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Dissenting Heretic's Person of the Year, 2013: EDWARD SNOWDEN

2014-01-12T20:15:00.001-05:00

Edward Snowden

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Further information: Global surveillance disclosure and Aftermath of the global surveillance disclosure

Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American computer specialist, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, and former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who disclosed classified NSA documents to several media outlets, initiating the NSA leaks, which reveal operational details of a global surveillance apparatus run by the NSA, its Five Eyes partners, and numerous commercial and international partners.^[3]

Snowden's release of classified material was called the most significant leak in US history by Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg. Aseries of exposés beginning June 5, 2013 revealed Internet surveillance programs such as PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora, as well as the interception of US and European telephone metadata. The reports were based on documents Snowden leaked to The Guardian andThe Washington Post while employed by NSA contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. By November 2013, The Guardian had published one percent of the documents, with "the worst yet to come".

A subject of controversy, Snowden has been variously called a hero,^[4]^[5]^[6] a whistleblower,^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10] a dissident,^[11] a traitor,^[12]^[13] and a patriot.^[14]^[15] According to Snowden, his "sole motive" for leaking the documents was "to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them."^[16] The disclosures have fueled debates over mass surveillance, government secrecy, and the balance between national security and information privacy.^[17] Seven months after the NSA revelations began, Snowden declared his mission accomplished, citing the international debate sparked by his leaks. A federal judge in December 2013 ruled that the government had "almost certainly" violated the US Constitution by collecting metadata on nearly every phone call within or to the United States. Ten days later, a different federal judge ruled the surveillance program was legal, raising the likelihood that the constitutionality of the program would ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court.^[18]

Snowden's passport was revoked by US officials during a layover in Moscow whilst en route to the Republic of Ecuador on June 23, 2013. He remained in a Moscow airport transit zone until the Russian government granted him a one-year temporary asylum on August 1. He is considered a fugitive by American authorities who have charged him with espionage and theft of government property.^[19]^[20] Numerous media outlets and politicians issued calls for leniency in the form of amnesty, clemency or pardon in the beginning of 2014, while others called for him to be imprisoned or hanged.^[21]^[22] He lives in an undisclosed location in Russia and continues to seek permanent asylum.

Democracy Now's 2013 Year in Review [Video]

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2013 In Review: Power, Politics and Resistance

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HEADLINES: End Mass Surveillance, Bernie Sanders for President, Anti-Drone Movement, Student-Loan Debt Program, $8.5 Trillion in Taxpayer Money Lost, IRS Sights on Dark Money, Perpetual Animosity, Food and Water, Cyber Imperialism, Christian Militarism, WikiLeaks, National-Security State, Schools Not for Sale, Corporate Interests, more.

2013-11-30T16:00:00.001-05:00

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Demand an End to Mass Surveillance: Support the People’s Principles

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/27-5

Bernie Sanders: To Defeat Oligarchy, I Would Run for President

Latest interview with senator from Vermont shows that his reluctance to run would be outweighed by the scale of unaddressed crises and ignored issues

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/27-4

Anti-Drone Movement Speaks: 'End the Secrecy, No to Kill List'
'After ten years of using drones it is about time that American citizens demand accountability from our government'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/15-4

Resetting the Trillion-Dollar Student-Loan Debt Problem
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/higher-education/report/2013/11/21/79821/resetting-the-trillion-dollar-student-loan-debt-problem/

Warrantless Surveillance Continues to Cause Fallout
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/us/warrantless-surveillance-continues-to-cause-fallout.html?src=recg&_r=1&

New Report Shows Pentagon Has Lost Track Of More Than $8.5 Trillion In Taxpayer Money Since 1996
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/new-report-shows-pentagon-has-lost-track-over-85-trillion-taxpayer-money-1996#

Corporate Espionage Undermines Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/26-7

The Government's Secret Plan to Shut Off Cellphones and the Internet, Explained
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/internet-phone-kill-switch-explained

IRS sets its sights on political 'dark money'
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/11/27/13819/irs-sets-its-sights-political-dark-money

How To Protect Humanity From Perpetual Animosity And Wars?http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja171113.htm

Are food and water really the priority in a humanitarian crisis?

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Reality-Check/2013/1121/Are-food-and-water-really-the-priority-in-a-humanitarian-crisis-video

The Logic Behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36888.htm

Interview Your Political Candidates - Ask Politicians About Atheism, Secularism
http://atheism.about.com/od/godlessatheistpolitics/a/Interview-Political-Candidates.htm?nl=1

Old-Fashioned Political Activism Doesn't Work
http://www.countercurrents.org/spritzler151113.htm

Christian Militarism and Sacred Violence
http://atheism.about.com/od/christianityviolence/a/Christian-Militarism-Sacred-Violence.htm?nl=1

Court Orders DHS to Release "Internet Kill Switch" Plans
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/15-3

WikiLeaks and the Drone Strike Transparency Bill
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/15-5

Abusing The Surveillance Scandal To Punish Internet Freedom Even More
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131114/17382925250/abusing-surveillance-scandal-to-punish-internet-freedom-even-more.shtml

Why Does Anyone Trust the National-Security State?http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36882.htm

Our Schools Are Not For Sale

Our Schools Are Not For Sale from Media Mobilizing Project TV on Vimeo.

Wikileaks Exposes the TPP as a Capitulation to Corporate Interests

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/11/15

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.

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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.

ENRON: OS MAIS ESPERTOS DA SALA / The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) LEGENDA PTfrom Enron Enron on Vimeo.

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.

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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.

Free DOCUMENTARIES: 97% Owned, Locally Abundant, Girl Killers, Right to Remain Silent, Unpublished NYT Video, Inside the KGB, Wall Street Code, Bitcoin, Feral Children, Robot Revolution, Bumfights.

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97% Owned

97% Owned looks at the economic and financial systems from a UK-perspective and explains the inner-workings of the banks and how money is made.

97% Owned from Queuepolitely on Vimeo.

Locally Abundant

Along with interviews of the farmers themselves, this film includes segments by David Suzuki, and information on ‘factory farms’ and why the use of synthetic additives like fertilizers are hurting the people consuming the food.

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Girl Killers

Nearly thirty percent of Indians live in poverty and for women this economic position brings a life of animosity. The parents of the bride must give a dowry which often renders them bankrupt. As a result female infanticide is a common and established practice. The girls that are not killed are practically enslaved, forced to break stones or sell their bodies to support their existence. But now the women are defending themselves by forming associations which offer help in education, savings and loan arrangements.

The Right to Remain Silent
The film covers the mass arrests of nearly 2000 peaceful protesters during the cop 15 in copenhagen (environmental meeting), whilst following effected activists and discussing the wider ramifications of the growing trend around the world of criminalizing protests.

The Video The New York Times Didn’t Want You To See

(Max) Blumenthal explained how The New York Times commissioned the 11-minute video, but after the paper’s editors saw it, refused to publish it.

Inside the KGB: Terror of the Soviet Union

The Committee for State Security, more commonly known by its transliteration “KGB” was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its collapse in 1991. The committee was a direct successor of such preceding agencies as Cheka, NKGB, and MGB. It was the chief government agency of “union-republican jurisdiction”, acting as internal security, intelligence, and secret police. Similar agencies were instated in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from the Russian SFSR and consisted of many ministries, state committees and state commissions.

The Wall Street Code

From the makers of the much-praised Quants: the Alchemists of Wall Street and Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box. Now the long-awaited final episode of a trilogy in search of the winners and losers of the tech revolution on Wall Street. Could mankind lose control of this increasingly complex system?

Bitcoin: Bankers’ Worst Fear

A short documentary on the effects of the newish but controversial currency known as Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a distributed peer-to-peer digital currency that functions without the intermediation of any central authority. The concept was introduced in a 2008 paper by a pseudonymous developer known only as “Satoshi Nakamoto”.

Wild Child: The Story Of Feral Children

Interesting documentary which examines the myth and reality behind some of the most famous cases of feral children, who have been discovered around the World. There’s some fascinating footage of kids who have allegedly been brought up by all sorts of animals, and we also hear about some of our traditional stories relating to children who have grown up primarily in the company of other living creatures. This film attempts to make us think about our place in the animal kingdom – What exactly does it mean to be a human being? Is nature or nurture more important for our conditioning? – but it also exposes the reality that many of the children who have been found to be growing up in the ‘wild’, have often run away from an abusive situation at home.

Robot Revolution: Will Machines Surpass Humans

The NHK documentary, “Robot Revolution : Will Machines surpass humans” features Honda ASIMO, Hubo, Big Dog from Boston Dynamics, Baxter from Rethink Robotics, Nextage and other humanoid robots. Since the Fukishima nuclear disaster, development of humanoid robotics and the artificial intelligence used in them has accelerated dramatically.

Bumfights: A video too far

In 2002, six American teenagers released one of the most shocking and degrading videos ever made. Set in the skidrows of Las Vegas and San Diego, the film featured homeless people and addicts fighting each other and performing extreme stunts. Acts they were paid to perform by those who were filming them. It scandalised America, but despite a horrified public reaction, the video sales were phenomenal.

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.

2013-11-15T12:34:00.001-05:00

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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.

Curated by TED

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Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching
09:56

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Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world's trust -- time to act
19:18

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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
09:23

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Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world
15:22

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Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked
16:56

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Todd Humphreys: How to fool a GPS
15:45

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Christopher "moot" Poole": The case for anonymity online
13:10

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Total run time 2:42:36

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

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Battle Against GMOs, Fight Against Drones, US Decline, Rogue Superpower, Prison Not Working, NSA Surveillance, American Hunger, Politically-Active Atheists, Civil Disobedience, Rejecting Capitalism, more.

2013-11-08T10:19:00.001-05:00

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5 Things We Can Learn from the Battle Against GMOs
http://www.alternet.org/food/5-things-we-can-learn-battle-against-gmos

10 Ways You Can Join the Fight Against Drone Warfare

http://admin.alternet.org/activism/10-ways-you-can-join-fight-against-drone-warfare

The Consequences of US Decline
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36730.htm

A Rogue Superpower Is All Ears
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/01

Why prison is not working
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/uncategorized/vicky-pryce-why-prison-is-not-working/#.UnT3WHCsg69

The 'Preventive Constitution' in the Age of NSA Surveillance
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/01-4

Additional NSA Employees Said to Be Following Snowden's Lead
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/01-4

American Hunger and the Christian Right
http://www.opednews.com/articles/American-Hunger-and-the-Ch-by-Mary-Shaw-Child-Poverty_Food-For-The-Poor_Food-Security_Food-Stamps-131103-73.html

CIA Has 'Acquired A Taste' For Killing People With Drones; Won't Give It Up
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131105/17222425140/cia-has-acquired-taste-killing-people-with-drones-wont-give-it-up.shtml

You Will Be Shocked at How Ignorant Americans Really Are
http://www.alternet.org/media/americas-information-inequality-least-shocking-its-economic-inequality

Israel’s Deplorable Human Rights Record
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/israels-deplorable-human-rights-record-by-stephenlendman/

How Atheists Can Be Politically Active
http://atheism.about.com/od/godlessatheistpolitics/tp/Atheists-Political-Activism.htm?nl=1

A Brilliant Activist Shows Us a Path to Real Change Through Civil Disobedience
http://www.alternet.org/fracking/brilliant-activist-shows-us-path-real-change-through-civil-disobedience

The Orwellian arithmetic of mass surveillance
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/dom-shaw/orwellian-arithmetic-of-mass-surveillance

FBI 'Mistake' Leads To Six Years Of Monitoring Anti-War Website
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131106/12415825153/fbi-mistake-leads-to-six-years-monitoring-anti-war-website.shtml

The people are rejecting free market capitalism
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/ellie-mae-ohagan/people-are-rejecting-free-market-capitalism

Can, or should, America be saved?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Can-or-should-America-be-by-Doug-Thompson-America_American-Capitalism_Crisis_People-131103-797.html

The Price of America Having the Greatest Military in the World? It's Destroying the Country
http://www.alternet.org/world/tragic-history-us-military-supremacy

What militarists don’t want you to know about the labor movement
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/militarists-dont-want-know-labor-movement/

International Human Rights Bodies Starting to Address NSA Surveillance Practiceshttps://cdt.org/blogs/leslie-harris/0511international-human-rights-bodies-starting-address-nsa-surveillance-practice

Has civil disobedience become too predictable?
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/civil-disobedience-become-predictable/

US Christian Zionists plan to take over Palestinian university in Israel
http://electronicintifada.net/content/us-christian-zionists-plan-take-over-palestinian-university-israel/12906

The Debate – Israeli Occupation

Corporate Personhood: How Did We Get Here?

JPMorgan: Too Big To Fine

@dustcirclenews - Special Religion Issue! (Radical Christians, the Religious Threat, and the Right-Wing Fraud)

2013-11-02T09:11:00.000-04:00

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The Radical Christian Right and the War on Government

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Moral Majority

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

5 facts about atheists

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

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: American Hegemony, NSA Wiretapping, Beloved War Criminals, Cleaning Up Capitalism, Confessions of a Drone Warrior, Cutting Food Stamps, more.

2013-10-30T09:37:00.001-04:00

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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?

@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.

2013-10-21T20:53:00.003-04:00

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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

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/billionaire-koch-brothers-spending-millions-deny-health-coverage-low-income

To Fix Climate Change, Scientists Turn To Hacking The Earth

http://www.npr.org/2013/10/20/238548240/turning-to-scientists-to-engineer-a-cooler-climate

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

Jonathan Sacerdoti on BBC News discussing the killing of Ahmed Jabri, head of Hamas' military wing

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.

2013-10-17T18:15:00.000-04:00

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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.

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Our Founding Fathers, FCC Disclosure Proposal, Where Are the Unions, Israeli Chemical Weapons, More Snowden Revelations, The Rising Anti-Science, People Want Full Medicare, NSA's Mass Spying, Hunger-Striking Radicals, Global Warming, Social Network Diagrams, Opposition to Faith Schools, Biblical Child Abuse, American Exceptionalism, American Outsourcing Exposed, more.

2013-10-05T10:19:00.002-04:00

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Our Founding Fathers Never Imagined Congress Would Behave This Badly
http://bigthink.com/praxis/what-james-madison-would-say-to-john-boehner

FCC proposal would require carriers to disclose network reliability in disasters
http://www.fiercemobilegovernment.com/story/fcc-proposal-would-require-carriers-disclose-network-reliability-disasters/2013-10-02?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

Where are the Unions?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Where-are-the-Unions-by-Robert-De-Filippis-Business_Capital_Class_Economic-131003-399.html

World Should Pressure Israel To Eliminate Its Chemical Weapons
http://www.countercurrents.org/gottinger041013.htm

We Now Live in World in Which No One Is Listening to the Planet’s Sole Superpower
http://www.alternet.org/world/we-now-live-world-which-no-one-listening-planets-sole-superpower

More Snowden Revelations Coming, Guardian Cryptography Analyst Says
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/more_snowden_revelations_coming_says_guardian_cryptography_analyst_20130926

The Rising Antiscience
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/rising-antiscience-faith_b_3991677.html

NSA Chief, General Alexander defends US surveillance programs as a Noble Mission
http://thehackernews.com/2013/09/nsa-chief-general-alexander-defends-us.html

Why No One’s Investigating Wall Street

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36355.htm

Leaks Show NSA is Working to Undermine Encrypted Communications, Here's How You Can Fight Back
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/leaks-show-nsa-working-undermine-encrypted-communications-heres-how-you-can-fight

People Want Full Medicare for All
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/26-11

Time to Speak Up Against the NSA’s Mass Spying
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/time-speak-against-nsas-mass-spying

Look Around, Workers Are Pissed

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/26

Rules for (hunger-striking) radicals
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/rules-hunger-striking-radicals/

Surveillance and Human Rights Principles are launched at 24th Session of the Human Rights Council
https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2013/09/22/surveillance-and-human-rights-principles-are-launched-at-the-24th-hrc

Snowden urges EU parliament to protect whistleblowers
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Snowden-urges-EU-parliamen-by-RT-TV-Prism_Russia_Snowden_Surveillance-131001-729.html

Global Warming Could Destroy the Lives of 750 Million People in the Short Future
http://www.alternet.org/environment/global-warming-could-potentially-destroy-lives-750-million-people-next-three-decades

NSA using metadata to compile “social network diagrams” on Americans
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/30/surv-s30.html

Eye on Palestine – This is occupation: Deprivation of Healthcare
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/eye-on-palestine-this-is-occupation-deprivation-of-healthcare/

Study: Combative People "Remember" Hostile Acts That They Didn't Commit
http://bigthink.com/Mind-Matters/study-combative-people-remember-hostile-acts-that-they-didnt-commit

Opinion poll shows big opposition to “faith schools”
http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2013/09/opinion-poll-shows-big-opposition-to-faith-schools

Breaking Their Will: The Sick Biblical Literalism That Leads to Child Abuse and Even Death
http://www.alternet.org/belief/breaking-their-will-sick-biblical-literalism-leads-child-abuse-and-even-death

Edward Snowden: Surveillance of Whole Populations Threatens to be the Greatest Human Rights Challenge of Our Time
http://www.alternet.org/edward-snowden-surveillance-whole-populations-threatens-be-greatest-human-rights-challenge-our-time

WHY AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM IS WRONG
http://americanhumanist.org/HNN/details/2013-10-why-american-exceptionalism-is-wrong

Atheist students use federal law to pursue same rights as Christians for ‘secular safe zones’
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/30/atheist-students-use-federal-law-to-pursue-same-ri/

Send the Bill For the Shutdown to the Evangelicals
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/frankschaeffer/2013/10/send-the-bill-for-the-shutdown-to-the-evangelicals/

America For Sale: Outsourcing Exposed

9 Free Documentaries: Inside Smart Weapon Scopes, How Money is Made, Manufacturing Consent, How America Went Postal, Life At Any Price, Hunting the Internet Bullies, The Lord is Not on Trial Today, Contagion, Four Horsemen

2013-09-29T20:17:00.001-04:00

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Long Shot: Inside the Scope of Smart Weapons
In spring of 2013, Texas-based start up TrackingPoint Solutions released the first ever precision-guided firearm, which is essentially a long-range, laser-guided robo rifle. Call it the gun of tomorrow: The technology is so advanced we’ve heard it can have beginners killing at extreme distances with single-shot accuracy in mere minutes.The PGF’s closed-loop system is based off jet fighter lock and launch technology, something TrackingPoint CEO Jason Schauble says not only marks the next great paradigm shift in the evolution of firearms—it helps users make ethical kill shots too. But critics of the PGF platform, no doubt part and parcel of a rising tide of intelligent killer apps, say the gun, or rather its proprietary scope, marks the dawn of “skill-free killing”.

How Money Is MadeHow Money is Made details the processes involved in printing money, primarily the US dollar. It also explores the world of counterfeiting and fraud that embodies the monetary world.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media
Noam Chomsky’s documentary “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media” from 1988. analyses mass media and the political ramifications and implications of the messages broadcasted in the United States, being its goal to direct public opinion while “numbing” the people and maiming their ability to educate themselves and effectively produce antagonical political criticism and judgement regarding the established officially broadcasted messages crafted by the powerful in conjunction with mass media outlets throughout the US!

Murder By Proxy: How America Went Postal
Murder By Proxy: How America Went Postal is a documentary film that examines the phenomenon of spree killing, particularly in a workplace, that became known in the United States as “going postal”. The film argues that the phenomenon originated in the United States Postal Service as a result of hostile work environment following the Postal Reorganization Act of 1971 and then spread to the rest of society.

Life At Any Price
Two-thirds of the world’s women live in countries where abortion can be obtained for a variety of social, economic or personal reasons. In other nations it is allowed only in cases of rape, foetal abnormality or when a woman’s life is at risk.

Hunting The Internet Bullies: When Social Networking Turns Bad
Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have changed our way of communication. Despite the many advantages that come with this change, there are some serious problems that have occurred One of them is cyber bullying. Pop star Cher Lloyd is a famous example for a victim of internet bullying. She shares her story and fears with BBC-reporter Declan Lawn.

The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today
The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning documentary that tells the compelling personal story of the late Vashti McCollum, and how her efforts to protect her ten year-old son led to one of the most important and landmark First Amendment cases in U.S. Supreme Court history - the case that established the separation of church and state in public schools.

ContagionIn India a deadly, mutant strain of tuberculosis is spreading across the country. In the shadows of India's capital, New Delhi, Anjou Kashab quietly battles her demons. Her frail body is being ravaged by tuberculosis. Both her lungs are infected and she's on a cocktail of pills and injections to stay alive. For 10 years Anjou has been fighting the illness, but the drugs haven't worked. She's seen more than a dozen doctors and swallowed thousands of prescription pills in the hope of a cure. Instead of the vibrant, young woman she once was, Anjou is now skin and bone, weighing just 29 kilos.

Four Horsemen – Revealing the fundamental flaws in the economic system
As the global economy continues to veer from crisis to catastrophe – many more people are looking for wise counsel on how to reshape the Western Economy. Over the last three years 23 global thinkers – many of whom have been marginalized have come together to break their silence and explain how the world really works. Their views transcend mainstream media and short term political explanations to describe simple terms what needs to be addressed in our universities, governments and corporate structures. Ee will not be returning to “business as usual”.

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Government's Intrusion, Eric Snowden, Israel's Chemical use, DHS Oversight Consequences, FBI's Post-9/11 Abuses, Low Median Family Income, American Exceptionalism, Alternative to Banks, Total American Surveillance, Christian Right vs. Godless Liberalism, Federal Funding Bill Passed, For-Profit Colleges, Syria is About Gas and Oil, more.

2013-09-25T15:03:00.000-04:00

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Nowhere to Hide: The Government's Massive Intrusion Into Our Lives
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/nowhere-hide-governments-massive-intrusion-our-lives

NSA leaker Eric Snowden nominated for EU prize
http://www.mynews4.com/news/story/NSA-leaker-Eric-Snowden-nominated-for-EU-prize/7d1QywXWj0ivY28pbfKvxQ.cspx

Israel's History Of Chemical Weapons Use

http://www.countercurrents.org/akleh170913.htm

Fractured DHS congressional oversight has real world consequences, says report
http://www.fiercehomelandsecurity.com/story/fractured-dhs-congressional-oversight-has-real-world-consequences-says-repo/2013-09-16?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

'Unleashed and Unaccountable': FBI's Post-9/11 Abuse of Power
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/17-7

For-Profit Corporation Is Not A Person With Ability To Exercise Religious Freedom Rights, Federal Court Says
https://www.au.org/media/press-releases/for-profit-corporation-is-not-a-person-with-ability-to-exercise-religious

Median Family Income Is Lower Today Than in 1989
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/18/median_family_income_since_1989_is_the_stagnation_real.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content

Why American Exceptionalism Is a Dangerous Sham
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/why-american-exceptionalism-dangerous-sham

The Perfect Alternative to Wall Street Banks
http://admin.alternet.org/economy/perfect-alternative-wall-street-banks

We Live Under a Total Surveillance State in America -- Can We Prevent It from Evolving into a Full-Blown Police State?
http://admin.alternet.org/activism/we-live-under-total-surveillance-state-america-can-we-prevent-it-evolving-full-blown-police

Christian Right v Godless Liberalism: Why Do Christians Attack Godless Liberals?

http://atheism.about.com/od/godlessamericaamericans/p/GodlessRight.htm?nl=1

US House passes federal funding bill proposing to defund Affordable Care Act
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/09/us-house-passes-federal-funding-bill-proposing-to-defund-affordable-care-act.php

How For-Profit Colleges Stay In Business Despite Terrible Track Record

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/for-profit-college-accreditation_n_3937079.html

The Proxy 'Civil War' In Syria Is About Gas, Oil And Pipelines
http://www.countercurrents.org/venturini240913.pdf

Will Obama the Bomber protect Israel’s WMD?
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/will-obama-the-bomber-protect-israels-wmd/

10 Ways Religious Groups Suck on the Public Purse

http://www.alternet.org/belief/holy-freeloading-10-ways-religious-groups-suck-public-purse

DOJ Puts Another Leaker In Jail: The War On Whistleblowers Rolls On
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130923/16454624627/doj-puts-another-leaker-jail-war-whistleblowers-rolls.shtml

Israel’s killing of five young Palestinians exposes "peace" talks as charade
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-killing-five-young-palestinians-exposes-peace-talks-charade/12797

Clicking ‘like’ is protected by First Amendment, 4th Circuit says
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/clicking_like_is_protected_by_first_amendment_in_case_of_sheriffs_employee_/

NSA Stories Around The World
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36322.htm

NSA Apologist Says The NSA's Actions Are Fine Because 'Privacy Is Dead'
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130916/17520324540/nsa-apologist-says-nsas-actions-are-fine-because-privacy-is-dead.shtml

World Citizen Asks United Nations to Disarm America: “The World Cannot Stand Idly By”
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/world-citizen-asks-united-nations-to-disarm-america-the-world-cannot-stand-idly-by_092013

Atheism will be ‘the new gay marriage’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/24/bill-maher-atheism-will-be-the-new-gay-marriage/

Zionist Apartheid: A Crime Against Humanity
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36331.htm

The NSA Isn’t the Only Government Agency Destroying Your Right to Privacy
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/nsa-government-right-to-privacy

Michael Mann: Global Warming: An Uncontrolled Experiment

In recognition of climate week, Thom talks with renowned climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann about the dangers of global warming. Dr. Mann in concerned we may be running out of time to rein in global temperatures.

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2013-09-16T08:22:00.001-04:00

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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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2013-09-11T21:05:00.002-04:00

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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

7 Free Documentaries: One Second to the Next, Evolution vs. God, DEFCON, Turnstile, BioBricks, Modern Spies, Nazi Concentration Camps.

2013-09-10T19:09:00.001-04:00

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From One Second to the Next

These are some of the stories that Werner Herzog portrayed in this It Can Wait documentary dedicated to horrors and victims of texting and driving.

Evolution Vs. God

Evolution Vs. God is a documentary trying to challenge the theory of evolution. Evangelical leader Ray Comfort, known as the bananaman, interviews evolution proponents (mostly students) from different universities in the United States and tries to expose the so called “unscientific nature” of evolution which he refers to as a “blind faith”, not science. The film tries to show intelligent design as a competing theory and suggests that the academe continues to bully intelligent design as an option. The film also aims to get some evidence for Macroevolution.

DEFCON: The Documentary
DEFCON is the world’s largest hacking conference, held in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2012 it was held for the 20th time. The conference has strict no-filming policies, but for DEFCON 20, a documentary crew was allowed full access to the event. The film follows the four days of the conference, the events and people (attendees and staff), and covers history and philosophy behind DEFCON’s success and unique experience.

Turnstile
Turnstile is focused on women involved in the criminal justice system and drug policy reform. The 36 minute film offers an exploration of three women’s experiences with addiction and incarceration, and interviews with other women that have been working for decades on criminal justice reform.

BioBricks: Building Blocks of Life
In the race to decode the human genome, scientists have long developed the tools that allow them to read and influence the building blocks of life. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute are able to decode the genome of Neanderthals and compare it with the human genome. Synthetic biology is no longer just practiced in university laboratories anymore. The next step could be for scientists to bring extinct species back to life – maybe even Neanderthals. Things that aren’t ethically defensible today could become normal in the future.

Modern Spies
From James Bond to Jason Bourne, the fictional world of spying is a world of danger and deception, glamour and lies. But how does the myth compare with the reality?

Nazi Concentration Camps
The Nazi Concentration Camps documentary was filmed in 1945 and entered as evidence at the Nuremberg Trials of Rudolf Hess, Hermann Göring, and 22 other Nazi officials in the aftermath of World War II. It revealed a stark, horrifying image of the atrocities of the Holocaust and ensured than no one would ever doubt the meaning of the charge, “crimes against humanity.”

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2013-09-06T05:53:00.000-04:00

Tons of good stuff at: http://www.dustcircle.com

NSA misused PRISM - Spied on Al Jazeera, bugged UN headquarters and used for personal spying
http://thehackernews.com/2013/08/nsa-misused-prism-spied-on-al-jazeera.html

We, The Paranoid
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2013/09/we-the-paranoid/

Edward Snowden Receives Whistleblowing Award
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130903/11175824392/edward-snowden-receives-whistleblowing-award.shtml

Grassley Presses The White House For Whistleblowers Protection
http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/Grassley-Presses-The-White-House-For-Whistleblowers-Protection-222411191.html

With nothing to lose and a living wage to win, fast-food walkouts spread
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/with-nothing-to-lose-and-a-living-wage-to-win-fast-food-walkouts-spread/

Chomsky: Why the Israel-Palestine 'Negotiations' Are a Complete Farce
http://www.alternet.org/world/chomsky-why-israel-palestine-negotiations-are-complete-farce

CYCLE OF INSANITY: A HUMANIST CASE AGAINST INTERVENTION IN SYRIA
http://americanhumanist.org/HNN/details/2013-09-cycle-of-insanity-a-humanist-case-against-interventi

Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange: Our New Heroes
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/03-6

Why we should listen to the world
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/editors-blog/2013/0903/Why-we-should-listen-to-the-world

Criminal Insanity of US Regime
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36082.htm

US Allies in Latin America Furious at NSA 'Espionage' Revelations
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/03-1

The Creepy Spy Program That Lets the Drug Enforcement Administration Look at Your Phone Records

http://www.alternet.org/creepy-spy-program-lets-drug-enforcement-administration-look-your-phone-records

Study: Climate change to significantly increase wildfires by 2050
http://www.fiercehomelandsecurity.com/story/study-climate-change-significantly-increase-wildfires-2050/2013-09-03?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

Should Atheists Be Politically Active?
http://atheism.about.com/od/godlessamericaamericans/a/PoliticsActivis.htm?nl=1

We can't survive on $7.25
http://socialistworker.org/2013/09/03/we-cant-survive-on-725

More Cities Sweeping Homeless Into Less Prominent Areas
http://www.npr.org/2013/09/05/218891324/more-cities-sweeping-homeless-into-less-prominent-areas

Nothing humanitarian about the empire
http://socialistworker.org/2013/09/05/nothing-humanitarian-about-empire

Assange Requests Investigation Into US Actions Against WikiLeaks
http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/stop-for-profit-colleges-from-taking-advantage-of-students?sp_ref=9750472.4.536.o.1.2&source=clickcopy_sp

U.S. Elementary School Homework Teaches Kids ‘Government Is Family’
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/u-s-elementary-school-homework-teaches-kids-government-is-family_092013

Does Science Disprove God?
http://freethoughtblogs.com/amilliongods/2013/09/04/does-science-disprove-god/

Whistleblower Award 2013 - Glenn Greenwald honorific speech for Edward Snowden

KMC » 9am - Sep 5, 2013

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: America Discredited, Rules of War, Palestinian Genocide, Facial-Scanning System, Affordable Care Act, Poverty Reduces Brainpower, NSA Email Collection, Israel's Siege of Gaza, Moral Obscenities in Syria, Whistle-blowers Good for Democracy, more.

2013-09-01T07:58:00.000-04:00

We have tons of quotes at: http://www.dustcircle.com

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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@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.

2013-08-26T16:59:00.000-04:00

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Reclaim the power! A call to action against energy austerity

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/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

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc260813A.htm

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

In 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

Indiscriminate surveillance fosters distrust, conformity and mediocrity: research

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/26/indiscriminate-surveillance-fosters-distrust-conformity-and-mediocrity-research/

More NSA Revelations Emerging

http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76785

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Bradley Manning, Government Secrecy, Israel and Egypt, Snowden Leaks, NSA Spying, more.

2013-08-22T12:26:00.002-04:00

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HISTORY WILL PARDON MANNING, EVEN IF OBAMA DOESN'T
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/08/history-will-pardon-manning-even-if-obama-doesnt.html?mbid=nl_Daily%20(309)

United States of Paranoia: How the FBI Spied and Lied So Conspiracy Theorists Would Sound Crazy
http://www.alternet.org/books/fbi-spied-new-left-and-lied-about-it-so-conspiracy-theorists-would-sound-crazy

13 Things the Government Is Trying to Hide from You

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/13-things-government-trying-hide-you

The sentencing of Bradley Manning
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/22/pers-a22.html

When the State Attacks Journalism
http://www.opednews.com/articles/When-the-State-Attacks-Jou-by-Peter-Hart-130820-581.html

Reclaim the power! A call to action against energy austerityhttp://www.redpepper.org.uk/reclaim-the-power-a-call-to-action-against-energy-austerity/

Amid Mideast Arms Race Israel Demands More US Weaponry
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/16-4

Dissent, Disappointment and Draconian Rule: Bradley Manning's Plea and the Fight to Be Human
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35878.htm

Right Before Snowden Leaks, President Obama Fired Nearly All Members On Key Intelligence Advisory Board
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130815/16155224194/right-before-snowden-leaks-came-out-president-obama-fired-nearly-all-key-intelligence-advisory-board.shtml

The “Bankization” of America

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/16

Humanity is getting verrrrrrry close to extinction

http://machineslikeus.com/news/humanity-getting-verrrrrrry-close-extinction

SNOWDEN’S LEGACY: A PUBLIC DEBATE ABOUT ONLINE PRIVACY
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/08/snowdens-legacy-public-debate-about-online-privacy.html?mbid=nl_Daily%20(3)

Citing ‘Terrorism’ to Justify Terror
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/08/18/citing-terrorism-to-justify-terror/

How school privatization hawks Teach For America promote Israel
http://electronicintifada.net/content/how-school-privatization-hawks-teach-america-promote-israel/12700

To Be A Palestinian, Especially In Gaza
http://www.countercurrents.org/bartlett210813.htm

NSA Spying: The Three Pillars of Government Trust Have Fallen
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/16-2

'Jaw-Dropping' Record of Violations Reveals Perils of NSA Self-Policing
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/16

Bradley Manning's Sentence: 35 Years for Exposing Us to the Truth
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/21-5

NSA-Corporate Collusion Built Network to Reach 75% of Internet Traffic
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/21

New ID rules would threaten citizens' rights
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/opinion/sobel-id-immigration

Creationism Advocate Admits That Science Proves Evolution, But Says We Should Believe The Bible Anyway

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/17/creationism-advocate-admits-that-science-proves-evolution-but-says-we-should-believe-the-bible-anyway-video/

5 Famous Americans You Never Knew Were Atheists
http://www.policymic.com/articles/57067/5-famous-american-atheists

A Co-op Story: Green Worker Co-op Academy

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: The U.S. Empire Provokes Terrorism, Pricey American Health Care, Increase in U.S. Military Suicides, Power of Edward Snowden, Israel Settlements Illegal, Corporate Tax Dodgers, America's Big Prison Population, Public School Police-State Mindset, American Dream is a Scam, more.

2013-08-16T06:52:00.002-04:00

Lots of news and links at our website: http://www.dustcircle.com

The U.S. Empire Provokes Terrorism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35802.htm

'Paying Till It Hurts': Why American Health Care Is So Pricey
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/07/209585018/paying-till-it-hurts-why-american-health-care-is-so-pricey?utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=20130811&utm_source=mostemailed

Secrecy Has Already Corroded Our Democracy in Real Ways
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/how-secrecy-has-already-corroded-our-democracy-in-concrete-ways/278478/

Marked increase in US military suicides
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/09/suic-a09.html

NSA reading content of Americans’ international communications
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/09/surv-a09.html

Edward Snowden Has Awakened the Sleeping Giant
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Edward-Snowden-Has-Awakene-by-Vincent-Guarisco-130809-53.html

The Power of Edward Snowden
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35806.htm

Restore Honor and Pardon Edward Snowden
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/restore_honor_and_pardon_edward_snowden_20130813/

America’s Descent Into Madness
http://www.alternet.org/culture/americas-descent-madness

US continues drone war against Yemen
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/13/yeme-a13.html

EU: Israel settlement approval illegal
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/eu-israel-settlement-approval-illegal/

NSA Loophole Allows Warrantless Search for US Citizens' Emails and Phone Calls
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35805.htm

The corporate tax dodgers

Missing your social safety net? Here’s how it happens

http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/?q=node/2412

Government surveillance spurs Americans to fight back

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/government-surveillance-spurs-americans-to-fight-back/2013/08/14/edea430a-0522-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html

Obama’s surveillance revisions omit limits on warrantless email searches
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/08/14/4411150/obamas-surveillance-revisions.html#storylink=cpy

Extreme Heat Waves to Quadruple by 2040, According to New Study
http://www.alternet.org http://www.alternet.org/environment/extreme-heat-waves-quadruple-2040 /environme

Why Does America Have Such a Big Prison Population?http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35868.htm

All Israeli settlements on Palestinian land are illegal, US says
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/all-israeli-settlements-on-palestinian-land-are-illegal-us-says/

Israel's Everyday Racism — and How American Jews Turn a Blind Eye to It
http://forward.com/articles/182171/israels-everyday-racism-and-how-american-jews-tu/

The Police State Mindset in Our Public Schools
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Police-State-Mindset-i-by-John-Whitehead-130814-343.html

STUNNING: Comparing U.S. & World Covers for TIME Magazine
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/25/1039957/-STUNNING-Comparing-U-S-World-Covers-for-TIME-Magazine?detail=email

The Disturbing True Story of How The Education System was Intentionally Corrupted
http://stormcloudsgathering.com/the-disturbing-true-story-of-how-the-education-system-was-intentionally-corrupted

The American Dream is a SCAM - by the Federal Reserve
http://stormcloudsgathering.com/the-american-dream-is-a-scam-by-the-federal-reserve

Civil Disobedience As Law Enforcement
http://www.countercurrents.org/brecher150813.htm

Capitalism Run Wild

Watch Encore: Taming Capitalism Run Wild on PBS. See more from Moyers and Company.

Senate Insider Speaks Out: Ex-Wyden Staffer on Secret Laws, Domestic Spying and Obama's NSA Reforms

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2013-08-11T19:03:00.000-04:00

It has come to my attention that some of the VIDEO digests don't show some of the videos in the mailings. These are accessible on the website. http://www.dustcircle.com

Stephen Hawking’s Universe
Stephen Hawking’s Universe is a 1997 documentary astronomical fact for public service broadcasting with the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. The author of the bestseller A Brief History of Time, here are some of the most astonishing scientific advances in cosmological thought.

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WikiLeaks: The Secret Life of a Superpower
It was the biggest information leak in US diplomatic history – over 250,000 US diplomatic messages or “cables” between the US State Department and US embassies all over the world – turned into a global sensation by the website WikiLeaks.

Battle of The Brains
Horizon takes seven people who are some of the highest flyers in their field – a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist, a dramatist, an RAF fighter pilot, a chess grandmaster and a Wall Street trader. Each is put through a series of tests to discover who is the most intelligent?

Shift: Beyond the Numbers of the Climate Crisis
Shift is a journey. In an ever worsening natural world we feel that inaction is not an option. We’re not claiming to be climate scientist or journalist trying to tell a plain story, just a brother and sister out to see what all the fuss is about. We accept, and thus firmly believe, that climate change is real, man caused, and a horribly big mess. Our goals are really two fold, one to educate people about climate change (you know the really scary numbers and facts that can be hard to stomach) and two, to offer solutions that help curb our emissions and make a healthier planet. We want to offer solutions from an individual basis all the way to neighborhood, city, and nationwide solutions as well. It can start with each one of us, but we need to work together to make real change. Shift is beyond shorter showers and efficient light bulbs, its a commitment to making real lifestyle changes

Preppers UK
Preppers UK introduces you to local preppers, each with their own unique fears and personal plans to survive a catastrophe.

The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden
After the United States successfully mounted a covert mission to eliminate America’s number one terrorist target, celebration turned to mounting questions. How did the terrorist mastermind elude capture for nearly a decade, only to be discovered hiding in plain sight just yards away from Pakistan’s most prestigious military academy? Peter Bergen, the famed journalist and author on Islamist terrorism who also produced bin Laden’s first television interview, obtains rare access to interview former CIA agents, Navy SEAL operatives and a Black Hawk pilot who reveal how the U.S. gathered the intelligence needed to pull off the surprise attack. He’ll talk to White House and Pakistani intelligence officials as well as neighbors of the Pakistani compound and eyewitnesses to the raid.

How Hackers Changed the World
Storyville: Documentary that goes inside the complex network and history of Anonymous, the radical online ‘hacktivist‘ collective. Through interviews with current members – some recently returned from prison, others still awaiting trial – as well as writers, academics and major players in various ‘raids’, the film traces the collective’s breathtaking evolution from merry pranksters to a full-blown global movement, one armed with new weapons of civil disobedience for an online world.

Future Energy
The world is subjected to an acute energy crisis in the modern times. Renewable sources of energy are being exploited by the most advanced technological systems to save the planet’s highly diminished traditional energy sources. This year marks the deployment of clean energy resources by industries and governments all across the world, which is sure to put a smile on your face.

Broken by Battle
Over the course of a year, reporter Toby Harnden set out to discover how many soldiers, both former and serving, took their own lives in 2012. He talks to families who have lost their sons and ex-soldiers suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder who are desperately seeking help.

Secrets of the Superbrands
Alex Riley thinks he’s immune to brands. When it comes to fashion, technology and food brands he just goes for the cheapest and what works for him. He’s convinced he’s not seduced by the advertising, celebrity endorsements and hype which surrounds the big global brands. So how did that pair of Adidas trainers get in his wardrobe? And how did that can of Heinz Baked Beans make it into his shopping trolley? And why does he have a Nokia mobile phone in his pocket rather than any other make? With the help of marketeers, brain scientists and exclusive access to the world of the superbrands Alex sets out to find out why we buy them, trust them, even idolise them.

Streets of New York
Nowhere in America do poverty and wealth exist so closely to one another as in New York City. Even from the darkest corners of Brooklyn, one need only look up and across the East River to see the great temples of Wall Street wealth looming over the night. Since the birth of the city, New York’s poorest residents, whether Irish, Jewish, black, or Puerto Rican, have made their own gold from the streets of the city. Sometimes the elements of crime were needed to harvest this gold.

Citizen USA: A 50 State Road Trip
Eight years ago Alexandra Pelosi’s husband, Michiel, was just one in millions of immigrants who came to America legally. Since he married her, and she was born in USA, he had no problem getting a green card. He was happy as a resident alien, until his son was born. Suddenly he realized he really had to become an American, so he started down the path to citizenship.

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50 Million Go Hungry Each Day
http://www.alternet.org/food/moyers-50-million-go-hungry-each-day

Creating A Living Wage For Fast Food Workers Would Cost Pennies For Business And Consumers
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/04/creating-a-living-wage-for-fast-food-workers-would-cost-pennies-for-business-and-consumers/

FBI can remotely activate microphones in Android smartphones, source says
http://worldduh.com/2013/08/03/fbi-can-remotely-activate-microphones-in-android-smartphones-source-says/

‘We Are Slowly Dying’: Fast-Food Workers Strike for Wages, Rights and Dignity
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/we_are_slowly_dying_fast-food_workers_strike_for_wages_rights_20130803/

Violence will rise as climate changes, scientists predict
http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2013/08/violence-will-rise-as-climate-changes-scientists-predict.html

A Debt-Free College Education

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/06-8

Obama's Abuse of the Espionage Act is Modern-Day McCarthyism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/06-14

The Surveillance State Is as Strong as Ever
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_surveillance_state_is_as_strong_as_ever_20130804/

5 Ways Right-Wing Media Make Their Fans Fear Science
http://www.alternet.org/5-ways-right-wing-media-make-their-fans-fear-science

5 Ways the War on Terror Has Changed Your Life
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/5-ways-war-terror-impacting-you

Talk About Police States
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35774.htm

Low-wage America
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/07/pers-a07.html

Feds Accused Of Distributing Malware That De-Anonymizes Tor Users
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130805/12263024073/federal-government-distributing-malware-that-de-anonymizes-tor-users.shtml

It's Dangerous For Free Speech When We Confuse Leakers With Spies
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130802/14032124047/its-dangerous-free-speech-when-we-confuse-leakers-with-spies.shtml

Should Businesses Make Money From Poor People?
http://bigthink.com/design-for-good/should-businesses-make-money-from-poor-people

Washington Thinks You Are Stupid
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Washington-Thinks-You-Are-by-Paul-Craig-Roberts-130806-33.html

Welcome To Post-Constitution America

http://www.countercurrents.org/buren070813.htm

Polls Keep Showing That Americans Are Fine with the Surveillance State
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/08/poll-after-poll-shows-americans-are-fine-surveillance-state/68038/

Is the United States a failing empire?
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/15143110-is-the-united-states-a-failing-empire

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