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• Tracking Trump’s promises – CNN.com
• Steve Bannon’s role in inner circle of Trump team raises fears of security crisis | US news | The Guardian
• Steve Bannon: Donald Trump’s top adviser thinks World War 3 is brewing
• Why Trump’s Week of Chaos May Suit Steve Bannon’s Bigger Plans | Alternet
• Steve Bannon Is Making Sure There’s No White House Paper Trail, Says Intel Source | Foreign Policy
• Steve Bannon in 2010: ‘Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission’ – CNNPolitics.com
• How Long Can Trump Tolerate the ‘President Bannon’ Headlines?
• Trump: I don’t watch ‘fake news’ CNN – Business Insider
• Steve Bannon Builds a New Node of Power in the Trump White House – The Daily Beast
• What Unearthed Radio Recordings Tell Us About Steve Bannon’s Worldview – ABC News
• Report: White House Will No Longer Send Aides On Air At CNN
• Dem offers bill to remove Bannon from National Security Council | TheHill
• Democrats ask Pentagon to explain 2015 payment Flynn received from Russia – The Washington Post
• Trump and Bannon’s coup in the making (Opinion) – CNN.com
• Man who claimed mom died in Iraq after Trump’s ban lied, Imam confirms | WJBK
• Standing Rock: Dakota Access battle brews as US veterans, Sioux dig in
• Marco Rubio on Twitter: “Many Democratic colleagues tell me they have heavy pressure from left wing radicals to oppose everything even before they know what it is”
• The Associated Press on Twitter: “BREAKING: Senate Judiciary Committee approves nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama to be attorney general.”
• First Lady Melania Trump May Never Move Into the White House – Us Weekly
• Rep. Gabbard says she’ll pay for Syria trip after outcry | Fox News
• Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard meets with Trump – CNNPolitics.com
• Pelosi on Gorsuch: ‘If You Breathe Air, Drink Water, Eat Food, Take Medicine,’ He’s ‘Bad’ :: Grabien – The Multimedia Marketplace
• White House claims five-year-old boy detained in US airport for hours ‘could have posed a security threat’ | The Independent
• Detroit family caught in Iraq travel ban, says mom died waiting to come home | WJBK
• FOX News Channel marks ratings milestone | Fox News
• Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy for the FBI to Spy on Journalists
• President Bannon? – The New York Times
• New Day on Twitter: “Former Obama adviser calls Trump decision on Nat Sec panel “stone cold crazy” https://t.co/SRYqpWQsCQ @jimsciutto https://t.co/luA9tRed8P”
• Trump and Saudi King Agree to More Military Intervention, Collaboration, Aggression Against Iran | Alternet
• Trump Orders The Cyber To Be Fixed In The Next Sixty Days | Techdirt
• Google employees staged a protest over Trump’s immigration ban – The Verge
• Dear Democrats, Please Stop Protesting on Behalf of Insane Billionaires and Globalist Corporations – Medium
• Leaked Hillary Clinton emails show U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar supported ISIS – Salon.com
• White Women Voted Trump. Now What? – The New York Times
• Recreational Marijuana becomes Legal in Maine TODAY : trees
• Obama, in a rare move for an ex-president, breaks silence to criticize Trump on immigration – The Washington Post
• U.S. attorney general will not defend Trump’s travel ban in court
• Charlie Kirk on Twitter: “Remember, Democrats gave a STANDING OVATION to the idea of building a wall, & deporting illegals committing crimes. Listen to Clinton! https://t.co/SUGejqowwX”
• A ‘rogue’ group of staffers is tweeting secrets from the White House – BGR
• BarryThomas Goldberg on Twitter: “No matter what #SeanSpicer spins this is a pic of a family in handcuffs at an airport. A child in cuffs? #morningjoe https://t.co/wq3ERfqRL9”
• Josh Rogin on Twitter: “I’m told reliably there is a draft Executive order on LGBT issues including adoption. Details and timing unclear.”
• The Trump camp is using the attack on a Quebec mosque to prop up its Muslim ban
• Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.
• State Department dissent memo: ‘We are better than this ban’ – The Washington Post
• Donald Trump’s first US military raid ‘kills 30 civilians, including 10 women and children’ | The Independent
• Morning Joe blames ‘very young’ Trump advisor for travel ban disaster: ‘This weekend was a disgrace’
• Washington Times – Politics, Breaking News, US and World News
• The Persuasion Filter and Immigration | Scott Adams’ Blog
• Travelers Stranded and Protests Swell Over Trump Order – NYTimes.com
• Evan McMullin on Twitter: “I fought terrorists for 10 years with CIA. The threat is serious, but Trump is distorting it for political purposes. https://t.co/062RiQeCnZ”
• A Shakeup in Russia’s Top Cybercrime Unit — Krebs on Security
• The Canadian Option | Scott Adams’ Blog
• Trump defends his controversial ‘Muslim ban’ on Twitter | Daily Mail Online
• U.S. judges limit Trump immigration order; some officials ignore rulings
• News from The Associated Press
• Trump and Putin have first official phone conversation amid European anxiety about future relations – LA Times
• Canada’s Trudeau welcomes refugees; U.S.-bound passengers turned away | Reuters
• Trump’s orders expand power of immigration officers – CNNPolitics.com
• 2017-01-27-JEC-to-Comey-FBI-Datto-Emails-due-2-10.pdf
• US State Department’s entire senior management team quits as Secretary Rex Tillerson takes up post | The Independent
• The State Department’s entire senior administrative team just resigned – The Washington Post
• Trump’s most senior staff use a private email server

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Vice President Joe Biden exposes the wests partners roles in the creation of ISIS during a speech, and the White House is in full damage control mode. Plus the boots on the ground narrative is building with pressure to deploy the troops.

And we discuss the excessive violations of law enforcement in just recent weeks, and the desperate attempt to make cannabis soda a deadly killer.

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Obama staffing up to prepare for the next two years

A model was his recent appointment of retired Gen. John Allen as special envoy for Iraq and Syria. More such top-level hires may be coming in an effort to widen the administration’s bandwidth. ‘We are aware that the next two years will be transformative in the Middle East, the Iran relationship and Asia,’ says a senior White House official.

ABC News ‘World News Tonight with David Muir’ ranks #1 in total viewers, adults 25-54 and adults 18-49 for the first time since 2008

The show “scored an across-the-board win in Total Viewers (8.416 million), Adults 25-54 (2.204 million) and Adults 18-49 (1.528 million), for the week of September 29 … This marked the first time in more than 6 ½ years that ‘World News Tonight’ won the week in all three key demos … Additionally, ‘World News Tonight’ snapped ‘NBC Nightly News’’ 263-week Total Viewer winning streak [back to Sept. ’09].

Dallas Ebola Patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, Dies – NYTimes.com

Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, the patient with the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States and the Liberian man at the center of a widening public health scare, died in isolation at a hospital here on Wednesday, hospital authorities said.

Mr. Duncan died at 7:51 a.m. at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, more than a week after the virus was detected in him on Sept. 30.

ISIS Update

Fighting ISIS: $1.1bn already spent, ‘30 years of war’ to come

The fight against IS may take quite a long time, according former
Pentagon chief Leon Panetta, who said “we’re looking at kind
of a 30-year war” in an interview with USA Today.

“It’s going to take a long time to go after these elements,” he said.

Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Orwellian War in Iraq: We Created the Very Threat We Claim to be Fighting

To talk more about the crisis in the Middle East, we’re joined by Jeremy Scahill, who first reported from inside Iraq before the 2003 U.S. invasion. He’s co-founder of the TheIntercept.org and author of the book Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield. The paperback version of the book has just been published.

US ends ban on ‘domestic propaganda’ — RT USA

The Smith-Mundt Act has ensured for decades that government-made media intended for foreign audiences doesn’t end up on radio networks broadcast within the US. An amendment tagged onto the National Defense Authorization Act removed that prohibition this year

The longstanding federal law made it illegal for the US Department of State to share domestically the internally-authored news stories sent to American-operated
outlets broadcasting around the globe. All of that changed effective July 2, when the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) was given permission to let US households tune-in to hear the
type of programming that has previously only been allowed in outside nations.

Ebola

Here are some things that have killed Americans since the first reported case of US ebola (https://t.co/VTonqHu3Cm) pic.twitter.com/7603NWapqI

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Marijuana soda explodes at Bellingham pot shop – AP State – MyNorthwest.com

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In the live run up to Obama’s sales pitch to the nation to go back into Iraq, we analysis the recent developments of ISIS, and dispel common memes being pushed out by the media. Then cover Obama’s speech in real time with our commentary.

Plus new leaks from the CIA Torture report suggest the scope of waterboarding and other tactics by the CIA were much more brutal than the public has been lead to believe.

Then we end on a surprising high note, and in-depth discussion.

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CIA Torture Report

CIA ‘tortured al-Qaeda suspects close to the point of death by drowning them in water-filled baths’ – Telegraph

As the US Senate prepares to release a report documenting US
torture programme after 9/11, Telegraph reveals new details about the scope
of CIA excesses

“They weren’t just pouring water over their heads or over a cloth,” said the source who has first-hand knowledge of the period. “They were holding them under water until the point of death, with a doctor present to make sure they did not go too far. This was real torture.”

The account of extreme CIA interrogation comes as the US Senate prepares to publish a declassified version of its so-called Torture Report – a 3,600-page report document based on a review of several million classified CIA documents.

Publication of the report is currently being held up by a dispute over how much of the 480-page public summary should remain classified, but it is expected to be published within weeks.

Snowden

• Switzerland will host Edward Snowden, if he testifies against the NSA- The Inquirer

The Swiss attorney general has said that whistleblower Edward Snowden can reside there if he responds to state requests for testimony against the US National Security Agency (NSA).

A document provided to the Swiss Sunday newspaper Sonntagszeitung is titled, “What are the rules would apply to consider when Edward Snowden would [be] brought to Switzerland and then the United States would make a request for extradition“, and it relates that the rules would allow the movement and repel the requests.

Speaking to the newspaper, Snowden’s Swiss lawyer Marcel Bosonnet revealed that he is pleased with the results of the study, commenting that, “The legal requirements for safety are met.”

ISIS

• CNN poll: Majority of Americans alarmed by ISIS – CNN.com

Seven in 10 Americans believe ISIS has the resources to launch an attack against the United States, just days before President Barack Obama plans to address the nation on the subject.

The poll released Monday shows that Americans favor:

— Additional airstrikes against ISIS (76% favor, 23% oppose)

— Military aid to forces fighting ISIS (62% favor, 37% oppose)

— Providing humanitarian aid to people fleeing ISIS (83% favor, 16% oppose)

U.S. targets ISIS fighters near Iraq’s second-largest dam

But a majority of Americans, 61%-38%, oppose placing U.S. soldiers on the ground in Iraq and Syria to combat the terrorist group.

Even as Americans support military action against ISIS, they still want Obama to seek authority from Congress before taking any action. More than 7 in 10 Americans think Obama should ask Congress for the ability to strike ISIS militarily. And 8 in 10 Americans support Congress approving military force against ISIS.

• Straw Poll

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Washington’s indoor pot grows could be big power suck – Local – MyNorthwest.com

“You’re installing 1,000 watt lights over about every two plants and running those 16 to 18 hours a day to grow the product over a 10, 12, 14 week cycle. It’s a pretty significant consumption of electricity.”

The council studied a number of growers across the state earlier this summer after they were granted licenses by the Washington State Liquor Control Board. It determined demand for electricity could grow between 60 and 160 average megawatts over the next few years.

“That’s significant,” Eckman says. “That’s about half of the size of a new combustion turbine gas generating plant.”

• Pot producers add demand on Northwest power grid | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News

Since Washington voters in 2012 approved an initiative to legalize recreational pot use by adults, the state Liquor Control Board has so far issued more than 200 licenses to marijuana growers out of about 2,500 who have applied.

• Recreational pot eclipses medical pot in Colorado – National – MyNorthwest.com

Colorado is now selling more recreational pot than medical pot, a turning point for the newly legal industry.

Tax records released by the state Department of Revenue on Wednesday showed that the state sold $29.7 million worth of recreational marijuana in July, the most recent data available. That was slightly higher than the $28.9 million worth of medical marijuana sold in the same month.

Colorado has many more medical pot shops than recreational pot shops, which are open to all 21 and over. Colorado has some 500 medical shops, fewer than 200 open to all adults.

Since January, Colorado has reaped more than $37 million in taxes from marijuana. That figure includes taxes, licenses and fees from both medical and recreational pot.

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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday proposed shrinking the Army to its smallest size in 74 years, closing bases and reshaping forces to confront future threats like cyberwarfare. Old special interests are digging in and fighting back with everything they’ve got. But how deep are the cuts? And is there really any reduction in spending? We’ll dig in.

Plus: The NSA doubles down in Germany, an update on the Ukraine, and much much more.

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NSA is Crazy

• Obama Administration Seeks to Hold NSA Phone Records Longer – WSJ.com

The Obama administration has asked a special court for approval to hold onto National Security Agency phone records for a longer period–an unintended consequence of lawsuits seeking to stop the phone-surveillance program.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Justice Department was considering such a move, which would end up expanding the controversial phone records database by not deleting older call records.

Under the current system, the database is purged of phone records more than five years old. The Justice Department, in a filing made public Wednesday, said it needs to hold onto the older records as evidence in lawsuits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and others.

Under the proposal made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the older data would continue to be held, but NSA analysts would not be allowed to search it.

After having stopped spying on Merkel, the NSA is now focusing on German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière and other confidants (google translate)

• How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations – The Intercept

These agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself.

Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.

Other tactics aimed at individuals are listed here, under the revealing title “discredit a target”:

Then there are the tactics used to destroy companies the agency targets:

GCHQ describes the purpose of JTRIG in starkly clear terms: “using online techniques to make something happen in the real or cyber world,” including “information ops (influence or disruption).”

• Reddit Censors Big Story About Government Manipulation and Disruption of the Internet Washington’s Blog

The moderators at the giant r/news reddit (with over 2 million subscribed readers) repeatedly killed the Greenwald/Snowden story on government manipulation and disruption of the Internet … widely acknowledged to be one of the most important stories ever leaked by Snowden.

Similarly, the moderators at the even bigger r/worldnews reddit (over 5 million subscribers) repeatedly deleted the story, so that each new post had to start over at zero.

• Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying

Under current plans, a joint venture between Brazilian telecoms provider Telebras and Spain’s IslaLink Submarine Cables would lay the communications link. Telebras would have a 35 percent stake, IslaLink would have a 45 percent interest and European and Brazilian pension funds could put up the remainder.

• Brazil, EU to circumvent NSA spying with undersea cable – YouTube

Brazil and the European Union are joining forces against the National Security Agency and spying by the United States. Brazil and the EU announced they will build an undersea communications cable to connect the two areas and to reduce the reliance on cables going through the US. The proposed $185 million cable would stretch from Fortaleza, Brazil to Lisbon, Portugal.

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Shrinking the Beast

• Hagel says US military must shrink to face new era – The Washington Post

In a speech at the one-year mark of his tenure as Pentagon chief, Hagel revealed many details of the defense spending plan that will be part of the 2015 budget that President Barack Obama will submit to Congress next week. Hagel described it as the first Pentagon budget to fully reflect the nation’s transition from 13 years of wa

• Defense.gov News Article: Hagel Outlines Budget Reducing Troop Strength, Force Structure

Some of that risk, Hagel said, is associated with a sharp drawdown in the size of the Army, which the proposed budget calls for reducing to as low as 440,000 active duty soldiers from the current size of 520,000, while ensuring the force remains well trained and equipped.

The cuts assume the United States no longer becomes involved in large, prolonged stability operations overseas on the scale of Iraq and Afghanistan. “An Army of this size is larger than required to meet the demands of our defense strategy,” Hagel said. “It is also larger than we can afford to modernize and keep ready.”

• Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in Feb 2011: Defending US defense spending Cuts

“It is my judgment that the Department of Defense needs an appropriation of at least $540 billion for FY2011 for US military to properly carry out its mission, maintain readiness and prepare for the future,” said Gates, who also discussed cuts he’s made to the military budget, on programs no longer needed.
However, what is not widely known is that most of the $78 billion he’s cut would not take place until 2014 and 2015, when there will be a new secretary of defense and possibly a new president.

• Pentagon proposes to shrink US Army to pre-WWII level – YouTube

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recommended Monday that U.S. troops be reduced levels not seen since prior to World War II. In a news conference at the Pentago.

• Proposed defense budget cuts would ground A–10 fleet – YouTube

The future of the A–10s is up in the air again after Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel outlined Monday massive proposed cuts to the military.

• Cheney Bashes Food Stamps In Pro-Military Rant, Forgetting Military Families Rely On Them

In the first half of fiscal 2013, however, those eligible to shop in military commissaries – which include disabled veterans and others with military identification – cashed in nearly $53 million in food stamps, according to data provided to The Huffington Post by the Defense Commissary Agency. In 2011, more than 5,000 “active duty military” relied on the government aid.

A September report by nonprofit think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated that at least 900,000 veterans received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program assistance, or food stamps, each month.

• President Obama Is Fighting Cuts to the Military, Not Demanding Them

You might disagree with Obama’s priorities, but Cheney’s claim is based entirely on the notion that Hagel and Obama are proposing military cuts. But they aren’t. Hagel proposed a change in force structure that would lead to a smaller Army, but his overall budget proposal is $115 billion more than the current sequester levels demanded by Republicans

• Army Gives Out $500,000 Armored Trucks for Free – YouTube

The U.S. Army is giving away 13,000 armored trucks, worth about $500,000 each. The 20-ton MRAPs, or Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected trucks, were built specifically to save U.S. soldiers from roadside bombs in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Now the trucks are patrolling U.S. city streets. U.S. law enforcement agencies have received the lion’s share of this high-powered military surplus. (Source: Bloomberg)

• Obama assessing four alternatives to NSA phone data collection: WSJ | The Verge

One proposal would be to put phone metadata collection under the purview of US telecommunications companies. Under this option, the NSA would inform the companies of when it needs to search their databases for terrorism-related investigations, and the phone companies would return only the results of those searches, rather than data on consumers unrelated to the investigations.

A second proposal would see a different federal agency hold the data — the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), for instance — and a third would place them under the control of a third entity that’s neither a federal agency nor a telecom company.

The final proposal would abolish the data collection program altogether, an option that Obama in January said would require more work “to determine exactly how this system might work.”

• List of countries by military expenditures – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is a list of countries by military expenditure, the amount spent by a nation on its military in a given year.

• U.S. defense spending compared to other countries | pgpf.org

We currently spend more on defense than the next 10 countries combined. Defense spending accounts for about 20 percent of all federal spending — nearly as much as Social Security, or the combined spending for Medicare and Medicaid.

• Video: The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight

Mike Lofgren, a former GOP congressional staff member with the powerful House and Senate Budget Committees, joins Bill to talk about what he calls the Deep State, a hybrid of corporate America and the national security state, which is “out of control” and “unconstrained.” In it, Lofgren says, elected and unelected figures collude to protect and serve powerful vested interests.

Ukraine mayhem

• BBC News – Ukraine crisis: Yatsenyuk is PM-designate, Kiev Maidan told

The Maidan council named Arseniy Yatsenyuk to become prime minister. The cabinet – to be voted on by MPs on Thursday – includes leading activists.

The US has offered Ukraine’s struggling economy – which faces default – loan guarantees of up to $1bn (£600m).

Meanwhile, Mr Yanukovych has been put on the international wanted list.

The fugitive president – whose whereabouts are unclear – is accused of being behind last week’s deaths of more than 100 protesters at the hands of riot police in and around the Maidan.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington planned to offer Ukraine the loan guarantees to help stabilise the country’s economy.

Mr Kerry also warned Russia it would be a “grave mistake” to embark on any military intervention in Ukraine.

• Russia flexes military muscle as tensions rise in Ukraine’s Crimea

Russia ordered surprise military exercises on Ukraine’s doorstep Wednesday as tensions in that country’s southern Crimea region simmered, with pro-Russian demonstrators facing off against rival protesters in the city of Simferopol.

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The United States of America is licking her wounds from another self-inflicted crisis. While lawmakers pretend to save the day with a last minute deal, we’ll discuss the big picture and ask if real long term damage has been done.

Then: 7 High Ranking Military Officers have been Fired By Obama, a first in US History. One thing they all have in common is their combat roles. We’ll dig into the conspiracy bacon exploding all over the net.

Plus our follow up, your feedback, and much much more.

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NSA is CRAZY

• WikiLeaks releases video of Snowden in Moscow – YouTube

Video of NSA leaker Edward Snowden surfaced late Friday. Snowden was last seen on video back in June, when he appears on camera for The Guardian discussing the reasons for releasing the details of the NSA’s surveillance programs. Since then, Snowden received asylum in Russia and just recently was awarded the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence award.

• NSA Collects Email Contact Lists, Instant Messaging Chat Buddy Lists From Overseas With No Oversight At All | Techdirt

The Washington Post is out with the latest revelations from the Snowden leaks and it shows that the NSA relies on foreign telcos and “allied” intelligence agencies to scoop up data on email contact lists and instant messaging buddy lists to help build its giant database of connections.

And here’s the big problem: because all of this information is collected overseas, rather than at home, it’s not subject to “oversight” (and I use that term loosely) by the FISA court or Congress. Those two only cover oversight for domestic intelligence. The fact that the NSA can scoop up all this data overseas is just a bonus.

• Even Senate Intelligence Committee Admits That NSA Oversight Is Often A Game Of 20 Questions | Techdirt

The latest revelations about the NSA’s collection of buddy lists and email address books pointed out that those issues weren’t covered by Congressional oversight, since they happened overseas. When the Washington Post questions Feinstein’s office about this, a senior staffer seemed unconcerned, mentioning that perhaps they should be asking questions about it

• Snowden leaks: David Cameron urges committee to investigate Guardian | World news | theguardian.com

David Cameron has encouraged a Commons select committee to investigate whether the Guardian has broken the law or damaged national security by publishing secrets leaked by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.

• Glenn Greenwald Leaves the Guardian To Start His Own Site

“Glenn Greenwald, the thorn in the proverbial back of NSA and its colonial cousin GCHQ is leaving the Guardian to start his own news organization. Greenwald said ‘My partnership with the Guardian has been extremely fruitful and fulfilling: I have high regard for the editors and journalists with whom I worked and am incredibly proud of what we achieved. The decision to leave was not an easy one, but I was presented with a once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity that no journalist could possibly decline. Because this news leaked before we were prepared to announce it, I’m not yet able to provide any details of this momentous new venture, but it will be unveiled very shortly.’”

• Jeremy Scahill, Laura Poitras Teaming Up With Glenn Greenwald On New Media Venture

Journalists Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras will be working with Glenn Greenwald on a new media venture funded by billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, according to sources familiar with the matter.

• Pierre Omidyar – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. Established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, the organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic, social, and political change. To date, Omidyar Network has committed more than $270 million to for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across multiple investment areas, including property rights, government transparency, and social media.

• U.S. eavesdropping agency chief, top deputy expected to depart soon | Reuters

Army General Keith Alexander’s eight-year tenure was rocked this year by revelations contained in documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden about the agency’s widespread scooping up of telephone, email and social-media data.

Alexander has formalized plans to leave by next March or April, while his civilian deputy, John “Chris” Inglis, is due to retire by year’s end, according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

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• Report: Pundits Who Urged Strikes on Syria Failed to Disclose Ties to Military Industry | Democracy Now!

The report identifies 22 commentators with industry ties that suggest a financial interest in war. While they appeared on television or were quoted as experts 111 times, their links to military firms were disclosed only 13 of those times.

• Conflicts of interest in the Syria debate | Public Accountability Initiative

The following report documents the industry ties of Hadley, 21 other media commentators, and seven think tanks that participated in the media debate around Syria. Like Hadley, these individuals and organizations have strong ties to defense contractors and other defense- and foreign policy-focused firms with a vested interest in the Syria debate, but they were presented to their audiences with a veneer of expertise and independence, as former military officials, retired diplomats, and independent think tanks.

Shutdown Showdown

• Senate Leaders’ Agreement Extends Debt Limit to Feb. 7 but House Fate Murky – ABC News

Senate leaders have reached an agreement on a compromise that would fund the government until Jan. 15 and extend the debt limit until Feb. 7.

• Sen. Cruz: Senate budget deal provides ‘no relief’ | Fox News Video

• Pete King calls for a Republican war on Ted Cruz

“I think it’s important for people in the Republican Party around the country not to just come in at the end and say, ‘Congress was dysfunctional,’ or ‘Congress screwed up.’ That’s too easy to do,” King said. “Say who it was. Because it wasn’t Congress. It was one person who was able to steamroll Congress and unless we target him for what he is, he’s going to do it again. So I’m hoping other Republicans will join me and start going after this guy, and say we’re not going to let it happen again.”

• John McCain: This Has Been ‘One of the More Shameful Chapters’ in the Senate’s History | Mediaite

John McCain is clearly glad to have this government shutdown mess behind him, going on the Senate floor today shortly after the bipartisan deal was announced to say the past few weeks have been “one of the more shameful chapters” of the Senate’s history.

• Ted Cruz’s Hometown Newspaper Regrets Endorsement – ABC News

Sen. Ted Cruz’ hometown newspaper, the Houston Chronicle, wishes it could take back its endorsement.

The Chronicle’s editorial board, which endorsed Cruz, R-Texas, in his 2012 race, now says it misses his predecessor, former Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.

“When we endorsed Ted Cruz in last November’s general election, we did so with many reservations and at least one specific recommendation – that he follow Hutchison’s example in his conduct as a senator,” The Chronicle said. "Obviously, he has not done so.

“Cruz has been part of the problem in specific situations where Hutchison would have been part of the solution,” the board added.

• ABC’s Jon Karl to Carney on Senate Deal: ‘Is There a Little Bit of Ransom Paid?’ | Mediaite

“Is there a little bit of ransom paid? I mean, there is a provision in here that requires verification for recipients of subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.”

Obama’s Curious Purge Of The Military

• Top nuclear missile commanders fired – The Lead with Jake Tapper – CNN.com Blogs

But Major General Michael Carey and Vice Admiral Tim Giardina (fired amidst rumors of misbehavior involving alcohol and gambling) are just the latest in a recent rash of firings in the military’s top ranks.

• 7 High Ranking Military Officers Fired By Obama, 1st Time In US History; Are These the Ones That Wont Cooperate With The Impending Martial Law In The US?

Are these the men standing between us and martial law? They have been fired over various things ranging from sexual harassment to lack of trust. One thing they all have in common is their combat roles. They were all commanders of combat units.

• Obama’s Military Purge Continues With Sacking Of Two Nuclear Commanders

The firing of two nuclear commanders in a week adds to a body count that suggests we have either the most corrupt and incompetent general staff in history or our military is being reshaped for other purposes.

Oh no… GMO?

• State attorney general files suit against GMA for violation of disclosure law

SEATTLE — Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Wednesday that his office is filing a suit against the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) for violation of the state’s campaign disclosure law.

Ferguson alleges the GMA skirted the rules in its $7.2 million contribution to the "No on 522″ campaign and that the association illegally collected and spent the monies while shielding the identify of its contributors.

“When Washington state voters overwhelming approved Initiative 276 in 1972, they voiced their desire for transparency and openness in elections,” Ferguson said. “Truly fair elections demand all sides follow the rules by disclosing who their donors are and how much they are spending to advocate their views.”

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