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Sunday, June 23
@dustcirclenews - DOCUMENTARIES: The Truth 365, Seeds of Death, Land of Missing Children, Mutation, One Giant Leap, Book That Can't Be Read, Love Reality and Time of Transition, City of God Guns and Gangs, 10 Rules for Dealing with Police
Saturday, February 16
16.Feb.2013 - VIDEOS: Dorner Cabin Fire, Corporate-Government Science, Secret Gun History, Droning Defense, SOTU Rhetoric, XL Pipeline Debate, Obama's Kill List, Blacklisting, Social Media Tracking, Pathway to Citizenship, Middle-Class Revival, U.S. Violent Culture, Afghan War Troops, Police's Intentional Fire, more.
Cops Accused of Starting Fire as Charred Body Found in ‘Dorner’ Cabin
Obama Sets Proudly Progressive Agenda in State of the Union
Defence develop Software that can track people on Social media
Blind faith in corporate-government science
The Secret History of Guns and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
Blind faith in corporate-government science
The Secret History of Guns and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
MSNBC's Droning Defense of Targeted Assassination
SOTU: Do Policy Proposals Live up to Rhetoric on Wages and Climate Change?
Will Feb 17th Protest Stop the XL Pipeline and Shift Climate Debate?
Obama's Kill List and White Paper Memo
Blacklisting: we identify companies named and those NOT named in Parliamentary inquiry
Obama Sets Proudly Progressive Agenda in State of the Union
Defence develop Software that can track people on Social media
As Obama Touts Pathway to Citizenship, Record Deportations Leave Undocumented Immigrants in Fear
Obama’s SOTU Address Calls for Middle-Class Revival, But Poverty and Inequality Still Get Short Shrift
Beyond Gun Control, Obama Urged to Tackle Joblessness, Incarceration and U.S. "Culture of Violence"
Despite Planned Troop Withdrawal, Special Ops and Private Forces Prepare to Continue Afghan War
An Intentional Fire? Police Use of Incendiary Tear Gas Criticized in Killing of Christopher Dorner
From Dorner to Waco to MOVE Bombing, A Look at Growing Militarization of Domestic Policing
NAACP: New Election Commission Needed to Address Voter Suppression, Attacks on Voting Rights
Wednesday, February 13
13.Feb.2013 - DOCUMENTARIES: Networked Society, Supersize Me, Bad Behavior Online, Clean Technology Future, Food Speculator
Life in a Networked Society
Supersize Me – Morgan Spurlock vs McDonald’s Fastfood
The Clean Technology Future
The Food Speculator
Technologies enable people to interact, innovate and share information in totally new ways. People are empowered, business is liberated and the society is more transparent. But how to take advantage of all this? And what does it take to become a networked society?
While examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald’s food for one month.
Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock’s film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003 during which he ate only McDonald’s food. The film documents this lifestyle’s drastic effect on Spurlock’s physical and psychological well-being, and explores the fast food industry’s corporate influence, including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit.
Spurlock dined at McDonald’s restaurants three times per day, eating every item on the chain’s menu at least once. Spurlock consumed an average of 20.92 megajoules or 5,000 kcal (the equivalent of 9.26 Big Macs) per day during the experiment.
As a result, the then-32-year-old Spurlock gained 24½ lbs. (11.1 kg), a 13% body mass increase, a cholesterol level of 230, and experienced mood swings, sexual dysfunction, and fat accumulation in his liver. It took Spurlock fourteen months to lose the weight gained from his experiment using a vegan diet supervised by his future wife, a chef who specializes in gourmet vegan dishes.
The reason for Spurlock’s investigation was the increasing spread of obesity throughout U.S. society, which the Surgeon General has declared “epidemic,” and the corresponding lawsuit brought against McDonald’s on behalf of two overweight girls, who, it was alleged, became obese as a result of eating McDonald’s food.
The documentary was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock’s film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003 during which he ate only McDonald’s food. The film documents this lifestyle’s drastic effect on Spurlock’s physical and psychological well-being, and explores the fast food industry’s corporate influence, including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit.
Spurlock dined at McDonald’s restaurants three times per day, eating every item on the chain’s menu at least once. Spurlock consumed an average of 20.92 megajoules or 5,000 kcal (the equivalent of 9.26 Big Macs) per day during the experiment.
As a result, the then-32-year-old Spurlock gained 24½ lbs. (11.1 kg), a 13% body mass increase, a cholesterol level of 230, and experienced mood swings, sexual dysfunction, and fat accumulation in his liver. It took Spurlock fourteen months to lose the weight gained from his experiment using a vegan diet supervised by his future wife, a chef who specializes in gourmet vegan dishes.
The reason for Spurlock’s investigation was the increasing spread of obesity throughout U.S. society, which the Surgeon General has declared “epidemic,” and the corresponding lawsuit brought against McDonald’s on behalf of two overweight girls, who, it was alleged, became obese as a result of eating McDonald’s food.
The documentary was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
The internet is a powerful tool for communication, but it can sometimes be a double-edged sword. As most of us have seen or experienced, the internet can bring out the worst behavior in people, highlighting some of the cruelest and most hurtful aspects of humanity. Issues such as bullying online and trolling have garnered a lot of attention recently, prompting questions about who does, and should, regulate the internet, and what free speech means online.
What if we could live in a clean world?A world in which energy would be 100% renewable, water no longer polluted, transportation truly green and production methods clean and regenerative? There will be such a world. This documentary explores the unprecedented possibilities of a new industrial revolution: Cleantech.
Signs of a new future are visible everywhere, from China to the US and from Europe to Thailand. Green mobility powered by sustainable energy, clean drinking water for all thanks to nanotechnology, dyeing textiles using recycled CO2. All of this is possible and is happening successfully now! Working together with Cleantech-founder Nick Parker, this film shows what our world will be like in the decades to come. The film team travels the world in search of a clean future.
Signs of a new future are visible everywhere, from China to the US and from Europe to Thailand. Green mobility powered by sustainable energy, clean drinking water for all thanks to nanotechnology, dyeing textiles using recycled CO2. All of this is possible and is happening successfully now! Working together with Cleantech-founder Nick Parker, this film shows what our world will be like in the decades to come. The film team travels the world in search of a clean future.
The film examines the global commodities futures markets and aims to understand the role of speculation on food prices.
Assuming the role of a speculator, director Kees Brouwer tries to find out whether he is merely taking advantage of the opportunity offered to investors by the food scarcity, or that, through this abstract world of financial products, he is drastically interfering in poor people’s lives.
Increasing food prices are increasingly causing unrest in the world. It was no coincidence that when the Arab Spring first began Tunisian protesters attacked the order police with baguettes. Is there just not enough food for so many people, or are the price increases caused by speculators, looking for quick profits? Backlight tries to find an answer by doing a little food speculation of its own. A quest that leads us to places including the streets of Tunisia and the Chicago Stock Exchange.
Assuming the role of a speculator, director Kees Brouwer tries to find out whether he is merely taking advantage of the opportunity offered to investors by the food scarcity, or that, through this abstract world of financial products, he is drastically interfering in poor people’s lives.
Increasing food prices are increasingly causing unrest in the world. It was no coincidence that when the Arab Spring first began Tunisian protesters attacked the order police with baguettes. Is there just not enough food for so many people, or are the price increases caused by speculators, looking for quick profits? Backlight tries to find an answer by doing a little food speculation of its own. A quest that leads us to places including the streets of Tunisia and the Chicago Stock Exchange.
Wednesday, December 5
05.Dec.2012 - Demilitarize the C.I.A., Ashley Judd for Senate, T.S.A. Skips Termination Hearing, Americans Abandoned, Best Response to Disaster, Rise of Skynet, Cops Need Text Logs, Prison Slavery Business, UN Calls for Israel to Disclose Nuclear Arsenal, How Racism Lives On, Whistle-blower Treatment by US, Gaza Thwarts Israeli Propaganda, Citizen Reporting, more.
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Demilitarize the C.I.A.
Although the departure of General Petraeus is a significant loss for the intelligence community, it is also an opportunity to better balance intelligence support for military and diplomatic operations.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/03/a-new-director-or-a-new-direction-for-the-cia/demilitarize-the-cia
The director of the Transportation Security Administration, John S. Pistole, had declined to testify before this particular subcommittee on two previous occasions, despite angry criticism from some members who are longtime agency critics.
We’re usually inclined to fight power when it is being carried out, but that’s often too late to stop it. Similarly, we’re inclined to fight power where it is most felt — in our communities, in the poor neighborhoods and communities of color around the city, in the ghettos that separate the many from the few who profit from their exploitation. That, too, is a mistake, because the powerful make decisions far, far away from there.
How racism lives on in a "color-blind" society
How does racism operate in a supposedly "post-racial" society? Where does institutionalized discrimination against African Americans and other people of color fit into the other structures of capitalism? Brian Jones, a teacher, actor and activist in New York City, provided answers in a talk given at a conference for socialists and activists held in early November.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/12/04/racism-in-a-color-blind-society
http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/nov/30/new-whistleblower-law/
5 Reasons to Be Terrified That Computers Can Now Read Faces
http://www.cracked.com/article_20135_5-reasons-to-be-terrified-that-computers-can-now-read-faces.html#ixzz2E701lsSG
Spirits were high in Gaza City’s Shalehat resort the Saturday afternoon after a ceasefire ended eight days of escalated Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. Eighty activists had gathered to discuss their use of social media during the aggression and plan their next steps.
FASCIST THEOCRACY:
FRANK ZAPPA ON CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM, THE GOP AND TEE-VEE EVANGELISTS, 1988
What the American Media Won't Tell You About Israel
n old man in Gaza held a placard that read: "You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back."
Although the departure of General Petraeus is a significant loss for the intelligence community, it is also an opportunity to better balance intelligence support for military and diplomatic operations.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/03/a-new-director-or-a-new-direction-for-the-cia/demilitarize-the-cia
Bradley Manning: it’s make-or-break time
Ashley Judd for Senate: Could she win?
T.S.A. Skips a Hearing on Terminating the T.S.A.
Americans abandoned
No power, no heat, no food, destroyed homes
The best response to disaster: Go on the offensive
We’re usually inclined to fight power when it is being carried out, but that’s often too late to stop it. Similarly, we’re inclined to fight power where it is most felt — in our communities, in the poor neighborhoods and communities of color around the city, in the ghettos that separate the many from the few who profit from their exploitation. That, too, is a mistake, because the powerful make decisions far, far away from there.Israel Asked Jordan’s Approval To Strike Alleged Syrian WMD Facilities
The issue was revealed in a report by Jeffery Goldberg of The Atlantic, who also reported that Jordan has, so far, rejected any Israeli request to strike Syria.
Cops to Congress: We need logs of Americans’ text messages
State and local law enforcement groups want wireless providers to store detailed information about your SMS messages for at least two years -- in case they're needed for future criminal investigations.
The prison biz: The new slavery
UN Resolution Calls for Israel to Disclose Nuclear Arsenal
The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Monday to approve a resolution calling on Israel to open up its nuclear weapons program to international inspectors and to end its refusal to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treary, or NPT.
Is Popular Religion Derived from Egotism?
Walter Lippman on Scientific vs. Religious Attitudes Towards the Universe
Street Artist Charged with 56 Counts for Punking NYPD with Drone Poster
How racism lives on in a "color-blind" society
How does racism operate in a supposedly "post-racial" society? Where does institutionalized discrimination against African Americans and other people of color fit into the other structures of capitalism? Brian Jones, a teacher, actor and activist in New York City, provided answers in a talk given at a conference for socialists and activists held in early November.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/12/04/racism-in-a-color-blind-society
How does the US treat its whistleblowers?A NEW WHISTLEBLOWER LAW |
http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/nov/30/new-whistleblower-law/
5 Reasons to Be Terrified That Computers Can Now Read Faces
http://www.cracked.com/article_20135_5-reasons-to-be-terrified-that-computers-can-now-read-faces.html#ixzz2E701lsSG
Terrorist Attacks More Than Quadrupled In Decade Since Sept. 11, 2001, Study Finds
The number of terrorist attacks each year has more than quadrupled in the decade since September 11, 2001, a study released on Tuesday said, with Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan the most affected.
Gaza thwarts Israeli propaganda with Twitter
Spirits were high in Gaza City’s Shalehat resort the Saturday afternoon after a ceasefire ended eight days of escalated Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. Eighty activists had gathered to discuss their use of social media during the aggression and plan their next steps.Could Citizen Reporting Be the Sweet Spot for Local Engagement?
Mainstream news organizations have had mixed results with citizen news reporting. While crowd-sourcing efforts such as CNN's iReport and Help Me Investigate have yielded valuable information, many other efforts have foundered, often on journalists' expectation that citizen-created news must look like what the professionals produce to have value.
FRANK ZAPPA ON CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM, THE GOP AND TEE-VEE EVANGELISTS, 1988
NASA Voyager 1 Hits New Region At Solar System’s End
We knew this day would come: NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, today still traveling away from Earth at a rate of 35,700 miles-per-hour, has entered into a new region of space at the end of the solar system, NASA announced on Monday.
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/nasa-voyager-1-hits-new-region-at-solar-systems-end.php
What the American Media Won't Tell You About Israel
n old man in Gaza held a placard that read: "You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back."
Walmart's Exploitation Is Nothing New, So What Made Workers Finally Fight Back?
Occupy Cooks for Sandy Victims
FEMA Abandons the ROCKAWAYS
Bill Maher: Michael Moore Vs David Frum
Social media analyst: Internet censorship grave concern
In Doha, Lead U.S. Negotiator Plays Down Expectations of Climate Action in Obama’s Second Term
Former Irish President Mary Robinson: Climate Change the Biggest Human Rights Issue of Our Time
Study: Wealthy Nations’ Fossil Fuel Subsidies 5 Times Greater Than Climate Aid to Countries in Need
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