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Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
10 May 2011
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Nuclear collapse looms? Fukushima No. 4 reactor 'leaning' --Visually, Reactor No. 4 'leaning to the right' --4 reactors all still emitting 'significant amounts of radiation into the environment' --Radioactive sludge in sewage system in nearby city 10 May 2011 In a release of information tonight, the Japanese government has confirmed that work was started yesterday to 'shore up the structure of the building,' and 'specifically the upper floor.' Spent fuel pool is kept in Reactor No. 4. Fuel rods from three to four reactors are stored in No. 4, and 'this part of the building is beginning to lean.' Because of the explosion of Reactor No. 3, there are some questions about the structural integrity of the building of Reactor No. 4. (Video, RT interview with Dr. Robert Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Institute)
Japan to scrap plan to boost nuke energy to 50 pct 10 May 2011 Japan will scrap a plan to increase nuclear power from 30 percent to half of the nation's energy source by 2030 and will promote renewable energy as a result of its ongoing nuclear crisis, the prime minister said Tuesday. Naoto Kan told a news conference that Japan needs to "start from scratch" on its long-term energy policy after the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant was heavily damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and has been leaking radiation ever since. Kan said nuclear and fossil fuel used to be the pillars of Japanese energy policy but now it will add two more -- renewable energy such as solar, wind and biomass, and a conservation-oriented society.
U.S. Gave Pakistani Police $162 million in Fiscal Year 2009 09 May 2011 The Pentagon and State Department forked over $162 million in fiscal 2009 to aid Pakistani cops, second only to Afghanistan in the region. A new Government Accountability Office report says the cash was used to train and equip police and that 39 countries get Pentagon-State funds for counternarcotics, counterterrorism, and anticrime missions.
Osama Bin Laden Son Missing From SEAL Raid, Pakistan Says 10 May 2011 One of Osama bin Laden's sons went missing in the midst of the Navy SEAL raid that took the life of the al Qaeda leader more than a week ago, Pakistani security officials told ABC News today. The officials said bin Laden's three wives, who are all in Pakistani custody, said that one of bin Laden's sons has not been seen since the raid. The son has not been identified, but Pakistani investigators agreed that it appeared someone was missing from the sprawling compound, the officials said.
Osama Bin Laden's Sons Say U.S. Broke Law in Killing Their Father 10 May 2011 The sons of Osama bin Laden have issued a statement that accuses the U.S. of violating international law by killing an unarmed man and dumping his body in the ocean. The statement, which was prepared by Omar bin Laden said Osama bin Laden had been denied the presumption of innocence and a fair trial. It said the "assassination" of Osama bin Laden "blatantly violated" international law. Last week, after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, his son Khalid and three other people, Attorney General Eric Holder stressed that the "mission" was legal.
Osama bin Laden mission agreed in secret 10 years ago by US and Pakistan --US forces were given permission to conduct unilateral raid inside Pakistan if they knew where Bin Laden was hiding, officials say 09 May 2011 The US and Pakistan struck a secret deal almost a decade ago permitting a US operation against Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil similar to last week's raid that killed the al-Qaida [al-CIAduh] leader, the Guardian has learned. The deal was struck between the military leader General Pervez Musharraf and President [sic] George Bush after Bin Laden escaped US forces in the mountains of Tora Bora in late 2001, according to serving and retired Pakistani and US officials. Under its terms, Pakistan would allow US forces to conduct a unilateral raid inside Pakistan in search of Bin Laden, his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the al-Qaida No3. Afterwards, both sides agreed, Pakistan would vociferously protest the incursion. [LOL!]
U.S. Was Braced for Fight With Pakistanis in Bin Laden Raid 10 May 2011 President Obama insisted that the assault force hunting down Osama bin Laden last week be large enough to fight its way out of Pakistan if confronted by hostile local police officers and troops, senior administration and military officials said Monday. In revealing additional details about planning for the mission, senior officials also said that two teams of specialists were on standby: One to bury Bin Laden if he was killed, and a second composed of lawyers, interrogators and translators in case he was captured alive. That team was set to meet aboard a Navy ship, most likely the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson in the North Arabian Sea.
Mission accomplished! Iraq, Shell inch closer to $12bn gas deal 10 May 2011 Iraq and Royal Dutch Shell have settled most of the pending legal issues that have delayed a USD 12 billion gas deal for more than two years, an Iraqi deputy oil minister said on Tuesday. Since the signing of an initial agreement in 2008, Iraq has been working to finalise a joint venture between its South Gas Co, Shell and Mitsubishi to capture associated gas at southern oilfields. [WHERE is the (actual) resistance movement?]
NATO Bombs Tripoli, Combat Stirs Libyan East Front 10 May 2011 NATO warplanes struck Tripoli early Tuesday in the heaviest bombing of the Libyan capital in weeks, hours after an uptick in fighting between 'rebels' and Muammar Qaddafi's forces on a long deadlocked front line in the country's east. NATO struck at least four sites in Tripoli, setting off crackling explosions that thundered through the city overnight. Between explosions, an aircraft dropped burning flares.
NATO strikes hurt 4 children in Tripoli 10 May 2011 NATO has launched a series of missile strikes against the Libyan capital Tripoli, wounding at least four children, two of them seriously. The overnight NATO raid has left four children wounded, two of them hospitalized in intensive care, Reuters quoted Libyan officials as saying. According to witnesses, NATO jets carried out a number of bomb attacks on different targets in Tripoli in the early hours of Tuesday.
Aircraft carrier left us to die, say migrants --Boat trying to reach Lampedusa was left to drift in Mediterranean for 16 days, despite alarm being raised 08 May 2011 Dozens of African migrants were left to die in the Mediterranean after a number of European military units apparently ignored their cries for help, the Guardian has learned. Two of the nine survivors claim this included a Nato ship. A boat carrying 72 passengers, including several women, young children and political refugees, ran into trouble in late March after leaving Tripoli for the Italian island of Lampedusa. Despite alarms being raised with the Italian coastguard and the boat making contact with a military helicopter and a warship, no rescue effort was attempted.
2 Israeli flights landed over fuel concern 10 May 2011 Israeli authorities have announced that the grounding of the two European-bound flights at the Ben Gurion Airport was due to fuel contamination. The delays on Tuesday came one day after Israeli Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz said that the fuel crisis was over. The two flights were headed to Germany and Spain. Libya suffers continued bombardment as humanitarian situation worsens 10 May 2011 A series of blasts rocked Tripoli overnight Monday into early Tuesday as warplanes roared over the capital of the violence-wracked North African country. Libyan officials said that four children were injured by flying glass shards as a result of the apparent NATO air strikes, including two who were seriously hurt and had been put in intensive care in the hospital. A government building which had been previously bombed was destroyed.
Airstrike leaves 15 dead in Yemen 10 May 2011 At least 15 people have been reportedly killed after the Yemeni government launched an airstrike against tribes near the capital city of Sana'a. The attack took place on Tuesday after tribesmen tried to prevent regime forces from moving towards the south, Press TV reported. The forces were heading to the cities of Ma'rib and Hadhramaut, as part of the government's efforts to quell opposition protests.
20 protesters injured in Yemen 10 May 2011 At least 20 people have suffered injuries after Yemeni security forces opened fire on a group of anti-government protesters in the western city of Hudaydah. Thousands of protesters staged a rally in the city on Tuesday to call for the immediate ouster of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Xinhua news agency reported. Police forces then opened fire to disperse the anti-government march. Witnesses say those injured were shot by live rounds.
Seven suspected Islamists arrested in raids near Paris 10 May 2011 French security forces arrested seven suspected Islamists during a series of raids in the Paris region on Tuesday, police sources said. The arrests were made in the capital and two towns to the north: Stains, where house-to-house searches were continuing, and in Garges-les-Gonesse, they said, without stating the reason for the operation. The police action was directed by the internal intelligence service.
Amtrak's Boston-NYC service restored after bomb threat near station 10 May 2011 Amtrak restored its full Boston-to-New York train service Tuesday following a bomb threat near the New London station in Connecticut. The trains had earlier been delayed for more than two hours because of a suspicious package found at the Greyhound bus station in New London, directly next to the train station, The Day newspaper reported. State police bomb squads swarmed the area, along with local officers. [Heads up! False flags will come fast and furious, in order for the U.S. to ram a 'No-Ride' list down our throats!]
Bomb squad blows up suspicious package in New London 10 May 2011 (CT) The state police bomb squad blew up a suspicious package at 12:31 p.m. that had been found near the Greyhound bus station. The explosion could be heard around the downtown area. The train station and State and Bank streets, which had been closed, are reopening, but the area around Water Street will remain closed for now. Police had moved spectators back as far as the corner of State Street and Eugene O'Neill Drive during the investigation.
Suspect on flight had no known ties to terrorism 09 May 2011 Police say a man who pounded on the cockpit door as an American Airlines flight approached San Francisco has no clear or known ties to terrorism. San Francisco police Sgt. Michael Rodriguez tells the San Francisco Chronicle that authorities have not yet established a motive for why 28-year-old Rageit Almurisi got up from his seat and went toward the cockpit door 10 minutes before the flight was supposed to land Sunday evening. Rodriguez says Almurisi was wrestled to the ground by crew members and two passengers -- a retired Secret Service agent and a retired San Mateo police officer.
National Emergency Alert System Set to Launch In NYC --Consumers would be able to opt out of all but presidential messages 10 May 2011 A new national alert system is set to begin in New York City that will alert the public to emergencies via cell phones. Presidential and local emergency messages as well as Amber Alerts would appear on cell phones equipped with special chips and software. The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the system would also warn about terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
FEMA, FCC launching new alert system early in D.C. and NYC 09 May 2011 Federal officials and leaders of the nation's largest wireless telephone companies are set to announce Tuesday that they're launching a new mobile telephone emergency alert system by the end of the year in Washington and New York. The Personal Localized Alerting Network, or PLAN, won't be available across the rest of the country until April, but top executives from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon are scheduled to join Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Julius Genachowski, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator W. Craig Fugate and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in New York on Tuesday to announce its availability in the two cities.
Domestic Surveillance Court Approved All 1,506 Warrant Applications in 2010 06 May 2011 The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved all 1,506 government requests to electronically monitor suspected "agents" of a foreign power or terrorists on U.S. soil last year, according to a Justice Department report released under the Freedom of Information Act. The two-page report, dated 29 April, which shows about a 13 percent increase in the number of applications for electronic surveillance between 2009 and 2010, was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists and published Friday.
The Last 10 Miles of my Journey on the Trail of Tears By Ron Cooper 10 May 2011 (OK) On the morning of April 20th, we measured off the last ten "make-up" miles and Kristal dropped me on Highway 62, five miles east of Tahlequah... Next we all drove a few miles south to meet up with our new friend Gayle Ross at the grave of her great-great-great-grandfather, Chief John Ross. This remarkable man was the leader of the Cherokees from 1828-1866, during the whole period of relocation and re-settlement. He was not a signer on the Treaty of New Echota - in fact, he went to Washington D.C. and did everything he could to get it nullified.
Connecticut governor lays off workers, union bucks cuts 10 May 2011 Connecticut began mailing layoff notices to 4,742 public workers because their unions have not made enough cost-saving concessions, Governor Dannel P. Malloy said on Tuesday. Malloy, a Democrat, is among Democratic and Republican U.S. governors demanding unionized public employees accept lower pay and benefit packages to help close state budget deficits.
4 people found with anti-viral resistant flu in Delaware 09 May 2011 Four people have been found with cases of anti-viral resistant influenza, three of them in Sussex County. Continued laboratory testing of flu cases at the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms four additional Delaware cases of antiviral-resistant influenza for the 2010 - 2011 flu season. This brings the total number of resistant flu cases to 10.
Ala. Nuclear Plant Cited For Serious Violation --TVA Attributes Valve Problem to Manufacturer's Defect 10 May 2011 Federal regulators ordered in-depth inspections Tuesday at a nuclear power plant run by the Tennessee Valley Authority in northern Alabama after deciding the failure of an emergency cooling system there could have been a serious safety problem. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a rare red finding against the Browns Ferry nuclear power plant near Athens, Ala., after it investigated how a valve on a residual heat removal system became stuck shut. In an emergency, the failure of the valve could have meant that one of the plant's emergency cooling systems would not have worked as designed.
Drinking water in thousands of homes 'contaminated with harmful levels of methane' --Contamination due to fracking, a process of hydraulic-fracturing drilling used in gas extraction 10 May 2011 A controversial natural gas production technique is contaminating drinking water in tens of thousands of homes, according to a study. Scientists collected 68 drinking water samples from near gas drilling sites in Pennsylvania and New York. They found potentially harmful levels of methane in the water due to its proximity to the process of hydraulic-fracturing, or fracking. Flooding Mississippi submerges Memphis waterfront --Cleanup is expected to be massive as the surge moves downstream. 10 May 2011 The Mississippi River began cresting and hit nearly 48 feet early Tuesday, falling short of a record but wreaking havoc across Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi as tributaries and creeks swollen from the flooded waterway spilled over their banks into residential, business and farming areas. At 7 a.m. Central time Tuesday the water level reached 47.87 feet as the coffee-colored river cut through Memphis, swallowing much of the riverfront recreation area.
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