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PBC News & Comment, Friday January 6

Obama announces Pentagon budget "cuts" while noting that military spending will continue to rise; Karzai wants control over US prison at Bagram, Afghanistan, could expose it as the new Gitmo.Also covered:

--3,000 reported dead in South Sudan: what is our standard for "humanitarian" intervention?

--Egyptian prosecutors want Mubarak hanged, while the Army wants to defuse protests and maintain control

--US and Israel plan joint missile defense drills

--Californians get "ransom note budget" from Jerry Brown

--Paul Krugman shreds Romney's claim of jobs created

--Steve Colbert rips into the unconstitutional parts of the National Defense Authorization Act:  so funny, so true.