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The Radical Christian Right and the War on Government

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_radical_christian_right_and_the_war_on_government_20131006

The Threat of the Religious Right is as Old as Christianity
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/20/threat-religious-christianity.html

The Religious Right Is a Fraud
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36592.htm

For the Last Time, the Constitution is Not Based on the Biblehttp://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/31/time-constitution-based-bible.html

Atheists & Christians on Removing "In God We Trust" from America's Currency
http://atheism.about.com/od/Church-State-Survey-Polls/a/Atheists-Christians-Removing-in-God-We-Trust.htm?nl=1

Sam Harris on the ‘banality of evil’ in relation to religious violence

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/31/watch-sam-harris-on-the-banality-of-evil-in-relation-to-religious-violence/

Why Atheists Can’t Be Republicans
http://www.alternet.org/belief/atheists-cant-be-republicans

The Moral Majority

http://freethoughtblogs.com/amilliongods/2013/10/28/it-gets-better-the-moral-majority/

Religious organisations should learn what respect looks like in a secular society
http://bigthink.com/against-the-new-taboo/religious-organisations-should-learn-what-respect-actually-looks-like

American Legion pulls park funding after atheist official won’t pledge ‘under God’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/30/american-legion-pulls-park-funding-after-atheist-official-wont-pledge-under-god/

Ancient skeletons challenge modern religion in ‘humanity’s cradle’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/29/ancient-skeletons-challenge-modern-religion-in-humanitys-cradle/

Churches facing challenge as congregations age
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Churches-facing-challenge-as-congregations-age-4909464.php

Christian Hate Group Threatens To Sue US Military For Labeling Them A Hate Group
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/26/christian-hate-group-us-military/

10 Facts About The Transforming Global Religious Landscape
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/10-facts-global-religion_n_4117341.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

5 facts about atheists

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/23/5-facts-about-atheists/

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: War on Whistleblowers, Why Have Student Loans? Bring Organized Resistance, Snowden's Constitution, 5 Farm Bill Groups, 12 Real Patriots, Pro-Apartheid Israel Hypocrisy, Rethinking Surveillance, Wartime U.S. Travelogue, Corporations' Loopholes, more.

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The Wider War on Whistleblowers
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Wider-War-on-Whistlebl-by-Barry-Sussman-130702-357.html

Why Have Student Loans At All? Let's Get the Burdens of Debt off College Students' Backs -- And Make Wall St. Pick Up the Tab
http://www.alternet.org/education/reparations-college-debt

Why It Takes Organized Resistance To Bring in the Sweeping Change That the Public Wants
http://www.alternet.org/activism/organized-resistance-brings-sweeping-change-lessons-us

How We Can Wrench Independence from the Corporate State
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-we-can-wrench-independence-corporate-state

Snowden's Constitution vs Obama's Constitution
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130703/00121023700/snowdens-constitution-vs-obamas-constitution.shtml

Edward Snowden: A Whistleblower, Not a Spy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/03-8

5 Farm Bill Groups You Didn’t Know Existed
http://blogs.rollcall.com/goppers/5-farm-bill-groups-you-didnt-think-existed/

12 Real Patriots Brave Enough to Fight for Truth and Justice

http://www.alternet.org/activism/12-real-patriots-brave-enough-fight-truth-and-justice

Hypocrisy Of Pro-Apartheid Israel Obama Visiting Post-Apartheid South Africa
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya030713.htm

To Big U.S. Corporations: What About Some Patriotism for America?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/corporate-patriotism_b_3542125.html


Rethinking Surveillance [Book Review]
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/jul/02/electronic-surveillance-missing-laws/

Federal Student Loan Rates Double Due To Lack Of Urgency In Congress
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/02/federal-student-loan-rates-double-due-to-lack-of-urgency-in-congress/

5 Sneaky Ways Fundamentalists Are Trying To Slip Christian Creationism Into America’s Public Schools
http://www.alternet.org/belief/public-schools

Wartime U.S. Travelogue
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson040713.htm

Thanks To ‘Loopholes’ U.S. Corporations Pay A Lower Tax Rate Than Middle Class Families
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/03/thanks-to-loopholes-u-s-corporations-pay-a-lower-tax-rate-than-middle-class-families/

Guantanamo inmate accuses US military of sexual assault against detainees
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/guantanamo-bay-inmate-accuses-us-military-of-sexual-assault-against-detainees.php

US government scanning, storing billions of pieces of mail per year
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/05/mail-j05.html

The revolution will not be standardized
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/the-revolution-will-not-be-standardized/

Why Edward Snowden's Leaks Have Empowered All of Us
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/knowledge-metadata-power

Scientific evidence: what is it and how can we trust it?http://machineslikeus.com/news/scientific-evidence-what-it-and-how-can-we-trust-it

American Intellectuals' Widespread Failure to Stand Up to Billionaires and Authoritarian Power
http://www.alternet.org/books/widespread-failure-intellectuals-stand-authoritarian-power-america

Why do charities want to "normalize" Israeli apartheid?http://electronicintifada.net/content/why-do-charities-want-normalize-israeli-apartheid/12592

Over Half of Republicans Want Christianity as the Official Religion in States
http://atheism.about.com/od/Church-State-Survey-Polls/a/Republicans-Want-Christianity-Official-Religion-States.htm?nl=1

People Get Ready: 'Unprecedented' Weather Glimpses Century Ahead
Latest report from WMO says first decade of century was hottest, wettest on record with more to come

It was a decade of 'unprecedented' extreme weather, caused by warmer oceans, hotter temperatures, and an atmosphere saturated with moisture. And there's more where that came from.

Failure to Stop Doubling of Student Loan Rates Sparks Call to Tackle "Systemic" Debt Crisis

# 1 Target of Wiretap Surveillance?

@dustcirclenews - 10 Free DOCUMENTARIES: The Pentagon's Book of Secrets, Are the Net Police Coming? Hijacking Catastrophe, Drugs Inc. Vegas, Osama Bin Laden's Killer, Home From Iraq, Thank You Scam, Inside Death Row, Death Row Interviews, Alone in the Wilderness.

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America’s Book Of Secrets: The Pentagon

It is the epicenter of America’s military operations, a five-sided fortress with a single purpose, to defend the United States and its citizens. But behind the concrete walls and re-enforced windows are secrets. Enter the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense and explore the complex operations and top-secret business conducted at the largest low-rise office building in the world. How did the Pentagon get its unusual shape? How many people work at the Pentagon? What covert intelligence gathering organizations operate within the military compound, and how are their secrets protected? What top-secret information was compromised from the attack on September 11th? How quickly did the building and its tenants get back to business as usual? For seven decades, the Pentagon has been an icon of American strength and military excellence. But more impressive than the building itself are the secrets held there…until now

Are The Net Police Coming For You?

A proposed new law is threatening to disconnect the millions of internet users who unlawfully download free music, films and TV. Jo Whiley looks at how broadband use at home may never be the same, and could even be cut off.

Hijacking Catastrophe

This documentary examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home.

Drugs, Inc: High Stakes Vegas

This documentary takes us inside the world of the drug dealers, gangs, and the Mexican cartel traffickers who are making their millions from the tourists who flock here looking for a good time. From the VIP party host to the notorious Playboy Bloods street gang who control the crack industry in West Las Vegas, to the Mexican cartel trafficker who uses three different identities to stay under the radar of the police.

The Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden

Meet the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden as he opens up in this animated film about the 2011 raid and those three shots that changed history and his life. The film tells the story of the personal aftermath and startling failure of the United States government to help its most experienced and skilled soldiers carry on with their lives.

Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq

Three-time Emmy winner James Gandolfini returns to HBO with the documentary special Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq. The documentary about wounded soldiers surveys the physical and emotional cost of war through memories of their “alive day,” the day they narrowly escaped death in Iraq.

Wham Bam Thank You Scam

This is the story of someone who got scammed by a fabricated stock broking firm (actually a sophisticated gang of fraudsters in South East Asia). While the back story is fairly typical – a western man answers the phone to a seemingly legitimate American sounding financial adviser who is touting financial investments, and an impressive sounding firm, with returns which are attractive but no so attractive as to warrant suspicion. The man entrusts the firm with thousands of his life savings, and sure enough eventually the line goes cold, and when he goes to withdraw his money, it’s not there. So what do you do then? For most people the answer is a visit to the police where they inform you of the futility of getting your money back; and thus all hope of getting their money back or any form of justice is all but impossible. But not for this man! This man, Keith Jones, is not one to sit by while the world screws him over – he sets out to Thailand to track down the fraudsters and expose police incompetence, international loopholes, and the apathy of a major corporate bank. Informative as it is intriguing.

Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald

Trevor McDonald goes inside one of America’s most notorious maximum security prisons, Indiana State, where he comes face-to-face with 12 condemned men awaiting execution.

Death Row Interviews

Every Saturday night in China, millions gather around their televisions to watch Interviews Before Execution, an extraordinary talk show which interviews prisoners on death row. In the weeks, days or even minutes before they are executed, presenter Ding Yu goes into prisons and talks to those condemned to die. Combining clips from the TV show, never before seen footage of China’s death row and interviews with a local judge who openly questions the future of the death penalty in China, This World reveals a part of China that is generally hidden from from view.

Alone in the Wilderness

Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin on the shore of Twin Lakes. The first summer he scouted for the best cabin site, and cut and peeled the logs he would need for his cabin. Dick Proenneke returned the next summer to finish the cabin where he lived for over 30 years. Dick filmed his adventures, and Bob Swerer later turned the film into a video so we can all watch this amazing man build his cabin by hand.

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Special NSA Surveillance and Phone Records Edition! ...plus: Bradley Manning, Christian Official U.S. Religion, Student Loans, and Israel = Unpopular Country,

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NSA collecting phone records of millions of US citizens daily

http://thehackernews.com/2013/06/NSA-phone-number-records-surveillance-system-verizon_5.html

UN publishes report on surveillance and freedom of expression
https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2013/06/06/un-report-warns-of-surveillance-techs-human-rights-threats

Democracy is Coming…to the U.S.A.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/terror-12-years-enough-time-democracy

NSA Taps in to Systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and others, Secret Files Reveal
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/07

The National Security Agency: Surveillance Giant with Eyes on America
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/07-0

Spreading Middle East conflicts: US to blame
http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/?q=node/2193

Bradley Manning's Legal Duty to Expose War Crimes
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Bradley-Manning-s-Legal-Du-by-Marjorie-Cohn-130603-841.html

Moral Imperative of Bradley Manning
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Moral-Imperative-of-Bradle-by-Ray-McGovern-130603-161.html

War Is A Queer Issue, But Bradley Manning Being Queer Is A Non-Issue
http://www.opednews.com/articles/War-Is-A-Queer-Issue-But-by-Dooler-Campbell-130604-335.html

Worldwide Movement Against Monsanto Gaining Steam
http://www.alternet.org/activism/millions-against-monsanto-march

The Middle Class Faces Extinction—So Does the American Dream
http://www.alternet.org/economy/income-inequality-defers-american-dream

People have killed their fear of authority - and the protests are growing
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/06/people-have-killed-their-fear-authority-and-protests-are-growing

The Truth is Too Messy for Church
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Truth-is-Too-Messy-for-by-Robert-De-Filippis-130603-803.html

When a Doctor Wields a Bible: The Alarming Rise of Catholic Hospitals
http://www.alternet.org/belief/bible-health-care

Senate passes half-trillion-dollar farm bill
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14781121-senate-passes-halftrilliondollar-farm-bill

Is The Surveillance State Constitutional?http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/is_the_surveillance_state_constitutional_20130611/

'Beyond Orwellian': Outrage Follows Revelations of Vast Domestic Spying Program
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/06

Why Student Loans Are an Even Bigger Sham Than You Know

http://www.alternet.org/why-student-loans-are-even-bigger-sham-you-know

Israel one of world’s most unpopular countries and it’s getting worse: BBC survey
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-one-worlds-most-unpopular-countries-and-its-getting-worse-bbc-survey

ACLU challenges US deportation practices
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/06/aclu-challenges-us-deportation-practices.php

CIA Unsure Of Those Killed In Drone Strikes, Classified Report Shows
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/foreign-policy/war-terror/cia-unsure-those-killed-drone-strikes-classified-report-shows


10 Things Americans Underestimate About Our Massive Surveillance State
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/surveillance-nsa

Be Prepared for the Inevitable and Unpredictable Mass Movement
http://www.alternet.org/activism/mass-social-transformation-movement-inevitable-be-prepared

American Fascism: 
Ralph Nader Decries How Big Business Has Taken Control of the U.S. Government 
Part One: http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76334
Part Two: http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76333

US lawmakers urge review of government surveillance activities
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/06/us-lawmakers-urge-review-of-government-surveillance-activities.php

Is Climate Change Action Doomed?

http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76362

Senator Rand Paul Wants A Class Action Lawsuit Against NSA Surveillance
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130610/01160123390/senator-rand-paul-wants-class-action-lawsuit-against-nsa-surveillance.shtml

Private Contractors Are In Charge Of National Security And They’re In It For The Profits

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-whistleblowing-and-the-privatization-of-national-security/

If US Cut Military by 75%, Would Still Have Biggest Military

http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76356

U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms
http://machineslikeus.com/news/us-mining-data-9-leading-internet-firms

Nearly Half of Republicans Want Christianity as America's Official Religion
http://atheism.about.com/od/Church-State-Survey-Polls/a/Republicans-Christianity-America-Official-Religion.htm?nl=1

NSA Whistleblowers: "All US Citizens" Targeted by Surveillance Program, Not Just Verizon Customers

100 Things You Can Say To Irritate A Republican (HUMOR)

2013/01/14

By Stephen D. Foster Jr.

Image from http://www.skyscanner.net/news/articles/2010/08/007777-76-have-sympathy-for-air-rage-reveals-skyscanner.html

Conservatives are so easy to anger these days. Even the most insignificant statement can set off their tempers. If you want to enrage a conservative, I suggest saying the following:

1. A Socialist wrote the Pledge of Allegiance.
2. Jesus healed the sick and helped the poor, for free.
3. Joseph McCarthy was an un-American, witch hunting sissy.
4. Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were traitors.
5. The South lost the Civil War, get over it.
6. The Founding Fathers were liberals.
7. Fascism is a right-wing trait.
8. Sarah Palin is an idiot.
9. The Earth is round.
10. Reagan raised taxes eleven times as President.
11. Reagan legalized abortion as Governor of California.
12. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency.
13. Ronald Reagan supported gun control.
14. Global warming is real.
15. Republicans hate illegal immigrants, unless they need their lawns mowed or their houses cleaned.

16. The military is a government-run institution, so why do Republicans approve the defense budget?
17. The Cold War is over and the Soviet Union no longer exists.
18. Paying taxes is patriotic.
19. Republicans: Peddling the same failed economic policies since 1880.
20. The Republican Party began as a liberal party.
21. The Presidents’ full name is Barack Hussein Obama and he was born in the United States of America.
22. George W. Bush held hands with the King of Saudi Arabia.
23. President Obama saved the American auto industry, while Republicans wanted to destroy it.
24. Hate is not a Christian virtue.
25. Jesus was a liberal.
26. Republicans spend MORE money than Democrats.
27. Tea parties are for little girls.
28. Public schools educate all children; private schools are for indoctrinating children.
29. The Constitution is the law, NOT the Bible.
30. Sharia law doesn’t exist in America.
31. The President is NOT a Muslim.
32. Corporations are NOT people. People are people.
33. Fox News isn’t real news, it’s just a racist, sexist, hateful, right-wing propaganda machine.
34. The Federal Reserve was a Republican idea.
35. Women are equal citizens who deserve equal rights.
36. Women control their own bodies.
37. Abortion is a relevant medical procedure, just ask Rick Santorum.
38. Please use spell-check.
39. It’s “pundit”, not “pundint”.
40. Social Security is solvent through 2038.
41. Health care is a right, not a product.
42. Roe v. Wade was a bipartisan ruling made by a conservative leaning Supreme Court.
43. G.O.P also stands for Gross Old Perverts.
44. The donkey shouldn’t be the Democratic mascot because Republicans are the real jackasses.
45. Barack Obama ordered the killing of Osama Bin Laden. It took him two and half years to do what Bush couldn’t do in eight.
46. Waterboarding IS torture.
47. 9/11 happened on George W. Bush’s watch, therefore he did NOT keep America safe.
48. Republicans invaded Iraq for oil, so Iraq should be allowed to invade Texas to get it back.
49. Separation of church and state is in the Constitution, it’s called the First Amendment.
50. Muslims are protected by the Constitution, just as much as Christians.
51. Barack Obama is the first African-American President, get over it.
52. The Oval Office is NOT a “whites only” office.
53. America is a nation of immigrants, therefore we are all anchor babies.
54. The white race isn’t disappearing, it’s evolving.
55. God is a particle.
56. Evolution is real.
57. The Earth is 4.54 billion years old, not 6,000.
58. The Founding Fathers did not free the slaves.
59. The Revolution was NOT fought over slavery.
60. Paul Revere warned the Americans, NOT the British.
61. Federal law trumps state law.
62. The Civil War was about slavery, NOT state’s rights.
63. Corporations care more about profits than they do about people.
64. Getting out of a recession requires government spending.
65. Glenn Beck is a nut-job.
66. Republicans: Paranoid since 1932.
67. Republicans don’t want to pay for your birth control, but they want you to pay for their Viagra.
68. Republicans actually NEED Viagra.
69. Fox News is owned by an Australian and has a Saudi prince as an investor.
70. Republicans complain about immigrants taking American jobs, then freely give American jobs to foreigners overseas.
71. Republicans hate communism, so why do they refer to themselves as red states?
72. Labor unions built this country.
73. Republicans hold America hostage as a political strategy; the temper tantrum throwing kind of political strategy.
74. Jesus was a Jew, not a Christian.
75. When Republicans see black, they attack.
76. Inside every Republican is a Klansman or a Nazi waiting to bloom.
77. Republicans only care about children BEFORE they are born.
78. Republicans are hypocrites, they’re just too stupid to know it.
79. The Christian-Right boycotts movies that have violence, and then promotes guns and insurrection.
80. I think therefore I am NOT a Republican.
81. Republicans that oppose gay marriage are most likely in the closet themselves.
82. Churches should stay out of politics, or be taxed.
83. People are too poor to vote Republican.
84. Democrats think for themselves, Republicans form think tanks to do it for them.
85. Republicans hate education because they couldn’t hack it in school.
86. Greed is one of the seven deadly sins and Republicans wallow in it.
87. A little socialism on the Left is better than a little fascism on the Right.
88. The current corporate tax rate is the lowest in 60 years, so stop whining about it being too high.
89. Republicans: Anti-Gay Marriage, Pro-Lesbian sex.
90. Republicans: Terrorizing the American people since 1981.
91. Republicans have their own terrorists, just look up Timothy McVeigh.
92. Republicans love outsourcing, just ask the Chinese Communists.
93. The Republican answer to the oil spill was to apologize to BP, a foreign oil company.
94. Democrats will be working hard to bring jobs to Americans, while the Republicans tea bag each other in the middle of the aisles.
95. Voter disenfranchisement is immoral and un-American, that’s why Republicans do it.
96. Republicans would let your house burn down unless you pay them to put it out.
97. Democrats want to take care of the sick. Republicans take their credit cards and then deny them medical attention.
98. Republicans say teachers are union thugs, then proceed to rape and mug the entire middle class on behalf of corporations.
99. Republicans think rape isn’t a crime, but miscarriages are.
100. Republicans are idiots and arguing with them is a waste of time!

Bottom line? If you want to anger a conservative, tell them the truth.

30.Dec.2012 - Threat to Occupiers, Warrantless Wiretapping, Environmental Justice, West Unleashing Terrorism Against Syria, Millennial Delusions, Anti-Government Propaganda, Times Erases Israel's Crimes, Vitamin Water Deception, War Made Easy, US Became an Orwellian State, Important Bills Blocked by GOP, Social Costs of Austerity, China Prison Labor, more.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: THIS IS NO TIME “FOR A POLITICALLY SELF-INFLICTED WOUND TO OUR ECONOMY”


FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers: US Intelligence Machine Instead Plotted with Bankers to Attack Protest Movement

 New documents obtained from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security by the Partnership for Civil Justice and released this past week show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies began a campaign of monitoring, spying and disrupting the Occupy Movement at least two months before the first occupation actions began in late September 2011.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/FBI-Ignored-Deadly-Threat-by-Dave-Lindorff-121227-423.html

Senate Reauthorizes Warrantless Wiretapping

After Defeating Moderate Reforms, Senate Extends Unchecked Surveillance Powers for Five Years

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/28-0

Deprogramming Progressives

 little bit of economics can be a truly terrible thing, for the introductory classes in micro and macro-economics are the most dogmatic and myth-filled part of the neoliberal curriculum. Dogmas that have been falsified for 75 years (such as austerity) are taught as revealed truth. The poor indoctrinated student is then launched into the world "knowing" that austerity is the answer and that mass unemployment and prolonged recessions are small prices to be paid (by others) to achieve the holy grail of a balanced budget. Students are taught that national budgets are really just like household budgets.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15270-focus-deprogramming-progressives

Matt Damon laments U.S. politics: ‘We’re genuinely f*cked’ on long-term issues

Hollywood star Matt Damon recently told Playboy he has little hope that Washington can address long-term environmental issues like using hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/28/matt-damon-laments-u-s-politics-were-genuinely-fcked-on-long-term-issues/

Idle No More: Indigenous-Led Protests Sweep Canada for Native Sovereignty and Environmental Justice

America's "Founding Fathers" Detested the Paradise of Delightful Debauchery and Freedom That Was 18th Century America

There was a lot of fun to be had in early America, before the prudish patrician types did everything they could to stamp it out.

http://www.alternet.org/books/americas-founding-fathers-detested-paradise-delightful-debauchery-and-freedom-was-18th-century

West unleashing terrorism against Syria: Mark Glenn

2012 Apocalypse, the Rapture and Other Millennial Delusions

I once had a noted New Age peace activist tell me that, because all spiritual practice has ripple effects outward, “my cat is a contemplative contributor to the universe.”

http://www.alternet.org/belief/2012-apocalypse-rapture-and-other-millennial-delusions

FBI Violated Constitution by Branding Occupy a Terrorist Threat

Power of Anti-Government Propaganda

Exclusive: By many standards, President Obama has done a remarkable job, steering the U.S. and the world away from a global depression and enacting reforms to benefit millions of Americans. But he has fought against a powerful dynamic of modern U.S. politics, a hatred of the federal government, says Robert Parry.

http://consortiumnews.com/2012/11/06/power-of-anti-government-propaganda/

How The New York Times erases Israel’s crimes

According to The New York Times, there is no siege of Gaza, no occupation of the West Bank, and never was there a Nakba (the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine). Three recent articles erase these key Israeli crimes from the historical record.

http://electronicintifada.net/content/how-new-york-times-erases-israels-crimes/12042

The Vitamin Water Deception

17 Solutions for a Better America in 2013

Don't most Americans believe and want strong law enforcement against corporate crime and fraud and abuses against consumers, taxpayers, the environment and workers? The first step is telling your member of Congress to toughen the weak laws and beef up the law enforcement budgets which will pay for themselves many, many times over in deterrence, damage prevention to innocent people, and fines.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15286-focus-17-solutions-for-a-better-america-in-2013

War Made Easy

Oliver Stone: 'US Has Become An Orwellian State'


How the FBI Coordinated the Crackdown on Occupy

t was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall - so mystifying at the time - was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves -was coordinated with the big banks themselves.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/441-occupy/15285-focus-how-the-fbi-coordinated-the-crackdown-on-occupy

What Could Have Been: The Most Important Bills Blocked by Republicans in 2012

The bills we could have passed if it wasn't for GOP obstructionism -- from a minimum wage increase to the Buffett Rule.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/what-could-have-been-most-important-bills-blocked-republicans-2012

Renewing Warrantless Eavesdropping

To this day, many people identify mid-2008 as the time they realized what type of politician Barack Obama actually is. Six months before, when seeking the Democratic nomination, then-Sen. Obamaunambiguously vowed that he would filibuster "any bill" that retroactively immunized the telecom industry for having participated in the illegal Bush NSA warrantless eavesdropping program.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15275-renewing-warrantless-eavesdropping

The Social Costs of the Austerity Agenda

s we begin what appears to be the final long, slooooowwww roll down the Gentle Fiscal Incline, it is becoming clear that, among our governing elites, and among the courtier press that serves their interests, it is taken as a given that some sort of austerity agenda, which will not materially affect any of their lives, is going to be dropped on the rest of us, probably for our own good, as that good is defined from some tony little bistro in Georgetown, or from the parlor at Ben and Sally's.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/15274-the-social-costs-of-the-austerity-agenda

Made in China - By prison labor

"A State Secret"

Congress Extends Surveillance Power

ongress approved a measure Friday that would renew expansive U.S. surveillance authority for five more years, rejecting objections from senators who are concerned the legislation does not adequately protect Americans' privacy.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/311-15/15289-congress-extends-surveillance-power

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The Ka-Ching Dynasty

04.Dec.2012 - Anonymous Launch Operation Monsanto, Strangled by Monopolies, NSA Whistleblower on Surveillance, Restaurant Workers on Strike, Fracking Contaminating Livestock? College as American Nightmare, Challenge the Drone Propaganda, the Student Movement, Hillary Clinton for President? and much more

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Anonymous launch Operation Monsanto

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• #OpDestroyMonsanto 
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http://darkernet.in/anonymous-launch-operation-monsanto/

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Strangled by monopolies

What our great-grandfathers understood
and we better rediscover

Watch: Teacher Infiltrates ALEC Education Meeting, Confronts Members

Education activist Sabrina Joy Stevens, a former teacher in the Denver school system, tells right-wing, would-be policymakers how their agenda is destructive to education.

NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US under virtual surveillance, all info stored, no matter the post

Hundreds of workers at dozens of restaurants went on strike and rallied in a bid for fair pay and union recognition.

Is Fracking Contaminating US Livestock?

ike canaries sent into coal mines to warn of breathing hazards, livestock in areas where hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") is occurring are getting sick and dropping dead in alarming numbers, according to the only peer-reviewed scientific study of the impact of fracking on animals. And if cattle are getting sick because of fracking, what about the health of people who later drink their milk or eat their flesh?

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/14839-is-fracking-contaminating-us-livestock

College As the American Nightmare

ow that student loans are undeniably in bubble territory, the officialdom is starting to wake up and take notice. Evidence that students were taking on so much debt as a group that it was undermining their ability to be Good American Consumers wasn't enough. A recent New York Fed study found that 94% of recent graduates had borrowed to help pay for their education, and average debt levels among student borrowers is $23,000. Remember, that average includes seasoned borrowers, who presumably borrowed less and also in many cases reduced the principal amount of their loans, so the average amount borrowed by recent grads is certain to be higher. Student debt is senior to all other consumer debt; unlike, say, credit card balances, Social Security payments can be garnished to pay delinquencies. As a result, it has contributed to the fall in the homeownership rate, since many young people who want to buy a house can't because their level of student debt prevents them from getting a mortgage.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/299-190/14838-college-as-the-american-nightmare

It's Time to Challenge the Drone Propaganda

obert Greenwald, head of the progressive internet video and documentary film company, Brave New Films, recently traveled to Pakistan, supported financially by hundreds of BNF donors, to witness first hand the stories of families who have had innocent loved ones killed by U.S. drone attacks. Greenwald is challenging both the morality and the factual effectiveness of the U.S drone program as we learn more about the failures and questionable policies. The U.S. claims that drone missiles are aimed at potential terrorists but because the ground rules of who can be targeted is both vague and has been loosened, the number of innocents being killed has risen sharply. Furthermore, the information that is used to target people, appears to be the result of a system of bribery at the local level, which is of questionable reliability.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/14840-its-time-to-challenge-the-drone-propaganda

A Soldier's Fight For The First Amendment

Decorated War Hero Challenges Christian Displays At North Carolina City's Veterans' Memorial

https://www.au.org/church-state/december-2012-church-state/featured/a-soldiers-fight-for-the-first-amendment

The power of the student movement
This year's massive strike by students in Quebec against a huge tuition increase rocked the Canadian province and beyond. Despite repression from the government--including Bill 78 (Law 12), which shut down campuses and threatened strikers with fines, as well as an injunction ordering strikers to allow dissident students who opposed the strike to attend classes--the students held firm. The ruling Liberals, led by then Premier Jean Charest, were defeated in elections held at the end of the summer. The incoming Parti Québécois government owes its election success to its promises to meet the students' demands--though its record in office has been disappointing to many of its supporters.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/12/03/the-power-of-the-students

Striking the fast-food giants

Peter Rugh reports from New York City on a day of walkouts at fast-food restaurants--another step in what organizers call the largest union drive in fast-food history.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/12/03/striking-the-fast-food-giants

Jeremy Hammond: the ‘other Bradley Manning’?
While Jeremy Hammond’s case and Bradley Manning’s are in many ways different (Manning has never been accused of hacking, for example), both are facing draconian sentences (Manning, possibly life; a similar maximum for Hammond) and deserve solidarity because of what was exposed. Jeremy Hammond, 27, is allegedly the main hacker behind December 2011 LulzSec hack of Stratfor, a quasi-private, corporate intelligence and strategic analysis firm with close ties to US Intelligence. http://darkernet.in/jeremy-hammond-the-other-bradley-manning/

New Yorker Editor: “Hillary Clinton Is Running For President”

New Yorker Magazine editor David Remnick dropped a political bombshell after attending a three-day conference at which the Secretary of State was the keynote speaker, categorically stating, “Hillary Clinton is running for President.”

http://rebel-institute.org/opinion/americas/212862-new-yorker-editor-hillary-clinton-is-running-for-president

Obama Memorandum Protects National Security By Demonizing Whistleblowers

On November 25th President Barack Obama issued a presidential memorandum entitled “National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs” that outlines the provision “and guidance to promote the development of effective insider threat programs within departments and agencies to deter, detect, and mitigate actions by employees who may represent a threat to national security.”

http://rebel-institute.org/opinion/americas/213058-obama-memorandum-protects-national-security-by-demonizing-whistleblowers

Israel's Latest Plan to Punish Palestinians Gets Worldwide Rebuke
UK, Sweden, France --even the US-- call latest settlement announcement in West Bank an assault on peace process

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/03

8 Principles for Understanding the Fiscal Cliff in Two Minutes and Thirty Seconds

The Untold Story of the Great Recession

Has Israel's settlement expansion crossed a 'red line'?
Both Britain and France have summoned Israel's ambassadors to protest plans to expand construction in East Jerusalem, while some say more serious action like economic reprisals are possible.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2012/1203/Has-Israel-s-settlement-expansion-crossed-a-red-line-video

Climate Cliff: As Global Emissions Peak, Hopes for U.N. Climate Deal in Doha at All-Time Low

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WalMart’s Tears for a Tragedy

On Saturday, a fire swept through a garment factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing some 120 workers trapped behind locked doors. WalMart, one of the factory’s clothes buyers, quickly distanced itself from the tragedy, but WalMart’s profiting from sweatshops is a long-term pattern, writes Barbara Koeppel.

http://consortiumnews.com/2012/11/29/walmarts-tears-for-a-tragedy/

Science literacy and the polarized politics of climate change

One of the major goals of science education is for all citizens to have some basic level of science literacy. The rationale is that a basic understanding of science is necessary in order to participate in a modern democratic society, where we must often grapple with policy decisions that deal with socioscientific issues, and where scientific evidence can be a major deciding factor in policy.

http://machineslikeus.com/news/science-literacy-and-polarized-politics-climate-change

The Republican Austerity Bomb is the Real Threat to America
Hidden in the tedious language of “sequestration,” which is guaranteed to lull Americans into disinterest, is an epic battle between the interests of the rich and the poor. Since the rich tend to chronically have the upper hand, having the fiscal cliff conflict come out favorably for the poor seems improbable, though there’s always hope. When the poor come to the government for welfare, they are stigmatized and degraded. When the rich come to the government for welfare, they convince everyone they earned it.
http://www.politicususa.com/austerity-bomb-real-threat-america.html

Citizens Are Winning the Battle Over Cops and Cameras

Last week, the US Supreme Court refused to hear a case that had been overturned by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. The original case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union in an Illinois federal district court and focused on an Illinois law that says it's a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison for an ordinary, tax-paying citizen to videotape a police officer doing his or her public duty. The law fell back on wiretapping laws that make it illegal to tape record a person without his or her consent. Thus, the audio element of videotaping has become a popular ruse for cops to intimidate video recording of their activities.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Citizens-Are-Winning-the-B-by-John-Grant-121202-711.html

Walmart Ends Insurance For New Employees, Conservatives Blame Obamacare

First and foremost, let’s put blame for their decision where it should really be — on them. Walmart certainly has the resources to pay for health insurance for all their workers, even if they worked 10 hours a week. They pay extremely low (average yearly wages are just a touch over the federal poverty line) and purposely limit the number of full-time employees, further limiting costs while being able to report high numbers of employees.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/12/02/walmart-ends-insurance-for-new-employees-conservatives-blame-obamacare/

138 Nations Supported Palestinian Statehood - Anti-Racists Must Boycott 9 Opponents & 41 Abstainers
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011212.htm

The Government Can Still Black Bag Any American
The Senate passed the much ballyhooed Feinstein-Lee amendment last night, which supposedly partially nullifies the provision in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) allowing for Americans to be kidnapped by the government and disappeared without any charge or due process. Senator Rand Paul put out a press release declaring victory. But as Congressman Justin Amash points out, the wording of the amendment effectively codifies tyranny
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33203.htm

Poverty in the U.S.A.


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