@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Government's Intrusion, Eric Snowden, Israel's Chemical use, DHS Oversight Consequences, FBI's Post-9/11 Abuses, Low Median Family Income, American Exceptionalism, Alternative to Banks, Total American Surveillance, Christian Right vs. Godless Liberalism, Federal Funding Bill Passed, For-Profit Colleges, Syria is About Gas and Oil, more.

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Nowhere to Hide: The Government's Massive Intrusion Into Our Lives
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/nowhere-hide-governments-massive-intrusion-our-lives

NSA leaker Eric Snowden nominated for EU prize
http://www.mynews4.com/news/story/NSA-leaker-Eric-Snowden-nominated-for-EU-prize/7d1QywXWj0ivY28pbfKvxQ.cspx

Israel's History Of Chemical Weapons Use

http://www.countercurrents.org/akleh170913.htm

Fractured DHS congressional oversight has real world consequences, says report
http://www.fiercehomelandsecurity.com/story/fractured-dhs-congressional-oversight-has-real-world-consequences-says-repo/2013-09-16?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

'Unleashed and Unaccountable': FBI's Post-9/11 Abuse of Power
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/17-7

For-Profit Corporation Is Not A Person With Ability To Exercise Religious Freedom Rights, Federal Court Says
https://www.au.org/media/press-releases/for-profit-corporation-is-not-a-person-with-ability-to-exercise-religious

Median Family Income Is Lower Today Than in 1989
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/18/median_family_income_since_1989_is_the_stagnation_real.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content

Why American Exceptionalism Is a Dangerous Sham
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/why-american-exceptionalism-dangerous-sham

The Perfect Alternative to Wall Street Banks
http://admin.alternet.org/economy/perfect-alternative-wall-street-banks

We Live Under a Total Surveillance State in America -- Can We Prevent It from Evolving into a Full-Blown Police State?
http://admin.alternet.org/activism/we-live-under-total-surveillance-state-america-can-we-prevent-it-evolving-full-blown-police

Christian Right v Godless Liberalism: Why Do Christians Attack Godless Liberals?

http://atheism.about.com/od/godlessamericaamericans/p/GodlessRight.htm?nl=1

US House passes federal funding bill proposing to defund Affordable Care Act
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/09/us-house-passes-federal-funding-bill-proposing-to-defund-affordable-care-act.php

How For-Profit Colleges Stay In Business Despite Terrible Track Record

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/for-profit-college-accreditation_n_3937079.html

The Proxy 'Civil War' In Syria Is About Gas, Oil And Pipelines
http://www.countercurrents.org/venturini240913.pdf

Will Obama the Bomber protect Israel’s WMD?
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/will-obama-the-bomber-protect-israels-wmd/

10 Ways Religious Groups Suck on the Public Purse

http://www.alternet.org/belief/holy-freeloading-10-ways-religious-groups-suck-public-purse

DOJ Puts Another Leaker In Jail: The War On Whistleblowers Rolls On
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130923/16454624627/doj-puts-another-leaker-jail-war-whistleblowers-rolls.shtml

Israel’s killing of five young Palestinians exposes "peace" talks as charade
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-killing-five-young-palestinians-exposes-peace-talks-charade/12797

Clicking ‘like’ is protected by First Amendment, 4th Circuit says
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/clicking_like_is_protected_by_first_amendment_in_case_of_sheriffs_employee_/

NSA Stories Around The World
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36322.htm

NSA Apologist Says The NSA's Actions Are Fine Because 'Privacy Is Dead'
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130916/17520324540/nsa-apologist-says-nsas-actions-are-fine-because-privacy-is-dead.shtml

World Citizen Asks United Nations to Disarm America: “The World Cannot Stand Idly By”
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/world-citizen-asks-united-nations-to-disarm-america-the-world-cannot-stand-idly-by_092013

Atheism will be ‘the new gay marriage’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/24/bill-maher-atheism-will-be-the-new-gay-marriage/

Zionist Apartheid: A Crime Against Humanity
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36331.htm

The NSA Isn’t the Only Government Agency Destroying Your Right to Privacy
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/nsa-government-right-to-privacy

Michael Mann: Global Warming: An Uncontrolled Experiment

In recognition of climate week, Thom talks with renowned climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann about the dangers of global warming. Dr. Mann in concerned we may be running out of time to rein in global temperatures.

@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.

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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.

@dustcirclenews - 16 FREE DOCUMENTARIES: The CIA and the Nazis, Within Gaza, Global Non-Compliance, Wearable Technology, Addicted to Pleasure, Panopticon, Hajj to Mecca, America's War Games, Art of Deception, CIA Secret Experiments, 9/11 - 10 Years Later, Hy.Poth.E.Sis, Syria - The Reckoning, CIA Hidden Operations, Pies Who Fooled the World, Punch Drunk

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Operation Paperclip: The CIA and the Nazis
Operation Paperclip was the code name under which the U.S. intelligence and military services extricated scientists from Germany, during and after the final stages of World War II. The project was originally called Operation Overcast, and is sometimes also known as Project Paperclip.

Within Gaza: Life in Palestine

Press TV’s documentary program series “Within Gaza” looks into the horrific humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip after recurrent Israeli offensives.


Fight The New World Order w/Global Non-Compliance
“Understand your enemy, and understand the weapons they use. Then use those same weapons against them. The money system is the head of the snake. Cut the head off the snake and the rest of it will whither and die. There need be no violence, no guns, no banners, no slogans, no Groupthink, just a united act of global non-compliance.


THE FUTURE OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGYAs computing moves from our desktops to our phones, we look into the future to see how technology will become increasingly ingrained in our movements and our active lives. From the Nike Fuelband to Google Glass, consumers are already seeing hints of the future of wearable devices. They have the possibility to make us more knowledgeable about ourselves and our surroundings, and connect us with each other in an uninterrupted, more intimate way. From DIY wearables to high-tech sensors and smart fabrics, the years ahead will show how integrated technology can impact our lives for the better.


ADDICTED TO PLEASURE
Actor Brian Cox reveals the rich and controversial past of sugar, alcohol, tobacco and opium to uncover how the commercial exploitation of these products hooked the world.

PANOPTICON
Control on our daily lives increases and privacy is disappearing. How is this exactly happening and in which way will it effect all our lives? A film about the rise of the surveillance state into your life.

Hajj to Mecca: The World’s Biggest Annual Religious Gathering RevealedMecca, the birthplace of Islam, is the venue for one of the world’s biggest religious gathering. The Hajj is the ultimate act of devotion for the 1.2 billion people who practice Islam. It is an annual pilgrimage that is one of the 5 religious duties that every Muslim should perform. The event signifies solidarity and one’s submission to Allah as depicted by prophets Ibrahim and Muhammad.


AMERICA’S WAR GAMESThe 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.


The Art of Deception
In an academic environment, a paper must have detailed references according to a set of university standards, but in a film, anything goes. The Art of Deception is an explanation of how a documentary is constructed to communicate truth, brainwash the audience and push an agenda.



















CIA SECRET EXPERIMENTS
It’s the height of the Cold War and the United States government is desperate to combat the spread of Communism. The CIA launches a highly classified, top secret research program into the covert use of biological and chemical agents. In simulated attacks on enemy populations, entire cities in America are contaminated with bacteria, exposing millions of Americans to germ warfare. But the real focus of the research is on mastering the art of mind control. Psychiatrists at top academic institutions work under secret contract with the agency. Psychiatric patients, prisoners, even unwitting members of the public are exposed to a startling array of experiments designed to facilitate interrogations, induce amnesia and program in new behavior. Every psychological technique is explored, including hypnosis, electroshock therapy and lethal cocktails of drugs. What was the extent of these brainwashing experiments? How did the CIA become involved in such far-reaching and disturbing research? Join us as National Geographic presents: CIA Secret Experiments.

9/11: 10 YEARS LATER
Eight months before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Lyndon LaRouche forecast that the United States was at high risk for a Reichstag Fire event, an event that would allow those in power to manage through dictatorial means an economic and social crisis that they were otherwise incompetent to handle. We are presently living in the unbroken wake of that history.

HY.POTH.E.SIS
Hy.poth.e.sis is a documentary film that follows physics professor Steven E. Jones during a pivotal point in his life. In 2005, Steven went public with a controversial theory regarding the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11. His assertion that the collapse was likely the result of pre-positioned explosives rather than the hijacked planes resulted in a backlash from the community and even threatened his standing as a professor at BYU.

Syria: The Reckoning
This documentary tells the story of the past and brings it right up to the present to provide deeper historical context to the events of today as war continues to rage in Syria with the unleashing of many of the forces which had been previously repressed.



















CIA HIDDEN OPERATIONS
A National Geographic documentary on the CIA, the right hand tool, of the Military-Industrial Complex.

THE SPIES WHO FOOLED THE WORLD
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used by Downing Street and the White House to justify the invasion were based on fabrication, wishful thinking and lies. Peter Taylor tracks down some of those responsible and reports on the remarkable story of how, in the months before the war, two highly-placed sources – close to Saddam Hussein – talked secretly to the CIA and MI6. Their intelligence said Iraq did not have an active WMD programme – but it was simply dismissed.

Punch Drunk

In all, it is estimated that alcohol-related violence costs the community $187 million each year. Four Corners also reveals there’s a growing body of evidence that shows a link between binge drinking and brain damage.

01.Feb.2013 - HEADLINES: Julian Assange, Drone Wars, Immigration Reform, US Economy, Warplanes, Privacy Control, Military Crime Syndicate, Karl Marx, Online Privacy, GM Biosafety, more.

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Stand Up for Julian Assange

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/29-8

Drone Wars: Ethics of Killing Civilians
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33745.htm

A Post-Election Look at Immigration Reform
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2012/11/09/44676/a-post-election-look-at-immigration-reform/

Obama Urges Speed on Immigration Plan, but Exposes Conflicts
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/us/politics/obama-issues-call-for-immigration-overhaul.html

The Non Zero-Sum Society: How the Rich Are Destroying the US Economy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/29-2

U.S. Military to Test Lasers for Warplanes in 2014
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-military-to-test-laser&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20130130

Immigrant Groups React to Proposals with Cautious Hope
http://bolderadvocacy.org/blog/immigrant-groups-react-to-proposals-with-cautious-hope

Ex-CIA Agent, Whistleblower John Kiriakou Sentenced to Prison While Torturers He Exposed Walk Free
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/ex-cia-agent-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-sentenced-prison-while-torturers-he

No Single Book Is True
http://bigthink.com/book-think/no-single-book-is-true

Facebook Graph Search: Privacy Control You Still Don't Have
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/facebook-graph-search-privacy-control-you-still-dont-have

Why Palestine Should Take Israel to Court in The Hague
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/30-10

U.S. Military: A Multi-Gender Crime Syndicate
http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz300113.htm

Americans Working More, Earning Disappointing Returns
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/30-10

Monsanto's GM Corn Biosafety Data Raises Serious Concerns: Report
http://www.countercurrents.org/gpi300113.htm

Why the Ideas of Karl Marx are More Relevant Than Ever
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/29-5

7 Simple Steps to Protect Your Online Privacy
http://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2013/01/7-simple-steps-to-protect-your-online-privacy.html

29.Jan.2013 - DOCUMENTARIES: Overview Effect, Secrets in Plain Sight, Gift for the Hackers, Flouridegate, Slab City, Secrets of Scientology, Facade of the American Dream, Frankensteer

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The Overview Effect

On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect.

The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.

‘Overview’ is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect. The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment.

Secrets in Plain Sight

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Secrets In Plain Sight is an awe inspiring exploration of great art, architecture, and urban design which skillfully unveils an unlikely intersection of geometry, politics, numerical philosophy, religious mysticism, new physics, music, astronomy, and history.

Exploring key monuments and their positions in Egypt, Stonehenge, Jerusalem, Rome, Paris, London, Edinburgh, Washington DC, New York, and San Francisco brings to light a secret obsession shared by pharaohs, philosophers and kings; Templars and Freemasons; great artists and architects; popes and presidents, spanning the whole of recorded history up to the present time.

As the series of videos reveals how profound ancient knowledge inherited from Egypt has been encoded in units of measurement, in famous works of art, in the design of major buildings, in the layout of city streets and public spaces, and in the precise placement of obelisks and other important monuments upon the Earth, the viewer is led to perceive an elegant harmonic system linking the human body with the architectural, urban, planetary, solar, and galactic scales.

Watch the full documentary now - 224 min

A Gift for the Hackers

2013TechnologyLeave a Comment

Increasingly devices like printers and scanners are being connected directly to the Internet. It’s all very convenient, bit is it safe?

Your mobile, your printer, your hard drive, everything is connected… but it’s like a Swiss cheese. Medical files, financial information, and trade secrets, they’re all there for the taking.

It’s shocking, it should not be allowed. It’s a design flaw. Is this vulnerability in tens of thousands of devices compromising your security and your privacy?

Computer security has become a big concern for companies and individuals. As a result it has also become a big business. The world’s number one producer of computers and printers, Hewlett – Packard (HP), has an annual turn over of 127 billion dollars.

Watch the full documentary now - 31 min

Fluoridegate

2013ConspiracyLeave a Comment

Fluoridegate is a new documentary film, made by By Dr. David Kennedy, that reveals the tragedy of how the United States government, industry, and trade associations protect and promote a policy known to cause harm to our country and especially small children, who suffer more than any other segment of the population.

While the basis of their motivation remains uncertain, the outcome is crystal clear: it is destroying our nation.

Dr. Kennedy is the Past President of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology. His BA is in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology from the University of Kansas (1967) and his Doctorate of Dental Surgery is from the University of Missouri (1971).

He is a world lecturer to the dental profession on the safety of dental materials in the human body. His lectures include (among others) addresses to the World Health Organization, the American Dental Society of Europe, the German BGD, and Brazil Rio Eco-Odonto.

Watch the full documentary now - 65 min

Americana: Slab City

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VICE focused on all the crazy environmental issues going on in the Imperial Valley, from the air pollution, to drastic bee die-off, to the sewage-filled rivers, and everything in between.

But during the shoot, they also met a bevy of characters in Slab City, who are just as intriguing as all the eco-problems.

VICE thought it’d be fun to show you what a typical day is like in this bizarre stretch of area loaded with tweakers, eccentrics, army vets, hippies, and just plain old weirdos.

People have been living here for free since the late ’40s. And at one time in the early ’90s, the place was like a giant flea market. And believe or not, this land belongs to the State of California Teachers’ Union.

There is no California culture there at all. There are no strip malls, apartment buildings, dune buggies, off-road racing, crowded freeways, filthy beaches and arrogant politicians.

Watch the full documentary now - 21 min

The Secrets of Scientology

Education, Long (30+min), SocietyTags: BBC, Chruch of Scientology, Religion, Scientology

 

The Secrets of Scientology is a documentary follow up of John Sweeney’s 2007 investigation into the Church of Scientology and features interviews with former high-ranking members of the organization.

In 2007, while investigating the Church of Scientology for Panorama, reporter John Sweeney had a dramatic on-camera confrontation with a church spokesman named Tommy Davis. The church was accusing the reporter of bias and it attempted to stop the documentary from being broadcast – a campaign backed by Scientology A-lister John Travolta. Sweeney has returned to investigate the church again.

This time, one of those officials has turned whistleblower to help him reveal the dark secrets of the church, which boasts Hollywood A-listers Tom Cruise and John Travolta among its devotees.

claimed by BBC

The Facade of the American Dream

The conditions and life of African Americans in the United States.

A cross section of people discuss the fraud of the American dream and how systemic racism keeps millions of people down while offering others hope and opportunity. Executive producer Dr. Randy Short, M.div. and senior director Marzieh Hashemi’s film gives voice to those who believe That African Americans are far from achieving the American Dream in health, education, welfare, and justice.

The documentary features commentary from Dr. Vernellia Randall, Dr. Wilmer Leon, Rev. Graylan Haigler, Dr. Mary Scott, Dr. Charles Norman, Dr. Joseph Richardson, Glen Ford, Atty. Efia Nwangaza, and  Dr. Mary Neal.

FRANKENSTEER

20.Jan.2013 - The Headlines: Guantanamo, Pentagon, NRA, USS Cole, Israel and Palestine, Millions in Poverty, Monsanto vs. the People, Drones, Threats for Bloggers, Moving Away from Religion, Weather Records, Obama Impeachment, Conspiracy Theory, Teaching Creationism, Lollapalooza Israel, Iraq, DoJ FOIA Request, more.

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Eleven Years On: Being Imprisoned at Guantanamo Worse Than Being Confined by Totalitarian State

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/01/12/eleven-years-on-being-detained-at-guantanamo-worse-than-being-imprisoned-by-totalitarian-state/#

The Pentagon as a Global NRA

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/14

US military judge denies defense motions in 9/11, USS Cole trials
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/01/us-military-judge-denies-defense-motions-in-911-uss-cole-trials.php

Not My Zion: American Jews Divided on Israel and Palestine
http://www.radioproject.org/2011/08/not-my-zion-american-jews-divided-on-israel-and-palestine/

Inequality Rages as Dwindling Wages Lock Millions in Poverty

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/15-2

Monsanto vs. The People

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/15-10

Senator Asks CIA Nominee When Drones Can Kill Americans
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33617.htm

3 Legal Threats for Bloggers and What to Do About Them

http://blogs.findlaw.com/technologist/2013/01/3-legal-threats-for-bloggers-and-what-to-do-about-them.html

More Young People Are Moving Away From Religion, But Why?
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/15/169342349/more-young-people-are-moving-away-from-religion-but-why

More Than 3,500 U.S. Weather Records Smashed in 2012

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=thousands-of-us-weather-records&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20130116

Obama May Face Impeachment if He Uses Executive Orders for Gun Control

http://godfatherpolitics.com/8993/obama-may-face-impeachment-if-he-uses-executive-orders-for-gun-control/

The Most Widely Believed Conspiracy Theory in America Revealed in New Poll

http://www.alternet.org/most-widely-believed-conspiracy-theory-america-revealed-new-poll

As Social Issues Drive Young From Church, Leaders Try To Keep Them
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/18/169646736/as-social-issues-drive-young-from-church-leaders-try-to-keep-them

OVER 300 U.S. SCHOOLS ARE TEACHING CREATIONISM FUNDED BY AMERICAN TAXPAYERS
http://www.classwarfareexists.com/over-300-u-s-schools-are-teaching-creationism-funded-by-american-taxpayer/

Party’s over for Perry Farrell: Lollapalooza Israel collapses as artists said to stay away

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/partys-over-perry-farrell-lollapalooza-israel-collapses-artists-said-stay-away

Iraq: A Twenty Two Year Genocide
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33657.htm

Justice Department 'Complies' With FOIA Request For GPS Tracking Memos; Hands ACLU 111 Fully Redacted Pages

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130117/07260121714/justice-department-complies-with-foia-request-gps-tracking-memos-hands-aclu-111-fully-redacted-pages.shtml

5 Creepy New Ways for Police to Intrude on Your Rights

http://www.alternet.org/5-creepy-new-ways-police-intrude-your-rights

The Surprising Unknown History of the NRA

http://www.alternet.org/suprising-unknown-history-nra

America's Gun Crackpots: Our Homegrown al-Qaeda?
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/436-2nd-amendment-rights/15616-focus-americas-gun-crackpots-our-homegrown-al-qaeda

Convincing suicide-bombers that God says no
http://www.opendemocracy.net/adam-lankford/convincing-suicide-bombers-that-god-says-no

01/01/2013 - Your New Year Special Issue: Unemployment, Economy, Privacy, New Laws, Climate, Atheism, Whistleblowers, Palestine, and more!

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Made in the USA - By prisoner labor

Re-inventing the slave trade

Activists Dismayed at Renewal of Surveillance Bill

ivil rights campaigners voiced dismay on Friday over the US Senate's re-authorization of the government's warrantless surveillance program, and the defeat of two amendments that would have provided for basic oversight of the eavesdropping.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/335-156/15294-activists-dismayed-at-renewal-of-surveillance-bil

Bernie Sanders Slams Boehner and Right Wing House Extremists for Fiscal Cliff

US Senate reauthorizes FISA surveillance law 
The US Senate [official website] passed the Reauthorization Act of 2012 [text, pdf] on Friday in a 73-23 vote to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA) [text, pdf] for five years. FISA grants the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] the authority to conduct surveillance of Americans’ phone calls and emails in attempts to protect against terrorism and other foreign threats. 
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/12/us-senate-reauthorizes-fisa-surveillance-law.php

There Is Nothing Heroic About Torture

he critical acclaim for the new Kathryn Bigelow movie "Zero Dark Thirty" has renewed the debate on the efficacy of torture.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/287-124/15301-there-is-nothing-heroic-about-torture

The Foreclosure Cliff
e can thank Ben Bernanke for the phrase "fiscal cliff" -- a phrase many observers have tried to soften by pointing out they think it's more like falling down a slope, sliding down a curve, or even tripping over a curb. I can understand trying to find other metaphors to replace the nearly always fatal results of going off a cliff. But maybe those observers missed one effect that Bernanke knows drives the economy more than any else: housing.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/430-foreclosure/15302-the-foreclosure-cliff

The Financial Elite's War Against the US Economy

Today’s economic warfare is not the kind waged a century ago between labor and its industrial employers. Finance has moved to capture the economy at large, industry and mining, public infrastructure (via privatization) and now even the educational system. (At over $1 trillion, U.S. student loan debt came to exceed credit-card debt in 2012.) The weapon in this financial warfare is no larger military force. The tactic is to load economies (governments, companies and families) with debt, siphon off their income as debt service and then foreclose when debtors lack the means to pay. Indebting government gives creditors a lever to pry away land, public infrastructure and other property in the public domain. Indebting companies enables creditors to seize employee pension savings. And indebting labor means that it no longer is necessary to hire strikebreakers to attack union organizers and strikers.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/31-8

US War Machine Leaves Ugly Imprint in Afghanistan

If only in a microcosm, a dispatch from a remote outpost in Afghanistan reveals the damage and dysfunction created by years of US occupation and how little regard western military forces have for local communities when a final determination is made that an outpost should be abandoned.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/31

2012 In Review: A Year of Extreme Weather, Mass Shootings, Drone Wars and Dark Money in Politics

Amid "Cliff-Hanger" Antics, Senator Bernie Sanders Defends Middle Class

The Top 12 Political Fallacies of 2012

Our nation was gripped by so many fallacies and delusions in 2012 that the whole Mayan calendar end-of-the-world thing didn’t even make the list.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/31-1

A Wee Comparison of Civil Liberties in the United States of America
Compare and contrast. Here is how seriously we take civil liberties when the subject can be plausibly labeled terrorism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33485.htm
8 Striking Parallels Between the U.S. and the Roman Empire
Lawrence Lessig’s Republic Lost documents the corrosive effect of money on our political process. Lessig persuasively makes the case that we are witnessing the loss of our republican form of government, as politicians increasingly represent those who fund their campaigns, rather than our citizens.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33489.htm

The GOP Has Taken America Hostage -- Is There a Downside for Them?

Republicans are taking a beating in the polls. But it does not seem to weaken their position.

http://www.alternet.org/gop-has-taken-america-hostage-there-downside-them

Will the Economy Slow With or Without the Fiscal Deal?

What is most likely to damage the economy?

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/will-economy-slow-or-without-fiscal-deal

Companies Do Not Have The Right To Impose Owners’ Religion Onto Employees, Says Americans United
Church-State Watchdog Group Says Firms Don’t Have A Religious Liberty Right To Deny Workers Access To Contraceptives
https://www.au.org/media/press-releases/companies-do-not-have-the-right-to-impose-owners-religion-onto-employees-says

US Whistleblowers on Being Targeted by the Secret Security State

Privacy by the Numbers: A New Approach to Safeguarding Data

A mathematical technique called “differential privacy” gives researchers access to vast repositories of personal data while meeting a high standard for privacy protection

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=privacy-by-the-numbers-a-new-approach-to-safeguarding-data&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20121231

Evolution and Atheism

I have been reading more about evolution and I am beginning to think that the radical clerics are right in a sense. A deep understanding of evolution may lead people away from god and religion, but not for the reasons that are commonly stated.

http://machineslikeus.com/news/evolution-and-atheism

Obama administration considering expansion of mortgage refinancing program

The US government is eyeing mortgage refinancing program expansion that will include borrowers whose mortgages aren’t backed by the government and who are liable to pay more than the worth of their homes.

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13704925-obama-administration-considering-expanding-mortgage-refinancing-program

Israel To Displace 1000 Palestinians Next Wednesday

Head of the Wadi Al-Maleh area, in the northern plains of the occupied West Bank, Aref Daraghma, stated that the Israeli army intends to displace around 10000 Palestinian Bedouins in the area in order to conduct military training.

http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/alert-israel-to-displace-1000-palestinians-next-wednesday/

Marc Morano: Climate Change Misinformer Of The Year