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The 1st publication to discover the Occupy circulation intensive, with reportage and analysis.

In the autumn of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown ny exploded right into a international rebellion, sparked partially by way of the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial checklist of this flow, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand bills of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall road with contentious debates and considerate reflections, that includes the editors and writers of the prestigious n+1, in addition to many of the world’s top radical thinkers, reminiscent of Slavoj Žižek, Angela Davis, and Rebecca Solnit.

The publication conveys the serious pleasure of these current on the start of a counterculture, whereas offering the circulation with a major platform for debating targets, calls for, and strategies. Articles tackle the background of the “horizontalist” constitution at OWS; the way to hold a live-in going while there's a enormous mountain of laundry build up; how very wealthy the very wealthy became; the messages and which means of the “We are the 99%” tumblr site; occupations in Oakland, Boston, Atlanta, and somewhere else; what occurs subsequent; and lots more and plenty extra.

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Park's cousin Colonel 39 Kim Chong Pil was director of the ROK [Republic of Korea] CIA. " Here it is worth pausing for a moment to explain that in recruiting cadres for the Korean CIA, the CIA used the same method it used to staff the Vietnamese CIO. As revealed by John Marks in The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, the CIA sent its top psychologist, John Winne, to Seoul to "select the initial cadre" using a CIAdeveloped psychological assessment test. " CIA psychologists "gave the tests to 25 to 30 police and military officers," Marks writes, "and wrote up a half-page report on each, listing their strengths and weaknesses.

At a signal, all the lights except one focused on Captain Mai went out, and the recruits stripped off their white shirts and dark trousers. " Whipped into an ideological fervor, the CIA's political cadres were then sent into villages to spread democratic values and undermine the infrastructure. "It's a GVN presence that's really comprised of your own people that have, by God, gone off and been washed in the blood of the lamb. They've been trained and they've seen the light," Donohue palavered. 35 "They spoke the local dialect, and they're there to defend and focus people on their own defense, to try to enlist the people into doing something positive.

37 Indeed, with the creation of Vung Tau and the synthetic Revolutionary Development Cadre program, South Vietnam began slouching toward democracy. But it was an empty gesture. The rule in South Vietnam was one step forward followed by two steps back. CHAPTER 5: PICs "A census, if properly made and exploited, is a basic source of intelligence. " [1] As counterinsurgency expert David Galula notes above, a census is an effective way of controlling large numbers of persons. Thus, while CIA paramilitary officers used Census Grievance to gather intelligence in VCcontrolled villages, CIA police advisers were conducting a census program of their own.

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