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2011/02/022011/02/02

AFIO Selected Headlines: Google, Woolsey, Hayden

Google Comes Under Fire for ‘Secret’ Relationship with NSA. Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group largely focused in recent years on Google’s privacy practices, has called on a congressional investigation into the Internet giant’s “cozy” relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration. In a letter sent Monday, Consumer Watchdog asked Representative Darrell Issa, the new chairman …

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2011/02/012011/02/01

BLOWBACK, Legitimate Grievances, & Integrity Lost

Phi Beta Iota: The announcement of the Egyptian Army that it recognizes the “legitimate grievances” of the public and that it will not use force is in fact a recognition of both the substance of the public grievances, and the fact that force would backfire–there are not enough guns on the planet to repress the …

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2011/01/302011/02/13

Women of Washington–The Lunacy Continues

(1) This **could** be DoD’s near-term future; (2) honestly have not heard anything bad about her; (3) my principal concern is that she has no personal military experience, which I personally think should be mandatory for any SECDEF. Chuck Spinney Sends: Truely nuts. The article is a puff piece about an incompetent fraud who happens …

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2011/01/302011/10/22

Assisi, Egypt, US Hypocrisy, Global Revolution

This is the one link to share if you wish to have a consolidated view on these topics. The Tiny URL for this consolidated posting is http://www.tinyurl.com/Assisi-Egypt-USA. Phi Beta Iota: Egypt is a lever for the Assisi Peace Summit. 1) Against dictators and corruption, inter-faith dialog and coordinated action is HAPPENING. 2) The connected young …

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2011/01/25

Where Does the Money Go?

The Top Ten Foreign Holders of U.s. Debt in November 2009: Country Amount China, Mainland $789.6 billion Japan …

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2011/01/212011/01/21

2011 Food Crisis, Urban Gardening, Social Systems

Dear friends, Food is basic. Lester Brown — founder of both the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, author of over 50 books on environmental issues, recipient of 26 honorary degrees and a MacArthur Fellowship, and (according to the Washington Post) “one of the world’s most influential thinkers” — has just published a cogent …

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2011/01/202011/01/20

INDICATIONS & WARNING: Political Violence Forecasts

Predictive Societal Indicators of Radicalism In collaboration with our academic partners Prof. Cingranelli at the Political Science Department, SUNY Binghamton University and Profs. Sam Bell and Amanda Murdie at the Department of Political Science, Kansas State University, we developed a Domestic Political Violence Model that forecasts political violence levels five years into the future. The …

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