Light News Dump

The National Security Act of 1947 requires IC keep Congress “fully and currently informed” of intel activities: Pelosi says Trump Notified Russians of Baghdadi’s apparent death before telling Congressional Leaders
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pelosi-says-trump-notified-russians-of-baghdadis-apparent-death-before-telling-congressional-leaders/2019/10/27/d73bf418-f8ce-11e9-8190-6be4deb56e01_story.html

Pelosi: All roads with you lead to Putin.

Meanwhile Obama didn’t alert Pakistan about the raid to kill OBL because it could have comprised the mission. This is a much bigger issue than it suggests on the surface. It puts our troops into harms way by allowing Russian intelligence insight into our special operations. A geopolitical foe knows what we are about to do and increases the risk this information gets leaked. Since the Russian military was on the ground with prior knowledge of the operation, it gave them the opportunity to test their systems and observe our special forces in action directly. So now they have more intelligence into the methods and capabilities of our most elite troops and the technology that they use.

Russia's largest oil company Rosneft has fully switched the currency of its contracts to euros from U.S. dollars in a move to shield its transactions from U.S. sanctions, its Chief Executive Igor Sechin said
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rosneft-contracts-euro/rosneft-says-switched-contracts-to-euros-from-dollars-amid-us-sanctions-idUSKBN1X31JT

John Conyers Jr., the longest serving African-American member of Congress in U.S. history, has died, a spokeswoman has confirmed. He was 90. Known as the dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, which he helped found, Conyers became one of only 6 black House members when he was first elected in 1964. Throughout his career, Conyers used his influence to push civil rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Conyers

Trump campaign list-building email off al-Baghdadi death
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1188560174153424901

Trump not only claimed the existence of nonexistent statements about bin Laden but claimed he still has people coming up to him “to this day” congratulating him on these statements he didn’t make.
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1188566890563670017

An ISIS spokesperson could not be reached for comment: U.S. Strikes Kill ISIS Spokesperson One Day After Baghdadi's Death in Syria Raid
https://www.newsweek.com/us-strikes-kill-isis-spokesperson-day-after-baghdadi-death-syria-raid-1468018

YEP: Google Doodle's tribute to Sylvia Plath is sexist and fails to capture her spirit | She could almost be smiling; the winter trees around her look almost festive, as though from a Christmas card. They are intended as a tribute to her poem, Winter Trees, a poem that contains the words “abortion” and “bitchery”, written not long before her suicide. To say that it jars is an understatement. You could argue that I’m taking it all too seriously, but I’m not the only one who felt the tribute fell short. AN Devers, the owner of the wonderful Second Shelf Bookshop, which is dedicated to rare books, modern first editions, manuscripts, and rediscovered works by women, tweeted that “it may be the worst Google doodle of all time”. “Show her as a great thinker, ffs,” she also said. “Imagine Yeats with this kind of Google Doodle.” | All those unpalatable, threatening parts of Plath, her rage, her terror at “this dark thing/that sleeps in me” are disappeared in favour of commercial potential. And when marketers aren’t ignoring Plath’s mental health issues, they opt for a glorification of her suffering. Sylvia Plath was a genius. Her poetry has spoken to me in the darkest moments of my life, as it has to millions of other readers.
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/google-doodles-tribute-to-the-great-poet-sylvia-plath-is-sexist-and-pathetic-820543

The shit-for-brains "artist" NEVER READ HER POEMS AND KNOW NOTHING ABOUT PLATH. ABSOLUTE DISGRACE.

Facebook removes false ad from PAC claiming Republican Graham backs Green New Deal
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/26/facebook-lindsey-graham-green-new-deal-ad

Documents reveal Eminem was actually visited by Secret Service because TMZ reported him for anti-Ivanka lyrics.
https://www.metrotimes.com/city-slang/archives/2019/10/24/documents-reveal-eminem-was-actually-visited-by-secret-service-for-anti-trump-lyrics

Nobody with a brain believes Baghdadi is dead. And reminder:

Stop congratulating Obama for killing Bin Laden. The Navy Seals killed Bin Laden.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/260549166776852480

The military and Navy Seals should be given more credit for Bin Laden's death, not Obama, who works hard to take (cont) http://tl.gd/jocsdf
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/260775748900618240

Why don't we ask the Navy SEALs who killed Bin Laden? They don't seem to be happy with Obama claiming credit. All he did is say O.K.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/260490972465598464

Admiral McRaven had full operational control of the Bin Laden mission http://bit.ly/Kg7vrN  @BarackObama gave vague directions.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/195930561926279168

Military reps have attacked @BarackObama over Bin Laden leaks--they believe he's just using this for his benefit. Not a big surprise...
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/236118666146611203

Student in Peru makes history by writing thesis in the Incas’ language - A doctoral student in Peru has made history by becoming the first person to write and defend a thesis in Quechua – the language of the Incas, which is still spoken by millions of people in the Andes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/27/peru-student-roxana-quispe-collantes-thesis-inca-language-quechua

A gunman opened fire at an off-campus college party in Texas, leaving two people dead and 14 injured before he escaped in the ensuing chaos, a sheriff said Sunday. Authorities believe the shooter may have been targeting just one person at the party of about 750 people outside Greenville, 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of a satellite campus of the Texas A&M University System, and that others may have been shot at random, Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks said. Authorities had not yet identified the suspect and were still looking for him, Meeks said.
https://apnews.com/2f4c7c06907a4031bd8a577f138011a2

Trump’s Plan to Take Syrian Oil Slammed as ‘Clear Violation of International Law’ and ‘Imperial Looting’
https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/trumps-plan-to-take-syrian-oil-slammed-as-clear-violation-of-international-law-and-imperial-looting/

Almost 8,000 new private jets are expected to be bought by multinational companies and the super-rich over the next decade, each of which will burn 40 times as much carbon per passenger as regular commercial flights, according to a report by aviation firm Honeywell Aerospace.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/27/super-rich-fuelling-growing-demand-for-private-jets-report-finds


Amazon Deforestation Is Fast Nearing Tipping Point When Rainforest Cannot Sustain Itself
https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/amazon-deforestation-fast-nearing-tipping-point-when-rainforest-cannot-sustain

Jews make up 2% of the U.S. population yet account for more than 50% of all religiously motivated hate crimes. That stat always takes my breath away.

All of the times Trump has refused to give Obama credit for the bin Laden raid
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/27/all-times-trump-has-refused-give-obama-credit-bin-laden-raid/

It is with a broken heart that today I announce my resignation from Congress. This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do, but I believe it is the best thing for my constituents, my community, and our country.
https://twitter.com/KatieHill4CA/status/1188592008274669569

How about Duncan Hunter who was indicted for fraud and still serving in Congress. The double standard is sickening.

How about Greg Gianforte, who body slammed a journalist right before elections and got a sudden surge of $116K donations from supporters that approved of the move , and then settled with the victim by donating $50K to a charity. He netted $66K plus free publicity, and is still serving

Former GOP Rep Trey Gowdy said he 100% agrees House Democrats should hold private impeachment hearings
https://www.newsweek.com/trey-gowdy-supports-house-democrats-private-impeachment-hearings-closed-door-testimony-1468022
https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1188473171424481280