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Sunday, September 29

9 Free Documentaries: Inside Smart Weapon Scopes, How Money is Made, Manufacturing Consent, How America Went Postal, Life At Any Price, Hunting the Internet Bullies, The Lord is Not on Trial Today, Contagion, Four Horsemen


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Long Shot: Inside the Scope of Smart Weapons
In spring of 2013, Texas-based start up TrackingPoint Solutions released the first ever precision-guided firearm, which is essentially a long-range, laser-guided robo rifle. Call it the gun of tomorrow: The technology is so advanced we’ve heard it can have beginners killing at extreme distances with single-shot accuracy in mere minutes.The PGF’s closed-loop system is based off jet fighter lock and launch technology, something TrackingPoint CEO Jason Schauble says not only marks the next great paradigm shift in the evolution of firearms—it helps users make ethical kill shots too. But critics of the PGF platform, no doubt part and parcel of a rising tide of intelligent killer apps, say the gun, or rather its proprietary scope, marks the dawn of “skill-free killing”.


How Money Is MadeHow Money is Made details the processes involved in printing money, primarily the US dollar. It also explores the world of counterfeiting and fraud that embodies the monetary world.


Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media
Noam Chomsky’s documentary “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media” from 1988. analyses mass media and the political ramifications and implications of the messages broadcasted in the United States, being its goal to direct public opinion while “numbing” the people and maiming their ability to educate themselves and effectively produce antagonical political criticism and judgement regarding the established officially broadcasted messages crafted by the powerful in conjunction with mass media outlets throughout the US!


Murder By Proxy: How America Went Postal
Murder By Proxy: How America Went Postal is a documentary film that examines the phenomenon of spree killing, particularly in a workplace, that became known in the United States as “going postal”. The film argues that the phenomenon originated in the United States Postal Service as a result of hostile work environment following the Postal Reorganization Act of 1971 and then spread to the rest of society.


Life At Any Price
Two-thirds of the world’s women live in countries where abortion can be obtained for a variety of social, economic or personal reasons. In other nations it is allowed only in cases of rape, foetal abnormality or when a woman’s life is at risk.


Hunting The Internet Bullies: When Social Networking Turns Bad
Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have changed our way of communication. Despite the many advantages that come with this change, there are some serious problems that have occurred  One of them is cyber bullying. Pop star Cher Lloyd is a famous example for a victim of internet bullying. She shares her story and fears with BBC-reporter Declan Lawn.


The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today
The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning documentary that tells the compelling personal story of the late Vashti McCollum, and how her efforts to protect her ten year-old son led to one of the most important and landmark First Amendment cases in U.S. Supreme Court history - the case that established the separation of church and state in public schools.


















ContagionIn India a deadly, mutant strain of tuberculosis is spreading across the country. In the shadows of India's capital, New Delhi, Anjou Kashab quietly battles her demons. Her frail body is being ravaged by tuberculosis. Both her lungs are infected and she's on a cocktail of pills and injections to stay alive. For 10 years Anjou has been fighting the illness, but the drugs haven't worked. She's seen more than a dozen doctors and swallowed thousands of prescription pills in the hope of a cure. Instead of the vibrant, young woman she once was, Anjou is now skin and bone, weighing just 29 kilos.


















Four Horsemen – Revealing the fundamental flaws in the economic system
As the global economy continues to veer from crisis to catastrophe – many more people are looking for wise counsel on how to reshape the Western Economy. Over the last three years 23 global thinkers – many of whom have been marginalized have come together to break their silence and explain how the world really works. Their views transcend mainstream media and short term political explanations to describe simple terms what needs to be addressed in our universities, governments and corporate structures. Ee will not be returning to “business as usual”.

Tuesday, May 14

@dustcirclenews - FREE DOCUMENTARIES: Breaking Inequality, Drone On, Unlimited Power, Silence of the Lambs' True Story, Life is Impossible, Internet Archive, Art of Data Visualization, Chicago Sessions, From Glasgow to Detroit, Hackers World


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BREAKING INEQUALITY: WHY YOU WILL ALWAYS BE POOR
We live in a world where governments can create as much money as they want in order to fund all kinds of wasteful projects, wars, handouts, and banker bailouts. The current system by design has transferred the wealth from average everyday Americans to an elite few who care not about the majority.

DRONE ON: THE FUTURE OF UAV OVER THE US
From military weapons expos in Jordan to idyllic SoCal beaches, we caught up with some of those who are building and selling unmanned aerial vehicles all over the world, and even convinced a few companies to let us take their flying spy robots for a spin.

CAN WE HAVE UNLIMITED POWER?
We are the most power-hungry generation that has ever lived. This film tells the story of how that power has been harnessed – from wind, steam and from inside the atom. In the early years the drive for new sources of power was led by practical men who wanted to make money. 

THE TRUE STORY OF THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Meet the deranged serial killers and the determined FBI agents who inspired one of Hollywood’s most terrifying thrillers and gave Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster the roles of a lifetime. We go behind the scenes at the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit to meet the profilers who became the basis for Harris’s characters and to uncover the details of real-life murderers Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, and others.

LIFE IS IMPOSSIBLE
A look at how life began on Earth, exploring whether it evolved on the ground, in the sea or in space and considering the theory that it may have begun in the molten world below the ocean floor.

INTERNET ARCHIVE
Archive is a documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale.


THE ART OF DATA VISUALIZATION
Humans have a powerful capacity to process visual information, skills that date far back in our evolutionary lineage. And since the advent of science, we have employed intricate visual strategies to communicate data, often utilizing design principles that draw on these basic cognitive skills.


The Chicago Sessions
Widely known philosopher and University of Chicago Law School professor Martha Nussbaum explores the ethical implications of the financial crisis during three sessions with a group of ten talented law and philosophy students. The grounds of the University of Chicago provide a compelling arena, since it is here that both economist Milton Friedman, staunch promoter of free market capitalism, and president Barack Obama, lectured.


















From Glasgow to Detroit
Looking at Detroit, comparing and contrasting its experience with Glasgow, we will look at what has happened to a once prosperous city and see first hand how ordinary people have overcome official antagonism to their needs and created a vibrant system of farming.


















Hackers World: Anonymous Investigation
Anonymous is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.



Sunday, May 12

@dustcirclenews - 10 FREE DOCUMENTARIES: Food Speculator, Collective Evolution, Why Bob Dutko Fails, Terminal Democracy, Darfur Diaries, Greatest Truth Never Told, Bible's Giants, Death's Beliefs and Fears, Eye of the Illuminati, Saudi Style Justice.


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The Food Speculator
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.


















The Collective Evolution
The documentary addresses this need for change through five individual yet interrelated structures society has come to rely upon – finance, education, religion, entertainment/media, and health/food.



















Bob Dutko: Why He Fails
Christian radio talk-show host and apologist Bob Dutko took the time to reply to the first video of the 10-part series, Top Ten (Failed) Proofs for God’s Existence.


















Terminal Democracy
What if people were either so distracted or so disillusioned with the political process that they simply gave up on democracy?



















Darfur Diaries: Message from Home
This film seeks to provide space for the marginalized victims of atrocities to speak and to engage with the world. Amnesty International is using the film to educate its members and the public about the situation in Darfur.


















The Greatest Truth Never Told
The paradigm which we operate under is mathematically going to end. The end of the world as we know it does not mean it is the end of the worldThe way of life we are currently leading is pulling humanity down and should be shown the door. We cannot change the world to make our self happy or free.



















Giants of the Bible
The Bible describes many individuals as giants, and it also mentions several giant people groups. Interpreters have speculated about the size of these people with guesses ranging anywhere from 6 feet to more than 30 feet in height. Also, a great deal of misinformation about biblical giants has been proliferated on the Internet along with some fake pictures of supposed giants. So did these giants really exist?



















Belief and Fear of Death
So, who’s afraid of death? Some of us find the question itself to be distasteful. We don’t even want to think about it. To know would be depressing, and perhaps if it were to be sooner than later, well, that would put a damper on things.


















Eye of the Illuminati
Eye of the Illuminati is an in depth look at the state of the world, and the agenda of secret societies and the ruling class of the developed one world government system.


















Justice: Saudi Style
In Saudi kingdom death sentence is given to murderers, rapists, and drug traffickers. The execution is usually carried out through severing off the heads of the victim with a sword. Pretty gruesome stuff – as you can imagine. This is an acceptable standard in that country.

Sunday, March 31

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Food Stamps Record, United Police States of America, Monsanto Protection Act, Guantanamo Hunger Strikers Denied Water, Anti-Gay Movement Humiliated, Depositors Confiscation Scheme, Corporations Unpatriotic, Global Warming Speeding Up, Afghans Terrorized by US Drones, Trickle-Down Consumption, Walmart's Death Grip, more.


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Record Number of Americans Using Food Stamps: US food stamp use swells to a record 47.8 millionhttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34453.htm

Survey: 48% of US Christians Believe Jesus Is Coming Back in Next 40 Years
http://www.alternet.org/survey-48-us-christians-believe-jesus-coming-back-next-40-years

You Have the Right to Remain Silent: The United Police States of America
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34443.htm

Obama Signature On Monsanto Protection Act Ignites Massive Activism
http://intellihub.com/2013/03/29/obama-signature-on-monsanto-protection-act-ignites-massive-activism/

Obama Signs 'Monsanto Protection Act' Written by Monsanto-sponsored Senator
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34445.htm

Guantanamo Guards Denying Water to Hunger Strikers to Thwart Protest, say Lawyers
http://intellihub.com/2013/03/29/guantanamo-guards-denying-water-to-hunger-strikers-to-thwart-protest-say-lawyers/

Why the Anti-Gay Movement Got Humiliated in the Supreme Court
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/why-anti-gay-movement-got-humiliated-supreme-court

Think Your Money is Safe? Think Again: The Confiscation Scheme Planned for US and UK Depositors
http://www.alternet.org/economy/think-your-money-safe-think-again-confiscation-scheme-planned-us-and-uk-depositors

How Big Corporations Are Unpatriotic
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/28-11

New Research Shows Global Warming Speeding Up
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/28-1

Rare Reporting Reveals Afghan Civilians Terrorized by US Drones
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/28-2

Little-known surveillance tool raises concerns by judges, privacy activists
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/little-known-surveillance-tool-raises-concerns-by-judges-privacy-activists/2013/03/27/8b60e906-9712-11e2-97cd-3d8c1afe4f0f_story.html#

‘Trickle-down consumption’ has created the United States of Inequality
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14303851-trickledown-consumption-has-created-the-united-states-of-inequality

Overturning DOMA could afford federal benefits for same-sex couples

Walmart's Death Grip on Groceries Is Making Life Worse for Millions of People
http://www.alternet.org/food/walmarts-death-grip-groceries-making-life-worse-millions-people-hard-times-usa

Corporations Are Robbing Us Of Our Right to a Fair Trial
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/corporations-are-robbing-us-our-right-fair-trial

Importance of Church/State Separation to Religious Groups in America
http://atheism.about.com/od/Church-State-Survey-Polls/a/Importance-Church-State-Separation-Religious-Groups.htm?nl=1

What Is the "Monsanto Protection Act," and How Did It Sneak Into Law?
http://www.alternet.org/what-monsanto-protection-act-and-how-did-it-sneak-law

New Study Projects Iraq and Afghanistan War Costs Will Total up to $6 Trillion
http://www.alternet.org/new-study-projects-iraq-and-afghanistan-war-costs-will-total-6-trillion

How Brazil, Russia, India and China Are Standing Up to the American Empire
http://www.alternet.org/world/alternative-power-structure-american-empire-keeps-growing-stronger

Israel is an Apartheid State
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Israel-is-an-Apartheid-Sta-by-willy-scanlon-130330-437.html

Get serious about closing Guantanamohttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34451.htm

Israeli Idiocracy
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Israeli-Idiocracy-by-Uri-Avnery-130329-130.html

Domestic Drones And Their Unique Dangers
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Domestic-Drones-And-Their-by-Glenn-Greenwald-130329-584.html

Israel Assassination of Rachel Corrie: @BBC Admits Failings in Reporting
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/israel-assassination-of-rachel-corrie-bbc-admits-failings-in-reporting/

Global Warming Forecasts Proven Accuratehttp://www.countercurrents.org/cc300313B.htm

Tuesday, March 19

@dustcirclenews HEADLINES: Obama's Presidential Failure, CYBERCOM vs. Hacktivists, Internet Cold War, CISPA, Defiled Constitution, NatSec Letters Unconstitutional, CIA Drone Secrecy, Immigration Settlement, Problems with SORNA, Catholic Church Riches, America's Financial Nazism, Orwellian America, Monsanto, America is Losing Religion, more.

The Failure of Barack Obama's Presidency

New CYBERCOM to Wage War on Hacktivists With Offensive Ops and Surveillance
http://occupycorporatism.com/new-cybercom-to-wage-war-on-hacktivists-with-offensive-ops-surveillance/

Are We Ready for an Internet Cold War?
http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/are-we-ready-for-an-internet-cold-war

Why CISPA Could Actually Lead To More Hacking Attacks
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130312/08093422297/why-cispa-could-actually-lead-to-more-hacking-attacks.shtml

6 Ways The US Supreme Court Has Defiled Our Constitution
http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri130313.htm

Praising the Troops for Defending Our “Rights” and “Freedoms”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34306.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A+Obama+to+Israel%3A+%60We+Got+Your+Back%27&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email

Court Says National Security Letters Are Unconstitutional, Bans Them
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130315/14254522342/shocker-court-says-national-security-letters-are-unconstitutional-bans-them.shtml

Mississippi Governor Signs Bill Forcing Public Schools To Give Students Open Forum To Push Religious Views On Others
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/15/mississippi-governor-signs-bill-forcing-public-schools-to-give-students-open-forum-to-push-religious-views-on-others/

Court deals blow to CIA drone secrecy
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/court-deal-blow-to-cia-drone-secrecy-88918.html?hp=l1

Do countries lose religion as they gain wealth?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/03/05/f-religion-economic-growth.html

Judge Approves Landmark Settlement in Immigration Policy Case
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/03/15-2

Third Circuit panel discusses at length all the problems with SORNA
http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2013/03/third-circuit-panel-discusses-at-length-all-the-problems-with-sorna.html

How Rich Is the Catholic Church?
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/03/catholic_church_and_pope_francis_religious_institutions_are_exempted_from.html?wpisrc=newsletter_tis

Nowhere to Run or Hide from America’s 'Financial Nazism'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34324.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A+Paul+Craig+Roberts%3A+When+Truth+Is+Suppressed+Countries+Die&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email

An Orwellian America
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34321.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A+Paul+Craig+Roberts%3A+When+Truth+Is+Suppressed+Countries+Die&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email

Monsanto: Patenting Death
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/15-7

The New York Times defends drone murder
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/11/pers-m11.html

You Wouldn't Believe How Fast Americans Are Losing Their Religion -- But the Fundamentalists Have a Plan
http://www.alternet.org/belief/you-wouldnt-believe-how-fast-americans-are-losing-their-religion-fundamentalists-have-plan

With Inequality Spiraling Out of Control It's Insane to Consider Cutting Social Security
http://www.alternet.org/hard-times-usa/inequality-spiraling-out-control-its-insane-consider-cutting-social-security

Stop Freaking Out About the Debt! 5 Reasons There Is No Debt Crisis
http://www.alternet.org/stop-freaking-out-about-debt-5-reasons-there-no-debt-crisis

The “Dirty War” Pope
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/16/pers-m16.html

Boycotting Israel is the "way to go," says Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters
http://electronicintifada.net/content/boycotting-israel-way-go-says-pink-floyd-legend-roger-waters/12287

Elizabeth Warren Debunks GOP Talking Points on Minimum Wage
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/elizabeth_warren_debunks_gop_talking_points_on_minimum_wage_20130318/

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Saturday, February 23

22.Feb.2013 - DOCUMENTARIES: Fracking Facade, Why Poverty, Kill Him Silently, Gangster Marines, Parking Mad, Hillbilly Country, Educating Black Boys, Victimless Crime Spree, Sandy Hook

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UNEARTHED: THE FRACKING FACADE

WHY POVERTY?

KILL HIM SILENTLY

U.S GANGSTER MARINES

PARKING MAD

ONLY IN AMERICA: HILLBILLY COUNTRY

EDUCATING BLACK BOYS

DERRICK J’S VICTIMLESS CRIME SPREE

SANDY HOOK

Saturday, February 16

16.Feb.2013 - VIDEOS: Dorner Cabin Fire, Corporate-Government Science, Secret Gun History, Droning Defense, SOTU Rhetoric, XL Pipeline Debate, Obama's Kill List, Blacklisting, Social Media Tracking, Pathway to Citizenship, Middle-Class Revival, U.S. Violent Culture, Afghan War Troops, Police's Intentional Fire, more.

Cops Accused of Starting Fire as Charred Body Found in ‘Dorner’ Cabin


Blind faith in corporate-government science

The Secret History of Guns and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s


MSNBC's Droning Defense of Targeted Assassination


SOTU: Do Policy Proposals Live up to Rhetoric on Wages and Climate Change?



Will Feb 17th Protest Stop the XL Pipeline and Shift Climate Debate?


Obama's Kill List and White Paper Memo 



Blacklisting: we identify companies named and those NOT named in Parliamentary inquiry



Obama Sets Proudly Progressive Agenda in State of the Union

Defence develop Software that can track people on Social media

As Obama Touts Pathway to Citizenship, Record Deportations Leave Undocumented Immigrants in Fear


Obama’s SOTU Address Calls for Middle-Class Revival, But Poverty and Inequality Still Get Short Shrift


Beyond Gun Control, Obama Urged to Tackle Joblessness, Incarceration and U.S. "Culture of Violence"


Despite Planned Troop Withdrawal, Special Ops and Private Forces Prepare to Continue Afghan War


An Intentional Fire? Police Use of Incendiary Tear Gas Criticized in Killing of Christopher Dorner

From Dorner to Waco to MOVE Bombing, A Look at Growing Militarization of Domestic Policing

NAACP: New Election Commission Needed to Address Voter Suppression, Attacks on Voting Rights

Friday, February 8

08.Feb.2013 - HEADLINES: U.S. Police State, Drones, Kill List Document, Problem Ballots, Offshore Tax Havens, Bible Violence, Globalizing Torture, Corporation Tax-Dodging, Climate Change, Prison Population Increase, Anonymous Hack, Darwin Day, more.

The Relentless March of the U.S. Police State

Can drone strikes target US citizens? Critics say rules are vague.

'Kill List' Document Outlines When US Can Target Its Own Citizens in Drone Strikes
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/05

American Elections: Lost Votes, Problem Ballots, Long Waits
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/319-67/15897-american-elections-lost-votes-problem-ballots-long-waits

9 States Want To Restrict Use Of Drones Over Concerns About Spying
http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2013/02/05/9-states-want-to-restrict-use-of-drones-over-concerns-about-spying/

Offshore Tax Havens Robbed States of Nearly $40 Billion in 2011
http://www.alternet.org/economy/offshore-tax-havens-robbed-states-nearly-40-billion-2011

First Big Pharma Company Announces Support For Clinical Data Transparency Campaign: Who's Next?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130205/09371921888/first-big-pharma-company-announces-support-clinical-data-transparency-campaign-whos-next.shtml

When the “Good Book” is Bad: Challenging the Bible’s Violent Portrayals of God
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peterenns/2013/02/when-the-good-book-is-bad-challenging-the-bibles-violent-portrayals-of-god/

Globalizing Torture: Report Reveals International Rendition Ring

Meet The 31 Corporations and Banks Who Dodged $128 Billion in US Taxes
http://www.politicususa.com/sanders-report-corporations-tax-dodge.html

What must be done to stop climate change?
http://socialistworker.org/2013/02/08/how-can-we-stop-climate-change

America's Global Torture Network
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/americas-global-torture-n_b_2642899.html

Oscar-nominated films prove Israel is an apartheid state
http://electronicintifada.net/content/oscar-nominated-films-prove-israel-apartheid-state/12168
DARWIN DAY RESOLUTION IN CONGRESS GAINS SEVEN CO-SPONSORS
http://www.americanhumanist.org/HNN/details/2013-02-darwin-day-resolution-in-congress-gains-five-co-spon

US Prison Population Seeing 'Unprecedented Increase'

Obama Targeted Killing Document: If We Do It, It's Not Illegal
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/obama-targeted-killing-white-paper-drone-strikes

Federal Reserve: We Got Hacked by Anonymous
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/federal-reserve-we-got-hacked-anonymous

To Kill an American
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15902-focus-to-kill-an-american

Justice Dept. Argues Appeal of NDAA Ruling
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/07-1

Obama to Give Congress Memo for US Citizens on 'Kill List'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/07

NDAA is back in court
http://www.salon.com/2013/02/06/ndaa_is_back_in_court/

Thursday, February 7

07.Feb.2013 - DOCUMENTARIES: Godless, Shocking Unsolved Crimes, Global Warming, Almighty Dollar, Universe Season 1

GODLESS
This is not the same ‘Godless’ as the documentary made by Staise Gonzalez.  It’s a different piece with the same name.
A couple years ago, a Canadian film crew came to record our Fellowship of Free Thought meeting for a documentary on atheists.  We skipped Skepticon that year to be involved.  I didn’t feel it appropriate or necessary to be interviewed, but my wife did.  Until then, she had never spoken out as an atheist before.  At that time, she was afraid of being recognized by her faculty or students.  We were assured that this movie would only be seen in Canada.  Apparently some copyright condition must have just expired, because on the first day of this year, that video became available on YouTube.

One thing we didn’t know was that the film crew were Christians attempting to present atheism as a religion.  We’ve still never seen this film, only pieces of it.  I thought it was a shame that my wife gave such an eloquent and moving off-the-cuff interview, and almost all of it was edited away.

20 MOST SHOCKING UNSOLVED CRIMES
Some of the biggest unsolved crimes of recent memory are also some of the biggest stories of our time. The fact that no perpetrators were ever found, raises these cases to legendary status. Unsolved Crimes counts down the heists, disappearances, and murders that have captured public fascination for decades. Many of these stories have become the subjects of documentaries, others have become the focus of big budget films. The heists are sensational and the murders are sinister. The culprits may still be out there.
List of Crimes:
#20:(01:16) – Adam Walsh Murder
#19:(06:40) – Jam-Master Jay Murder
#18:(9:45) – Jason Allen and Lindsay Cutshall Murder
#17:(15:00) – Tylenol Poisoning
#16:(19:15) – Bobby Fuller Murder
#15:(22:35) – The Zodiac Killer
#14:(27:27) – Alexander Litvinenko Murder
#13:(31:42) – Vanessa Johnson Murder
#12:(36:06) – Amber Hagerman Murder
#11:(41:25) – Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Robbery
#10:(44:38) – George Allen Smith Murder
#9:(46:29) – Jacqueline Levitz
#8:(49:30) – Madeleine McCann
#7:(54:22) – Anthrax murders of 2001
#6:(58:56) – D.B Cooper
#5:(01:03:13) – Chandra Levy Murder
#4:(01:08:50) – Jimmy Hoffa
#3:(01:13:38) – The Black Dahlia
#2:(1:15:50) – JonBenet Ramsey
#1:(01:22:20) – Natalee Holloway

What You Need to Know About Global Warming

Global Warming is considered to be a serious environmental problem that predicts the incidence of mass migration, human extinction and other catastrophic events in the near future. This documentary aims to shed light on what global warming really is and how it can change the world we know today.
Majority of scientists believe that global warming is indeed real because of various physical evidences. Featured first were the ice fields of Patagonia, which is the largest expansive ice outside of Antartica. Glaciologists studying this area for decades narrate how most of the ice has melted since their last visit. In the last seven years, they have noted a 10% decrease in the mass of these ice formations. The same thing was also observed in Montana, United States and Alaska. Glaciers which have resided these areas for thousands of years have rapidly melted. Records show that of the 21 hottest years recorded in the history, 20 of them have occurred after 1980.
Climate has changed throughout the history for natural reasons. What experts fear is that a climate change in our lifetime will possibly be hundred times worst. Know more about the scientific evidences of global warming in the documentary.

THE MONEY FIX: THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR
Money is at the intersection of nearly every aspect of modern life. Most of us take the monetary system for granted, but it has a profound and largely misunderstood influence on our lives. The Money Fix is a feature-length documentary exploring our society’s relationship with the almighty dollar.



THE UNIVERSE: SEASON 1

The sky and outer space have fascinated man for centuries and the History Channel’s series The Universe is the story of man’s study of the cosmos from his earliest attempts to map and understand the heavens through modern day scientific studies, advances, and theories.
A mix of historical footage, modern space imaging, and conceptual computer graphics presented in high-definition, the visual component of this production is absolutely breathtaking. Each of the 14 44-minute episodes begins with a general introduction of subjects ranging from the sun to individual planets, alien galaxies, the search for extra-terrestrial life, and scientific theories like the Big Bang.
Each topic is then broken down into a series of segments that detail specific ideas, theories, or components integral to the understanding of the main topic as well as historical material, current studies and theories, and projections of potential future events and scientific advances.
1. Secrets of the Sun. How the sun was formed and how it could potentially die; its physical composition; how it makes energy; and the nature of solar eclipses, solar flares and sunspot activity.
2. Mars: The Red Planet. The planet most similar to Earth in our solar system; an examination of Olympus Mons the largest volcano in the solar system; how NASA probes search for evidence of past life on the red planet, and what that life might have looked like.
3. End of the Earth. The end of the world scenarios involving killer asteroid or comet impact events, solar flare and gamma-ray bursts, and the plans that scientists have to potentially save the Earth from an interstellar disaster.
4. Jupiter: The Giant Planet. The solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter; its formation and composition and its mini-solar system of over 60 moons – some of which may have the potential to support extraterrestrial life.
5. The Moon. The formation of the Moon; how it played a role in the evolution of life on Earth; and the future plans of NASA to establish a permanent base on the surface.
6. Spaceship Earth. The planet Earth; how it was born out of a chaotic shooting gallery during the formation of the solar system; how life could have began here; and what could ultimately cause its destruction.
7. Mercury and Venus: The Inner Planets. The two most hostile planets in the solar system – Mercury and Venus; one gouged with craters, the other a greenhouse cauldron of toxic gases and acid rain; both scorched by their close proximity to the sun. Scientists theorize about what sort of life could evolve on these alien worlds.
8. Saturn: Lord of the Rings. The planet Saturn and its fascinating rings; how they may have been created; how the latest probes have answered questions and revealed new mysteries about the planet, and how Saturn’s moon Titan may hold more resources of petroleum than Earth will ever need.
9. Alien Galaxies. The space through the amazing images of the Hubble Space Telescope; and a look at the formation of our galaxy and how it is just one of hundreds of billions in the universe.
10. Life and Death of a Star. How gravity causes hydrogen gas to coalesce under friction and pressure to ignite in a flash of nuclear fusion, the energy and glow lasting billions of years, and then the ultimate demise in the largest and most colorful explosions in the cosmos.
11. The Outer Planets. the solar system’s most distant worlds – Uranus, a gas giant with the most extreme axial tilt of any known planet and its wildly orbiting moon Triton; its near-twin Neptune and its moons; and finally, distant Pluto which orbits the sun every 248 years.
12. Most Dangerous Places. The most dangerous objects known in space – all consuming black holes, deadly gamma-ray bursts, powerful magnetars, and galactic collisions.
13. Search for E.T. Possible extraterrestrial life in the universe; the mission of organizations like SETI to find it, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life existing right in our own solar system on the moons of Europa and Titan.
14. Beyond the Big Bang. Back in time billions and billions of years to the origin of the Big Bang. Leading physicists and historians theorize what happened before the bang occurred, how the physical nature of the universe unfolded as energy became matter forming stars and galaxies, and how the universe continues to expand outward at an ever-accelerating rate.









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