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Friday, April 12

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: WikiLeaks Strikes Again, Monsanto Targets Democracy, Hijacked Human Rights, 300,000 American "Terrorists," Margaret Thatcher's Dark Side, Science vs. Conservatism, New Guantanamo Construction, Farmers vs. Monsanto, Cyber Attack on Israel, War on Whistleblowers, Who Drones Kill, Grocery Store Blacklist, 2014 Presidential Budget, Socialists' Elections, Minimum Wage Increase, Zionist Lunacy, 5 Corporate Tax Breaks, IRS Investigators, Atheist Discrimination, School Surveillance State, Animal Abuse Activist Undercover, more.

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WikiLeaks Strikes Again: Website Publishes 1.7 Million Documents on U.S. Foreign Policy

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/wikileaks-strikes-again-website-publishes-17-million-documents-us-foreign-policy

Wednesday, March 27

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize, Drone Warfare, Sweatshop Clothes, American Inequality, Cultural Assumptions, Intelligent Design Dishonesty, Economic Inequality Permanent, Brutal Reality of Israeli Occupation, Iraqi Birth Defects, Militant Atheism, Christian Privilege, Secrecy Corrodes Democracy, more.

Bradley Manning's Nobel Peace Prize
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Bradley-Manning-s-Nobel-Pe-by-David-Swanson-130325-607.html

Drone Warfare Is Neither Cheap, Nor Surgical, Nor Decisive
http://www.alternet.org/world/drone-warfare-neither-cheap-nor-surgical-nor-decisive

Are Your Clothes Made in a Sweatshop?
http://www.alternet.org/are-your-clothes-made-sweatshop

Five Ugly Extremes of Inequality in America-- The Contrasts Will Drop Your Chin to the Floor
http://www.alternet.org/economy/five-ugly-extremes-inequality-america-contrasts-will-drop-your-chin-floor

Viewing History Skeptically: On Shifting Cultural Assumptions and Attitudes
http://freethoughtblogs.com/brutereason/2013/03/23/viewing-history-skeptically-on-shifting-cultural-assumptions-and-attitudes/

Dishonesty of intelligent design “research”
http://openparachute.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/dishonesty-of-inteligent-design-research/

Bye, Bye American Dream! U.S. Economic Inequality Is Permanent, Study Finds

http://www.alternet.org/economy/bye-bye-american-dream-us-economic-inequality-permanent-study-finds

Obama Ignores the Ugly, Brutal Reality of Occupation and Colonization on His Israel Trip
http://www.alternet.org/world/obama-ignores-ugly-brutal-reality-occupation-and-colonization-his-israel-trip

Iraqi Birth Defects Worse than Hiroshima
http://intellihub.com/2013/03/23/iraqi-birth-defects-worse-than-hiroshima-graphic/

Indicators of War, Not Peace, in Obama’s Visit

http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/indicators-of-war-not-peace-in-obamas-visit/

Has militant atheism become a religion?
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Has-militant-atheism-becom-in-Life_Arts-130325-479.html

Christianism, Christian Privilege, Christian Supremacy: Christianism in America
http://atheism.about.com/od/christianismnationalism/p/Christianism.htm?nl=1

How Secrecy Corrodes Democracy
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/02/06/how-secrecy-corrodes-democracy/

America Split in Two: Five Ugly Extremes of Inequality
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/25-3

Police drones? No thanks say local authorities
http://www.scnow.com/news/local/article_b599e3e4-9415-11e2-a5f0-0019bb30f31a.html

Guantanamo Exposes Reality of US Fascism

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34425.htm

Wednesday, February 13

13.Feb.2013 - HEADLINES: Empire of Panic, Torture Network, Breaking Up Banks, Aaron Swartz, Gun Fetish, NDAA Fight, Postal Service, GMOs Battle, Capitalism Disease, Food Scarcity, Targeted Killing, more

DONATE TO THE DISSENTING HERETIC (Any Amount Helps)

FBI 'Stops' Yet Another Of Its Own Terrorist Threats

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130208/12264121921/fbi-stops-yet-another-its-own-terrorist-threats.shtml

Empire Of Panic And Ephemera: Applying Rigorous Imagination To America's Paranoid Style
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33888.htm

America’s Global Torture Network

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-72/15938-americas-global-torture-network

Obama Gives Himself Permission To Kill
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/obama-gives-himself-permission-to-kill_022013

Time to Break Up the Big Banks
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/15945-focus-time-to-break-up-the-big-banks

The Life and Afterlife of Aaron Swartz
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/298-185/15946-focus-the-life-and-afterlife-of-aaron-swartz

US Officials Confess To Targeting Iran’s Civilian Population
http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb090213.htm

Beyond Control: America's Unrivaled Fetish For Guns
http://www.countercurrents.org/smith090213.htm

Manning/Assange/Hammond/Brown: Is combined legal offensive the next step?
http://darkernet.in/manningassangehammondbrown-is-combined-legal-offensive-the-next-step/

NDAA - Fighting for Everything that Defines America
http://www.opednews.com/articles/NDAA--Fighting-for-Everyt-by-Marianne-Hoynes-130208-184.html

The US drone assassination program and the threat of dictatorship
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/02/09/pers-f09.html

Congress - Not Email - Destroyed the Postal Service
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15941-congress-not-email-destroyed-the-postal-service

States Take On GMOs in Battle Over Labeling
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/08-2

US Media Yet Again Conceals Newsworthy Government Secrets
http://www.opednews.com/articles/US-Media-Yet-Again-Conceal-by-Glenn-Greenwald-130208-318.html

Humanity’s Economic Disease: Capitalism
http://www.countercurrents.org/scott080213.htm

The police state implications of Obama's assassination program
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/02/07/pers-f07.html

America Is Far from #1
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/america-far-1

Busting the Myth That Christians Are More Generous Than Non-Believers
http://www.alternet.org/belief/busting-myth-christians-are-more-generous-non-believers

New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civilizations

http://www.countercurrents.org/brown080213.htm

Why Americans Pay So Much for Health Care: Friends in High Places (Just Not Your Friends)
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Americans-Pay-So-Much-by-Wendell-Potter-130207-998.html

Why Immigration Reform Won’t Increase Government Spending
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/02/06/1549801/why-immigration-reform-wont-increase-government-spending/

Targeted Killing and Drone Warfare
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/targeted-killing-and-drone-warfare

What is Freedom From Religion?
http://atheism.about.com/od/churchstate/a/FreedomFrom.htm?nl=1

The Veil of Secrecy is Lifting on Drones. Here's What You Need to Know
http://bigthink.com/think-tank/the-war-on-drones

What It's Going to Take to Claw Back Middle Class Wealth from the 1%
http://www.alternet.org/economy/what-its-going-take-claw-back-middle-class-wealth-1

The Real Debate Over American Citizenship
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15906-the-real-debate-over-american-citizenship

Big Coal's Big Problems
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/15948-big-coals-big-problems

Being American Is Bad for Your Health
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/being-american-bad-your-health

Conservative Folly: How the Right's War on Renewable Energy Could Doom Red States
http://www.alternet.org/environment/conservative-folly-how-rights-war-renewable-energy-could-doom-red-states

Homeland Security: Not Searching Your Laptop Doesn't Benefit Your Civil Liberties, So We Can Do It
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130208/17415621927/homeland-security-not-searching-your-laptop-doesnt-benefit-your-civil-liberties-so-we-can-do-it.shtml

Defying surveillance, Gaza farmers demand boycott of Israel
http://electronicintifada.net/content/defying-surveillance-gaza-farmers-demand-boycott-israel/12185

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.

Friday, October 26

26.Oct.2012 - Misinformation Election Campaigns, Democracy Bought by Billionaires, California's Proposition 37, CEO Tax Dodgers, WikiLeaks Reveals Human Rights Abuses, CIA is a Criminal Organization, Populations Problem, NSA Snooping, Atheists Perform Weddings, Republican Rape Platform, Illegal to Resell Stuff?

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As Election Day Closes In, Voters Bombarded by Misinformation Campaigns

Voter intimidation and misinformation efforts are in full force this election season.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/25-9

What’s At Stake When Billionaires Try to Buy Our Democracy

The shameless spectacle of billionaires drowning the airwaves should not numb us to the consequences of what is at stake if the super rich succeed in buying our elections.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/25

America's Failed Formula for Worldwide War

How the Empire Changed Its Face, But Not Its Nature

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/25-4

Prop 37: California's Fight for GM Labeling Should Matter to All of US

If California were a country, with its population approaching 40 million, it would be among the 30 most populous nations on Earth. The economic, political and cultural impacts of California on the rest of the United States are huge. That is why citizen ballot initiatives in California—and any state law, for that matter—can carry such significance. Of the 11 initiatives before the 2012 California electorate, one drawing perhaps the most attention is Proposition 37, on the labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Whether or not this ballot passes could have a significant impact on how our food system is organized, favoring small, local organic-food producers (if it passes), or allowing for the increased expansion of large, corporate agribusiness (if it fails).

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/25-5

Bernie Sanders Calls Out CEO Tax Dodgers over Deficit, Hypocrisy

Senator Bernie Sanders called out a group of the top US CEOs Thursday in a new reportrevealing top corporate tax dodgers in the US and urged those dodgers to 'look in the mirror' for the causes of America's ballooning deficit. The report followed a joint statement issued Thursday morning by the top 80 US CEOs, pleading to Congress for a deficit reduction plan that would include cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and a decrease in taxes "for the top 2%."

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/25-10

WikiLeaks Reveals 'Systematized Human Rights Abuses' at US Detention Facilities

Whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks released a new series of secret files from the US government Wednesday pertaining to treatment of foreign prisoners at military prisons such as Guantánamo Bay, including guidelines for military officials that reveal vast institutionalized human rights abuses.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/25-2

Proposing A Vision Of A New Earth

The following article is based on a presentation by Share The World’s Resources for the World Public Forum ‘Dialogue of Civilisations’ 10th Anniversary Conference, Rhodes, October 2012

http://www.countercurrents.org/makwana251012.htm

CIA Is The Foremost Criminal Organization In The World: Sherwood Ross

American journalist and political commentator Sherwood Ross believes that CIA is the world's foremost criminal organization and that the anti-Iranian sanctions of the United States and its European allies are contrary to the principles of human rights.

http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari251012.htm

The Populations Problem

The population problem should be considered from the point of view of all populations — populations of both humans and their artifacts (cars, houses, livestock, cell phones, etc.) — in short, populations of all “dissipative structures” engendered, bred, or built by humans.

http://www.countercurrents.org/daly251012.htm

Revolution: Just Do It

“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem." - G.K. Chesterton

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz251012.htm

Operation Get Rid of the Vote
From members of both parties, as well as the media that cover them, it's a constant refrain that America is the "world's greatest democracy"--where citizens from every corner of society determine how their country is governed with their votes.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/10/25/operation-get-rid-of-the-vote

SCOTUS must be last bulwark against NSA snooping

Later this month, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could define the government’s ability to monitor innocent Americans’ international communications without a warrant. The lawsuit, Amnesty International v. Clapper, argues that the Constitution bars the National Security Agency from listening to or reading Americans’ international conversations and emails without court oversight, even if Congress blesses the NSA’s actions.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82766.html#.UIgd9kSg1vQ

Exclusive: E-voting puts vote accuracy at risk in four key states

In four battleground states – Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida, and Colorado – glitches in electronic-voting machines could produce erroneous tallies that would be difficult to detect and potentially impossible to correct, a Monitor analysis finds.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/2012/1025/Exclusive-E-voting-puts-vote-accuracy-at-risk-in-four-key-states

Atheist Group Argues In Court For Right To Perform Weddings

The ACLU says Indiana's marriage laws are unconstitutional because they do not allow non-religious organizations to marry people.

http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/atheist-group-argues-court-perform-marriages-38549/

Romney's Momentum Seems to Have Stopped

Mitt Romney only gained ground in one of eight national polls taken on Wednesday. (photo: Jim Young/Reuters)

he term "momentum" is used very often in political coverage - but reporters and analysts seldom pause to consider what it means.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/14179-focus-romneys-momentum-seems-to-have-stopped

The Real Republican Rape Platform

The latest Republican rape commentary comes from Romney-endorsed Indiana senatorial candidate Richard Mourdock

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/273-40/14177-focus-the-real-republican-rape-platform

Will SCOTUS Make It Illegal to Resell Your Stuff?

The Supreme Court will hear the case below on Monday October 29th. For more information see ACT NOW: DON'T LET BIG BUSINESS STEAL OUR RIGHT TO RESELL WHAT WE OWN!http://www.youvebeenowned.org/#alarm

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/320-80/14172-will-scotus-make-it-illegal-to-resell-your-stuff

Debt Collection Agencies to Come Under Federal Supervision

Debt collection agencies will soon be monitored by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (photo: Tucson Citizen)

Starting in January, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will oversee large debt collection agencies and work to prevent the use of aggressive tactics against Americans struggling to pay off loans and other monies they owe. About 30 million Americans are currently being pursued by debt collectors, with the average amount coming in at $1,500.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/14180-debt-collection-agencies-to-come-under-federal-supervision

Brazil's evangelical churches rewrite the rules of politics

The Catholic nation's evangelical Christians are gaining influence — and using it to sway elections. The trend has others uneasy over the blatant mixing of church and state.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/21/world/la-fg-brazil-evangelicals-20121022

Church Appeal on Israel Angers Jewish Groups

A letter signed by 15 leaders of Christian churches that calls for Congress to reconsider giving aid to Israel because of accusations of human rights violations has outraged Jewish leaders and threatened to derail longstanding efforts to build interfaith relations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/us/church-appeal-on-israel-angers-jewish-groups.html

Bush All Over Again: Mitt Romney Is Trojan Horse for the Neocons

Despite the bloody and costly catastrophe in Iraq, the neocons' warmongering dream is still alive -- and Romney shares their illusions.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/bush-all-over-again-mitt-romney-trojan-horse-neocons

Russia to block any UN bid for military action against Iran

Ultra-Orthodox Jews shout at a policeman during a protest against the opening of a road on the Sabbath (Reuters)

Russia will scuttle any UN Security Council resolution that could be interpreted as allowing military action against Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday, October 23, according to RIA Novosti.

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/128989/

Israeli Jews Support Apartheid Regime, Survey Reveals

A survey commissioned by a US-based non-profit organisation has claimed that the majority of Jews in Israel supports an apartheid regime if Israel annexes the West Bank.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/397236/20121023/israeli-jews-support-apartheid-regime-survey-reveals.htm

American election, Egyptian perspectives

Where the world sees two radically opposed candidates, the Egyptian street sees two sides of the same coin.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/karim-malak/american-election-egyptian-perspectives

Law Enforcement Looking To Create A Searchable Database Of Everywhere Your Vehicle Has Been

Back in August, Mike wrote about some questionable sharing of license plate information between the US Border Patrol and various insurance companies. While the stated aim of tracking stolen vehicles might seem to make this sharing justified, the fact that this is going on with no oversight or accountability is cause for alarm.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121022/17343820794/law-enforcement-looking-to-create-searchable-database-everywhere-your-vehicle-has-been.shtml

Economist's Defense Of Perpetual Copyright: It's Best To Just Ignore The Economics

Jerry Brito recently had Liebowitz join him on the Surprisingly Free podcast to discuss a paper Liebowitz wrote entitled Is Efficient Copyright a Reasonable Goal? Liebowitz, if you're unfamiliar with him, has become the MPAA/RIAA's favorite economist over the last few years, and they tend to trot him out in various debates over file sharing. He also seems to have what feels like a personal vendetta against economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Koleman Strumpf, who have repeatedly shown how weaker copyrights have benefited society.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121017/18045220739/economists-defense-perpetual-copyright-its-best-to-just-ignore-economics.shtml

Wikileaks begins release of confidential US 'detainee policies'

The controversial intelligence-leaking website Wikileaks [website; JURIST news archive] on Thursday began releasing [press release] a series of confidential US detainee policies [Wikileaks page], according to the website. The site said that it will release "more than 100 classified or otherwise restricted files from the United States Department of Defense" over the next month. Wikileaks said that many of the documents that will be released exemplify US "policies of unaccountability." One of the first documents to be released is the standard operating procedure (SOP) manual for Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder].

http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/10/wikileaks-begins-release-of-confidential-us-detainee-policies.php

Why Don't the Democrats Go After Non-Religious Voters?

Soul-searching by the Democratic Party led some of its leaders to a natural conclusion: the future of the party lay in the hands of church-going voters, and the party had better win them back. They were wrong.

http://www.alternet.org/why-dont-democrats-go-after-non-religious-voters