Boeing CEO out  Boeing announced some Leadership Changes via their company’s official media room first thing this morning.
David Gelles at the New York Times was more direct, reporting that Boeing Fired CEO Dennis Muilenburg. “Larry Kellner, of Continental Airlines fame, becomes Boeing chairman as Dennis Muilenburg resigns effective immediately. David Calhoun is the new president and CEO,” Ethan Klapper tweeted. If you want more on the c-suite shake-up, here’s the AP: Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg stepping down immediately. Andrew Tangel for the Wall Street Journal: David L. Calhoun Replacing Dennis Muilenburg as CEO. CNBC following up with breaking news: Boeing stock is halted pending news, as the company battles fallout from 737 Max crisis. And from the New York Times, a “detailed look at how Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg mismanaged the Max crisis. Reprimanded by the FAA boss. Alienated from customers. Making promises he can't keep,” Boeing’s Crisis Deepens as the CEO Struggles to Confront It, according to a piece Natalie Kitroeff and Gelles published yesterday.
Kitroeff tweeted some insight into today’s “Leadership Changes”: “Boeing’s CEO has tried to put this crisis behind him as fast as possible, but he just keeps making it worse. Airline executives are fuming, lawmakers want him out, and families of crash victims can’t stand to hear his name.” Khashoggi sentencing  Early this morning, the BBC reported that a Saudi court sentenced five people to death for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “...we fear that it is a way to silence them forever and to conceal the truth. We cannot consider the death penalty helps to bring justice. We still expect a full accounting,” Christophe Deloire insisted.
While covering the sentencing for the New York Times, Ben Hubbard reminded that Saudi Arabia has been accused of shielding Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who foreign experts say was behind the Khashoggi's in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Sarah Dadouch — who covered the news alongside Kareem Fahim for the Washington Post — tweeted: “Spokesperson Shalaan al-Shalaan said an investigation showed ‘there was no prior intention to kill at the start of this mission.’” ‘Delete the sketchy thing 👀’  The story everyone was talking about over the weekend came via Mark Mazzetti, Nicole Perlroth, and Ronen Bergman in the New York Times:
It Seemed Like a Popular App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool.
They’re talking about ToTok, an Emirati messaging app which, Perlroth pointed out, it’s been downloaded millions of times.
Lily Hay Newman at Wired urged everyone to Uninstall ToTok, an Alleged Emirati Spy App, From Your Phone Now. “Delete the sketchy thing 👀” she tweeted.
But the problem of digital spying isn't exclusive to ToTok of the UAE. Max Rivlin-Nadler at The Intercept has a detailed piece on How ICE Uses Social Media to Surveil and Arrest Immigrants. He "got previously unpublished emails showing how ICE used social media and information from CLEAR, Thomson Reuters's for-profit database, to track down and arrest an immigrant in southern California.” Molly Crabapple shared this alarming bit from the story: “Officials noted that he was ‘broken-hearted,’ according to Facebook posts, and confirmed his identity through pictures posted at his father’s birthday. ICE ultimately arrested the person after he ‘checked in’ to a Home Depot on Facebook."  Let’s turn to Friday’s New York Times op-ed from Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson about How Your Phone Betrays Democracy. Paul Adams said, “This series is very disturbing,” and it probably should be if we’re going to take any meaningful action.
Similarly, the New York Times Opinion section announced that Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For and “calls on Congress to enact a comprehensive, meaningful location privacy law, [urging] the FTC to examine the pervasive commercial surveillance of consumers as a deceptive practice,” Natasha Singer tweeted. And definitely check out Julia Wong’s conversation with the Zuckerbot from The Guardian. It includes the phrase, “I am going to say quiet words in your face just like I did with Trump,” which you will never, ever be able to forget. Australias's ‘regrettable lack of leadership’  “Australia’s bushfires have exposed its leaders’ failings: Prime Minister Scott Morrison must face up to the challenge of climate change or the nation will pay a far higher price in the future,” Jamie Smyth tweeted. You can read more about Australia's wildfire emergency and Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s regrettable lack of leadership in this Financial Times editorial.
Samantha Maiden at the New Daily in Australia also reported that taxpayers will foot the security bill for PM Morrison’s Hawaii holiday. “Scott Morrison's police security team forced to tag along on his Hawaiian holiday. It's taxpayers who will pick up the tab for a team of AFP officers to fly to Fiji and Hawaii to provide round-the-clock security at a cost of at least $20,000,” Maiden tweeted. And at The Guardian, Adam Morton wanted to know: Australia has changed its historic data on carbon emissions: what happened? More from around the world  China will cut tariffs on goods including pork, pharmaceuticals, paper products, and tech Items starting January 1, Bloomberg News announced.
A Reuters special report revealed that Iran's leader ordered a crackdown on the unrest in the country.”’Do whatever it takes to end it' — the order Iran's Supreme Leader ordered against civilian protesters,” Anna Ahronheim tweeted. Golnaz Esfandiari added that “about 1,500 people were killed in the #Iranprotests. The toll, provided to Reuters by three Iranian interior ministry officials, included at least 17 teenagers as well as some members of the security forces and police.” Scroll India’s Supriya Sharma has “a horrific ground report” on the blood and tears in an Uttar Pradesh town where two young Muslim men fell to bullets. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson took his girlfriend to “a caviar-fuelled Christmas party in London hosted by former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny.” Reporting for The Guardian, Luke Harding and Dan Sabbagh called it an “odd move.” They pointed out that “[the people's PM] stubbornly refused to publish the Russia report, written by the last parliament’s intelligence and security committee.” Speaking of KGB agents, the New York Times revealed How a Poisoning in Bulgaria Exposed Russian Assassins in Europe in a piece written by Michael Schwirtz. Stranded on Border, This Migrant Became the Camp Doctor is an unmissable piece from Miriam Jordan and Mitchell Ferman at the New York Times. Jordan tweeted: “A Cuban asylum seeker stuck on the Mexican side of the border under a U.S. ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy is the only full-time doctor at a migrant encampment. ‘It's what I do best,’ he told me about the work.” Some Trump news to start your week  According to Jonathan Swan at Axios, John Bolton hit Trump for bluffing on the North Korea nuclear policy. Swam tweeted that the former national security adviser told him “that [Bolton] does not think the administration ‘really means it’ when President Trump and top officials vowed to stop North Korea from having deliverable nuclear weapons.”
Team Trump, meanwhile, is Fighting Sanctions on Turkey That Would Help Kurdish Refugees, Betsy Swan revealed at the Daily Beast. “Per [a] doc we obtained, the Trump administration also criticized a proposal that would help Kurds who worked with U.S. troops in Syria get Special Immigrant Visas (the program that brings Afghan and Iraqi interpreters to the U.S.),” Swan said. Edward Wong at the New York Times wrote that Pentagon Aid to Ukraine Was Frozen Right After Trump Spoke With Country’s Leader during that controversial July phone call. “A budget official, Michael Duffey, also told the Pentagon to keep quiet about the aid freeze because of the ‘sensitive nature of the request,’ according to a message dated July 25,” Adam Goldman added. And sharing Toluse Olorunnipa’s story about this phone call update via the Washington Post, Marco Buscaglia tweeted: “What do you know? Turns out @realDonaldTrump was right. That call was ‘perfect.’” The other people running for president  Apparently, billionaire Mike Bloomberg is using a secretive tech firm he founded months ago to power his 2020 presidential bid. Brian Schwartz, Tucker Higgins uncovered “Hawkfish” for CNBC. “It's being run by former Facebook CMO Gary Briggs and former Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck,” Schwartz explained.
For more on Bloomberg, read Matt Flegenheimer and Maggie Haberman's piece in the New York Times about Michael Bloomberg’s Black Swan, which gives us the story of the former NYC mayor’s 2001 campaign. “What story has Anthony Weiner, Trump, Harvey Weinstein and Giuliani in cameos or starring roles?” Haberman enticed, explaining that “there were basically two campaigns - pre 9/11 and post 9/11.” Axios’ Jonathan Swan pops up again today with a scoop that a Pete Buttigieg fundraiser dangled influence for donations in a recent email. “‘If you want to get on the campaign's radar now before he is flooded with donations after winning Iowa and New Hampshire, you can use the link below for donations.’ - Mayor Pete with the quid pro quo,” Mike Cernovich shared. Writing for the New York Times Opinion section, David Leonhardt wondered: What About Centrist Bias? “Centrism is an ideology. Too often, we in the media treat centrism as inherently sensible,” he tweeted. A follow-up Adding to last week’s op-ed from Christianity Today that Trump should be removed from office, the evangelical Christian publication’s president gave us an update today titled The Flag in the Whirlwind. “We have received countless notes of encouragement from readers who were profoundly moved. They no longer feel alone. They have hope again,” Timothy Dalrymple wrote in his piece. “This is marvelous,” David French tweeted. Related, Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman explain How Donald Trump Took Over the Republican Party in the New York Times. It involves “Fear and Loyalty.” “Trump brooks no intra-party dissent, and the political, electoral and financial incentives all work against anyone who does so,” Haberman tweeted. ‘Treat everyone you meet like God in drag’  Baba Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert), a proponent of LSD and New Age Enlightenment, died at age 88. Douglas Martin wrote the obituary for the New York Times. Sid Acker tweeted, “‘It’s been a hell of a dance, hasn’t it?’ Travel in peace, Baba Ram Dass.” Benjamin Haas eulogized with this quote: “Treat everyone you meet like God in drag."
The Dallas Cowboys are stuck in Philadelphia for now, after their charter plane was deemed “not viable” to fly them home, according to NBC News football reporter Mike Florio. The New York Times hired eight local news journalists who lost their jobs in 2019 to tell The Stories They Couldn’t Tell. Even cooler, the reporters worked alongside local news photographers to bring these stories to life. Also from the New York Times, a recognizability quiz to celebrate the end of this year and also wrote a headline that sort of negs you in taking it? Quiz: Can You Identify These Politicians, Athletes, and Celebrities? Most Americans Can’t. “Take the quiz because it's fun and People Like Quizzes! But read the piece to see some insights about recognizability, celebrity, and the 2020 election,” Kevin Quealy encouraged.  Because today's news cycle honestly couldn’t get any more crowded (it probably will), CNN’s Dakin Andone brought us an update that a Bill Cosby spokesman addressed Eddie Murphy’s “Saturday Night Live” appearance. Murphy made jokes at Cosby's expense during his opening monologue. Now Cosby’s people are openly calling Murphy a “Hollywood slave.”
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