workers to take action against the Commonwealth.
ShareThisSpill of contaminated material at Ranger uranium mine; locals fear for Kakadu National Park 08 Dec 2013 (AU) The operators of the Ranger mine in the Northern Territory say a spill of uranium and acid has been contained, and there will be no impact to the environment. A huge tank in the processing area of the mine failed about 1:00am (ACST) on Saturday. The tank containing radioactive material burst open and its contents flowed outside the banks meant to keep any leaks contained. As much as 1,000 cubic metres of slurry was spilled at the mine site near Jabiru.
ShareThisWhose sarin? By Seymour M. Hersh 08 Dec 2013 Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he omitted important intelligence, and in others he presented assumptions as facts. Most significant, he failed to acknowledge something known to the US intelligence community: that the Syrian army is not the only party in the country’s civil war with access to sarin, the nerve agent that a UN study concluded –- without assessing responsibility -- had been used in the rocket attack.
ShareThisWinter storm causes 50-car pileup on Pennsylvania Turnpike 08 Dec 2013 The ferocious winter storm that's pummeling Philadelphia appears to have sparked a 50-car pileup on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that killed at least one person Sunday afternoon, local media report. The colossal accident occurred about 12:30 p.m. Sunday in the westbound lanes of the highway between Downingtown and Morgantown, according to local Station WPVI.
ShareThisStill no mainstream media coverage, and this is why NSAssociate Google will not allow the delivery of the CLG Newsetter: Record outdoor radiation level that 'can kill in 20 min' detected at Fukushima 08 Dec 2013 Outdoor radiation levels have reached their highest at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, warns the operator company. Radiation found in an area near a steel pipe that connects reactor buildings could kill an exposed person in 20 minutes, local media reported. The plant's operator and the utility responsible for the 'clean-up,' Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), detected record radiation levels on a duct which connects reactor buildings and the 120 meter tall ventilation pipe located outside on Friday. TEPCO measured radiation at eight locations around the pipe with the highest estimated at two locations - 25 Sieverts per hour and about 15 Sieverts per hour, the company said. This is the highest level ever detected outside the reactor buildings, according to local broadcaster NHK.
ShareThisAnti-fracking clashes in Romania as activists break into Chevron site 08 Dec 2013 Hundreds of protesters have broken into a Chevron site after the US oil giant resumed its search for shale gas in northeast Romania. RT reported that clashes ensued as riot police started streaming in. "The situation then escalated...we saw the protesters run into the property; the surrounding perimeter fences were taken down," Kafanov reports.
ShareThisEdward Snowden to give evidence to EU parliament 08 Dec 2013 The European parliament is lining up Edward Snowden to give evidence by video link this month, in spite of resistance by British Conservatives, a Green MEP has announced. Jan Philipp Albrecht, a German Green MEP, said parliamentarians wanted Snowden to appear before the assembly's committee on civil liberties, justice and home affairs (LIBE). Albrecht said it would represent a great success for the parliament's investigation into mass surveillance of EU citizens.
ShareThisUK troopers to face 11 more 'trials' over Iraq deaths 08 Dec 2013 The UK High Court has ruled that 11 separate probes should be held into British troops' conduct in Iraq, media reports say. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) ordered the inquest-style hearings into the deaths of 11 Iraqi civilians during the British presence in Iraq after the March 2003 US-led invasion of the country, the Daily Telegraph disclosed. The scale of investigation into UK troops' atrocities in Iraq is disclosed a day after another trooper was jailed for a minimum of 10 years for indiscriminate killing of an injured Afghan.
ShareThisMilitary Biodefense Vaccine Project Begins --Information contained in 112-page report released in 2009, not previously published or shared with Congress 27 Nov 2013 An effort to produce its own vaccines and biodefense drugs has been started by the U.S. Defense Department, a government report says. Construction on a facility to create flu vaccines and specialized medicines to protect subject military personnel from to germ warfare agents began in Florida in late October, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday. The newspaper noted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is on track to spend billions of dollars to produce the same types of medicines in collaborations with universities and research institutions.
ShareThisJournalist loses suit over being expelled from Afghan embed 06 Dec 2013 A journalist who was kicked out of his embedded assignment in Afghanistan has lost his lawsuit filed in response. Wayne M. Anderson sued after being expelled from his slot with the Minnesota National Guard in 2010. The expulsion followed the events of July 20, 2010, when he filmed an ambulance offloading American personnel who had been attacked in a controversial shooting. Military officials pulled Anderson's credentials, saying his video showed the identifiable faces of wounded soldiers, contrary to the media ground rules.
ShareThis6 in Mexico may have radiation exposure 08 Dec 2013 Federal police blocked access Friday to a central Mexico hospital where six people were reported to have been admitted with radiation exposure. An official familiar with the case confirmed Mexican media reports that the six have been admitted to the general hospital in the city of Pachuca and may have been exposed to a stolen source of highly radioactive cobalt-60. The official said only one person so far was dizzy and vomiting, symptoms of severe radiation poisoning.
ShareThisLooking for Saturday's CLG Newsletter? NSAssociate Google Relegated 07 Dec 2013 CLG Newsletter to the Spam Bin Posted by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 07 Dec 2013 CLG subscribers: If you use Gmail as your email provider, please go to your spam bin to retrieve today's CLG Newsletter. Perhaps Google did not like the subject line: 'Radiation 36,000 times permissible level found in water at Fukushima plant.'
ShareThisEx-Blackwater Guards Plead Not Guilty 04 Dec 2013 Four ex-Blackwater guards are pleading not guilty to multiple manslaughter charges stemming from a deadly 2007 shooting on the streets of Baghdad. Prosecutors say the heavily armed Blackwater convoy launched an unprovoked attack. The guards were first indicted in 2008, but one of them, Nicholas Slatten, was dropped from the case the following year.
ShareThisRadiation 36,000 times permissible level found in water at Fukushima plant 03 Dec 2013 The operator of the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant said on Dec. 2 that it has detected radioactive materials that topped 36,000 times the permissible level in underground water extracted in the area. According to plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), strontium-90 and other radioactive substances that emit beta rays were detected at a level of 1.1 million becquerels per liter in underground water pumped up from an observatory well on Nov. 28. The well is located at a sea bank east of the No. 2 reactor, about 40 meters from the ocean.
ShareThisHong Kong confirms second human H7N9 bird flu case in a week 06 Dec 2013 Hong Kong health authorities on Friday confirmed a new human case of the deadly H7N9 bird flu, the second case to come to light in less than five days. An 80-year-old man has been infected and is hospitalised in the southern Chinese city, Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection controller Leung Ting-hung told reporters at a press conference. Officials have started tracing the patient's relatives both in Hong Kong and in Shenzhen, placing patients and healthcare workers who were in contact with the man at the hospital under "medical surveillance".
ShareThis'Nothing is beyond our reach': Evil octopus strangling the world becomes latest US intelligence seal 06 Dec 2013 The US National Reconnaissance Office launched a top-secret surveillance satellite into space Thursday evening. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence live-tweeted Thursday's launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and throughout the course of the ordeal made no effort to ignore the logo for the NROL-39 mission. The latest spy satellite to be sent into orbit by the NRO can be recognized by its seal: a malevolent octopus with furrowed brows that also happens to be wrapping its tentacles around all corners of the Earth.
ShareThisUS Navy launches drone from submerged submarine 05 Dec 2013 Today, the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) announced that it had successfully launched a drone from a submerged submarine. The all-electric eXperimental Fuel Cell Unmanned Aerial System (XFC) was launched in the Bahamas from the Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Providence (SSN 719), using a system that allowed the drone to be deployed without modifications to the boat -- or requiring it to surface. For the submarine test, the XFC was placed inside of a "Sea Robin" launch vehicle.
ShareThisEx-official: CIA Helped Jail Mandela 10 Jun 1990 For nearly 28 years the U.S. government has harbored an increasingly embarrassing secret: A CIA tip to South African intelligence agents led to the arrest that put black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela in prison for most of his adult life. But now, with Mandela en route to the U.S. to a hero's welcome, a former U.S. official has revealed that he has known of the CIA role since Mandela was seized by agents of the South African police special branch on Aug. 5, 1962. The former official, now retired, said that within hours after Mandela's arrest Paul Eckel, then a senior CIA operative, walked into his office and said approximately these words: "We have turned Mandela over to the South African security branch. We gave them every detail, what he would be wearing, the time of day, just where he would be. They have picked him up. It is one of our greatest coups." [Yeah, but then there was the 9/11 inside job, Iraq-for-oil, the poppy fields in Afghanistan, waterboarding, and rendition -- all even 'greater' CIA coups. --LRP]
ShareThisHeads up! House and Senate Near Deal to Fast-Track TPP, Drafted in Secrecy By and For Corporations --U.S media COMPLETELY SILENT (except for Ed Schultz) on disastrous giveaway of US to multi-nationals 06 Dec 2013 A sweeping trade agreement between the United States and a dozen Pacific nations could be approved by Congress as early as next week, a move that would signal a major victory for the special interests and corporations backing the deal. House and Senate negotiators are closing in on a deal to "fast-track" the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to congressional aides who spoke to The New York Times. Opponents of the TPP have urged Congress to reject the fast-track plan, noting that the TPP has been negotiated almost entirely behind closed doors. [President Barack Obama is upping the quality of his 'income inequality oratory' to provide cover and to serve as a distraction for the government to SURRENDER U.S. sovereignty to transnational corporations. The TPP -- drafted in secrecy by and for corpora-terrorists -- must be stopped! --LRP]
ShareThis6 Hospitalized in Mexico With Signs of Radiation Exposure 06 Dec 2013 Six people showing signs of radiation exposure were hospitalized in central Mexico on Friday, government officials said, two days after a stolen truck carrying radioactive waste was found abandoned in the area, its potentially lethal contents disturbed. The authorities said the six are suspects in the robbery and are being detained. There was enough material in the waste shipment to deliver a dose within minutes that would cause illness within a day or two, and with a few hours of exposure, a dose that would be lethal.
ShareThisUS jobless rate falls to 5-year low in November 06 Dec 2013 The US unemployment rate fell to a five-year low of 7% in November, according to the US Labor Department. Payroll figures also showed that 203,000 jobs were created last month, more than predicted, as the US economy displayed encouraging signs of strength. US markets cheered the news, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average spiking nearly 200 points.
ShareThisStolen Radioactive Material Found in Field --The health of a family in rural Mexico is being monitored after they pick up 60g of cobalt-60 - enough to make a dirty bomb. 06 Dec 2013 A stolen shipment of highly radioactive cobalt-60 has been found abandoned in a field in Mexico. A family took the opened medical device containing the radioactive material into their home after finding it in central Mexico state...Federal police blocked access Friday to a central Mexico hospital where six people were reported to have been admitted with radiation exposure.
ShareThisSouth Carolina Sheriff Refuses to Lower Flag for Mandela 06 Dec 2013 Rick Clark, the sheriff of Pickens County, S.C., vowed on Friday to defy President Obama's order that U.S. flags be lowered to half staff in honor of deceased South African leader Nelson Mandela. Clark made his promise in a Facebook post to keep flying the flag at the Pickens County Sheriff's Office at full height. Clark said the flags at the Sheriff's Office were at half staff Friday to mourn a deceased deputy.
ShareThis'Marine A' Alexander Blackman jailed for at least 10 years for executing injured Afghan prisoner --Judge Advocate General Jeff Blackett says he 'treated Afghan man with contempt and murdered him in cold blood' --'You were obliged to care for him but instead you executed him' 06 Dec 2013 The Royal Marine convicted of murdering a wounded Taliban prisoner will serve at least 10 years in prison after he was given a life sentence by a court martial today. Sergeant Alexander Blackman, 39, was sentenced at a hearing in Bulford, Wiltshire, one day after a ban on identifying him was lifted by a High Court ruling. The serviceman - known during the hearing as 'Marine A' - was filmed shooting the injured man and telling him 'shuffle off this mortal coil, you c***' during a tour of duty in Helmand province in September 2011. Blackman has been dismissed with disgrace from the Royal Marines.
ShareThisFukushima water tanks: leaky and built with illegal labor 05 Dec 2013 Storage tanks at the Fukushima nuclear plant like one that spilled almost 80,000 gallons of radioactive water this year were built in part by workers illegally hired in one of the poorest corners of Japan, say labor regulators and some of those involved in the work. The Okinawa crew was recruited by Token Kogyo, an unregistered broker, and passed on to work at the Fukushima plant under the direction of Tec, a larger contractor which reported to construction firm Taisei Corp, records show. In September, Okinawa labor regulators sanctioned Token Kogyo after investigating a complaint by Uechi and concluding the broker improperly sent workers to Fukushima, said an official with knowledge of the order, which was not made public.
ShareThisMandela's legacy: peace, but poverty for many blacks 05 Dec 2013 In the 10 years after he withdrew from public life, Nelson Mandela divided his time between a mansion in one of Johannesburg's wealthiest suburbs and his ancestral home in Qunu, a village in South Africa's impoverished eastern Cape. The contrast could not have been starker. In one, his neighbors were cast in the image of the white "Rand Lords", the mining magnates and bankers who built the sprawling city - and Africa's biggest economy - from the vast gold reserves in the rock beneath their feet.
ShareThisNelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president, dies aged 95 --Nelson Mandela led South Africa from apartheid to multi-racial democracy and will be mourned around the world 05 Dec 2013 Nelson Mandela, the towering figure of Africa's struggle for freedom and a hero to millions around the world, has died at the age of 95. South Africa's first black president died after years of declining health that had caused him to withdraw from public life. The death of Mandela will send South Africa deep into mourning and self-reflection 18 years after he led the country from racial apartheid to inclusive democracy.
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