HBT: Yankees hire former Cubs GM Hendry

When he was let go from the Cubs? GM gig late last season, I thought ?well, we won?t have Jim Hendry to kick around anymore.? ?Guess I was wrong, because ESPN Chicago reports that the Yankees have hired Hendry as an assistant to Brian Cashman.

In all honesty, we really don?t have him to kick around. Quick: name the last time an assistant GM made news for any reason? ?At least one that wasn?t some 35-year-old GM-in-waiting. ?Yeah, it?s not exactly a high-profile job, even with the Yankees.

But it?s good news. Hendry may not have made as many good decisions as the Cubs? GM as bad ones, but like I?ve said a lot of times, you don?t get to be a GM of a major league baseball team unless you?ve excelled on the way to that job in the first place, so the man certainly has something to offer the Yankees. ?Plus: he?s a damn nice guy.

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Nancy Doyle Palmer: Smashed and Predisposed -- Sundance Spotlights Addiction

It's an old story that's not often told or told well in Hollywood, but this year's Sundance Film Festival premiered two films --Smashed and Predisposed -- that showcase addiction and all its glorious collateral damage with effective grace and a deft touch, thanks to some outstanding writing and performances. Without delivering too much of a message -- as one of the filmmakers put it, "We're not Fed-Ex."

Smashed -- directed by James Ponsoldt and written by Ponsoldt and Susan Burke, tells the story of Kate and Charlie -- an indie couple living on the outskirts of Los Angeles who really love each other and really love getting really drunk together. Kate (played by the mesmerizing Mary Elizabeth Winstead) teaches elementary school, and is so hung over in the first scene that she vomits in front of a class of second graders. She's married to Charlie (Breaking Bad's intense Aaron Paul) who spends most of his 'freelancer' time hanging out with his buddies in bars until the love of his life comes home from school. Kate decides to join AA and get sober (The Help's Octavia Spencer is her sponsor; the world's funniest real life couple Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman are her colleagues at school, and Mary Kay Place plays her mother -- all are sublime) and in doing so begins a journey that takes her far away from her husband. All of which hurts.

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Predisposed, which premiered just this past Friday, is directed by Phil Dorling and Ron Nyswaner and written by Nyswaner ( who also wrote Philadelphia) and stars Jesse Eisenberg as Eli, a piano prodigy who needs to get his mother Penny -- the glorious Melissa Leo -- into rehab so he can attend a critical audition for a prestigious music school. The problem is that rehab can't take her unless she's recently taken drugs so mother and son set out to score with dealers Tracy Morgan and Isiah Whitlock Jr. They all pile into a broken down vehicle just a little too reminiscent of Little Miss Sunshine and so the journey begins.

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Both films conjure up the handful of movies that have become iconic for addiction -- Days of Wine and Roses, The Lost Weekend, Postcards from the Edge and Leaving Los Vegas -- as well as providing a new humanity for today's drinkers and drug- abusers and a fresh approach to the unavoidable plot points -- hitting bottom, tearful confrontations, admitting there's a problem and falling off the wagon.

It's not surprising that both screenwriters are themselves in recovery. Susan Burke is a writer and standup comic who says she stopped drinking when she was 18 for her parents and again at 21 for herself.

"I don't walk around and tell everyone but I'm proud of that... I think people know it means I'll show up," she says, "In society there is still that otherness -- in a lot of films and books they show you the low-bottom alcoholic so you can separate yourself from that, to show they are different, a bad person who is really messed up. I want people to see Kate and say I know that girl, or that girl is me."

Predisposed's Ron Nyswaner points out there are all kinds of addicts, including highly functional ones. "To me this is a disease of the mind and spirit -- this is a disease of self-delusion" he says, "I was at the highest peak of my career a few years ago when there were a lot of awards and things and I was in the depths of my addiction... I can make sure you don't know what you don't need to know."

And both filmmakers say they worked hard not to judge their out-of-control protagonists. "We were very purposeful in creating this story that did not pass judgment on someone's disease or even someone's behavior," says Smashed's Ponsoldt, "We wanted a sense of humor born out of a reality, out of getting the details right but also out of a humanism and charity and love of these characters -- there was no desire to punish them."

Susan Burke adds that having the main drunk be female was also groundbreaking. "We felt we hadn't seen a fully dimensionalized woman in a portrayal like this, we didn't want to depict a shrill woman or a weak woman," she says, "Kate can be raging, she can be cruel to people when she's drunk, she can also be vulnerable, she can also be all of these things that men like this have had the opportunity to be."

Melissa Leo's portrayal of the spacey, hipster painter Penny in Predisposed is equally fresh.

"There are a lot of kinds of addicts in the world and the notion that someone must be dribbling snot and homeless has more to do with maybe who they were before they became an addict," she says, "For my money Penny was a woman who grew up in a certain time with an accepted norm of behavior within a certain socio-economic strata and she had a husband who was an artist living in that kind of world ... I think that like many an addict before her is simply and utterly aware of how her behaviors are affecting her family. She has a house they live in, the little one does get to school, the big boy takes care of the little kid, isn't that what a family is for?"

Both Kate and Penny aren't in this alone, of course , Kate's husband Charlie has lost his best drinking partner and struggles to stay part of her newly sober world, while Penny's son Ira has been holding the family together and wants to escape.

"Sobriety made their whole dynamic completely different," says screenwriter Burke, "I feel for the character Charlie so much -- the most difficult thing to have your best friend go on a completely different road."

Neda Armian produced Predisposed as well as Rachel Getting Married, and says addicts can create addicts, too. "Ira (Jesse Eisenberg) has an addiction to wanting to escape his life and that's through music, where he can get away from everything," she says, "For me, that audition is about a better life for him -- it's his way out."

(Worth noting here -- Eisenberg learned to play the piano for this role and was so good that there was no need for a double for the audition scene -- "The boy is a genius!" says Melissa Leo)

Both filmmakers insist that addiction is just one aspect of their movies.

"The story is about forgiveness, love, hope and change," says Smashed's Ponsoldt, "It's just about a relationship, a love story where one person makes a life change and the other doesn't -- without judgment."

Predisposed's Nyswaner echoes this disclaimer. "Really this movie is about art" he says, " Penny is an artist, in the first scene she is painting, later in the film she spontaneously makes a sock puppet from the art supplies in her car for her daughter and she has said to her son "Honey, you are a great artist , it's just like your father' and she's right. Art, like drugs, allows you to escape something, but while art actually allows you to escape and elevate you, drugs allows you to escape and then kill you."

And both films use a blessedly light touch.

"We didn't want this film to look like these people were having this rough, raw time," says Ponsoldt, "We wanted you to see people in this nice town, not this dark world of drug dens and needles. It's people you see in your everyday life who are going through this. These are people with families and friends and they need help."

Adds Melissa Leo "Think of The Kids Are Alright and the many subjects they were tackling lightly...it's shot bright, it's not dark and gritty, there's a way to share these stories by lightening it somehow so you can get audiences in the seats watching the thing and then learning the lesson."

And the lesson?

"'Sometimes when I start I can't stop'", says Leo, "that's the closest Penny gets to understanding this problem that her son Eli, who is pretty fucking smart, has pointed out to her.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-doyle-palmer-/smashed-predisposed-sundance_b_1240666.html

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Economic protester tased at park near White House (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Park police used a Taser to subdue an anti-Wall Street protester during an arrest at a park near the White House on Sunday as tension rose ahead of a police order for the demonstrators to stop camping in the parks overnight.

"He was arrested for disorderly conduct. In the course of the arrest he was tased," Park police spokesman David Schlosser said, adding that he had no additional information on the man who was taken into custody.

The National Park Service has said it will begin enforcing a ban on Occupy protesters from camping in McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza, two parks just blocks from the White House where they have been living since October.

That order, if carried out as promised starting at noon on Monday, could be a blow to one of the highest-profile chapters of the movement, which denounces economic inequality.

Earlier on Sunday, Park Police posted notices on tents indicating their intent to start enforcing a ban on sleeping in the park overnight, the Washington protest group said.

A spokeswoman for the movement said police singled out, detained and tased a man who goes by the name "Lash" after protesters began removing the notices from tents. The group posted video of the incident on its website.

Sara Shaw, 24, said the group would "maintain a presence in the park," but she did not indicate whether Occupy members intended to defy the camping restrictions.

The so-called "Occupy" protests against economic inequality began last year in New York and have spread across the country. More than 400 people were arrested on Saturday night in Oakland, California during clashes with police. But protests have been peaceful in most cities, including Washington.

(Reporting By JoAnne Allen; Editing by Tim Gaynor and Greg McCune)

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Can NATO force weather France's faster exit? (AP)

KABUL, Afghanistan ? France's call for a speedier NATO exit from Afghanistan reflects the depth of war fatigue in the West and raises fears that other countries in the U.S.-led coalition will succumb to rising political pressure and pull their troops home early.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to fast-track its withdrawal ? just days after an Afghan soldier gunned down four French troops ? is the latest crack in a coalition already strained by economic troubles in Europe and the United States, the Afghan government's sluggish battle against corruption, on-again off-again cooperation from neighboring Pakistan and a dogged Taliban bloodied but not beaten.

The international coalition is already rushing against the clock to meet President Hamid Karzai's goal of having the Afghan police and army in charge of the nation's security by the end of 2014. France's break with that timetable, which was agreed to by NATO members, now raises the question: Can the coalition stay together until then?

Resetting the date to end the coalition's combat mission could strengthen arguments for President Barack Obama to accelerate U.S. troop withdrawals beyond the 33,000 he's sending home by the end of this year, and reopen a debate over whether setting a withdrawal deadline allows the Taliban to seize more territory once foreign forces are gone.

It's unclear whether Sarkozy's call for all foreign forces to hand security over to the Afghan forces in 2013 will have any traction when it is presented next week at a NATO defense ministers' meeting in Brussels. If other nations see France's move as a green light to speed up their withdrawals, it will complicate the current strategy for a coordinated pullout.

In a gentle rebuke to France, British Prime Minister David Cameron said in London on Saturday that withdrawals should be dependent on security conditions on the ground. Britain has said it's keeping to plans to withdraw its 9,500 troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

"The rate at which we can reduce our troops will depend on the transition to Afghan control in the different parts of Afghanistan, and that should be the same for all of the members of NATO," Cameron said after meeting with Karzai.

Other nations facing extreme economic problems, such as Italy and Spain, are not planning early withdrawals.

"We are a responsible country. We are a big country that honors its commitments that it agrees to make," said Minister Giampaolo Di Paola, defense minister in Italy, which this week signed a pact aimed at supporting Afghanistan after foreign forces withdraw in 2014.

Germany also said it agrees with the goal to hand over security responsibility by the end of 2014 and withdraw combat troops.

Sarkozy said France will speed up its withdrawal and pull 1,000 ? up from 600 ? out this year and bring all combat forces home at the end of 2013. Sarkozy also said France would hand over authority in the province of Kapisa, where the French troops were killed this month, by the end of March.

France, which now has about 3,600 soldiers in the coalition force, joins the U.S., Britain, Germany and Italy in the top five largest troop-contributing nations.

Talk of an accelerated exit alarmed many Afghans, especially those who have cast their lot with the U.S.-backed government but have little confidence in their country's own security forces. Some said France was reneging on its promises.

Afghan lawmaker Tahira Mujadedi, who represents Kapisa, said Afghan forces there aren't ready to go it alone in fighting the Taliban insurgency, which is especially strong in several of the province's districts. She warned that if NATO forces do pull back from Kapisa, it could also destabilize nearby Kabul. Foreign forces should consider staying even longer than 2014, she said.

"When military forces are present in a war zone, anything can happen," said Mujadedi, who expressed sadness about the French troops who were killed.

But she added: "They are not here for a holiday."

Former Afghan interior minister and military analyst Abdul Hadi Khalid said Sarkozy's decision was clearly political. Sarkozy's rival in spring presidential elections in France, Socialist candidate Francois Hollande, has pledged to pull French troops out of the war if he is elected in May.

"Why is he raising this now?" Khalid asked. "He is trying to get political benefit out of it."

So far, Karzai has reacted cautiously to the idea of a 2013 handover. He can ill afford to anger major coalition partners, yet he wants to be seen as the leader of a country capable of security itself.

"We hope to finish the transition ... by the end of 2013 at the earliest ? or by the latest as has been agreed upon ? by the end of 2014," Karzai said.

NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu underscored the coalition's solidarity, saying that all nations agreed at a Lisbon summit in 2010 to complete the transition to Afghan-led security by the end of 2014.

"Transition is well on track to be completed by the end of 2014, as we all agreed," she said. She said NATO nations would "take stock, shape the next stage of transition" at its summit in Chicago in May.

In Chicago, NATO members will discuss another contentious issue: Who will pay the salaries of the more than 300,000 Afghan policemen and soldiers after 2014. Estimates range from $5 billion to $6 billion a year.

Thomas Risse, a political scientist at Berlin's Free University, said the problem of securing commitments to finance the Afghan security forces comes as a general fatigue with foreign interventions grips Europe and the United States.

"The public mood in most NATO countries is that they want their boys back as soon as possible and they don't care much about Afghanistan either way," Risse said. "The political elites have undertaken to keep up the military commitments, but I'm not sure they will be able to sustain those promises in the face of such a strong public mood."

"As far as the money (for the post-2014 period) is concerned, I don't think there is any mood in Germany to throw money after the Karzai regime," he added.

Stories of Afghan security forces killing their foreign partners make it that much harder to sell the war in cash-strapped countries.

The deadly shooting of the four French soldiers on Jan. 20 was the second against French forces in a month; two members of the French Foreign Legion were killed by an Afghan soldier on Dec. 29. On Thursday, an Afghan man wielding a knife tried to attack foreign troops in southern Afghanistan before being arrested. The Taliban said the man was upset about a video that purportedly shows U.S. Marines urinating on Afghan corpses.

The promise to pull out by 2014 has appeased immediate public demand, said Malcolm Chalmers, a professor of defense at Kings College in London.

"But as the (economic crisis) continues to deepen and these types of incidents continue to occur, it's very possible that there will be renewed public pressure to accelerate the pace of withdrawal," he said. "My expectation is that there will be a steady and substantial withdrawal starting this year."

Asked if France's break with the coalition could spark a wider split, Kate Clark, senior analyst with the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said it could be troublesome for countries deploying troops to Afghanistan. While the U.S. contributes the bulk of troops, any cracks in the coalition could dampen morale of all foreign forces on the battlefield, she said.

"The foreign troops have been here for 10 years. That's a long time," she said. "There's a certain war-weariness among the voters of a great many of those countries."

Then again, she pointed out that the Netherlands and Canada have drawn down their forces in recent years and the coalition has not crumbled.

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Lekic reported from Brussels. Associated Press writers Rahim Faiez and Kay Johnson contributed to this report.

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Sanctions to hit EU buyback firms: Iran oil chief (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters) ? European companies owed oil by Iran could lose out if Tehran imposes a ban on crude exports to the European Union next week, the head of Iran's state oil company said on Saturday.

Iran's parliament is due to debate a bill on Sunday that would cut off oil supplies to the EU in a matter of days, in revenge for a decision last Monday by the 27 EU member states to stop importing crude from Iran as of July 1.

"Generally, the parties to incur damage from the EU's recent decision will be European companies with pending contracts with Iran," Ahmad Qalebani, head of the National Iranian Oil Co. told the ISNA news agency.

"The European companies will have to abide by the provisions of the buyback contracts," he said. "If they act otherwise, they will be the parties to incur the relevant losses and will subject the repatriation of their capital to problems."

By turning the sanctions back on the EU, Iranian lawmakers hope to deny Europe the six-month window it had planned to give those countries most dependent on Iranian oil - including some of the most economically fragile - time to adapt.

The EU banned imports of oil from Iran on Monday and imposed a number of other economic sanctions, joining the United States in a new round of measures aimed at deflecting Tehran's nuclear development programme.

Under buyback contracts, a common feature of the Iranian oil industry, investments in oil field projects are paid back in oil, often over many years.

Italy's Eni says it is owed $1.4-1.5 billion in oil for contracts in Iran dating from 2000 and 2001 and has been assured by EU policymakers its buyback contracts will not be part of the European embargo but the prospect of Iran acting first may put that into doubt.

The EU accounted for 25 percent of Iranian crude oil sales in the third quarter of 2011.

(Writing by Robin Pomeroy; Editing by David Stamp)

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Mitch Daniels??? Moment? (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | In the aftermath of the Republican Party response to the president's State of the Union address, an exasperated GOP had a sudden revelation. As if proclaiming 'what if?', the enamored party hopefuls (Rush Limbaugh included) gave high marks to Governor Mitch Daniels (R-Ind.) and began advocating his 12th-hour run for the presidency.

In many ways, Daniels is an ideal candidate for a party searching for unity and identity. A fiscal conservative, he possesses a unique combination of experience in government and private enterprise. The once Senior Vice President at Eli Lilly is credited with a keen understanding of finances and once served as director of the Office of Management and Budget under George Bush. Nicknamed "the blade" for his ability to crunch numbers and spending, many credit him as the catalyst for Indiana's solid economic standing and improved unemployment rate.

A social conservative, Daniels cut all funding for Planned Parenthood in Indiana. He has taken a hard stand on illegal immigrants, denying them in-state tuition rates. Daniels has also been the proponent of hefty fines for employers who hire illegals. He is a Christian who has attended Tabernacle Presbyterian Church for close to fifty years. He is a harsh critic of atheists.

However, what most entices Republicans is Daniels record on shrinking government. For many, he is the anti-Obama and boasts that Indiana has the smallest of all state governments.

Does all this make him a better candidate than Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney, the current Republican frontrunners?

The short answer is, yes. Lacking the liberal label of Romney and the baggage of Gingrich, Daniels is representative of the party moderates. Daniels is conservative enough, particularly on the economy, to satisfy the tea party. Additionally, his history of calmly delivering concise, reasonable solutions may be exactly what those undecided in the party and independents may be craving for.

The impediment for a Daniels run is all in the timing. At this late stage of debates, funding, attaining an organization, and legal restrictions, Governor Daniels would be hard-pressed to make a serious run. Then there is the history of those who made these 12th-hour charges at the presidency. Consider Fred Thompson and the sudden jolt in popularity he received entering the 2008 elections only to be dismissed virtually weeks later.

For now, the GOP can only hope and dream. Unfortunately that may mean waiting until 2016.

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Robert Watkins is former investment professional and partner. He lives with his family in Glen Mills, Pa., and is a frequent contributor to Yahoo! News.

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AP Interview: Chris Isaak makes Memphis album (AP)

LONDON ? Chris Isaak is returning to the roots of rock 'n' roll and doing it old-school: All in one take.

The U.S. soul singer headed back to the original Sun Studios in Memphis to record a collection that includes cover versions of hits by Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. The album, "Beyond the Sun," was released this week and Isaak will soon embark on a string of U.S. concert dates.

The 56-year-old, well known for his mesmerizing vocals on the now-classic 1989 hit "Wicked Game," says the decision to make the new album was easy.

"I just went 'I'll sing a bunch of those songs I like singing. I got a band, I'll just call them up and tell them to come over,'" he told the Associated Press in an interview in London.

To make it truly authentic, Isaak and his band recorded with no headphones, no separate takes, just everyone listening to each other and going with the flow.

"It scared the hell out of the band because they go, you know, 'If I screw up the guitar solo then everybody is going to look at me,'" Isaak said.

Sun Studios, the record label owned by Sam Phillips, launched the careers of some of the greatest U.S. singer/songwriters ? including Elvis, Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison.

Influenced by those big names while growing up as a child in California, Isaak delivers his interpretations of "Ring of Fire," "Great Balls of Fire," "Can't Help Falling In Love," "Oh, Pretty Woman," while also penning his own original songs.

The first single to be released is one of Isaak's own, "Live It Up."

Fortunately for the band, the old-school approach to recording meant they ended up producing more songs than they had bargained for. Even Isaak's manager was surprised at the speed of production.

"She goes '38 songs? You finished 38 songs?' I said 'Yeah.' She said 'Well, you have to mix all those, that's going to cost a fortune.' I said 'No, they're all done. We just did it all at one time in a room.'"

The singer says he's never missed a show and neither has his drummer Kenney Dale Johnson or his bass player Rowland Salley in the 27 years they've been playing together.

"I'm very proud of them," he said.

Before forging a career in music, Isaak tried his hand at many different occupations: roofing, truck-driving, being a bouncer and even a boxer. He claims he was "lousy" at all of them, it was only with music that he finally found a job he can do well.

"Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun," he said.

While many musicians decry the strain of touring, Isaak says he's lucky to be able to travel the world doing what he loves.

"I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel," he said. "I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel."

U.S. fans will get a chance to see Isaak in action starting in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 13 and ending in Napa, California, on April 27.

But, despite the stereotypes about rockers, don't expect him to be raising hell on tour.

"I liked the rock n' roll, I never wanted the drugs and I never saw the sex because ...nobody ever suggested anything wild to me!" he said. "I think I look too much like a cop."

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Facebook sues to stop 'likejacking' scammers

?These spammers exploit the fact that social media engages us in an exciting new way,??McKenna said at a news conference at Facebook?s Seattle office. ?Social media revolves around trust. The reason we like it is that we count on our friends to recommend news stories, books, television shows and movies to watch. Spammers are now exploiting that trust.??

The AG?s complaint says Adscend and its affiliates send messages to Facebook users that appear to be from a friend. These bogus posts contain a link to seemingly salacious or provocative content, such as ?Cannot BELIEVE a 2 year old is doing THIS,? or ?{Video} OMG! See what happened to his Ex Girlfriend!??

The goal is to get you to a ?bait page? that appears to show the promised content. But it?s blocked by a message box that looks like it came from Facebook (it didn?t) that says an ?Age Verification? or ?Security Check? is required. In either case, you need to complete a short ?survey? to unlock the video.?

The survey page has links to a half dozen or more advertising websites that pay Adscend per click. These sites collect personal information and may require the user to buy something.?

The complaint also claims this advertising scheme is designed to ?propagate itself virally throughout the Facebook system.??

Before being directed to the bait page, the user is asked to ?Like? the page or click a box to continue. There?s no way for you to know that the ?continue box? is booby-trapped. Click it and you?ve ?liked? the spammer?s Facebook page.?

Either way, the advertisement for the bait page is posted to the user?s Wall or Timeline and is published in the Facebook News Feed to all of the user?s Facebook friends.?

Facebook says it?s been hard at work trying to block this sort of spam.?

?Security is an arms race, and that?s why Facebook is committed to continually improving our safeguards while also pursuing and supporting civil and even criminal consequences for bad actors who target our users,? Facebook general counsel Ted Ullyot said.?

Would anyone fall for such a scheme? Facebook says it believes Adscend earns more than $20 million a year doing this.?

In an email to msnbc.com, the company says it does not comment on pending litigation.?

For years, we?ve been told about the dangers of clicking on a hyperlink in an email. Now, that same warning applies to Facebook posts. Be on guard. If that it doesn?t look like something your friend would post ? trust your instincts and check with them before you click.?

If you get sucked into a likejacking scheme, and you?re being led through a series of screens ? assume it?s a scam. STOP! And back out before you give personal information or buy anything.?

If you find one of these booby-trapped posts on your wall, delete it and notify Facebook. They have people who work around the clock to stop illegal spam.?

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Source: http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/26/10245035-facebook-sues-to-stop-likejacking-scammers

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