Breaking News and Commentary from CLG - 02 Nov 2011

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Updated: Abbreviated CLG Newsletters and Updates Due to Power Outage By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 02 Nov 2011 Still no electricity -- day five. The governor of Connecticut, Dannel P. Malloy (D-Deranged) has announced that CL&P (the main power company) will be restoring power to *businesses* first!

Tepco Detects Nuclear Fission at Fukushima Dai-Ichi Station --'Given the signs, it's certain that fission is occurring.' 02 Nov 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. detected signs of nuclear fission at its crippled Fukushima atomic power plant, raising the risk of increased radiation emissions. The company, known as Tepco, began spraying boric acid on the No. 2 reactor at 2:48 a.m. Japan time to prevent accidental chain reactions, according to an e-mailed statement today. The detection of xenon, which is associated with nuclear fission, was confirmed today by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, the country's atomic regulator said.
Israel Navy tracks new Gaza-bound flotilla --Two ships leave Turkey carrying between 20 to 30 pro-Palestinian activists; IDF says plans to intercept vessels, offer them to dock at Ashdod or port in Egypt. 02 Oct 2011 The Israeli Navy is tracking two ships, believed be part of a new flotilla to Gaza, that departed Wednesday from Turkey headed for the Gaza Strip, according to the IDF spokesperson. The IDF intends to intercept the vessels if they continue on their course.
Eight killed in Iraq motorbike bombings: doctor 02 Nov 2011 Three motorbikes rigged with explosives blew up in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra late on Wednesday, killing at least eight people and wounding at least 22, a doctor and police said. A doctor at Sadr Hospital in Basra said that at least eight people were killed and 22 wounded in the blasts, while a police lieutenant colonel gave the same toll. Basra province police chief General Faisal al-Abadi said that the explosives-laden motorbikes, which were parked in the city centre, had detonated about 8:00 pm (1700 GMT).

U.S. Army soldier arrested on suspicion of espionage --FBI: Case would be tried in military courts 01 Nov 2011 A U.S. Army specialist who was serving as a military policeman has been arrested at an Alaska military base on suspicion of spying, an Army spokesman said on Tuesday. Specialist William Colton Millay, 22, was taken into custody at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on October 28 following a joint espionage investigation by the FBI and Army Counterintelligence special agents, Army spokesman Lt. Col. Bill Coppernoll said. "We do expect to prefer charges sometime this week," Coppernoll told Reuters.

U.S. Soldier Held in Alaska on Suspicion of Spying 02 Nov 2011 A military policeman assigned to a unit in Anchorage, Alaska, was being held Wednesday on suspicion of spying and was expected to face military court charges within days. Spc. William Colton Millay, 22, likely will be charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice by the end of the week, a spokesman for US Army Alaska told the Army Times. Millay, from Owensboro, Ky., is part of a unit known as the Arctic Enforcers. The unit recently returned from a deployment in Afghanistan.
N.Georgia Men Arrested, Charged in Plots to Purchase Explosives, Silencer and to Manufacture a Biological Toxin 01 Nov 2011 Frederick Thomas, 73, of Cleveland, Ga.; Dan Roberts, 67, of Toccoa, Ga.; Ray H. Adams, 65, of Toccoa; and Samuel J. Crump, 68, of Toccoa, were arrested today relating to plans to obtain an unregistered explosive device and silencer and to manufacture the biological toxin ricin for use in attacks against other U.S. citizens and government personnel and officials. U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Sally Quillian Yates said, "These defendants, who are alleged to be part of a fringe militia group, are charged with planning attacks against their own fellow citizens and government."

Ex-cop to be sentenced for Katrina cover-up 02 Nov 2011 Federal prosecutors are seeking leniency [!] for a former police lieutenant who will be sentenced Wednesday for his role in a plot to cover up deadly police shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina. Michael Lohman faces a maximum of five years in prison when a judge sentences him for pleading guilty last year to conspiring to obstruct justice. Prosecutors have urged the judge to impose a five-year sentence but suspend three years so Lohman is released after serving two.
Occupy Oakland awaits police response 02 Nov 2011 Economic inequality is the driving force behind the Occupy Wall Street protests. Oakland has become a flashpoint for the movement following violent clashes between protesters and police. On Wednesday, organizers there called for a general strike. Many in Oakland did stay away from work. The demonstrators call themselves members of the 99-percent and say they reflect a wide cross-section joined by one thing: A call for more economic equality.

GOP pollster makes Herman Cain accusation 02 Nov 2011 A veteran Republican pollster and former National Restaurant Association employee said Wednesday morning that Herman Cain sexually harassed a woman at an Arlington, Va., restaurant in the late 1990s. Chris Wilson, now the principal of an Oklahoma-based GOP consulting firm, said in an interview on Oklahoma City's KTOK radio station that the episode took place in the neighborhood where Cain kept an apartment when he headed the restaurant trade group. "This occurred at a restaurant in Crystal City (Virginia), and everybody was aware of it," Wilson said on the station.

AP: Third worker says Cain harassed her 02 Nov 2011 A third woman considered filing a workplace complaint against Herman Cain over what she deemed aggressive and unwanted behavior when she and Cain, now a Republican presidential candidate, worked together during the late 1990s, the woman told The Associated Press on Wednesday. She said the behavior included a private invitation to his corporate apartment. The woman said he made sexually suggestive remarks or gestures about the same time that two co-workers had settled separate harassment complaints against Cain, who was then the head of the National Restaurant Association.

Herman Cain incorrectly suggests China doesn't have nuclear capability 02 Nov 2011 As allegations of sexual harassment from the 1990's continue to loom over Herman Cain's campaign this week, the GOP frontrunner is also raising eyebrows with his foreign policy remarks. In an interview Monday, Cain said part of China's threat to the United States stems from its attempts to develop nuclear weapons -- even though China tested its first nuclear weapon in 1964. Cain's remarks have in the past raised questions about his foreign policy credentials.

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