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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.

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...

When Albert C. Barnes was born it was not to a upper echelon family, rather a lower middle class family teetering on the brink of poverty in the Phillidephia. He got into college, but had to ring fight in order to pay for his tuition. A bright man he came up with a medical cure while at the university, which stopped an eye disease effecting infants at the time. Having a understanding of progress that the old money in the city did not have access to, he decided to make his fortune grow into something other than power.

Journalist Luke Rudkowski was attacked by police Wednesday night while trying to document the Occupy Wall Street arrests in NY. NYPD used pepper spray, batons, and brute force to move protesters away from the entrance to Wall Street after many tried to push through police barricades. Rumors immediately circulated that police provocateurs dressed as protesters were to blame for the incident.

Direct link: Luke Rudkowski Attacked by Police, Baton to the Gut at Occupy Wall Street Arrests

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

HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12494

The Japanese people are now paying a horrific price for the impossible dream of the "Peaceful Atom." For a half-century they have been told that what's happening now at Fukushima would never occur.

Our hearts and souls must first and foremost go out to them. As fellow humans, we must do everything in our power to ease their wounds, their terrible losses and their unimaginable grief.
We are also obliged---for all our sakes---to make sure this never happens again.

Leaked documents show how three large British companies have been paying private security firm to monitor activists

Rob Evans and Paul Lewis
guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 February 2011

Protesters at Ratcliffe-on Soar power station, operated by E.ON, which says it has hired security firms to gather information on climate activists. Photograph: Tom Pilston
Three large energy companies have been carrying out covert intelligence-gathering operations on environmental activists, the Guardian can reveal.

The energy giant E.ON, Britain's second-biggest coal producer Scottish Resources Group and Scottish Power, one of the UK's largest electricity-generators, have been paying for the services of a private security firm that has been secretly monitoring activists.

Published: guardian.co.uk Friday, 21 January 2011:

Confidential US diplomatic cables from 2005 and 2006 released this week by WikiLeaks reveal Washington's well-known obsession to keep exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide out of Haiti and Haitian affairs. (On Thursday, Aristide issued a public letter in which he reiterated "my readiness to leave today, tomorrow, at any time" from South Africa for Haiti, because the Haitian people "have never stopped calling for my return" and "for medical reasons", concerning his eyes.)

In a 8 June 2005 meeting of US Ambassador to Brazil John Danilovich, joined by his political counsellor (usually, the local CIA station chief), with then President Lula da Silva's international affairs adviser Marco Aurelio Garcia, we learn that:

US embassy cable recommends drawing up list of countries for 'retaliation' over opposition to genetic modification

by John Vidal, environment editor guardian.co.uk, 3 January 2011

The US embassy in Paris wanted to penalise the EU after France moved to ban a Monsanto GM corn variety.
The US embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country which opposed genetically modified (GM) crops, newly released WikiLeaks cables show.

In response to moves by France to ban a Monsanto GM corn variety in late 2007, the ambassador, Craig Stapleton, a friend and business partner of former US president George Bush, asked Washington to penalise the EU and particularly countries which did not support the use of GM crops.

“Dear Afghanistan:” A New Year’s Call for Peace

While the US may be the world's single super power in military terms, it faces another super power: the voices of war-weary millions who detest violence and killing. In Afghanistan, in the United States, and among the populations of countries whose governments have joined the NATO coalition, millions of people are calling for an end to war in Afghanistan.

This FRIDAY DECEMBER 31 and SATURDAY JANUARY 1 we have a special opportunity to talk with peace-oriented people in Afghanistan by telephone wherever you are – AND ALSO by a computer link that will be set up at Traditions Café (5th & Water in downtown Olympia).

This is from interpress check it out:
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53790 -Rick

By Gareth Porter and Jim Lobe*

WASHINGTON, Dec 6, 2010 (IPS) - The dominant theme that emerged in U.S. media coverage of the first round of Wikileaks diplomatic cables last week was that Arab regimes in the Gulf - led by Saudi Arabia - shared Israel's view that Iran's nuclear programme had to be stopped by military force, if necessary.

The New York Times generated that narrative with a front- page story featuring an alleged quote by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia urging the United States to "cut off the head of the snake", as well as other statements by Gulf Arab leaders suggesting support for military action.

This wikileaks stuff on Afghanistan is hard evidence that the US presence has led to a incredibly corrupt situation. Were it not for widespread public denial of the degree of badness of US "intelligence" agencies a huge amount of global evil could be avoided.
I recieved this by way of a listserve from Tacoma- Peaople For Peace, Justice and Healing: http://www.tacomapjh.org/
-Rick

[In its Friday edition, the *New York Times* series based on secret
U.S. diplomatic cables leaked to Wikileaks focused on Afghanistan. --
Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti, and Dexter Filkins reported that they
show that Afghanistan is "a looking-glass land where bribery,
extortion, and embezzlement are the norm and the honest official is a
distinct outlier."[1] -- While corruption in Afghanistan is no news,

This is from AlterNet -Rick

By Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet
Posted on November 11, 2010, Printed on December 4, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/148818/

Veterans Day, which Americans celebrate on November 11, was originally called Armistice Day, to commemorate the cessation of fighting in the Great War of 1914-1918. In the United States, the idea that this was “the war to end all wars,” (a phrase coined by H.G. Wells in a pamphlet of that name and echoed by Woodrow Wilson with equal earnestness) was challenged by an outspoken and persecuted peace movement, including poor farmers and black Americans conscripted at disproportionate rates.

Join the Beehive Collective for a visual workshop on "The True Cost of Coal"

When: Wednesday, November 10th from 4-6pm
Where: The Evergreen State College, Lecture Hall 3

Using a gigantic, portable mural teeming with intricate images of plants and
animals, the Bees will walk participants through the connections between