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"Most of the coverage of the Paris rally focuses on the size of the crowd -- over a million and a half people, all marching in support of freedom of expression! -- and adds as a kind of postscript that over 40 "world leaders" "joined" the demonstration. This is completely backwards. When over 40 "world leaders" enthusiastically take part in an event of this kind, that fact alone establishes a single incontrovertible, irrefutable fact: whatever is happening, whatever views are being expressed, none of it is any threat whatsoever to power and authority. More specifically, it is no threat whatsoever to State power. No wonder all those world leaders were eager to take part: the largest demonstration "in modern French history" was nothing less than a glorification of State power. ...
Given the growing swaths of destruction, brutality and murder that are the product of State power in recent years, and of Western State power in particular, one might have thought that moral approval and encouragement is the last thing one would choose to gift to the monsters who lead those States, at least if one seeks a better world that is significantly more compassionate and caring than the world in which we now live. And note how cheaply the States in question purchased this gift: their leaders offer a few grunts indicating their supposed approval of "freedom of expression" and "free speech," and the crowd happily accedes to their power. No one troubles to recall the chasm that separates what these States claim to support and what they actually do. The leaders of these States now have still further confirmation that as long as they mumble the right words and slogans at critical moments, they can act in the most oppressive and brutal ways -- and they will never be called to account."
-- Arthur Silber
News and Opinion
More state power, not free speech, the likeliest we-are-Charlie result
A renewed war on terror seems to be what's on most Western governments' minds
Well, everyone must at least feel better now, having chanted and declared for days that we're all Charlie.
It was, or it seemed, a cry for freedom of speech, ringing outward from one of the world's first secular democracies. ...
With unintended irony, and a very short memory, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared over the weekend that France is now locked in a "war on terror." ...
The French, among others, mocked the slogan relentlessly, especially once it became apparent that the U.S. invasion of Iraq, carried out as part of this war on terror, was based on a false pretext. ...
But it's clearly back on. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder agreed with the French prime minister. America, he said, is at war, too.
Next month, Washington is convening an international summit to discuss new measures.
Canada is preparing new legislation to expand the powers of its security agencies.
The French, and the Americans, and no doubt the Canadians, are considering how better to monitor and obliterate incitement on the internet.
Or, more precisely, what security officials consider incitement. It's a term that can be interpreted rather broadly, and no doubt will be.
Clearly, the ultimate answer to the Charlie Hebdo massacre will not be freer speech. It will be a mostly secret intensification of police power, with attendant shrinkage of individual freedoms.
Al Qaeda in Yemen Releases Video Claiming Responsibility for 'Charlie Hebdo' Attack
Al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate has released a video claiming to have orchestrated and funded the attack which killed 12 people at the Paris office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last week.
In an 11-minute long video released today, Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a virulent branch of the group active in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, offers his "congratulations" for last Wednesday's attack by Cherif and Said Kouachi. He claims that his organization "chose the target, laid out the plan, and financed the operation."
He appears to suggest, however, that the group was not behind the actions of Amedy Coulibaly, who shot a Paris policewoman on Thursday and killed hostages at a Jewish store on Friday as the Kouachi brothers stood off with security forces at a printworks outside the capital.
The video claim follows a statement to Associated Press sent to on Friday claiming responsibility for the massacre. AQAP was one of the organizations that had explicitly threatened the magazine over its publication of cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammed in the past, and the Kouachi brothers reportedly claimed during the attack and subsequent siege at the Dammartin printworks that they were "al-Qaeda in Yemen."
Obama's cybersecurity plan brings back CISPA from the grave
The president will flesh out his cybersecurity agenda during his upcoming State of the Union address. But so far the initiatives appear to be little different from previous proposals on breach notification and information sharing.
Tuesday, the administration announced plans to revive a controversial 2011 cybersecurity bill that is designed to encourage the private sector to share threat and vulnerability information. The bill would give legal protections for companies that disclose threat intelligence to the US Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, which in turn would provide the data in real-time to the National Security Agency and other federal agencies.
When the administration last proposed the intelligence-sharing bill in July 2014 in the form of the Cyber Security Information Sharing Act of 2014 (CISA) critics lambasted the bill for posing a threat to privacy.
The information-sharing act is designed to make it easier for organizations to receive, use, and share information on threats to their networks and data. Security analysts have long maintained that sharing information such as malicious Internet protocol addresses, malware signatures, and other threat indicators is critical in helping organizations and industry as a whole to detect, respond and mitigate cyber threats.
'Je Suis Charlie' and 'Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie' Are Both the Wrong Response to the Paris Massacre
[I]dentification is a complicated game, and as "Je Suis Charlie" / "Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie" illustrates, to claim not just connection but oneness with victims can be false, empty, and even dangerous. Bernard Holtrop, a Dutch cartoonist with Charlie Hebdo, said that the magazine's surviving cartoonists "vomit on all these new people who suddenly say they are our friends." He pointed out that "a few years ago, thousands of people took to the streets in Pakistan to demonstrate against Charlie Hebdo. They didn't know what it was. Now it's the opposite."
But it is no better to assert "Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie" in response to all the newly self-christened Charlies. The negation plays into a cheap binary that serves neither the massacre victims nor the discourse around free speech and Islamophobia that surrounds the killings. We are in an impoverished place of reflection when so many commentators who do not want to identify with a controversial satirical magazine feel they must heap caveat upon caveat on the claim that they are not Charlie: "I am not Charlie — but of course I condemn the attacks." As if refusing complete identification draws into question whether an individual supports terrorist slaughter.
But herein lies the real danger of the "Je Suis Charlie" slogan: in response to a vile massacre, the options seemed to be to stand with Charlie — to be Charlie — or to risk looking like you stand with terror. It's a neo-conservative dream, a world divided between "us" and the "terrorists." We have more than a decade's worth of lessons in how this ideology gives rise to unending war, mass surveillance, and torture.
If the expression is intended to convey a fear that any of us could have been victims of Islamist terror, that is a much more dangerous expression of fear than when a black teen states "I am Mike Brown." Black teens in the US are systematically harassed by the police; we in the West are not all systematically under deadly threat by Islamists, despite the desire of some that we would be. To buy in to the fear that we might all be slaughtered like the Charlie cartoonists is to buy in to the same hyperbolized dread that followed 9/11 (and, indeed the Cold War) — our paranoid national security state was built on such fear and needs no further bolstering.
Glenn Greenwald spots the hypocrisy:
France Arrests a Muslim Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West’s “Free Speech” Celebration
Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free expression, France opened a criminal investigation of a controversial French Muslim comedian for a Facebook post he wrote about the Charlie Hebdo attack, and then this morning, arrested him for that post on charges of “defending terrorism.” The comedian, Dieudonné, previously sought elective office in France on what he called an “anti-Zionist” platform, has had his show banned by numerous government officials in cities throughout France, and has been criminally prosecuted several times before for expressing ideas banned in that country.
The apparently criminal viewpoint he posted on Facebook declared: “Tonight, as far as I’m concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly.” Investigators concluded that this was intended to mock the “Je Suis Charlie” slogan and express support for the two brothers who attacked Charlie Hebdo (whose last name was “Coulibaly”). Expressing that opinion is evidently a crime in the Republic of Liberté, which prides itself on a line of 20th Century intellectuals – from Sartre and Genet to Foucault and Derrida – whose hallmark was leaving no orthodoxy or convention unmolested, no matter how sacred. Since that glorious “free speech” march, France has reportedly opened 54 criminal cases for “condoning terrorism.”
As pernicious as this arrest obviously is, it provides a critical value: namely, it underscores the utter scam that was this week’s celebration of free speech in the west. The day before the Charlie Hebdo attack, I coincidentally documented the multiple cases in the west – including in the U.S. – where Muslims have been prosecuted and even imprisoned for their political speech. Vanishingly few of this week’s bold free expression mavens have ever uttered a peep of protest about any of those cases – either before the Charlie Hebdo attack or since. That’s because “free speech,” in the hands of many westerners, actually means: it is vital is that the ideas I like be protected, and the right to offend groups I dislike be cherished; anything else is fair game.
Vive la republique? 50+ anti-Muslim attacks across France in Charlie Hebdo aftermath
Anti-Islam Rallies Are Gathering Support in Germany In Wake of 'Charlie Hebdo' Attacks
Anti-Islamic marches, fueled by the backlash against last week's Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, have been gaining traction in Germany, with over 85,000 estimated to have recently taken part in protests and counter-protests across the country in cities including Leipzig, Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Hannover, and Düsseldorf.
The group Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) saw their biggest turnout in Dresden on Monday night, when an estimated 25,000 marched in the 12th of the weekly marches — 7,000 more attendees than the last event. Some wore black armbands or had black ribbons pinned to their coats — a tribute to those killed in France. PEGIDA dedicated the march to the victims of the Paris shootings.
The march's organizer and figurehead Lutz Bachmann seemed more withdrawn than usual, perhaps aware of how large his audience of both supports and detractors has become. As he read out his new six-point plan and wondered aloud whether it would be "distorted" by the media, attendees began their customary chant of "Lügenpresse" ("the lying press"). But Bachman immediately moved to calm the crowd. "Not today," he said.
Bachmann began his address with a recognition of the events of last week. "Another horrific, religiously-motivated act of terror has shaken the world," he said. "After the terrible act of violence committed by the Christian fundamentalist Anders Breivik that killed 77 people, Paris is yet more proof for the necessity of PEGIDA."
Bachmann said that PEGIDA exists to speak out against any kind of "religious fundamentalism, radicalism, and violence," and invites people with friends from immigrant backgrounds to let them know that they are welcome — as long as they respect German culture and values.
[Well now, that's an interesting development in an "anti-islamization" movement's rhetoric. - js]
Israel protests to Nick Clegg over MP’s Netanyahu tweet
The Israeli ambassador to Britain has written to the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, to express his abhorrence at “offensive and shocking” comments made by David Ward MP on the presence of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the solidarity march in Paris on Sunday.
During the march, which followed last week’s terror attacks in the French capital that left 17 people dead, the Lib Dem MP for Bradford East tweeted: “#Netanyahu in Paris march – what!!! Makes me feel sick” and “Je suis #Palestinian.”
They're itching to get their war on over at Capitol Hill
Hill leaders more hopeful on war authorization after W.H. meeting
Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama used their meeting Tuesday to take a step toward finally authorizing the U.S. air war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Senate GOP leaders said after the White House meeting that Obama told them he’s preparing to send a legislative framework to Capitol Hill directing an Authorization of the Use of Military Force against ISIL in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. has been bombing the Islamic State since September, and Republicans have frequently complained that Obama has not sent them language to consider, although Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to the Hill in December to lay out the administrator’s parameters for a congressional authorization.
Tuesday’s gathering was the first meeting of the year among Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and a full contingent of congressional leadership, minus the injured Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid. The topic of authorizing the continuing air war against ISIL emerged as a rare area of cooperation in a year that has so far featured several veto threats.
Obama “indicated he is working toward sending us an Authorization for the Use of Military Force,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said afterward. “A good starting place is for him to tell us what he wants and to provide the initial document off which we would work. And my feeling is that we’re going to get that sometime in the near future.”
Ooops! Obama already has
his war on. Congress just wants to get in on the action...
ISIS War Authorization Language Could Come In 'A Few Weeks,' Says Bob Corker
It's been five months since the U.S began bombing Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. In that time, the U.S. has spent more than $1 billion, participated in more than 1,700 air strikes, authorized roughly 3,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and lost three U.S. soldiers. All of this has gone on without new war authorization.
Obama maintains he doesn't need new authority to bomb the Islamic State, citing a sweeping AUMF from 2001 as his legal justification, but has said he welcomes it anyway. Lawmakers in both parties disagree he has that authority. Some in Congress have grown tired of waiting for the White House to send draft language and have pushed for Congress to move its own AUMF, but others are wary of advancing a war bill without sign-off from the White House. Typically, the White House begins the war authorization process.
On Tuesday, Republicans were pleasantly surprised to learn the White House may soon send over draft AUMF language. GOP leaders heard the news directly from Obama during a White House meeting with congressional leaders earlier in the day.
White House Downplays Chances Obama Will Close Gitmo
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnesttoday sought to downplay the chancesof President Obama actually fulfilling his campaign promise of closing Guantanamo Bay, saying it would be “very, very difficult” to follow through on.
Though the White House never addresses this, the promise is already long missed, as President Obama pledged to close it within a year immediately after taking office in early 2009.
Though President Obama has often claimed he could circumvent Congress with executive action on myriad other issues, officials suggest that Gitmo isn’t one of them, and that Congress will remain the excuse for the site not being closed in the years to come.
Prison Dispatches from the War on Terror: Former Child Gitmo Detainee Going Blind
Nearly 13 years after he was first captured as a child soldier in Afghanistan, Omar Khadr remains behind bars in a Canadian prison where he is losing his remaining eyesight, according to his lawyer.
Khadr, who was born in Canada, was inducted into a life of militancy by his father — a now-deceased al Qaeda financier — who took his young son from suburban Toronto to rural Afghanistan. Fifteen-year-old Khadr was captured following a U.S. military raid in Afghanistan that left him partially paralyzed and blind in one eye.
Following his capture in 2002, Khadr was held for several months at Bagram Airbase before being transferred to Guantanamo. At both sites he was subjected to torture, including sexual humiliation, shackling in stress positions, and sleep deprivation, according to his lawyer.
In 2010, Khadr entered into a plea bargain with the Guantanamo military commission, admitting to throwing a grenade which killed a U.S. Army combat medic during the deadly raid that led to Khadr’s capture. He was sentenced to eight years in prison, not including time served, and was allowed to complete his sentence in a Canadian prison.
Khadr later said that he has no recollection of the raid and had confessed simply in hopes of finally leaving Guantanamo
Khadr was one of at least 15 children the American government is thought to have held at Guantanamo. ... In comments to The Intercept, Jennifer Turner of the ACLU’s human rights program criticized the ongoing imprisonment of Khadr and his denial of the rights normally afforded to children captured during wartime. “Khadr was a child…brought into a conflict zone by his family and should now be treated first and foremost as a candidate for rehabilitation and reintegration into society, not as a criminal,” Turner said.
After Confronting NYC Mayor, Police Union Leader Faces Mutiny of His Own from Dissident Cops
New York mayor Bill de Blasio would veto plan to make chokehold illegal
New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to veto proposed legislation that would criminalise the use of chokeholds by the NYPD, his spokesman has told the Guardian. The move is likely to open another front in the battle over reforming the biggest police force in the US as local politicians vow to push the bill through.
De Blasio has long opposed the legislation, introduced to the city council by the Democratic councilman Rory Lancman in November last year, which would make the use of the chokehold – already banned in NYPD “use of force” guidelines – potentially punishable with a year in prison. But the mayor, who is in the midst of a feud with city police unions who also strongly oppose the legislation, had made no comment on the potential use of a veto.
“The mayor would veto the chokehold bill as it is currently drafted were it to reach his desk,” De Blasio’s spokesman, Phil Walzak, said in a statement.
De Blasio’s veto announcement arrived one day after a stinging report produced by the office of the inspector general (OIG) for the NYPD examining the force’s use of chokeholds.
The report found that in 10 cases of proven use of the banned position the previous police commissioner, Ray Kelly, had “routinely rejected” recommendations for strong disciplinary actions against offending officers.
Austerity: A Decisive Factor in Greek Elections
Elizabeth Warren touts pro-business credentials as she rejects presidential run
The senior Massachusetts senator spoke with her fellow scorner of Tim Geithner, Sheila Bair, the former Federal Deposit Insurance (FDIC) chairperson about key economic issues in an interview for Fortune magazine. ...
Bair gives Warren a pro-business stamp of approval: “I must profess that the Elizabeth Warren I know respects business and the role it plays in jobs and wealth creation.”
Warren agrees. Surprisingly, she says she is on the same side as investment banks that don’t have federal deposit insurance, who they tell her in private are displeased with the Dodd-Frank repeals.
“I have talked to a lot of nonbank financial players – investment banks, hedge funds –they have to compete for capital on their own.”
It may seem rich for Warren to go against big banks only to support investment banks – two of which, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, went under due to their risk-taking – but it’s a good indicator to some on Wall Street that Warren listens to some of them. ...
The senior senator’s favorite president is not Obama – ouch for the White House – but Teddy “trust buster” Roosevelt. Warren alludes to her law school education and emphasizes that price competition isn’t the only reason monopolies are dangerous. Instead, she sides with Roosevelt who broke down powerful trusts because of their overwhelming political power.
It isn’t anything today’s Congress will recognise, in an environment where Citigroup lobbyists are writing the bills that pass in Congress.
With Wall Street Holding the Strings, Republican-Controlled Congress Moves to Deregulate Big Banks
'The financial industry has been methodical, drafting technically complicated legislation that can pass the heavily Republican House with a few Democratic votes.'
According to the New York Times, Wall Street is holding the strings.
"The financial industry has been methodical, drafting technically complicated legislation that can pass the heavily Republican House with a few Democratic votes," write Jonathan Weisman and Eric Lipton. "And then, once approved, Wall Street has pushed to tack such measures on to larger bills considered too important for the White House to block."
Tucked inside of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act that President Obama signed into law on Monday is a provision that weakens the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform, aimed at regulating Wall Street's risky business in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
This development follows the passage in December of the Omnibus Spending Bill that, among other Wall Street friendly measures, included a repeal of a key Dodd-Frank derivatives rule. As Josh Silver, director of of Represent.us, explained, this provision was "literally written by big bank lobbyists."
On Tuesday of this week, the House passed the "Regulatory Accountability Act," which would impose stringent requirements that would tie the hands of regulators on issues ranging from safety in the workplace to living wages to environmental protections.
"The current efforts to undermine Dodd-Frank have been textbook lobbying. In the first three quarters of last year, the securities and investment industry spent nearly $74 million on lobbying — on 704 registered lobbyists — according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That was on track to easily beat out the $99 million spent in 2013."
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal which will feature a heartfelt tribute to Debs made by Robert Hunter, author of "Poverty", in the pages of the Washington Socialist.
Tune in at 2pm!
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JP Morgan Chase ready for more fines after paying $1bn in legal fees
JP Morgan Chase gave a clear signal on Wednesday that it was braced for a fresh wave of fines after incurring more than $1bn (£660m) in legal charges in the fourth quarter of the year.
The biggest bank in the US, which has already been hit by a wave of litigation and penalties since the financial crisis, also revealed it that the average pay of the staff in its investment banking arm was $204,365, in 2014.
The first of the major US banks to report its profits for last year did not meet expectations of analysts, even though its boss, Jamie Dimon, said it had been record year for the firm, with income reported at $21.8bn, up from $17.9bn a year ago. ...
The legal expenses incurred in the fourth quarter are expected to be related to outstanding settlements JP Morgan faces for manipulation of foreign exchange markets.
It has already paid $660m to settle charges from regulators for manipulating these markets, and at the start of 2015 became the first bank to settle civil charges in relation to these markets.
The Evening Greens
Losing the Climate Fight: Has 400 ppm Become Planet's New Normal?
Just two weeks into 2015, experts are expressing surprise and worry that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has already topped the 400 parts per million threshold several times—a troubling indication for the year ahead and an expression of humanity's continued failure to act on climate change.
"The new year has only just begun, but we’ve already recorded our first days with average carbon dioxide levels above 400 parts per million, potentially leading to many months in a row above this threshold," journalist Andrea Thompson wrote for Climate Central, an independent organization of scientists and reporters.
Thompson based her analysis on records from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, showing that Jan. 1 was the first day of the new year above the 400 ppm concentration, followed by Jan. 3 and Jan. 7. Daily averages have continued at this level or higher through Jan. 9, "though they could continue to dance up and down around that mark due to day-to-day variations caused by weather systems," she wrote.
The world first hit the 400 ppm milestone in May, 2013.
This past summer, scientists observed that June was the third month in a row where, for the entire month, average levels of carbon dioxide were above 400 ppm—marking the longest time in recorded history that so much CO2 has been in the atmosphere.
Towards a Green Economy: Private or Public? - Robert Pollin on RAI (8/8)
Harvard defies divestment campaigners and invests tens of millions of dollars in fossil fuels
[Harvard] university’s refusal to withdraw an $32.7bn endowment from fossil fuels has frustrated campaignersand resulted in a law suit brought by seven Harvard students. The university – the world’s richest - is due to appear in court next month.
Now it emerges Harvard increased its holdings in publicly traded oil and gas companies by a factor of seven during the third financial quarter of 2014, the latest data available.
The new investments increased Harvard’s stake in oil and gas companies – including those involved in the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and fracking – from $11.8m (£7.8m) to about $79.5m, according to an analysis of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings by campus divestment activists.
Exclusive: "Eco-Terrorist" Freed 10 Years Early After Feds Withhold Evidence on Informant’s Role
Is EU's New GMO Law a Gift to Agribusiness?
The European Parliament on Tuesday passed a lawgranting individual member states the power to permit or ban the planting of genetically modified crops, also known as GMOs, in their country. Though touted by some as another "nail in the coffin" for GMOs in Europe, other food advocates worry that the move further empowers agribusiness giants while failing to protect the rights of organic farmers.
Nine EU countries already have complete bans against the cultivation of Monsanto's MON810 maize, which is the only GMO crop currently authorized in Europe. The maize variety is banned in Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary and Luxembourg.
However, environmental groups warn that in countries where GMO crops are currently permitted, the new law has opened the door to the possibility of even more varieties of GMO crops being approved. Further, the law's shortcomings fail to protect farmers who practice organic or GMO-free farming.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Role of FBI informant in eco-terrorism case probed after documents hint at entrapment
The Propaganda War: The Horror of the Paris Rally
Let's talk about the other dead journalists
Seven Incomplete Essays on the Torture Report
Layers of Why (time for some theory)
I have a post up at FDL which will likely not appear here at Daily Kos:
Lip Service – Caution Democrats At Work!
A Little Night Music
James Booker - Slowly But Surely
James Booker - Make A Better World
James Booker - Come On In This House
James Booker - Tico Tico/Papa Was A Rascal
James Booker - Rockin' Pneumonia, Baby Won't You Please Come Home
James Booker - On the Sunny Side of the Street
James Booker - Let Them Talk
James Booker - Wake Up Mr. Moon Man
James Booker - Pop's Dilemma
James Booker - Gonzo's Blue Dream
James Booker - Junco Partner
James Booker - Goodnight Irene
James Booker - All Around The World
James Booker - Gonzo
James Booker - Black Night
James Booker - Lonely avenue
James Booker with Jerry Garcia - Slowly But Surely
James Booker and Jerry Garcia - United Our Thing Will Stand
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