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Friday, November 29

Free Documentaries: Four Horsemen, Enron, Mars, Book of Secrets, Dangerously Rich, Defeating the Hackers, Mafia's Secret Bunker.


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Four Horsemen

Four Horsemen is a bare-bones documentary about how we can restart the world’s economy. 23 international thinkers, government advisers and Wall Street money-men break their silence and explain their ideas on how to establish a moral and just society. This film takes a new look at the current economic climate without bashing bankers or taking sides. It just tells it like it is.


Enron – The Smartest Guys in the Building

Enron – The Smartest Guys in the Building, is a documentary which retells the incredible story of Enron which in just 15 years grew to become the 7th largest company in America with over 21,000 staff Worldwide. This success turned out to be an elaborate scam. Watch the incredible story with eyewitness accounts, recordings and court footage as a huge part of corporate America comes crumbling down.


Mars: The Red Planet

If humans were going to visit another planet in our solar system, the first possible planet would be Mars. Its deserts are similar to earth’s, with dunes and mountains full of iron oxides. Though its atmostphere isn’t friendly to humans, it does have potential similarities to earth, like the possibility of underground oceans and ancient bacteria life-forms. With it being the closest planet to earth, Mars has caught our attention as the first planet we could explore.



America's Book of Secrets: The White House

It is home to the most powerful person in the world, it is a center of global military power and it is one of the most heavily protected fortresses ever built, but behind the classic columns and lush green lawns are secrets, secrets so outrageous, so controversial, so dangerous that they must be kept hidden from the public. There are those that believe in the existence of a book, a book that contains the most highly guarded secrets of the United States of America, a book who’s very existence is known to only a select few but if such a book exists what would it contain? Secret histories, secret plans, secret lies? 

Dangerously Rich: Billionaire Super Security

Protesters, Pirates, even Kidnappers are targeting today's super rich. Some say these threats are intensifying and as a result billionaires from around the world are fortifying their personal security with sophisticated, cutting edge and so called head of state level protection. From high security on the high seas to when the bad guys come, the tools and technologies to take down any intruder at any cost. While their jet setting or on the move an entire industry is on call ready to sell the super rich, super security and even some good old fashioned muscle.

Defeating the Hackers

Exploring the murky and fast-paced world of the hackers out to steal money and identities and wreak havoc with people’s online lives, and the scientists who are joining forces to help defeat them.

Searching for Exile: Truth or Myth

For centuries, Jews have lamented the destruction of their holy city Jerusalem and their temple by the Romans, which they believed was the beginning of their long 2000 years of exile. Exile is not only a religious Jewish belief but for millions of Jewish and non Jewish alike it is a historical fact. But what has been considered as fact for centuries is now being challenged by archeaological evidence unearth across Israel. Here in the ancient town of Sepphoris just 70 miles from Jerusalem evidence points not to a people driven into exile but on the contrary to a population that not only survived but flourished. So why has exile been seen as a reality for thousands of years? and if it did not take place exactly as told, then what accounts for the millions of Jews who over the centuries have settled around the world? and perhaps the inevitable question, what happened to the inhabitance (sic) of places like Sepphoris who were never exiled.


The Mafia's Secret Bunkers

There is a new front line in the war against organized crime. In southern Italy’s rugged highlands a previously unknown criminal group know as the ‘Ndrangheta meet, it’s bosses are some of Europe’s biggest cocaine traffickers. The police are fighting back forcing mafiosi underground into bizarre sophisticated bunkers. From here they run their criminal empires protected by a wall of silence. “They dug up the entire street to bury their bunkers and no body breathed a word”. This is the story of a little known mafia who’s secret inner workings are only now coming to light.

Friday, November 15

HEADLINES: The 72 Who Rule the World, Human Rights Council Annual Report, Surveillance in Developing Countries, Taxpayers Abandoning the U.S., American Christianity Selfishness, Losers from Lost Wars, Dark Side of Data, more.


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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

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.
Curated by TED
Total run time 2:42:36
 http://www.ted.com/playlists/130/the_dark_side_of_data.html

Monday, October 21

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: America's Business of War, Snowden's Brave Integrity, Whistleblowers Meet Leaker, No NSA Oversight, Address Books Collected Globally, U.S. Ranks 21st in Math, Scientists Hacking the Earth, Half of US Children Are Poor, Women Demand Freedom, Social Security Destruction, more.


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The Business of America Is War
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/business-america-war

Edward Snowden’s Brave Integrity
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/10/15/edward-snowdens-brave-integrity/

Snowden: NSA Is Most Dangerous Because No Oversight Exists
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/18

"Edward Snowden Is a Patriot":
Ex-NSA CIA, FBI and Justice Whistleblowers Meet Leaker in Moscow
http://www.alternet.org/world/edward-snowden-patriot-ex-nsa-cia-fbi-and-justice-whistleblowers-meet-leaker-moscow

NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html

NSA revelations: A timeline of what's come out since Snowden leaks began
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2013/1016/NSA-revelations-A-timeline-of-what-s-come-out-since-Snowden-leaks-began/June-5-8-2013

U.S. Adults Rank 21st in Math Skills
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36581.htm

Billionaire Koch Brothers Spending Millions To Deny Health Coverage To Low-Income Americans

Nearly half of US public school children are poor
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/19/poor-o19.html

Your Personal Data: Intercepted, Monitored, Recorded, and Disclosed
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/your-personal-data-intercepted-monitored-recorded-and-disclosed_102013

Uncovering the Tea Party's Radical Roots
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/18

Internet Governance Series: Human Rights in the Age of State Surveillance
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/2013/10/08/internet-governance-series-human-rights-in-the-age-of-state-surveillance/

The Police State Wants What the Police State Wants
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36599.htm

Women demand freedom, not surveillance
http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/rahila-gupta-kavita-krishnan/women-demand-freedom-not-surveillance

The Latest Billionaire Ploy to Destroy Social Security
http://www.alternet.org/latest-billionaire-ploy-destroy-social-security

Poll: Majority Says It's A Bad Thing That GOP Controls The House
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/poll-majority-says-it-s-a-bad-thing-that-gop-controls-the-house

Revolt of the Rich
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36575.htm

Documents reveal NSA’s extensive involvement in targeted killing program
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/documents-reveal-nsas-extensive-involvement-in-targeted-killing-program/2013/10/16/29775278-3674-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html

Obama Embraces American Exceptionalism


BBC admits wrongdoing in presenting pro-Israeli commentator as neutral expert

Thursday, October 17

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.



Monday, September 16

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: The Social Chasm in America, People Power Helped Prevent a War, NSA and Israel Spying on Each Other, Occupy Movement is Dead, Millions in America Entrenched in Poverty, Economic Inequality Harms Societies, more.


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The social chasm in America
From http://www.flickr.com/photos/11438926@N00/6240099246/: American Exceptionalism, Explainedhttp://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.

Monday, August 26

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Reclaim the Power, NSA Decryption Technology, Climate Crisis, Economics a Science? Atheists Vote, Global Human Rights, Spying Household Items, Monsanto's Gravest Wrongdoings, Capitalism Cannot Be Reformed, Our Common Wealth, Corporate America, Gangster State, Palestinian Children Routinely Tortured, Gun Toting Evangelicals, more.


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Reclaim the power! A call to action against energy austerity

NSA Used Decryption Technology To Spy On The United Nations
http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist260813.htm

Climate Crisis To Harm All Forms Of Marine Life, Finds Study

Is Economics a Science?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jared-bernstein/is-economics-a-science_b_3816471.html

Thirteen Things the Government is Trying to Keep Secret from You
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/23-1

Hey Candidates: Atheists Vote, Too -- So Stop Pandering to God!
http://www.alternet.org/belief/hey-candidates-atheists-vote-too-so-stop-pandering-god

Bringing global human rights into the surveillance debate
https://www.cdt.org/commentary/bringing-global-human-rights-surveillance-debate

9 Household Items That Could Be Spying on You
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-levin/9-household-items-that-co_b_3760938.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird%20News

NSA's Surveillance Programs Are The "Most Serious Attacks On Free Speech We’ve Ever Seen."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35960.htm

A Noxious History: 5 of Monsanto’s Gravest Wrongdoings
http://www.takepart.com/photos/noxious-history-5-monsantos-dastardly-deeds?cmpid=tpnews-eml-2013-08-24-water/unleashing-pcbs


Capitalism Cannot Be Reformed
http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz230813.htm

Our Common Wealth; The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Our-Common-Wealth-The-Hid-by-book-excerpt-130823-723.html

Corporate America: Rapidly Proceeding Down The Road To Its Eventual Demise
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Corporate-America-Rapidly-by-michael-payne-130822-502.html

Privacy, and open government: both under assault
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Privacy-and-open-governme-by-Stephen-Unger-130823-752.html

NSA admits: Our analysts ‘willfully violated’ rules of surveillance system
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/24/nsa-admits-our-analysts-willfully-violated-rules-of-surveillance-system/

Bradley Manning and the Gangster State
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Bradley-Manning-and-the-Ga-by-Chris-Hedges-130822-376.html

Palestinian children routinely tortured, some threatened with rape: Israel rights group
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-children-routinely-tortured-some-threatened-rape-israel-rights-group

Gun bible flagIn Defiance of Christ’s Teachings Right Wing Evangelicals Become Gun Toting Maniacs
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/08/23/defiance-christs-teachings-wing-evangelicals-gun-toting-maniacs.html

Creating Chilling Effects On Speech Is A Feature, Not A Bug, Of The Surveillance State
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130822/19270124286/creating-chilling-effects-speech-is-feature-not-bug-surveillance-state.shtml

Study Finds Wealth Gives Rise to a Sense of Entitlement and Narcissistic Behaviors
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35966.htm

Victims Of Forced Labor: 21 Million
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc250813B.htm

The UnAmerican Way
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/The-UnAmerican-Way-in-Best_Web_OpEds-Congress_Corporate_Corporations-Agriculture_Fast-Track-130825-405.html
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