Friday, December 30, 2011
Notes Fri 30 Dec 11
Notes and links below are from today's postings in the Further Left Chat Room and its associated Facebook and Twitter pages. Updates are added at the top as information develops.
RT - RonPaul was right about CIA drug deal (picks nose to illustrate?) http://on.rt.com/0yc458
PressTV - Occupy Wall Street rejects US politics of war http://dlvr.it/12rcW7
Irish Times: In the year of the protester, Bradley Manning is the great dissenter http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/1224/1224309458306.html
RT - Thousands leave GoDaddy over registrar's support for SOPA http://on.rt.com/8gxsxo
YouTube - Norman Finkelstein: There was NO WAR in GAZA, it was a MASSACRE http://youtu.be/_kPe5zcTjH4?a
Chat Room - Iran president to visit four latin american countries next month http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=637297
RT - Freedom of tweets: Occupy Boston in cop court case http://on.rt.com/0g2pvg
Iraqi president calls for urgent talks http://dlvr.it/12qJPV
WSWS - Strikes escalate in China http://t.co/KlAy8TVC
RT - New American political parties emerge [VIDEO] http://on.rt.com/2kiry6
WSWS - 75 years since the Flint sit-down strike http://dld.bz/aAaZA
RT - Russia-US: Looking ahead to 2012 http://on.rt.com/t1gx5m
RT - Iron Lady behind bars: Tymoshenko moved to prison http://on.rt.com/dq5zvg
Ma'an News - UK condemns Israel's 'provocative' plans in Jerusalem http://bit.ly/soYXkj
MEM - Israel killed 180 Palestinians, including 21 children, in 2011 http://ow.ly/8dTDb
RT - Democracy 2011: pros and cons http://on.rt.com/toq08o
Anti War.com - Did the Pentagon Help Strangle the Arab Spring? http://bit.ly/tLJ3er
Jared Diamond: Why societies collapse YouTube video http://youtu.be/IESYMFtLIis?a
RT - Information War against Russia http://on.rt.com/pg8akj
PressTV - 'US empire heading toward collapse' http://dlvr.it/12n0f6
RT - ‘US not ready for all-out conflict with Iran’ http://on.rt.com/opmh6m
Obama defies base, hires Wall Street lobbyist for re-election campaign http://thedc.com/sgzaKg
Syrian information controversy: who to trust? http://on.rt.com/gb7hx4
RT - LulzXmas goes on: ‘Robin Hood hackers’ rob military retailer http://on.rt.com/b93emw
U.S., Saudi Arabia agree to $30 billion deal for F-15s http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/29/world/meast/u-s--saudi-fighter-sale/index.html
Chat Room - US special forces observed and video'd crossing into Matamoros, Mexico with Mexican military escort. http://theintelhub.com/2011/12/29/video-u-s-special-ops-team-crosses-the-border-into-mexico-escorted-by-mexican-military/