Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
26 Sep 2012
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Shah of Iran built nuclear plantsGuess Who's Building Nuclear Power Plants in Iran? Hey, US, those nuclear power plants in Iran? You built that. Posted by Lori Price,
 
www.legitgov.org 26 Sep 2012 Flashback: The US was fine with Iran building nuclear power plants, when a torturing, terrorist regime controlled them. (Photo)
 
 
Iraq, U.S. negotiating agreement for units of American soldiers to return to Iraq 24 Sep 2012 Iraq and the United States are negotiating an agreement that could result in the return of small units of American soldiers to Iraq on 'training' missions. At the request of the Iraqi government [?], according to General Caslen, a unit of Army Special Operations soldiers was recently deployed to Iraq to advise on counterterrorism and help with intelligence.
 
 [LOL, you have to scroll down *15 paragraphs* to get to this nugget, as the New York Times buried the salient point -- as usual.]
 
 
US Special Forces Deployed in Iraq, Again 25 Sep 2012 Despite the official US military withdrawal last December, American special forces "recently" returned to Iraq on a counter-terrorism mission, according to an American general in charge of weapons sales there. The mission was reported by the New York Times, in the fifteenth paragraph [LOL!] of a story about deepening sectarian divides. The irony is that the US is protecting a pro-Iran Shiite regime in Baghdad against a Sunni-based insurgency while at the same time supporting a Sunni-led movement against the Iran-backed dictatorship in Syria.
 
 
America's deadly double-tap drone attacks are 'killing 49 people for every known terrorist in Pakistan' 25 Sep 2012 Just one in 50 victims of America's deadly drone strikes in Pakistan are terrorists - while the rest are innocent civilians, a new report claimed today. The authoritative joint study, by Stanford and New York Universities, concludes that men, women and children are being terrorised by the operations '24 hours-a-day'. And the authors lay much of the blame on the use of the 'double-tap' strike where a drone fires one missile - and then a second as rescuers try to drag victims from the rubble. One aid agency said they had a six-hour delay before going to the scene.
 
US Marines face courts martial over urinating on three bloodied corpses --Marines also charged with dereliction of duty for number of other command failures 24 Sep 2012 Two US Marines will face trial by courts martial for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and posing for photographs with them. The charges against Staff Sergeants Joseph Chamblin and Edward Deptola come a month after three other Marines were sanctioned administratively for their role in the July 27, 2011 incident in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. A videotape that surfaced on the internet in January showed four US troops urinating on three bloodied corpses, and one of the men, apparently aware he was being filmed, saying: "Have a great day, buddy," to one of the dead. [They don't 'hate us for our freedoms.' They hate us because we're sociopaths.]
 
Obama uses UN speech to threaten war against Iran 26 Sep 2012 President Barack Obama postured before the United Nations Tuesday as the champion of peace and democracy, while threatening war against Iran and demanding a crackdown against the wave of anti-US demonstrations that have swept the Middle East...Obama declared these events "an assault on the very ideals upon which the United Nations was founded—the notion that people can resolve their differences peacefully; that diplomacy can take the place of war"...
 
What insolence! After a decade of US wars that have claimed the lives of over a million Iraqis and Afghans, the US president is the last person to lecture the people of the Middle East on how to "resolve their differences peacefully" and the advantages of diplomacy over war.
 
 
Democratic Rep. to White House: Search, social networks should be exempt from cyber order 24 Sep 2012 Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) on Monday urged the White House's top cybersecurity official to ensure that social networking, search engines and e-commerce networks are exempt from any security standards included in a cybersecurity executive order. Instead, Lofgren argued that these standards should only apply to companies that operate critical infrastructure and otherwise "could cause major economic disruption, the loss of thousands of lives, or severe degradation of national security" if disrupted. Her concerns are similar to those voiced by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) in a letter sent to White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel earlier this month.
 
 
Tobacco giant Philip Morris plans plant flu vaccine for China --Plant in North Carolina built with *21 million in funding from U.S. Defence Department managed to produce 10-million doses of flu vaccine in recent 'rapid-fire' trial 25 Sep 2012 A Canadian company has joined forces with cigarette giant Philip Morris in an unusual project to sell flu vaccine to the huge Chinese market, a potentially major step forward for the controversial science of producing medicines in plants. Medicago Inc. said Tuesday it is licensing its system for making vaccine in tobacco to Philip Morris Products SA, which will develop, test and, it hopes, market the products in China, where it already sells a much different item - Marlboro cigarettes. A vaccine against the H5N1 bird flu – which first raised concerns about a pandemic – could be on the market by 2013, a seasonal flu vaccine a few years after that, said Andy Sheldon, Medicago's chief executive.
 
[Obusha and RMoney plan to slash Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid -- but yet, there's *21 million available to give to cancer pimps Philip Morris to manufacture deadly vaccines for China? Start reading.]
 
 
Ontario confirms H1N1 flu infection 25 Sep 2012 A Canadian man in southwestern Ontario has been confirmed to have the H1N1 virus, or so-called swine flu, provincial health officials said Tuesday. The unidentified man was being treated at an undisclosed southwestern Ontario hospital, Ontario's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Arlene King, said in a statement.
 
UK alert over Sars copycat virus as man fights for his life in London hospital --Patient held in quarantine in London hospital after infected by 'new' strain --He was allowed to fly into the UK on private jet to private hospital but was only diagnosed with the virus once he had entered the country 24 Sep 2012 A man is fighting for his life in a British hospital after being struck down by a virus similar to Sars. The 49-year-old, who was born in Qatar but is believed to have been living in Britain, caught the illness in Saudi Arabia. Scientists have likened the infection to Sars, which claimed 900 lives worldwide between 2002 and 2003.
 
 
Spain prepares more austerity, protesters battle police 26 Sep 2012 Protesters clashed with police in Spain's capital on Tuesday as the government prepared a new round of unpopular austerity measures for the 2013 budget to be announced on Thursday. Thousands gathered in Neptune plaza, a few meters from El Prado museum in central Madrid, where they formed a human chain around parliament, surrounded by barricades, police trucks and more than 1,500 police in riot gear. Police fired rubber bullets and beat protesters with truncheons, first as protesters were trying to tear down barriers and later to clear the square.
 
Thousands protest austerity measures in Greece 26 Sep 2012 Thousands of Greeks took to the streets Wednesday to protest new austerity measures that critics described as draconian...The protests -- the first general strike since Greece's new coalition government was formed in June -- come amid the nation's struggling economy and soaring debt.
 
Greece austerity protests turn violent - video 10 Feb 2012 Police in Athens use teargas against protesters after demonstrations against EU-imposed austerity measures turned violent on Friday. The protests came after the government agreed on a 109bn pound rescue package with the EU, ECB and the IMF on Thursday. The agreement was blocked on Friday by the far-right government coalition party LAOS.
 
Murdoch paper hacking plot trial set for next year --All 13 suspects heard proposed date for their trial set for Sept. 9, 2013 26 Sep 2012 Two former editors of Rupert Murdoch-owned newspapers who had close ties to British Prime Minister David Cameron will face trial late next year at the earliest on charges related to alleged phone-hacking, a court heard on Wednesday. Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson were among 13 suspects who appeared in court, accused either of conspiring to intercept the voicemail messages of more than 600 people or hindering the police investigation into those claims. The hearing - at London's Central Criminal Court, known as the Old Bailey - only dealt with administrative matters, not the substance of the allegations.
 
Voter suppression laws may disenfranchise 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens: study --Republican-led state legislatures passed most of new laws after 2010 election victories 23 Sep 2012 New voter suppression laws in 23 of the 50 states could keep more than 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens from registering and voting, a new study said on Sunday, a number so large it could affect the outcome of the November 6 election. The new laws include purges of people suspected of not being citizens in 16 states that unfairly target Latinos, the civil rights group Advancement Project said in the study to be formally released on Monday. Laws in effect in one state and pending in two others require proof of citizenship for voter registration.