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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.

Wednesday, July 3

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: The Criminal NSA, US Rulers Fear American People, Nuclear War as US Policy, Israel's War Crimes, NSA Surveillance 101, #OWS Assassination Plot, Fast Food, US Banking Industry, After DOMA, more.

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The Criminal N.S.A.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opinion/the-criminal-nsa.html?_r=1&

NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/nsa-data-mining-authorised-obama

US Rulers Fear American People
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35419.htm

Obama Backs First-Strike Nuclear War As U.S. Policy
http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle250613.htm

Stamping Impunity On Israel’s War Crimes
http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna250613.htm

NSA surveillance 101: What US intelligence agencies are doing, what they know
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/0613/NSA-surveillance-101-What-US-intelligence-agencies-are-doing-what-they-know/Whose-phone-and-Internet-communications-are-being-monitored-by-the-government-exactly

FBI sat on plot of assassinate Occupy Wall Street leaders
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/government-terror/fbi-sat-on-plot-of-assassinateoccupy-wall-street-leaders.html

Fast Food Strikes: What's Cooking?
http://www.labornotes.org/2013/06/fast-food-strikes-whats-cooking

The dismal state of the US banking industry
http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2013/06/27/the-dismal-state-of-the-us-banking-industry/

Edith Windsor is mobbed by journalists and supporters as she leaves the Supreme Court on March 27, when the court heard oral arguments in the case that challenged the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.

After DOMA: What's Next For Gay Married Couples?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/26/195881288/after-doma-whats-next-for-gay-married-couples

DOMA Struck Down – Thank you
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kimberlyknight/2013/06/doma-stuck-down-thank-you/

Remembering the UpStairs Lounge: The U.S.A.’s Largest LGBT Massacre Happened 40 Years Ago Today

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/06/24/remembering-the-upstairs-lounge-the-u-s-a-s-largest-lgbt-massacre-happened-40-years-ago-today/

Israel’s Quiet Strategy of Conquest
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/06/24/israels-quiet-strategy-of-conquest/

Google not required to remove harmful data from search index: EU lawyer
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/06/google-not-required-to-remove-sensitive-information-eu-lawyer.php

US Officials Realizing That Snowden May Have Copied Info On Almost Everything The NSA Does
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130625/01393823610/us-officials-realizing-that-snowden-may-have-copied-info-almost-everything-nsa-does.shtml

Leaked Document Shows EU Approach To Cybercrime Is Completely Misguided
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130622/22485623584/leaked-document-shows-eu-approach-to-cybercrime-is-completely-misguided.shtml

IRS called out on the carpet
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/government-corruption/irs-called-out-on-the-carpet.html

Why Hasn't Obama Done More About Guantanamo?

Insider Threat: Government Employees Urged to Tattle On Coworkers In Effort to Stop Classified Leaks

Wednesday, June 5

@dustcirclenews - DOCUMENTARIES: Planet Earth, Space Photography, White Student Union, Cyber Wars Target Banks, Unwanted Babies, Scars of Solitude, House of Horror, Combat Outpost, Tortured Beauties, American Call-Girl, "Illegal" American Life, Unveiled and Lifted

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THRIVE – Planet Earth: Secret Reality Documentary 2012

This documentary questions everything from the beginning till the current day. The veil is lifted on what is going on in our world. Not only does this movie focus on things like pyramids and corn circles but also energy and economy. The question how important energy and especially new energy is, is asked. In the end the access to energy has enormous effects on human beings. Also the crisis and global domination is addressed. What would happen if the global domination of resources would proceed at its current rate?

THE BEAUTY OF SPACE PHOTOGRAPHY

Space presents a fantastic mystery to human life. Unfathomably large, with characteristics that defy our experience and understanding, the stars have perplexed and amazed humanity for our entire recorded history, and likely before. In the present, astrophysicists and astronomers are aggressively studying the universe in an attempt to solve critical scientific and philosophical questions.

WHITE STUDENT UNION

Matthew Heimbach insists he’s not a racist. This comes as a surprise to his fellow students at Towson University, in the suburbs of Baltimore, where Matthew has formed a group called the White Student Union that advocates for “persons of European heritage”—what most of us call “white people.”

CYBER WARS – TARGET BANKS

Cyber crime is testing our security measures to the limit. And now there’s a new target: our banks. Nissim Bar-El, CEO of an international banking security agency discusses being at the forefront of a cyber war.

BABY BOX – UNWANTED BABIES

In this report, we follow a man who’s dedicated his life to saving South Korea’s unwanted babies. With hundreds of them being abandoned every year, why has the government ordered him to stop?

SCARS OF SOLITUDE

A short documentary with the idea that people will realise how damaging loneliness really is. We are in a village in Romania, a beautiful place, which at this moment is populated by only one soul. An old lady who refused to leave her home behind and go with the rest of the village.

HOUSE OF HORROR

As America comes to terms with the nightmare of Cleveland’s kidnapped girls, people across the country are demanding to know how three young women could be held captive in a suburb, undetected for a decade.

COMBAT OUTPOST

Western forces are losing ground to the Taliban. As US and UK forces struggle for a way forward in Afghanistan, this unique film shows one of the most dangerous outposts as it struggles to hold on.

TORTURED BEAUTIES – MODELS IN CHINA

Modern China is working hard to give itself a new image. And now a frightening new craze for Western-style beauty is driving a nationwide boom in dangerous and drastic cosmetic surgery procedures.

American Call-Girl

It’s an illegal workforce that’s an internet connection and a phone call away. The world’s oldest profession has moved online and indoors. We’re going behind the supply and demand of the escort industry.

This (Illegal) American Life

From a small town in Oaxaca, Mexico, and from a kitchen table in East Los Angeles, from a flophouse in a coastal farming town, to a strip-mall in Phoenix, Arizona, these are snapshots of illegal immigration in America. It’s estimated that as many as 12 million people are living in United States illegally, but this story is about just two.

Unveiled and Lifted

Government and politics is something that we collectively should have transcended a long time ago, yet it still exists and it’s still part of the average individual’s life.

Monday, April 22

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: April 22nd Anonymous #CISPAblackout, When Fear Threatens Freedom, Fight Wage Theft, American Right-Wingers Are Extremists, Belief in God = Bad Mental Health, Israel Army Attacks WB Palestinians, Profiling American Muslims, Israel Genocidal, UN Inaction Condemned, Boston Bombing Suspect Captured, International Cyberwar Imminent? more.

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Anonymous: CISPA Internet Blackout April 22nd | #CISPABlackout

When Fear Threatens Freedom
http://prospect.org/article/when-fear-threatens-freedom

Fight Wage Theft with Direct Action
http://www.labornotes.org/2013/04/fight-wage-theft-direct-action

Government Should Stop Its Own Violence First
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34680.htm

American Right-Wingers Are No Longer Conservative — They're Extremists

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/american-right-wingers-are-no-longer-conservative-theyre-extremists

Study Shows That Belief In An Angry God Is Bad For Mental Health
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/20/study-shows-that-belief-in-an-angry-god-is-bad-for-mental-health/

Israel army attacks Palestinians in West Bank
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/video-israel-army-attacks-palestinians-in-west-bank/

What America's Leaving Behind in Afghanistan: Trained Militias Accused of Rape and Murder
http://www.alternet.org/world/what-americas-leaving-behind-afghanistan-trained-militias-accused-rape-and-murder

Republican Religious Freedom Hypocrites Call For Profiling American Muslims
http://www.politicususa.com/republican-religious-freedom-hypocrites-call-profiling-american-muslims.html

When Israeli denial of Palestinian existence becomes genocidal
http://electronicintifada.net/content/when-israeli-denial-palestinian-existence-becomes-genocidal/12388

US Admits 16 Guantanamo Detainees Being Force-Fed
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/21-1

European study condemns UN inaction regarding condition of Palestinians in Syria
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/european-study-condemns-un-inaction-regarding-condition-of-palestinians-in-syria/

Bombing suspect captured after military-police lockdown of Boston
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/20/bost-a20.html

Is an International Cyberwar Imminent?
http://www.alternet.org/media/international-cyberwar-imminent

Surveillance Society: Met Police Spying On 57,000 People A Year
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Surveillance-Society-Met-by-Mick-Meaney-130419-852.html

Hamas MP warns of new Israeli war on Gaza with American blessing
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/hamas-mp-warns-of-new-israeli-war-on-gaza-with-american-blessing/

Sunday, April 7

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Homeland Security Spied on Peaceful Protesters, Monsanto Announces Huge Profits, Anti-Drone Hoodie, Dwindling Support for Religion, Offshore Financial Secrets, Surveillance Courts' Secrets, Disaster Capitalism, Guantanamo Prison Rights, Anonymous vs. Israel in Cyberwar, Avoid a Korean War, Facts on Immigration, more.

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The Whys of American Ignorance
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/04/06/the-whys-of-american-ignorance/

US Attorneys Reveal Online Bullying To Explain Why People Who Helped Them Prosecute Aaron Swartz Should Remain Anonymous
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/08381022576/us-attorneys-reveal-online-bullying-to-explain-why-people-who-helped-them-prosecute-aaron-swartz-should-remain-anonymous.shtml

Homeland Security Spied On Peaceful Protesters; Worried About Protests Getting News Coverage
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/03230222574/new-evidence-homeland-security-spied-peaceful-protestors-worried-about-protests-getting-news-coverage.shtml

Egypt foreign ministry: Israel violates the calm in Gaza
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/egypt-foreign-ministry-israel-violates-the-calm-in-gaza-131-times-to-be-exact-including-full-list-of-violations/

Monsanto announces huge profits despite public backlash
http://endthelie.com/2013/04/04/monsanto-announces-huge-profits-despite-public-backlash/

Sexism, Work and The Public
http://freethoughtblogs.com/amilliongods/2013/04/05/sexism-work-public/

Anti-Drone Hoodie: Can It Really Protect You From the Government’s Eyes in the Sky?
http://intellihub.com/2013/04/05/anti-drone-hoodie-can-it-really-protect-you-from-the-governments-eyes-in-the-sky/

New research shows dwindling support for religion in Britain
http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2013/04/new-research-shows-dwindling-support-for-religion-in-britain

A Tipping Point In The Financial System
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/a-tipping-point-in-the-financial-system_042013

Everything You Need to Know (So Far) About the Largest Leak of Offshore Financial Secrets in History
http://gawker.com/5993632/everything-you-need-to-know-so-far-about-the-largest-leak-of-offshore-financial-secrets-in-history

When Society Disintegrates: A preview Of What May Be Coming To Your City
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/when-society-disintegrates-a-preview-of-what-may-be-coming-to-your-city_042013

Public Banking: What Better Time Than Now
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Public-Banking-What-Bette-by-Stephen-Lendman-130404-882.html

Surveillance Court’s Opinions Must Remain Secret, Feds Say
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/secret-surveillance-court/

Government Exists to Serve the People, not the Privileged
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Government-Exists-to-Serve-by-Salvatore-Babones-130404-827.html

'Going Dark': What's So Wrong with the Government's Plan to Tap Our Internet?
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/fbi-data-wiretap-trevor-timm-interview#ixzz2PUZUUS2a

From the San Francisco Earthquake to Superstorm Sandy, How Disaster Capitalism Makes Money off of Tragedy
http://www.alternet.org/san-francisco-earthquake-superstorm-sandy-how-disaster-capitalism-makes-money-tragedy

Another NATO Strike Kills Afghan Civilians
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/04-2

UN rights chief calls for Guantanamo prison closure
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/04/un-rights-chief-calls-for-guantanamo-prison-closure.php

When Did Peaceful Protests Become 'Anti-Government Rallies'?
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/04/when-did-peaceful-protests-become-anti.html

Israel ignores its many (at least 136) violations in Gaza, complains about some rocket attacks
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/israel-ignores-its-many-at-least-136-violations-in-gaza-complains-about-some-rocket-attacks/

This Is What Superstition Does: ‘Witches’ Tortured, Burned Alive
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/06/this-is-what-superstition-does-witches-tortured-burned-alive/

What did science and religion discover last year?
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/what-did-science-and-religion-discover-last-year/

‘#Anonymous’ vows to wipe Israel off cyberspace
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/anonymous-vows-to-wipe-israel-off-cyberspace/

It was nice knowing you, America
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/it-was-nice-knowing-you-america_042013

A Lifetime in War Crimes
http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Lifetime-in-War-Crimes-by-William-Boardman-130406-730.html

The Duty To Avoid A War In Korea

http://www.countercurrents.org/castro060413.htm

Americans Believe God Plays Favorites in Sports and with Athletes

http://atheism.about.com/od/American-Beliefs-God/a/Americans-Believe-God-Plays-Favorites-Sports.htm

‘Drones fly, children die’: US activists launch massive anti-drone campaign

http://rt.com/usa/anti-drone-campaign-usa-334/

Tyranny of The Reasonable: Popular Complacency In An Era Of Economic Exploitation And Perpetual War
http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh050413.htm

What Does the Worst-case Scenario of a Cyberattack on the United States by Another State or by Terrorists Look Like?
http://intellihub.com/2013/04/05/what-does-the-worst-case-scenario-of-a-cyberattack-on-the-united-states-by-another-state-or-by-terrorists-look-like/

The Facts on Immigration Today
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/report/2013/04/03/59040/the-facts-on-immigration-today-3/

Wednesday, February 6

06.Feb.2013 - HEADLINES: Gay Marriage, College Funding, 'None' Leaders, American Empire, Progressive Revolution, 9/11 Censoring, Anti-Government Sentiment, Christian Nationalism, Newspaper Lies, Austerity Obsession, Israel's Attacks on Syria, God's Favorite Teams, FDIC Suing Banks, more.

Gay marriage foes suffer from fundraising shortfall

Supporters of California's Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage protest outside the California Supreme Court in San Francisco, California before a hearing on the initiative September 6, 2011. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/29/us-usa-gaymarriage-money-idUSBRE90S15820130129

Politicians Threaten to Kill College Funding Over Israel Boycott Panel
http://www.alternet.org/world/politicians-threaten-kill-college-funding-over-israel-boycott-panel

'None' leaders to chart path for more political, cultural power for religiously unaffiliated

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/25/none-leaders-to-chart-path-for-more-political-cultural-power-for-religiously-unaffiliated/

The American Empire, RIP

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33790.htm

America's First Progressive Revolution
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15852-focus-americas-first-progressive-revolution

Judge to US Government: Stop Censoring 9/11 Hearings
http://www.alternet.org/progressive-wire/judge-us-government-stop-censoring-911-hearings

Anti-Government Sentiment: On the Rise?
http://news.discovery.com/human/anti-government-sentiment-on-the-rise-130204.htm#mkcpgn=emnws1

Corporate Religion and Christian Nationalism: Religion for Profit, War, Power
http://atheism.about.com/od/religioninamerica/a/CorporateChrist.htm?nl=1

Have You No Shame? Lies, Damned Lies, and Newspaper Reporting
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33783.htm

4 Ways the Austerity Obsession in Washington Could Cost You Your Job
http://www.alternet.org/economy/4-ways-austerity-obsession-washington-could-cost-you-your-job

American official says White House gave Israel ‘green light’ to carry out attacks on Syria
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/american-official-says-white-house-gave-israel-green-light-to-carry-out-attacks-on-syria/

According To One Third Of Americans, God Has Nothing Better To Do Than Help Their Favorite Teams Win
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/02/according-to-one-third-of-americans-god-has-nothing-better-to-do-than-help-their-favorite-teams-win/

People Want Criminals to Suffer, Even If It Is “Useless”

http://www.lifesentencesblog.com/?p=6032

Finally, Bank Officers Held Personally Responsible For Gross Lending Practices, Sued By FDIC
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/02/finally-bank-officers-held-personally-responsible-for-gross-lending-practices-sued-by-fdic/

How the Public Can Win the New Financial War

http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-public-can-win-new-financial-war

Why Are Suicides Climbing in the Military? Let's Look at the Drugs Being Prescribed
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Are-Suicides-Climbing-by-Martha-Rosenberg-130202-562.html

Why Police Lie Under Oath

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/304-justice/15847-why-police-lie-under-oath

The Zionist Plan for the Middle East

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33220.htm

The Endgame of Capitalism

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/15845-the-endgame-of-capitalism

Roughly 22 U.S. Veterans Kill Themselves Daily, According to a New Study

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/01/veterans_and_suicide_new_veterans_affairs_study_finds_that_about_22_veterans.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content

Israel's Perpetual Terrorism
http://www.countercurrents.org/akleh040213.htm

U.S. To Become A Second-Rate Power

http://www.countercurrents.org/ferner040213.htm

Atheist Challenges Christian Theologian: I'll 'Turn Christian' If You Explain Why Evil Exists
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/atheist-challenges-christian-theologian-ill-turn-christian-if-you-explain-why-evil

How Can I Get My Local Government to Pay Attention to Me?
http://lifehacker.com/5981392/how-can-i-get-my-local-government-to-pay-attention-to-me

Targeted Killings: Obama’s Endless War
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/targeted-killings-obama-s-endless-war-20130131?page=1

The Paranoia of the Superrich and Superpowerful
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15867-the-paranoia-of-the-superrich-and-superpowerful

Washington state's anti-NDAA bill introduced with viral support
http://www.examiner.com/article/washington-state-s-anti-ndaa-bill-introduced-with-viral-support

The Dangers of Obama's Cyber War Power Grab
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/266-32/15881-the-dangers-of-obamas-cyber-war-power-grab

Public trust in government near historic low
http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/public-trust-government-near-historic-low/2013-02-05

More Than 50 Countries Helped the CIA Outsource Torture
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/332-141/12928-more-than-50-countries-helped-the-cia-outsource-torture

No confidence in national capital region disaster preparedness
http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/no-confidence-national-capital-region-disaster-preparedness/2013-02-05

White House Declares It Has 'Broad Powers' When It Comes To Cyberattacks

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130203/21581921871/white-house-declares-it-has-broad-powers-when-it-comes-to-cyberattacks.shtml

Hard Times, USA: Would You Consider Thinking Differently About Poverty and Poor and Homeless People?
http://www.alternet.org/hard-times-usa-would-you-consider-thinking-differently-about-poverty-and-poor-and-homeless-people

Tuesday, November 27

27.Nov.2012 - Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Block Recording of Police Officers, PLUS: American Excess, We Need War Photography, Women Human Rights Defenders, Israel Airstrikes Cost $300 Million, Why Israel Didn't Win, Greatest Threat to Democracy, and much more.

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First Amendment Win!
Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Block Recording of Police Officers

ACLU of Illinois: "... individuals and organizations must be able to freely gather and record information about the conduct of government and their agents – especially the police."

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/26-4

American excess in perspective
Thanksgiving Thursday is then immediately followed by Black Friday - the busiest shopping day of the year. Many retailers even opened their doors on Thursday night this year, instead of waiting for Friday. While their turkey dinners were still digesting, hordes of shoppers descended on their local Walmart, Target, and Best Buy stores and elbowed their way to the best deals on large-screen TVs and other treasures. It is American consumerism at its most obscene. And it has become almost like a sporting event. No qualms about it. It's the American way.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/American-excess-in-perspec-by-Mary-Shaw-121125-424.html

Evacuate Guantanamo -- It Belongs to Cuba
For more than 100 years, the United States has illegitimately occupied Cuban soil. "They turned one of Cuba's most precious natural resources, Guantanamo Bay, into a curse on the lips of the world."
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Evacuate-Guantanamo--It-by-Glen-Ford-121124-252.html

Why We Need War Photography Now More Than Ever
Unfortunately, in an age of dehumanized battle where automated drones strike from above, we may be losing the genre of war photography itself, just when we need it more than ever.
http://bigthink.com/Picture-This/why-we-need-war-photography-now-more-than-ever

How we made the world hear Gaza, as citizen journalists

Bearing witness to the mainstream reporting of last week’s events was a cruel slap across in the face whose effect shall always remain. I was and still am very sickened by the amount misrepresentation we received.

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rana-baker/how-we-made-world-hear-gaza-citizen-journalists

Women human rights defenders: activism's front-line
There is growing recognition by the international community that women human rights defenders are best placed to respond to violence against women and a crucial force for peace; but the international protection framework needs to be made more accessible to those in need, says Jennifer Allsopp.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/jennifer-allsopp/women-human-rights-defenders-activisms-front-line

Israel airstrikes to cost Gaza over $300 million

The report covered damages to the agricultural, health and social sectors. The occupied territory’s agrarian segment suffered $120 million in damage. The eight-day halt to economic activities resulted in $40 million lost. The rest of the sum comes from destroyed buildings and infrastructure that was impaired by Israeli airstrikes, Xinhua reported

http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/leveling-gaza-israel-airstrikes-to-cost-gaza-over-300-million-report-photos/

Why Israel Didn’t Win
The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It promises to ease movement at all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, but will not lift the blockade. It requires Israel to end its assault on the Strip, and Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets at southern Israel, but it leaves Gaza as miserable as ever: according to a recent UN report, the Strip will be ‘uninhabitable’ by 2020. And this is to speak only of Gaza.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33138.htm

Pillar of Impotence
In the past week, the people of Gaza have been subject to some serious Israeli attacks. Some Hamas leaders and militants have been murdered and many more Palestinians - innocent civilians, babies, kids women and elders – have lost their live. Yet, Gaza is celebrating with the Hamas leadership never more popular.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33141.htm

Greatest Threat to Democracy
American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, and critic of American life and culture, H.L. Mencken wrote "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33142.htm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (file photo)

Russia urges united action against Israeli aggression
Moscow has called on the Arab League and the Middle East Quartet comprising Russia, the European Union (EU), UN, and US, to work together to end frequent Israeli aggressions against the Palestinians.
http://presstv.com/detail/2012/11/23/274150/russia-urges-united-action-against-israel/

Iran: Syria key to resistance against Israel and US
Iran, together with Russia, has been a major supporter of Mr Al Assad as he battles to retain power in the face of a 20-month uprising seeking to topple his regime.

http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/iran-syria-key-to-resistance-against-israel-and-us

Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear Tracker

Student body ID cards with RFID-embedded chips. (image: Northside Independent School District)

Texas high school student is being suspended for refusing to wear a student ID card implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip. Northside Independent School District in San Antonio began issuing the RFID-chip-laden student-body cards when the semester began in the fall. The ID badge has a bar code associated with a student's Social Security number, and the RFID chip monitors pupils' movements on campus, from when they arrive until when they leave.
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/340-187/14702-student-suspended-for-refusing-to-wear-tracker

Supreme Court To Look At Who Is A 'Supervisor' In Harassment Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court this week takes up the question of who qualifies as a supervisor when the issue is harassment in the workplace. The court's answer to that question could significantly restrict employer liability in racial and sexual harassment cases, or, in the view of some business organizations, it could result in frivolous litigation.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/11/26/165883697/supreme-court-to-look-at-who-is-a-supervisor-in-harassment-cases?ft=3&f=1001&sc=nl&cc=nh-20121126

A government for the Puerto Rican people?
In elections on November 6, Alejandro García Padilla, of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD), defeated conservative incumbent Gov. Luis Fortuño, of the New Progressive Party (PNP), by about 13,000 votes. At the same time, in a nonbinding referendum, 61 percent of voters indicated that they would like Puerto Rico to become a U.S. state. Paradoxically, it seemed that Puerto Ricans chose to toss out their pro-statehood governor while opting for "statehood" on the political status referendum. But as with much in the November elections, there was more to the results than met the eye. García Padilla campaigned for a "government for the people." But he is really committed, as was Fortuño, to a "government for the same old rich people."
http://socialistworker.org/2012/11/26/government-for-puerto-rico

Gaza's right to resist Israeli terror
Sherry Wolf, press officer for the Russell Tribunal on Palestine hearings in New York City, argues for a critical component of support for the right to self-determination.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/11/20/gazas-right-to-resist

The Economic Consequences of the Gaza Blockade
Using the West Bank as a counterfactual, I find that being removed from world markets reduced welfare by 17%-28% on average. Moreover, households with larger pre-blockade expenditure levels experienced disproportionally larger welfare losses. These effects are substantially larger than the predictions of standard trade models.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/11/26/gaza_blockade_consequences_17_28_percent_welfare_reduction_on_average.html

Activist Groups Boycott Cyber Monday
In preparation for Cyber Monday, the Day of Virtual Shopping that takes place on the first Monday after Thanksgiving, online retailers are pulling out all the stops. Free shipping deals! Exclusive online promotions! A set of Ginsu knives with every purchase! (OK, maybe no knives, but you get the idea).

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/11/activist-groups-boycott-cyber-monday

Journalists demand UN probe into why Israel targeted them in Gaza

As people anxiously wait to see if the ceasefire between Israel andHamas will hold, local and international human rights groups are calling for investigations into Israeli human rights abuses committed during its eight-day assault on the Gaza Strip, including flagrant attacks on journalists.

http://electronicintifada.net/content/journalists-demand-un-probe-why-israel-targeted-them-gaza/11936

Stand Still for the Apocalypse

Humans must immediately implement a series of radical measures to halt carbon emissions or prepare for the collapse of entire ecosystems and the displacement, suffering and death of hundreds of millions of the globe’s inhabitants, according to a report commissioned by the World Bank.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/stand_still_for_the_apocalypse_20121126/

Headscarfs and homosexuals (feminist ideals in xenophobic politics)

When the protest against a lecture by the controversial Islamist Bilal Philips risked being hijacked by Danish populist forces, it was a vivid reminder of what happens in practice, despite declarations by right-wing populist leaders.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/anders-rasmussen/headscarfs-and-homosexuals-feminist-ideals-in-xenophobic-politics

White House Report: Fiscal Cliff Could Cut Consumer Spending By $200 Billion

On Cyber Monday, the White House released a report detailing the effect of ending middle class tax cuts by going over the fiscal cliff on consumer spending. The report, from the National Economic Council and the Council of Economic Advisers, finds that consumer spending could drop by close to $200 billion in 2013 from tax hikes alone.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/white-house-report-fiscal-cliff-could-cut-consumer

The voices of Gaza's children

Children in Gaza describe living under Israeli siege and attacks as worse than being in prison.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/11/20121123202350356106.html

Obama Legalizes The Illegal, Targets Innocents
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was bitterly right when he said US president Barack Obama “seems to be a nice man, and that is precisely the problem” and aptly described him as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing."
http://www.countercurrents.org/salami271112.htm

Obama Administration Pushes Ahead With Drone Killings
According to a report published Sunday on the front page of the New York Times, the Obama administration is pushing ahead with plans to establish a more systematic and regular program of using unmanned drones to kill people selected by the White House for death.
http://www.countercurrents.org/martin271112.htm

The Maximal Zionist Project Is To Have A Minimal Palestine: Gregory Harms
American journalist and scholar Gregory Harms believes that the recent 8-day Israeli war on the Gaza Strip might have been waged to distract public attention from the internal socioeconomic crises and problems the Israeli regime faces, especially ahead of the January 2013 legislative elections. He believes that launching airstrikes on Gaza may serve to give Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party a secure vote in the upcoming elections.
http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari271112.htm

Obama 'Drone-Warfare Rulebook' Condemned by Human Rights Groups

A US drone flies over Edwards Air Force Base. (photo: Keystone/Zuma/Rex Features)

resident Barack Obama's administration is in the process of drawing up a formal rulebook that will set out the circumstances in which targeted assassination by unmanned drones is justified, according to reports.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/14731-obama-drone-warfare-rulebook-condemned-by-human-rights-groups

The Palestinians’ Only Option
In the final countdown to the UN General Assembly vote on recognition of Palestine as a non-member state, the PLO has indicated that it’s expecting “a pleasant surprise”, it being the number of European countries which will not do Zionism’s bidding on this occasion and will vote for the resolution. Victory for the Palestinians in this forum can be taken for granted, and it will help to further isolate the Israel of Netanyahu as a pariah state, but… It won’t be, can’t be, a substitute for a viable strategy to secure justice for the Palestinians.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33157.htm

Kristol’s Thanksgiving Meditation Makes Central Role of Israel in Neo-Conservatism Clear
For those, particularly in the timid or intimidated U.S. foreign-policy elite, who still pretend or somehow make themselves believe that Israel is not absolutely central to the neo-conservative worldview, I commend this week’s Thanksgiving editorial by Bill Kristol, scion of one of the movement’s two founding families, in The Weekly Standard, entitled “The West Fights Back”.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33149.htm

Where’s Our Humanity For Gaza?
Between February 2009 — just after the Operation Cast Lead onslaught — and August 2012, Israeli attacks in Gaza, averaging six per week. They came by aircraft, helicopter gunships, drones, and tanks throughout Gaza; the confiscation of, or damage to, fishing boats and the detention and arrest of fishermen; attacks on industrial, farm, and food production facilities; and military ground incursions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33151.htm

Is This Presidential Memorandum Aimed At Israel-firsters Or U.S. Whistleblowers?

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

SUBJECT: National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33148.htm

Black Friday: American Wage Slaves Fight Over Chinese Slave Goods
You can tell the health of the tree by the quality of its fruits. America, as is evidenced by this week’s annual materialistic ritual known as‘Black Friday’, has produced this particularly rotten fruit, consistently. It’s getting way too predictable for our liking.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33152.htm