@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: America's Business of War, Snowden's Brave Integrity, Whistleblowers Meet Leaker, No NSA Oversight, Address Books Collected Globally, U.S. Ranks 21st in Math, Scientists Hacking the Earth, Half of US Children Are Poor, Women Demand Freedom, Social Security Destruction, more.

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The Business of America Is War
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/business-america-war

Edward Snowden’s Brave Integrity
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/10/15/edward-snowdens-brave-integrity/

Snowden: NSA Is Most Dangerous Because No Oversight Exists
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/18

"Edward Snowden Is a Patriot":
Ex-NSA CIA, FBI and Justice Whistleblowers Meet Leaker in Moscow
http://www.alternet.org/world/edward-snowden-patriot-ex-nsa-cia-fbi-and-justice-whistleblowers-meet-leaker-moscow

NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html

NSA revelations: A timeline of what's come out since Snowden leaks began
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2013/1016/NSA-revelations-A-timeline-of-what-s-come-out-since-Snowden-leaks-began/June-5-8-2013

U.S. Adults Rank 21st in Math Skills

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36581.htm

Billionaire Koch Brothers Spending Millions To Deny Health Coverage To Low-Income Americans

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/billionaire-koch-brothers-spending-millions-deny-health-coverage-low-income

To Fix Climate Change, Scientists Turn To Hacking The Earth

http://www.npr.org/2013/10/20/238548240/turning-to-scientists-to-engineer-a-cooler-climate

Nearly half of US public school children are poor

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/19/poor-o19.html

Your Personal Data: Intercepted, Monitored, Recorded, and Disclosed
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/your-personal-data-intercepted-monitored-recorded-and-disclosed_102013

Uncovering the Tea Party's Radical Roots
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/18

Internet Governance Series: Human Rights in the Age of State Surveillance
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/2013/10/08/internet-governance-series-human-rights-in-the-age-of-state-surveillance/

The Police State Wants What the Police State Wants
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36599.htm

Women demand freedom, not surveillance

http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/rahila-gupta-kavita-krishnan/women-demand-freedom-not-surveillance

The Latest Billionaire Ploy to Destroy Social Security
http://www.alternet.org/latest-billionaire-ploy-destroy-social-security

Poll: Majority Says It's A Bad Thing That GOP Controls The House
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/poll-majority-says-it-s-a-bad-thing-that-gop-controls-the-house

Revolt of the Rich
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36575.htm

Documents reveal NSA’s extensive involvement in targeted killing program
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/documents-reveal-nsas-extensive-involvement-in-targeted-killing-program/2013/10/16/29775278-3674-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html

Obama Embraces American Exceptionalism

BBC admits wrongdoing in presenting pro-Israeli commentator as neutral expert

Jonathan Sacerdoti on BBC News discussing the killing of Ahmed Jabri, head of Hamas' military wing

@dustcirclenews - 9 Free DOCUMENTARIES: Top Terrorist State is USA, Seven Sisters' Secret, Cracking the Placebo Code, Free to Learn, Okupacion, Liquid Bomb Plot, Art of Deception, Orthodox Corruption, Who Killed America's Biggest Gadget?

The Video-related content I send out will have a link to the website so you can view the videos, instead of seeing just a list: http://www.dustcircle.com

USA: Top Terrorist State
Renowned American academic Noam Chomsky says the United States would be recognized as a leading terrorist state if international law is applied. This documentary conducts an in-depth interview with Noam Chomsky in which the double standards of the Western states with regard to the issue of nuclear weapons are dealt with in detail.

The Secret of the Seven Sisters
Documentary series that reveals how a secret pact formed a cartel that controls the world’s oil. Throughout the region’s modern history, since the discovery of oil, the Seven Sisters have sought to control the balance of power.

Placebo: Cracking the Code

The placebo effect is a pervasive, albeit misunderstood, phenomenon in medicine. In the UK, over 60% of doctors surveyed said they had prescribed placebos in regular clinical practice. In a recent Times Magazine article, 96% of US physicians surveyed stated that they believe that placebo treatments have real therapeutic effects.

Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education

Like many of today’s radical and democratic schools, The Free School expects children to decide for themselves how to spend their days. The Free School, however, is unique in that it transcends obstacles that prevent similar schools from reaching a economically and racially diverse range of students and operates in the heart of a city.

Okupacion

Squatted social centers are proliferating all across Europe. Ordinary people are occupying empty buildings in urban areas, turning them into free, open and public space.

LIQUID BOMB PLOT

Travelling between the upper ranks of Washington, the dusty streets of Pakistan and the inner cities of Britain, this fast-paced documentary brings together the work of the UK police, MI5, the CIA, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Pakistani officials and others in their efforts to stop the bombers.

THE ART OF DECEPTION

The Art of Deception explains the way the media has become a puppet for certain people. The US government used Kony 2012, or the invisible children, as a puppet to invade Uganda after they discovered huge amounts of untapped oil. This is explained in great detail in the documentary.

Orthodox Corruption
For years under communism the institution had been suppressed, its priests harassed by the authorities, its churches closed or given over to communal secular pursuits, its devotees scorned for their ‘superstitious’ adherence to doctrines that the state and the party regarded with deep suspicion.

WHO KILLED AMERICA’S BIGGEST GADGET?

The hunt for the Higgs boson, god particle or goddamn particle, the one that gives things mass, came closer to an end. Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the world’s largest particle accelerator, found evidence of the particle and its energy field. But the LHC didn’t do it alone.

17.Dec.2012 - Anonymous Vows to Destroy Westboro Baptist Church, and many more articles, videos, views, and a documentary on Satanism

Anonymous vows to ‘destroy’ Westboro Baptist Church over Sandy Hook picket plans

“Your impact and cause is hazardous to the lives of millions and you fail to see the wrong in promoting the deaths of innocent people,” an “Anonymous” video featuring a computerized voice says over ominous music. “You are self-appointed servants of God who rewrite the words of his sacred scripture to adhere to your prejudice. Your hatred supersedes your faith, and you use faith to promote your hatred.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/17/anonymous-vows-to-destroy-westboro-baptist-church-over-sandy-hook-picket-plans/

“Did We Just Kill a Kid?”: Drone Operator Who Killed Afghan Child Can't Sleep After Waging War Miles Away

The German publication Der Spiegel shines light on how drones are having an effect on the soldiers back home controlling them.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/did-we-just-kill-kid-drone-operator-who-killed-afghan-child-cant-sleep-after

5 Lies the Gun Lobby Tells Youmerica's seems to be in for another debate over gun regulation after the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School left 27 (mostly children) dead. So it's worth reviewing five made against regulating gun ownership in the United States:
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/415-gun-control-/15071-5-lies-the-gun-lobby-tells-you

Three Progressive Ways to Reduce Medicare Costs
orporate lobbyists and their allies on Capitol Hill have a terrible new idea: hiking the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67. This would save the federal government about $5.7 billion a year, butcost seniors $11.4 billion over the same period.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/272-39/15070-three-progressive-ways-to-reduce-medicare-costs

Dangerous food additive

Brominated vegetable oil

What happens when citizens can't defend themselves

"Gun Control" in the Soviet Union

Israel lobby boasts of role blocking presentation by Veolia opponents in London’s Hackney Council
No to Veolia Action Group has been campaigning for two years to keep Israeli occupation profiteer Veolia at bay in a multi-billion pound waste management tender in north London. UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk recently lent his support by urging the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) not to award the contracts to Veolia “due to its deep and ongoing complicity with Israeli violations of international law.”
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/israel-lobby-boasts-role-blocking-presentation-veolia-opponents-londons-hackney

Freedom Of The Press Foundation Launches To Support WikiLeaks, Increase Transparency

Increased government scrutiny and criticism from lawmakers prompted several companies, including MasterCard, Visa and PayPal, to stop processing donations to the non-profit organization. WikiLeaks eventually suspended publication due to the “bank blockade.”

http://libertycrier.com/front-page/freedom-of-the-press-foundation-launches-to-support-wikileaks-increase-transparency/

Michigan Right-to-Work: All Money and Influence Can Buy

The Right to Know

In December 2010, WikiLeaks started publishing a selection of leaked U.S. State Department cables through the New York Times, the Guardian, and other traditional media, opening a deep crack in the thickening wall of secrecy that has been forming worldwide around the internal processes of democracy since 9/11. They helped catalyze the "Arab Spring." They struck a blow for the right of citizens everywhere to know what is being done in our names. And they thoroughly freaked out the U.S. Government, sending it into a security spasm of Cold War proportions.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15077-focus-the-right-to-know

10 Girls Dead Following Deadly Blast in Afghanistan

As US mourns 20 children killed in gun massacre amid calls for greater gun control, landmine blast leaves Afghans mourning

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/17

Building a Nonviolent Culture After Newtown

The December 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. that left 28 people dead — including 20 children — has sent shock waves through our society. It penetrated the elaborate defenses that we as individuals and as a culture have erected to live with the internal contradictions of the bargain we have made to both oppose and embrace violence. Occasionally reality exposes and trumps the cognitive dissonance of this uneasy but deeply embedded arrangement.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/17-1

How the US Intelligence Community Came Out of the Shadows

Weren’t those the greatest of days if you were in the American spy game?  Governments went down in Guatemala and Iran thanks to you.  In distant Indonesia, Laos, and Vietnam, what a role you played!  And even that botch-up of an invasion in Cuba was nothing to sneeze at.  In those days, unfortunately, you -- particularly those of you in the CIA -- didn’t get the credit you deserved.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/17-0

Gaza is no Longer Occupied. Really?

The Visible Government
How the U.S. Intelligence Community Came Out of the Shadows
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33356.htm

Counter-terrorism Agency: Every Citizen a Suspect

Regulations recently signed into effect by Attorney General Eric Holder allow the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) to monitor records of citizens for any potential criminal activity, without a warrant and without suspicion.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/13934-counterterrorism-agency-every-citizen-a-suspect

Official Secrets by the Petabytes

As he aggressively seeks the sources of news media leaks of government secrets, President Obama might want to pay close attention to an important and overdue new report that he ordered on classified information from the Public Interest Declassification Board.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/opinion/official-secrets-by-the-petabytes.html

The Price of Our Freedom

re we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?" -- Barack Obama, Newtown Address, December 16, 2012. That sentence, uttered by President Obama in his Newtown Address, may turn out to be a turning point in American history. 
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/416-gun-control-/15076-focus-the-price-of-our-freedom

The Woes of an American Drone Operator
A soldier sets out to graduate at the top of his class. He succeeds, and he becomes a drone pilot working with a special unit of the United States Air Force in New Mexico. He kills dozens of people. But then, one day, he realizes that he can't do it anymore.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33337.htm

"We Can’t Tolerate This Anymore": Obama Vows Action After Worst Grade School Massacre in U.S. History

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Debate: After Newtown, Will Nation’s Worst-Ever Grade School Shooting Spur Tougher Gun Control?

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Occultism, Satanism & Black Magic

08.Dec.2012 - [PROP 8] Gay Marriage Reaches Supreme Court, Tale of Liberty Lost in America, America's Pathological Wealth Distribution, TV That Watches You, US Military Targeting Afghan Children, Air Force in Corrupt Practice, Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza (4 video set), Inequality and Poverty in America, Corporate Push for GMO Food, much more.

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Gay marriage reaches Supreme Court: Justices to review Prop 8., DOMA
The two cases being taken up by the Supreme Court involve a challenge to California’s Prop. 8 ban on gay marriage and a suit from New York City testing the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/1207/Gay-marriage-reaches-Supreme-Court-Justices-to-review-Prop-8.-DOMA

Bradley Manning: A Tale of Liberty Lost in America

The US does nothing to punish those guilty of war crimes or Wall Street fraud, yet demonises the whistleblower

Over the past two and a half years, all of which he has spent in a military prison, much has been said about Bradley Manning, but nothing has been heard from him. That changed on Thursday, when the 23-year-old US army private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks testified at his court martial proceeding about the conditions of his detention.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/01

Five Facts About America's Pathological Wealth Distribution

Most people associate inequality with the income gap. As distorted as the distribution of income may be, our wealth distribution is even more extreme. Americans are beginning to realize that years of preferential tax treatment for the rich, under the guise of "supply-side job creation" nonsense, have bloated the fortunes of the super-rich to a level that would make Rockefeller and Carnegie envious.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/03

TV that watches and listens to YOU

What will they think of next

US Military Facing Fresh Questions Over Targeting of Children in Afghanistan

Outrage grows after senior officer claimed troops in Afghanistan were on the lookout for 'children with potential hostile intent' The US military is facing fresh questions over its targeting policy in Afghanistan after a senior army officer suggested that troops were on the lookout for "children with potential hostile intent".

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/323-95/14918-us-military-facing-fresh-questions-over-targeting-of-children-in-afghanistan

Republicans are Devolving and Trying to Drag Society Back With Them

There is a process of gradual, peaceful development that occurs in nearly all social or economic structures or institutions known as evolution, and as a motion it is incomplete in itself, but when combined with coordinated motions produces a single action over time. Unless a society is isolated from outside influence and new ideas, changing sensibilities eventually contribute to a culture’s evolution over time and has contributed to both good and bad results. 

http://www.politicususa.com/republicans-devolving-drag-society.html

US tightens military noose around Syria

Amid an escalating drumbeat about a supposed threat that Syria's government is preparing to use chemical weapons against its own people, Washington has deployed a naval armada off the country's coast.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/US-tightens-military-noose-by-Bill-van-Auken-121207-783.html

U.S. Air Force in Corrupt Practice

The Governor of Vermont and the Mayor of Burlington have decided to flaunt their corrupt behavior as they engage in a private, lobbyist-paid trip supported by a directly interested party in a charade of investigation designed to bring a nuclear weapons system to Vermont at the expense of the health, welfare, and homes of thousands of Vermonters.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-Air-Force-in-Corrupt-by-William-Boardman-121207-332.html

The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza (4 Videos):

	Journalists targeted in Israeli attack
	This report contains graphic scenes. Viewer discretion is advised.   December 7, 2012

	The Privatization of Israeli War
	Shir Hever: The attack on Gaza was a show piece for "Iron Dome" technology which Israel wants to sell around the world   December 5, 2012

	Rival Factions Hamas and Fatah Say They Will Unite After UN Vote
	After years of bloodshed following an election in Gaza, rivals Hamas and Fatah say they will work together following Israel's assault and UNGA vote   December 4, 2012

	Netanyahu Forms Alliance with Far Right's Lieberman
	Shir Hever: UN Vote and criticism over Gaza attack matter little to Netanyahu who unites with Minister who advocates ethnic cleansing of Palestinian citizens of Israel   December 2, 2012

Inequality And Poverty America style
Irrespective of ones circumstances or stage of life, illness is never welcome, in America if your poor it can prove to be a total catastrophe, ending often in personal bankruptcy. “According to a report published in The American Journal of Medicine, medical bills are a major factor in more than 60% of the personal bankruptcies in the United States“. Health care insurance an unaffordable luxury, for the 15% or 50 million people now living in ‘official’ poverty in America, anxiously relying on good luck and a poor diet to keep sickness at a bay.
http://www.countercurrents.org/peebles081212.htm

Corporate Push For GMO Food Puts Independent Science In Jeopardy
Science is considered science when it is independent, when it has integrity and when it speaks the truth about its search. It was the integrity, independence and sovereignty of science that drew me and propelled me to study physics. Today, independent science is threatened with extinction. While this is true in every field, it is the field of food and agriculture that I am most concerned about.
http://www.countercurrents.org/shiva081212.htm

Full text of the interview with Khalid Mashaal (2010):

"Our priority is to be free"

After escaping an assassination attempt in 1997 and being banned from Jordan in 1999, Khaled Mashal, Hamas leader, made his home in Damascus, where Manuela Paraipan interviewed him last week on Hamas’ approach to the current peace negotiations, his view of Hamas’ strengths, its ongoing commitment to resistance, and the importance of principle in politics.

http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/hamas25-full-text-of-the-interview-with-khalid-mashaal-2010-our-priority-is-to-be-free/

The 6 Economic Facts of Life in America That Allow the Rich to Run off with Our Wealth

Do you ever wonder why it takes the average family 47 years to make as much as a hedge fund honcho makes in one hour?

http://www.alternet.org/economy/6-economic-facts-life-america-allow-rich-run-our-wealth

Five Job-Destroying CEOs Trying to “Fix” the Debt by Slashing Corporate Taxes and Cutting Social Security Benefits

Let's name them and shame them.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/five-job-destroying-ceos-trying-fix-debt-slashing-corporate-taxes-and-cutting-social

When Police Are Encouraged to Abuse, Not Protect

The NYPD's quota system forces officers to crack down on the very people they are supposed to serve and protect.

http://www.alternet.org/when-police-are-encouraged-abuse-not-protect

Grandfather grieves teenage grandson killed by U.S. drone

Israel indiscriminately annihilating Palestinians: Analyst

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown: What Happened to the "We" Society in America?

Saket Soni: Fighting for a Better Future After Sandy

"The Most Obdurate Bully in the Room": U.S. Widely Criticized for Role at Climate Talks

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Climate Change? U.S. Shrugs

FROM TEXAS TO QATAR, U.S. DOES NOTHING TO PROTECT THE PLANET 

 

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Climate-Change--U-S-Shru-by-William-Boardman-121206-846.html

What We Could Accomplish in the USA with Interest-Free, Government-Issued Currency

The federal government has been paying ever more interest on its ever growing indebtedness for more than 200 years.   James Jackson, Congressman from Georgia, predicted in 1790 that this would happen in a speech he made to the First Congress.   Jackson warned that passing Alexander Hamilton's plan to base the country's money supply on the existing federal debt of $75 million would "settle upon our posterity a burden which they can neither bear nor relieve themselves from."   He further predicted that "in the course of a single century it would be multiplied to an extent we dare not think of." 

http://www.opednews.com/articles/What-We-Could-Accomplish-i-by-Richard-Clark-121206-16.html