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10 Nov 2012
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'Citizens for Legitimate Government' Newsletter By Miles Klee 02 Oct 2012 I'm not entirely sure how I ended up
subscribing to the CLG newsletter, a roundup of hard-hitting political stories
that span the globe, but I have not regretted it for one solitary moment. That's
because between relatively sober summaries of under-reported suicide bombings in
Afghanistan, they're running headlines about how U.S. army scientists are
spraying St. Louis with radioactive particles and Gaddafi was killed on Nicolas
Sarkozy's orders.
E-mail threats triggered probe of
Petraeus, officials say 10 Nov 2012
The collapse of the dazzling
career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was
triggered when a woman with whom he was having an affair sent threatening
e-mails to another woman close to him, according to three senior law enforcement
officials with knowledge of the episode. The recipient of the e-mails was so
frightened that she went to the FBI for protection and help tracking down the
sender, according to the officials. The FBI investigation traced the threats to
Paula Broadwell, a former military officer and a Petraeus biographer, and
uncovered explicit e-mails between Broadwell and Petraeus, the officials
said.
Petraeus Quits Post; Evidence of
Affair Was Found by F.B.I. 10 Nov
2012 David H. Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency and one
of America's most decorated four-star generals, resigned on Friday after an
F.B.I. investigation uncovered evidence that he was carrying on an extramarital
affair. Mr. Petraeus issued a statement acknowledging the affair after President
Obama accepted his resignation and it was announced by the C.I.A. He had offered
to resign on Thursday when he informed Mr. Obama about the affair, White House
officials said. Government officials said that the F.B.I. had investigated
whether a computer used by Mr. Petraeus had been compromised. In the course of
that inquiry, federal investigators discovered the relationship, officials said.
[Instead of searching for evidence of Petraeus's affairs, why not look
into his war crimes?]
David Petraeus resigns as CIA
director 09 Nov 2012 CIA Director
David H. Petraeus has resigned, bringing a surprisingly abrupt end to his brief
tenure at the agency as well as his decorated career in national security.
Petraeus sent a letter to President Obama on Friday indicating that he was
stepping down, citing an extramarital affair... Michael J. Morell, who served as
Petraeus's deputy at the CIA, is serving as interim director, officials
said.
Court: Alleged torture victims
can't sue Donald Rumsfeld 08 Nov
2012 A federal appeals court in Chicago has ruled that two American contractors
allegedly tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq can't sue former Defense Secretary
[war criminal] Donald Rumsfeld. The 8-3 decision by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals reverses a ruling by a three-judge panel of the same court. Donald
Vance and Nathan Ertel claim in their lawsuit that U.S. forces detained them in
2006 after they alleged illegal activities by their Iraqi-owned
employer.
Four Palestinians killed, 20
injured in Israeli attack on Gaza 10
Nov 2012 At least four Palestinians have been killed and 30 others have been
injured by Israeli fire after clashes erupted along the Gaza border. Israeli
artillery targeted the Palestinians in the besieged territory on Saturday. Most
of the injured are said to be in critical condition. Witnesses say Palestinian
resistance groups also fired a rocket at an Israeli jeep that exploded on the
edge of the border, critically injuring four Israeli soldiers. Another five
Palestinians were also wounded near Khan Yunis in southern GAZA.
Report: Bushehr nuclear plant
enters final testing phase 11 Nov
2012 Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant has reportedly entered its final testing
phase ahead of its planned 2013 launch date, the Tehran Times reported Saturday.
Fereydoun Abbasi, director of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, announced that
Tehran's experts are "making the necessary preparations for the handover of the
power plant by the Russian contractor to Iranian experts."
Computer problem prompts Berwick
nuclear reactor shutdown 10 Nov 2012
One of two reactors at a Northeast Pennsylvania nuclear plant was shut down
Friday morning after a problem with the computer system that controls its level
of water, power company officials said. The Unit 2 reactor at PPL's Susquehanna
nuclear power plant was manually shut down by operators after operators began
receiving "invalid data" on a screen, company spokesman Joe Scopelliti said. The
source of the computer system problem is under investigation.
Cracks found in South Korean
nuclear reactor 09 Nov 2012 South
Korean nuclear regulators have found microscopic cracks in tunnels that guide
control rods at a nuclear plant under maintenance, government officials said,
raising new concerns over the country's nuclear power sector. The discovery,
revealed on Friday, of the cracks at the reactor comes just days after two
reactors at the same plant in Yeonggwang county, in the southwest of the
country, were shut down to replace parts that had been provided with forged
certificates. South Korea is investigating how thousands of parts for its
nuclear reactors were supplied using forged safety documents, with regulators
set to inspect all 23 of the country's facilities.
Mascot bird teaching Fukushima
children how to avoid radiation 10
Nov 2012 Nearly two years after Japan was struck by the Fukushima nuclear
disaster, officials have begun printing leaflets featuring a yellow cartoon bird
that instructs children on radiation safety - though it may be too late for
thousands. Fukushima's disaster task force has started issuing leaflets with a
bird character called Kibitan telling children to stay away from pools and
ditches where radioactive cesium from the damaged nuclear power plant might have
accumulated. The smiling, round Kibitan explains why radiation is dangerous,
urging children to make a habit of washing their hands and gargling their mouths
after coming in from the outdoors.
Hints of a more virulent, mutating
West Nile virus emerge 08 Nov 2012
The West Nile virus epidemic of 2012, the worst in a decade, may be notorious for yet another reason: The virus, in some
cases, is attacking the brain more aggressively than in the past, raising the
specter that it may have mutated into a nastier form, say two neurologists who
have extensive experience dealing with the illness. One doctor, Art Leis in
Jackson, Miss., has seen the virus damaging the speech, language and thinking
centers of the brain -- something he has never observed before. The other,
Elizabeth Angus in Detroit, has noticed brain damage in young, previously
healthy patients, not just in older, sicker ones -- another change from past
years.
Tempers fray as many in Northeast
still without power 10 Nov 2012
Frustration with continuing power outages, travel chaos, and long lines for
gasoline grew on Saturday as residents of New York's Long Island, hit hard by
Superstorm Sandy, protested outside the headquarters of the local utility
company. Residents took to the streets for a second day, targeting the Long
Island Power Authority in Hicksville. There were still over a quarter of a
million customers without power nearly two weeks after the storm. As of Friday
more than 170,000 of those were on Long Island. Thousands were in temporary
shelters, and in New Jersey a tent city on the edge of Monmouth Park racetrack
was home to hundreds.
Superstorm Sandy: Long Lines, No
Power Two Weeks Later 10 Nov 2012
After spending nearly two weeks in the dark, Long Island residents are
directing their anger toward their local power company, which many say is out
of touch, sending bills instead of updates. Nearly two weeks after Superstorm
Sandy pummeled the northeast, more than 200,000 in the region are still without
power. The Long Island Power Authority did not show up for a last minute
overnight press conference today, leaving the company that manages the grid to
take the backlash.
The truth about the Red
Cross --The
right-wing, scandal-ridden 'charity' that isn't really a charity --'The whole
history of the organization is one gigantic scandal--stretching from its racist
policies toward African Americans to its corporate mentality toward human
beings.' By Joe Allen 21 Oct 2005 Though it is technically a nonprofit,
the Red Cross is run more like profit-hungry corporation than what most people
think a "charity" would act like. The most deadly example of this was the Red
Cross's criminally negligent response to the early stages of the AIDS epidemic
in the 1980s. In 1982 and especially 1983... major blood banks, led by the Red
Cross, opposed national testing of blood for HIV. The Red Cross's opposition was
based on the financial cost. As investigative journalist Judith Reitman wrote in
her book Bad Blood: "It appeared it would
be cheaper to pay off infected blood recipients, should they pursue legal
action, than to up the Red Cross blood supply." ...Enron-style
bookkeeping, deceptive advertising and outright theft of funds have also been a
big part of the Red Cross's recent history.
Supreme Court to review key
section of Voting Rights Act 09 Nov
2012 The Supreme Court on Friday said it would decide the constitutionality of a
signature portion of the Voting Rights Act. The justices three years ago
expressed skepticism about the continued need for Section 5 of the historic act,
which requires states and localities with a history of discrimination, most of
them in the South, to get federal approval of any changes in their voting laws.
The court will be reviewing a decision last spring by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit to uphold Section 5.
Charles Darwin earns 4,000
write-in votes against creationist Ga. congressman 08 Nov 2012 Charles Darwin earned almost 4,000 write-in votes
against a Georgia congressman who denounced evolution and other scientific
theories as "lies straight from the pit of hell." The symbolic votes in
Athens-Clarke County were a small percentage of more than 209,000 votes won by
Republican Rep. Paul Broun in his unopposed re-election Tuesday. Broun gave a
speech to a church group on Sept. 27 lambasting evolution, embryology and the
Big Bang theory. Critics urged voters to write in the 19th-century British
naturalist who is considered the father of evolution.
Obama Prevails in Florida After
4-Day Delay in Vote Count 10 Nov
2012 President Barack Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney in Florida four days
after winning a second term, according to the Associated Press, a delayed result
that renewed questions about the state's election process. The victory in
Florida boosted Obama's electoral vote count to 332, compared with Romney's 206.
A total of 270 was needed to win the White House. With 100 percent of Florida
precincts reporting, Obama had 50.0 percent of the vote to Romney's 49.1
percent, according to the Associated Press.
Coal company announces layoffs in
response to Obama win 09 Nov 2012 A
coal company headed by a prominent Mitt Romney donor has laid off more than 160
workers in response to President Obama's election victory. Murray Energy said
Friday that it had been "forced" to make the layoffs in response to the bleak
prospects for the coal industry during Obama's second term. In a prayer
circulated by the company, CEO [corpora-terrorist] Robert Murray said Americans
had voted "in favor of redistribution, national weakness and reduced standard of
living and lower and lower levels of personal freedom."
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