M5.2 quake jolts Fukushima, vicinity

AT&T-Yahoo blocking the CLG Newsletter again 14 Apr 2013 AT&T/Yahoo is blocking the CLG Newsletter again. This may be connected to the fix of the EarthLink block. The following AT&T-controlled domains did NOT receive today's CLG Newsletter, because AT&T is blocking the mail server of CLG's webhoster, MayFirst: yahoo.com, att.net, ameritech.net, pacbell.net, swbell.net, bellsouth.net, flash.net, prodigy.net, wans.net, sbcglobal.net, nvbell.net, snet.net. This was the subject line: 'Billions of US tax dollars potentially funding Afghan terrorism -report'. [Addendum: Yahoo.com allowed delivery of the newsletter, but on an eight-hour delay.]

M5.2 quake jolts Fukushima, vicinity 14 Apr 2013 An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 5.2 jolted Fukushima Prefecture and its vicinity Sunday evening, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The 10:25 p.m. quake registered intensity 4 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 in several parts of the prefecture, including Tamura and Minamisoma, according to the agency. No tsunami warning was issued following the quake originated off Fukushima at a depth of around 50 km.

Guantanamo Commander Orders 'Single-cell Living' For Detainees 14 Apr 2013 The commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo ordered the transition of detainees prisoners from communal to 'single-cell living' at Camp VI at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to ensure the health and security [?!?] of those prisoners, according to a task force news release issued yesterday. The commander, Navy Rear Adm. John W. Smith Jr., ordered the change early yesterday morning. This action was taken in response to efforts by prisoners to limit the guard force's ability to observe the prisoners by covering surveillance cameras, windows, and glass partitions, according to the release, which noted that round-the-clock monitoring is necessary to ensure security, order, and safety.

Manning trial judge to US: prove suspect knew leaks would 'aid enemy' --Judge's order raises burden of proof for prosecutors seeking life in military prison for WikiLeaks suspect over security leaks 10 Apr 2013 The US government will have to prove that the WikiLeaks source, Bradley Manning, had "reason to believe" that his disclosure of state secrets could be harmful to the US and beneficial to foreign nations, the judge presiding over the soldier's court martial ruled on Wednesday. The ruling from Colonel Denise Lind, sitting in a military court at Fort Meade in Maryland, raises the burden of proof for the prosecutors who are trying to have the US soldier jailed for life for his actions in passing hundreds of thousands of classified state documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Manning has pleaded guilty to the leak, but only to lesser charges that carry an upper sentence of 20 years in military jail.

US assassination drone attack kills 4 in NW Pakistan 14 Apr 2013 At least four people have been killed in an attack carried out by a US assassination drone in northwestern Pakistan, Press TV reports. On Sunday, the US killer drone fired two missiles at a house in Datta Khel area located some 35 kilometers (22 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in the Pakistani tribal region of North Waziristan. Officials say the house was completely destroyed in the attack. Pakistan's tribal regions are attacked by US assassination drones almost regularly with Washington claiming that militants are the targets. However, casualty figures clearly indicate that civilians are the main victims.

Attacks kill at least 10 in Iraq 14 Apr 2013 At least 10 people, including a provincial elections candidate and seven policemen, have been killed in a series of attacks in Iraq, according to police. The attacks against security forces and Najam Saeed, a candidate in the provincial elections, came on Sunday as Iraq is preparing for the April 20 elections, The Associated Press reported. In the northern city of Mosul, a booby-trapped dead body exploded in a street among a group of policemen when they were inspecting it. The incident left five policemen dead.

Dead dolphins and shrimp with no eyes found after BP clean-up --Chemicals used to disperse Gulf of Mexico spill blamed for marine deaths and human illness 14 Apr 2013 Hundreds of beached dolphin carcasses, shrimp with no eyes, contaminated fish, ancient corals caked in oil and some seriously unwell people are among the legacies that scientists are still uncovering in the wake of BP's Deepwater Horizon spill. This week it will be three years since the first of 4.9 billion barrels of crude oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico, in what is now considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. As the scale of the ecological disaster unfolds, BP is appearing daily in a New Orleans federal court to battle over the extent of compensation it owes to the region.

China says bird flu death toll rises to 13 14 Apr 2013 Two people in the central Chinese province of Henan have been infected by a new strain of avian influenza, the first cases found in the region, while the death toll has risen to 13 from a total of 60 infections after two more deaths in Shanghai. One of the Henan victims, a 34-year old man in the city of Kaifeng, is now critically ill in hospital, while the other, a 65-year old farmer from Zhoukou, is stable. The two cases do not appear to be connected. A total of 19 people in close contact with the two new victims were under observation but had shown no signs of infection, state news agency Xinhua said.

China bird flu: Reported H7N9 cases rise to 60 14 Apr 2013 China has reported 11 fresh cases of bird flu, with the virus now appearing in the central province of Henan and the capital Beijing. The new cases of the H7N9 strain bring the total number of reported cases to 60. Two more people have now died. Authorities believe the virus is being spread through direct contact with infected poultry.

Idaho restricts drone use by police agencies amid privacy concerns 11 Apr 2013 Idaho's Republican governor signed a law on Thursday that restricts use of drone aircraft by police and other public agencies as the use of pilotless aircraft inside U.S. borders is increasing. The measure aims to protect privacy rights. In approving the law, which requires law enforcement to obtain warrants to collect evidence using drones in most cases, Idaho becomes the second U.S. state after Virginia to restrict uses of pilotless aircraft over privacy concerns. "We're trying to prevent high-tech window-peeping," Idaho Senate Assistant Majority Leader Chuck Winder, sponsor of the measure in the Republican-led Idaho legislature, told Reuters earlier this year as the bill was pending in the legislature.

2 victims in Christiansburg mall shootings in stable condition --New River college site gunman pretended to be police, witness says 14 Apr 2013 Two women who were shot by a gunman at a community college branch in a mall in Southwest Virginia, causing students and shoppers to flee in a panic, were reported to be in stable condition Saturday. Both women were being treated at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, said Christiansburg Police Department spokeswoman Becky Wilburn. The women's names and additional information on their injuries were not released. The shootings occurred Friday afternoon in a section of the New River Valley Mall that had been converted to classrooms for a satellite campus of New River Community College.

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