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Mini-Me: CIA Loses Official Cover Site in Benghazi — No Plan B + RECAP

Huh? Deadly Attack in Libya Was Major Blow to C.I.A. Efforts By ERIC SCHMITT, HELENE COOPER and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT WASHINGTON — The attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans has dealt the Central Intelligence Agency a major setback in its intelligence-gathering efforts at a time of increasing …

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Michel Bauwens: Difficult Birth – the Financial Transaction Tax

Brilliant and funny video on the Tobin Tax  Via Willy De Backer Video “Difficult Labour” for the financial transaction tax of Oxfam Germany with Heike Makatsch, Mark Waschke, Stephan Grossman & Rike Eckermann. YouTube (2:08) More info at: http://www.oxfam.de/schweregeburt Music: The Communards – Don’t Leave Me This Way See Also: A Tax Revolution – Replace …

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Theophillis Goodyear: How American Democracy Became the Property of a Commercial Oligarchy

Feast of Fools: How American Democracy Became the Property of a Commercial Oligarchy Huffington Post, 20 August 2012 Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com [A longer version of this essay appears in “Politics,” the Fall 2012 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly; this slightly shortened version is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.] All power corrupts …

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Mini-Me: Italian Court Confirms Convictions of CIA Personnel for Rendition & Torture – Way Now Clear for Formal Extradition Request

Huh? Italy court upholds American convictions in CIA case ROME (AP) — Italy’s highest criminal court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of 23 Americans in the abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan street as part of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program, paving the way to possible extradition requests by Italian authorities. The …

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Patrick Meier: Social Mobilization via Six Degrees of Separation with Comment

Six Degrees of Separation: Implications for Verifying Social Media Posted on September 18, 2012 | Leave a comment The Economist recently published this insightful article entitled” Six Degrees of Mobilisation: To what extent can social networking make it easier to find people and solve real-world problems?” The notion, six degrees of separation, comes from Stanley Milgram’s [small world] …

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Marcus Aurelius: CIA Scrambles to Rush Spies and Drones to Libya – Makes Budget Increase Play on the Side

More of the same — never mind that the event is over and CIA has nothing serious to contribute. U.S. Scrambles To Rush Spies, Drones To Libya ArmyTimes.com, September 15, 2012 By Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The U.S. is sending more spies, Marines and drones to Libya, trying to speed the search for …

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