@dustcirclenews HEADLINES: Schoolkids Brainwashed, Bradley Manning Recording, Homeland Security Ammo, Imperial Presidency, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Wealth Inequality, Survive Capitalism, Christian Domination Fight, Roman Catholic Church, America's Wars Cost, more.

11 Most Absurd Lies Conservatives Are Using to Brainwash America's School Kids
http://www.alternet.org/education/11-most-absurd-lies-conservatives-are-using-brainwash-americas-school-kids

Recording Of Bradley Manning's Statement In Court Leaked
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130312/13325322300/recording-bradley-mannings-statement-court-leaked.shtml

10 Worst People on Forbes 2013 Billionaires List
http://www.alternet.org/economy/10-worst-people-forbes-2013-billionaires-list

If Corporations Don’t Pay Taxes, Why Should You?

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/12-0

1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo For Homeland Security? It's Time For A National Conversation
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/03/11/1-6-billion-rounds-of-ammo-for-homeland-security-its-time-for-a-national-conversation/

The Threat of the Imperial Presidency
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/12-3

Over 100 Guantanamo Detainees on Hunger Strike
http://www.alternet.org/over-100-guantanamo-detainees-hunger-strike

Why Do Americans Tolerate Extreme Wealth Inequality?
http://bigthink.com/praxis/why-do-americans-tolerate-extreme-wealth-inequality

Can Civilization Survive Capitalism?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34198.htm

Hugo Chavez, R.I.P. - Leader Broke Venezuela Out of America's Imperial Orbit, Threw Neoliberal 'Economics' in the Trash
http://www.alternet.org/world/hugo-chavez-rip-leader-broke-venezuela-out-americas-imperial-orbit-threw-neoliberal-economics

One of the Most Powerful Portrayals of What Has Happened to America That You Will Ever See
http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/alyssa-figueroa/one-most-powerful-portrayals-what-has-happened-america-you-will-ever-see

Israel mistreating detained Palestinian children: report
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/03/israel-mistreating-detained-palestinian-children-report.php

5 Kids Bravely Fighting Christian Domination of Their Schools
http://www.alternet.org/5-kids-bravely-fighting-christian-domination-their-schools

How Authoritarianism Created the Crisis Engulfing the Roman Catholic Church
http://www.alternet.org/belief/how-authoritarianism-created-crisis-engulfing-roman-catholic-church

The Cost of America’s Wars – $3 Trillion, $4 Trillion, $5 Trillion, $7 Trillion, $8 Trillion, Going Once, Going Twice, SOLD
http://judymorrisreport.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-cost-of-americas-wars-3-trillion-4.html

IRS will pay whistle-blowers less because of federal budget cuts
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-irs-whistleblower-budget-cut-sequester-20130305,0,4579241.story

Momentum builds to declassify CIA detention program
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/03/05/momentum_builds_to_declassify_cia_detention_program?wp_login_redirect=0

Americans living longer, less healthy lives
http://machineslikeus.com/news/americans-living-longer-less-healthy-lives

Keeping Watch: The Latest, Biggest Threats From The Religious Right
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/08/keeping-watch-the-latest-biggest-threats-from-the-religious-right/

With Millions in Assets And Hundreds of Attorneys, Christian Right Is Waging War on the Church-State Wall
http://www.alternet.org/belief/millions-assets-and-hundreds-attorneys-christian-right-waging-war-church-state-wall

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09.Mar.2013 - VIDEOS: Rand Paul Says NO, Mother Theresa, Revolution Not Televised, Indict Donald Rumsfeld, SC LA Guerrilla Gardener, More WikiLeaks Called For, Wealth Inequality, Farming Killer Corn, Hiding Hugo Chavez, DHS' Armored Trucks, Venezuela Uncertainty

Rand Paul says "No" to Obama's desire to kill US citizens without charge or trial

Mother Theresa - "Hell's Angel"

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Donald Rumsfeld Must be Indicted over Iraq Militias

Ron Finley: A Guerrilla Gardener in South Central LA


New Funding Group Calls for 100 More WikiLeaks to Offset Unprecedented Gov't Secrecy

Wealth Inequality in America: Seeing Reality

Attack of the Killer Corn! Farming in America

Hugo Chavez: What the Mainstream is Hiding? 

Luke Rudkowski Attempts to Ask Janet Napolitano About DHS’s Armored Truck Purchases

Hugo Chávez Dead: Transformed Venezuela and Survived U.S.-Backed Coup, Now Leaves Uncertainty Behind

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20.Jan.2013 - The Documentary Issue: Park Avenue, Memory of the Camps, 21st Century Slavery, Extradition, Renegade Jewish Settlers, Vatican Sex Crimes, America's Prison Problem, Get Away with Stealing

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Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream

Memory of the Camps

Crime86 Comments

Sixty years ago, in the spring of 1945, Allied forces liberating Europe found evidence of atrocities which have tortured the world’s conscience ever since. As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic film record of what they saw. Work began in the summer of 1945 on the documentary, but the film was left unfinished.

FRONTLINE found it stored in a vault of London’s Imperial War Museum and, in 1985, broadcast it for the first time using the title the Imperial War Museum gave it, ‘Memory of the Camps.

Watch the full documentary now

Slavery: A 21st Century Evil

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Stepping into the lives of men and women who until recently were slaves demands the softest of treads.

The experience of being enslaved – forced to work for no pay, often under the threat of violence and with no hope of escape, burns deep and leaves wounds which take a long time to heal.

From impoverished and often illiterate Thai farmers to women forced into prostitution; from men tricked into servitude in Brazil’s brutal charcoal industry to entire families trapped as bonded labourers in Pakistan’s feudal brick kilns; we met and filmed dozens of slaves for this series.

Food Chain Slaves. It is a nation built on the abolition of slavery, but there are at least 40,000 slaves in the US today. In the opening episode of Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Al Jazeera’s Rageh Omaar investigates food chain slavery in the US.

Sex slaves. There are an estimated 1.4 million sex slaves in the world today and international trafficking is on the rise.

Bonded Slaves. It is a form of slavery that is passed down from one generation to the next, enslaving millions.

Child Slaves. There are at least 8.4 million child slaves in the world today, many of them held as forced labour.

Charcoal Slaves. Poverty-stricken men from the north of Brazil are often lured to remote camps where they are used as slave labour.

Bridal Slaves. In the midst of widespread poverty, fueled by economic inequality and rampant corruption, a new form of slavery – bridal slavery – has flourished in India. Women and young girls are sold for as little as $120 to men who often abuse them.

Prison Slaves. Over the past 20 years China has become the world’s biggest exporter of consumer goods. But behind this apparent success story is a dark secret – millions of men and women locked up in prisons and forced into intensive manual labour.

Bonus: Al Jazeera slavery debate. Luis C d’Baca from the US State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons; Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves; David Batstone, president of Not for Sale; and Joy Ezeilo, UN Special Rapporteur for Trafficking in Persons.

Watch the full documentary now (playlist – 3 hours, 42 minutes)

Extradition

2012Crime48 Comments

Extradition is a film that explores the injustices of the Extradition Act 2003 through the suffering of two individuals and their families.

Talha Ahsan and Babar Ahmed held without charge can be extradited according to the European Court of Human Rights. They have been held without charge for over 14 years collectively.

The court concluded that “there would be no violation of the applicants’ rights if extradited to stand trial in the United States”.

These men have been let down by the British justice system and now face being incarcerated in one of America’s toughest prisons. It may be four more years before these men face trial in the United States all the while they will be kept in Prison.

These men are UK citizens; they were born in this country and paid their taxes in this country. There is not enough evidence to charge these men in Britain.

The UK police have admitted that they have not seen the bulk of evidence seized from Babar’s home but it was instead sent to the US authorities and which now forms the bulk of the indictment against Babar and Talha.

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Renegade Jewish Settlers

2012Crime162 Comments

Israeli settlers have been slowly nibbling away at Palestine’s West Bank territory for four decades.

300,000 setllers now occupy outposts that range in size from plywood shacks to full-blown suburban housing complexes.

Their abundance has grounded the much-ballyhooed two-state solution to a halt.

VICE correspondent Simon Ostrovsky travels from Tel Aviv to the remote West Bank outposts where young Israelis squat for the sake of their heritage.

But first, Simon pops in for some quick counter-terrorism training with a member of Israel’s Special Forces, just in case.

Watch the full documentary now (playlist – 35 minutes)

Sex Crimes and the Vatican

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Created in 1962, a now infamous document was issued in secret to bishops. Called Crimen Sollicitationis, it outlined procedures to be followed by bishops when dealing with allegations of child abuse, homosexuality and bestiality by members of the clergy. It swore all parties involved to secrecy on pain of excommunication from the Catholic Church.

This document was reissued in 2001 by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and sent to all bishops. Yet rather than ordering more openness and cooperation with the authorities as demanded by both law enforcers and the victims, he reiterated its policies and ensured that the Code of Silence be applied to all cases of child abuse involving a priest. Cardinal Ratzinger also instructed that all cases should now be referred to his office directly and that he would maintain ‘exclusive competence’ over the handling of allegations. This is the Catholic Church’s policy to this day and Cardinal Ratzinger is now Pope Benedict XVI.

The policy laid out in the above document has led to systemic failure by the result that a significant number of priest have, in effect, been allowed to abuse again, and further children have been put at risk.

As the documentary explores, Colm O’Gorman is the man responsible for breaking open decades of abuse by Catholic Priests in Ireland in the BAFTA award-winning BBC special Suing the Pope. He links international ‘systemic evidence’ to argue the Vatican has a policy to cover up the sexual abuse of thousands of children across the world.

In Sex Crimes and the Vatican O’Gorman explores four separate cases internationally of widespread clerical abuse, putting the Roman Catholic Church on trial for the reckless endangerment of children. O’Gorman raises the question, ‘Is the Church in default of its obligation as a signatory to the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child?’ (Excerpt from news.bbc.co.uk)

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America’s Prison Problem

2012Crime568 Comments

The US locks up more people than any other country in the world, spending over $80 billion each year to keep some two million prisoners behind bars.

Over the past three decades, tough sentencing laws have contributed to a doubling of the country’s prison population, with laws like the ‘Three Strikes and You’re Out’ mandating life sentences for a wide range of crimes.

Why does the US put so many people behind bars and what lies behind California’s new push for leniency? But a clear sign that Americans are rethinking crime and punishment is a voter’s initiative on California’s November ballot called Proposition 36 that seeks to reform the state’s three-strikes law.

Some 27 states have three-strikes laws patterned after California’s version, which was one of the first to be enacted in the country.

Activists who are campaigning to change the three-strikes law in California are also trying to raise awareness about conditions inside prisons. They are targeting the use of special security units at maximum security prisons

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How to Get Away with Stealing

2012Crime28 Comments

This short documentary looks at how easy it is to make fake passports and scam the rich into trusting you with thousands of dollars.

If the fraud industry were its own country, it would have the fifth strongest economy in the world, just ahead of the UK.

Meet the fraudsters who’re making a killing from the fastest growing crime on Earth.

VICE showcases the British fraud industry and the unapologetic mindset of the type of people who turn to that life to make a living.

It’s interesting to see it from their perspective, but it’s nothing short of violating to know that these are the types of people who think identity theft, credit damage and stealing are viable ways to make a living.

Watch the full documentary now

04.Jan.2013 - HS Students Rape Joke Leaked, Taxation is Theft, Minimum Wage Hikes, Culture and Resistance, Farmers Take on Monsanto, FBI Should Investigate Bankers, Israel to Cease to Exist, Money in Politics, Bible Misconceptions, Fixing the Economy, and Why Do Americans Have Less Vacation Time than Anyone Else? [plus a Free Documentary]

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HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS JOKE ABOUT RAPE IN A VIDEO LEAKED BY ANONYMOUS

Footage of the #OccupySteubenville Dec.29 event: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kjvLVLuY7Tc

Reclaim the Language: Taxation is Theft

Politically we know that at a good percentage of the 80 percent have been bought off with stolen money. But there’s still a large enough group that can make a difference in elections. We’re talking about a three- to five-percent swing. That’s the group we need to address.
http://godfatherpolitics.com/8798/reclaim-the-language-taxation-is-theft/

US House passes 'fiscal cliff' deal

New Year Brings Minimum Wage Hikes In 10 States
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/01/168348945/new-year-brings-minimum-wage-hikes-in-10-states

2012 Culture and Resistance with Alice Walker, Randy Weston, Walter Mosley, Gore Vidal and More

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Brazilian farmers fight back

Small farmers take on Monsanto

Lousy Deal on the Edge of the Cliff
Yes, the deal finally gets Republicans to accept a tax increase on the wealthy, but this is an inside-the-Beltway symbolic victory. If anyone believes this will make the GOP more amenable to future tax increases, they don’t know how rabidly extremist the GOP has become. The deal also extends unemployment insurance for more than 2 million long-term unemployed.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/15328-lousy-deal-on-the-edge-of-the-cliff

As Foreclosure Crisis Drags On, So Does Flawed Government Response

s the sixth year of the foreclosure crisis comes to an end, the percentage of loans in foreclosure remains a staggering eight times higher than it was in 2005. About 5.3 million homeowners - about 11 percent of all borrowers - are behind on their payments.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/427-foreclosure/15324-as-foreclosure-crisis-drags-on-so-does-flawed-government-response

FBI Should Investigate Bankers, Not Protesters

ecember 16th of 2012 marked the 239th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, when activists clad in Native American costumes protested a tax code that benefited a multinational corporation at the cost of taxpayers, and committed one of the biggest acts of property destruction in history by dumping the East India Tea Company's product into the Boston Harbor by the crateful. For nearly fifty years, the act was either shunned or ignored by the populace. But today, those activists' names are among the revered "founding fathers" of our country.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/441-occupy/15335-fbi-should-investigate-bankers-not-protesters

Stop Being a Dick, US Government!

Will 2013 be the Year American Jews Secede from Israel?

If American Jews think that what is being done in their name is self-destructive, oppressive, blockheaded and wrong, it stands to reason they would want it to stop.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33491.htm

Israel Will Cease to Exist Within the Decade, Adviser to Egyptian President Predicts

A senior Egyptian official who also serves as an adviser to President Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday expressed the opinion that Israel would not be around in 10 years.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33490.htm

Pope hopes for 2013 of peace, slams unbridled capitalism

The 85-year-old pope rang in the new year with a mass for about 10,000 people in St Peter's Basilica on the day the Roman Catholic Church marks its World Day of Peace with initiatives around the world.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/01/us-pope-idUSBRE90004820130101

Best of 2012: Jesse Ventura on Money in Politics

Finding Noah’s Flood: A Misconception of Biblical Proportions
I hate to break it to you, but Noah’s Flood is not a real thing. As geologist David Montgomery wrote in his recent history,The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood, the religious idea that the Flood was real has been important to the actual history of geology as a science. But by now, however, science knows better. I can’t say as much for the media.
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/6728/finding_noah_s_flood__a_misconception_of_biblical_proportions_

Gilad Atzmon on Jewish Identity Politics

What's next for the economy?

Social mood and the markets

The Bottom Line: Healthcare

Fixing the Economy, A New Focus for Congress

The Perils of Pauline melodrama over the “fiscal cliff” will drag on as Washington heads toward another “debt ceiling” faceoff that will climax over the next eight weeks or so.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/02-8

4 Kinds of Movement Atheist (Secularist Atheists, Identity Atheists, Evangelical Atheists, and Constructive Atheists)

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2012/12/4-kinds-of-movement-atheist-secularist-atheists-identity-atheists-evangelical-atheists-and-constructive-atheists

Why Do Americans Have Less Vacation Time than Anyone Else?

http://bigthink.com/praxis/why-do-americans-have-less-vacation-than-anyone-else

The Necessity of Criticizing (Your) Religion

I began reflecting on this after commenters on two previous posts—on taxing churches and Christian hunting—accused me of being anti-Christian. The ability to criticize a religious idea or practice, whether of your own faith or another, is a crucial component of personal and social growth. This has unfortunately been misconstrued due to two common themes:
http://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/the-necessity-of-criticizing-your-religion

The Dawning of Domestic Drones

The unmanned aircraft that most people associate with hunting terrorists and striking targets in Pakistan are on the brink of evolving into a big domestic industry. It is not a question of whether drones will appear in the skies above the United States but how soon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/opinion/the-dawning-of-domestic-drones.html

FBI, Working With Banks, Chose Not To Inform Occupy Leadership Of Assassination Plot On Its Leaders

Whatever you thought of the so-called "Occupy" movement of the past year or so, it seems clear that there has been at least a bit of overreaction to them. I mean, treating these protests, which have, by and large, been peaceful, as terrorist groups is just silly. But, as you may have seen over the past few days, that's exactly what the FBI did (as uncovered by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF)), and they did it in a coordinated manner with both Homeland Security and privately held banking corporations. 

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130102/09481421547/fbi-working-with-banks-chose-not-to-inform-occupy-leadership-assassination-plot-its-leaders.shtml

The U.S. War Machine
Many supporters of Barack Obama are disappointed that he has not reversed the war policies of his predecessor. He did his best to continue the U.S. occupation of Iraq. The Afghanistan war rages far beyond what was seen under George W. Bush. Obama has also proved militaristic in operations in Libya, Yemen, and Pakistan, and in the sanctions against Iran. The attacks on civil liberties and human rights continue on the same path that Bush forged.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33502.htm

The Ryan Budget’s Pell Grant Cuts Put College Out of Reach for Low-Income Students

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) listens at left as Sen. Jeff Session (R-AL), the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, speaks about Rep. Ryan's budget plan. The proposal would cut more than $15 billion from the Pell Grant program, which helps low-income students pay for college.
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/higher-education/report/2012/08/28/34421/the-ryan-budgets-pell-grant-cuts-put-college-out-of-reach-for-low-income-students/

Everything We Tell Ourselves About America and the World Is Wrong
Every culture has a Story of the People to give meaning to the world. Part conscious and part unconscious, it consists of a matrix of agreements, narratives, and symbols that tell us why we are here, where we are headed, what is important, and even what is real. I think we are entering a new phase in the dissolution of our Story of the People, and therefore, with some lag time, of the edifice of civilization built on top of it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33513.htm

Obama signs NDAA 2013 without objecting to indefinite detention of Americans
President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 on Wednesday, giving his stamp of approval to a Pentagon spending bill that will keep Guantanamo Bay open and make indefinite detention for US citizens as likely as ever.
http://therebel.org/politics/americas/126-united-states/394658-obama-signs-ndaa-2013-without-objecting-to-indefinite-detention-of-americans

White House, Congress extend police-state FISA law

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed the bill in September, and the Obama administration and Senate Democratic leaders insisted on passing the identical legislation through the Senate, without any amendments, to ensure the bill would go to the White House for presidential signature before the end of the year.

http://wsws.org/en/articles/2012/12/29/pers-d29.html

FISCAL CLIFF DEAL DOESN'T FIX THE PROBLEM
The last-minute deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff suffers from some of the worst ailments of Washington’s backroom deals. Primarily, it does not address the nation’s fiscal imbalance because it allows taxes to go up but fails to tackle the true driver of our economic woes: runaway government spending. Not surprisingly, President Obama has already stated that he wants to raise taxes again next year too.
http://americansforprosperity.org/legislativealerts/fiscal-cliff-deal-doesnt-fix-the-problem/

Israel preparing Cyber Iron Dome ShieldIsrael's Prime Minister officially opened a new national program to train teenagers in the art of cyberwarfare. The program named "Magshimim Le'umit", is to prepare them for their future role in the military and intelligence community.

http://thehackernews.com/2013/01/israel-preparing-cyber-iron-dome-shield.html

DOCUMENTARY OF THE DAY:

RAN OUT OF OIL

Our contemporary world is so dependent on technology fueled by oil, and yet oil will not last forever. How will the world change and how will people adapt as food disappears, electrical power fails? Witness the devastation in major cities as winter sets in. What will be more important to our survival; the technology to develop new sources of energy, or a change to a more sustainable way of life?

Turn off the lights