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The 72 Who Rule The World

Our annual snapshot of the politicians and financiers, entrepreneurs and CEOs, and billionaire philanthropists who matter most.

http://www.forbes.com/powerful-people/

The Time Has Come For $15 Minimum Wage
http://www.countercurrents.org/vorpahl101113.htm

The 10 Giant Corporations That Have Taken Over Much of Our Economy
http://www.alternet.org/10-giant-corporations-have-taken-over-much-our-economy

UN Human Rights Council presents annual report
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/11/un-human-rights-council-presents-annual-report.php

100 Ways To Undermine The Machine
http://www.opednews.com/articles/100-Ways-To-Undermine-The-by-Keith-Farnish-Disruption_The-Machine_Undermining-131113-915.html

Development and humanitarian aid initiatives enable surveillance in developing countries
https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/development-and-humanitarian-aid-initiatives-enable-surveillance-in-developing-countries

More Taxpayers Are Abandoning the U.S.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-taxpayers-abandoning-u-181500097.html

Russell Brand: We Deserve More From Our Democratic System
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36798.htm

The Gospel of Selfishness in American Christianity
http://www.alternet.org/belief/gospel-selfishness-american-christianity

Can you change the world from your living room?http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/jacob-z-hess-joan-blades/can-you-change-world-from-your-living-room

How Evil Can the CIA and NSA Get? How to Restrain US Intelligence Agencies
http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Evil-Can-the-CIA-and-by-Rob-Kall-Assassination_Diane-Feinstein_FOIA_General-Keith-Alexander-131110-138.html

Democracy Trampled as Big Money Overwhelms Grassroots Campaigns
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/06-4

America's Rampage Through the Middle East
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36863.htm

Ever Purchase a Book on Lying? You Might Be on a Govt Watch List
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/14-1

Are Politicians who Cut Food Stamps and Deny Health Access Truly 'Pro-Life'?http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/are-politicians-who-cut-food-stamps-and-deny-health-access-truly-pro-life

6 Things You Buy That Help Support Israeli Brutality
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36791.htm

How the Super-Rich Are Abandoning America

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/04-1

U.S. Is a State Sponsor of Terrorism
http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-Is-a-State-Sponsor-of-by-William-Boardman-America_Bombing_Children_Children-131108-967.html

The Great Austerity Shell Game: Here's How the Capitalist Scam Works
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/04-3

George W. Bush to Raise Money for Group That Converts Jews to Bring About Second Coming of Christ
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36790.htm

Silent Soldiers, The Losers From Our Lost Wars
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/07-5

Secret Persuasion: How Big Campaign Donors Stay Anonymous
http://www.npr.org/2013/11/06/243022966/secret-persuasion-how-big-campaign-donors-stay-anonymous

Top 10 Survival Tips Every Hiker Should Know
http://news.discovery.com/adventure/survival/top-10-survival-tips-every-hiker-should-know-131107.htm#mkcpgn=emnws1

The dark side of data (11 talks)

Data can be used for good, harnessed for the betterment of society, but it can also be abused. Find out about some hidden not-so-sunny uses of Big Data.

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  Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching

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  Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world's trust -- time to act

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  Heather Brooke: My battle to expose government corruption

  18:57
  

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  Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science

  14:19
  

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  Alessandro Acquisti: Why privacy matters

  15:00
  

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  Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am!

  14:30
  

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  Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack

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  Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world

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  Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked

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  Todd Humphreys: How to fool a GPS

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  Christopher "moot" Poole": The case for anonymity online

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 http://www.ted.com/playlists/130/the_dark_side_of_data.html

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American Hegemony is Over

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36668.htm

The Lies That Will Kill America
http://www.alternet.org/media/lies-will-kill-america

NSA wiretapping scandal dominates European Union summit
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/26/eusu-o26.html

America's Most Beloved War Criminals
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36676.htm

How embassy eavesdropping works
http://www.duncancampbell.org/embassy-bugging

Cleaning up Capitalism
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/free-and-ethical-markets/cleaning-up-capitalism-.html

Confessions of a Drone "Warrior"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36647.htm

15 Ways The United States Is The Best (At Being The Worst)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/american-exceptionalism_n_4170683.html

NSA Stores Data to Target Any Citizen at Any Time http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36680.htm

Our Invisible Revolution
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/28

Snowden, Assange, Manning, Vanunu - the true heroes of our time
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36664.htm

Cutting food stamps: The ruthlessness of the American ruling class
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/29/pers-o29.html

Where Liberals Diverge: Marianne Williamson and Russell Brand
http://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/where-liberals-diverge-marianne-williamson-and-russell-brand

The Six Primary Reasons for Why They Hate Us
http://disinfo.com/2013/10/six-primary-reasons-hate-us/

Billionaires Are Dangerous to Humanity, Dangerous to the Earth
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Billionaires-Are-Dangerous-by-Rob-Kall-Billionaires_Health-Mental-Sociopath-Narcissism_Inequality_No-Billionaires-Debillionairize-131026-993.html

EU leaders: US spying could hinder fight against terrorism
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/10/eu-leaders-us-spying-could-hinder-fight-against-terrorism.php

NSA head demands end to spying revelations
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/28/pers-o28.html

UN rights expert urges laws supporting right to food http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/10/un-rights-expert-urges-laws-supporting-right-to-food.php

Glenn Greenwald: U.S. Spying on Allies Shows 'Institutional Obsession' with Surveillance

Lee Camp: Are Local Police Preparing For War?

9 Free DOCUMENTARIES: New World Order, Class War, Life After Guantanamo, Getting Rich, Hidden Victims of Austerity, Assassination Nation, War Crimes, Earth in 1000 Years, Eyewar.

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New World Order

You want us to stand down. You want us to back off. You want us to shut up while our country and our sovereignty and our borders and everything we've ever been and everything we'll ever be is being destroyed. You got the nerve to call us traitors and call us conspiracy theorists just because we're informed.

Class War

The US military with its vast complex web of branches, agencies and bureaucracies is, in socio-political terms, a metastasized cancer run rampant in the American body of politics, and the Americans are dying of it. Not surprising, the core purpose of armies is to kill people. Every country that has ever had one claimed it was for defense but all history proves their function has never varied - to kill people and appropriate their wealth.

Life after Guantanamo

In this episode, Fault Lines traveled to Yemen to ask what the consequences of America's policy of indefinite detention have been and to find out what life is like there, after Guantanamo.

Getting Rich

It is one of the most extraordinary transformations of our time - China. A country long in the grip of communism is now devoted to private enterprise. That is what they had to do for the ordinary people of China to become richer. This new economic superpower is taking on the West. But China's surging economy has a dark side. Can China keep moving forward or will the forces of change tear it apart?

Into the Fire: The Hidden Victims of Austerity

Most refugees arrive in Europe by foot or by boat, landing in Greece, Italy and Spain. Under EU regulations, asylum claims have to be made in the country through which refugees first enter Europe. They cannot move to another European country. In 2011 the European Court of Human Rights found that asylum seekers in Greece are at risk of inhuman and degrading treatment. There are deficiencies in the asylum procedure, the detention conditions and the living conditions in Greece.

Assassination Nation

The most successful suicide attack of all time was 9/11. In fact, it was powerful that it led to the US invasion of both Iraq and Afghanistan. 11 years ago, the US Army invaded Afghanistan with the sole purpose of getting Al Qaeda and Taliban. Today, the US government is entering into negotiations with the Taliban to see just how much power they will gain when our troops leave. This is a direct result of the Taliban's successful use of terror techniques, suicide attacks, and suicide bombing.

War Crimes

Not long ago, one out of every five prisoners in America was a Vietnam vet. More and more veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are showing up behind bars and many are being charged with violent crime. Experts are saying that there's a common thread that often runs through these cases, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.

Earth in 1000 Years

Scientists are tracking the overall rate of ice loss with the Grace Satellite. They found that from 2003 to 2009, Greenland lost about a trillion tons, mostly along its coastlines. This number mirror's ice loss in the Arctic as a whole. By 2012, summer sea ice coverage had fallen to a little more than half of what it was in the year 1980. While the ice rebounded in 2013, the coverage was still well below the average of the last three decades. Analyzing global data from Grace, one study reports that Earth lost about 4,000 cubic kilometers of ice in the decade leading up to 2012.

Eyewar

These are some of the topics addressed in Eyewar: 80 minutes of found footage which traces the development of the digital image from the maps of the second century to the screens of the twenty-first, and the uses of the field of cybernetics from Japan in the 1940s to Chile in the 1970s and Iraq in the 1990s.

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The social chasm in America
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/13/pers-s13.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The West Dethroned
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36164.htm

Why You’re To Blame for the NSA (and So Am I)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/06/nsa_surveillance_we_re_all_to_blame_for_the_government_overreach.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content

5 Acts of Terror By the People We Chose to Protect Us
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/5-acts-terror-people-we-chose-protect-us

The US Government Stands Revealed to the World as a Collection of War Criminals and Liars
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36135.htm

US labor force participation rate falls to lowest level since 1978

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/07/jobs-s07.html

Wouldn't It Be Something If We Had A President Who Believed In Liberty?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130830/16242924371/wouldnt-it-be-something-if-we-had-president-who-believed-liberty.shtml

Inside America's Dark History of Chemical Warfare
http://www.alternet.org/world/america-and-chemical-warfare

5 facts about the Pledge of Allegiance
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/04/5-facts-about-the-pledge-of-allegiance/

10 Ways America Has Come to Resemble a Banana Republic

http://www.alternet.org/economy/10-ways-america-has-come-resemble-banana-republic

Secret Documents Reveal N.S.A. Campaign Against Encryption
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-reveal-nsa-campaign-against-encryption.html?_r=0

How can we change the world?
http://socialistworker.org/2013/09/09/how-can-we-change-the-world

Violent Behavior Linked to Nutritional Deficiencies: ‘Their Brains Are Starving’
http://disinfo.com/2013/09/violent-behavior-linked-to-nutritional-deficiencies-their-brains-are-starving/

When Civil Disobedience Becomes Law Enforcement
http://onthecommons.org/magazine/when-civil-disobedience-becomes-law-enforcement

Save the Planet, Starting on Your Own Block
http://onthecommons.org/magazine/save-planet-starting-your-own-block

USDA Whistleblowers: Workers "Threatened" for Making Food Safety Complaints at Pork Plants
http://www.foodwhistleblower.org/blog/28-2013/565-usda-whistleblowers-workers-qthreatenedq-for-making-food-safety-complaints-at-pork-plants

Map: Where You Don’t Want to Be When It Hits the Fan

The Mind-Blowing Truth About War With Syria

KMC » 1pm - Sep 6, 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What To Expect During The Next Stage Of Collapse

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/what-to-expect-during-the-next-stage-of-collapse_082013

Moral Obscenities in Syria
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/27-7

People of the World are Fighting Back

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36052.htm

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

Fool Me Twice, Shame on US

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

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Do the Math

Like most people, Bill (environmentalist and co-founder of 350.org), is not an activist by nature. There’s really not that many people whose greatest desire it to go out and fight the system. His theory of change was that he’ll write his book, people will read it and they’ll change. But that’s not how change happens. What is required is to make a little noise, be a little uncomfortable, and push other people to be a little uncomfortable. The moment has come where we have to take a real stance, because we’re reaching limits.

Vatican Inc.

Every Sunday worshipers crowd the Saint Peter’s colonnades in square and from its balcony the Pope imparts a sacrament and the latest behavioral guidelines. Over one billion Catholics look to the pontiff for guidance and donate their money to the Catholic Church. A large portion of this money makes its way to the Vatican and into the vaults of the IOR, the Institute for Religious Works, the Vatican’s Bank.

Fiefdom of Speech

The right to freedom of expression is recognized as a human right under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recognized in international human rights law in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Children for Sale

From slums and misery in Brazil, hundreds of children and teenagers leave each day in search of tourists. At home there is no food on the table. On the beaches of Fortaleza there are plenty of men eager for easy and cheap bodies. Left to themselves or encouraged by their parents into prostitution, many children try to survive with what the night of Fortaleza has to offer – sex and drugs. 

Crack House USA

Summer 2005: federal agents and police record over a thousand hours of surveillance footage inside a crack house in Rockford Illinois. For six weeks the gang smoke weed, play with guns and sell crack and heroin, unaware that their every move is being filmed. The customers come and go with no clue that their secret lives would be exposed. This is an intimate portrait of the rise and fall of a crack house and of an American urban community brought down by drugs. Interviews with gang members, their families and cops reveal the inescapable tragedy – and occasional dark comedy – of a world that lies hidden within every modern city.

Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West

Today, we find ourselves confronted by a new enemy, also engaged in a violent struggle to transform our world. As we sleep in the comfort of our homes, a new evil rises against us. A new menace is threatening, with all the means at its disposal, to bow Western Civilization under the yoke of its values. That enemy is Radical Islam.

The Rise of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is an ever evolving goal for researchers, and the object of endless fascination for writers, filmmakers, and the general public. But despite our best science fiction visions, creating digital intelligence is incredibly difficult. The universe is a very complicated place, and humans have had millions of years to evolve the ability to navigate and make sense of it. Contemporary attempts to create AI have us looking more at how our own brains work to see how a computer could simulate the core activities that create our intelligence. No matter how we get there, it is certain that artificial intelligence will have tremendous impact on our society and economy, and lead us down a path towards evolving our own definitions of humanity.

The Hawking Paradox

Stephen Hawking is the most famous scientist on the planet. His popular science book A Brief History of Time was a publishing sensation, staying at the top of the bestseller lists longer than any other book in recent history. But behind the public face lies an argument that has been raging for almost 30 years.

Battered And Bruised

In PNG’s Western Highlands Provinces, 97 per cent of women surveyed by an NGO said they had been attacked by male family members. From middle-class households in the capital Port Moresby to villages where tribal law rules an estimated one million children live in volatile family environments.

Iran And The Bomb

The West says Iran is making a nuclear bomb. Tehran says they’re treating cancer. This compelling investigation gets right to the heart of the maelstrom, interrogating facts, falsehoods and shocking allegations.