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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
FT_5-facts-atheists
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/23/5-facts-about-atheists/


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Labels: atheists, bigotry, christianity, christians, churches, constitution, evil, extremists, god, GOP, government, hate speech, military, money, religion, religion and politics, religious right, religulous, republicans

Sunday, September 29

9 Free Documentaries: Inside Smart Weapon Scopes, How Money is Made, Manufacturing Consent, How America Went Postal, Life At Any Price, Hunting the Internet Bullies, The Lord is Not on Trial Today, Contagion, Four Horsemen


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Long Shot: Inside the Scope of Smart Weapons
In spring of 2013, Texas-based start up TrackingPoint Solutions released the first ever precision-guided firearm, which is essentially a long-range, laser-guided robo rifle. Call it the gun of tomorrow: The technology is so advanced we’ve heard it can have beginners killing at extreme distances with single-shot accuracy in mere minutes.The PGF’s closed-loop system is based off jet fighter lock and launch technology, something TrackingPoint CEO Jason Schauble says not only marks the next great paradigm shift in the evolution of firearms—it helps users make ethical kill shots too. But critics of the PGF platform, no doubt part and parcel of a rising tide of intelligent killer apps, say the gun, or rather its proprietary scope, marks the dawn of “skill-free killing”.


How Money Is MadeHow Money is Made details the processes involved in printing money, primarily the US dollar. It also explores the world of counterfeiting and fraud that embodies the monetary world.


Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media
Noam Chomsky’s documentary “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media” from 1988. analyses mass media and the political ramifications and implications of the messages broadcasted in the United States, being its goal to direct public opinion while “numbing” the people and maiming their ability to educate themselves and effectively produce antagonical political criticism and judgement regarding the established officially broadcasted messages crafted by the powerful in conjunction with mass media outlets throughout the US!


Murder By Proxy: How America Went Postal
Murder By Proxy: How America Went Postal is a documentary film that examines the phenomenon of spree killing, particularly in a workplace, that became known in the United States as “going postal”. The film argues that the phenomenon originated in the United States Postal Service as a result of hostile work environment following the Postal Reorganization Act of 1971 and then spread to the rest of society.


Life At Any Price
Two-thirds of the world’s women live in countries where abortion can be obtained for a variety of social, economic or personal reasons. In other nations it is allowed only in cases of rape, foetal abnormality or when a woman’s life is at risk.


Hunting The Internet Bullies: When Social Networking Turns Bad
Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have changed our way of communication. Despite the many advantages that come with this change, there are some serious problems that have occurred  One of them is cyber bullying. Pop star Cher Lloyd is a famous example for a victim of internet bullying. She shares her story and fears with BBC-reporter Declan Lawn.


The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today
The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning documentary that tells the compelling personal story of the late Vashti McCollum, and how her efforts to protect her ten year-old son led to one of the most important and landmark First Amendment cases in U.S. Supreme Court history - the case that established the separation of church and state in public schools.


















ContagionIn India a deadly, mutant strain of tuberculosis is spreading across the country. In the shadows of India's capital, New Delhi, Anjou Kashab quietly battles her demons. Her frail body is being ravaged by tuberculosis. Both her lungs are infected and she's on a cocktail of pills and injections to stay alive. For 10 years Anjou has been fighting the illness, but the drugs haven't worked. She's seen more than a dozen doctors and swallowed thousands of prescription pills in the hope of a cure. Instead of the vibrant, young woman she once was, Anjou is now skin and bone, weighing just 29 kilos.


















Four Horsemen – Revealing the fundamental flaws in the economic system
As the global economy continues to veer from crisis to catastrophe – many more people are looking for wise counsel on how to reshape the Western Economy. Over the last three years 23 global thinkers – many of whom have been marginalized have come together to break their silence and explain how the world really works. Their views transcend mainstream media and short term political explanations to describe simple terms what needs to be addressed in our universities, governments and corporate structures. Ee will not be returning to “business as usual”.

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Labels: abortion, bullying, courts, disease, documentary, economics, economy, faceBook, first amendment, globalization, health, media, money, murder, politics, rape, religion, sickness, twitter, work

Monday, August 5

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: America Discredited, Bradley Manning Verdict, Myth of Socialism, Business of Mass Incarceration, NSA's Overreach, America's Power Declining, Education is Often Indoctrination, US Government Destroys Whistleblowers' Lives, FBI Hacking and Spying, Israel's Apartheid, Lies Your Government Tells You, more...


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America Discredited
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35732.htm

The banality of injustice for Bradley Manning
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/the-banality-of-injustice-for-bradley-manning/

The Bradley Manning Verdict Will Create Massive Chilling Effects For Whistleblowers And Journalists
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130731/02091524013/bradley-manning-verdict-will-create-massive-chilling-effects-whistleblowers-journalists.shtml

The Myth Of Socialism
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/01/the-myth-of-socialism-2/

JURIST releases inaugural podcast
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/jurist-releases-inaugural-podcast.php

As More Leaks Surface, Senators Seek to Curb NSA
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/221445-as-more-leaks-surface-senators-seek-to-curb-nsa/

Edward Snowden's Not the Story. The Fate of the Internet Is
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/28

The Business of Mass Incarceration
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/29

The NSA's Overreach And Lack Of Transparency Is Hurting American Businesses
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130729/09171423983/nsas-overreach-lack-transparency-is-hurting-american-businesses.shtml

3 Shocking Revelations from NSA's Most Terrifying Program Yet
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/3-shocking-revelations-nsas-most-terrifying-program-yet

America's Imperial Power Is Showing Real Signs of Decline
http://www.alternet.org/world/chomsky-americas-imperial-power-showing-real-signs-decline

Revealed: NSA Program Collects 'Nearly Everything a User Does on the Internet'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/31-2

Building a Smarter, Stronger Democratic Movement in the Face of Opposition
http://www.alternet.org/activism/building-smarter-stronger-democratic-movement-face-opposition

What Passes for Education In America Is Often Just Indoctrination
http://www.alternet.org/education/educating-idiots

How The US Government Destroys The Lives Of Whistleblowers
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130729/17214923995/how-us-government-destroys-lives-whistleblowers.shtml

Religion Is The Biggest Bane For Any Democracy
http://freethoughtblogs.com/taslima/2013/08/03/religion-is-the-biggest-bane-for-any-democracy/

Cracks widen in the armor of the surveillance state
http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=14458#.UfvXNFORQ7s

Over 100 global civil society groups release human rights principles to govern surveillance
https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2013/07/31/over-100-global-civil-society-groups-release-human-rights-principles-to-gov

Palestinian NGOs reject negotiations with Israeli occupation
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/palestinian-ngos-reject-negotiations-with-israeli-occupation/

10 Things Your Org Can Do Right Now To Give the Progressive Movement a Chance to Win
http://www.alternet.org/visions/10-things-your-org-can-do-right-now-give-progressive-movement-chance-win

The military's new massacres in Egypt
http://socialistworker.org/2013/07/29/the-militarys-new-massacres

Israel Is An Apartheid State
http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle020813.htm

FBI Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323997004578641993388259674.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsFifth

The fields are ready but the workers are few -- the urgent need to witness against organized religion
http://new.exchristian.net/2013/07/the-fields-are-ready-but-workers-are.html

WHEN CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE, #WENEEDADEMOCRACYMOVEMENTTOFIXTHISSHIT!
http://acronymtv.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/726/

The Lies Your Government Tells You About NSA Surveillance

The folks over at ProPublica have collected a series of flat-out lies by government officials concerning NSA snooping and put them all together in a short video.
It includes statements from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, NSA boss Keith Alexander, Senate Intelligence boss Senator Dianne Feinstein and President Barack Obama -- all stating false claims about NSA surveillance publicly. It then shows how those statements were false. We've said it before but as these very same officials now are trying to assure us there's nothing wrong with the program, given their past lies, how can we take them seriously?

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Labels: apartheid, beliefs, corporations, democracy, egypt, FBI, government, hackers, indoctrination, israel, military, movement, NSA, occupation, palestine, prisons, progressive, religion, surveillance, whistleblowing

Wednesday, July 24

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Global Drone Warfare, New American Economy, Fighting for Farmworkers, How Monsanto Can Be Defeated, American Dream, Symptoms of Unemployment, Creationists Are Wrong, God and American Politics, more.


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Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/15-3

Which Nations Hate The U.S.? Often Those Receiving U.S. Aid
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/07/22/204516430/which-nations-hate-the-u-s-often-those-receiving-u-s-aid

US Expands Global Drone Warfare
http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist230713.htm

Surviving the New American Economy
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76636

US Reporters May Be Forced To Reveal Their Sources
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc200713A.htm

Fighting for Farmworkers
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76637

Bradley Manning 'Aiding the Enemy' Charge is a Threat to Journalism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35606.htm

America , The Powerful And The Powerless
http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja210713.htm

The Seeds of Rebellion Are Taking Root, and Protests Against Injustices Are Blooming Across the Country
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Seeds-of-Rebellion-Are-by-Kevin-Zeese-130720-935.html

How Monsanto Can Be Defeated
http://www.alternet.org/food/how-monsanto-can-be-defeated

The American Dream Has Turned into a Grueling Quest for Survival for Millions of People
http://www.alternet.org/labor/american-dream-has-turned-grueling-quest-survival-millions-people

Mind Raped by the Christian Right
http://www.alternet.org/belief/mind-raped-christian-right

Britain admits selling $12 billion in weapons to Israel
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/britain-admits-selling-12-billion-weapons-israel

Godless Political Values: Importance of Godless Values to Modern Democracy
http://atheism.about.com/od/godlessamericaamericans/p/PoliticalValues.htm?nl=1

Why Can't We Call A Whistleblower a Truth Teller?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Can-t-We-Call-A-Whistl-by-Kenneth-Kendrick-130721-14.html

Unemployment and Its Symptoms
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/unemployment-and-its-symptoms

Creationists are wrong. Science is actually concerned with the truth.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/2013/07/19/creationists-are-wrong-science-is-actually-concerned-with-the-truth/?WT_mc_id=SA_DD_20130719

God, Religion, and American Politics
http://atheism.about.com/b/2013/07/12/god-religion-and-american-politics.htm?nl=1

The 12 Best Reasons Why The U.S. Is Not Now, And Never Should Be, A Christian Nation
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/20/christian-nation/

Is Religion Good or Evil?
Is Religion a Force for Good or Evil in the World?

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Labels: american dream, atheists, belief, christians, creationism, extremists, god, indoctrination, israel, monsanto, politics, rebels, religion, right wing, science, secularism, unemployment, warfare, whistleblowing

Tuesday, July 23

@dustcirclenews - Free DOCUMENTARIES: Do the Math, Vatican Inc., Fiefdom of Speech, Children for Sale, Crack House USA, Radical Islam's War Against the West, Rise of Artificial Intelligence, Hawking Paradox, Battered and Bruised, Iran and the Bomb


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Do the Math

Like most people, Bill (environmentalist and co-founder of 350.org), is not an activist by nature. There’s really not that many people whose greatest desire it to go out and fight the system. His theory of change was that he’ll write his book, people will read it and they’ll change. But that’s not how change happens. What is required is to make a little noise, be a little uncomfortable, and push other people to be a little uncomfortable. The moment has come where we have to take a real stance, because we’re reaching limits.


















Vatican Inc.

Every Sunday worshipers crowd the Saint Peter’s colonnades in square and from its balcony the Pope imparts a sacrament and the latest behavioral guidelines. Over one billion Catholics look to the pontiff for guidance and donate their money to the Catholic Church. A large portion of this money makes its way to the Vatican and into the vaults of the IOR, the Institute for Religious Works, the Vatican’s Bank.


















Fiefdom of Speech

The right to freedom of expression is recognized as a human right under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recognized in international human rights law in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.


















Children for Sale

From slums and misery in Brazil, hundreds of children and teenagers leave each day in search of tourists. At home there is no food on the table. On the beaches of Fortaleza there are plenty of men eager for easy and cheap bodies. Left to themselves or encouraged by their parents into prostitution, many children try to survive with what the night of Fortaleza has to offer – sex and drugs. 


















Crack House USA

Summer 2005: federal agents and police record over a thousand hours of surveillance footage inside a crack house in Rockford Illinois. For six weeks the gang smoke weed, play with guns and sell crack and heroin, unaware that their every move is being filmed. The customers come and go with no clue that their secret lives would be exposed. This is an intimate portrait of the rise and fall of a crack house and of an American urban community brought down by drugs. Interviews with gang members, their families and cops reveal the inescapable tragedy – and occasional dark comedy – of a world that lies hidden within every modern city.


Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West

Today, we find ourselves confronted by a new enemy, also engaged in a violent struggle to transform our world. As we sleep in the comfort of our homes, a new evil rises against us. A new menace is threatening, with all the means at its disposal, to bow Western Civilization under the yoke of its values. That enemy is Radical Islam.


The Rise of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is an ever evolving goal for researchers, and the object of endless fascination for writers, filmmakers, and the general public. But despite our best science fiction visions, creating digital intelligence is incredibly difficult. The universe is a very complicated place, and humans have had millions of years to evolve the ability to navigate and make sense of it. Contemporary attempts to create AI have us looking more at how our own brains work to see how a computer could simulate the core activities that create our intelligence. No matter how we get there, it is certain that artificial intelligence will have tremendous impact on our society and economy, and lead us down a path towards evolving our own definitions of humanity.


The Hawking Paradox

Stephen Hawking is the most famous scientist on the planet. His popular science book A Brief History of Time was a publishing sensation, staying at the top of the bestseller lists longer than any other book in recent history. But behind the public face lies an argument that has been raging for almost 30 years.

Battered And Bruised

In PNG’s Western Highlands Provinces, 97 per cent of women surveyed by an NGO said they had been attacked by male family members. From middle-class households in the capital Port Moresby to villages where tribal law rules an estimated one million children live in volatile family environments.


Iran And The Bomb

The West says Iran is making a nuclear bomb. Tehran says they’re treating cancer. This compelling investigation gets right to the heart of the maelstrom, interrogating facts, falsehoods and shocking allegations.


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Labels: abuse, artificial intelligence, bombs, children, documentary, drugs, economy, environment, free speech, history, iran, islam, religion, rights, science, stephen hawking, trafficking, vatican, war, women

Wednesday, July 10

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Special NSA and Edward Snowden Digest! (Plus some other news & views)


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America's Surveillance Net

There is a revolution afoot—one that is being carried out by the government against the fundamental law of the land.
http://www.thenation.com/article/174889/americas-surveillance-net#

Hands off Edward Snowden!
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/09/pers-j09.html

How We Ignore Poverty and Blame Poor Peoplehttp://everydayfeminism.com/2013/07/how-we-ignore-poverty-and-blame-poor-people/?upw

DRONES: WHY YOU SHOULD FEAR THEM
http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/government/drone-strikes-america-obama-terrorism-innocent-wedding-civilians/photos.html


Shocker: Only 1% of So Called Terrorists Nabbed by the FBI Were Real
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/fbis-terror-scam

A new blow to Native sovereignty
http://socialistworker.org/2013/07/09/new-blow-to-native-sovereignty

Call to Action: We Indict the US Government for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35485.htm

The infrastructure of a police state emerges in Europe
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/10/pers-j10.html

How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire stateshttp://www.opednews.com/articles/How-cryptography-is-a-key-by-Julian-Assange-130709-681.html

Whistleblowers are heroes: The story everyone should hear
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/good-guys-1/whistleblowers-are-heroes.html

Rights group challenges NSA surveillance in Supreme Court
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/rights-group-challenges-nsa-surveillance-in-supreme-court.php

11 Shocking Things Snowden Has Taught Us (So Far)http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/11-disturbing-things-snowden-has-taught-us-so-far

DOJ Says Public Has No Right To Know About The Secret Laws The Feds Use To Spy On Us
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130708/01055723732/doj-says-public-has-no-right-to-know-about-secret-laws-feds-use-to-spy-us.shtml

Weaponized Drones Coming to America?
http://www.alternet.org/weaponized-drones-coming-america

In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/in-secret-court-vastly-broadens-powers-of-nsa.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

4 Shocking Facts About Corporate Tax Dodging
http://www.alternet.org/4-shocking-facts-about-corporate-tax-dodging

10 Most Shocking Things the FBI Has Done Since 9/11
http://www.alternet.org/10-most-shocking-things-fbi-has-done-911

DATA, SECRETS, AND THE SURVEILLANCE STATE
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/07/nsa-snowden-poitras-appelbaum-moma-ps1-panel.html

Bounty Hunters Search for Tony Blair After Latest Sightings of UK's Most Wanted War Criminal
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35494.htm

Federal judge allows NSA surveillance suit to continue
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/federal-judge-allows-nsa-surveillance-suit-to-continue.php

Do We Need Religion?: Part II
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Do-We-Need-Religion--Part-by-Robert-De-Filippis-130708-66.html

U.S. Allies Violate Int. Law Pursuing Snowden
Forced landing of Bolivia president's plane and other tactics show that Snowden needs to speak directly to the public to get political asylum


NSA Recruiters Get Smacked Down By University Of Wisconsin Students

Edward Snowden: 'The US government will say I aided our enemies' – video interview


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Labels: 9/11, control, corporations, counter-terrorism, cryptography, data, drones, edward snowden, empire, FBI, humanity, international news, laws, NSA, police state, religion, spying, surveillance, taxes, USA

Saturday, July 6

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: War on Whistleblowers, Why Have Student Loans? Bring Organized Resistance, Snowden's Constitution, 5 Farm Bill Groups, 12 Real Patriots, Pro-Apartheid Israel Hypocrisy, Rethinking Surveillance, Wartime U.S. Travelogue, Corporations' Loopholes, more.


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The Wider War on Whistleblowers
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Wider-War-on-Whistlebl-by-Barry-Sussman-130702-357.html

Why Have Student Loans At All? Let's Get the Burdens of Debt off College Students' Backs -- And Make Wall St. Pick Up the Tab
http://www.alternet.org/education/reparations-college-debt

Why It Takes Organized Resistance To Bring in the Sweeping Change That the Public Wants
http://www.alternet.org/activism/organized-resistance-brings-sweeping-change-lessons-us

How We Can Wrench Independence from the Corporate State
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-we-can-wrench-independence-corporate-state

Snowden's Constitution vs Obama's Constitution
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130703/00121023700/snowdens-constitution-vs-obamas-constitution.shtml

Edward Snowden: A Whistleblower, Not a Spy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/03-8

5 Farm Bill Groups You Didn’t Know Existed
http://blogs.rollcall.com/goppers/5-farm-bill-groups-you-didnt-think-existed/

12 Real Patriots Brave Enough to Fight for Truth and Justice

http://www.alternet.org/activism/12-real-patriots-brave-enough-fight-truth-and-justice

Hypocrisy Of Pro-Apartheid Israel Obama Visiting Post-Apartheid South Africa
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya030713.htm

To Big U.S. Corporations: What About Some Patriotism for America?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/corporate-patriotism_b_3542125.html


Rethinking Surveillance [Book Review]
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/jul/02/electronic-surveillance-missing-laws/

Federal Student Loan Rates Double Due To Lack Of Urgency In Congress

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/02/federal-student-loan-rates-double-due-to-lack-of-urgency-in-congress/

5 Sneaky Ways Fundamentalists Are Trying To Slip Christian Creationism Into America’s Public Schools
http://www.alternet.org/belief/public-schools

Wartime U.S. Travelogue
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson040713.htm

Thanks To ‘Loopholes’ U.S. Corporations Pay A Lower Tax Rate Than Middle Class Families
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/03/thanks-to-loopholes-u-s-corporations-pay-a-lower-tax-rate-than-middle-class-families/

Guantanamo inmate accuses US military of sexual assault against detainees
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/guantanamo-bay-inmate-accuses-us-military-of-sexual-assault-against-detainees.php

US government scanning, storing billions of pieces of mail per year
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/05/mail-j05.html

The revolution will not be standardized
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/the-revolution-will-not-be-standardized/

Why Edward Snowden's Leaks Have Empowered All of Us
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/knowledge-metadata-power

Scientific evidence: what is it and how can we trust it?http://machineslikeus.com/news/scientific-evidence-what-it-and-how-can-we-trust-it

American Intellectuals' Widespread Failure to Stand Up to Billionaires and Authoritarian Power
http://www.alternet.org/books/widespread-failure-intellectuals-stand-authoritarian-power-america

Why do charities want to "normalize" Israeli apartheid?http://electronicintifada.net/content/why-do-charities-want-normalize-israeli-apartheid/12592

Over Half of Republicans Want Christianity as the Official Religion in States
http://atheism.about.com/od/Church-State-Survey-Polls/a/Republicans-Want-Christianity-Official-Religion-States.htm?nl=1

People Get Ready: 'Unprecedented' Weather Glimpses Century Ahead
Latest report from WMO says first decade of century was hottest, wettest on record with more to come
It was a decade of 'unprecedented' extreme weather, caused by warmer oceans, hotter temperatures, and an atmosphere saturated with moisture. And there's more where that came from.

Failure to Stop Doubling of Student Loan Rates Sparks Call to Tackle "Systemic" Debt Crisis


# 1 Target of Wiretap Surveillance?


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Labels: apartheid, authoritarianism, charities, congress, debt, edward snowden, israel, loans, religion, republicans, science, students, surveillance, USA, war, weather, whistleblowing, wiretapping

Tuesday, July 2

@dustcirclenews - Free DOCUMENTARIES: Debt, Street Politics 101, Consumed, Quantum Revolution, Bully Project, Mega Man, Evacuate Earth, Ireland's Secret Cults, Hungry for Change, Rise of the Superbugs, Discovering Deep Space, Recycling


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Debt: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

You may think that money is invented to make exchange easier. You could imagine that at some point in prehistory. A hunter just shot a deer and a farmer has some carrots and they want to exchange but the meat is worth much more than the carrots. They need to invent something to pay each other the difference. In this story, that’s something would be money, be it in the form of shells or lumps of gold or silver or whatever.


















Street Politics 101

In the spring of 2012, a massive student strike in opposition to a tuition hike rocked the streets of the Montréal for over six months. Protests and militant street actions became part of the daily and nightly reality of this Canadian metropolis. Several times during this tumultuous spring, the numbers in the streets would reach over one hundred thousand. Police routinely clubbed students and their allies, and arrested them by the hundreds.


















Consumed

Consumerism has become the cornerstone of the post-industrial age. Using theories of evolutionary psychology to underpin a bold narrative of our times, this film takes a whirlwind tour through the “weird mental illness of consumerism”, showing how our insatiable appetite has driven us into “the jaws of the beast”.

Quantum Revolution

Professor Michio Kaku, famous Theoretical Physicist and one of the inventors of Light Cone String Field Theory (one of the Relativistic forms of M-Theory), hosts a documentary on the use of the body of scientific knowledge on quantum mechanics that will lead to “The Quantum Revolution”.

The Bully Project

The Bully Project is a documentary film that covers events during the 2009–2010 school year and follows students and their families from Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, Iowa and Oklahoma.

Mega Man

Kim Dotcom claims he wants to protect internet privacy. The United States claims he’s the internet’s biggest pirate. This film meets the man, as the future of the internet and $500m in copyright claims hang in the balance.

Evacuate Earth

Evacuate Earth is a National Geographic Channel documentary that tells the what-if story of the evacuation of the planet Earth which is due to be destroyed by a rogue Neutron Star. The documentary goes into the technical and social complications of building an Ark to save humanity and other Earth life and moving them to a planet in another star system.


Exposed: Ireland’s Secret Cults

Exposed: Ireland’s Secret Cults is a documentary from TV3 that looks into a number of religious ‘cults’ in Ireland like the ‘Palmarians’, ‘The House of Prayer’ and ‘Scientologists’. This film explores who goes to these churches, who runs them, how they get money, and who they target as new ‘recruits’, talking to ex-cult members who have left these churches.

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HUNGRY FOR CHANGE IN NEW YORK

Food is at the core of human survival – it can be at the heart of a family’s traditions and the key to a nation’s cultural identity.


RISE OF THE SUPERBUGS

Antibiotics are the wonder drugs of modern medicine. They’ve allowed doctors to save and extend life by killing infection and enabling ground breaking surgery. But imagine a world where antibiotics don’t work – that would be a place dominated by superbugs, bacteria that don’t respond to antibiotics. Scientists say this would end many modern medical procedures and they claim the threat is greater than we realise.


DISCOVERING DEEP SPACE

Around the world, a new generation of astronomers are hunting for the most mysterious objects in the universe. Young stars, black holes, even other forms of life. They have created a dazzling new set of super-telescopes that promise to rewrite the story of the heavens.


RECYCLING: HOW A USED BOTTLE BECOMES A NEW BOTTLE

The rise of curbside recycling programs over the past few decades has meant more glass recycling. But for a long time, many recycling centers didn’t have the technology to turn recycled glass into the raw material for new bottles. Instead, recycled glass often wound up being used as a cheap construction material, or even to cover landfills.

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Tuesday, June 11

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Special NSA Surveillance and Phone Records Edition! ...plus: Bradley Manning, Christian Official U.S. Religion, Student Loans, and Israel = Unpopular Country,


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NSA collecting phone records of millions of US citizens daily
NSA collecting phone records of millions of US citizens dailyhttp://thehackernews.com/2013/06/NSA-phone-number-records-surveillance-system-verizon_5.html

UN publishes report on surveillance and freedom of expression
https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2013/06/06/un-report-warns-of-surveillance-techs-human-rights-threats

Democracy is Coming…to the U.S.A.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/terror-12-years-enough-time-democracy

NSA Taps in to Systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and others, Secret Files Reveal
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/07

The National Security Agency: Surveillance Giant with Eyes on America
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/07-0

Spreading Middle East conflicts: US to blame
http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/?q=node/2193

Bradley Manning's Legal Duty to Expose War Crimes
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Bradley-Manning-s-Legal-Du-by-Marjorie-Cohn-130603-841.html

Moral Imperative of Bradley Manning
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Moral-Imperative-of-Bradle-by-Ray-McGovern-130603-161.html

War Is A Queer Issue, But Bradley Manning Being Queer Is A Non-Issue
http://www.opednews.com/articles/War-Is-A-Queer-Issue-But-by-Dooler-Campbell-130604-335.html

Worldwide Movement Against Monsanto Gaining Steam
http://www.alternet.org/activism/millions-against-monsanto-march

The Middle Class Faces Extinction—So Does the American Dream
http://www.alternet.org/economy/income-inequality-defers-american-dream

People have killed their fear of authority - and the protests are growing
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/06/people-have-killed-their-fear-authority-and-protests-are-growing

The Truth is Too Messy for Church
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Truth-is-Too-Messy-for-by-Robert-De-Filippis-130603-803.html

When a Doctor Wields a Bible: The Alarming Rise of Catholic Hospitals
http://www.alternet.org/belief/bible-health-care

Senate passes half-trillion-dollar farm bill
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14781121-senate-passes-halftrilliondollar-farm-bill

Is The Surveillance State Constitutional?http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/is_the_surveillance_state_constitutional_20130611/

'Beyond Orwellian': Outrage Follows Revelations of Vast Domestic Spying Program
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/06

Why Student Loans Are an Even Bigger Sham Than You Know
http://www.alternet.org/why-student-loans-are-even-bigger-sham-you-know

Israel one of world’s most unpopular countries and it’s getting worse: BBC survey
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-one-worlds-most-unpopular-countries-and-its-getting-worse-bbc-survey

ACLU challenges US deportation practices
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/06/aclu-challenges-us-deportation-practices.php

CIA Unsure Of Those Killed In Drone Strikes, Classified Report Shows
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/foreign-policy/war-terror/cia-unsure-those-killed-drone-strikes-classified-report-shows


10 Things Americans Underestimate About Our Massive Surveillance State
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/surveillance-nsa

Be Prepared for the Inevitable and Unpredictable Mass Movement
http://www.alternet.org/activism/mass-social-transformation-movement-inevitable-be-prepared

American Fascism: 
Ralph Nader Decries How Big Business Has Taken Control of the U.S. Government 
Part One: http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76334
Part Two: http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76333

US lawmakers urge review of government surveillance activities
Photo source or descriptionhttp://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/06/us-lawmakers-urge-review-of-government-surveillance-activities.php

Is Climate Change Action Doomed?
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76362

Senator Rand Paul Wants A Class Action Lawsuit Against NSA Surveillance
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130610/01160123390/senator-rand-paul-wants-class-action-lawsuit-against-nsa-surveillance.shtml

Private Contractors Are In Charge Of National Security And They’re In It For The Profits
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-whistleblowing-and-the-privatization-of-national-security/

If US Cut Military by 75%, Would Still Have Biggest Military

http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76356

U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms
http://machineslikeus.com/news/us-mining-data-9-leading-internet-firms

Nearly Half of Republicans Want Christianity as America's Official Religion
http://atheism.about.com/od/Church-State-Survey-Polls/a/Republicans-Christianity-America-Official-Religion.htm?nl=1

NSA Whistleblowers: "All US Citizens" Targeted by Surveillance Program, Not Just Verizon Customers

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