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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/

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

11.Mar.2013 - DOCUMENTARIES, Part 2: Facade of the American Dream, Professional Prisoners, 7 Ancient World Wonders, War on Nature, Special Forces Diver's Training, Human Cloning, 10 Mafia Commandments, Fat Head.

The Facade of the American Dream

The documentary depicts how the US removed Africans from their country of origin, worked them to death as slaves and today, in schools, is brainwashing them to make believe they are inferior in many aspects. A cross section of people discuss the fraud of the American dream and how systemic racism keeps millions of people down while offering others hope and opportunity.

Professional Prisoners

It isn't easy to live a normal life after you have been in prison. It is difficult to find a job and sometimes the prisoners haven´t got families or friends to rely on in this difficult time. Prisons in Russia try to help their prisoners by giving them the chance to work while being imprisoned.  They can learn something completely new and sometimes hidden talents are revealed.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Built by the ancient people in a time before Christ, the Seven Wonders exemplify remarkable architecture and massive structures that is world-renowned. All of them were massive construction projects that took years if not decades to build. Of the original seven in the list, only the Great Pyramid of Giza is standing as of this day. The others have fallen, taking with them the secrets of their history and construction.

Culture in Decline: War on Nature
War. We love it, right. Blowing stuff up, watching people suffer and die… it’s exciting. Violence, domination, retribution and other attributes of this competitive “warring” fascination clearly dominates our media with films, television and other expressions constantly glorifying and reinforcing this gesture of conflict. In fact, it has been found that by the time an average kid reaches the age of fourteen, in the west, he or she has visually witnessed over 8000 depicted acts of murder. So given all this it might make you wonder, does art imitate life, or does life imitate art. Likewise isn’t it interesting how most of the people in America sleep quite well at night while their military forces routinely invade, slaughter and steal from other nations at will, as of course all global empires have done historically. This time the global civilian death toll is well over one million in the past decade alone, many of them women and children, and yet the same American culture shutters in horror and confusion when some dude stumbles into an American school yard and randomly wipes out a couple dozen or so kids.

Surviving the Special Forces Diver’s Training
The six week diving course, attended by 53 of the best divers in the military, is done in Florida. Day 1 begins with a test of swimming across half a football field in a single breath. Safety instructors are also in the water to check the vitals and health of each swimmer. The next activity is ‘drown-proofing’ and this aims to test the confidence of each candidate in water. They are required to swim across a pool and do some other tasks while their hands and feet are tied. Signs of panic can cause them to fail the test and the course all together.

Human Cloning and its Evolution
Science has no limits for some scientists. Over the past ten years, Dr. Panayiotis Zavos and his team have experimented on injecting the DNA of an individual to a women’s egg to generate a replica. His quest for human cloning brings him to dangerous and far flung places in the world.

The 10 Commandments of the Mafia

The first commandment talks about who can or who can’t belong to the group. You have to be invited to the Mafia and anyone with a close relationship to the police cannot be one. Interestingly, you also have to be of Sicilian heritage to be a member. Even Al Capone was barred from being a member because of this. Find out the rest of the commandments by watching the documentary below.

Fat Head

While most people saw the documentary Super Size Me as an expose of the fast food industry, comedian and former health writer Tom Naughton saw it as a dare: He’d show that you could lose weight on a diet of burgers and fries.

13.Feb.2013 - DOCUMENTARIES: Networked Society, Supersize Me, Bad Behavior Online, Clean Technology Future, Food Speculator

Life in a Networked Society

Technologies enable people to interact, innovate and share information in totally new ways. People are empowered, business is liberated and the society is more transparent. But how to take advantage of all this? And what does it take to become a networked society?

Supersize Me – Morgan Spurlock vs McDonald’s Fastfood

While examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald’s food for one month.
Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock’s film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003 during which he ate only McDonald’s food. The film documents this lifestyle’s drastic effect on Spurlock’s physical and psychological well-being, and explores the fast food industry’s corporate influence, including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit.
Spurlock dined at McDonald’s restaurants three times per day, eating every item on the chain’s menu at least once. Spurlock consumed an average of 20.92 megajoules or 5,000 kcal (the equivalent of 9.26 Big Macs) per day during the experiment.
As a result, the then-32-year-old Spurlock gained 24½ lbs. (11.1 kg), a 13% body mass increase, a cholesterol level of 230, and experienced mood swings, sexual dysfunction, and fat accumulation in his liver. It took Spurlock fourteen months to lose the weight gained from his experiment using a vegan diet supervised by his future wife, a chef who specializes in gourmet vegan dishes.
The reason for Spurlock’s investigation was the increasing spread of obesity throughout U.S. society, which the Surgeon General has declared “epidemic,” and the corresponding lawsuit brought against McDonald’s on behalf of two overweight girls, who, it was alleged, became obese as a result of eating McDonald’s food.
The documentary was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

Bad Behavior Online: Bullying, Trolling and Free Speech

The internet is a powerful tool for communication, but it can sometimes be a double-edged sword. As most of us have seen or experienced, the internet can bring out the worst behavior in people, highlighting some of the cruelest and most hurtful aspects of humanity. Issues such as bullying online and trolling have garnered a lot of attention recently, prompting questions about who does, and should, regulate the internet, and what free speech means online.

The Clean Technology Future

What if we could live in a clean world?A world in which energy would be 100% renewable, water no longer polluted, transportation truly green and production methods clean and regenerative? There will be such a world. This documentary explores the unprecedented possibilities of a new industrial revolution: Cleantech.
Signs of a new future are visible everywhere, from China to the US and from Europe to Thailand. Green mobility powered by sustainable energy, clean drinking water for all thanks to nanotechnology, dyeing textiles using recycled CO2. All of this is possible and is happening successfully now! Working together with Cleantech-founder Nick Parker, this film shows what our world will be like in the decades to come. The film team travels the world in search of a clean future.

The Food Speculator

The film examines the global commodities futures markets and aims to understand the role of speculation on food prices.
Assuming the role of a speculator, director Kees Brouwer tries to find out whether he is merely taking advantage of the opportunity offered to investors by the food scarcity, or that, through this abstract world of financial products, he is drastically interfering in poor people’s lives.
Increasing food prices are increasingly causing unrest in the world. It was no coincidence that when the Arab Spring first began Tunisian protesters attacked the order police with baguettes. Is there just not enough food for so many people, or are the price increases caused by speculators, looking for quick profits? Backlight tries to find an answer by doing a little food speculation of its own. A quest that leads us to places including the streets of Tunisia and the Chicago Stock Exchange.

26.Jan.2013 - HEADLINES: Perpetual War, American Violence, Climate, Data Requests, Military Pregnancy, Green Socialism, Empire Power, Drones, Gun Lobby, Walmart & Fast Food, Scientology Cult

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The President of Perpetual Warhttp://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/25-4

Far-Right Violence in America
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2013/01/far-right-violence-in-america/

Right-wing blogger tells CNN: Americans will ‘have to get used to’ climate change
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/24/right-wing-blogger-tells-cnn-americans-will-have-to-get-used-to-climate-change/

Google Report Reveals Continued Rise in US Government Requests for Data

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/339-182/15687-google-report-reveals-continued-rise-in-us-government-requests-for-data

Study: Military women experience unintended pregnancy rates at double U.S. average
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/23/study-military-women-experience-unintended-pregnancy-rates-at-double-u-s-average/

What Is ‘Socialist’ About ‘Green Socialism’?
http://www.countercurrents.org/candeias240113.htm

British and American empire: Patterns of power
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/julian-go-alex-doherty/british-and-american-empire-patterns-of-power

U.N. Panel to Investigate Rise in Drone Strikes
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/world/europe/un-panel-to-investigate-rise-in-drone-strikes.html

Billionaires secretly fund attacks on climate science
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33714.htm

How Much Did the Gun Lobby Donate to Your Member of Congress?
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2013/01/map_the_gun_lobby_s_campaign_contributions_by_congressional_district.html
In Walmart and Fast Food, Unions Scaling Up a Strike-First Strategy
http://labornotes.org/2013/01/walmart-and-fast-food-unions-scaling-strike-first-strategy

L. Ron Hubbard's Grandson Blasts Scientology as a Brainwashing 'Cult'
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/l-ron-hubbards-grandson-blasts-scientology-brainwashing-cult