News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government

News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government

18 May 2012

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Lawyers Guild claims NATO activists 'disappeared' without warrant or charges --'Essentially these people were disappeared for more than 12 hours until we could finally locate them.' 18 May 2012 According to an interview with National Lawyers Guild (NLG) spokesman Kris Hermes, Chicago police officers raided a Bridgeport apartment complex on Wednesday evening without a valid warrant and detained up to nine people without cause. The NLG worked through the night to locate the arrested activists. They were unable to get any information from the Chicago Police Department (CPD) or even any acknowledgement that a raid had taken place.

Fighter Jets In Skies Over Chicago On Friday Morning Before NATO Summit --Military jets have been authorized to shoot down any aircraft that violates secure airspace over Chicago. 17 May 2012 U.S. fighter jets will be actively flying over Chicago on Friday as part of a security drill in the days before the NATO Summit. The U.S. North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command Region fighters–including Air Force KC-135 tankers, Air Force F-16s, and a Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopters–will be visible on Friday morning, beginning around 9 a.m. Residents in the Chicago area can expect flights to continue for approximately two hours.

Protesters March to Obama Campaign HQ, NATO Member Consulates 17 May 2012 Dozens of anti-NATO activists focused their attention Thursday on President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters and a handful of downtown consulates for NATO member nations. CBS 2 reports it has been a busy day around the Prudential Building, the site of Obama's re-election campaign headquarters. As has been the case all week, protesters touched on a variety of subjects, calling for an end to military drone strikes and oil pipelines in Alaska and Canada.

Authorities: Nuclear engineer sought 'thrill' in DuPage hijacking 11 May 2012 (IL) A man who operates reactors at a nuclear power plant was "thrill seeking" when he put on a mask and hijacked a woman's car at gunpoint, DuPage County authorities said Friday. Michael Buhrman, a senior reactor operator at Dresden Nuclear Power Plant in Morris, was charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking. Authorities said the 31-year-old Coal City man was armed with a loaded .45 caliber handgun and wearing a Halloween mask that resembled an elderly man when he approached a woman about 10 p.m. Wednesday in a Kohl's parking lot in Woodridge.

Nuclear power regulators call for fewer immediate evacuations in an accident 17 May 2012 The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the nation's nuclear power regulators quietly overhauled community emergency planning for nuclear accidents for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away. The revamp is the first since the program began as a result of the Three Mile Island accident, the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history. The revisions also eliminate a requirement that local responders always practice for a release of radiation. Eric Epstein, head of the watchdog group Three Mile Island Alert, called the new rules "insane."

AP: Evacuations and drills pared near nuclear plants 16 May 2012 Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away. Nuclear watchdogs voiced surprise and dismay over the quietly adopted revamp — the first since the program began after Three Mile Island in 1979. A mandate that local responders always run practice exercises for a radiation release has been eliminated — a move viewed as downright bizarre by some emergency planners.

United States Enrichment Corp., bailed out once, seeks more federal money for new project --USEC's supporters in Congress have inserted language in versions of three different spending bills that would provide as much as $150 million. 16 May 2012 The troubled [corpora-terrorists] United States Enrichment Corp., on the brink of closing a Kentucky enrichment plant, has been bailed out in a complex Energy Department accord designed to keep that facility open one more year. But USEC, a Bethesda-based firm that provides fuel for nuclear power reactors, is seeking more federal money to carry out research and development for the American Centrifuge Project, a more efficient enrichment plant in Ohio that the company calls vital to its future.

Wisconsin Dems furious with DNC for refusing to invest big money in Walker recall By Greg Sargent 14 May 2012 Top Wisconsin Democrats are furious with the national party - and the Democratic National Committee in particular - for refusing their request for a major investment in the battle to recall Scott Walker, I'm told. The failure to put up the money Wisconsin Dems need to execute their recall plan comes at a time when the national Republican Party is sinking big money into defending Walker, raising fears that the DNC's reluctance could help tip the race his way... Obama's political operation is providing volunteers with info on how to get involved in the recall battle and how to register to vote, but isn't investing any money in the race, according to officials. [That's because Obusha works 24/7 for the GOP and his Wall Street overlords.]

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