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Monday, September 16

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: The Social Chasm in America, People Power Helped Prevent a War, NSA and Israel Spying on Each Other, Occupy Movement is Dead, Millions in America Entrenched in Poverty, Economic Inequality Harms Societies, more.


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The social chasm in America
From http://www.flickr.com/photos/11438926@N00/6240099246/: American Exceptionalism, Explainedhttp://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/13/pers-s13.html

America IS Exceptional And That Needs to Be Cured
http://www.opednews.com/articles/America-IS-Exceptional-And-by-Rob-Kall-American-Exceptionalism_Hierarchy_Psychopath-130915-856.html

People Power Helped Prevent a War -- Is a Transformational Moment Upon Us?
http://www.alternet.org/activism/people-power-helped-prevent-war-transformational-moment-upon-us

NSA and Israel: Spying on Americans and Each Otherhttp://www.opednews.com/articles/NSA-and-Israel--Spying-on-by-Larry-Toenjes-AIPAC_Eavesdropping_Federal-Agency-NSA_Google-130914-262.html

What Convinced Obama To Change His Position On NSA Surveillance?http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130911/14401624491/what-convinced-obama-to-change-his-position-nsa-surveillance.shtml

NSA repeatedly ignored court surveillance rules, documents show
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2013/0911/NSA-repeatedly-ignored-court-surveillance-rules-documents-show

NSA feeds raw intelligence data to Israel
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/13/surv-s13.html

Shield Law Moves Forward, Defines Journalism So That It Leaves Out Wikileaks & Random Bloggers
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130912/11583824500/shield-law-moves-forward-defines-journalism-so-that-it-leaves-out-wikileaks-random-bloggers.shtml

Standing against both war and dictatorship
http://socialistworker.org/2013/09/10/standing-against-war-and-dictatorship

iSpy: How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies-on-smartphones-including-the-blackberry-a-921161.html

US Wealthy Have Biggest Piece of Pie Ever Recorded
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/11-6

The Occupy Movement is Dead – Long Live Participatory Democracy!
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/11-7

America's Domination Over The Nations of the World is Coming to an End
http://www.opednews.com/articles/America-s-Domination-Over-by-michael-payne-America-Culture-Of-Violence_Attack_Crisis_Debt-130912-376.html

Holder, former IRS chief taught black churches how to skirt tax code
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/09/09/holder-former-irs-chief-taught-black-churches-how-to-skirt-tax-code-83017

US condemnation of chemical weapons use not applied to Israel
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/14/isra-s14.html

How Millions in America Get Entrenched in Poverty
http://www.alternet.org/books/how-millions-america-get-entrenched-poverty

The Origins of Our Police State
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_origins_of_our_police_state_20130916/

Why Austerity Fails When the Cuts Get Specific
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/report/2013/09/10/73488/why-austerity-fails-when-the-cuts-get-specific/

How Economic Inequality Harms Societies
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.

Sunday, September 1

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: America Discredited, Rules of War, Palestinian Genocide, Facial-Scanning System, Affordable Care Act, Poverty Reduces Brainpower, NSA Email Collection, Israel's Siege of Gaza, Moral Obscenities in Syria, Whistle-blowers Good for Democracy, more.


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America Totally Discredited
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36036.htm

Facebook report reveals governments' requests for user data
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/15325489-facebook-reveals-government-request-for-user-data-in-new-report

Our Democracy?
http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen300813.htm

What Are the Rules of War?
http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/rules-of-war-130830.htm#mkcpgn=emnws1

The Palestinian Genocide By Israel
http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle300813.htm

Facial-scanning system for crowds shows improvement in tests by Homeland Security
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/facial_scanning_system_for_crowds_shows_improvement_in_tests_by_homeland_se/

Is the Affordable Care Act Actually Affordable? For Millennials, Maybe Not
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/affordable-care-act-actually-affordable-millennials-maybe-not

Poverty reduces brainpower 
http://machineslikeus.com/news/poverty-reduces-brainpower

NSA Email Collection Violated 4th Amendment: FISA Court
http://blogs.findlaw.com/decided/2013/08/nsa-email-collection-violated-4th-amendment-fisa-court.html?DCMP=NWL-pro_downloadthis

Why America Cannot Live without Wars
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/29-4

New Snowden revelation details vast US intelligence “black budget”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/31/nsas-a31.html

BBC editor urged colleagues to downplay Israel’s siege of Gaza
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/bbc-editor-urged-colleagues-downplay-israels-siege-gaza

What To Expect During The Next Stage Of Collapse
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36052.htm

Whistle-Blowers Are Good for Democracy
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/daniel_ellsberg_whistle-blowers_are_good_for_democracy_20130829/

Fool Me Twice, Shame on US

"It's shocking to me that in this day and age, after what this world has been through, that there can be any argument that what the United States plans to do is legal. For the United States to go in there, you need two sets of laws to be complied with. One is international law, UN law, and the other is our own domestic Constitution of the United States. Since the Second World War, there's only two ways that you can make war on another nation. One is in self-defense. So if you're being attacked by a missile or a rocket from that country, etc., you can use self-defense against that country to try and stop it. And the second one was under the authority of United Nations, the Security Council."—Michael Ratner

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Sunday, August 11

@dustcirclenews - Free DOCUMENTARIES: Stephen Hawking's Universe, Wikileaks, Battle of the Brains, Climate Shift, Preppers UK, Osama Bin Laden, How Hackers Changed the World, Future Energy, Broken by Battle, Superbrands Secrets, New York Streets, Citizen USA.


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Stephen Hawking’s Universe
Stephen Hawking’s Universe is a 1997 documentary astronomical fact for public service broadcasting with the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. The author of the bestseller A Brief History of Time, here are some of the most astonishing scientific advances in cosmological thought.


WikiLeaks: The Secret Life of a Superpower
It was the biggest information leak in US diplomatic history – over 250,000 US diplomatic messages or “cables” between the US State Department and US embassies all over the world – turned into a global sensation by the website WikiLeaks.


Battle of The Brains
Horizon takes seven people who are some of the highest flyers in their field – a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist, a dramatist, an RAF fighter pilot, a chess grandmaster and a Wall Street trader. Each is put through a series of tests to discover who is the most intelligent?


Shift: Beyond the Numbers of the Climate Crisis
Shift is a journey. In an ever worsening natural world we feel that inaction is not an option. We’re not claiming to be climate scientist or journalist trying to tell a plain story, just a brother and sister out to see what all the fuss is about. We accept, and thus firmly believe, that climate change is real, man caused, and a horribly big mess. Our goals are really two fold, one to educate people about climate change (you know the really scary numbers and facts that can be hard to stomach) and two, to offer solutions that help curb our emissions and make a healthier planet. We want to offer solutions from an individual basis all the way to neighborhood, city, and nationwide solutions as well. It can start with each one of us, but we need to work together to make real change. Shift is beyond shorter showers and efficient light bulbs, its a commitment to making real lifestyle changes


Preppers UK
Preppers UK introduces you to local preppers, each with their own unique fears and personal plans to survive a catastrophe.


The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden
After the United States successfully mounted a covert mission to eliminate America’s number one terrorist target, celebration turned to mounting questions. How did the terrorist mastermind elude capture for nearly a decade, only to be discovered hiding in plain sight just yards away from Pakistan’s most prestigious military academy? Peter Bergen, the famed journalist and author on Islamist terrorism who also produced bin Laden’s first television interview, obtains rare access to interview former CIA agents, Navy SEAL operatives and a Black Hawk pilot who reveal how the U.S. gathered the intelligence needed to pull off the surprise attack. He’ll talk to White House and Pakistani intelligence officials as well as neighbors of the Pakistani compound and eyewitnesses to the raid.


How Hackers Changed the World
Storyville: Documentary that goes inside the complex network and history of Anonymous, the radical online ‘hacktivist‘ collective. Through interviews with current members – some recently returned from prison, others still awaiting trial – as well as writers, academics and major players in various ‘raids’, the film traces the collective’s breathtaking evolution from merry pranksters to a full-blown global movement, one armed with new weapons of civil disobedience for an online world.


Future Energy
The world is subjected to an acute energy crisis in the modern times. Renewable sources of energy are being exploited by the most advanced technological systems to save the planet’s highly diminished traditional energy sources. This year marks the deployment of clean energy resources by industries and governments all across the world, which is sure to put a smile on your face.


Broken by Battle
Over the course of a year, reporter Toby Harnden set out to discover how many soldiers, both former and serving, took their own lives in 2012. He talks to families who have lost their sons and ex-soldiers suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder who are desperately seeking help. 


Secrets of the Superbrands
Alex Riley thinks he’s immune to brands. When it comes to fashion, technology and food brands he just goes for the cheapest and what works for him. He’s convinced he’s not seduced by the advertising, celebrity endorsements and hype which surrounds the big global brands. So how did that pair of Adidas trainers get in his wardrobe? And how did that can of Heinz Baked Beans make it into his shopping trolley? And why does he have a Nokia mobile phone in his pocket rather than any other make? With the help of marketeers, brain scientists and exclusive access to the world of the superbrands Alex sets out to find out why we buy them, trust them, even idolise them.


Streets of New York
Nowhere in America do poverty and wealth exist so closely to one another as in New York City. Even from the darkest corners of Brooklyn, one need only look up and across the East River to see the great temples of Wall Street wealth looming over the night. Since the birth of the city, New York’s poorest residents, whether Irish, Jewish, black, or Puerto Rican, have made their own gold from the streets of the city. Sometimes the elements of crime were needed to harvest this gold.



















Citizen USA: A 50 State Road Trip
Eight years ago Alexandra Pelosi’s husband, Michiel, was just one in millions of immigrants who came to America legally. Since he married her, and she was born in USA, he had no problem getting a green card. He was happy as a resident alien, until his son was born. Suddenly he realized he really had to become an American, so he started down the path to citizenship.

Thursday, August 8

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: 50 Million Hungry Daily, Fast Food Living Wage, Debt-Free College Education, Espionage Act Abuse, Low-Wage America, Right-Wing Media vs. Science, Post-Constitution USA, Failing American Empire, more.


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50 Million Go Hungry Each Day
http://www.alternet.org/food/moyers-50-million-go-hungry-each-day

Creating A Living Wage For Fast Food Workers Would Cost Pennies For Business And Consumers
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/04/creating-a-living-wage-for-fast-food-workers-would-cost-pennies-for-business-and-consumers/

FBI can remotely activate microphones in Android smartphones, source says
http://worldduh.com/2013/08/03/fbi-can-remotely-activate-microphones-in-android-smartphones-source-says/

‘We Are Slowly Dying’: Fast-Food Workers Strike for Wages, Rights and Dignity

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/we_are_slowly_dying_fast-food_workers_strike_for_wages_rights_20130803/

Violence will rise as climate changes, scientists predict
http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2013/08/violence-will-rise-as-climate-changes-scientists-predict.html

A Debt-Free College Education

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/06-8

Obama's Abuse of the Espionage Act is Modern-Day McCarthyism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/06-14

The Surveillance State Is as Strong as Ever
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_surveillance_state_is_as_strong_as_ever_20130804/

5 Ways Right-Wing Media Make Their Fans Fear Science
http://www.alternet.org/5-ways-right-wing-media-make-their-fans-fear-science

5 Ways the War on Terror Has Changed Your Life
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/5-ways-war-terror-impacting-you

Talk About Police States
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35774.htm

Low-wage America
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/07/pers-a07.html

Feds Accused Of Distributing Malware That De-Anonymizes Tor Users
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130805/12263024073/federal-government-distributing-malware-that-de-anonymizes-tor-users.shtml

It's Dangerous For Free Speech When We Confuse Leakers With Spies
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130802/14032124047/its-dangerous-free-speech-when-we-confuse-leakers-with-spies.shtml

Should Businesses Make Money From Poor People?
http://bigthink.com/design-for-good/should-businesses-make-money-from-poor-people

Washington Thinks You Are Stupid
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Washington-Thinks-You-Are-by-Paul-Craig-Roberts-130806-33.html

Welcome To Post-Constitution America
http://www.countercurrents.org/buren070813.htm

Polls Keep Showing That Americans Are Fine with the Surveillance State
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/08/poll-after-poll-shows-americans-are-fine-surveillance-state/68038/

Is the United States a failing empire?
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/15143110-is-the-united-states-a-failing-empire

PRESIDENTIAL PARDON FOR BRADLEY MANNING | JILL STEIN INTERVIEW

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


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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 Montréal 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.

Monday, June 3

@dustcircle - HEADLINES: Drones May Violate International Law, The Monsanto Revolution, Amnesty Int'l Let Bradley Manning Down, America's Education System Coming, Revolution, Preventive Warriors, Russia Warns Obama About Monsanto, Case for the New Radical, more.


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Drones may violate international law


The Monsanto Revolution
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Monsanto-Revolution-by-Timothy-Gatto-130528-623.html

How Amnesty has let down Bradley Manning
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david/how-amnesty-has-let-down-bradley-manning

Signs of the Coming Revolution in America's Education System
http://www.alternet.org/signs-coming-revolution-americas-education-system

US Governmental Authorities Fail to Investigate Themselves Even As They Prosecute Leakers
http://www.opednews.com/articles/US-Governmental-Authoritie-by-Dennie-Williams-130528-155.html

Preventive Warriors: American Military Dominance for the Rest of Time?http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76269

Obama Doesn’t ‘Have Much Patience’ For Climate Change Deniers
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/obama-doesnt-have-much-patience-for-climate-change

Russia Warns Obama: Monsanto
http://topinfopost.com/2013/05/28/russia-warns-obama-monsanto

Get Apocalyptic - The Case for the New Radical
http://www.alternet.org/activism/get-apocalyptic-case-new-radical

The Religion of Self Improvement Grinds On Despite Hard Times for Grads
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/7116/the_religion_of_self_improvement_grinds_on_despite_hard_times_for_grads__

President Obama Uses a Sledgehammer Against Dissent
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/31

We’re Being Watched: How Corporations and Law Enforcement Are Spying on Environmentalists
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/29-3

The war on terror and the fate of US democracy
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/28/pers-m28.html

Monsanto gives up fight for GM plants in Europe
http://www.dw.de/monsanto-gives-up-fight-for-gm-plants-in-europe/a-16851701

The 'We Steal Secrets' Documentary on WikiLeaks Is Incredibly Biased
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/30-10

Religious Islam vs. Political Islam
http://freethoughtblogs.com/crommunist/2013/05/29/religious-islam-vs-political-islam/

Julian Assange's human rights are being violated
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Julian-Assange-s-human-rig-in-General_News-130529-593.html

Chomsky/Pilger demand US Govt be prosecuted for war crimes
http://darkernet.in/chomskypilger-demand-us-govt-be-prosecuted-for-war-crimes-2/

How Popular Resistance Can Defeat Corporate Power
http://www.alternet.org/activism/how-protest-corporate-power

Study Shows That Walmart Is Costing You Billions Of Dollars Per Year In Government Subsidies
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/01/study-shows-that-walmart-is-costing-you-billions-per-year-in-government-subsidies/

Privatization Is America’s Path To Poverty & Indentured Servitude http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/02/privatization-is-americas-path-to-poverty-indentured-servitude-video/

Tuesday, May 28

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Against the FBI, Disinformation Works, Fighting Poverty, Obama vs. Journalism, Urban Dictionary Accurate? Federal Bullies, Military Sex Scandals, Medical Kit Must-Haves, Urban Food Growing, Animosity and Wickedness, Monsanto Protest, Middle East Origins, Half of America in Poverty, Aiding the Enemy, Building a Legal AK-47, more.


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Up Against the FBI
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/05/23/up-against-the-fbi/

Why Disinformation Works
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35064.htm

Focus on fighting poverty, rather than inequality
http://www.canoe.ca/Canoe/Money/News/2013/05/24/20846561.html

President Obama Is 'Troubled' About Chilling Effects His Own Administration Is Causing To Journalism?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml

Urban Dictionary defines slang for some court cases, but is it accurate?
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/urban_dictionary_defines_slang_for_some_court_cases_but_is_it_accurate/

IRS, DOJ, SEC: Three-Letter Abbreviations For ‘Federal Bully’
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/irs-doj-sec-three-letter-abbreviations-federal-bully

Stunned By Military Sex Scandals, Advocates Demand Changes
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/23/186335999/stunned-by-military-sex-scandals-advocates-demand-changes?ft=3&f=1001&sc=nl&cc=nh-20130526

21 Medical Kit Must Haves for treating a gunshot wound when the SHTF
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/21-medical-kit-must-haves-for-treating-a-gunshot-wound-when-the-shtf_052013

Resistance is fertile: Urban food growing
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76268

America 's Time Capsule: How Animosity And Wickedness Degenerates Its Future
http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja260513.htm

Why Gitmo Was Not Closed from the Get-Go
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Gitmo-Was-Not-Closed-f-by-James-Wall-130524-438.html

A Woman’s Agenda for the 21st Century
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/report/2013/05/23/64276/a-womans-agenda-for-the-21st-century/

Two Million People Worldwide Protest Against Monsanto, Mainstream Media Barely Covers It
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/27/did-they-even-notice-mainstream-media-barely-covers-two-million-person-worldwide-protest-against-monsanto/

Obama Admin's Fox News Spying Scandal Is a Dangerous Step Toward Criminalizing Journalism
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/obama-admins-fox-news-spying-scandal-dangerous-step-toward-criminalizing

The origins of the Middle East mess
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-middle-east-1/the-origins-of-the-middle-east-mess.html

The Real Numbers: Half of America in Poverty -- and It's Creeping toward 75%
http://www.alternet.org/economy/real-numbers-half-america-poverty-and-its-creeping-toward-75-0

Aiding the enemy (part 1): the state-sponsored terrorism the US Govt tries to hide
http://darkernet.in/aiding-the-enemy-the-state-sponsored-terrorism-the-us-govt-tries-to-hide/

I Built This AK-47. It’s Legal and Totally Untraceable.

Monday, May 20

@dustcirclenews - DOCUMENTARIES: Nature of Existence, Turlock, Afraid of People, Euthanasia, Milking It, Just a Doctor, Runs on Water, Naked Citizens, China's Dirty Secrets, U.S. Crime and Gun Culture, America's War Games, Great Science Minds, Bridal Slaves, Baby Go Boom! Cholesterol Cover-up, Give Us the Money, Air Force One, Poor Us, Extradition, POW's Betrayed


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The Nature of Existence
For The Nature of Existence, Nygard prepared a questionnaire with 85 weighty philosophical questions, ranging from Why do we exist? and Do we have free will? to Who created God? and Is there a moral yardstick that applies to all cultures?


















Turlock
In February of 2012, the owners of A&L Poultry – a 50,000 hen egg farm – stopped feeding the hens in their care, leaving the birds without food for more than two weeks.


















AFRAID OF PEOPLE
Social anxiety is anxiety (emotional discomfort, fear, apprehension, or worry) about social situations, interactions with others, and being evaluated or scrutinized by other people. The difference between Social Anxiety and normal apprehension of social situations is that social anxiety involves an intense feeling of fear in social situations and especially situations that are unfamiliar or in which you will be watched or evaluated by others. The feeling of fear is so strong that in these types of situations you may be so worried that you feel anxious just thinking about them and will go to great lengths to avoid them.

LICENSE TO KILL – EUTHANASIA
It is illegal in Australia, taboo across Asia, and a political and moral minefield to boot, yet poll after poll shows 80 percent of Australians want voluntary euthanasia introduced.


MILKING IT
Recent years has seen the British dairy industry in trouble, with hundreds of dairy farms going bankrupt every year. Sharcott Pennings farm (a part of Stowell Farm) is a great example of a thriving dairy farm. Proving that when done right, dairy farming can still be a profitable business.

GARY HARTSTEIN – I WAS JUST A DOCTOR
Dr Gary Hartstein, M.D. is the former FIA Medical Delegate for the Formula One World Championship. Gary has been key in developing some of the FIA’s new approaches and policies in terms of medical safety.


IT RUNS ON WATER
It Runs On Water gives viewers a clear message that Free Energy is on the way. Arthur C. Clarke explains how there were four stages in the way scientists react to the development of anything of a revolutionary nature. “Free Energy” was now working its way through these four stages of reaction.

NAKED CITIZENS
Increasing numbers of “terror suspects” are now being arrested on the basis of online and CCTV surveillance data. Authorities claim they act in the public interest, but does this intense surveillance keep us safer?

CHINA’S DIRTY SECRETS
China’s factories provide low cost products such as computers and cars to the rest of the world. But critics claim such economic progress takes a heavy toll, polluting the country’s air, land and rivers.

GUNS, CULTURE AND CRIME IN THE U.S.
For the first time in years, US politicians are discussing serious gun control measures. But millions of people in the country’s inner cities live with the threat of gun violence on a daily basis.

America’s War Games
The United States’ military expenditures today account for about 40 percent of the world total. In 2012, the US spent some $682bn on its military – an amount more than what was spent by the next 13 countries combined.


















SciShow: Great Minds
SciShow delves into the minds of some of humanity’s greatest scientists. 


















BRIDAL SLAVES
In the midst of widespread poverty, fueled by economic inequality and rampant corruption, a new form of slavery – bridal slavery – has flourished in India. Women and young girls are sold for as little as $120 to men who often abuse them.

Culture in Decline: Baby Go Boom!
If you watch the news these days it seems to be a lot to be concerned about. Nuclear, war, terrorism, mass shootings, bombings, corporate fraud, bird flu, bank,failures, unemployment, contamination, gangs, general crime, and depending on your temperament and conditioning perhaps you’ve already armed yourself to the teeth and you’re watching this show from an underground bunkers somewhere, waiting for the end of civilization itself.


















Statin Nation: The Great Cholesterol Cover-Up
We are told that cholesterol is a major cause of heart disease. At least 40 million people are currently taking cholesterol-lowering medications, known as statins, and millions more people are avoiding foods that contain saturated fat and cholesterol.



















GIVE US THE MONEY
From Live Aid to Make Poverty History, celebrities have become activists against poverty. Bob Geldof and Bono have been the most prominent voices advocating on behalf of the poor.


















ON BOARD AIR FORCE ONE
Get the ultimate tour of Air Force One, including the President’s bedroom and restricted areas where top-secret technology is housed. Then meet the presidential pilot and the crew charged with operating this global command center in the sky.


Poor Us: An Animated History
The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis’s film takes us through the changing world of poverty.



















Extradition

Extradition is a film that explores the injustices of the Extradition Act 2003 through the suffering of two individuals and their families. Talha Ahsan and Babar Ahmed held without charge can be extradited according to the European Court of Human Rights. They have been held without charge for over 14 years collectively. The court concluded that “there would be no violation of the applicants’ rights if extradited to stand trial in the United States”. These men have been let down by the British justice system and now face being incarcerated in one of America’s toughest prisons. 


Pure History : Prisoners of War Betrayed

The fate of prisoners of war and missing in action is one of the darkest chapters of the Cold War. Tens of thousands of American soldiers and European survivors were sent to unknown destinations during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. This short documentary examines what happened and why.




Saturday, April 20

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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