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RockCreek's JournalUS secretly sought intel on Greenland military sites-Berlingske
From Olga Lautman's Substack.
https://olgalautman.substack.com/p/us-secretly-sought-intel-on-greenland?
Berlingske is one of the main daily papers in Denmark.
"Greenland has become the clearest test yet of whether NATO will survive in its current form when the danger comes from inside, because Trump’s renewed threat of stealing allied territory should not be dismissed. I have warned for almost a decade about the threat Trump poses to NATO and Europe, and each action by the Trump regime keeps confirming it. The latest reporting from Denmark, which should horrify and outrage every American, suggests the United States has already behaved in ways that Danish defense officials interpreted as contingency preparation for invasion.
According to Berlingske, previously unknown documents from the Danish Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defense, released in heavily redacted form for national security reasons, indicate that in 2025 the United States secretly sought sensitive information from Danish colleagues in Greenland on military installations, ports, and air bases. The outreach reportedly took place informally and outside the normal channels that would typically run through Copenhagen’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, and Denmark’s senior defense leadership. The ministry was alerted immediately, “out of consideration for the strategic climate” surrounding Greenland, and the concern was escalated to the highest levels of the Danish military, including the Chief of Defense, indicating officials treated this as a serious security matter.
The timeline makes the episode harder to dismiss as an isolated incident. In January 2025, a U.S. military officer reportedly made two separate requests, six days apart, to Denmark’s military command in Greenland, with one logged on January 16 and another on January 26, seeking additional information about Greenland’s infrastructure, including critical military sites. It remains unclear whether any information was ultimately passed to the United States, and if so, what was shared. But Danish officials reportedly viewed the requests as relevant to contingency planning, including scenarios involving coercive pressure against Greenland. It should be incumbent on U.S. media to investigate who this American military officer was, who directed the outreach, and why this was happening before Trump was sworn in and while Biden was in office."
Trump may be the beginning of the end for 'enshittification' - this is our chance to make tech good again. Cory Doctorow
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/10/trump-beginning-of-end-enshittification-make-tech-good-again
It’s been 25 years since I started working for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an American nonprofit dedicated to preserving and promoting human rights on the internet. I’ve found myself in dozens of countries working with activists, politicians and civil servants to untangle the complex technical questions raised by the internet, and every one of our discussions ended in the same place. “OK,” they’d say, “you’ve definitely laid out the best way to regulate tech, but we can’t do it.”
Why not? Because – inevitably – the US trade rep had beaten me to every one of those countries and made it eye-wateringly clear that if they regulated tech in a way that favoured their own people, industries and national interests, the US would bury them in tariffs.
But deterrents are a funny thing. If someone demands that you follow their orders or they’ll burn your house down, so you do, and they burn your house down anyway … well, you’re a bit of a fool if you keep on doing what they tell you, aren’t you?
Donald Trump’s tariffs have opened up a new possibility for the technology we have become increasingly dependent on. Today, nearly all of our tech comes from US companies, and it arrives as a prix fixe meal. If you want to talk with your friends on a Meta platform, you have to let Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg eavesdrop on your conversations. If you want to have a phone that works, you have to let Apple’s Tim Cook suck 30p out of every pound you spend and give him a veto over which software you can run. If you want to search the web, you have to let Google’s Sundar Pichai know what colour underwear you’ve got on.
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Vigil in Minneapolis this evening.
From the Independent in the UK
Because what US news organization would announce this??
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/minneapolis-ice-shooting-protests-live-updates-b2896381.html
Katie Hawkinson
7 January 2026 21:57 1 hour ago
Activist organization plans vigil for woman fatally shot by ICE agent
A Minnesota activist organization is planning an “emergency vigil” for the woman fatally shot by an ICE agent earlier today.
The vigil is scheduled for today at 5 p.m. local time, the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee announced on Facebook.
“We witnessed an atrocious attack on our community today. Community members were taken from us and an observer was shot dead. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA NOW,” the organization wrote.
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein
The pain and confusion of a personal connection to a Jan 6th traitor
I only found out about this 2 years ago. The perpetrator wasn't found for a year or two. We were friends and colleagues for several years beginning over 15 years ago.
I knew they had some slightly off the wall views, but did not know of anything that would bring them to act in the ways that they did that day.
They eventually pled guilty, and they were serving a prison term when pardoned by Trump. They accepted the pardon.
Any chance there ever was of me regaining compassion, let alone any respect for them, disappeared when they accepted the pardon. I was just listening to the one person who refused the pardon in the hearings. I so wish that there was a second person there, the one that I knew. I so wish they had done the right thing.
I've read many news articles on their actions and the superficial commentary in these articles on my former friend's background. There is so much more that no news articles got near. Things that make their actions seem even more irrational.
I drew back from my association with them because I felt and witnessed too many things that were just "off" from them in professional settings many years before Jan 6th. These things were subtle, but there. I was no longer comfortable with them. I don’t think many others noticed the strangeness.
I have my own hypotheses about what may have happened with them. But regardless of rationalizations, it still hurts. Someone I once respected and worked with, and was also friends with went completely off the rails. And they still appear to be there.
Looking for information on protests?
I found nothing useful on Indivisible. Then I found that Newsweek, of all places, has an excellent list.
They are getting their information here:
https://www.answercoalition.org/venezuela
The site seems accurate and frequently updated.
Edited to add this caveat:
I know nothing about the Answer Coalition. Someone who pays more attention to such groups than I do cautioned me about their approach to Ukraine and Russia.
Nevertheless, their Venezuala protest list appears to be accurate.
Anyone have a gift or archive link to the Vanity Fair Articles?
Parts 1 and 2 on Susie Wiles.
Thanks in advance, and apologies if its been posted and I missed them.
The Epstein Chaos Has Begun: Why Netanyahu Is Sharing Leftist Conspiracy Theories About a Mossad Sex Cabal
Source: Haaretz
Haaretz Today The Epstein Chaos Has Begun: Why Netanyahu Is Sharing Leftist Conspiracy Theories About a Mossad Sex Cabal
It is not every day that a right-wing populist world leader reposts an article by Jacobin magazine, the small New York-based socialist publication. But on November 21, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did just that, sharing on X an article titled "Jeffrey Epstein Claimed to Have Meddled in Israel's Elections."
Netanyahu, or whoever runs his account, appears not to have actually read the article, which denounces his "increasingly extreme and corruption-embroiled rule." In it, there is mainly intimation and innuendo, rather than concrete fact, that Epstein played an active role in the 2019 Israeli election campaign. It also seems unlikely that Netanyahu knew of Jacobin or its ideological orientation. Otherwise, it is hard to imagine why Israel's arch-neoliberal would have shared an article from the house organ of the American millennial left. (Disclosure: I contributed to Jacobin in the past.)
But perhaps it should not be so surprising after all. At a time when widespread illiteracy is the norm, the headline is what matters most – something that Netanyahu, an expert in the political dark arts, surely knows. Dirt on the opposition is valuable, no matter the source.
There is also something emblematic about Netanyahu's seeming endorsement of an article from an outlet that has called for him to be tried and found guilty of war crimes in The Hague. Since Jeffrey Epstein's arrest in July 2019 on the charge of sex trafficking minors, the growing scope of the scandal, implicating figures across the uppermost echelons of the Western elite, has fueled conspiracies that at times bridge the populist right and left. Netanyahu is far from the only right-wing politician to have found a strange ally of sorts in those on the left who see Epstein as a metaphor for the rapacious corruption and spectacular immorality of the global capitalist elite.
Read more: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2025-11-23/ty-article/.highlight/why-netanyahu-is-sharing-leftist-conspiracy-theories-about-a-mossad-sex-cabal/0000019a-b137-dd6e-a5fa-fbf7689f0002
Gift link for more:
קיבלת במתנה כתבה מהארץ!
The Epstein Chaos Has Begun: Why Netanyahu Is Sharing Leftist Conspiracy Theories About a Mossad Sex Cabal https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2025-11-23/ty-article/.highlight/why-netanyahu-is-sharing-leftist-conspiracy-theories-about-a-mossad-sex-cabal/0000019a-b137-dd6e-a5fa-fbf7689f0002?gift=a193be60b443431c822ebf71e2acce47
How would the MAGAts react to this statement posted where they go?
This could be posted on social media or in any other space they frequent.
"Donald Trump could rape a child on 5th Ave and get away with it".
Just curious....
Summers To Step Back from Public Commitments Amid Epstein Scandal
Source: The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will step back from all public commitments in an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” he wrote in a statement Monday evening.
The announcement comes less than one week after seven years of correspondence between Summers and the disgraced financier Jeffrey E. Epstein were released by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee. The documents showed Summers and Epstein continued to exchange messages until July 5, 2019 — just one day before Epstein was arrested on new sex-trafficking charges.
“I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein,” Summers wrote to The Crimson.
He is currently a senior fellow at the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress, a paid columnist at Bloomberg News, and serves on the board of directors at Open AI. A spokesperson for Bloomberg declined to comment on Summers’ future with the outlet on Monday.
Read more: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/18/summers-steps-back-from-public-commitments-epstein/
IMO he should immediately be removed from all teaching and mentoring duties. With the sexist beliefs he has expressed multiple times over decades, including in his emails with Epstein he has no place in either role. He is unrepentant and he should not be inflicted upon students.
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