ShareThisConn. OKs more waste storage at nuclear plant 03 May 2013 State officials authorized the [deadly, leaking] Millstone nuclear plant on Thursday to significantly expand nuclear waste storage capacity over the next 30 years. Without a national site to take spent nuclear fuel, Millstone Power Station's owner, Dominion Resources Inc., turned to Connecticut for permission to increase storage at the Waterford site. The nine-member council [of Dominion-owned dirt-bags] voted unanimously without discussion to allow Millstone to build concrete pads necessary for an expansion of its waste storage. Millstone is seeking to expand storage from 19 cask storage units now to 135 by 2045.
ShareThis'We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government' --Palm Beach County sheriff gets $1 million for [Orwellian] violence prevention units 29 Apr 2013 Florida House and Senate budget leaders have awarded Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw $1 million for a new violence prevention unit aimed at preventing tragedies [false flags] like those in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., from occurring on his turf. Bradshaw plans to use the extra $1 million to launch "prevention intervention" units featuring specially trained deputies, mental health professionals and caseworkers. The teams will respond to citizen phone calls to a 24-hour hotline with a knock on the door and a referral to services, if needed. Bradshaw is readying a hotline and is planning public service announcements to encourage local citizens to report their neighbors, friends or family members if they fear they could harm themselves or others. "We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government, hates the mayor and he's gonna shoot him," Bradshaw said.
ShareThisRecord low in Arctic sea ice caused by global warming, says UN 02 May 2013 Global warming not only increased temperatures last year but caused a record low in Arctic sea ice, as well as deadly storms and economic uncertainty, the UN has warned. The World Meteorological Organisation that tracks the weather on behalf of the 193 countries of the United Nations, confirmed 2012 was the 9th warmest year on record. The annual summary of climate change also warned Arctic sea ice reached its lowest ever level, rainfall increased causing floods around the world and a number of countries experienced drought. Extreme weather events, like Superstorm Sandy in the US and Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines, were linked to climate change.
ShareThisSources: Bombing suspects had originally planned for July 4 attack 02 May 2013 The suspected bombers in the Boston Marathon attack had originally intended for the plot to happen on July 4th, CBS News has learned. According to CBS News, a U.S. official confirmed that detained suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told authorities that the bombing was supposed to take place on the Fourth of July. The actual attack took place on April 15. The official also said that Tsarnaev revealed that the bombs were constructed at his older brother Tamerlan's residence and that Tamerlan had brought Dzhokhar into the plot a couple of months before.
ShareThisMan shot and killed at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport, authorities say --Police say man was confronted by agent from Homeland Security --'The agent fired once at the suspect, who appeared to try to shoot himself at the same time.' 02 May 2013 A man was shot and killed Thursday in a pre-screening area at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, authorities said. Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith told reporters that the man had just come through the doors in Terminal B when he fired at least one shot into the ceiling. A Homeland Security Investigations agent was working in an office near the scene, came out and told the man to drop his weapon. The agent fired once at the suspect, who appeared to try to shoot himself at the same time.
ShareThisGreenhouse gas levels close to topping 400 ppm, concentration not seen for over 3 million years 02 May 2013 Up, up, and up. Scientists are closely monitoring the rapid rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which has climbed at an alarming pace to nearly 400 parts per million, according to readings from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. That level has not been seen for 3.2 million to 5 million years, during the Pliocene, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego—and it has never climbed with such speed. During the Pliocene, the average temperature rose as much as 18 degrees Fahrenheit and sea levels ranged between 16 to 131 feet higher than they are today, said Richard Norris, a Scripps geologist, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
ShareThisMan opens fire with AR-15 rifle at Houston airport checkpoint --Police say a man walked into Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport on Thursday, took out an AR-15 rifle, and began shooting. 02 May 2013 A shooting at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport rattled passengers Thursday. A man is alleged to have walked into the ticket area inside Terminal B at approximately 1:35 p.m. and fired an AR-15 rifle at least twice into the air as he apporached a security checkpoint, a Houston Police Department spokesman said. In response, an air marshal fired at the man, but missed, and then the suspect pulled out another gun which he turned on himself, KHOU News reported. In all, a total of five to seven shots were fired.
ShareThisPentagon deploys 'small number' of troops to Mali 30 Apr 2013 The Pentagon has deployed a 'small number' of troops to Mali to support allied forces [illegally] fighting there, despite repeated pledges by the Obama administration not to put "boots on the ground" in the war-torn African country. About 10 U.S. military personnel are in Mali to provide "liaison support" to French and African troops but are not engaged in combat operations, said Lt. Col. Robert Firman, a Pentagon spokesman. Twelve others are assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Bamako, the capital, he added. The Obama administration has been prohibited by U.S. law from giving military aid to Mali since March 2012... In April 2012, three U.S. soldiers were killed in a mysterious car crash in Bamako.
ShareThisCLG Founder's son, Dylan Reynolds, has song premiere on MTV Buzzworthy --Update: Dylan is on the MTV main page, MTV.com! --'If I was a soldier/ In the Spanish Civil War/ Flying through the sky/ On my BA64/ Dropping my bombs/ And running for the door.' 02 May 2013 The Founder and Chair of Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) is Dr. Michael Rectenwald. Dylan Reynolds - one of his sons - has his song premiering on MTV Buzzworthy! Song Premiere: Dylan Reynolds, 'Spanish Civil War' 02 May 2013 Did you ever think that a hip-hop mogul like Mac Miller would sign a gentle singer-songwriter type? Yeah, we didn't think so either! But you know us -- we love surprises, especially when they come in the form of Dylan Reynolds, a 21-year-old alt-folk/pop musician who just so happens to be Mac's old buddy from Pittsburgh AND a refreshing signee to Mac's REMember Music label. So far Dylan's released a handful of M. Ward-meets-John Mayer ballads like "Happy Birthday" and "Looking Up," but now he's unveiled a brand-new song, "Spanish Civil War," a minimalist, piano-driven tune slated to appear on Dylan's upcoming debut album, out this June.
ShareThisSARS-like virus kills 5 Saudis 02 May 2013 Five Saudis have died of a new SARS-like virus during the past few days and two more are being treated in an intensive care unit, the health ministry said. In a statement cited by the Saudi SPA agency late on Wednesday, the ministry said that all the deaths occurred in the Ahsaa province in the oil-rich eastern region of the kingdom. Known as novel coronavirus or hCoV-EMC, the virus was first detected in mid-2012 and is a cousin of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which triggered a scare 10 years ago when it erupted in east Asia, leaping to humans from animal hosts. [Detected in mid-2012 -- but when did Fort Detrick create it?]
ShareThisFukushima nuclear plant leaking radioactive groundwater: report --Radioactive water leaking it at rate of 75 gallons per minute 01 May 2013 The crippled Japanese nuclear plant is facing the dire issue of containing radioactive waste water, as operators rush to repair yet another possible disaster. Events in March 2011 left the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant stricken, badly damaging its reactors, which serve to cool nuclear cores. Now contaminated groundwater containing radioactive strontium, a byproduct of nuclear fission, is leaking from damaged reactor structures at an alarming rate of 75 gallons per minute... Fears have also emerged that the Dai-ichi plant could break apart during cleaning, NBC News reports.
ShareThisDoctors warned to look out for new H7N9 bird flu virus --Virus already acquired two of five key mutations thought to be necessary for it to become a disease that can circulate in human population 01 May 2013 Doctors have been urged to look out for signs of a new lab-generated] strain of bird flu in patients, as experts warned it poses a "serious threat" that could cause a pandemic. Public health officials have issued an alert to GPs and health workers asking them to report any signs of influenza in people who have recently travelled from China. Experts fear that while the disease is currently only being passed from birds to humans, it is changing rapidly and could start passing directly from person to person, raising the risk of a pandemic.
ShareThis3 more suspects taken into custody in Boston bombing case, police say 01 May 2013 Three additional suspects were taken into custody in the Boston Marathon bombing, the Boston Police Department told FoxNews.com. Police would not confirm when the suspects were taken into custody, and referred further questions to the FBI. Charges against the new suspects involve providing some sort of assistance to the two main suspects, sources told Fox News. Police did not confirm the gender of the suspects and did not say when or where they were taken into custody.
ShareThisThree men charged with undermining Boston bombing probe 01 May 2013 U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged three men with interfering with the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing, saying they hid fireworks and a backpack belonging to one of the suspected bombers as a manhunt was under way. The three, two students from Kazakhstan and a U.S. citizen, were described as college friends of surviving bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. They were not charged with direct involvement in the April 15 marathon bombings. But three days after the blasts, the trio [allegedly] moved swiftly to cover up for their friend when the FBI released pictures of the suspected bombers, made a public plea for help locating them and conducted a day-long manhunt that left much of Boston on lockdown, according to court papers.
ShareThisRicin suspect's dust mask tests positive for toxin 30 Apr 2013 Federal investigators found ricin on a dust mask discarded by the man suspected of sending ricin-laced letters to President Obama and other public officials, according to an FBI affidavit released by a federal court judge on Tuesday. J. Everett Dutschke, 41, of Tupelo, was under FBI surveillance on April 22 when he returned to the taekwondo studio he once ran and removed several items, placed them in his van and then discarded them in a public garbage receptacle about 100 yards away, the eight-page affidavit said. The items included a coffee grinder, a box of latex gloves and a dust mask. The mask later tested positive for ricin, the affidavit said.
ShareThisObama's FSA Terrorists Have been using Chemical Weapons in Syria for 4 Months 30 Apr 2013 Terrorists threw "unknown powder" in the face of a number of citizens in Idleb to accuse the army of using chemical weapons against citizens, an official source told SANA reporter. The source explained that the terrorists brought bags containing "unknown powder" and opened them in the face of a number of citizens whom they had gathered in Shabour neighborhood and the southern entrance of Saraqib town in the countryside of Idleb, causing suffocation, shiver and respiratory symptoms among the citizens. The source added that the perpetrators then took the injured citizens to Turkish hospitals to accuse the Syrian armed forces of using chemical weapons.
ShareThisCraft International Services hired guns at the Boston Marathon: Why Such Secrecy about Private Military Contractor's Men Working the Event? 25 Apr 2013 And by the way, why aren't the mainstream media asking about this? Are corporate media journalists so intimidated about being labeled "conspiracy nuts" that they can't do their jobs? At a minimum, this goes to the question of accountability. It also goes to the question of inter-agency communication or lack of it. And given what we know about how many times the FBI has been an active encourager and enabler of terror plots which it later thwarts and claims credit for preventing, there's the question, too of potential official culpability. Furthermore, when an horrific incident like this is used to justify such new threats to our Constitutional freedom as an unprecedented martial law-style lockdown of an entire 1-million-person metropolitan area and a precedent-setting deliberately Miranda-free, attorney-free interrogation of a hospitalized, gravely wounded and sedated suspect, it is critical that the whole story be told, not just the official one.
ShareThisU.S. considers sending arms to Syria 'rebels' 30 Apr 2013 The White House is considering providing weapons to the Syrian 'rebels,' officials said Tuesday, but no decision is imminent and President Obama seemed to soften his public threats to the Syrian government over its alleged use of chemical weapons. A decision to supply weapons would mark a reversal for the Obama administration, which has resisted repeated proposals to deepen its involvement in Syria's 2-year-old [CIA-engendered] conflict, which, according to the United Nations, has killed more than 70,000 people, mostly civilians. The administration also is considering supplying nonlethal military equipment such as armor, communications gear, night-vision goggles and vehicles to Syrian insurgent groups, officials said.
ShareThisNew law will ban protesters from riding mass transit in California 30 Apr 2013 Risking arrest isn't the only obstacle for Northern California protesters -- under a new rule about to go into effect, political demonstrators could lose their right to ride public transportation. Starting next week, law enforcement officers policing the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in San Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland and other cities can issue bus and subway bans for unruly passengers -- and according to one local news report, that power could be used to prevent political protesters from getting to demonstrations or essentially going anywhere. Under the recently passed State Assembly Bill 716, BART can issue "prohibition" orders to any passenger cited or arrested for certain offenses, essentially blacklisting some people from boarding public transit vehicles if they’ve been charged with certain crimes.
ShareThis'Lethal' dose in attempted Starbucks poisoning 30 Apr 2013 A woman put a "lethal quantity" of rubbing alcohol in orange juice bottles that she tried to sneak into a display case at a Starbucks coffee shop in San Jose, police said Tuesday. Ramineh Behbehanian was being held without bail at Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder and poisoning. Behbehanian walked into the coffee shop on the 6000 block of Snell Avenue about 3:45 p.m. Monday and was seen by a customer swapping two plastic bottles of Evolution Fresh orange juice from the refrigerated display case with two bottles she was carrying in a Starbucks bag, said police Sgt. Jason Dwyer and a company official.
ShareThisPlastic bags, tape, broomsticks fix leak at San Onofre nuclear plant --NRC [insanely] contemplating restart of nuclear plant 30 Apr 2013 An inside source gave Team 10 a picture snapped inside the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) showing plastic bags, masking tape and broom sticks used to stem a massive leaky pipe. San Onofre owner Southern California Edison (SCE), confirms the picture was taken inside Unit Three, but did not say when. The anonymous source said the picture was taken in December 2012. Unit Three is the same unit that leaked radiation in January 2012. SONGS has been shutdown since then as a precaution. [Team 10 took the picture to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to see what federal regulators had to say about the quick fix.] "If that's nuclear technology at work and that's how we're going to control leaks I think the public should know," the inside source said. [Now, isn't this an act of *corpora-terrorism?* Seems like the FBI and DHS should spend a few dollars investigating the Southern California Edison sociopaths?]
ShareThisObama vows new push to close Guantanamo 30 Apr 2013 President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to make a renewed attempt to close the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, amid a hunger strike by suspected terrorist detainees. Obama told a White House news conference he did not want any prisoners to die and called on Congress to help him find a long-term legal solution to the problem of prosecuting terror suspects. "I continue to believe we have to close Guantanamo. I think it is critical for us to understand that Guantanamo is not necessary to keep America safe. It is expensive. It is inefficient. It hurts us in terms of our international standing. It lessens cooperation with our allies on counterterrorism efforts. It is a recruiting tool for extremists. It needs to be closed," he said.
ShareThisSan Onofre insider says NRC should not allow nuclear restart --'There is something grossly wrong' - San Onofre safety engineer 25 Apr 2013 For the first time, a source from inside the San Onofre nuclear power plant has come forward to warn that restarting the power plant is too dangerous. "There is something grossly wrong," said the inside source, a safety engineer who worked at San Onofre and has 25 years in the nuclear field. The source, who requested anonymity, is not alone in concerns over the safety San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). The concerns stem from inside the concrete containment walls, which house steam generators unique to the plant. [Click here for a timeline of San Onofre incidents.]
ShareThisNRC warns nuclear plants to watch for water damage 28 Apr 2013 Federal authorities are warning nuclear power plants that store spent fuel in dry casks to watch for water damage, citing two incidents at central Pennsylvania plants. The York Daily Record says the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued an information notice last week detailing how moisture can degrade structures and components associated with spent fuel storage. The notice cited two separate instances involving water damage to containers holding spent fuel from the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station in York County and Three Mile Island in Dauphin County.
ShareThisBreaking a sports barrier, NBA's Jason Collins comes out as gay 29 Apr 2013 Veteran basketball player Jason Collins announced on Monday that he was gay, smashing through one of the final frontiers in U.S. sports with a frank personal statement and winning warm praise as a groundbreaker. Collins, a 12-year player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), became the first active athlete from any of the four major U.S. men's professional sports leagues to come out publicly as gay. He was quickly enveloped in a wave of support from the White House to tennis player Martina Navratilova, a pioneer for gay athletes in sport.
ShareThisIraqi army losing hold on north to Sunni and Kurdish forces as troops desert 28 Apr 2013 Soldiers are deserting a beleaguered Iraqi army as it struggles to keep its hold on the northern half of Iraq in the face of escalating hostility from Sunni Arabs and Kurds who dominate in the region. Around the oil city of Kirkuk Kurdish troops have advanced south to take over military positions abandoned by the army, while in Baghdad senior Iraqi politicians say that for the first time there is talk of partitioning the country... In the last four months Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has done little to conciliate the Sunni Arabs who have been conducting a peaceful campaign demanding civil and political rights. They want an end to job discrimination and a terror law under which suspects can be arrested tortured on the word of an unknown informant.[Hopefully, the Iraqi resistance movement will overthrow the Maliki dictatorship and turn the oil revenue over to the Iraqi people, as was the case before the illegal US invasion/occupation. --LRP]
ShareThisIraq suspends 10 TV channels for 'sectarianism' 28 Apr 2013 Iraq suspended the licences of 10 satellite television channels, including Qatar-based Al-Jazeera, for 'promoting violence and sectarianism,' an official from the country's media regulator said Sunday. "We took a decision to suspend the licence of some satellite channels that adopted language encouraging violence and sectarianism," Mujahid Abu al-Hail, a top official from the Communications and Media Commission, told AFP. "It means stopping their work in Iraq and their activities, so they cannot cover events in Iraq or move around," he said. The suspended channels included pan-Arab network Al-Jazeera and Sharqiya, a leading Iraqi station. [Saddam Hussein: *Clearly,* the better deal.]
ShareThisSeven killed in US cargo plane crash at Afghan base --The Taliban was quick to claim responsibility, telling the Pakistan-based Afghan Islam Press they shot down the plane. 29 Apr 2013 A US civilian cargo plane has crashed at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, killing its seven crew, officials say. The plane came down shortly after take-off and crashed within the boundaries of the huge US-run airbase, said a Nato spokesperson at the base. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the crash, but their involvement was denied by Nato.
ShareThisMore doctors sent to address Guantanamo hunger strike 30 Apr 2013 Extra medical staff have been sent to the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay to help address a hunger strike that has spread to nearly two-thirds of the detainees. With the strike now entering its 12th week, President Barack Obama has faced fresh calls to honour his promise to close the prison at the US base in Cuba, which holds 166 individuals captured as part of the "War on [*puke*] Terror." Some 40 US Navy medical personnel, including nurses and specialists, arrived over the weekend, said Lieutenant Colonel Samuel House, a military spokesman at Guantanamo.
ShareThisNAACP protest at legislature ends in arrests 29 Apr 2013 A protest of Republican policies in the North Carolina General Assembly ended with the arrests of 17 activists and civil rights leaders Monday. Members of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other activists surrendered to North Carolina General Assembly police outside the Senate chambers after an hour of prayer and song directed at what protesters called a regressive Republican agenda. General Assembly Police Chief Jeff Weaver said the protesters will be charged. Alleged violations could include breaking building rules, second-degree trespassing, disorderly conduct and failure to disperse.
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'We want either a hammer or a fire, to break the spell or dissolve the ice.' Artisan radical freethinker, George Jacob Holyoake, Reasoner V (1848): 2.
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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