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Saturday, November 2

@dustcirclenews - Special Religion Issue! (Radical Christians, the Religious Threat, and the Right-Wing Fraud)

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The Radical Christian Right and the War on Government
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_radical_christian_right_and_the_war_on_government_20131006

The Threat of the Religious Right is as Old as Christianity
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/20/threat-religious-christianity.html

The Religious Right Is a Fraud
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36592.htm

For the Last Time, the Constitution is Not Based on the Biblehttp://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/31/time-constitution-based-bible.html

Atheists & Christians on Removing "In God We Trust" from America's Currency
http://atheism.about.com/od/Church-State-Survey-Polls/a/Atheists-Christians-Removing-in-God-We-Trust.htm?nl=1

Sam Harris on the ‘banality of evil’ in relation to religious violence

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/31/watch-sam-harris-on-the-banality-of-evil-in-relation-to-religious-violence/

Why Atheists Can’t Be Republicans
http://www.alternet.org/belief/atheists-cant-be-republicans

The Moral Majority
Tom DeLay

http://freethoughtblogs.com/amilliongods/2013/10/28/it-gets-better-the-moral-majority/

Religious organisations should learn what respect looks like in a secular society
http://bigthink.com/against-the-new-taboo/religious-organisations-should-learn-what-respect-actually-looks-like

American Legion pulls park funding after atheist official won’t pledge ‘under God’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/30/american-legion-pulls-park-funding-after-atheist-official-wont-pledge-under-god/

Ancient skeletons challenge modern religion in ‘humanity’s cradle’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/29/ancient-skeletons-challenge-modern-religion-in-humanitys-cradle/

Churches facing challenge as congregations age
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Churches-facing-challenge-as-congregations-age-4909464.php

Christian Hate Group Threatens To Sue US Military For Labeling Them A Hate Group
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/26/christian-hate-group-us-military/

10 Facts About The Transforming Global Religious Landscape
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/10-facts-global-religion_n_4117341.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

5 facts about atheists

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/23/5-facts-about-atheists/

Saturday, April 20

@dustcircleNews - HEADLINES: Government and CISPA, Stop Isolating Gaza, Unmarried Women Struggling, Orwellian Warfare State, US Militarism, Hacker Threats, Practice of Torture, 10 Million Working US Poor, Rights of Immigrants, God and Mental Illness, Constitution Project, Paul Revere Trivia, Bill Maher and Bernie Sanders Explode, Dinosaur Egg Study, American CEOs' Pay, Zionism and Congress, more.

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Government Has Already Fooled Us More Than Once On Privacy; History Belies How CISPA Will Be Used

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130417/10212122743/government-has-already-fooled-us-more-than-once-privacy-history-belies-how-cispa-will-be-used.shtml

Israel: Stop Isolating Gaza
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/israel-stop-isolating-gaza/

Unmarried Women Are Desperately Struggling in Our Failed Economy
http://www.alternet.org/unmarried-women-are-desperately-struggling-our-failed-economy

The Orwellian Warfare State of Carnage and Doublethink
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/17

What Has US Militarism Wrought?
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/03/04/what-has-us-militarism-wrought/

The Greatest Trick The Government Ever Pulled Was Convincing The Public The 'Hacker Threat' Exists
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130408/17093022626/greatest-trick-government-ever-pulled-was-convincing-public-hacker-threat-exists.shtml

United States Engaged in the Practice of Torture: Report
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34640.htm

Perverting the Constitution for Power
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/03/03/perverting-the-constitution-for-power/

More Than 10 Million Americans Among the Working Poor
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34649.htm

Al-Jazeera And Feminism,The Rights Of Immigrants And The Stateless?
http://www.countercurrents.org/fenley170413.htm

Study: Belief in an angry God associated with variety of mental illnesses
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/17/study-belief-in-an-angry-god-associated-with-variety-of-mental-illnesses/

Constitution Project’s Report on Detainee Treatment
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/16/world/16torture-report.html

11 Things You May Not Know About Paul Revere
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/11-things-you-may-not-know-about-paul-revere

Bill Maher and Bernie Sanders Explode at GOP Panelists Over the Economy and the Environment
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76020

Dinosaur egg study supports evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs
http://machineslikeus.com/news/dinosaur-egg-study-supports-evolutionary-link-between-birds-and-dinosaurs

Why American CEOs Get Paid Way More Than CEOs Anywhere Else (Hint: It's Not Performance Based)
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/why-american-ceos-get-paid-way-more-ceos-anywhere-else-hint-its-not-performance

Zionism and the United States Congress
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/zionism-and-the-united-states-congress-by-william-james-martin/

Tuesday, March 19

@dustcirclenews HEADLINES: Obama's Presidential Failure, CYBERCOM vs. Hacktivists, Internet Cold War, CISPA, Defiled Constitution, NatSec Letters Unconstitutional, CIA Drone Secrecy, Immigration Settlement, Problems with SORNA, Catholic Church Riches, America's Financial Nazism, Orwellian America, Monsanto, America is Losing Religion, more.

The Failure of Barack Obama's Presidency

http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Bush-and-Obama-Got-the-by-Eric-Zuesse-130314-460.html

New CYBERCOM to Wage War on Hacktivists With Offensive Ops and Surveillance
http://occupycorporatism.com/new-cybercom-to-wage-war-on-hacktivists-with-offensive-ops-surveillance/

Are We Ready for an Internet Cold War?
http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/are-we-ready-for-an-internet-cold-war

Why CISPA Could Actually Lead To More Hacking Attacks
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130312/08093422297/why-cispa-could-actually-lead-to-more-hacking-attacks.shtml

6 Ways The US Supreme Court Has Defiled Our Constitution
http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri130313.htm

Praising the Troops for Defending Our “Rights” and “Freedoms”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34306.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A+Obama+to+Israel%3A+%60We+Got+Your+Back%27&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email

Court Says National Security Letters Are Unconstitutional, Bans Them
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130315/14254522342/shocker-court-says-national-security-letters-are-unconstitutional-bans-them.shtml

Mississippi Governor Signs Bill Forcing Public Schools To Give Students Open Forum To Push Religious Views On Others
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/15/mississippi-governor-signs-bill-forcing-public-schools-to-give-students-open-forum-to-push-religious-views-on-others/

Court deals blow to CIA drone secrecy
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/court-deal-blow-to-cia-drone-secrecy-88918.html?hp=l1

Do countries lose religion as they gain wealth?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/03/05/f-religion-economic-growth.html

Judge Approves Landmark Settlement in Immigration Policy Case
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/03/15-2

Third Circuit panel discusses at length all the problems with SORNA
http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2013/03/third-circuit-panel-discusses-at-length-all-the-problems-with-sorna.html

How Rich Is the Catholic Church?
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/03/catholic_church_and_pope_francis_religious_institutions_are_exempted_from.html?wpisrc=newsletter_tis

Nowhere to Run or Hide from America’s 'Financial Nazism'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34324.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A+Paul+Craig+Roberts%3A+When+Truth+Is+Suppressed+Countries+Die&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email

An Orwellian America
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34321.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A+Paul+Craig+Roberts%3A+When+Truth+Is+Suppressed+Countries+Die&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email

Monsanto: Patenting Death
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/15-7

The New York Times defends drone murder
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/11/pers-m11.html

You Wouldn't Believe How Fast Americans Are Losing Their Religion -- But the Fundamentalists Have a Plan
http://www.alternet.org/belief/you-wouldnt-believe-how-fast-americans-are-losing-their-religion-fundamentalists-have-plan

With Inequality Spiraling Out of Control It's Insane to Consider Cutting Social Security

http://www.alternet.org/hard-times-usa/inequality-spiraling-out-control-its-insane-consider-cutting-social-security

Stop Freaking Out About the Debt! 5 Reasons There Is No Debt Crisis
http://www.alternet.org/stop-freaking-out-about-debt-5-reasons-there-no-debt-crisis

The “Dirty War” Pope
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/16/pers-m16.html

Boycotting Israel is the "way to go," says Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters
http://electronicintifada.net/content/boycotting-israel-way-go-says-pink-floyd-legend-roger-waters/12287

Elizabeth Warren Debunks GOP Talking Points on Minimum Wage
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/elizabeth_warren_debunks_gop_talking_points_on_minimum_wage_20130318/

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Monday, January 14

100 Things You Can Say To Irritate A Republican (HUMOR)

2013/01/14

By Stephen D. Foster Jr.

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Conservatives are so easy to anger these days. Even the most insignificant statement can set off their tempers. If you want to enrage a conservative, I suggest saying the following:

1. A Socialist wrote the Pledge of Allegiance.
2. Jesus healed the sick and helped the poor, for free.
3. Joseph McCarthy was an un-American, witch hunting sissy.
4. Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were traitors.
5. The South lost the Civil War, get over it.
6. The Founding Fathers were liberals.
7. Fascism is a right-wing trait.
8. Sarah Palin is an idiot.
9. The Earth is round.
10. Reagan raised taxes eleven times as President.
11. Reagan legalized abortion as Governor of California.
12. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency.
13. Ronald Reagan supported gun control.
14. Global warming is real.
15. Republicans hate illegal immigrants, unless they need their lawns mowed or their houses cleaned.

16. The military is a government-run institution, so why do Republicans approve the defense budget?
17. The Cold War is over and the Soviet Union no longer exists.
18. Paying taxes is patriotic.
19. Republicans: Peddling the same failed economic policies since 1880.
20. The Republican Party began as a liberal party.
21. The Presidents’ full name is Barack Hussein Obama and he was born in the United States of America.
22. George W. Bush held hands with the King of Saudi Arabia.
23. President Obama saved the American auto industry, while Republicans wanted to destroy it.
24. Hate is not a Christian virtue.
25. Jesus was a liberal.
26. Republicans spend MORE money than Democrats.
27. Tea parties are for little girls.
28. Public schools educate all children; private schools are for indoctrinating children.
29. The Constitution is the law, NOT the Bible.
30. Sharia law doesn’t exist in America.
31. The President is NOT a Muslim.
32. Corporations are NOT people. People are people.
33. Fox News isn’t real news, it’s just a racist, sexist, hateful, right-wing propaganda machine.
34. The Federal Reserve was a Republican idea.
35. Women are equal citizens who deserve equal rights.
36. Women control their own bodies.
37. Abortion is a relevant medical procedure, just ask Rick Santorum.
38. Please use spell-check.
39. It’s “pundit”, not “pundint”.
40. Social Security is solvent through 2038.
41. Health care is a right, not a product.
42. Roe v. Wade was a bipartisan ruling made by a conservative leaning Supreme Court.
43. G.O.P also stands for Gross Old Perverts.
44. The donkey shouldn’t be the Democratic mascot because Republicans are the real jackasses.
45. Barack Obama ordered the killing of Osama Bin Laden. It took him two and half years to do what Bush couldn’t do in eight.
46. Waterboarding IS torture.
47. 9/11 happened on George W. Bush’s watch, therefore he did NOT keep America safe.
48. Republicans invaded Iraq for oil, so Iraq should be allowed to invade Texas to get it back.
49. Separation of church and state is in the Constitution, it’s called the First Amendment.
50. Muslims are protected by the Constitution, just as much as Christians.
51. Barack Obama is the first African-American President, get over it.
52. The Oval Office is NOT a “whites only” office.
53. America is a nation of immigrants, therefore we are all anchor babies.
54. The white race isn’t disappearing, it’s evolving.
55. God is a particle.
56. Evolution is real.
57. The Earth is 4.54 billion years old, not 6,000.
58. The Founding Fathers did not free the slaves.
59. The Revolution was NOT fought over slavery.
60. Paul Revere warned the Americans, NOT the British.
61. Federal law trumps state law.
62. The Civil War was about slavery, NOT state’s rights.
63. Corporations care more about profits than they do about people.
64. Getting out of a recession requires government spending.
65. Glenn Beck is a nut-job.
66. Republicans: Paranoid since 1932.
67. Republicans don’t want to pay for your birth control, but they want you to pay for their Viagra.
68. Republicans actually NEED Viagra.
69. Fox News is owned by an Australian and has a Saudi prince as an investor.
70. Republicans complain about immigrants taking American jobs, then freely give American jobs to foreigners overseas.
71. Republicans hate communism, so why do they refer to themselves as red states?
72. Labor unions built this country.
73. Republicans hold America hostage as a political strategy; the temper tantrum throwing kind of political strategy.
74. Jesus was a Jew, not a Christian.
75. When Republicans see black, they attack.
76. Inside every Republican is a Klansman or a Nazi waiting to bloom.
77. Republicans only care about children BEFORE they are born.
78. Republicans are hypocrites, they’re just too stupid to know it.
79. The Christian-Right boycotts movies that have violence, and then promotes guns and insurrection.
80. I think therefore I am NOT a Republican.
81. Republicans that oppose gay marriage are most likely in the closet themselves.
82. Churches should stay out of politics, or be taxed.
83. People are too poor to vote Republican.
84. Democrats think for themselves, Republicans form think tanks to do it for them.
85. Republicans hate education because they couldn’t hack it in school.
86. Greed is one of the seven deadly sins and Republicans wallow in it.
87. A little socialism on the Left is better than a little fascism on the Right.
88. The current corporate tax rate is the lowest in 60 years, so stop whining about it being too high.
89. Republicans: Anti-Gay Marriage, Pro-Lesbian sex.
90. Republicans: Terrorizing the American people since 1981.
91. Republicans have their own terrorists, just look up Timothy McVeigh.
92. Republicans love outsourcing, just ask the Chinese Communists.
93. The Republican answer to the oil spill was to apologize to BP, a foreign oil company.
94. Democrats will be working hard to bring jobs to Americans, while the Republicans tea bag each other in the middle of the aisles.
95. Voter disenfranchisement is immoral and un-American, that’s why Republicans do it.
96. Republicans would let your house burn down unless you pay them to put it out.
97. Democrats want to take care of the sick. Republicans take their credit cards and then deny them medical attention.
98. Republicans say teachers are union thugs, then proceed to rape and mug the entire middle class on behalf of corporations.
99. Republicans think rape isn’t a crime, but miscarriages are.
100. Republicans are idiots and arguing with them is a waste of time!

Bottom line? If you want to anger a conservative, tell them the truth.

Monday, December 31

01/01/2013 - Your New Year Special Issue: Unemployment, Economy, Privacy, New Laws, Climate, Atheism, Whistleblowers, Palestine, and more!

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Made in the USA - By prisoner labor

Re-inventing the slave trade

Activists Dismayed at Renewal of Surveillance Bill

Sen. Ron Wyden attempted to place oversight on the Governments warrantless wiretapping program. (photo: Getty Images)

ivil rights campaigners voiced dismay on Friday over the US Senate's re-authorization of the government's warrantless surveillance program, and the defeat of two amendments that would have provided for basic oversight of the eavesdropping.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/335-156/15294-activists-dismayed-at-renewal-of-surveillance-bil

Bernie Sanders Slams Boehner and Right Wing House Extremists for Fiscal Cliff

US Senate reauthorizes FISA surveillance law

The US Senate [official website] passed the Reauthorization Act of 2012 [text, pdf] on Friday in a 73-23 vote to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA) [text, pdf] for five years. FISA grants the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] the authority to conduct surveillance of Americans’ phone calls and emails in attempts to protect against terrorism and other foreign threats.
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/12/us-senate-reauthorizes-fisa-surveillance-law.php

There Is Nothing Heroic About Torture

Jessica Chastain plays a member of the elite team of spies and military operatives who secretly devoted themselves to finding Osama Bin Laden in 'Zero Dark Thirty.' (photo: Jonathan Olley/Columbia Pictures)

he critical acclaim for the new Kathryn Bigelow movie "Zero Dark Thirty" has renewed the debate on the efficacy of torture.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/287-124/15301-there-is-nothing-heroic-about-torture

The Foreclosure Cliff

e can thank Ben Bernanke for the phrase "fiscal cliff" -- a phrase many observers have tried to soften by pointing out they think it's more like falling down a slope, sliding down a curve, or even tripping over a curb. I can understand trying to find other metaphors to replace the nearly always fatal results of going off a cliff. But maybe those observers missed one effect that Bernanke knows drives the economy more than any else: housing.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/430-foreclosure/15302-the-foreclosure-cliff

The Financial Elite's War Against the US Economy

Today’s economic warfare is not the kind waged a century ago between labor and its industrial employers. Finance has moved to capture the economy at large, industry and mining, public infrastructure (via privatization) and now even the educational system. (At over $1 trillion, U.S. student loan debt came to exceed credit-card debt in 2012.) The weapon in this financial warfare is no larger military force. The tactic is to load economies (governments, companies and families) with debt, siphon off their income as debt service and then foreclose when debtors lack the means to pay. Indebting government gives creditors a lever to pry away land, public infrastructure and other property in the public domain. Indebting companies enables creditors to seize employee pension savings. And indebting labor means that it no longer is necessary to hire strikebreakers to attack union organizers and strikers.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/31-8

US War Machine Leaves Ugly Imprint in Afghanistan

If only in a microcosm, a dispatch from a remote outpost in Afghanistan reveals the damage and dysfunction created by years of US occupation and how little regard western military forces have for local communities when a final determination is made that an outpost should be abandoned.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/31

2012 In Review: A Year of Extreme Weather, Mass Shootings, Drone Wars and Dark Money in Politics

Amid "Cliff-Hanger" Antics, Senator Bernie Sanders Defends Middle Class

The Top 12 Political Fallacies of 2012

Our nation was gripped by so many fallacies and delusions in 2012 that the whole Mayan calendar end-of-the-world thing didn’t even make the list.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/31-1

A Wee Comparison of Civil Liberties in the United States of America
Compare and contrast. Here is how seriously we take civil liberties when the subject can be plausibly labeled terrorism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33485.htm
8 Striking Parallels Between the U.S. and the Roman Empire
Lawrence Lessig’s Republic Lost documents the corrosive effect of money on our political process. Lessig persuasively makes the case that we are witnessing the loss of our republican form of government, as politicians increasingly represent those who fund their campaigns, rather than our citizens.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33489.htm

The GOP Has Taken America Hostage -- Is There a Downside for Them?

Republicans are taking a beating in the polls. But it does not seem to weaken their position.

http://www.alternet.org/gop-has-taken-america-hostage-there-downside-them

Will the Economy Slow With or Without the Fiscal Deal?

What is most likely to damage the economy?

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/will-economy-slow-or-without-fiscal-deal

Companies Do Not Have The Right To Impose Owners’ Religion Onto Employees, Says Americans United
Church-State Watchdog Group Says Firms Don’t Have A Religious Liberty Right To Deny Workers Access To Contraceptives
https://www.au.org/media/press-releases/companies-do-not-have-the-right-to-impose-owners-religion-onto-employees-says

US Whistleblowers on Being Targeted by the Secret Security State

Privacy by the Numbers: A New Approach to Safeguarding Data

A mathematical technique called “differential privacy” gives researchers access to vast repositories of personal data while meeting a high standard for privacy protection

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=privacy-by-the-numbers-a-new-approach-to-safeguarding-data&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20121231

Evolution and Atheism

I have been reading more about evolution and I am beginning to think that the radical clerics are right in a sense. A deep understanding of evolution may lead people away from god and religion, but not for the reasons that are commonly stated.

http://machineslikeus.com/news/evolution-and-atheism

Obama administration considering expansion of mortgage refinancing program

Obama Administration Proposes Mass Refinance Plan

The US government is eyeing mortgage refinancing program expansion that will include borrowers whose mortgages aren’t backed by the government and who are liable to pay more than the worth of their homes.

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13704925-obama-administration-considering-expanding-mortgage-refinancing-program

Israel To Displace 1000 Palestinians Next Wednesday

Head of the Wadi Al-Maleh area, in the northern plains of the occupied West Bank, Aref Daraghma, stated that the Israeli army intends to displace around 10000 Palestinian Bedouins in the area in order to conduct military training.

http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/alert-israel-to-displace-1000-palestinians-next-wednesday/

Marc Morano: Climate Change Misinformer Of The Year

Thursday, December 13

13.Dec.2012 - U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes, Indefinite Detention is Treason, Why We Torture, Feds Reading Your Emails, Right-to-Work is Anti-Labor, This is What Democracy Looks Like, Mindless American Support for Israel, Government War on Small Business, 7 Ways the Military Wastes our Money, National Security Bosses

More Than Thirty Top U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes

More than 30 top U.S. officials, including presidents G.W. Bush and Obama, are guilty of war crimes or crimes against peace and humanity “legally akin to those perpetrated by the former Nazi regime in Germany,” the distinguished American international law authority Francis Boyle charges.

http://rebel-institute.org/opinion/violence/259038-more-than-thirty-top-us-officials-guilty-of-war-crimes

U.S. Rakes Up Nearly $300 Billion Deficit In First Two Months Of Fiscal 2013

http://rebel-institute.org/opinion/money/260389-us-rakes-up-nearly-s300-billion-deficit-in-first-two-months-of-fiscal-2013

Stop Israeli Home Demolishing! Boycott Israel!

According to the American website “If Americans Knew,” the number of Israeli homes demolished by Palestinians since 1967 is zero, whereas the number of Palestinian homes demolished by Israelis within the same period is 24,813. This is equivalent to 82% of the homes in Westerville, Ohio, where I live, being wiped out.
http://rebel-institute.org/opinion/mena/260420-stop-israeli-home-demolishing-boycott-israel

Indefinite Detention of US Citizens without Trial is Treason

Why We Torture

Habeas corpus has been abandoned for the outcasts of the new order in both the US and the UK, secret courts have been created to hear secret evidence, guilt has been inferred by association, torture and rendition nakedly justified (in the UK our government's lawyers continue to argue positively for the right to use the product of both) and vital international conventions consolidated in the aftermath of the Second World War - the Geneva Convention, the Refugee Convention, the Torture Convention - have been deliberately avoided or ignored.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33302.htm

A Plan to Stop the Feds From Reading Your Emails

Four lawmakers are trying to put a stop to warrantless spying.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/warrantless-wiretapping-fisa-authorization-reform-bill

Reich on Why Right-to-Work Legislation is Anti-Labor: ‘As Labor Unions Have Declined, Wages Have Declined in Tandem’

This Is What Democracy Looks Like

Thousands of protestors braved the frigid temperatures and took to the streets today in Michigan over the Republican plan to -- yet again -- weaken unions, trample workers rights and further subjugate the middle class. Despite this significant public opposition, Michigan lawmakers passed the "right to work" law that will make their corporate masters happy.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/This-Is-What-Democracy-Loo-by-Kathy-Malloy-121211-381.html

Mindless American Support For Israel May Be Cracking

The legacy of the Zionist revolutionaries who once enraptured the parlors of Europe and America with talk of a Jewish homeland as a moral beacon in a benighted region has instead bequeathed to the Jewish world and the West a highly militarized dependency -- a state that has achieved great feats of cultural and economic development but has failed to build strong enough institutions to balance its military zeitgeist with imaginative or engaging diplomacy.

- Patrick Tyler, from Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country -- and Why They Can't Make Peace

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Mindless-American-Support-by-John-Grant-121212-658.html

Thousands Protest Michigan’s Anti-Union Law, But Deep Pockets of Right-Wing Backers Prevail

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Government war on small business

The perils of no being "too big to fail"

Michigan GOP Push Through Elite-Backed Law

7 Shocking Ways the Military Wastes Our Money

Hint: none of them have anything to do with national defense.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/8-shocking-ways-military-wastes-our-money

National Security Bosses Still Claiming It Would Violate National Security To Tell You If They Violate Your Privacy

Via Julian Sanchez we learn that Senator Ron Wyden has released some updated responsesfrom our national intelligence bosses concerning the questions that Wyden (and a few other Senators) have been asking for years. It's been pretty clear that a "secret" interpretation under the FISA Amendments Act (related to the Patriot Act) has meant that the NSA is scooping up tons of American communications, even as its mandate is that it only cover foreign intelligence—and Wyden has been pushing for more information.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121210/13172621339/national-security-bosses-still-claiming-it-would-violate-national-security-to-tell-you-if-they-violate-your-privacy.shtml

Tuesday, November 20

20.Nov.2012 - Ceasefire Between Israel and Hamas, Climate Change Catastrophe, Increase the Minimum Wage, Look Out Monsanto, Biblical Death Sentence, FBI and Your Email, Anonymous Leaks Israeli Officials' Info, New Obamacare Rules, Overhaul the TSA

Turkey Announces Ceasefire Between Israel and Hamas

As dark fell on Tuesday night, reports from inside the Gaza Strip painted a grim picture, despite the fact that a ceasefire appeared to be imminent. Multiple foreign journalists have been reporting via real-time updates on Twitter that Israel dropped hundreds of leaflets throughout Gaza earlier today, warning residents to move toward the center and to Gaza City for their safety.Gaza City is in the north part of Gaza Strip.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/possible-ceasfire-between-israel-and-hamas-tonight-316871.html

World Bank Warns of Climate Change Catastrophe

If the Earth warms by more than 7-Fahrenheit degrees on average by the end of this century, never-seen-before floods, droughts, heat waves, and other climatic disasters will follow, with the world’s poorest countries at the most risk, said a new report commissioned by the World Bank. But it stressed that all nations on earth will suffer.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/world-bank-warns-of-climate-change-catastrophe-316636.html

Studies On Both Sides Say To Increase The Minimum Wage

It is a red-letter day when think tanks and pundits from both sides of the debate agree on something. Today is that day, when groups as diverse as the American Conservative magazine and the progressive think tank Demos stand in agreement on one very important topic – raising the minimum wage.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/11/19/studies-on-both-sides-say-to-increase-the-minimum-wage/

Look Out Monsanto: Campaigns to Label Genetically Engineered Foods Are Heating Up
Organizers in more than 30 states have begun building labeling campaigns, under the banner of the Coalition of States for Mandatory GMO labeling.
http://www.alternet.org/food/look-out-monsanto-campaigns-label-genetically-engineered-foods-are-heating

Gaza’s ‘Long-Range Rockets’ Just Regular Rockets Without Explosives
Take Off the Warhead and the Empty Barrel Flies Further, Officials Note

http://news.antiwar.com/2012/11/18/gazas-long-range-rockets-just-regular-rockets-without-explosives/

Israel, Palestine: Who Truly Suffers?

I would like to talk about the current conflict that is going on between Israel and militant Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip. We need to end the mindless chanting and fights on social media and realize that neither group is a monolith, that there are innocent people who are being killed.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/11/19/israel-palestine-who-truly-suffers/

Death Sentence Should Not Be Based On Biblical Precepts, Says Americans United

In a friend-of-the-court brief filed today before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Americans United and other groups assert that Anthony J. Farina’s sentencing was prejudiced because prosecutor John Tanner pursued a “biblical strategy” during Farina’s penalty phase. Farina had been found guilty of murder, and Tanner argued that the Bible – specifically the Book of Romans – called for the death penalty.

http://www.au.org/media/press-releases/death-sentence-should-not-be-based-on-biblical-precepts-says-americans-united

Legal for the FBI to Read Your Email?

Can the FBI read your email? If you are former CIA Director David Petraeus, the answer is apparently "yes." But critics are asking whether the FBI's actions in Petraeus' case were legal.

http://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2012/11/legal-for-the-fbi-to-read-your-email.html

A system of disasters
THE TRUE story of Sandy is as much about real estate as global warming. Since the 1960s, everyone on the Atlantic seaboard who could afford it has wanted to live in a beach town or own a second home along the shore. This endless building boom, unrestrained by serious regional or national planning, has put several trillion dollars of prime real estate in harm's way.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/11/20/a-system-of-disasters

Anonymous leaks personal information of 5000 Israeli officials
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Internet hacktivist group Anonymous has declared cyberwar on Israel, posting personal data of five thousand Israeli officials online.

http://thehackernews.com/2012/11/anonymous-leaks-personal-information-of.html

Top Three Things You Need To Know About The New Obamacare Rules

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a slew of important new Obamacare rules and regulations today, continuing a widely expected post-election effort to successfully implement President Obama’s landmark health care reform law by 2014.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/11/20/1222291/three-things-obamacare-rule/

Stop the massacre in Gaza!

The Israeli onslaught against Gaza, now entering its second week, has killed and maimed hundreds of Palestinian civilians—men, women and children. A largely defenseless and severely deprived population has been subjected to unrelenting bombardment from air, land and sea. Much of the territory’s already dilapidated infrastructure is being reduced to rubble.

http://wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/pers-n20.shtml

It’s Time to Overhaul the Transportation Security Administration

If there is any absolute maxim by which the federal government seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off. Indeed, one of the greatest culprits when it comes to swindling taxpayers is the Transportation Security Administration, one of the most corrupt, ineffective, and downright abusive of the government’s many agencies (which is saying a lot) and a massive waste of taxpayer money.

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/its_time_to_overhaul_the_transportation_security_administration

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Smash Records Again: UN

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/20-2

Israel-Palestine: What is the US National Interest?

Israeli elections are coming up in January so it is Palestinian hunting season again. Israeli cynics call it a time “for mowing the grass.”

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/20-8

Report on torture must be made public to Americans
After 9/11, the phrase "United We Stand" was everywhere. Bumper stickers, T-shirts and other memorabilia prominently displayed the slogan. We demonstrated our unity in acts big and small. Interfaith efforts focused on responding to attacks on Islam. Members of Congress sang together on the steps of the Capitol in a show of bipartisan unity. Local religious leaders of diverse faiths together held a prayer service in the church where I serve, First Congregational Church of Long Beach, to remember the victims of 9/11.
http://www.presstelegram.com/opinions/ci_22017972/jerry-stinson-report-torture-must-be-made-public

5 Christian Right Delusions Busted by Romney and GOP Losses

Like other right-wingers in denial, many in the religious right thought the election was in the bag.

http://www.alternet.org/5-christian-right-delusions-busted-romney-and-gop-losses

The Fall of the American Empire (Writ Small)

History, farce, and David Petraeus.

http://www.alternet.org/fall-american-empire-writ-small

What does Israel want?

A man and three children wounded by Israeli air strikes in Gaza

Days of intensive Israeli bombing of Gaza and the threat of an invasion by ground troops have pushed the Middle East to the brink. Toufic Haddad, a Palestinian-American writer and researcher and author of Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. "War on Terror," answered questions from Sherry Wolf about the factors and motivations behind Israel's onslaught and the impact of the Arab Spring upheavals on this first major confrontation between Israel and the Palestinians of Gaza.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/11/19/what-does-israel-want

JFK: Killed for pursuing peace