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This is from Global Research: Everything we don't want to know about our growing reliance on facebook as an organizing tool. The original has links to other articles worth checking out -Rick

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29288

by Julie Lévesque
Global Research, February 15, 2012

A new study by the Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies’ (MCIS) 2012 Intelligence Studies Yearbook points to the use of social media as “the new cutting edge in open-source tactical intelligence collection”. IntelNews.org's Joseph Fitsanakis, who co-authored the study, reports:

Events are building for a more energetic than usual Martin Luther King day this January 16th.

http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/441-occupy/9281-black-church...

By Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News

05 January 12

This is from narconews -Rick
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2011/12/zambada-ni...

Posted by Bill Conroy - December 10, 2011 at 3:16 pm

Prosecutor, DEA Agent Confirm Intel From Sinaloa Mafia Used to Undermine Juarez, Beltran Leyva Drug Organizations

U.S. government officials have long presented the drug war through the media as a type of "Dirty Harry” movie, in which hardscrabble cops are engaged in a pitched battle with hardened street criminals who threaten the very social fabric of life behind America’s gated communities.

"Money can pass through your hands like water but the land is forever" "What are we going to leave for our children if we don't stand up and fight? This is a fight for survival!"

Of course a big part of decolonization is getting folks to realize that they have inherited a colonial system.

I guess this one is not a spoof. It sounds like it came out in the Onion. -Rick

http://www.truth-out.org/77-trillion-wall-street-anything-keep-banksters...

How can we get through the mounting crises, ecological and economic, in a time of political conflict and confusion? We believe we provide solid, unique answers, based on reaction so far to these articles:

Good News for Mother Earth and You: When Our Division Is Over
by Jan Lundberg
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/799/1/
"...you may be convinced we have already sealed our fate and that humans may well go extinct possibly in a matter of decades, tracking the worst potential climate chaos. So why bother to hang around and breathe out your carbon dioxide?"

The Challenge of Unity Amidst Economic Crisis and the End of Growth
by Jan Lundberg
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/798/1/

This was on the Olympia/Rafah listserve:

If you know someone interested in joining the "olympiaandrafah" listserv, please have him or her send an email to
olympiaandrafah-subscribe@lists.riseup.net -Rick

http://www.haaretz.com/news/judith-butler-as-a-jew-i-was-taught-it-was-e...

Q:
Once you became "Judith Butler," we began to hear more about Jews and Jewish texts. People came to hear you speak about gender and suddenly they were faced with Gaza, divine violence. It almost felt like you had some closure on the previous matter. Is there a connection, a continuum, or is this a new phase?

This is from Reuters -Rick

By David Ingram

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Occupy Wall Street movement is a big enough problem for U.S. banks that they should pay for opposition research into the political motives of protesters, said a firm that lobbies for the industry.

Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford, a Washington-based firm, proposed the idea in a memo to the American Banking Association, an industry group which said on Saturday that it did not act on the idea.

The four-page memo outlined how the firm could analyze the source of protesters' money, as well as their rhetoric and the backgrounds of protest leaders.

This was in the Bay Gaurdian -Rick

http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2011/11/18/cop-group-coordinating-occupy-cr...
11.18.11 - 11:23 am | Shawn Gaynor |

A national group with ties to Homeland Security helped paln the Occupy Oakland busts

As cities across America evict encampments of the Occupy Wall Street movement, similarities of timing, talking points and tactics among major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs have led critics to wonder: Is some sort of national coordination going on?

The White House says there’s no federal oversight. Speaking November 15 aboard Air Force One, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said “The president’s position is that obviously every municipality has to make its own decisions about how to handle these issues.”

This is from Censored News Check it out -Rick

Friday, November 18, 2011
Anonymous exposes e-mails of DOJ agent
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

(Nov. 18, 2011) Anonymous said today it has hacked the e-mails of a Department of Justice special investigator, which contained messages from ex-wives and girlfriends, and "man seeking woman" responses on Craig's List.

This is from Greg Palasts listserve. -Rick

The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Ken Langone and the Kochs—and why they need to buy the White House

by Greg Palast for TruthOut/Buzzflash

Greg Palast's investigative reports are broadcast by BBC Television's Newsnight. His new book, Vultures' Picnic: a Tale of Oil, Sex, Radiation and Investigative Reporting will be released by Penguin USA on November 14.

[October 5, 2011] Paul Singer likes to breakfast on decayed carcasses. What he chews down is sickening, but just as nausea-inducing are his new table mates: Ken Langone and the Koch Brothers, Charles and David.

This is from an e-mail posted by Rights Action -Rick

www.rightsaction.org

* Follow Rights Action on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RightsAction.org

Campesinos Pitted Against Military, Police, Mercenaries and Drug Traffickers in Palm Oil Region as Canada and US Strengthen Trade Interests

WHAT TO DO = NO MORE 'BUSINESS AND POLITICS AS USUAL' WITH REPRESSIVE UNDEMOCRATIC REGIMES

Demand that the US and Canada end military and police assistance relations with Honduras;

Demand that the US and Canada suspend the implementation of the "free trade" agreement, and other trade agreements, and prioritize respect for human rights, for justice and the rule of law, and the re-founding of the Honduras State and society

CONTACTS - USA