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Journal: Over 100 “Sensitive But Unclassified” Protocols

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice

Presidential Task Force on Controlled Unclassified Information Releases Report and Recommendations

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The Presidential Interagency Task Force on Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), led by Attorney General Holder and Secretary Napolitano, today released a report recommending a single, standardized framework for marking, safeguarding and disseminating sensitive but unclassified (SBU) information across the federal government. SBU information refers collectively to the various designations for documents and information that are sufficiently sensitive to warrant some level of protection but that do not meet the standards for classification.

There are more than 100 different SBU markings and handling procedures currently in use across the federal government.

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Secrecy News Orginal Commentary: New Framework Proposed for “Sensitive” Govt Info

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Journal: Advise and Assist (Iraq)

Law Enforcement, Military, Peace Intelligence
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U.S.-Iraqi partnership halts smuggling across Syrian border

Dec 14, 2009   By Spc. Michael J. MacLeod

CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE UBAYDI, Iraq (Dec. 14, 2009) — Since U.S. advise and assist forces began partnering with Iraqi border patrols along the Syrian border in mid-November, instances of smugglers circumventing port-of-entry stations have all but ceased, according to several sources within the Department of Border Enforcement.

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The Americans bring highly-skilled manpower, armored trucks, night-vision optics and satellite imagery, while the Iraqis bring knowledge of the terrain and local smuggling patterns, said 1st Lt. Pat Barone, whose platoon of paratroopers was conducting nightly operations with the Iraqis north of Husayba.

Iraq’s first line of defense secures border crossing

By: 1st Lt. Juan Torres, Jr. Tue Dec. 15, 2009 [with mulitple photographs]

JOINT SECURITY STATION AL WAHAB, Iraq — Iraq’s first line of defense, their border police, trained at the Al Sheeb Port of Entry, led by Port of Entry Transition Team “Juggernaut,” and made significant advances in improving border security in the southern Maysan province.

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Event Report: UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy Among Civil Society in Southeast Asia

09 Terrorism, 10 Security, Communities of Practice, Key Players, Methods & Process, Peace Intelligence
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The Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation and Nahdatul Ulama (NU), with support from the governments of Germany and Sweden, co-hosted a workshop in Jakarta on 18-19 November 2009 to raise awareness of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy among civil society in Southeast Asia and explore the possibilities for greater civil society participation in efforts to implement the global framework in a manner that reflects the local contexts, needs, and prioriti es across the region. Participants in the workshop included representatives from civil society from across Southeast Asia working on an array of issues related to the implementation of the UN Strategy. The workshop aimed to build on the rich contributions of civil society to furthering human security in Southeast Asia and lay the foundations for the development of a civil society network related to the issues covered in the UN Strategy.

Click here to read the meeting summary.

Click here to read the background paper.

Press Coverage (Nine Links):

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Journal: CNN & Fox Ignore Peace Rally, Others Notice

11 Society, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Government, Media

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Protests? They are ILLEGAL Under the Obama-Bloomberg Administrations
EndWar Protest Website

UPDATED:

15 Dec 09

Protest? What Protest?

By Dave Lindorff
The Public Record
Dec 15th, 2009

In what passes for corporate journalism in America, this concept has taken the form of, “If we don’t report on it, it didn’t happen.”

That certainly was the case for the emergency protest organized by a coalition of anti-war organizations under the banner EndUSWars.org, which saw over 1000 people gather on short notice in the bitter cold on Lafayette Park opposite the White House to protest President Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan on Saturday, Dec. 12.

Not a word about this impromptu protest, which included many people who had supported the election of President Obama only a year ago, appeared in the New York Times. Nor did the Washington Post bother to mention the protest in its own back yard, not even in its Metro section pages. The other national newspaper, USA Today, likewise blacked out news of the protest.

Topic: War

Peace Movement Says Hello World

A new anti-war coalition based at EndUSwars.org held its first rally on Saturday, Dec. 12 2009 outside the U.S. White House.

by John Kusumi (centrist liberal)     Monday, December 14, 2009

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Worth a Look: Nader 2000 campaign manager publishes article on discriminatory ballot access laws

09 Justice, 11 Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Reform, Worth A Look
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Theresa Amato, who served as campaign manager for Ralph Nader’s 2000 Green and 2004 independent runs for president, has an opinion piece in the Harvard Law Record entitled “The Two Party Ballot Suppresses Third Party Change”. She notes that although Nader wrote a piece on discriminatory ballot access laws for the same publication in 1958, the situation has not improved in the 51 years since then. Amato is the author of the recent book Grand Illusion: the Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny. See also Review: Running on Empty–How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It (Paperback)

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Journal: Real Estate Crash, Internet Censors, & Commons

Commercial Intelligence
From $125M to $60M
From $125M to $60M

The crash in real estate among the very rich who were NOT part of the Wall Street cabal is a fine indicator of “relative valuations.”  Bottom line: Everything is worth 50% less now in “real dollars,” and will be worth even less as the US dollar continues to devalue.

In other news of idiocy run amok, we have the Austrlian government bent on censoring the Internet–that's right up there with those who want to be able to close down the US Internet “in case of emergency”.

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Australia will try to censor the Internet

THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT has decided that the land Down Under will become the only Western Democracy to attempt to censor the Internet.

Despite warnings that the government is committing political suicide and the technology will not work, the Rudd government is screaming for the same controls over its citizens as Communist China.

It is insisting that filtering a blacklist of banned sites will be accurate and won't slow down the Internet.

James Bernard Quilligan
James Bernard Quilligan

Meanwhile, signs of Intelligent Life still active:

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Worth a Look: Open Space Questions on Environment

Earth Intelligence
Open Questions
Open Questions

Super cool global map with question snap-shots.  An early look suggests that many are focusing on two things:

1.  The insanity of creating a financial carbon trade market instead of focusing on things that are rooted in the ground and impact on what people actually do every day–the public sees Maurice Strong and the Carbon Trade deal as a scam.

2.  The utility of rapidly pushing back livestock and the meating of captive meat, as this has an immediate effect not only on methane gas and other climate issues, but on reducing feces into the ground water (remember the cow shit into the spinach?).

References:

Review: Diet for a Small Planet

Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma–A Natural History of Four Meals

Review: Low Carbon Diet–A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds–Be Part of the Global Warming Solution!

Review: Permaculture–Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability

Review: The Blue Death–Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink

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