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Thursday, October 17

9 Free DOCUMENTARIES: New World Order, Class War, Life After Guantanamo, Getting Rich, Hidden Victims of Austerity, Assassination Nation, War Crimes, Earth in 1000 Years, Eyewar.


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New World Order

You want us to stand down. You want us to back off. You want us to shut up while our country and our sovereignty and our borders and everything we've ever been and everything we'll ever be is being destroyed. You got the nerve to call us traitors and call us conspiracy theorists just because we're informed.


















Class War

The US military with its vast complex web of branches, agencies and bureaucracies is, in socio-political terms, a metastasized cancer run rampant in the American body of politics, and the Americans are dying of it. Not surprising, the core purpose of armies is to kill people. Every country that has ever had one claimed it was for defense but all history proves their function has never varied - to kill people and appropriate their wealth.


















Life after Guantanamo

In this episode, Fault Lines traveled to Yemen to ask what the consequences of America's policy of indefinite detention have been and to find out what life is like there, after Guantanamo.


















Getting Rich

It is one of the most extraordinary transformations of our time - China. A country long in the grip of communism is now devoted to private enterprise. That is what they had to do for the ordinary people of China to become richer. This new economic superpower is taking on the West. But China's surging economy has a dark side. Can China keep moving forward or will the forces of change tear it apart?


















Into the Fire: The Hidden Victims of Austerity

Most refugees arrive in Europe by foot or by boat, landing in Greece, Italy and Spain. Under EU regulations, asylum claims have to be made in the country through which refugees first enter Europe. They cannot move to another European country. In 2011 the European Court of Human Rights found that asylum seekers in Greece are at risk of inhuman and degrading treatment. There are deficiencies in the asylum procedure, the detention conditions and the living conditions in Greece.


















Assassination Nation

The most successful suicide attack of all time was 9/11. In fact, it was powerful that it led to the US invasion of both Iraq and Afghanistan. 11 years ago, the US Army invaded Afghanistan with the sole purpose of getting Al Qaeda and Taliban. Today, the US government is entering into negotiations with the Taliban to see just how much power they will gain when our troops leave. This is a direct result of the Taliban's successful use of terror techniques, suicide attacks, and suicide bombing.


















War Crimes

Not long ago, one out of every five prisoners in America was a Vietnam vet. More and more veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are showing up behind bars and many are being charged with violent crime. Experts are saying that there's a common thread that often runs through these cases, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.


















Earth in 1000 Years

Scientists are tracking the overall rate of ice loss with the Grace Satellite. They found that from 2003 to 2009, Greenland lost about a trillion tons, mostly along its coastlines. This number mirror's ice loss in the Arctic as a whole. By 2012, summer sea ice coverage had fallen to a little more than half of what it was in the year 1980. While the ice rebounded in 2013, the coverage was still well below the average of the last three decades. Analyzing global data from Grace, one study reports that Earth lost about 4,000 cubic kilometers of ice in the decade leading up to 2012.


















Eyewar

These are some of the topics addressed in Eyewar: 80 minutes of found footage which traces the development of the digital image from the maps of the second century to the screens of the twenty-first, and the uses of the field of cybernetics from Japan in the 1940s to Chile in the 1970s and Iraq in the 1990s.



Sunday, March 31

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Food Stamps Record, United Police States of America, Monsanto Protection Act, Guantanamo Hunger Strikers Denied Water, Anti-Gay Movement Humiliated, Depositors Confiscation Scheme, Corporations Unpatriotic, Global Warming Speeding Up, Afghans Terrorized by US Drones, Trickle-Down Consumption, Walmart's Death Grip, more.


It has come to my attention that some of the VIDEO digests don't show some of the videos in the mailings. These are accessible on the website. The Video-related content I send out will have a link to the website so you can view the videos, instead of seeing just a list: http://www.dustcircle.com
Record Number of Americans Using Food Stamps: US food stamp use swells to a record 47.8 millionhttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34453.htm

Survey: 48% of US Christians Believe Jesus Is Coming Back in Next 40 Years
http://www.alternet.org/survey-48-us-christians-believe-jesus-coming-back-next-40-years

You Have the Right to Remain Silent: The United Police States of America
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34443.htm

Obama Signature On Monsanto Protection Act Ignites Massive Activism
http://intellihub.com/2013/03/29/obama-signature-on-monsanto-protection-act-ignites-massive-activism/

Obama Signs 'Monsanto Protection Act' Written by Monsanto-sponsored Senator
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34445.htm

Guantanamo Guards Denying Water to Hunger Strikers to Thwart Protest, say Lawyers
http://intellihub.com/2013/03/29/guantanamo-guards-denying-water-to-hunger-strikers-to-thwart-protest-say-lawyers/

Why the Anti-Gay Movement Got Humiliated in the Supreme Court
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/why-anti-gay-movement-got-humiliated-supreme-court

Think Your Money is Safe? Think Again: The Confiscation Scheme Planned for US and UK Depositors
http://www.alternet.org/economy/think-your-money-safe-think-again-confiscation-scheme-planned-us-and-uk-depositors

How Big Corporations Are Unpatriotic
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/28-11

New Research Shows Global Warming Speeding Up
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/28-1

Rare Reporting Reveals Afghan Civilians Terrorized by US Drones
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/28-2

Little-known surveillance tool raises concerns by judges, privacy activists
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/little-known-surveillance-tool-raises-concerns-by-judges-privacy-activists/2013/03/27/8b60e906-9712-11e2-97cd-3d8c1afe4f0f_story.html#

‘Trickle-down consumption’ has created the United States of Inequality
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14303851-trickledown-consumption-has-created-the-united-states-of-inequality

Overturning DOMA could afford federal benefits for same-sex couples

Walmart's Death Grip on Groceries Is Making Life Worse for Millions of People
http://www.alternet.org/food/walmarts-death-grip-groceries-making-life-worse-millions-people-hard-times-usa

Corporations Are Robbing Us Of Our Right to a Fair Trial
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/corporations-are-robbing-us-our-right-fair-trial

Importance of Church/State Separation to Religious Groups in America
http://atheism.about.com/od/Church-State-Survey-Polls/a/Importance-Church-State-Separation-Religious-Groups.htm?nl=1

What Is the "Monsanto Protection Act," and How Did It Sneak Into Law?
http://www.alternet.org/what-monsanto-protection-act-and-how-did-it-sneak-law

New Study Projects Iraq and Afghanistan War Costs Will Total up to $6 Trillion
http://www.alternet.org/new-study-projects-iraq-and-afghanistan-war-costs-will-total-6-trillion

How Brazil, Russia, India and China Are Standing Up to the American Empire
http://www.alternet.org/world/alternative-power-structure-american-empire-keeps-growing-stronger

Israel is an Apartheid State
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Israel-is-an-Apartheid-Sta-by-willy-scanlon-130330-437.html

Get serious about closing Guantanamohttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34451.htm

Israeli Idiocracy
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Israeli-Idiocracy-by-Uri-Avnery-130329-130.html

Domestic Drones And Their Unique Dangers
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Domestic-Drones-And-Their-by-Glenn-Greenwald-130329-584.html

Israel Assassination of Rachel Corrie: @BBC Admits Failings in Reporting
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/israel-assassination-of-rachel-corrie-bbc-admits-failings-in-reporting/

Global Warming Forecasts Proven Accuratehttp://www.countercurrents.org/cc300313B.htm

Saturday, February 16

16.Feb.2013 - VIDEOS: Dorner Cabin Fire, Corporate-Government Science, Secret Gun History, Droning Defense, SOTU Rhetoric, XL Pipeline Debate, Obama's Kill List, Blacklisting, Social Media Tracking, Pathway to Citizenship, Middle-Class Revival, U.S. Violent Culture, Afghan War Troops, Police's Intentional Fire, more.

Cops Accused of Starting Fire as Charred Body Found in ‘Dorner’ Cabin


Blind faith in corporate-government science

The Secret History of Guns and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s


MSNBC's Droning Defense of Targeted Assassination


SOTU: Do Policy Proposals Live up to Rhetoric on Wages and Climate Change?



Will Feb 17th Protest Stop the XL Pipeline and Shift Climate Debate?


Obama's Kill List and White Paper Memo 



Blacklisting: we identify companies named and those NOT named in Parliamentary inquiry



Obama Sets Proudly Progressive Agenda in State of the Union

Defence develop Software that can track people on Social media

As Obama Touts Pathway to Citizenship, Record Deportations Leave Undocumented Immigrants in Fear


Obama’s SOTU Address Calls for Middle-Class Revival, But Poverty and Inequality Still Get Short Shrift


Beyond Gun Control, Obama Urged to Tackle Joblessness, Incarceration and U.S. "Culture of Violence"


Despite Planned Troop Withdrawal, Special Ops and Private Forces Prepare to Continue Afghan War


An Intentional Fire? Police Use of Incendiary Tear Gas Criticized in Killing of Christopher Dorner

From Dorner to Waco to MOVE Bombing, A Look at Growing Militarization of Domestic Policing

NAACP: New Election Commission Needed to Address Voter Suppression, Attacks on Voting Rights

Wednesday, December 26

26.Dec.2012 - FBI Documents Reveal Occupy Monitoring, Congress Protects Gun Industry, US Government Redistributes Wealth to Rich, Origins of Middle East Mess, US to Sell S. Korea Drones, Wake Up from the American Dream, Homeowners Associations Threaten Banks with Foreclosures, Economy Artificially Maintained, Rip-Off Wars, Case for a Living Wage, more. (plus Documentary: Truth About Secret Weapons)


FBI Secret Documents Reveal Nationwide Occupy Monitoring
The FBI and other federal agencies monitored Occupy from the beginning. (photo: Occupy Portland)
BI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF's Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat even though the agency acknowledges in documents that organizers explicitly called for peaceful protest and did "not condone the use of violence" at occupy protests.

Why Is Congress Protecting the Gun Industry?
Is Congress ready to give up protecting gun manufacturers? (photo: NY Magazine)

Since the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings, there have been widespread calls for Congress to pass gun control laws - and it should. But there has been less talk about another important tool that could be used to reduce gun violence: lawsuits against the gun industry. Some of these suits can succeed despite the PLCAA - as the Daniel Williams case shows - and we need more of them to be filed. But if Congress wants to get serious about gun violence, it should repeal the PLCAA.

U.S. Government Redistributes Wealth… to the Rich
For about thirty years now, the federal government has been implementing policies that take tax dollars from middle class Americans and give them to the rich, supposedly as a way to spur economic growth. Although Americans actually want greater economic equality, the net effect has been to redistribute wealth to the rich and create the most unequal developed society on earth.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33436.htm

American Pro-Israel Groups Warm Up to Kerry as Top Diplomat
The bond Kerry has forged with the Jewish community because of his roots and because of his interest in the Middle East has helped smooth over rough patches when he has criticized Israel.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33433.htm

America`s Retreat? What next for Afghanistan after NATO’s scheduled pullout?

afghanmap2On a snap visit to Kabul a few days ago, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declined to clarify what is in store for Afghanistan after NATO’s announced pullout in 2014. The American-led forces arrived in Afghanistan 11 years ago on a United Nations mission to combat terrorism. In a recent interview with Afghan television, Russian Ambassador Andrei Avetisyan said this mission is far from accomplished, as is the task of equipping Afghanistan with modern armed forces.


The origins of the Middle East mess
Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan explained


RQ-4 Global Hawk

US to sell $1.2bn in spy drones to S. Korea

The Pentagon has informed Congress of its plans to sell four Global Hawk high-altitude spy drones to South Korea. Under the deal Seoul’s surveillance capabilities would be greatly improved, even though the US DoD itself wanted to retire the aircraft.

Slavery, Gun control and the Jewish elites

Abraham Foxman, head of Israel-Jewish lobby group ADL has called Minister Louis Farrakhan (born 1933), head of the Nation of Islam (NOI), an antisemite for later’s criticism of Steven Spielberg’s latest movie ‘Lincoln‘ for ignoring the fact that Jewish elites funded both sides during the American Civil War, played a major role in African slave trade but also hated president Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). Rabbi Isaac M. Wise in his eulogy had said: “The lamented Abraham Lincoln believed himself to be bone from our bone and flesh from our flesh. He supposed himself to be a descendant of Hebrew parentage. He said so in my presence“.


FBI Monitored Occupy Wall Street from Earliest Days




Generation Y Wakes Up From The American Dream, Faces An American Nightmare

Generation Y professionals entering the workforce are finding careers that once were gateways to high pay and upwardly mobile lives turning into detours and dead ends. Average incomes for individuals ages 25 to 34 have fallen 8 percent, double the adult population’s total drop, since the recession began in December 2007. Their unemployment rate remains stuck one-half to 1 percentage point above the national figure.




FBI Had Counterterrorism Agents Investigate Occupy Movement

It's the latest example of counterterrorism officials looking into domestic protest groups.


Payback! Hundreds of Homeowners Associations Threaten Banks with Foreclosure

In Florida, banks who slack on maintaining their properties are getting a taste of their own medicine.

"Blood on Your Hands": CODEPINK Interrupts NRA’s Wayne LaPierre as He Calls for Guns in U.S. Schools



As U.S. Faces Gun Epidemic Post-Newtown, Obama Urged to Break With NRA & Back Global U.N. Arms Treaty


OWS Activists Called Domestic Terrorists
US history is littered with repressive laws. Constitutional protections and civil liberties have been targeted. The 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts restricted First Amendment freedoms. So did the 1917 Espionage Act, 1919 anti-communist Palmer raids, 1934 Special Committee on Un-American Activities, its House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) successor, FBI COINTELPRO crackdowns, 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 2001 USA Patriot Act, and other post-9/11 measures.

Is Our Economy Being Artificially Maintained and Propped Up? If So, How and Why?
Out of one side of the establishment's mouth we hear excitement about "green shoots," and out of the other side comes breathless warnings of fiscal cliffs and the urgent need forunlimited bailouts   by the Fed in the form of ongoing "quantitative easing," which consists of the Federal Reserve Bank creating $85 billion a month out of thin air, and using it to buy two things:   1) huge amounts of government bonds from the US Treasury Department, and 2) huge amounts of near-worthless mortgage-backed securities from private banks (i.e. banksters).     What this amounts to is a kind of ongoing bailout and gift, which, at its core, is an ongoing transfer of wealth to rich banksters and other Wall Streeters, from the rest of us.    

No Glory, No Spoils, No Closure - The Double Whammy of Rip-off Wars
Today's easy riddle: what will cost more, last longer, and accomplish less than our troop-heavy, anachronistic, perpetual overseas occupations? Nothing, nada, rien -- certainly not annual deficits, Bush tax cuts, or formal defense budgets. Put aside human suffering and unbelievable dislocation: we've all shouldered a four trillion dollar price tag on two failed wars, plus the double whammy that both Iraq and Afghanistan remain unstable havens for mayhem. Is any fiscal cliff that might happen worse than two indeterminate rat holes that have happened? 

Wage History and The Case for A Living Wage
A conservative friend of mine was astonished to learn that a couple with two children in his town would need an income of  $52,000 per year to live there. "I'm a CPA and I've had partners who didn't make $57,000 some years," he said.



God Particle or Hype Particle? What the Higgs Boson Means to You

Laws of War Violated During Gaza-Israel Fighting: Report


Occupy Homes, one year on and growing daily

occupyhomesMNOn December 6, the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Homes movement, Meusa and Wheeler were only two among thousands of people who gathered for coordinated direct actions focused on the human right to housing. Building on a year filled with eviction blockades, house takeovers, bank protest and singing auction blockades, the anniversary of Occupy Homes demonstrated that the groups were still committed to risking arrest to keep people sheltered. Yet, even more significantly, the day’s events demonstrated a crystallization of the movement’s central message: that decent and dignified housing should be a human right in the United States.

Zero Dark Thirty: Why the Film's Makers Should Be Defended And What Deeper bin Laden Controversy Has Been Stirred

To those critics of Zero Dark Thirty who claim the film misleads the public on the role that waterboarding and other torture played in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, I suggest they look forward to the making of some other film that represents their ideals rather than make Zero Dark Thirty their scapegoat for the many conflicting and misinformed statements issued by American policy makers concerning the use of torture (I will not here legitimize the misleading euphemism "enhanced interrogation techniques") during the War on Terror. 



There Are Now As Many Nonreligious Americans As Evangelicals -- 6 Ways Politicians Can Court Their Vote



DOCUMENTARY OF THE DAY:
THE TRUTH ABOUT STREET WEAPONS

Monday, December 17

17.Dec.2012 - Anonymous Vows to Destroy Westboro Baptist Church, and many more articles, videos, views, and a documentary on Satanism


Anonymous vows to ‘destroy’ Westboro Baptist Church over Sandy Hook picket plans
A Westboro Baptist Church member pickets a Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles on June 19, 2009. Photo: Flickr user k763, creative commons licensed.
“Your impact and cause is hazardous to the lives of millions and you fail to see the wrong in promoting the deaths of innocent people,” an “Anonymous” video featuring a computerized voice says over ominous music. “You are self-appointed servants of God who rewrite the words of his sacred scripture to adhere to your prejudice. Your hatred supersedes your faith, and you use faith to promote your hatred.”

“Did We Just Kill a Kid?”: Drone Operator Who Killed Afghan Child Can't Sleep After Waging War Miles Away

The German publication Der Spiegel shines light on how drones are having an effect on the soldiers back home controlling them.

5 Lies the Gun Lobby Tells Youmerica's seems to be in for another debate over gun regulation after the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School left 27 (mostly children) dead. So it's worth reviewing five made against regulating gun ownership in the United States:
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/415-gun-control-/15071-5-lies-the-gun-lobby-tells-you

Three Progressive Ways to Reduce Medicare Costs
orporate lobbyists and their allies on Capitol Hill have a terrible new idea: hiking the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67. This would save the federal government about $5.7 billion a year, butcost seniors $11.4 billion over the same period.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/272-39/15070-three-progressive-ways-to-reduce-medicare-costs

Dangerous food additive
Brominated vegetable oil


What happens when citizens can't defend themselves

"Gun Control" in the Soviet Union


Israel lobby boasts of role blocking presentation by Veolia opponents in London’s Hackney Council
No to Veolia Action Group has been campaigning for two years to keep Israeli occupation profiteer Veolia at bay in a multi-billion pound waste management tender in north London. UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk recently lent his support by urging the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) not to award the contracts to Veolia “due to its deep and ongoing complicity with Israeli violations of international law.”
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/israel-lobby-boasts-role-blocking-presentation-veolia-opponents-londons-hackney

Freedom Of The Press Foundation Launches To Support WikiLeaks, Increase Transparency
wikileaks
Increased government scrutiny and criticism from lawmakers prompted several companies, including MasterCard, Visa and PayPal, to stop processing donations to the non-profit organization. WikiLeaks eventually suspended publication due to the “bank blockade.”

The Right to Know

In December 2010, WikiLeaks started publishing a selection of leaked U.S. State Department cables through the New York Times, the Guardian, and other traditional media, opening a deep crack in the thickening wall of secrecy that has been forming worldwide around the internal processes of democracy since 9/11. They helped catalyze the "Arab Spring." They struck a blow for the right of citizens everywhere to know what is being done in our names. And they thoroughly freaked out the U.S. Government, sending it into a security spasm of Cold War proportions.



10 Girls Dead Following Deadly Blast in Afghanistan

As US mourns 20 children killed in gun massacre amid calls for greater gun control, landmine blast leaves Afghans mourning


Building a Nonviolent Culture After Newtown

The December 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. that left 28 people dead — including 20 children — has sent shock waves through our society. It penetrated the elaborate defenses that we as individuals and as a culture have erected to live with the internal contradictions of the bargain we have made to both oppose and embrace violence. Occasionally reality exposes and trumps the cognitive dissonance of this uneasy but deeply embedded arrangement.

How the US Intelligence Community Came Out of the Shadows

Weren’t those the greatest of days if you were in the American spy game?  Governments went down in Guatemala and Iran thanks to you.  In distant Indonesia, Laos, and Vietnam, what a role you played!  And even that botch-up of an invasion in Cuba was nothing to sneeze at.  In those days, unfortunately, you -- particularly those of you in the CIA -- didn’t get the credit you deserved.

Gaza is no Longer Occupied. Really?


The Visible Government
How the U.S. Intelligence Community Came Out of the Shadows
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33356.htm


Counter-terrorism Agency: Every Citizen a Suspect

Regulations recently signed into effect by Attorney General Eric Holder allow the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) to monitor records of citizens for any potential criminal activity, without a warrant and without suspicion.

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Official Secrets by the Petabytes

As he aggressively seeks the sources of news media leaks of government secrets, President Obama might want to pay close attention to an important and overdue new report that he ordered on classified information from the Public Interest Declassification Board.

The Price of Our Freedom

re we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?" -- Barack Obama, Newtown Address, December 16, 2012. That sentence, uttered by President Obama in his Newtown Address, may turn out to be a turning point in American history. 
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/416-gun-control-/15076-focus-the-price-of-our-freedom

The Woes of an American Drone Operator
A soldier sets out to graduate at the top of his class. He succeeds, and he becomes a drone pilot working with a special unit of the United States Air Force in New Mexico. He kills dozens of people. But then, one day, he realizes that he can't do it anymore.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33337.htm


"We Can’t Tolerate This Anymore": Obama Vows Action After Worst Grade School Massacre in U.S. History



Debate: After Newtown, Will Nation’s Worst-Ever Grade School Shooting Spur Tougher Gun Control?



Occultism, Satanism & Black Magic



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