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WEEKEND HEADLINES, 1/28 & 1/29/12 *** RACIST ARIZONA: In news from Arizona, Tucson school district officials have released an initial list of books to be banned from the school system following last week's vote to suspend the district's acclaimed Mexican American Studies program due to a state ban on the teaching of ethnic studies. The banned books include "Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years"; Shakespeare's play "The Tempest"; "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"; "Occupied America: A History of Chicanos"; and "Chicano!: The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement". Salon.com reported teachers have also been informed to stay away from any books where "race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes" *** The FBI is asking software developers to produce an application that would comb social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, to detect potential security threats as well as creating maps to display the information. Privacy groups raised concerns after the FBI posted the request for a social media-monitoring application earlier this month. It calls for software that could "enhance techniques for collecting and sharing 'open source' actionable intelligence". In other social media news, Twitter says it has developed the ability to block tweets in specific countries, while keeping them visible to the rest of the world. Twitter users have expressed concern the technology could limit free speech *** An Iraq War veteran has been arrested in Santa Ana, California, on charges of killing four homeless men. Itzcoatl Ocampo is accused of stalking and killing the four victims over a 10-day period last month. Each of the four was stabbed dozens of times. Ocampo served in Iraq until 2008 and was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps in 2010. Friends and relatives say he returned from the war psychologically damaged *** More later...

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