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Saturday, April 20

@dustcircleNews - HEADLINES: Government and CISPA, Stop Isolating Gaza, Unmarried Women Struggling, Orwellian Warfare State, US Militarism, Hacker Threats, Practice of Torture, 10 Million Working US Poor, Rights of Immigrants, God and Mental Illness, Constitution Project, Paul Revere Trivia, Bill Maher and Bernie Sanders Explode, Dinosaur Egg Study, American CEOs' Pay, Zionism and Congress, more.


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Government Has Already Fooled Us More Than Once On Privacy; History Belies How CISPA Will Be Used
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130417/10212122743/government-has-already-fooled-us-more-than-once-privacy-history-belies-how-cispa-will-be-used.shtml

Israel: Stop Isolating Gaza
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/israel-stop-isolating-gaza/

Unmarried Women Are Desperately Struggling in Our Failed Economy
http://www.alternet.org/unmarried-women-are-desperately-struggling-our-failed-economy

The Orwellian Warfare State of Carnage and Doublethink
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/17

What Has US Militarism Wrought?
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/03/04/what-has-us-militarism-wrought/

The Greatest Trick The Government Ever Pulled Was Convincing The Public The 'Hacker Threat' Exists
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130408/17093022626/greatest-trick-government-ever-pulled-was-convincing-public-hacker-threat-exists.shtml

United States Engaged in the Practice of Torture: Report
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34640.htm

Perverting the Constitution for Power
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/03/03/perverting-the-constitution-for-power/

More Than 10 Million Americans Among the Working Poor
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34649.htm

Al-Jazeera And Feminism,The Rights Of Immigrants And The Stateless?
http://www.countercurrents.org/fenley170413.htm

Study: Belief in an angry God associated with variety of mental illnesses
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/17/study-belief-in-an-angry-god-associated-with-variety-of-mental-illnesses/

Constitution Project’s Report on Detainee Treatment
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/16/world/16torture-report.html

11 Things You May Not Know About Paul Revere
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/11-things-you-may-not-know-about-paul-revere

Bill Maher and Bernie Sanders Explode at GOP Panelists Over the Economy and the Environment
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76020

Dinosaur egg study supports evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs
http://machineslikeus.com/news/dinosaur-egg-study-supports-evolutionary-link-between-birds-and-dinosaurs

Why American CEOs Get Paid Way More Than CEOs Anywhere Else (Hint: It's Not Performance Based)
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/why-american-ceos-get-paid-way-more-ceos-anywhere-else-hint-its-not-performance

Zionism and the United States Congress
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/zionism-and-the-united-states-congress-by-william-james-martin/
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Wednesday, February 27

27.Feb.2013 - VIDEOS: Cocaine Presidents, Israeli Mob, BP Death Penalty, Fix the Debt Campaign, West Bank Funeral Protests, Spain Austerity Protests, Vatican and Homosexuality, Bowman vs. Monsanto, Bags into Batteries, Blacklisting, Non-Violent Farming, Women Who Make America, more.

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The cocaine presidents
Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II


Former Press Secretary Offers PR Advice for Obama Drone Program




Israeli mob celebrates savage beating of Palestinian man, shouts racist slogans


Should BP Get Corporate Death Penalty?

BP Civil Trial: The Billions at Stake


John Nichols: The 'Fix the Debt' Campaign's Astroturf Roots


Protests at West Bank funeral


Massive austerity protests hit Spain


Robin Williams on the Vatican and homosexuality


Bowman v. Monsanto: Indiana Farmer's Supreme Court Challenge to Corporate Control of Food Supply



US scientists turn bags into batteries



Blacklisting: union collaborators named, undercover cops investigated, construction firm faces legal claim




Bhaskar Save: We Must Practice Non-Violent Farming




Billionaires for Austerity: With Cuts Looming, Wall Street Roots of "Fix the Debt" Campaign Exposed



"Makers: Women Who Make America": New Film Chronicles Past 50 Years of Feminist Movement



United by Loss, Israeli & Palestinian Dads Call for a Joint Nonviolent Intifada Against Occupation


How US Creates and Employs War Propaganda Weapons of Mass Distraction


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Wednesday, October 31

Halloween MMXII, Part 2 - Left Behind in Sandy, Israel Lobby, IRS Pays Whistleblower, Pledge of Allegiance's Under God Case, Mitt's Mormon Faith, U.S. is Source of Cyber-Terrorism, Romney's FEMA Fail, Occupy Was Right, Feminist Peace Action, U.S. Employs Child Soldiers, Disposition Matrix, Secret Campaign Cash, Words Are Our Weapons, American Crony Capitalism, Corporate Welfare, Russian Protest Putin, Corporations Accelerating Climate Change


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Sandy Underscores Debate Over Government's Role

President Obama offered thoughts and prayers Tuesday for all those who have been affected by Sandy. He also offered something more tangible: the full resources of the federal government.

A statue representing womanhood — and women's role in raising children — is seen with the Mormon Temple in the background in Salt Lake City.Shift In Mormon Age Policy Widens Women's Options

Hannon Young was listening with only half an ear during the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints earlier this month when Church President Thomas S. Monson started talking about missionaries. But then Young perked up — and froze, as Monson declared that women no longer have to wait until they are 21 to go on their missions.

Left behind in the storm
BILLIONAIRE NEW York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had a message for the prisoners of Rikers Island and their families as Hurricane Sandy descended on the city: Your lives don't matter.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/10/31/left-behind-storm


Israel Lobby Calls for an ‘Iranian Pearl Harbor’
As reported by Seymour Hersh, in late 2007 the Bush-Cheney administration received congressional approval for its request for $400 million to launch major covert operations against Iran, and a presidential finding signed by Bush authorized a secret program for destabilizing Iran by supporting puppet groups purporting to represent the Iranian Arabs living in the oil province of Khuzestan, the Baluchi people, and other separatist “organizations.” Aside from terrorist operations that killed many innocent Iranians, the program failed. Other venues were also tried, ranging from fabrications about Iran’s alleged interference in Iraq to huge shows of force in the Persian Gulf and a campaign of lies and exaggerations.
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/israel-lobby-calls-for-an-iranian-pearl-harbor/




IRS Pays $38 Million in Whistleblower Case
The Internal Revenue Service has awarded an anonymous whistleblower $38 million for information leading to the recovery of between $127 million and $254 million in corporate taxes, according to the whistleblower's attorney.


Mass. Supreme Court to hear case against ‘under God’ in Pledge of Allegiance
(RNS) Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a non-religious family that's challenging the mandatory daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in their children’s classrooms. The family, who are secular humanists, claim that the phrase “under God” in the pledge is a violation of the state’s constitutional ban on religious discrimination.http://www.religionnews.com/politics/law-and-court/mass.-supreme-court-to-hear-case-against-under-god-in-pledge-of-allegiance

MORMON EFFECT: ARE WE ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT MITT’S FAITH?

Mitt Romney is a Mormon. That’s a well-known fact. And since it’s a well-known fact, why isn’t anybody talking about it? Yesterday, when I posted this video clip of “Mormon temple rituals”, I received numerous notes, comments, and Tweets from evangelical Christians telling me how disappointed in me they were. “How dare you post something that is sacred to a lot of people?”


IRAN : US Is the source of Cyber Terrorism
us-iranAn obscure group identifying itself as the Izz ad-din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters claimed responsibility for the first wave of attacks as retaliation for the amateurish Innocence of Muslims film that mocked the Islamic prophet Mohammed and sparked protests throughout the Middle East.  
http://thehackernews.com/2012/10/iran-us-is-source-of-cyber-terrorism.html


Romney's Latest Lie and Why We Must Not Put Liars in the White House

ver the weekend, Romney debuted an ad in Ohio showing cars being crushed as a narrator says Obama "sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China. Mitt Romney will fight for every American job."

Romney lifts water for photo op. (photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)Romney's FEMA Fail

n the wake of Hurricane Sandy, President Obama has been coordinating storm response from the White House-while Mitt Romney has been dodging questions about what critics say was a primary campaign call to cut funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Bank of England Director: Occupy Was Right

he Occupy movement received vindication from unlikely source tonight, as a senior executive at the Bank of England credited it with stirring a "reformation of finance".

The least bad: the US elections from Israel-Palestine

For Palestinians and Israelis, a Democrat victory would be bad and a Republican victory worse. While Obama continues to seduce the deluded among us, Romney is making lethal calculations

The politics of alliances: feminist peace action, drones and Code Pink

Meredith Tax raises significant questions about feminist activism, political alliances and fundamentalism, but her attack on Code Pink's campaign trip against the use of remotely-controlled drones in Pakistan is misplaced, says Rebecca Johnson. 

US employs former child soldiers as mercenaries

The US is increasingly using private security forces to wage its wars and maintain its occupation of countries after the withdrawal of regular troops. Both in Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands of mercenaries and dozens of private security companies are being deployed to this end.

American democracy and the “disposition matrix”

The media and political establishment have responded with near total silence to the Washington Post’s revelation last week that the Obama administration has transformed extra-judicial assassination into a permanent practice of the US government.

Hurricane Sandy: A Moment For Eco-Socialism
During an unusual moment of clarity in an otherwise vanilla stint as the Governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo spoke frankly about the longer term ramifications of Hurricane Sandy. Instability in weather patterns will require serious changes in the ways that New York City’s infrastructure is situated and protected. 

Two candidates, $660m raised, endless adverts. But is it worth it?

Americans' TV screens have been bombarded by campaigns paid for by controversial Super PACs – but they're not as effective as everyone expected

Flood of Secret Campaign Cash: It's Not All Citizens United

(illustration: Duckets)he emergence of nonprofits [1] as the leading conduit for anonymous spending in this year's presidential campaign is often attributed to the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United [2] ruling, which opened the money spigot, allowing corporations and unions to buy ads urging people to vote for or against specific candidates.



Our Words Are Our Weapons

n ancient China, the arrival of a new dynasty was accompanied by "the rectification of names," a ceremony in which the sloppiness and erosion of meaning that had taken place under the previous dynasty were cleared up and language and its subjects correlated again. It was like a debt jubilee, only for meaning rather than money.



Crony Capitalism - American Style
We're still living in the Reagan Era



Free Lunch and Corporate Welfare
Bill Moyers and David Cay Johnston



Ex-Preacher, Mike Huckabee Threatens People With Damnation For Voting For Obama




Rachel Maddow - Is Romney serious about defunding FEMA?



Putinism and Russian Protest



Corporations Accelerating Climate Change

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Tuesday, October 30

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.

President Barack Obama (Paul E. Alers)

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.

Voters cast ballots on touch-screen voting machines during in-person absentee voting at the Fairfax County Governmental Center in Fairfax, Va., in early October. (photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
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.


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?"

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.

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.

Is Religious Freedom Really Primary?

President Barack Obama, left, Cardinal Timothy Dolan,  Mitt Romney and his wife Ann shared laughs at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner in New York City on Oct. 18, 2012.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.

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. 

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.

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.

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?

'A number of Romney backers took it upon themselves to spell out more clearly to their workers what 'the best interest for their job' really means.' (photo: AP)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.

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.

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.



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.


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. 


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.

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

Bill McKibben on Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change: "If There Was Ever a Wake-up Call, This Is It"
Frankenstorm: Meteorologist Warns Hurricane Sandy an Outgrowth of Global Warming’s Extreme Weather
Battle at the top for UFO disclosure
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