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Dark Days

Filmmaker Marc Singer brings a unique view of New York City’s homeless in a very raw film. Dark Days was made by Singer spending 2 years living in the subterranean tunnels with the people that society has cast out. These people have come together to form a sort of underground community. This film, shot in black and white and without narration, reveals some of the lives of those in these ‘hidden’ communities.

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National Geographic: Down to the Earth’s Core

Learn about what is going on under your feet as National Geographic plunges into Earth’s depths to reveal the history of our world and what is below us.

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Sniper: Inside The Crosshairs

Sniper: Inside The Crosshairs brings us the psychological and strategic thinking behind one of the battlefield’s most notorious weapon: the sniper. Learning from some of the best marksmen in the industry, they destruct previous missions, showing the planning and mentality involved.

A History of Syria

Robin Barnwell, who directed and produced ‘A History of Syria with Dan Snow’, explains the challenges of filming amid the conflict, and describes the spirit of the Syrian people he met.

How Many People Can Live On Planet Earth

In a Horizon special, naturalist Sir David Attenborough investigates whether the world is heading for a population crisis.

Surgery’s Dirty Secrets

Vigorous investigation of a topical issue. Panorama investigates concerns about the quality of surgical instruments being used on patients in the UK. Reporter Samantha Poling hears from those working inside the NHS who claim that tools with dangerous defects are being supplied to hospitals.

I LOST MY JOB

I Lost My Job is a short documentary film which sets out to explore the phenomenon which is affecting and due to affect many people’s lives – namely, technological unemployment. The documentary also examines what we can do about it as a society through the analysis of a transitional direction.

MEXICO’S FEMALE CRIME JOURNALISTS

We travel to Ciudad Juarez to meet the journalists who cover politics and crime for the Diario de Juarez. All of them are women and they have covered more crimes than anyone we can think of. They are also some of the bravest women we’ve ever met. We followed them around the city as they covered political rallies of the ruling party, PAN, and to crime scenes, to try to understand what happened there over the past few years and why the candidates were not fully addressing the most glaring issue in Mexican politics right now.

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The Criminal N.S.A.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opinion/the-criminal-nsa.html?_r=1&

NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/nsa-data-mining-authorised-obama

US Rulers Fear American People
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35419.htm

Obama Backs First-Strike Nuclear War As U.S. Policy
http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle250613.htm

Stamping Impunity On Israel’s War Crimes
http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna250613.htm

NSA surveillance 101: What US intelligence agencies are doing, what they know
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/0613/NSA-surveillance-101-What-US-intelligence-agencies-are-doing-what-they-know/Whose-phone-and-Internet-communications-are-being-monitored-by-the-government-exactly

FBI sat on plot of assassinate Occupy Wall Street leaders
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/government-terror/fbi-sat-on-plot-of-assassinateoccupy-wall-street-leaders.html

Fast Food Strikes: What's Cooking?
http://www.labornotes.org/2013/06/fast-food-strikes-whats-cooking

The dismal state of the US banking industry
http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2013/06/27/the-dismal-state-of-the-us-banking-industry/

After DOMA: What's Next For Gay Married Couples?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/26/195881288/after-doma-whats-next-for-gay-married-couples

DOMA Struck Down – Thank you
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kimberlyknight/2013/06/doma-stuck-down-thank-you/

Remembering the UpStairs Lounge: The U.S.A.’s Largest LGBT Massacre Happened 40 Years Ago Today

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/06/24/remembering-the-upstairs-lounge-the-u-s-a-s-largest-lgbt-massacre-happened-40-years-ago-today/

Israel’s Quiet Strategy of Conquest
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/06/24/israels-quiet-strategy-of-conquest/

Google not required to remove harmful data from search index: EU lawyer
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/06/google-not-required-to-remove-sensitive-information-eu-lawyer.php

US Officials Realizing That Snowden May Have Copied Info On Almost Everything The NSA Does
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130625/01393823610/us-officials-realizing-that-snowden-may-have-copied-info-almost-everything-nsa-does.shtml

Leaked Document Shows EU Approach To Cybercrime Is Completely Misguided
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130622/22485623584/leaked-document-shows-eu-approach-to-cybercrime-is-completely-misguided.shtml

IRS called out on the carpet
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/government-corruption/irs-called-out-on-the-carpet.html

Why Hasn't Obama Done More About Guantanamo?

Insider Threat: Government Employees Urged to Tattle On Coworkers In Effort to Stop Classified Leaks

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"I protest": challenging the war policies of the United States

http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/ann-wright/i-protest-challenging-war-policies-of-united-states

The Constitution Is Under Attack as the Right Tries to Establish A State Religion
http://www.politicususa.com/constitution-attack-establish-state-religion.html

Does Obama have authority to wage war without approval of Congress?

http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76234

It's Time to Get Real on Immigration
http://www.opednews.com/articles/It-s-Time-to-Get-Real-on-I-by-John-Bruhns-130521-748.html

The GOP response to global warming is irrational and dangerous
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-GOP-response-to-global-by-Brian-Cooney-130521-109.html

Our Govt. Is Turning into a Surveillance State That's Almost Impossible to Stop
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/our-govt-turning-surveillance-state-thats-almost-impossible-stop

Racism and the American Right
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Racism-and-the-American-Ri-by-Robert-Parry-130519-835.html

Corporations Are Stealing Billions in Tax Breaks, While the Confused, Screwed Citizenry Turn On Each Other
http://www.alternet.org/corporations-are-stealing-billions-tax-breaks-while-confused-screwed-citizenry-turn-each-other

Five Voting Fights You’ll Care About Come Election Time
http://prospect.org/article/five-voting-fights-you%E2%80%99ll-care-about-come-election-time

Confronting the anti-immigrant backlash
http://socialistworker.org/2013/05/14/confronting-anti-immigrant-bigotry

Obama's false promises about Guantánamo
http://socialistworker.org/2013/05/13/false-promises-on-guantanamo

An Experiment That's Never Been Tried: Morality Without Religion
http://bigthink.com/big-think-tv/an-experiment-thats-never-been-tried-morality-without-religion

How Walmart Paid $24 Million In Bribes To Build On Sacred Mayan Ruins
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/18/teotihuacan-how-mexicos-sacred-mayan-site-got-buried-beneath-walmart-video/

‘Buycott’ App Lets You Track Corporate Parenthood Of Goods
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/19/boycott-app-buycott/

The Price of Pacifism: Refusing to go to War is Finally Being Recognised as a Brave Act
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34994.htm

Corruption And Congress
http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar190513A.htm

Audacity of Godlessness: How and Why Being Godless in America Requires Audacity
http://atheism.about.com/od/godlesslivinginamerica/tp/Audacity-Godlessness-America.htm?nl=1

We'd like a living wage with that order
http://socialistworker.org/2013/05/20/wed-like-a-living-wage

Just How Many Journalists Is the Justice Department Spying On?
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/just-how-many-journalists-justice-department-spying

Marching against Monsanto

http://socialistworker.org/2013/05/20/marching-against-monsanto


How Lotteries Are Bad For Players, Winners, And States
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/05/20/2035751/lottery-powerball-poverty-state-budgets/

Monsanto Has Been Removed And Banned By: Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Madeira, New Zealand, Peru, South Australia, Russia, France, and Switzerland!
http://politicalvelcraft.org/2013/03/23/monsanto-has-been-removed-and-banned-by-austria-bulgaria-germany-greece-hungary-ireland-japan-luxembourg-madeira-new-zealand-peru-south-australia-russia-france-and-switzerland/

The Extremely Bold Tax Evasion Technique Apple Doesn’t Want You To Know They Use
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/21/the-extremely-bold-tax-evasion-technique-apple-doesnt-want-you-to-know-they-use/

Religion Shouldn't Be an Excuse for Discrimination
http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2013/05/21/op-ed-religion-shouldnt-be-excuse-discrimination

Israel killing the two-state solution
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/israel-killing-the-two-state-solution-by-khalid-amayreh/

Smashing the Absurd Myth That More Guns Make Us Safer
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/smashing-absurd-myth-more-guns-make-us-safer

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Alleged terrorist arrested for trying to blow up Federal Reserve building in NYC
A young man was arrested on Wednesday for attempting to blow up the Federal Reserve building in New York City. According to NBC 4 New York, 21-year-old Quazi Mohammed Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis is an immigrant from Bangladesh, here on a student visa since January. He was studing cyber security at a college in Missouri, reported CNN News.

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13206383-alleged-terrorist-arrested-for-trying-to-blow-up-federal-reserve-building-in-nyc

Whistleblower Paid and Reinstated after OSHA Ruling

A Tennessee employee is reinstated and compensated after winning whistleblower case
http://ohsonline.com/articles/2012/10/17/whistleblower-paid-and-reinstated-after-osha-ruling.aspx?admgarea=news

OpEd: Whistleblowers can help prevent future food fiascos

The first thing to understand about the XL Foods recall is that it was almost certainly preventable. As in all such incidents, those responsible would have us believe it was some kind of fluke, unforeseeable and beyond human control. This is unlikely.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/op-ed/OpEd+Whistleblowers+help+prevent+future+food+fiascos/7400062/story.html

Romney Binder Full of Top Ten Mistakes and Falsehoods

1. Romney attempted to convey the impression that he has worked to increase women's employment as governor, reaching out to women's groups and receiving "binders of women" from them. (Yes, that is what he said). But Romney made no effort to hire women managers at Bain Capital, and even today only 4 of out of 49 of Bain's managing directors are women.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/14032-focus-romney-binder-full-of-top-ten-mistakes-and-falsehoods

Economic Inequality Must Be Part of the Debate!

The future of our democracy is at stake. For four decades, the divide between the rich and the poor has been widening -- that didn't just start with this administration. We have allowed our government to be bought and sold by a few lobbyists and the billionaires and millionaires who line their pockets with oil, prison, war, gun and insurance money. In those forty years, there has not been anyone that has represented these hijackers of our democracy better than "Money" Mitt Romney. He is THEIR guy! That is precisely why the Super PACs spend most of their money on his campaign (4 to 1), because they know that he is for sale, like a NASCAR driver.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russell-simmons/economic-inequality-must_b_1974812.html

Standing up to the frackers

Peter Rugh reports on grassroots protests in New York City and elsewhere calling attention to the environmental damage caused by fracking.

http://socialistworker.org/2012/10/18/standing-up-to-the-frackers

Exclusive Interview: Chris Hedges: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

Another extraordinary interview with Chris, again showing what a visionary, revolutionary We discuss his new book, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt written with illustrator Joe Sacco

http://www.opednews.com/Podcast/Chris-Hedges-Days-of-Dest-by-Rob-Kall-121017-706.html

American-Style Fascism

On October 16, Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY) hosted the second Obama/Romney charade. Demagogic blather again took center stage. Ritualistic theater was featured. Grade F spectacle defines it. 

http://www.opednews.com/articles/American-Style-Fascism-by-Stephen-Lendman-121018-199.html

EU Wages War on Free Expression

Free expression in all forms is fundamental. Without it, all other freedoms are at risk. Included are free speech, thought, culture, intellectual inquiry, and press freedom.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/EU-Wages-War-on-Free-Expre-by-Stephen-Lendman-121017-955.html

NYPD Sergeant illegally confiscates OWS info fliers, Donations, then gropes protesters breast

After months of trying to confiscate the information Occupy Wall Street provides to the public on a daily basis, they got their chance when the person responsible for the information table stepped away for a moment, leaving another long-time protester in charge of it. At 1:10 A.M. Lt. Connelly did a walk-though to inspect for violations of NYPD orders.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/NYPD-Sergeant-illegally-co-by-Cory-Clark-121016-700.html

U.S. Joins Israel in Blockading Higher Education Opportunities for Students in Gaza

As another international activist ship is on the high seas to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, the United States government has joined with Israel to blockade higher education opportunities for students in Gaza and the West Bank.  

http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-Joins-Israel-in-Block-by-Ann-Wright-121016-252.html

Twitter’s First Act Of Censorship Silences Neo-Nazi Profile In Germany

Back in January Twitter unveiled a revision to their stance on censorship – namely, that while they agreed that the tweets must continue to flow, Twitter’s increasing position on the international stage meant that, inevitably, they would have to work with governments and enforcement agencies on a per-country basis in order to better serve their respective values and norms with regard to freedom of expression.

http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/twitter-censors-neo-nazis_b30118#more-30118

Presidential Polls 2012: 15 Percent Less Young People Will Vote in 2012

This morning the Harvard Public Opinion Project released our bi-annual poll of over 2,000 18-29 year olds from all across the United States. The poll provides a unique insight into millennial thinking about the 2012 election especially in comparison to our previous polling going back over a decade.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/16799/presidential-polls-2012-15-percent-less-young-people-will-vote-in-2012

The Risky Business of Eating in America

ong before human beings decoded the human genome or split the atom, they discovered that arsenic is very good at killing things. The ancient Romans prized it as a murder weapon because it could be mixed into food or drink without altering its color, taste, or smell. Plus, a tiny dose kills without fail.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/272-39/14051-the-risky-business-of-eating-in-america

Five Reasons Politicians Can No Longer Ignore the Nones

The news on “nones” is the latest hot topic.(1) Not just around secular movement water coolers, but in the mainstream media. Major newspapers read: “losing our religion,” “one in five Americans reports no religious affiliation” and “labeled ‘nones’ because they claim either no religious preference or no religion at all.” While the public focus is on the changing religious identity of the average American, the takeaway for elected officials should be this: the religious unaffiliated are a growing segment of the electorate. 

http://secular.org/blogs/kelly-damerow/five-reasons-politicians-can-no-longer-ignore-nones

We are here. We have no religion. Get used to it.

On Tuesday, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published itsnewest findings on the religiously unaffiliated or "nones". The study finds that nearly 20 percent of Americans are unaffiliated. What's more, they grew up with religion  and now are unaffiliated (74 percent), aren't looking for a religion (88 percent) and feel religion has no place in politics (67 percent). In short: they are happy without religion and don't want it imposed on them.http://secular.org/blogs/lauren-youngblood/we-are-here-we-have-no-religion-get-used-it

The Secular Movement Can Reshape Public Policy

With a new survey from Pew showing that about one in five Americans are now religiously unaffiliated, it would be reasonable to ask what impact, if any, the rapidly growing secular movement will have on public policy. (Among those under 30, the percentage is even higher: one in three.) This enormous demographic, silent for so long, is finding its voice, and the fallout could be significant.

http://secular.org/blogs/david-niose/secular-movement-can-reshape-public-policy

Debates should probe Obama’s ‘Big Brother’ expansion, according to politicians, journalists and privacy activists

Discussion of the continued expansion of the “Big Brother” surveillance apparatus in the United States in recent years has been notably absent during the presidential debates, raising concern among journalists, politicians and privacy rights activists that candidates aren’t being pressed or even queried on what they see as a continuing erosion of civil liberties in the country.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/18/debates-should-probe-obamas-big-brother-expansion-according-to-politicians-journalists-and-privacy-activists/

Report: Welfare government’s single largest budget item in FY 2011 at approx. $1.03 trillion
The government spent approximately $1.03 trillion on 83 means-tested federal welfare programs in fiscal year 2011 alone — a price tag that makes welfare that year the government’s largest expenditure, according to new data released by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/18/report-welfare-governments-single-largest-budget-item-in-fy-2011-at-approx-1-03-trillion/

US in talks on extending Afghanistan occupation past 2014 deadline

Washington is holding talks to arrange for the continued occupation of Afghanistan by tens of thousands of US troops after the ostensible deadline for withdrawal at the end of 2014.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/afgh-o18.shtml

Morgan Stanley fine upheld in electricity price-fixing scam

A Federal District Court judge in Manhattan has upheld a $4.8 million fine against Morgan Stanley for creating a complex derivatives deal between the utility KeySpan Corporation and its nominal competitor, Astoria Generating Company, enabling KeySpan to illegally profit by maintaining some of the highest electricity rates in the country.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/cone-o18.shtml

US violent, property crime rates increased in 2011: DOJ

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] announced Wednesday that both violent crime and property crime rates increased from 2010 to 2011 [report, PDF; press release]. This is the first time the DOJ has reported an increase in crime rates since 1993. Overall violent crime, which the DOJ defines as rape or sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault, increased by 17 percent. Property crime, which the DOJ defines as burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft, increased by 11 percent. The DOJ attributed the increase in violent crime to an increase in reported assaults, emphasizing that rates for the other areas stayed steady or dropped. 

http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/10/us-violent-property-crime-rates-increased-in-2011-doj.php

10 Things Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan Don't Want Americans to Know

There's a reason Ryan and Romney duck and weave all the time.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/10-things-mitt-romney-and-paul-ryan-dont-want-americans-know

Moyers: How Corporations and Right-Wing Groups Take Aim at Judges Whose Rulings They Dislike

There’s a movement afoot to punish judges for decisions that offend political partisans.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/moyers-how-corporations-and-right-wing-groups-take-aim-judges-whose-rulings-they

America R.I.P.

In the 21st century the opportunity society has disappeared. Middle class jobs are scarce. Indeed, jobs of any kind are scarce. To stay even with population growth from 2002 through 2011, the economy needed about 14 million new jobs. However, at the end of 2011 there were only 1 million more jobs than in 2002.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32775.htm

Why Not Vote For Stein, Goode Or Johnson?
Third-Party Candidates Could Spell Trouble for Obama, Romney

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32771.htm

Let’s Shake Up Presidential Debates

As the candidates gear up for Tuesday night’s second presidential debate, it occurs to me how strange a ritual this is. President Obama, according to Helene Cooper of the New York Times, is focusing his preparation on tactics rather than substance:
http://bigthink.com/praxis/lets-shake-up-presidential-debates

Why Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Change the World

What is the meaning of the viral cat phenomenon? When future historians attempt to decode this moment in history, what will they make of this? 

http://bigthink.com/rewire/why-small-moves-smartly-made-can-change-the-world

Privatization Pushback: Civil Society Slams Water Privatization Conditions for EU Bailouts

Civil society groups Wednesday are slamming the European Commission's continued insistence that privatization of municipal water systems be a condition for receiving rescue funds, a plan the groups describe as "economically, socially and democratically flawed."

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/17-2

Green Party Candidates Arrested Outside Presidential Debate

Green Party presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein and her vice presidential running mate Cheri Honkala were arrested Tuesday outside the venue at Hofstra Unviersity where President Obama and Republican challeger Mitt Romney later met for their nationally televised debate.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/17-0

How We Gained the Ability to Create Our Own End Times

Here was the oddest thing: within weeks of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on a second Japanese city on August 9, 1945, and so obliterating it, Americans were already immersed in new scenarios of nuclear destruction.  As the late Paul Boyer so vividly described in his classic book By the Bomb’s Early Light, it took no time at all -- at a moment when no other nation had such potentially Earth-destroying weaponry -- for an America triumphant to begin to imagine itself in ruins, and for its newspapers and magazines to start drawing concentric circles of death and destruction around American cities while consigning their future country to the stewardship of the roaches. 

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/17-5

Stoning Rebellious Children? A Look At Dominionism

There’s a story going around the internet about a candidate for state officein Arkansas who wrote a book that argues, among other things, that parents should be able to have rebellious children executed. Here’s more: Charlie Fuqua, the Republican candidate for the Arkansas House of Representatives who called forexpelling Muslims from the United States in his book, also wrote in support for instituting the death penalty for “rebellious children.”

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2012/10/shall-we-stone-rebellious-children-a-look-at-dominionism.html

'New Jim Crow' or public safety?

Activist says sweeps target blacks; DA defends arrests of "dangerous felons"

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/New-Jim-Crow-or-public-safety-3954574.php

GMO Ticking Time Bomb

Toxic tuna

The Lame Rules for Presidential Debates: A Perfect Microcosm of US Democracy

What Government Does for You

Prop 37 Could Set National Tone On Labeling Genetically Modified Food

Shane Bauer, American Hiker, Reveals Iran Imprisonment Details

Evidence Of War Crimes: Bloody Vengeance in Sirte 

Lisa Graves: How Extreme Wealth Is Harming Our Democracy

Green Party Candidates Arrested, Shackled to Chairs For 8 Hours For Trying to Enter Debate

Rev. Billy Talen - Occupy the Pipeline

Food for All, Yield for the Masses: Jarrett Chambers at TEDxWinnipeg

Green Party Candidates Arrested, Shackled to Chairs For 8 Hours After Trying to Enter Hofstra Debate

Exclusive: Expanding the Debate with Third-Party Candidates Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, Rocky Anderson

Israeli regime orchestrated 9/11 attacks: Dankof

Sunday AM Digest - 19 August 2012

The Trials of Julian Assange: The End of Diplomacy?

Julian Assange, who has been granted asylum by Ecuador but remains in limbo in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, has been on trial for some time in the court of public opinion. The exact nature of many of his alleged crimes remains elusive.

http://bigthink.com/think-tank/the-trails-of-julian-assange

Why Republicans Think Leading From Weakness Will Work

I'm looking at Politico and I see that the bizarre decision to start the rollout of the Romney-Ryan ticket with a focus on Medicare isn't just a strange notion cooked up at Romney headquarters -- it's a strategy endorsed by much of the GOP:

http://www.alternet.org/hot-news-views/why-republicans-think-leading-weakness-will-work

90 Million Americans Can’t Be Wrong

When asked by USA Today and Suffolk University why they're not planning to vote this November, respondents answered that: "They're too busy. They aren't excited about either candidate. Their vote doesn't really matter. And nothing ever gets done, anyway." All are excellent reasons, especially the last two, for they lay bare the great lie that elections solve anything. The results of the poll indicate that some 90 million Americans have no intention to vote in this year's presidential election; let’s hope that number swells over the coming months.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32229.htm

US Court Allows Patents On Human Genes

Is a gene more like a tree trunk or more like a baseball bat? A federal court Thursday took a stand on the question, ruling that isolated DNA molecules are “not found in nature”, and are therefore more like inventions, such as baseball bats, than natural phenomenon, such as tree trunks.

http://www.countercurrents.org/wilson180812.htm

Do Not Reward Israeli Apartheid!

More than 15,000 illegal Israeli Jewish settlers were added last year making the current number of “illegal settlers” 650,000. Yet still you propose a Palestinian state based on the Bantustans we have been herded into, without rights to water, to real movement, to airspace, sea space and certainly no rights to the 6 million refugees around the world who European countries have continually turned their backs on.

http://www.countercurrents.org/pc180812.htm

Federal judge skeptical about new Guantanamo access to counsel restrictions 

The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] held a hearing Friday regarding a challenge to new restrictions on lawyers representingGuantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] detainees who have had their habeas corpuschallenges denied or dismissed. Chief Judge Royce Lamberth expressed skepticism about the new restrictions [AP report], which in some cases require a lawyer to sign a "memorandum of understanding" (MOU) [memorandum, PDF] to continue to be able to meet with a client, making any meetings or communications with a client "subject to the authority and discretion" of the Guantanamo commanding officer. 

http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/08/federal-judge-skeptical-about-new-guantanamo-access-to-counsel-restrictions.php

Seven Banks Under Investigation for Global Interest Rate Scandal

The scandal involves LIBOR - or the London Inter Bank Offer Rate - a global system of interest rates for $360 trillion in international deposits. While many of these loans are overnight transfers between banks, they affect the price of consumer loans like mortgages, car loans and credit card loans. The rates are set by the British Bankers Association which makes a considered average of rates reported to them verbally by participating bankers.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/320-80/12995-seven-banks-under-investigation-for-global-interest-rate-scandal

The World (Still) Too Big to Fail

In Noam Chomsky’s “Who Owns the World?” -- the most popular TomDispatch post of all time (which means the last 10 years) -- he wrote of one key imperial principle: “The U.S. cannot tolerate ‘any exercise of sovereignty’ that interferes with its global designs.”  Hence, the under-reported but staggering U.S. build-up in the Persian Gulf.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/13-3

Israel is the only real winner of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’

Award-winning Iranian journalist Kourosh Ziabari recently interviewed me about the ongoing destabilization of the Middle East and North Africa commonly referred to as the Arab Spring.

http://thepassionateattachment.com/2012/08/18/israel-is-the-only-real-winner-of-the-so-called-arab-spring/

Christian-Right Terrorism Charlatans

The Church of England British Police and Troops had their own Right wing, Protestant "Terror Experts" that committed Bloody Sunday. How did that work out for them, long term? These Charlatan Terror Experts created the very terrorists they claimed to be "fighting and preventing". Their brutal oppression methods and the mounting toll of dead Catholics created a scenario that still is unfolding: http://www.u.tv/News/Bomb-factory-part-of-wider-plot/ddbd0ec8-0596-4488-8fe5-8fd85e18f1d6 .

Silencing Dissent in America

Freedom in America is endangered. Bipartisan complicity plans destroying it altogether. 

America is on a fast track toward tyranny and ruin. Police state laws threaten everyone.

Increasingly dissent is marginalized. It's not tolerated. Resistance is called dangerous to national security.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Silencing-Dissent-in-Ameri-by-Stephen-Lendman-120818-205.html

Who Speaks For The Internet? Do Artists have No Voice Online?

We’re always kinda amazed when a singular entity or point of view “speaks for the internet” as if there is no social, economic, geographic or political diversity. Is the “Internet’ a demographic onto it’s own, and if so, what defines that demographic? Which begs the question, does “the internet” speak for you (as an artist, as an individual)? Though this entry is somewhat cute, it is also disturbing to see “the internet” as a single block with a Borg like hive mind… TechDirt reports:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120718/18350719751/internet-wins-again-writer-gets-rapper-pitbull-exiled-to-alaskan-walmart.shtml

Pat Robertson says sexually abused children shouldn’t be adopted lest they grew up to be “weird”

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Thursday cautioned his viewers to think twice before adopting disadvantaged children that had been sexually abused or deprived of food because they could grow up “weird.”

http://worldduh.com/2012/08/17/this-is-sick-pat-robertson-says-sexually-abused-children-shouldnt-be-adopted-lest-they-grew-up-to-be-weird/

Kentucky Republicans Complain About Teaching Evolution

Evolution has been a favorite target of conservative Republicans for a very long time now. In the last few years alone, Republicans have made every effort to push for teaching the Biblical story of creation in science classrooms in states such as Louisiana, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Indiana, and elsewhere. Republicans in Kentucky, apparently feeling left out, are now jumping into the fray to fight against real science as well.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/08/17/kentucky-republicans-complain-about-teaching-evolution/

Mitt Romney Vowed To Boost National Debt By $716 Billion, And Nobody Cares?

Romney has just made his duties as presumptive president $716 billion harder if he wins the race. Because Ryan said that the money cut from Obamacare would go back into a similar program, Romney, with a typical obstructionist attitude, has decided that simply isn’t the right thing to do.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/08/17/mitt-romney-vowed-to-boost-national-debt-by-716-billion-and-nobody-cares/

World’s best political comedians

Meet the people from all over the globe who make us laugh and challenge government Orthodoxy

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/17/comedians_around_the_world_salpart

Five ways privatization is ruining America

We spend lifetimes developing community assets, then give them away to a corporation for lifetimes to come

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/17/5_ways_privatization_is_ruining_america

Is Israel trying to lead the US to war with Iran?

That's what it's starting to look like. But looks can be deceiving.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0815/Is-Israel-trying-to-lead-the-US-to-war-with-Iran

Gen Y: the most book-loving generation alive?

A new study says that in 2011 Gen Y surpassed baby boomers by a healthy margin when it comes to spending on books.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2012/0815/Gen-Y-the-most-book-loving-generation-alive

Will Americans Ever Realize That a Good Life Is More Important Than Money?

Money is the least of our problems. It’s time to pay attention to the real deficits that are killing us.

http://www.alternet.org/will-americans-ever-realize-good-life-more-important-money

How America's Prescription Drug Addiction Crisis May Get a Whole Lot Worse

Instead of reducing prescription pill abuse, the new regulations may prevent the people who need meds from getting them.

http://www.alternet.org/how-americas-prescription-drug-addiction-crisis-may-get-whole-lot-worse

Lawyer: Raid on Embassy to Arrest Assange Would Be "Unprecedented" Breach of Diplomatic Immunity

Fast and Furious about backing drug cartel

Police Shoot Homeless Man 46 Times

Six officers shot a homeless man 46 times after he failed to follow their instructions in a parking lot.

 

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