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Wikileaks claims it will provide tech companies with exclusive access to the alleged CIA hacking tools it publicized this week with the release of "Vault 7", a cache of documents the whistle-blowing website claims details the CIA's abilities to use smart phones, pads, computers, and even TVs to spy on individuals.  Most of the big tech companies say the security flaws allegedly exposed by Wikileaks have already been plugged.  If any companies actually believe this, it will put them in the position of relying on Julian Assange - a man increasingly seen as less of an advocate of freedom of information, and more of a willing pawn of thuggish Russian ruler Vladimir Putin and his kleptocratic pals. 

BTW, isn't it strange that Wikileaks seems to come up with its big document dumps every time that fascist demagogue Donald Trump paints himself in a corner and needs a change of subject in the corporate media? 

Strange Bedfellows:  Former Utah governor and experienced Diplomat Jon Huntsman has accepted Trump's offer to be the new US Ambassador to Moscow.  This is even though that Trump has called Huntsman "a lightweight" and "weak", and someone who "gave away our country to China".  Likewise, Huntsman called on Trump to drop out of the presidential race last year after the "grab them by the p*ssy" video surfaced.  What's more, Huntsman is a Russia hawk, and Trump talks like Vladimir Putin's boy-toy.  So, something weird is going on here.

Trump's new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Scott Pruitt says he doesn't believe the greenhouse gas CO2 is the cause of global warming.  Which contradicts, NASA, the NOAA, most scientists, and anyone with more than half a brain.  So, we're doomed.

Poland's far-right-wing government failed in its attempt to knee-cap former Prime Minister Donald Tusk and prevent his reelection as president of the European Council.  Tusk was reelected by a vote of 27 to one, Poland being the only holdout.  Tusk was PM under Poland's mainstream conservative party; but Warsaw is now run by the ironically-named Law and Justice (PiS) party, which is accused of stomping on free speech rights and authoritarianism.  European leaders - even close allies like right-wing Hungary - were bewildered by Warsaw's decision to bring its local blood feud to the table in Brussels, and its refusal to just let it go and be even further alienated from continental norms.  Like any good demagogue, the head of PiS claimed the bruising loss was a victory because Poland maintained its "sovereignty".  SMDH.

Several people have been injured in an axe attack at Dusseldorf Station in Germany.  Police arrested two people.  Media reports that a terror attack is feared because those gaping axe wounds wouldn't be so scary if it was just some criminal or lunatic.

Switzerland's upper house rejected a proposed ban on burkas and other face coverings popular with some Muslim women.  The vote was 26-9, but the issue could resurface if enough bigots, xenophobes, and arsewipes sign petitions to put it up for a plebiscite.

A court in Florence, Italy has recognized the overseas adoptions of children by at least two gay couple.  It means Italian citizenship will be passed down from the parents to the adopted kids, and it's a big victory for LGBT rights in a country still heavily influenced by the Roman Catholic church.

Is Ireland having a hard time facing up to the discovery of a mass grave of babies and children beneath a Catholic home for unwed mothers?  Parliament's discussion on the Tuam Babies Scandal was delayed for several minutes on Friday because not enough lawmakers showed up in the Dail for a quorum.  Children's Minister Katherine Zappone made a personal apology to the victims of Tuam and other homes run by the government and Catholic Church in which women were exploited as unpaid labor, and there is a panel examining some of the evidence.  But Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams questioned why there is no formal police investigation into the find in Tuam. 

Irish President Michael Higgins praised the investigator who uncovered the atrocities at Tuam, saying that historian Catherine Corless had helped to blow open "the blocked doors of a hidden Ireland".  The story of Ms. Corless' investigation first came to light in 2014, but some officials, the church, and the corporate media attempted to play down the discovery as "exaggerated" and "embellished".  That was, until this month's official acknowledgment of the human remains hidden in a series of chambers that were apparently built as part of the home's septic system.

More than 20,000 Myanmar refugees poured over the border to safety in China to escape fighting between government forces in the Shan region, where locals speak a Chinese dialect and use the Yuan currency.  Beijing says the refugees are being attended to in border camps.

Bolivian President Evo Morales signed a law to double the amount of land where the coca plant can be cultivated.  The former coca farmer ignored warnings that it could supply the illegal drug trade.  Coca has numerous uses in Bolivia unrelated to the production of cocaine - it's used to make a tea to fight altitude sickness in the high Andes mountains, and when chewed is a mild stimulant and can relieve headaches.  Not everything has to do with decadent western consumption, you know.

Nigeria has closed the capital city international airport for badly-needed repairs, including filling in massive potholes in the runways.  Most international airlines have refused to fly in or out anymore until someone gets on the ball in Abuja and orders repairs.