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Friday, September 6

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: NSA Misused PRISM, Snowden Receives Whistleblowing Award, Fast-Food Walkouts Spread, Israel-Palestine Negotiations a Farce, Humanist Case Against Syria Intervention, Our New Heroes, U.S. Regime Criminal Insanity, Latin American Allies Furious, DEA Spy Program, Does Science Disprove God? and more.


Tons of good stuff at: http://www.dustcircle.com

NSA misused PRISM   Spied on Al Jazeera, bugged UN headquarters and used for personal spying

NSA misused PRISM - Spied on Al Jazeera, bugged UN headquarters and used for personal spying
http://thehackernews.com/2013/08/nsa-misused-prism-spied-on-al-jazeera.html

We, The Paranoid
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2013/09/we-the-paranoid/

Edward Snowden Receives Whistleblowing Award
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130903/11175824392/edward-snowden-receives-whistleblowing-award.shtml

Grassley Presses The White House For Whistleblowers Protection
Fast-food workers and their supporters rallied outside of McDonald's in the early hours of the morning Thursday in New York City, marking the start of a nationwide day of strikes. (WNV/Peter Rugh)http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/Grassley-Presses-The-White-House-For-Whistleblowers-Protection-222411191.html

With nothing to lose and a living wage to win, fast-food walkouts spread
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/with-nothing-to-lose-and-a-living-wage-to-win-fast-food-walkouts-spread/

Chomsky: Why the Israel-Palestine 'Negotiations' Are a Complete Farce
http://www.alternet.org/world/chomsky-why-israel-palestine-negotiations-are-complete-farce

CYCLE OF INSANITY: A HUMANIST CASE AGAINST INTERVENTION IN SYRIA
http://americanhumanist.org/HNN/details/2013-09-cycle-of-insanity-a-humanist-case-against-interventi

Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange: Our New Heroes
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/03-6

Why we should listen to the world
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/editors-blog/2013/0903/Why-we-should-listen-to-the-world

Criminal Insanity of US Regime
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36082.htm

US Allies in Latin America Furious at NSA 'Espionage' Revelations
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/03-1

The Creepy Spy Program That Lets the Drug Enforcement Administration Look at Your Phone Records
http://www.alternet.org/creepy-spy-program-lets-drug-enforcement-administration-look-your-phone-records

Study: Climate change to significantly increase wildfires by 2050
http://www.fiercehomelandsecurity.com/story/study-climate-change-significantly-increase-wildfires-2050/2013-09-03?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

Should Atheists Be Politically Active?
http://atheism.about.com/od/godlessamericaamericans/a/PoliticsActivis.htm?nl=1

We can't survive on $7.25
http://socialistworker.org/2013/09/03/we-cant-survive-on-725

More Cities Sweeping Homeless Into Less Prominent Areas
http://www.npr.org/2013/09/05/218891324/more-cities-sweeping-homeless-into-less-prominent-areas

Nothing humanitarian about the empire
http://socialistworker.org/2013/09/05/nothing-humanitarian-about-empire

Assange Requests Investigation Into US Actions Against WikiLeaks
http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/stop-for-profit-colleges-from-taking-advantage-of-students?sp_ref=9750472.4.536.o.1.2&source=clickcopy_sp

U.S. Elementary School Homework Teaches Kids ‘Government Is Family’
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/u-s-elementary-school-homework-teaches-kids-government-is-family_092013

Does Science Disprove God?
http://freethoughtblogs.com/amilliongods/2013/09/04/does-science-disprove-god/

KMC » 9am - Sep 5, 2013

Tuesday, July 2

@dustcirclenews - Free DOCUMENTARIES: Debt, Street Politics 101, Consumed, Quantum Revolution, Bully Project, Mega Man, Evacuate Earth, Ireland's Secret Cults, Hungry for Change, Rise of the Superbugs, Discovering Deep Space, Recycling


View the videos at: http://www.dustcircle.com

Debt: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

You may think that money is invented to make exchange easier. You could imagine that at some point in prehistory. A hunter just shot a deer and a farmer has some carrots and they want to exchange but the meat is worth much more than the carrots. They need to invent something to pay each other the difference. In this story, that’s something would be money, be it in the form of shells or lumps of gold or silver or whatever.


















Street Politics 101

In the spring of 2012, a massive student strike in opposition to a tuition hike rocked the streets of the MontrĂ©al for over six months. Protests and militant street actions became part of the daily and nightly reality of this Canadian metropolis. Several times during this tumultuous spring, the numbers in the streets would reach over one hundred thousand. Police routinely clubbed students and their allies, and arrested them by the hundreds.


















Consumed

Consumerism has become the cornerstone of the post-industrial age. Using theories of evolutionary psychology to underpin a bold narrative of our times, this film takes a whirlwind tour through the “weird mental illness of consumerism”, showing how our insatiable appetite has driven us into “the jaws of the beast”.

Quantum Revolution

Professor Michio Kaku, famous Theoretical Physicist and one of the inventors of Light Cone String Field Theory (one of the Relativistic forms of M-Theory), hosts a documentary on the use of the body of scientific knowledge on quantum mechanics that will lead to “The Quantum Revolution”.

The Bully Project

The Bully Project is a documentary film that covers events during the 2009–2010 school year and follows students and their families from Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, Iowa and Oklahoma.

Mega Man

Kim Dotcom claims he wants to protect internet privacy. The United States claims he’s the internet’s biggest pirate. This film meets the man, as the future of the internet and $500m in copyright claims hang in the balance.

Evacuate Earth

Evacuate Earth is a National Geographic Channel documentary that tells the what-if story of the evacuation of the planet Earth which is due to be destroyed by a rogue Neutron Star. The documentary goes into the technical and social complications of building an Ark to save humanity and other Earth life and moving them to a planet in another star system.


Exposed: Ireland’s Secret Cults

Exposed: Ireland’s Secret Cults is a documentary from TV3 that looks into a number of religious ‘cults’ in Ireland like the ‘Palmarians’, ‘The House of Prayer’ and ‘Scientologists’. This film explores who goes to these churches, who runs them, how they get money, and who they target as new ‘recruits’, talking to ex-cult members who have left these churches.


HUNGRY FOR CHANGE IN NEW YORK

Food is at the core of human survival – it can be at the heart of a family’s traditions and the key to a nation’s cultural identity.


RISE OF THE SUPERBUGS

Antibiotics are the wonder drugs of modern medicine. They’ve allowed doctors to save and extend life by killing infection and enabling ground breaking surgery. But imagine a world where antibiotics don’t work – that would be a place dominated by superbugs, bacteria that don’t respond to antibiotics. Scientists say this would end many modern medical procedures and they claim the threat is greater than we realise.


DISCOVERING DEEP SPACE

Around the world, a new generation of astronomers are hunting for the most mysterious objects in the universe. Young stars, black holes, even other forms of life. They have created a dazzling new set of super-telescopes that promise to rewrite the story of the heavens.


RECYCLING: HOW A USED BOTTLE BECOMES A NEW BOTTLE

The rise of curbside recycling programs over the past few decades has meant more glass recycling. But for a long time, many recycling centers didn’t have the technology to turn recycled glass into the raw material for new bottles. Instead, recycled glass often wound up being used as a cheap construction material, or even to cover landfills.

Wednesday, June 12

@dustcirclenews - 22 Free DOCUMENTARIES: Trading into Thin Air, My Brother the Islamist, Money and Life, Craig Venter: Designing Life, This is What Winning Looks Like, Young Kids; Hard Time, Shadows of Liberty, Inside the Klan, Money Lobby, Colour of War, Great Culling: Our Water, America's Medicated Kids, Spy Satellite Hunter, Sex & Death and the Gods, River of Waste: Factory Farms Truths, Codes of Gender, Tomorrow's World, Deportee Purgatory, Rise of the Superbugs, Unveiled and Lifted, Sext Up Kids, This "Illegal" American Life.


If the videos don't show up in the emails, they are viewable at: http://www.dustcircle.com

Trading on Thin Air

Trading on Thin Air explains the methods used by the financial oligarchy in the past to extract the wealth of the nation and shows how the same strategy is being used today to subvert a movement for conservation and sustainability and harness it in order to create the next big bubble.



















My Brother the Islamist

Barking, East London, patriotic crowds gather as a regiment of soldiers from the 1st Battalion of Royal Anglians return home from Afghanistan. The author of the documentary, Robb Leech, is there to see a soldier too.



















Money and Life

Money and Life is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster, but as a tremendous opportunity?



















Craig Venter: Designing life

Some regard him as the most important scientist since Darwin. But he himself is only a little more modest. For the first time now, he can actually design life in a computer, make the DNA software, and create new life forms that have never existed before.



















This Is What Winning Looks Like

This is a disturbing, new documentary about the ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and corruption of the Afghan security forces as well as the reduced role of US Marines due to the troop withdrawal.



















Young Kids, Hard Time

Behind every crime headline there is mountain of tragedy for everyone involved. Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Southwestern Indiana is a vault for these headlines. Twenty one hundred prisoners locked up for everything from rape to murder.


















SHADOWS OF LIBERTY
Shadows of Liberty reveals the phenomenal truth behind the news media: censorship, cover-ups and corporate control. The documentary takes a journey through the darker corridors of the American media landscape, where global conglomerates exercise extraordinary political, social, and economic power.

INSIDE THE KLAN
The KKK has had a surge in popularity, mostly because of the US’s first black president. The Klan claim to have softened, but can an organisation racist to its core really be as benign as they make out?

THE MONEY LOBBY
They say money is the root of all evil. Well, nowhere is this more true than in US politics. The 2012 US presidential and congressional elections were the most expensive in history, costing six billion dollars.

COLOUR OF WAR
Colour of War is a very good documentary about WWII and how it affected life around the world between 1940 and 1945. The entire documentary is a collection of authentic images, all in colour, of which a lot have been previously unreleased. Some images can be quite shocking at times and no doubt leave you with a bitter impression on how horrible war can be. The commentator also reads out a lot of letters or diary fragments from people who lived or died during World War II. Knowing this, you might think that the documentary in a whole would loose coherence but it’s quite the opposite because even though “Colour of War” is mainly a collection of authentic images and letters it felt like everything fitted together very well.

THE GREAT CULLING: OUR WATER
The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. Covertly, insidiously, mercilessly, a global depopulation agenda has been launched. As this plays out, the vast majority of the human race will be removed from the gene pool. Genetically annihilated. Will you and your genetic lineage survive?


America’s Medicated Kids

In America’s Medicated Kids, Louis Theroux travels to one of America’s leading children’s psychiatric treatment centres, in Pennsylvania, to learn and understand what drives parents to put their kids on drugs.

The Man Who Hunts Spy Satellites

Thierry Legault is not your average amateur astronomer, inviting the kids over and pointing a dinky backyard telescope at the Big Dipper. He’s a renowned astrophotographer, painstakingly chronicling the orbits of planets, distant galaxies, spaceships, and—to the chagrin of the intelligence community—of the spy satellites we’re not supposed to see.

Sex, Death And The Gods

This BBC documentary focuses on the Devadasi young Indian girls denied the chance to marry after being ‘dedicated’ to a deity or temple. Many spend the remainder of their lives involved in prostitution despite laws which make the practice illegal.

A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms

A heart-stopping new documentary, A RIVER OF WASTE exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory farm practices as “mini Chernobyls.” In the U.S. and elsewhere, the meat and poultry industry is dominated by dangerous uses of arsenic, antibiotics, growth hormones and by the dumping of massive amounts of sewage in fragile waterways and environments. The film documents the vast catastrophic impact on the environment and public health as well as focuses on the individual lives damaged and destroyed.

The Codes of Gender

The Codes of Gender applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman’s ground-breaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape, showing how one of American popular culture’s most influential forms communicates normative ideas about masculinity and femininity, the relationship between gender and power, and the everyday performance of cultural norms.

Tomorrow’s World

Tomorrow’s World delves in to the world of invention, revealing the people and technologies set to transform all our lives. Liz Bonnin examines the conditions that are promising to make the 21st century a golden age of innovation and meets some of the world’s foremost visionaries, mavericks and dreamers.

Deportee Purgatory

Each year, more than 30 million people flow between the US and Mexico through the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the busiest land-border crossing in the world. Situated between San Diego and Tijuana, at one time the area around San Ysidro was a prime spot to cross illegally into the US. But in 1994, Operation Gatekeeper expanded the border wall and increased the number of checkpoints. With the more recent addition of unmanned drone patrols along the border, Tijuana has become one of the most fortified border points in the Americas. Border crossers have been forced to turn to alternative sites of crossing, such as the Sonoran Desert, where hundreds of people die each year.

Rise of the Superbugs

Antibiotics are the wonder drugs of modern medicine. They’ve allowed doctors to save and extend life by killing infection and enabling ground breaking surgery. But imagine a world where antibiotics don’t work – that would be a place dominated by superbugs, bacteria that don’t respond to antibiotics. Scientists say this would end many modern medical procedures and they claim the threat is greater than we realise. Rampant use of antibiotics coupled with an explosion in global travel has led to superbugs spreading worldwide. Rise of the Superbugs steps into the lab with leading experts on antibiotic resistance, and listen to shocking stories of the health implications. Let’s face up to the horror of antibiotic resistance before it’s too late.

Unveiled and Lifted

In the current anxiety concerning overpopulation, pollution, ecological imbalance, and the potential of disasters of nuclear fusion, it is only seldom recognized that governed nations have become self destroying institutions, paralyzed and bogged in their own complications, and suffocated beneath mountains of paper.

Sext Up Kids

In Sext Up Kids, teens and pre-teens show and tell what they are doing and why they are doing it. Experts reveal startling new research, tracking how the pressure to be sexy is changing teen and sexual behaviour in alarming ways, as “anal becomes the new oral.”

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.

Monday, April 8

@dustcirclenews - Free Documentaries: Land of Whispers, Mars, Needle Exchange, Red Light District, World's Oldest People, Paradise City, Cuban Skateboard Crisis, Crossing Mexico's Other Border, Living with ADHD, Cops Behaving Badly, Britain's Child Beggars, Templar Code, PLUS 6 MORE DOC'S!


It has come to my attention that some of the VIDEO digests don't show some of the videos in the mailings. These are accessible on the website. 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

DPRK: THE LAND OF WHISPERS (NORTH KOREA)


“Land of Whispers” invites you to visit arguably the most unique and isolated travel destination in the world – not to criticize, but to observe and listen. Aside from usual highlights such as Pyongyang or Arirang, this unique one-man documentary brings you to areas such as Chongjin or Wonson, still virtually unknown to even google or wikipedia. There, I attempt to pierce through the ever-present ‘national mythology’ and as much as possible, I try to connect with people – such as the waitress mesmerized by tablet computers, or a tour guide cautiously fascinated by modern pop culture.



MARS: WORLD THAT NEVER WAS


In 1964 the Mariner Four spacecraft flew by Mars and got a good look. What it saw looked more like the Moon than the Earth. Then, in the mid-1970′s, two lander-orbiter robot teams, named Viking, went in for an even closer look. The landers tested the soil for the chemical residues of life. All the evidence from Viking told us: Mars is dead. And extremely harsh.



NEEDLE EXCHANGE – SWAP HEROIN HABITS WITH A PASSION FOR TATTOOS


Needle Exchange tells the story of Spencer and Glenn, two best friends who helped each other swap their heroin habits with a passion for tattoos. Ink is their link, but their bond is tested when a new romantic relationship threatens the friendship.



IDA’S CHOICE – TRYING TO SURVIVE IN RED LIGHT DISTRICT


Ida is a young woman trying to survive in Chow Kit, which is also known as Kuala Lumpur’s red light district.



NEVER SAY DIE – THE SECRET OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST PEOPLE


China’s remote Bama County is home to a significant number of the worlds oldest people but what is the secret of a long and happy life? Today this remains the eternal unanswered question.


WELCOME TO PARADISE CITY
Paradise City shows us an unexposed side of homelessness at a young age, a side that we all should be aware of. We walk & ride past homeless people everyday and wonder how they got there. These questions often lead to our assumptions that they are lazy, trouble makers, or were addicted to drugs. Although this may be true in some cases, we should look at our own reflection and ask ourselves, what addictions do we have? What’s so different in our lives that solidifies our livelihood and luxuries we often take for granted?



THE CUBAN SKATEBOARD CRISIS
A short Documentary filmed in Cuba exploring the problems faced by young Cuban skateboarders due to the trade embargo’s with the US. Produced, Directed & Filmed by Phil Brown.



CROSSING MEXICO’S OTHER BORDER
But we assume that most immigrants trying to cross the US/Mexico border are all Mexican. The reality is that a large percentage of them come from Central America, and their journey north is grueling  For those hoping to get across the US border, they first have to pass through Mexico, an ordeal that often ends up being even more difficult than getting into the United States.



LIVING WITH ADHD
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is one of the most feared and misunderstood of all neurological medical conditions. Despite over 200 scientific papers being published on this neurological condition every year, it remains stigmatized and controversial. Yet some doctors don’t even believe it exists.



COPS BEHAVING BADLY
BBC’s Richard Bilton investigates cops who behave badly, and discovers just how many cases are dealt with by the police themselves behind closed doors.



BRITAIN’S CHILD BEGGARS
Meet Alice. She is a four-year-old child out on London’s Oxford street begging hours on end, day in, day out. Alice is just one of Britain’s Gypsy child beggars, and she can earn hundreds of pounds a day.




Decoding the Past: The Templar Code


For almost 200 years, the Knights Templar was the most powerful group in the medieval world. Today, the group’s legacy showcased  in an array of Hollywood blockbusters and a number of literary works.





3D Printed Guns


http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/3d-printed-guns/


Back From the Edge


http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/back-edge/


Freedom: Are You a Freedom Seeker?


http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/freedom-seeker/


The Tax Free Tour


http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/tax-free-tour/


Undercity: New York City Urban Exploration


http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/undercity-new-york-city-urban-exploration/


“Science” of the Gaps


http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/science-gaps/

Saturday, March 30

@dustcirclenews - 9 DOCUMENTARIES: Wikileaks, John Wayne Gacy, Through the Wormhole, NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity, Growing Up with Gadgets, Fear Anger and Politics, Edible City, Prisoner X, Stigma

WIKILEAKS: THE FORGOTTEN MAN
While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange battles to avoid extradition from the United Kingdom to Sweden, on the other side of the Atlantic Bradley Manning is facing a court martial. If found guilty Manning could spend the rest of his life in prison.

JOHN WAYNE GACY
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17, 1942 May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer. Between 1972 and 1978, the year he was arrested, Gacy raped and murdered at least 33 young men and boys. Although some of his victims’ bodies were found in the Des Plaines River, he buried 26 of them in the small crawl space underneath the basement of his home and three more elsewhere on his property. He became known as Killer Clown because of the popular block parties he would throw for his friends and neighbors, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup as Pogo the Clown.




Through the Wormhole: Is There Really a Parallel Universe?One cosmologist from MIT firmly believes that multiple personas of one person exist. He believes that our cosmic doppelgangers exist in realm that is beyond our reach. He further points out that studies have shown that the universe is massive and has no finite end. This means that at one point in time, there can be a universe besides ours. More disturbingly so, there can be a being that looks exactly like you in that separate universe. This cosmologist has even calculated the number of light years that one should travel to possibly find his or her doppelganger.



NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity’s First Major Discovery
Here are the details of Curiosity’s discovery of ancient conditions in Yellowknife Bay in Mars’ Gale Crater, from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. That’s what the Mars Curiosity turned up in its first major discovery. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon — some of the key chemical ingredients for life — in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater on the Red Planet last month.


Growing Up with Gadgets
Modern technology is often blamed for a wide range of learning problems in today’s children. But are modern gadgets themselves at fault, or is it simply the way they are being used that needs to be addressed?



Fear, Anger and Politics
In this two-part documentary, Al Jazeera follows the stories of some of those caught up in the anti-terrorist crackdown that followed 9/11 as they speak out about the injustices they have endured and their fears of a rising Islamophobia.



















Edible City: Grow the Revolution
Inspirational, down-to-earth and a little bit quirky, Edible City captures the spirit of a movement that’s making real change and doing something truly revolutionary: growing the model for a healthy, sustainable local food system.













Prisoner X
In early 2010 a man was escorted to arguably the most secure prison cell in Israel. The guards taking him there had no idea who he was or what he’d done.
“It is simply a person without a name and without an identity who is placed in complete and absolute isolation from the outside world. There is confidentiality surrounding the detainee in every respect” a prison official stated. 


















Stigma
While some prejudice stems from religious beliefs, much of the stigma is simply passed down from generation to generation. This has allowed a once biblical illness, often referred to as the world’s oldest and most misunderstood disease, to continue to affect hundreds of thousands each year, right up into the twenty-first century – even though this disease is completely curable.


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