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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

Saturday, February 9

09.Feb.2013 - VIDEOS: Surveillance Jailing, Undocumented Activists, Israel Criticism, Citizen Assassinations, Kill List Exposed, Cost of Oil, NDAA Indefinite Detention, School Shootings, WMD Speech, more.

Protect your property, go to jail
Woman arrested for opposing surveillance device placed in her home

Infiltrating ICE: How Undocumented Activists Are Organizing on the Inside


Fury over Brooklyn College BDS Event is "Desperation" for Growing Israel Criticism


The Myth of Americans Living Beyond Their Means with Robert Reich


Jeremy Scahill: Assassinations of U.S. Citizens

Kill List Exposed: Leaked Obama Memo Shows Assassination of US Citizens

The True Cost of Oil

Daniel Ellsberg: NDAA Indefinite Detention Provision

Court: Gov’t Can Secretly Obtain Email, Twitter Info from Ex-WikiLeaks Volunteer Jacob Appelbaum


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Part 2: Daniel Ellsberg and Jacob Appelbaum on the NDAA, WikiLeaks and Unconstitutional Surveillance


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Antidepressants and School Shootings, Suicide, Addiction

Decade After Iraq WMD Speech at UN, Ex-Powell Aide Lawrence Wilkerson Debates Author Norman Solomon


Globalizing Torture: Ahead of Brennan Hearing, International Complicity in CIA Rendition Exposed


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Radio Ambulante: Spanish-Language Radio Program Showcases the Untold Stories of the Americas


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Bill McKibben: Ahead of Keystone XL Rally, Fossil Fuel Divestment Expands Across U.S. Campuses

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Labels: assassinations, CIA, citizen killings, courts, fracking, guns, hispanics, immigration, iraq, NDAA, oil, powell, schools, suicide, surveillance, torture, unconstitutional, USA, Wikileaks, WMD

Sunday, December 23

23.Dec.2012 - Open Shame Letter to Americans, Torture Doesn't Work, 900 Children Kidnapped by Israeli Soldiers (2012), Gun Violence, Killer Children, Moral Urgency of Action, New Vanguard of Transparent Journalism, US Solo in Blocking UN Resolution, Antiwar Activists Can Sue Government Spies, Million+ Documents Will Be Released by Wikileaks, Reasons to Quit the Catholic Church, Drone Pilot's Guilty Conscience, Faith on Trial, more.


An Open Letter To All Americans: Shame On You!
The Sandy Hook shooting should not have surprised you. It’s simply the most recent in a series of multiple murders. Since 1966, when Charles Whitman climbed into a tower on the University of Texas campus in Austin and started picking off random victims, the pattern has been depressingly familiar. The list of massacres rolls off the tongue like a litany: Columbine, Aurora, Virginia Tech, Tucson, Fort Hood, Nickel Mines, Oak Ridge, Sandy Hook…
http://www.countercurrents.org/taylor231212.htm

If more guns will make us as safe as the NRA claims - then why isn't America already the safest nation on earth?
The USA in general and the NRA in particular have reached a new low with the insane claim that more guns will make us safer and we should have armed guards at the doors of every schoolhouse across the nation. If such a ridiculous statement were true then why isn't our country the safest on the planet, given that we already own the majority of weapons?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/If-more-guns-will-make-us-by-Ted-Newcomen-121222-243.html

Why "Torture Doesn't Work" Doesn't Work: Dealing with "Zero Dark Thirty"

I have visited this major blot upon the US escutcheon a number of times over the past five years (1-3). (Why there are so many blots one could visit and re-visit is a topic for another time.) One would have thought that it was dead and buried, along with the Cheney-Bush regime. In 2005 Bush himself had actually said that torture would not be included in the US armamentarium for dealing with enemies, perceived and real, (not a policy endorsed by the arch torture-facilitator Cheney), and President Obama had announced the renunciation as official US government policy. But now we are forced to revisit the subject by the new propaganda-shtick, Ooops, sorry, I mean movie, "Zero Dark Thirty." For what she has done in re-justifying the use of torture, some have even compared Kathryn Bigelow apparently from the technical side a fine film-maker, to Leni Riefenstahl, the Nazi-era photographer, who was indeed a fine photographer.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Torture-Doesn-t-Work-by-Steven-Jonas-121223-558.html


Julian Assange: My work will not be cowed




Israeli Soldiers Kidnapped 900 Children In 2012

The Palestinian Ministry Of Detainees reported that this year witnessed a sharp increase in Israeli violations against Palestinian children, and said that Israeli soldiers kidnapped this year 900 Palestinian children comparing to 700 kidnapped last year.
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/israeli-soldiers-kidnapped-900-children-in-2012-dci_palestine-unicef-unocha-amnesty/


Gun Violence, Massacres, and "Other Developed Countries"
One evening in the spring of 1993 I took a bus across San Francisco, leaving the troubled, largely impoverished neighborhood of the Western Addition, populated mostly by the descendents of African slaves, in which I lived (representing, I suppose, the artistic hippie beginnings of the gentrification process which has since pushed most of San Francisco's Black population across the bay). My closest friend at the time was someone I met because we were housemates in a big apartment. He was a tall man with a long, thick red mane and beaming eyes named Eric Mark. A brilliant engineer with a promising career as such who quit his job and became a cab driver in the interest of experiencing life more fully. Eric and I, along with one friend and two of his acquaintances, were headed to the Mission District, another troubled, impoverished neighborhood, this one populated mostly by the refugees from the wars in Guatemala and El Salvador, generally known as "immigrants."
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Gun-Violence-Massacres-a-by-David-Rovics-121222-11.html


Turning Children Into Killers: The Intolerable Pain Of Parental Neglect And Abuse

If you want to generate human wrath, just put a human being in an intolerably painful situation which they cannot resolve or escape. Do not be surprised if they lash out and kill, even many people, if it will end their powerlessness, isolation, and pain. I believe that this is the motivation in effect when these young adults, emotionally still children,
act to kill children.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Turning-Children-Into-Kil-by-Dr-Jay-Kantor-121223-906.html


From Sandy to Sandy Hook: The Moral Urgency of Action

President Barack Obama in Tucson, Arizona, 01/12/11. (photo: Jewel Samad/Getty Images)The reason Obama's words at Sandy Hook also speak to the moral urgency of climate action is, I think, because the president has been thinking a great deal about his legacy since winning re-election, thinking about his second-term agenda in terms of how it affects future generations.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15182-from-sandy-to-sandy-hook-the-moral-urgency-of-action

Human Rights Watch: IDF violated laws of war by attacking journalists in GazaIsrael’s killing of two Palestinian journalists and attacks on media facilities during its Gaza offensive last month violated the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2012/12/22/human-rights-watch-idf-violated-laws-of-war-by-attacking-journalists-in-gaza/

The New Vanguard of Journalism and Transparency
File image, internet censorship. (art: The Inquistir)
hen, in late 2010, Wikileaks started releasing a trove of US diplomatic cables, lawmakers were dumbfounded. The whistleblowing organisation had previously raised ire within the US government for its release of its "Collateral Murder" video, but until the leak of the classified cables, requital seemed uncertain. Then, unable to take legal action against the site because of First Amendment protections, panicky legislators did the one thing they could: Pressure intermediaries to deny service to Wikileaks.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/15180-the-new-vanguard-of-journalism-and-transparency

US Alone in Blocking UN Resolution Opposing Israeli Settlements
But for US veto, Security Council would have passed legally binding resolution obligating Israel to stop settlement plan
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/12/19/us-alone-in-blocking-un-resolution-opposing-israeli-settlements/

Court Rules Antiwar Activists Can Sue Government Spies
A federal appeals court involving antiwar activists who were secretly infiltrated by US military spies has ruled in favor of the activists, marking the first time a court has endorsed the people’s ability to sue the military for violating their First and Fourth Amendment rights.
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/12/18/court-rules-antiwar-activists-can-sue-government-spies/

Julian Assange's Christmas Present: 'Over A Million Documents' Will Be Released
Making a rare appearance on the balcony of Ecuador's London embassy where he has spent the last six months, Julian Assange lashed out against "war criminals," a corrupt media and "timid" academics. Assange also took the opportunity to salute Bradley Manning, jailed journalists and others "whose fates are linked to mine."
http://bigthink.com/think-tank/julian-assanges-christmas-present-over-a-million-documents-will-be-released

Reasons to Quit the Catholic Church: A Coda
Even though I just published a long list of reasons why good people should leave the Catholic church, it seems like new ones are piling up every time I turn around. Herewith are some of the latest arguments for all people of common sense and conscience to sever their association with this corrupt medieval dictatorship.
http://bigthink.com/daylight-atheism/reasons-to-quit-the-catholic-church-a-coda

10 Key Court Decisions That Prevent Right-Wing Christians from Controlling Your Sex Life

If the Christian Right had its way, the U.S. would be a theocracy.
http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/10-key-court-decisions-prevent-right-wing-christians-controlling-your-sex-life

Governments are not standing to the side anymore
We have seen for the past couple years the cyber wasteland become something that is not dominated by young ambitious hackers anymore. The age of the Wild West is over and the big boys want a piece of the action. With so many infrastructures connected to the web these days it is only natural for more powerful and interested concerns to take their skills to the web. We are seeing the beginnings of true cyber war and it is something that is not going to be stop anytime soon.
http://thehackernews.com/2012/12/governments-are-not-standing-to-side.html


Bankers Launder Billions in Drug Money, Get Slap on Wrist




The Guilty Conscience of a Drone Pilot Who Killed a Child

childThe German newspaper Der Spiegel has published a moving profile of an American drone pilot who flew armed, remotely piloted missions over Afghanistan, one country where the War on Terror is actually declared. Drone strikes there are run under the supervision of Air Force officers operating under military procedures. For those reasons, it is better hedged against abuse than the drone program run elsewhere by the CIA. The subject of the profile nevertheless lamented the fact that he sometimes had to kill “good daddies,” that he watched targets so thoroughly via drone surveillance that he even attended their funerals – interesting, that – and that as a consequence of the job he collapsed with stress-induced exhaustion and developed PTSD.
http://libertycrier.com/politics/foreign-policy/the-guilty-conscience-of-a-drone-pilot-who-killed-a-child



War on Drugs -a trillion dollars spent



Putting Faith On Trial: Is Religion a Force For Good Or Evil?
 

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Labels: activism, atheists, banking, catholic, children, christian, christmas, courts, drones, drugs, government, israel, julian assange, no faith, religion, richard dawkins, right wing, sex, war, Wikileaks

Sunday, October 14

14.Oct.2012 - FREE BOOK (Details Enclosed) + Various News, Videos and Commentary


This month, we are giving away a FREE copy of The End of Faith by Sam Harris. Simply go to our Facebook page, and start sharing our posts. The person or organization that shares the most DH posts by Halloween wins the book! 
 
 
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Why Are Americans So Easy to Manipulate and Control?

Shoppers, students, workers, and voters are all seen by consumerism and behaviorism the same way: passive, conditionable objects.
http://www.alternet.org/why-are-americans-so-easy-manipulate-and-control

10 Conservatives Who Have Praised American Slavery
Republican Rep. Jon Hubbard has deemed slavery a blessing. His position is not as uncommon as you'd think.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/10-conservatives-who-have-praised-american-slavery

Israeli Crimes Without Punishment

It goes on daily. Western media scoundrels ignore it. Too few people understand what everyone should. Militarized occupation is hell. Terrorizing civilian men, women, and children is worst of all. In early October, Israeli air strikes and artillery attacked Gaza. At least one death and numerous injuries followed. On October 11, Israeli aircraft struck again.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Israeli-Crimes-Without-Pun-by-Stephen-Lendman-121013-360.html

NYPD RAMPS UP HEAT ON PROTESTERS: Sinking to New Lows in the Process

NYPD is turning up the heat on protesters with increased violence, arrests and legalized theft of personal property. "The intensity of harassment fluctuates from day to day depending on the white shirt in command that day," said Damien Shark, 42.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/NYPD-RAMPS-UP-HEAT-ON-PROT-by-Cory-Clark-121012-446.html

When Did Protecting the Environment Become a Partisan Issue?

Within the past month, two men who had an impact on the American environment died. They were both in their tenth decades. Their lives and work are important examples of the direction we should be pursuing today.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/When-Did-Protecting-the-En-by-Marcia-G-Yerman-121012-418.html

Evil is Evil -- Don't Vote for Evil

Back during the George W. Bush neocon regime, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in his UN speech summed up George W. Bush for the world. I am quoting Chavez from memory, not verbatim. "Yesterday standing at this same podium was Satan himself, speaking as if he owned the world. You can still smell the sulfur."
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Evil-is-Evil--Don-t-Vote-by-Paul-Craig-Roberts-121012-481.html

Corporatism is Systematically Sucking the Lifeblood Out of America

The continued growth of Corporatism in America is inflicting tremendous damage upon this nation and society; Corporatism might effectively be described as capitalism on steroids, spinning out of control, and poisoning and corrupting whatever it contacts. It has become a stifling, suffocating force that is sucking the lifeblood out of America.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Corporatism-is-Systematica-by-michael-payne-121013-342.html

America on the Cusp of Fascism

I use “fascism” here not as a cliché, but as an historical-structural formation principally rooted in the mature stage of capitalism, in which business-government interpenetration (what the Japanese political scientist Masao Maryuma called the “close-embrace” system) has created hierarchical social classes of wide differences in wealth and power, the militarization of social values and geopolitical strategy, and a faux ideology of classlessness to instill loyalty for the social order among working people.  In fact, each of these factors is already present to a high degree in America–superbly disguised however by the rhetoric of liberalism, as in Mr. Obama’s presidency.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32737.htm

All War IS Local
The US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, etc., are, in reality, only viscerally experienced by a small percentage of the US American people. No direct taxes on the people have been assessed to fund the wars. They are funded instead by debt. And the absence of general conscription (a military draft) relieves the vast majority of the population from the emotional burden of worrying whether a family member will be forced into military service.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32728.htm

Obama’s Drone Dilemma
The Wall Street Journal recently reported on debates within the Obama administration about the legality of the drone war in Pakistan. State Department legal adviser Harold Koh, the former dean of Yale Law School and even more former darling of the left for his criticisms of the Bush administration’s aggressive theories of executive power, plays a prominent role in them. Koh apparently concluded that the drone war “veers near the edge” of illegality but does not quite tumble over it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32727.htm

Drone Wars Protester Sentenced to Federal Prison
Catholic Worker Brian Terrell of Maloy, Iowa has been sentenced to serves 6 months in a federal prison for his witness against the use of drone warfare. Below is a message from Brian and his statement before the court.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32729.htm

New Senate Push to Pledge Unconditional Support for Israeli "Preventive" War on Iran 
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is planning to press the Senate next month to pledge U.S. troops, money, and political support to Israel should Bibi Netanyahu launch a preventive war on Iran. Graham claims his effort would merely make explicit that the U.S. has Israel's back. But when your friend is drunk, you don't hand them the keys. If Graham has his way, he will hand Bibi the keys and lend him our car, while the rest of us ride shotgun.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32733.htm

Hacking the FutureHacking The Future: Anonymity Matters

In July 2011, Randi Zuckerberg, then marketing director of Facebook, uttered the words above during a panel discussion hosted by Marie Claire magazine. She couldn't have anticipated the firestorm those few words would generate among those already uncomfortable with the direction the Web had taken in the preceding year.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121008/23414620654/hacking-future-anonymity-matters.shtml

Dangerous Cult Similarities in the Mormon Church, Branch Davidians and Jonestown
These cults have some very clear similarities that classify them, by definition, as a cult. One of these is: the group is elitist, claiming a special,exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and members (forexample: the leader isconsidered the Messiah or anavatar; the group and/or theleader has a special mission to save humanity).
http://vegasjessie.com/2012/10/10/dangerous-cult-similarities-in-the-mormon-church-branch-davidians-and-jonestown/


Report says U.S., Israel Plan Iran Attack
The United States and Israel are considering a surgical strike on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities, Foreign Policy magazine says.
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/report-says-u-s-israel-plan-iran-attack/

In the name of God: ultra-orthodox Jewish education not in children’s best interest, rules Court of Appeal.
Evaluating a child’s best interests, his Lordship stressed, must involve a welfare appraisal in the widest sense:
http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2012/10/11/in-the-name-of-god-ultra-orthodox-jewish-education-not-in-childrens-best-interest-rules-court-of-appeal/
Ohio officials appeal early voting issue to Supreme Court 
Photo source or descriptionOhio officials filed an emergency appeal [text, PDF] with the US Supreme Court [official website] on Tuesday seeking permission to close early voting three days prior to election day for everyone but overseas military personnel. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted and Attorney General Mike DeWine [official websites] filed the request seeking to stay an order by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[official website] which ruled that the early voting polls should remain open [opinion, PDF] for the three days leading up to election day.
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/10/ohio-officials-appeal-early-voting-issue-to-supreme-court.php


Religious leaders respond to the rise of the “Nones”

As we noted yesterday, the number of Americans who have no religious affiliation has hit an all-time high, according to a new study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. One in five adults does not belong to an organized religion. Nearly a third of Americans age 18-29 don't have a spiritual home.http://www.religionnews.com/faith/doctrine-and-practice/religious-leaders-react-to-the-rise-of-the-nones

Obama issues whistleblower directive to security agencies

Eye OpenerA Presidential Policy Directive issued Wednesday says employees “who are eligible for access to classified information can effectively report waste, fraud, and abuse while protecting classified national security information. It prohibits retaliation against employees for reporting waste, fraud, and abuse.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/obama-issues-whistleblower-directive-to-security-agencies/2012/10/10/5e2cbbfe-132d-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_blog.html

When Politicians Talk Theological Nonsense

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), in a recent talk at Liberty Baptist Church, proclaimed that the earth is not more than 9,000 years old and was created in six twenty-four hour days. And he was just getting started: evolution, embryology, and big-bang theory, he says, are "Lies straight from the pit of hell." Evolution and the big-bang are familiar targets; but embryology?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-james-clark/when-politicians-talk-the_b_1949945.html

The Other America

worldAmerica is changing. Not only the United States, not only North America but the whole continent and particularly Latin America. It's a part of the world where I feel more at home than in any other, a continent I feel deeply rooted in. It's a part of the world that feels unjustly neglected and it's true: Who seems to care today? Who addresses this relationship in the campaign?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dominique-de-villepin/the-other-america_b_1957641.html

'No Religion' Is Increasingly Popular Choice For Americans: Pew Report

No ReligionSarah Garrison grew up Catholic, but today she does not consider herself part of any religion. Yet as someone who meditates and prays every day to the "God here in our hearts," she would never call herself an atheist or agnostic and thinks church can play a positive role in society and individual lives.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/no-religion-pew-report_n_1949598.html

WHY DO WE BELIEVE POLITICIANS?

People are determined to stick to their own beliefs -- no matter what fact-checkers say.

http://news.discovery.com/human/politicians-lie-debate-121010.html

Walmart worker strikes go viral, hitting 28 stores in 12 states

Walmart CEO Mike Duke. Photo: Flickr user Walmart Stores, creative commons licensed.Labor leaders said Tuesday, just one day before Walmart’s annual shareholder meeting, that workers at 28 stores in 12 states walked out and went on strike to demand the anti-union employer raise wages, improve working conditions and end retaliations against employees who attempt to form unions.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/10/walmart-worker-strikes-go-viral-hitting-28-stores-in-12-states

The geometry of apartheid

Sarah Levy reports on a protest of an event aimed at whitewashing Israel's crimes.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/10/11/the-geometry-of-apartheid

The class issues in the 2012 US elections

With less than four weeks to the US elections, vice presidential candidates Joseph Biden and Paul Ryan will debate tonight, with the Democratic Party hoping to recover from the impact of President Obama’s dismal performance last week in the first debate.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/pers-o11.shtml

Wall Street vs. workers—the class gap widens

A study released Tuesday confirms that the financial parasites on Wall Street have lost nothing from the wrecking operation they have carried out on the US and world economy. The New York state comptroller reports that Wall Street firms will pay out more than $60 billion in compensation to their employees, a sum exceeded only in 2007 and 2008, the two years leading up to the financial crash that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/jwws-o11.shtml

U.S. Sues Wells Fargo in Mortgage Fraud Case

The U.S. government filed a civil mortgage fraud lawsuit on Tuesday against Wells Fargo & Co, the latest legal volley against big banks for their lending during the housing boom.
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/320-80/13895-us-sues-wells-fargo-in-mortgage-fraud-case

Bankers Concede to Dreary Student Loan Predictions

A majority of US banking experts now concede that student loan debt is a serious problem and predict that a large percentage of students will increasingly have trouble paying off their high cost loans, according to a quarterly survey of US banking risk managers
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/10-1

The Politics of Fear

he latest Pew Research Center poll shows Mitt Romney ahead of President Barack Obama among likely voters, 49% to 45%. But the latest Gallup poll shows the President Obama leading Romney among likely voters, 50% to 45%.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13891-focus-the-politics-of-fear

America’s Moral Degeneracy
People who with good cause no longer believe the US and western media or the US and western governments think that the mortar shells were fired by US or Israeli operatives, or by the “rebels” they support, in order to give Turkey the excuse to start a NATO war with Syria. A UN sanctioned NATO invasion or air strikes, as in Libya, has been blocked by the Russians and Chinese. But if Syria and Turkey get into a war, NATO must come to the aid of its NATO member, Turkey.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32711.htm

Issues That Obama And Romney Avoid
With the quadrennial presidential election extravaganza reaching its peak, it’s useful to ask how the political campaigns are dealing with the most crucial issues we face. The simple answer is: badly, or not at all. If so, some important questions arise: why, and what can we do about it?
http://www.countercurrents.org/chomsky071012.htm

Strong Evidence Jesus Was Married Sends the Christian Right into a Tizzy

When a papyrus mentioning Jesus's wife surfaced, the revelation that he Son of God might be married posed a great challenge to the Church.
http://www.alternet.org/belief/strong-evidence-jesus-was-married-sends-christian-right-tizzy


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