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Concerning the Violent Peace-Police: An Open Letter to Chris Hedges | Truthout I am writing this on the premise that you are a well-meaning person who wishes Occupy Wall Street to succeed. I am also writing as someone who was deeply involved in the early stages of planning Occupy in New York. I am also an anarchist who has participated in many Black Blocs. While I have never personally engaged in acts of property destruction, I have on more than one occasion taken part in Blocs where property damage has occurred. (I have taken part in even more Blocs that did not engage in such tactics. It is a common fallacy that this is what Black Blocs are all about. I was hardly the only Black Bloc veteran who took part in planning the initial strategy for Occupy Wall Street. This is why I feel compelled to respond to your statement “The Cancer in Occupy.” Let me just lay out a few initial facts: 1. All this is secondary. I am appealing to you because I really do believe the kind of statement you made is profoundly dangerous. This situation often produces extraordinary ironies.

Top Level Telecommunications Romas/COIN The following report was released by Project PM in June 2011 and provides an overview of Romas/COIN along with incidental information on some of the firms that were involved in pursuing the contract throughout 2010 and early 2011. My initial announcement piece in The Guardian is here. Additional information may be found in a follow-up piece by Tom Burghardt. Further commentary on the subject by Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer is available in this Russia Today segment. For at least two years, the U.S. has been conducting a secretive and immensely sophisticated campaign of mass surveillance and data mining against the Arab world, allowing the intelligence community to monitor the habits, conversations, and activity of millions of individuals at once. To the extent that the actions of a government are divorced from the informed consent of those who pay for such actions, such a government is illegitimate. "I met with Bob Frisbie the other day to catch up. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Activists and Anarchists Speak for Themselves at Occupy Oakland January 28 was not supposed to turn out the way it did. After Occupy Oakland failed to occupy its first two targeted buildings and had a short-lived street battle in front of the Oakland Museum, police in riot gear contained the march of nearly 1,000 in a public park. There was a dispersal order, but no means of escape. Protesters with shields attempted to push the police line, which responded with several volleys of tear gas into the crowd, still trapped. As marchers, both masked and bare faced, continued north, taking the street, they chanted powerfully, suddenly and without reservation: "When Oakland is under attack, what do we do?" As the move-in committee said Monday in a statement on January 28: "This time, the chant was not an empty one." Occupy Oakland, January 28, 2012. This principle, this fight, appears to be at the heart of recent critiques of "anarchists," "Black Bloc" and the tactics some choose to employ in political protest, especially in Oakland. But so does Hedges.

Global LI Industry Forum Endgame Systems Endgame Systems (founded 2008) has been of interest to this investigation due to the firm's close association with corrupt HBGary CEO Aaron Barr, their stated intent to avoid public attention towards its work with the federal government, its longtime collaboration with Palantir employee Matthew Steckman (whom Palantir fired in the wake of the Team Themis affair, quite improbably claiming that Steckman had acted on his own), and its creation of a report on Wikileaks and Anonymous which was provided to Team Themis for use in its campaign against both entities. In July of 2011, an investigation by Business Week revealed the probable reasons for the firm's secrecy: People who have seen the company pitch its technology—and who asked not to be named because the presentations were private—say Endgame executives will bring up maps of airports, parliament buildings, and corporate offices. Endgame’s price list may be the most important document in the collection. Endgame bills itself thusly: 1.

Derrick Jensen Cryptome Cubic Corporation Founded and headquartered in San Diego, CA since 1951, Cubic is the parent company of three major business segments. Cubic's businesses are primarily engaged in the design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of high technology systems, products, and services for government and commercial customers. With fiscal year 2011 sales of $1.285 billion, Cubic employs nearly 7,800 people worldwide. Mission Support Services -an industry leader in providing comprehensive support services for all echelons of national militaries and security forces in the U.S. and allied nations. Cubic Defense Applications -the leading provider of live air and ground combat training systems worldwide, a key supplier of virtual and immersive training systems, communications and electronics products, and an emerging provider of cyber technologies and global tracking solutions for commercial and national military customers. Intro Profile Ntrepid Background (Full article ) Location, Directors, Funding

John Zerzan: anti-civilization theorist, writer and speaker Sniffmap Sniffmap shows risks of interception, per country Sniffmap is a project to map the potential Internet mass interception performed by NSA and its allies (USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand). Since Edward Snowden disclosure, the security space has changed: rumors have been confirmed, data points have been available and new knowledge about security exposure and attack vectors is now known. This project tries to put this in easy to grasp visual representation, within the bigger context of TelcoMap.org. Actually, we get route data not only per country but also per ISP and operator, but for now we didn't find a way to visualize that neatly. Results Better display: Research methodology As stated in the fateful NSA document, many telecommunication links go through USA and its allies to connect two other countries. Our metholody is the following Known bias There are a few known bias Ok, so this research deals with routes, so why not using BGP? Contribute! Join! People

Trapwire Trapwire Inc. came to prominence in August 2012 after Wikileaks released a series of emails from Stratfor which documented the company and its operations. Company Details Public Intelligence states that the Abraxas Corporation 'originally created TrapWire under its subsidiary Abraxas Applications in 2006 [1]. Justin Ferguson has worked on further information from SEC filings and the state of Virginia to try and determine if, and how, the companies were or are linked. Despite Cubic's denial of affiliation, Abraxas Corporation subsidiary Abraxas Dauntless shares an interlocking directorate including Richard Hollis Helms with both TrapWire and Ntrepid at least as recently as 2012-09, and appears to have done so continuously since the merger with Cubic. Information at the Corporation Wiki compiled from official filings with the California and Texan state governments and Dun & Bradstreet (last updated 23 July, 2012) state that Trapwire Inc.' The Corporation Wiki lists the 'active officers' as:

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