Your Presidential Daily Brief: Obama in Putin's Shadow | Colin Powell Used AOL

[The Presidential Daily Brief] [The Presidential Daily Brief] IMPORTANT September 8, 2016 [Hillary Clinton talks policy at a national security forum on the deck of the USS Intrepid in New York Wednesday. Source: Getty] [Trump Tells Forum Putin's a Better Leader Than Obama] There was an 800-pound bear in the room. Appearing separately at an NBC security forum last night, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton faced tough questions, she on her email controversy and he on his bromance with Vladimir Putin. Trump lauded his great relationship with Putin, who has "an 82 percent approval rating" and has "been a leader" far more than Barack Obama. While Trump touted his secret plan to wipe out ISIS, [Clinton] vowed not to send ground troops into Syria - or "ever again" into Iraq. Sources: [ABC], [NYT], [The Guardian], [AP] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Colin Powell Advised Clinton on Avoiding Official Servers] She wasn't alone. The retired general exchanged emails with [Hillary Clinton] when she became America's top diplomat, describing how he'd bypassed State Department email accounts when he was George W. Bush's secretary of state. Despite Powell's complaints that Clinton's camp was "trying to pin it" on him and his resistance to retrieving his AOL emails, congressional Democrats released the exchange to show that Clinton's private communications weren't unorthodox. In one message to Clinton, Powell warned that if her Blackberry use were publicized, "It may become ... subject to the law." Sources: [USA Today], [CNN], [ABC] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Hanjin Bankruptcy Strands $14 Billion in Cargo] Tracking that shipment? Korean shipping giant Hanjin has filed for bankruptcy, which means half a million containers on dozens of [ships] can't dock - port authorities aren't sure their fees will be paid - and cargo owners are scrambling to recover their goods. Among them is Samsung, which has $38 million worth of merchandise adrift and is mulling chartering cargo planes for its electronic goods. Hanjin's ships carry 3.2 percent of the world's container cargo, so if the situation persists, retailers might be squeezed for the upcoming holiday season. Sources: [WSJ (sub)], [BBC] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Taliban Strikes Afghan Provincial Capital] The war's still raging. A provincial spokesman says a [Taliban] offensive briefly wrested Tarin Kot, capital of the southern province of Uruzgan, from Afghan government forces, causing local officials to flee to the airport. The sudden collapse of government control in some areas resembles last year's capture of a northern provincial capital, Kunduz, where a U.S. hospital airstrike killed 42 people before Afghan forces retook the city. Recent Taliban activity prompted the deployment of more American troops to Helmand, just south of Uruzgan, to prevent its capital from falling. Sources: [Reuters], [AP] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] Briefly Know This: The [iPhone 7] looks about the same as its predecessors, but boasts processor and camera upgrades - and the well-known lack of headphone jacks. Turkey's president says he and the U.S. are ["ready to invade"] the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa. Brazilian President Michel Temer appeared at the [Paralympics opening ceremony] in Rio - prompting boos. Hear This: Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, has a new podcast, [Team Human], which delves into ways to make technology work for people, as well as for profits. Read This: If you were born to run, or even just born in the USA, you'll want to get a taste of [Bruce Springsteen's] new 500-page memoir. INTRIGUING [Last Remaining F. Scott Fitzgerald Stories to Be Published] He still beats on against the current. The celebrated American writer left a slew of unpublished stories, the last of which will finally be released in April. Publishers sat on many of The Great Gatsby author's stories, while others were considered [controversial] or unsellable in the 1930s. Though some of these saw daylight in The New Yorker and The Strand in recent years, the new collection of short stories, I'd Die For You, exhausts Fitzgerald's secret library and will give fans a fresh taste of Jazz Age literature. Sources: [Time] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Google to Battle ISIS Recruitment Online] Are they feeling lucky? Google's Jigsaw think tank believes it can thwart the work of online terrorist recruiters. Their plan? Supplementing results for [ISIS] -related searches with a "targeted advertising campaign" of YouTube testimonials in English and Arabic from former extremists, imams denouncing the group's hypocrisy and corruption of Islam, and hidden-cam exposés. Jigsaw plans to launch the system, whose pilot garnered impressive click-through rates and attracted more than 300,000 viewers earlier this year, in a program targeting North American extremists - including white supremacists - this month. Sources: [Wired] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] [The Pakistani-American Lawyer Defending Media Rights] A free press isn't free. Nabiha Syed, 31, the general assistant counsel for news site BuzzFeed, is helping journalists navigate tough stories and battling for their rights. The granddaughter of Pakistan's first female high court judge, Syed cut her legal teeth at The Guardian and The New York Times. Media rights have been threatened since Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel bankrupted Gawker by funding a libel suit - but Syed's playing both sides, arguing that social media needs to protect users from harassment that's sometimes defended as free expression. Sources: [OZY] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Russian Nickel Plant Blamed for Red River] They're seeing the hue and crying. In striking social media posts, residents near the world's northernmost city have shown the Daldykan River running blood red. Denizens of Norilsk are pointing fingers at the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant, which processes nickel concentrate, and noting that the phenomenon's not new. The plant's parent company, Norilsk Nickel, wouldn't confirm a leak of industrial waste and released its own photo of a normal-colored river, but added that it has reduced production and it's conducting [environmental] monitoring, undoubtedly hoping locals will stop seeing red. Sources: [Popular Science], [Siberian Times] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Reports: Ryan Lochte Faces 10-Month Suspension] Get out of the pool. Today the U.S. [Olympic] Committee and USA Swimming will reportedly announce a 10-month suspension for the gold medalist over his infamous robbery fabrication. Lochte and three other swimmers allegedly vandalized a Rio gas station bathroom, then portrayed security guards as armed robbers. Teammate Jack Conger is expected to get a four-month suspension, while Lochte, whose hijinks have cost him four endorsement deals, will miss the 2017 World Championships. Meanwhile, he's signed on for the next season of "Dancing With the Stars." Sources: [ESPN], [Washington Post] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] Your 8 must reads to get you ahead of the curve FAST FORWARD [The Future of Medicine: PredicTED by OZY] [Read In Full] PROVOCATEURS [The Most Infamous Cheesemaker in the U.S. Is a Nun] [Read In Full] ACUMEN [The New Feminism: A Home of One's Own] [Read In Full] 20M people love reading OZY every month. Be part of the revolution. 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