@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: U.S. Government Revealed as Criminals and Liars, U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate Falls, America's Dark Chemical Warfare History, the Pledge of Allegiance, N.S.A. Campaign Against Encryption, Civil Disobedience, USDA Whistleblowers Threatened, the Truth About Syrian War, more.

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The West Dethroned
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36164.htm

Why You’re To Blame for the NSA (and So Am I)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/06/nsa_surveillance_we_re_all_to_blame_for_the_government_overreach.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content

5 Acts of Terror By the People We Chose to Protect Us
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/5-acts-terror-people-we-chose-protect-us

The US Government Stands Revealed to the World as a Collection of War Criminals and Liars
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36135.htm

US labor force participation rate falls to lowest level since 1978

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/07/jobs-s07.html

Wouldn't It Be Something If We Had A President Who Believed In Liberty?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130830/16242924371/wouldnt-it-be-something-if-we-had-president-who-believed-liberty.shtml

Inside America's Dark History of Chemical Warfare
http://www.alternet.org/world/america-and-chemical-warfare

5 facts about the Pledge of Allegiance
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/04/5-facts-about-the-pledge-of-allegiance/

10 Ways America Has Come to Resemble a Banana Republic

http://www.alternet.org/economy/10-ways-america-has-come-resemble-banana-republic

Secret Documents Reveal N.S.A. Campaign Against Encryption
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-reveal-nsa-campaign-against-encryption.html?_r=0

How can we change the world?
http://socialistworker.org/2013/09/09/how-can-we-change-the-world

Violent Behavior Linked to Nutritional Deficiencies: ‘Their Brains Are Starving’
http://disinfo.com/2013/09/violent-behavior-linked-to-nutritional-deficiencies-their-brains-are-starving/

When Civil Disobedience Becomes Law Enforcement
http://onthecommons.org/magazine/when-civil-disobedience-becomes-law-enforcement

Save the Planet, Starting on Your Own Block
http://onthecommons.org/magazine/save-planet-starting-your-own-block

USDA Whistleblowers: Workers "Threatened" for Making Food Safety Complaints at Pork Plants
http://www.foodwhistleblower.org/blog/28-2013/565-usda-whistleblowers-workers-qthreatenedq-for-making-food-safety-complaints-at-pork-plants

Map: Where You Don’t Want to Be When It Hits the Fan

The Mind-Blowing Truth About War With Syria

KMC » 1pm - Sep 6, 2013

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: America Discredited, Rules of War, Palestinian Genocide, Facial-Scanning System, Affordable Care Act, Poverty Reduces Brainpower, NSA Email Collection, Israel's Siege of Gaza, Moral Obscenities in Syria, Whistle-blowers Good for Democracy, more.

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America Totally Discredited
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36036.htm

Facebook report reveals governments' requests for user data
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/15325489-facebook-reveals-government-request-for-user-data-in-new-report

Our Democracy?
http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen300813.htm

What Are the Rules of War?
http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/rules-of-war-130830.htm#mkcpgn=emnws1

The Palestinian Genocide By Israel
http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle300813.htm

Facial-scanning system for crowds shows improvement in tests by Homeland Security
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/facial_scanning_system_for_crowds_shows_improvement_in_tests_by_homeland_se/

Is the Affordable Care Act Actually Affordable? For Millennials, Maybe Not
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/affordable-care-act-actually-affordable-millennials-maybe-not

Poverty reduces brainpower 
http://machineslikeus.com/news/poverty-reduces-brainpower

NSA Email Collection Violated 4th Amendment: FISA Court
http://blogs.findlaw.com/decided/2013/08/nsa-email-collection-violated-4th-amendment-fisa-court.html?DCMP=NWL-pro_downloadthis

Why America Cannot Live without Wars
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/29-4

New Snowden revelation details vast US intelligence “black budget”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/31/nsas-a31.html

BBC editor urged colleagues to downplay Israel’s siege of Gaza
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/bbc-editor-urged-colleagues-downplay-israels-siege-gaza

What To Expect During The Next Stage Of Collapse

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/what-to-expect-during-the-next-stage-of-collapse_082013

Moral Obscenities in Syria
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/27-7

People of the World are Fighting Back

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36052.htm

Whistle-Blowers Are Good for Democracy
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/daniel_ellsberg_whistle-blowers_are_good_for_democracy_20130829/

Fool Me Twice, Shame on US

"It's shocking to me that in this day and age, after what this world has been through, that there can be any argument that what the United States plans to do is legal. For the United States to go in there, you need two sets of laws to be complied with. One is international law, UN law, and the other is our own domestic Constitution of the United States. Since the Second World War, there's only two ways that you can make war on another nation. One is in self-defense. So if you're being attacked by a missile or a rocket from that country, etc., you can use self-defense against that country to try and stop it. And the second one was under the authority of United Nations, the Security Council."—Michael Ratner

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@dustcirclenews - 11 Free DOCUMENTARIES: Advances in Neuroscience, Inside the Saudi Kingdom, Voyager Journey to the Stars, On-Body Police Cams, Soda Pop, Madagascar Sex and Survival, 3D Printed Guns, Keys to Crowdfunding Success, Guns in the Sun, Surviving the Cold, A Drug Addict Male Prostitute

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WAKING THE BRAIN: ADVANCES IN NEUROSCIENCE
In the summer of 2010 Rohan Pais, an amateur long-distance cyclist, was training for a charity ride. His bike collided with a car and he was thrown into a cornfield. His injuries were so severe, that the emergency room doctors told his wife he wasn’t going to make it.


INSIDE THE SAUDI KINGDOM
Lionel Mill’s film has unique access to Prince Saud bin Abdul Mohsen, one of the rulers of the rich, powerful and secretive Saudi royal family.


VOYAGER JOURNEY TO THE STARS
The film examines the great promise of the Voyager mission and where it will lead us in our grand ambition to move out beyond our home planet. The two Voyager spacecraft are part of an ancient quest to push beyond our boundaries… to see what lies beyond the horizon. Now tens of billions of kilometers from Earth, two spacecraft are streaking out into the void. What will we learn about the Galaxy, the Universe, and ourselves from Voyager’s epic Journey to the stars?


FIRST PERSON SHOOTER: ON-BODY POLICE CAMS
Stun-gun company Taser want to make ‘Cops’ on steroids, but who does it serve? The Verge goes in-depth with Taser and the Mesa Police Department, one of the many law agencies testing this new technology.


OBSESSIVES: SODA POP
John Nese is the proprietor of Galcos Soda Pop Stop in LA. His father ran it as a grocery store, and when the time came for John to take charge, he decided to convert it into the ultimate soda-lovers destination.


SEX AND SURVIVAL IN MADAGASCAR
Using undercover filming, this powerful investigation exposes a booming child sex trade. In the hub of Madagascar, one of the world’s poorest countries, prostitution is seen as an unavoidable means of survival.


CLICK, PRINT, GUN – 3D PRINTED GUNS
This is a story about the rapid evolution of a technology that has forced the American legal system to play catch up. Cody Wilson, a 24 year old University of Texas Law student, is an advocate for the open source production of firearms using 3D printing technology. This makes him a highly controversial figure on both sides of the gun control issue. MOTHERBOARD sat down with Cody in Austin, Texas to talk about the constitution, the legal system, and to watch him make and test-fire a 3D-printed gun.


KEYS TO CROWDFUNDING SUCCESS: PITCH, PROACTIVE, AUDIENCE
Get insights how to setup your crowdfunding campaign to reach your goals. Valuable tips from somebody who definately knows this business very well: Danae Ringelmann co-founded Indiegogo to democratize fundraising. She brings entertainment industry and finance expertise, and serves as an Advisor to The Conversation.


GUNS IN THE SUN – FLORIDA, USA
Weeks before the almost unfathomable mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, Rocco Castoro visited Florida to dive headfirst into its byzantine firearms laws and discover why his home state was the first in the nation to issue over one million concealed weapons permits. Through interviews and time on the range with veterans, law enforcement officials, and gun-store owners, VICE digs deep into the gun debate and uncovers many troubling revelations along the way. Oh, we also use a Craigslist-like site to arrange for the purchase of a handgun at 10 PM in the parking lot of a big-box hardware store. And it’s all 100-percent legal. Welcome to Florida.


SURVIVING THE COLD
Valery Malkov made the headlines when he fell out of a train in Siberia in -40 degrees Celsius wearing practically nothing, then ran 30 minutes to the next station and lived to tell the tale. The film explores the way the human body reacts and adapts to cold and meets frost enthusiasts who willingly subject themselves to extreme temperatures.


BRIAN ON THE BOULEVARD – A DRUG ADDICT MALE PROSTITUTE
Just one camera, no lights and shooting on the fly, ‘Brian On The Boulevard’ captures the story of a heroin addict and male prostitute on the streets of Los Angeles. Brian offers a no holds barred and painfully honest account of his life. He discusses his family’s rejection, the loss of his brother, the possibility of contracting AIDS, and the thin line between death from addiction and redemption through rehab.

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Anonymous Channel, North Korea Declares War, Dollar Economy Pyramid Scheme, Food Supply, Childhood Trauma = Adult Aggression, American Cost of Israel, Congress Privately Debates CISPA, Monsanto Protection Act, Obama's BRAIN Project, Crazy Pat Robertson, Christian Right Panicking, more.

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Have Anonymous evolved into a channel for the social conscience of the world?
http://darkernet.in/have-anonymous-evolved-into-a-channel-for-the-social-conscience-of-the-world/

Israel killed 3 Palestinians and arrested 236 in March
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/israel-killed-3-palestinians-and-arrested-236-in-march/

North Korea Declares War Against United States
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/31/north-korea-declares-war-against-united-states/

The Dollar Economy is a Pyramid Scheme: Who Gets Screwed?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Dollar-Economy-is-a-Py-by-Noah-Jonathan-130330-552.html

Female students just as successful as males in math and science
http://machineslikeus.com/news/female-students-just-successful-males-math-and-science

Our Food Supply: What You and Your Family Need to Know
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/our-food-supply-what-you-and-your-family-need-to-know_032013

Study links childhood trauma and adult aggression
http://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.com/2013/04/study-links-childhood-trauma-and-adult.html

The Big Banks Are Recklessly Gambling With Our Money, And It Will Cause The Global Financial System To Collapse
http://intellihub.com/2013/04/03/the-big-banks-are-recklessly-gambling-with-our-money-and-it-will-cause-the-global-financial-system-to-collapse/

You have no right to make others pray to your god.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/aronra/2013/04/02/you-have-no-right-to-make-others-pray-to-your-god/

New Documents Reveal: DHS spying on Peaceful Demonstrations and Activists
http://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/new-documents-reveal-dhs.html#documents

The Staggering Cost of Israel to Americans
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34485.htm

Congress Planning To Debate CISPA Behind Closed Doors; No Public Scrutiny Allowed
http://intellihub.com/2013/04/02/congress-planning-to-debate-cispa-behind-closed-doors-no-public-scrutiny-allowed/

Monsanto Protection Act: A Post-Mortem for Our Legal System
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34482.htm

9/11: Illegitimacy of US Government 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34491.htm

'Monsanto Protection Act' Sows Seeds of GMO Anger
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/02-10

Climate Crisis Threatens Urban Food Security
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc020413A.htm

Neuroscience, Obama's BRAIN Project, and Military Mind Control
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/02/elite-think-tanks-neuroscience-and.html

10 Craziest Things Pat Robertson Has Said
http://www.alternet.org/belief/10-craziest-things-pat-robertson-has-said

The Christian Right Is Panicking Because They Know They Are Losing
http://www.alternet.org/christian-right-panicking-because-they-know-they-are-losing

19.OCT.2012, PART 2 - The Third-Party Factor, Breaking the Silence on Israel, America's Plutocrats, Onward Mormon Soldiers, CIA to Beef Up Armed Drones, transparency in Judicial Elections, DOMA Ruled Unconstitional, Inside the Mind of a Whistleblower, Occupied Palestine, Is Homosexuality a Choice?

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The Third-Party Factor: Will 2012 Look Like 2000?

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=163201458&m=163224641

Losing their grip in Afghanistan

As another anniversary of the Afghanistan war passed this month amid growing "green-on-blue" attacks, Ashley Smith analyzes the prospects for the occupation.

http://socialistworker.org/2012/10/15/losing-their-grip-in-afghanistan

Breaking the silence on Israel

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine brought together civil rights leaders, authors, actors and others dedicated to revealing Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people. Sherry Wolf, one of the organizers and press officer for the event, describes the weekend of testimony.

http://socialistworker.org/2012/10/15/breaking-the-silence-on-israel

Bill Moyers: Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland to Take on America's Plutocrats

On this week’s Moyers & Company Bill is joined by two veteran journalists to discuss how the super-rich have willfully confused their self-interest with America’s interest.

http://www.alternet.org/bill-moyers-matt-taibbi-and-chrystia-freeland-take-americas-plutocrats

Onward Mormon Soldiers: Ann Romney Compares Mormon Mission to Military Service

Ann Romney told The View that her sons and her husband didn't serve, but they did spend a two-year tour proselytizing, which is pretty much the same thing.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/onward-mormon-soldiers-ann-romney-compares-mormon-mission-military-service

TSA removes X-ray body scanners from major airports

The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly removing its X-ray body scanners from major airports over the last few weeks and replacing them with machines that radiation experts believe are safer.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/19/tsa-removes-x-ray-body-scanners-from-major-airports/

Why Romney Doesn’t Support Equal Pay For Women, In One Picture

Mitt Romney’s campaign just can’t figure out whether he supports equal pay for women or not. When asked last April about Romney’s view on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which restored equal pay rights the Roberts Court cut back in 2007, Romney’s campaign responded with an awkward six second silence followed by a promise to “get back” with an answer to the question. 

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/17/1035571/why-romney-is-against-equal-pay-for-women-in-one-picture/

The CIA Wants To Beef Up Its Armed Drone Fleet

The CIA is apparently pushing the White House to sign off on a significant expansion of the agency's fleet of armed drones, increasing its size by roughly a third.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/19/cia_drone_use_washington_post_reports_cia_wants_a_significant_expansion.html

Disclosure Laws Needed to Ensure Transparency in Judicial Elections

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court reaffirmed its controversial Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission decision from 2010, following a challenge to a Montana law that prohibited corporate spending in elections. Disclosure laws would enable voters to know who is buying judicial elections in their states.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/civil-liberties/report/2012/10/16/41451/policy-solutions-to-the-corporate-capture-of-state-supreme-courts/

DOMA Ruled Unconstitutional By Federal Appeals Court In New York

Saying the gay population has "suffered a history of discrimination," a divided federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled Thursday that a federal law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman was unconstitutional, adding fuel to an issue expected to reach the U.S. Supreme Court soon.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/doma-defense-of-marriage-act_n_1980197.html

Inside The Mind Of A Whistleblower

I love being a whistleblower. I'm proud of it. When I wrote my last article about being a whistleblower, the response I received was overwhelming. Many people backed what I did, and I made a lot of contacts I wouldn't have otherwise. Last night I spent 5 hours on the phone with a fellow whistleblower. We had never met before, but it felt like reconnecting with an old friend. We shared war stories that we never told anyone before, because we connected on a level that nobody outside the whistleblowing community will ever truly get. We've both fought impossible odds and seen amazing things. It was the first time I felt like I was talking to someone who really understood me and what I've gone through.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-penny/inside-the-mind-of-a-whis_b_1982779.html

Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech

Free speech is dying in the Western world. While most people still enjoy considerable freedom of expression, this right, once a near-absolute, has become less defined and less dependable for those espousing controversial social, political or religious views. The decline of free speech has come not from any single blow but rather from thousands of paper cuts of well-intentioned exceptions designed to maintain social harmony.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-four-arguments-the-western-world-uses-to-limit-free-speech/2012/10/12/e0573bd4-116d-11e2-a16b-2c110031514a_story.html

Occupied Palestine: humiliation and human rights

UN, international, Palestinian, and Israeli human rights organisations do important work in Palestine. But the magic 'national security' argument is always available as a tool for the government of Israel.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/michael-croydon/occupied-palestine-humiliation-and-human-rights

5 Things You Need to Know About Mitt Romney's Shady Investments Before Election Day

Reporters continue to buy that old "blind trust" ruse. It's time to hold Romney accountable.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/5-things-you-need-know-about-mitt-romneys-shady-investments-election-day

How Kids Are Getting Hooked on Pills for Life

Young children were once expected to outgrow their issues; now they're diagnosed with lifelong psychiatric problems.

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/how-kids-are-getting-hooked-pills-life

6 Ways You Might Be Getting Scammed on Your Monthly Bills

Some companies design their fee structures and agreements in an intentionally confusing manner.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/6-ways-you-might-be-getting-scammed-your-monthly-bills

Is Homosexuality a Choice?

Perhaps sexual preference can be changed – and people have the right to engage in gay sex and have homosexual relationships if they choose to do so. (The fourth option, that gay people have no choice but to be gay, but should be punished for it anyway, is morally unthinkable.)

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/10/19/is-homosexuality-a-choice/?WT_mc_id=SA_DD_20121019

America: Caught in the Throes of an Escalating "UnCivil War"

Watching what's going on in America today is like reliving the years preceding the destructive Civil War of the 1860's in which the seething anger and great dissension between opposing factions finally reached a boiling point and erupted into extreme violence. It's as if that dissension that tore America apart became embedded in this nation's psyche and has now resurfaced in this society.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/America-Caught-in-the-Thr-by-michael-payne-121018-833.html

Privatization Madness: Now Private Companies are Collecting Our Taxes

I went into my local township building Monday to settle up my local income tax bill. I had filed for an extension of my federal and state taxes back in April because of my father's unexpected death a few weeks before the tax filing date and the need to deal with his funeral and with arranging for care for my widowed mother, who has alzheimers, had taken up all my time.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Privatization-Madness-Now-by-Dave-Lindorff-121018-602.html

Land of Elites

Few Americans have significant influence on the country or the lives of people in it. The number of Americans with real influence is very small, but their influence is very, very great. Although they are not organized into a formal institution, they nonetheless constitute the "invisible government" Edward Bernays wrote about in his book Propaganda in 1928

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Land-of-Elites-by-B-Sidney-Smith-121017-963.html

Palestinian Authority to Hold Sham Elections

Longtime Israeli collaborators Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad scheduled West Bank municipal elections on October 20, 2012. Democracy isn't on the ballot. Palestinians are skeptical for good reason. For the first time since January 25, 2006, they'll vote in an election much different from then. Fed up with institutionalized Fatah corruption and subservience to Israel, Hamas candidates swept to victory.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Palestinian-Authority-to-H-by-Stephen-Lendman-121019-128.html

Mitt Romney: International Man of Mystery

The FBI's Fed Follies

The post-American Middle East

Redefining Happiness, Beating Consumerism

Study Shows How Prayer, Meditation Affect Brain Activity

As Sen. McGovern Nears Death, How the Antiwar Candidate Challenged Vietnam and Inspired a Generation

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Lingering Lies: The Persistent Influence of Misinformation: Scientific American

Lingering Lies: The Persistent Influence of Misinformation: Scientific American

The brain holds on to false facts, even after they have been retracted

By Valerie Ross | July 18, 2011

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After people realize the facts have been fudged, they do their best to set the record straight: judges tell juries to forget misleading testimony; newspapers publish errata. But even explicit warnings to ignore misinformation cannot erase the damage done, according to a new study from the University of Western Australia.

Psychologists asked college stu­dents to read an account of an ac­cident involving a busload of elderly passengers. The students were then told that, actually, those on the bus were not elderly. For some students, the information ended there. Others were told the bus had in fact been transporting a college hockey team.

And still others were warned about what psychologists call the continued influence of misinformation—that people tend to have a hard time ig­noring what they first heard, even if they know it is wrong—and that they should be extra vigilant about getting the story straight.

Students who had been warned about misinformation or given the alternative story were less likely than control subjects to make inferences using the old information later—but they still erred sometimes, agreeing with statements such as “the pas­sengers found it difficult to exit the bus because they were frail.”

This result shows that “even if you understand, remember and believe the retractions, this misinformation will still affect your inferences,” says Western Australia psychologist Ullrich Ecker, an author of the study. Our mem­ory is constantly connecting new facts to old and tying different aspects of a situation together, so that we may still unconsciously draw on facts we know to be wrong to make decisions later. “Memory has evolved to be both stable and flexible,” Ecker says, “but that also has a downside.”

[For more on how memory relies on connections and makes inferences, see “Making Connections,” by Anthony J. Greene; Scientific American Mind, July/August 2010.]