I believe that stratfor may have spied on me. I stuck my neck out at Occupy Austin; I proposed a co-operatives working group, and was the "magnet" for it by nature of my interest in starting it. A cursory search of the internet pulls up massive amounts of information (i.e. linkedin, opinion columns I wrote for the student paper, a youtube video I did while at the student paper, my ham radio licence, news articles from when I reported to the media that there were exposed breasts in our German textbook). If I search "joshua sabik occupy austin" then I even get a maillist e-mail in which someone misidentifies me as the finance magnet for Occupy Austin.

One of the first things which pops up on google is the youtube video which identifies me as a columnist at the Purdue Exponent. My news stories are on the newer website, but a link allows readers to search older archives where one would find my columns. My early columns were complete shit, some of my older ones (including my last) were still shitty, but in between I wrote a couple good ones, one about income inequality, and another about adopting the tactics of the 1960's counter-culture. I wrote a an anti-consumerism column promoting Buy Nothing Day, I interviewed Kalle Lasn, the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Adbusters. I don't think any of this is particularly significant, but if a stratfor analyst was looking me up, I would think it might perk interest.