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Obama calls out encryption in terror strategy speech

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“United States President Barack Obama has given just his third Address to the Nation from behind his desk at the Oval Office, to deliver a speech in which he all-but-called-on the technology industry to allow access to encrypted communications.  Future actions, Obama said, will include an attempt to ‘urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice.’  The sentence isn’t explained, but seems a clear reference to the technology industry’s argument that encryption is essential for everyday life and therefore ought not to be equipped with back doors for government use.”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/07/obama_encryption_policy_change_in_terror_response_speech/

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Trump doesn’t want ISIS “using our Internet”

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“A week after saying the US should disrupt the Islamic terrorist group ISIS’ online recruiting by ‘closing that Internet up in some way,’ Donald Trump was given a chance to clarify what he meant at last night’s GOP debate. ‘You talk freedom of speech. You talk freedom of anything you want. I don’t want them using our Internet to take our young, impressionable youth,’ Trump said at the debate. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) criticized Trump’s plan. ‘The question is, how do we keep America safe from terrorism? Trump says we ought to close that Internet thing. The question really is, what does he mean by that? Like they do in North Korea? Like they do in China?’ Paul said.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/trump-doesnt-want-isis-using-our-internet/

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Donald Trump defends Muslim ban: ‘We’re at war’

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“A defiant Donald Trump is defending his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States.  ‘Something has to be done,’ Trump said on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America,’ one of several phone interviews the Republican frontrunner participated in Tuesday morning. ‘What I’m doing is I’m calling very simply for a shutdown of Muslims entering the United States — and here’s a key — until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.’  Trump’s plan, which was released Tuesday, calls for a ‘total and complete shutdown’ of all Muslims entering the country.  His campaign initially indicated the ban would include Muslim-Americans traveling overseas.”

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/trump-defends-muslim-ban-morning-joe-lindsey-154401548.html

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U.S. Officially Honors Its Torturers and War Criminals, After Shielding Them

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“Obama’s immunizing Bush-era torturers converted torture from a global taboo and decades-old crime into a reasonable, debatable policy question, which is why so many GOP candidates are now openly suggesting its use. But now, the Obama administration has moved from legally protecting Bush-era war criminals to honoring and gushing over them in public. Yesterday, the House of Representatives unveiled a marble bust of former Vice President Cheney, which — until a person of conscience vandalizes or destroys it — will reside in Emancipation Hall of the U.S. Capitol. Along with George W. Bush, one of the speakers in attendance was Vice President Joe Biden.”

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/04/u-s-first-shields-its-torturers-and-war-criminals-from-prosecution-now-officially-honors-them/

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Glenn Greenwald: What Foreign Policy “Debate” Means on “Face the Nation”

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“Aside from the glaring demographic homogeneity — all middle-aged-or-older white people who have spent their careers in corporatized Washington establishments — there is a suffocating ideological and viewpoint homogeneity on this panel as well, particularly when it comes to foreign policy. All of the panelists, for instance, were vocal, aggressive advocates of the invasion of Iraq (as were all three GOP presidential candidates featured on this morning’s show).”

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/29/what-debate-means-on-face-the-nation/

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Obama’s Speech Against The Iraq War [2009]

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“In his speech, Obama said that what he was opposed to was ‘a dumb war … a rash war.’ He said the war was a ‘cynical attempt’ to shove ‘ideological agendas down our throats’ and would distract from domestic problems such as poverty and health care.”

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99591469

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US announces ‘expeditionary force’ to target Isis in Iraq and Syria

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“A permanent new US ‘expeditionary force’ will target Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, operating independently of local troops in Iraq and Syria for the first time, defense secretary Ash Carter has revealed. Kurdish fighters have told the Guardian that US forces in Iraq have secretly been blurring this line for months by taking an increasingly active role on the frontline, but the creeping ground mission once expressly ruled out by Barack Obama now seems to be spreading to Syria.  Obama recently authorised the deployment of 50 special forces troops to Syria, but promised they were expected to work mainly alongside rebels on that side of the border.”

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/01/us-military-expeditionary-force-isis-iraq-syria

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Pew Poll: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Believe Government Is The Enemy

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“The findings suggests that 57 percent of voters feel frustrated with the government, while 22 percent feel angry and 18 percent feel ‘basically content.’  The majority of Americans feel the federal government has room for serious improvement, with 59 percent saying the government needs ‘very major reform.’ Only 37 percent of voters felt that way in 1997. Other findings include that few think the government is run for the benefit of all the people and that it is viewed as wasteful and inefficient. About 3 in 4 Americans say the federal government is ‘run by a few big interests’ and 57 percent say the ‘government is almost always wasteful and inefficient.'”

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/11/23/report-more-than-1-in-4-americans-believe-government-is-the-enemy/

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Obama extends US military mission in Afghanistan into 2017

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“When President Barack Obama leaves office in 15 months, he’ll hand his successor military conflicts in the two countries where he promised to end prolonged war: Afghanistan and Iraq.  There will be far fewer troops in each, and the American forces won’t have a direct combat role. But for Obama, it’s nevertheless a frustrating end to a quest that was central to his political rise. As a result, the winner of the 2016 presidential election will become the third American commander in chief to oversee the Afghan war. Under the new $15 billion-a-year plan, the U.S. will maintain its current force of 9,800 through most of 2016, then begin drawing down to 5,500 late in the year or in early 2017.”

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20151015_ap_fa394db4a9f24815ab44c573e26be8dc.html

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Hollande’s approval rating slumps again [Oct. 2015]

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“The poll found just 20 percent of respondents were satisfied with Hollande’s performance, down from 23 percent in September and a sizable fall from 29 percent in January, when the president was widely praised for his response to the Islamist attacks in Paris.  A poll last week for the web site Atlantico found that Hollande’s Socialist Party would trail in third in regional elections to be held in December behind Nicolas Sarkozy’s Les Républicains and Marine Le Pen’s National Front.  Hollande has been in Iceland, where he visited a glacier to see the effects of global warming ahead of climate change talks in Paris later this year.”

http://www.politico.eu/article/hollandes-approval-rating-slumps-again-valls-iceland-france/

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