Catching up after a week away: GOP lost shutdown, except for Mitch McConnell's $3 billion Kentucky pork; Fukushima crisis builds.....Click here for GoDaddy deal that benefits the PBC Podcast!
--Glenn Greenwald's plans leaked: he's leaving Guardian to start new online media site with eBay founder Pierre Omidyar
--NSA top spy Alexander will step down next year, way overdue
--ObamaCare online exchanges have glitches, wouldn't have happened with Medicare for all
--Fukushima crisis management should be internationalized
--Jeh Johnson, former Pentagon counsel, named to run Homeland Security, a mixed bag
--in my last podcast before the break, we detailed another "domestic terrorist" conviction; here's a new one, with the same old story of paid FBI provacateur
--French are livid over massive NSA spying reported by Greenwald based on Snowden documents, Obama admits to overstepping
--Jason Leopold FOIA's Clapper memo that NSA review panel will operate in secret to bring us "transparency", read it here
--Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase agrees to stunning $13 billion in penalties, but nobody goes to jail--he's "damn proud"
--Gov. Christie stops appeals, marriage equality is in effect in New Jersey
--in Bay Area, BART strike is settled after 2 workers killed by scab train operator
--TSA is now profiling airline passengers even before they get to the airport
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