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The 72 Who Rule The World

Our annual snapshot of the politicians and financiers, entrepreneurs and CEOs, and billionaire philanthropists who matter most.

http://www.forbes.com/powerful-people/

The Time Has Come For $15 Minimum Wage
http://www.countercurrents.org/vorpahl101113.htm

The 10 Giant Corporations That Have Taken Over Much of Our Economy
http://www.alternet.org/10-giant-corporations-have-taken-over-much-our-economy

UN Human Rights Council presents annual report
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/11/un-human-rights-council-presents-annual-report.php

100 Ways To Undermine The Machine
http://www.opednews.com/articles/100-Ways-To-Undermine-The-by-Keith-Farnish-Disruption_The-Machine_Undermining-131113-915.html

Development and humanitarian aid initiatives enable surveillance in developing countries
https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/development-and-humanitarian-aid-initiatives-enable-surveillance-in-developing-countries

More Taxpayers Are Abandoning the U.S.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-taxpayers-abandoning-u-181500097.html

Russell Brand: We Deserve More From Our Democratic System
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36798.htm

The Gospel of Selfishness in American Christianity
http://www.alternet.org/belief/gospel-selfishness-american-christianity

Can you change the world from your living room?http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/jacob-z-hess-joan-blades/can-you-change-world-from-your-living-room

How Evil Can the CIA and NSA Get? How to Restrain US Intelligence Agencies
http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Evil-Can-the-CIA-and-by-Rob-Kall-Assassination_Diane-Feinstein_FOIA_General-Keith-Alexander-131110-138.html

Democracy Trampled as Big Money Overwhelms Grassroots Campaigns
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/06-4

America's Rampage Through the Middle East
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36863.htm

Ever Purchase a Book on Lying? You Might Be on a Govt Watch List
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/14-1

Are Politicians who Cut Food Stamps and Deny Health Access Truly 'Pro-Life'?http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/are-politicians-who-cut-food-stamps-and-deny-health-access-truly-pro-life

6 Things You Buy That Help Support Israeli Brutality
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36791.htm

How the Super-Rich Are Abandoning America

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/04-1

U.S. Is a State Sponsor of Terrorism
http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-Is-a-State-Sponsor-of-by-William-Boardman-America_Bombing_Children_Children-131108-967.html

The Great Austerity Shell Game: Here's How the Capitalist Scam Works
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/04-3

George W. Bush to Raise Money for Group That Converts Jews to Bring About Second Coming of Christ
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36790.htm

Silent Soldiers, The Losers From Our Lost Wars
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/07-5

Secret Persuasion: How Big Campaign Donors Stay Anonymous
http://www.npr.org/2013/11/06/243022966/secret-persuasion-how-big-campaign-donors-stay-anonymous

Top 10 Survival Tips Every Hiker Should Know
http://news.discovery.com/adventure/survival/top-10-survival-tips-every-hiker-should-know-131107.htm#mkcpgn=emnws1

The dark side of data (11 talks)

Data can be used for good, harnessed for the betterment of society, but it can also be abused. Find out about some hidden not-so-sunny uses of Big Data.

Curated by TED

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  Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching

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  Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world's trust -- time to act

  19:18
  

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  Heather Brooke: My battle to expose government corruption

  18:57
  

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  Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science

  14:19
  

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  Alessandro Acquisti: Why privacy matters

  15:00
  

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  Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am!

  14:30
  

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  Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack

  09:23
  

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  Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world

  15:22
  

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  Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked

  16:56
  

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  Todd Humphreys: How to fool a GPS

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  Christopher "moot" Poole": The case for anonymity online

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 http://www.ted.com/playlists/130/the_dark_side_of_data.html

@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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

5 facts about atheists

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

@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

http://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
http://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

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize, Drone Warfare, Sweatshop Clothes, American Inequality, Cultural Assumptions, Intelligent Design Dishonesty, Economic Inequality Permanent, Brutal Reality of Israeli Occupation, Iraqi Birth Defects, Militant Atheism, Christian Privilege, Secrecy Corrodes Democracy, more.

Bradley Manning's Nobel Peace Prize
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Bradley-Manning-s-Nobel-Pe-by-David-Swanson-130325-607.html

Drone Warfare Is Neither Cheap, Nor Surgical, Nor Decisive
http://www.alternet.org/world/drone-warfare-neither-cheap-nor-surgical-nor-decisive

Are Your Clothes Made in a Sweatshop?
http://www.alternet.org/are-your-clothes-made-sweatshop

Five Ugly Extremes of Inequality in America-- The Contrasts Will Drop Your Chin to the Floor
http://www.alternet.org/economy/five-ugly-extremes-inequality-america-contrasts-will-drop-your-chin-floor

Viewing History Skeptically: On Shifting Cultural Assumptions and Attitudes
http://freethoughtblogs.com/brutereason/2013/03/23/viewing-history-skeptically-on-shifting-cultural-assumptions-and-attitudes/

Dishonesty of intelligent design “research”
http://openparachute.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/dishonesty-of-inteligent-design-research/

Bye, Bye American Dream! U.S. Economic Inequality Is Permanent, Study Finds

http://www.alternet.org/economy/bye-bye-american-dream-us-economic-inequality-permanent-study-finds

Obama Ignores the Ugly, Brutal Reality of Occupation and Colonization on His Israel Trip
http://www.alternet.org/world/obama-ignores-ugly-brutal-reality-occupation-and-colonization-his-israel-trip

Iraqi Birth Defects Worse than Hiroshima
http://intellihub.com/2013/03/23/iraqi-birth-defects-worse-than-hiroshima-graphic/

Indicators of War, Not Peace, in Obama’s Visit

http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/indicators-of-war-not-peace-in-obamas-visit/

Has militant atheism become a religion?
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Has-militant-atheism-becom-in-Life_Arts-130325-479.html

Christianism, Christian Privilege, Christian Supremacy: Christianism in America
http://atheism.about.com/od/christianismnationalism/p/Christianism.htm?nl=1

How Secrecy Corrodes Democracy
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/02/06/how-secrecy-corrodes-democracy/

America Split in Two: Five Ugly Extremes of Inequality
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/25-3

Police drones? No thanks say local authorities
http://www.scnow.com/news/local/article_b599e3e4-9415-11e2-a5f0-0019bb30f31a.html

Guantanamo Exposes Reality of US Fascism

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34425.htm

14.Dec.2012 - The Corporatist Intelligence Agency, CIA Guilty of Torture, Obama Backing Al-Qaeda, Fight for Climate Justice, Trials of Bradley Manning, Global Banking Mafia, Corporate Servitude Law, Court Rules Against CIA, Dronestream, Costs of Empire, U.S. Economy and Military Gradually Fading, New Testament Contradictions, more...

The Corporatist Intelligence Agency

While the CIA is commonly understood to be an intelligence agency, we shouldn’t forget the important role it has played in carrying out clandestine operations that have benefited the financial elite.

http://rebel-institute.org/opinion/americas/264454-the-corporatist-intelligence-agency

European Court of Human Rights Finds CIA Guilty of Torture
The much-maligned European court of human rights has this week shown itself at its very best: standing up for the rights of an individual who has been denied justice for almost nine years since he was abducted, secretly detained, and tortured under the CIA's rendition program.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33307.htm

Syrian Girl: Obama Directly Backing Al-Qaeda in Public Statement

'I'd Rather Fight Like Hell': Naomi Klein's Fierce New Resolve to Fight for Climate Justice

Naomi Klein, black-clad and sharp-tongued mistress of the global anti-corporate left, friend to Occupiers and scourge of oil barons, stood outside a dressing room backstage at Boston's Orpheum Theatre one night last month, a clear-eyed baby boy on her hip.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/13

The Trials of Bradley Manning

Pfc. Bradley Manning was finally allowed to speak publicly, in his own defense, in a preliminary hearing of his court-martial. Manning is the alleged source of the largest intelligence leak in U.S. history. He was an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, with top-secret clearance, deployed in Iraq. 

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/13-0

How The Global Banking Mafia Operate

Michigan’s New 'Corporate Servitude Law' Takes Away Worker Rights

Michigan has just passed a corporate servitude law. It is designed to take away many of the worker rights that unions have conferred throughout their history: The right to a living wage. The right to equal pay for women. The right to deferred payments in the form of pensions. The right to negotiate workplace standards and working conditions. The right to overtime pay.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/13

President Obama’s pledge to close Gitmo in second term faces difficult test

President Obama’s commitment to closing the Guantánamo Bay prison in his second term is being tested before Inauguration Day after the Senate passed an open-ended ban on transferring Guantánamo detainees to the United States.

http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/272703-obamas-pledge-to-close-gitmo-in-second-term-faces-difficult-test

Innocent Man Kidnapped, Stripped, Beaten and Drugged in Secret CIA Jail -- Court Rules in His Favor, Against CIA

European Court of Human Rights rules that German citizen was an innocent victim of extraordinary rendition by US agents.

http://www.alternet.org/innocent-man-kidnapped-stripped-beaten-and-drugged-secret-cia-jail-court-rules-his-favor-against-cia

Dronestream: Every Reported US Drone Strike Over the Past 10 Years

U.S. Military Spends Tens of Millions of Dollars on Golf Courses, Luxury Perks for Generals

Journalist Nick Turse reported: "The U.S. Army paid $71,614 [in 2004] to the Arizona Golf Resort — located in sunny Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (picture below),… The resort actually boasts an entire entertainment complex, complete with a water-slide-enhanced megapool, gym, bowling alley, horse stables, roller hockey rink, arcade, amphitheater, restaurant, and even a cappuccino bar — not to mention the golf course and a driving range.”

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/money/us-military-spends-tens-millions-dollars-golf-courses-luxury-perks-generals

Nothing Can Justify Torture: Chomsky
http://www.countercurrents.org/chomsky131212.htm

The True Costs Of Empire
http://www.countercurrents.org/vine131212.htm

The U.S. Economy And Military Are Fading Gradually: Prof. Francis Shor
http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari131212.htm

Contradictions of the New Testament

29.Oct.2012 - Surveillance Act Criticized, NYPD Murders on the Rise, e-Voting Machine Hacking, Climate Science, Christian Right Homophobia, Christian Backlash Politics, Chamber of Commerce Election Spending, Why I'm Voting Green, Christian Blames Hurricane Sandy on Gays, American History of Greed & Destruction, GOP Stealing Elections, Top 6 Progressive Critiques of Obama, Savage Israel Analysis, From Corporation to Cooperation, Mourdock's Rape is God's Will, Romney to Cut FEMA

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Surveillance Act Criticized, But Can It Be Fought?

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday considers whether to allow a challenge to a federal law that provides for large-scale electronic surveillance of international phone calls and emails. The case is not a direct test of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Rather, it is a test of whether the law can even be challenged in court at all.

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/29/163729878/surveillance-act-criticized-but-can-it-be-fought?ft=3&f=1001&sc=nl&cc=nh-20121029

What's wrong with lesser evilism
Those who advocate a vote for the "lesser evil" hope to defeat the "greater evil" of the right wing--but they enable the Democrats to shift further right themselves.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/10/24/whats-wrong-with-lesser-evilism

Operation Get Rid of the Vote
Gary Lapon reports on the Republican scheme to not "get out the vote."
http://socialistworker.org/2012/10/25/operation-get-rid-of-the-vote

Why I'm still not voting for Obama
Todd Chretien considers the same question he took up at SocialistWorker.org four years ago: Does Barack Obama deserve the votes of activists and radicals?
http://socialistworker.org/2012/10/29/why-im-still-not-voting-obama

Why are NYPD murders on the rise?
Lee Wengraf looks at the factors involved in a growing record of police violence.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/10/29/nypd-murders-on-the-rise

Could e-Voting Machines in Election 2012 Be Hacked? Yes.

Security experts say a specific kind of electronic-voting machine is vulnerable to being hacked. Influencing a national election would be difficult, but the advance of malware makes it possible.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/319-67/14241-could-e-voting-machines-in-election-2012-be-hacked-yes

The Politics of 'Climate Silence'

For environmentalists -- and many ordinary Americans -- it seemed a rather discouraging milestone, particularly as a gargantuan super-storm -- of the sort that virtually all climate scientists have been warning for years would increase in frequency as the planet warmed -- threatens to slam headlong into the East Coast in a couple days' time. "Hurricane Sandy," wrote Daniel Honan at BigThink.com, "Mother Nature's revenge on the 2012 election?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-zeller-jr/the-politics-of-climate-silence_b_2026392.html

Oil Companies Go Unpunished For Spills And Billions Of Dollars Of Gas Is Wasted

In the North Sea , oil companies go unpunished despite thousands of oil spills while because of flaring $50bn worth of gas is wasted annually.

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc291012B.htm

What We Say About Our Religion, And What We Do

A recent Pew survey found that an unprecedented one in five Americans now say they are not affiliated with any religious denomination. Or, looked at another way, nearly four out of five identify with an organized faith. Research also shows those Americans overstate how often they go to church by about half.

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/24/163527979/what-we-say-about-religion-and-what-we-do

Is Religious Freedom Really Primary?

The suggestion that religious liberty is the nation’s “first freedom” has become so commonplace that it seems churlish to question it. Indeed, similar notes have been struck by both sides during the campaign.

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/is-religious-freedom-really-primary/

Will the Christian Right Hang Itself With Its Own Homophobia?

When teenagers, even many Christian teenagers, look at the Christian right's homophobia these days, it makes no sense to them. It just looks ugly.

http://www.alternet.org/will-christian-right-hang-itself-its-own-homophobia

How Patriarchal, Christian Backlash Politics Have Only Become More Vicious

This kind of hatred goes way beyond ordinary politics and deep into the realm of abnormal psychology.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/how-patriarchal-christian-backlash-politics-have-only-become-more-vicious

Chamber of Commerce’s ‘Secret’ Election Spending

Seventy protesters stood outside the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., last week, asking for full disclosure of the lobby group’s financial contributions. 

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_chamber_of_commerces_secret_election_spending_20121026/

Why I’m Voting Green

All the major correctives to American democracy have come through movements and third parties that have operated outside the mainstream. Few achieved formal positions of power. These movements built enough momentum and popular support, always in the face of fierce opposition, to force the power elite to respond to their concerns. Such developments, along with the courage to defy the political charade in the voting booth, offer the only hope of saving us from Wall Street predators, the assault on the ecosystem by the fossil fuel industry, the rise of the security and surveillance state and the dramatic erosion of our civil liberties.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_im_voting_green_20121029/

Three Factors That Could Decide the Election

Guests on the show this week: Kathy Spillar of the Feminist Majority, Truthdig’s Robert Scheer, and Larry Gross of USC’s Annenberg School for Communication.

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/three_factors_that_could_decide_the_election_20121029/

Inevitable: Right-Wing Christian Leader Blames Hurricane Sandy on Gays

It’s likely that anti-gay activist John McTernan will not be the only religious figure to make this point.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/inevitable-right-wing-christian-leader-blames-hurricane-sandy-gays

American History: Era of Greed and Destruction It is now 2012, and we are living in the first few years of a new era of American history.    Assuming that this country still exists, or even if it doesn't in its present form, sometime in the future historians will be writing about this era as a specific era different in many respects from this country's   past history.   They will say that the nascent Era of Greed had its antecedents in the period following WWII, at a time when America was clearly becoming the greatest global power.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/American-History--Era-of-by-Bayard-Waterbury-121027-684.html

Can the Company Fire You for the Way You Vote?

o many stories of employers pressuring their workers to vote for Romney have come out that you might think workplace intimidation was invented just for this election.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/14231-can-the-company-fire-you-for-the-way-you-vote

Geoengineers: Testing the Waters

or almost 20 years, I've been spending time on a craggy stretch of British Columbia's shoreline called the Sunshine Coast. This summer, I had an experience that reminded me why I love this place, and why I chose to have a child in this sparsely populated part of the world.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/14225-geoengineers-testing-the-waters

Retired NSA Analyst Proves GOP Is Stealing Elections Part I

hy is Mitt Romney so confident? In states where the winner will be decided by less than 10%, of the vote he already knows he will win. This is no tinfoil hat conspiracy. It's a math problem. And mathematics showed changes in actual raw voting data that had no statistical correlation other than programmable computer fraud. This computer fraud resulted in votes being flipped from Democrat to Republican in every federal, senatorial, congressional and gubernatorial election since 2008 (thus far) and in the 2012 primary contests from other Republicans to Mitt Romney.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/14223-retired-nsa-analyst-proves-gop-is-stealing-elections-part-i

The Top 6 Critiques of Obama from a Progressive (Reality-Based) Perspective Barack Obama has been called everything from a gun-hating, closet-Muslim hiding socialist to a big-government loving, deficit exploding, tax increasing, class-warfare waging liberal elitist. He's been compared to Hitler and denounced for wanting to destroy capitalism and/or America. He pals around with terrorists. They say he wasn't born in America and secretly hates white people. http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Top-6-Critiques-of-Oba-by-Tim-Hjersted-121026-407.html

Why I Voted Third Party: Obama is Not the Lesser Evil We must be practical, Cordle insists, and vote for the lesser evil, lest we become saddled with the greater evil. This rests upon the assumption that Obama is somehow less awful than Romney: that he is actually the lesser evil. Sadly, it isn't so. Romney and Obama are like two varieties of vanilla ice cream. Only the containers appear different. In foreign and domestic policy, there's minuscule cosmetic or strategic differences in how they intend to pursue their goals, but the problem is that their goals are identical. In foreign policy, both believe that the U.S. should wield aggressive military force to maintain hegemonic control over the rest of the world and crush any country that dares to disobey us. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-I-Voted-Third-Party-O-by-Peter-Winkler-121027-616.html

More On Savage Israel -- An Analysis In my last analysis I noted that a Zionist organization run by the Islamophobe Pamela Geller is posting messages on buses and subways calling for support for Israel. The messages claim that Israel represents the "civilized man" in a struggle against Jihadist "savagery." I questioned Israel's qualifications for civilized status in the earlier piece, but am drawn back to the subject by the almost daily revelations of the Zionist state's questionable behavior. It is not that the Jihadist cannot be a savage at times, it is that the Israeli government seems quite incapable of being civilized.  http://www.opednews.com/articles/More-On-Savage-Israel--A-by-Lawrence-Davidson-121027-785.html

From Corporation to Cooperation: Beyond Greed, Destruction of the Environment and Enslavement of the People Many politicians speak of American Freedom while their pockets are lined with thousand-dollar bills conceived in debt, nursed on greed, and sent off into the world by corporate masters. These politicians swear by unfettered capitalism and equate it to the American ideal of democracy. Of course, they do; corporations indoctrinate them and buy them off with campaign funds, prostitutes, and other gifts. They couldn't survive in today's political arena without corporate sponsorship. http://www.opednews.com/articles/From-Corporation-to-Cooper-by-Burl-Hall-121027-552.html Know Your History: Beware Democrat Heroes

On October 26, I attended an Occupy Wall Street (OWS) event called “Enemies of the State: Solidarity for Bradley”—in support of whistleblowers in general but Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, in particular.
http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz281012.htm

Who’s The Boss? Romney, Or His Church Leaders? (VIDEO)

Maddow: ‘There’s been a truthfulness problem with the Romney campaign’

Bill Maher on Mourdock and ‘rape is God’s will’: ‘You cannot separate religion from just sheer idiocy’

Obama unveils economic plan: 5 ways it differs from Romney's

Romney Wants To Cut FEMA


Why America needs national voting law standards

Romney's Terrifying Google Search History Leaked

Bill Maher Warns Voters: If You Elect Romney,

Voter Suppression In Key Swing States

Incestuous Orgy Between Washington & Wall Street

Wait, WHO Owns The F***ing Voting Machines?!

Sextremism & The Future of Feminism

Nuclear Plants from Virginia to Vermont Could Be Impacted from Massive Hurricane Sandy

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Bill McKibben on Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change: "If There Was Ever a Wake-up Call, This Is It"

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Frankenstorm: Meteorologist Warns Hurricane Sandy an Outgrowth of Global Warming’s Extreme Weather

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Battle at the top for UFO disclosure