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Julian Assange in conversation with John Pilger
Bradley Manning Support Network » Archive » Bradley Manning: One Soldier Who Really Did “Defend Our Freedom” (support your troops)

BBC News - Israel ex-President Moshe Katsav found guilty of rape (arrogant motherfucker brought disgrace on failed theocratic state)
Should the plaques come down? (Israel's rapist President)
The War Nerd: Market Lessons from the Pashtun - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled

Winter Storm Causes 100-Car Pileup In North Dakota
Migrant farm workers: Fields of tears | The Economist (turns out Americans don't want those jobs done by "illegals" ... will soon starve)

Client List Puts Lanny Davis on the Defensive - NYTimes.com< (the sleaze king was getting $100/month to support "Ivory Coast strongman whose claims to that country’s presidency have been condemned by the international community and may even set off a civil war."
Sanity, Fear, And Sanchez: The Year's Top Moments In Stewart/Colbert (VIDEOS) | TPM LiveWire
California Asks Obama To Declare Weather 'Disaster,' Cough Up $111.5 Million - Los Angeles News - The Informer
Ground Zero Mosque Opponents Target Justin Bieber, Citing Fake Interview | PopEater.com (stupid (oxmoron) Republicans)

The New Voodoo - NYTimes.com Was it that old voodoo economics — the belief, refuted by study after study, that tax cuts pay for themselves — making a comeback? No, it was something new and worse ... Spending increases will have to be offset, but revenue losses from tax cuts won’t (delusional liars killing your country)
Oil Heads For Highest Annual Close Since 2007 - Bloomberg
Academic Economists To Consider Ethics Code - NYTimes.com (the most unethical profession after doctors)
Calculated Risk: Housing: Hank Paulson takes a loss Paulson bought the home for $4.3 million in August 2006, and sold the home for $3.25 million on Dec 21st this year. A decline of almost 25%. Ouch.
Career Switch by the Jobless Can Lower Living Standards - NYTimes.com
The Poorhouse: Aunt Winnie, Glenn Beck, And The Politics Of The New Deal
The 25-Year 'Foreclosure From Hell' - WSJ.com

The Universe, in High Definition - The New York Times > Science > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 7
Affirmative Inaction: an article by William M. Chace | The American Scholar Opposition to affirmative action has drastically reduced minority enrollment at public universities; private institutions have the power and the responsibility to reverse the trend (racist Republicans at work)

The Self Publishing Revolution: Amazon in the Book Banning Business (and deleted from your Kindles, too)

"Man in a Blizzard," by Jamie Stuart - Roger Ebert's Journal
Red Letter Media (Star Wars III review)
1. "Let Me In" - Best film scenes of 2010 - Salon.com

The Best Internet Memes Of The Decade: Chuck Norris, Rickroll, Lolcats And More From 2001-2010
Only 21 Percent Of U.S. Voters Support Net Neutrality (according to rigged Rasmussen poll: "do you want a Muslim President regulating the Internet?")
Myspace May Soon Lay Off Large Portion of Staff | Liz Gannes | NetworkEffect | AllThingsD (Murdoch failure)
Benchmark Results: Memory Usage And Management : Web Browser Grand Prix 2: The Top 5 Tested And Ranked

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2000 Vs. 2010: How the world has changed

WikiLeaks
cablegate | HiLobrow

Villager’s Suspicious Death Ignites Fury in China - NYTimes.com
Moshe Katsav Rape Charges: Former Israeli President Convicted Of Sexual Assault the most serious criminal charges ever brought against a high-ranking official in Israel and a case that shocked the nation
Slovakia Leaving EU? Newcomer Nation May Be Looking For Exit (not such a great idea after all)
Sarah Palin’s Transparency Problem | Death and Taxes Palin’s team has requested yet another delay, this time until May 30, 2011, which would put the total amount of days passed at 986 days, twenty more than Palin’s total tenure in office, 966.
Police demand new powers to stop and search terror suspects | Law | The Guardian Top officers tell government they want to replace section 44 law that was scrapped by human rights ruling
Benefits Granted for Full-Time Torah Study Are Questioned in Israel - NYTimes.com more than 60 percent of ultra-Orthodox men in Israel do not work, compared with 15 percent in the general population (religious welfare queens financed with US taxpayer dollars)

Can we survive without stimulus funds? | Philadelphia Daily News | 12/30/2010 (no, America's cities have been given death panels by the Republicans)
E.J. Dionne Jr. - Liberals should accept defeat and get back to their goals - If there is one thing the Obama White House most underestimates, it is the dispirited mood of its troops. This is not just about "the left" but, more important, about Obama's broader rank-and-file, who expected that he would usher in more change, enjoy more success in confronting his Republican opponents and prove more skilled in shifting the nation's political dialogue in a progressive direction (from a profoundly conservative corporate Pres)
President Obama -- enough agonizing over gay marriage - latimes.com Obama says he is struggling with whether to endorse same-sex marriage. We say, support marriage equality (Obama has always been against gay marriage)
Veterans of recent wars confront grim employment landscape (Republicans: "not our troops")
Judith Miller Lands At Newsmax Judith Miller, the now infamous former New York Times reporter whose hilariously wrong pieces on Iraq's WMD program were cited by Bush administration officials as a factor in their decision to invade Iraq (lands at rightwing "publication")
Alter's 'The Promise' Epilogue: Obama Team's Dysfunction Prompted Lack Of Focus On Jobs; Bill Clinton Annoyed At White House Alter writes that the CFPB survived certain death only because of Warren's commitment + Larry "The Failure" Summers: 'He basically doesn't believe in the government helping small business'."
Calitics:: Worst Governor Ever Arnold Schwarzenegger is packing up his office in the Capitol and finally, after 7 long years, leaving his post as governor of California (complete failure, what did you expect? he thought it was a movie role)

Jobless Claims: Weekly Claims Slip Below 400,000, at 29-Month Low - CNBC
SUVs lead U.S. auto sales growth despite efforts to improve fuel efficiency (everyone wants a truck)

Gale - Free Resources - Zoom Gulf Oil Crisis - Home
YouTube - World Airline Traffic (24-Hour Time Lapse)
Survey: Women Think About Food More Than Sex - TIME NewsFeed 25% of women think about food every half an hour, compared to the 10% of women who think about sex over the same time span.

The TSA's state-mandated molestation | Jennifer Abel | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The humiliations of the patdown policy, which Janet Napolitano wants to expand, are an Orwellian assault on American freedom ... Last month, Janet Napolitano floated the idea of TSA searches for bus, ship and train passengers (oh, subways and cab rides, too)
Larry Kramer: This Is Why Fox News Continues To Roll For the ninth straight year Fox News is cable television’s top News Network. This year, it beat CNN and MSNBC combined.
Book Review - Decision Points - By George W. Bush - NYTimes.com (The Decisionator: robot on crack)
Historians Find Myriad Errors In VA History Textbooks | TPMMuckraker (filled with lies and propaganda)

YouTube - "Shine On Me" Music Video by Chris Dane Owens
Cerebral Boinkfest: Sluts and Lesbians - Images of Ancient Women (for adults only)

Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » The Internet is not SkyMall (iPad=Skymall - emags like VF, Wired, New Yorker wanted to charge prints subscriptions rates, it flopped, again)
Goodbye Internet, We Hardly Knew Ye? - PCWorld Restructuring the Internet so that each country has a control point could easily wipe out the ability of Internet users to find out what is going on in the world (and Obama hates net neutrality)
Kindergartens told to pay up before singing - The Local A group representing German musicians found itself accused of Scrooge-like meanness on Tuesday after pressing kindergartens to pay up for singing songs that are protected by copyright (no singing for you, little children, 46 Euros per song)

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2010 in photos (part 1 of 3) - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Response to Wired's accusations - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Wired.com Editor-in-Chief Evan Hansen and Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen (are hacks and liars - Wired's role in surpressing the Lamo-Manning chat logs - destroyed by Greenwald)
The Epic Fight Between Wired and Glenn Greenwald | The Atlantic Wire
Glenn Greenwald and Wired Magazine: “I see no reason to doubt Poulsen’s integrity or good faith” « zunguzungu
Wikileaks: a somewhat less redacted version of the Lamo/Manning logs - Boing Boing
Hey, Kevin Poulsen! The central issue is simply Wired refusing to confirm or deny what Adrian Lamo claims is in the unreleased chat logs.
My Parents Were Executed Under the Unconstitutional Espionage Act -- Here's Why We Must Fight to Protect Julian Assange | Civil Liberties | AlterNet - By Robert Meeropol
HaïkuLeaks / Cable is poetry
USA forced Sweden's hand on piracy and Pirate Bay crackdown - Vilken överraskning! | TechEye The US has clicked its all powerful fingers at Sweden, having demanded that it close down the Pirate Bay and other similar sites in Wikileak diplomatic cables, or suffer the consequences

China preparing for armed conflict 'in every direction' - Telegraph
Iraq Police Headquarters Hit By Suicide Bombers, Killing Chief Shamil Okla Ahmed al-Jabouri
Army edits its history of the deadly battle of Wanat (top commanders absolved; lying liars and their 27,000 man PR dept)
APer blasts ‘patently false’ scoop claims in NYT oil spill story | Poynter.
The Sun admits publishing false story | Media | guardian.co.uk he pre-Christmas live episode Coronation Street being targeted by al-Qaeda was false.
BSkyB: only 1 in 20 back Murdoch takeover, poll reveals | Media | The Guardian
Palestinians' UN Settlement Battle To Begin

Francois Houtart, Belgian Activist Priest, Admits Sexual Abuse (Vatican wanted to give him the Nobel Peace Prize)

The Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics | TPMCafe Like a lot of conservative writing on foreign affairs it puts a huge amount of weight on things like will, resolve, and perceptions of strength and weakness.
David Ignatius - Honing our plan for Afghanistan Like any war, this one is ultimately about willpower, and America has an advantage in Petraeus, one of the strongest-willed people you could hope to meet (WaPo's profoundly conservative, "strong man" theory of geopolitics)
14th official state delay keeps Palin e-mail requests in limbo: Former Gov. Sarah Palin | adn.com
Sarah Palin Dubbed Misinformer of the Year By Media Matters • Progressive Nation (check out the sketch)
Christine O'Donnell Investigation: Criminal Probe Into Campaign Finances Reportedly Underway

Pork Bellies are Bacon Points and Figures
Impossible Foreclosure: Never Late on a Payment | The Big Picture Bank of America is threatening to throw a West Hartford family out of their home even though the couple never missed a mortgage payment (no, you don't own your home at all)
US Foreclosures Jump in Third Quarter: Regulators - CNBC (Obama never really gave shit about people losing their homes ... banks, another story)

What, Me Care?: Scientific American A recent study finds a decline in empathy among young people in the U.S.
Changes in Dispositional Empathy in American College Students Over Time: A Meta-Analysis — Pers Soc Psychol Rev
Meet the woman without fear | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
Debating a Christian flowchart
Terry Duncan fined $500 for cussing aboard Wisconsin bus, dammit - Minneapolis / St. Paul News - The Blotter (no speech for you, buddy)
J-School Confidential | The New Republic (1993 Michael Lewis)

4th amendment underwear : for when unwarrented searches go too far
News flash: Deadly terrorism existed before 9/11 - Ask the Pilot - Salon.com We've been dealing with the same threats for decades. But we used to be a lot calmer about it, less self-defeating
Escort probe skips 248 area code | detnews.com | The Detroit News Feds will only reveal customers with 313, 734 phone numbers ("influential people live there" - justice by area code)
Capital punishment: California sentences more prisoners to die while executing none - latimes.com With its death chamber idled by legal challenges, California sends 28 prisoners to death row in 2010.
Offbeat Mama | Parenting tips from a teen who grew up going to festivals with her offbeat mama
The Economist: ‘Lights, camera, Africa’ « Finding Nollywood (50 movies a week made in Nigeria)

Apple V Google | More Intelligent Life (open vs closed)
Mozilla Mistakenly Posts File Containing Registered User Data : SecurityWeek.Com

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The merger of journalists and government officials - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - There's just no difference in how they think, what their values and priorities are, how completely they've ingested and how eagerly they recite the same anti-WikiLeaks, "Assange = Saddam" script ... leading the crusade against the transparency brought about by WikiLeaks -- the ones most enraged about the leaks and the subversion of government secrecy -- have been . . . America's intrepid Watchdog journalists.
YouTube - Glenn Greenwald vs Fran Townsend Wikileaks Debate

Top 25 Of 2011 | Project Censored (#25: Obama still torturing)

Iraqi Prime Minister Says U.S. Forces Must Leave On Time - WSJ.com Prime Minister, in Interview, Says Troops Must Leave Next Year as Planned
The Paper That Finally Changed The Law on Drugs | Neurobonkers.com (science showed UK drug policy is insane; so they fired science)

2010 moments of pure crazy (Part 2!) - This Modern World - Salon.com
Secession! What Would It Look Like If Red States Formed Their Own Country? | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet What if all the conservatives broke away from the United States and formed their perfect society? (then we could but off their foreign aid)

DownWithTyranny!: Republicans in Their Own Words -- Quotations of a Party on Crack, 2010 Version: Part 1, The Unemployed
Top Ten Ways the Right Will Wreck the Recovery
Media Pay Insufficient Attention To Unemployment While Obsessing Over Deficits, Taxes | Media Matters for America (they love their rightwing tropes)
Tea Party Organizer Jumps Into Va. Senate Race - Washington Wire - WSJ
Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million The number of Americans without any health care coverage grew by more than four million in 2009. That left almost one-fifth of non-elderly people uninsured. Among those between 19 and 29 years old, nearly one-third lacked coverage (more than the pop. of Spain, all of whom have health insurance)
Tests of 'Roe' more frequent since justices upheld late-term abortion ban in '07 ("fetal pain")
Birther Battle Heats Up In Hawaii
Chris Matthews: Why Doesn't Obama Demand A Copy Of His Birth Certificate? (there must be a reason)

Many U.S. companies are hiring ... msnbc.com - One reason why U.S. unemployment remains as high as it is

TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine | Hacker’s challenge Peter Hacker tells James Garvey that neuroscientists are talking nonsense
A philosopher in the NY Times, again! « Feminist Philosophers
Your Mother, Your Self? « Feminist Philosophers the Chinese idea of self includes mother.
Update: Farm Animals Get 80 Percent of Antibiotics Sold in U.S. | Wired Science | Wired.com

YouTube - Loma Prieta Earthquake, ca. 1989
Special Offroad Vehicles

Columbia
Chris Liu: I am the YouTube airline pilot | News10.net | Sacramento, California | News
20 psychedelic strains of Star Wars-themed marijuana | Blastr


Public Transportation Shuts Down: 400 Spend The Night On A Train Twice, passengers called 911 and the Fire Department of New York responded. Passengers begged the emergency responders to take them away, but they were told they had to stay put, Mullen said.
Want a safe place to raise kids? Look to the cities | Grist Even though the risk of homicide by a stranger (incidentally, a small percentage of all homicides) is slightly higher in central cities, the difference is not enough to overcome the significantly elevated risk in outer suburbs of a fatal car crash (in order to prevent their kids from getting kidnapped, parents kill them with cars)
Divorce Research: Top Findings of 2010

Is Email Snooping a Crime? - Law Blog - WSJ Michigan resident Leon Walker faces a peculiar predicament: he’s been charged with a felony for secretly checking out his wife’s email account (affairs are now "trade secrets")
Is reading wife's e-mail a crime? Rochester Hills man faces trial | freep.com | Detroit Free Press

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Banks and WikiLeaks - NYTimes.com The whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks has not been convicted of a crime. The Justice Department has not even pressed charges over its disclosure of confidential State Department communications. Nonetheless, the financial industry is trying to shut it down (they are their own law, as we've seen)
Why Wikileaks Will Kill Big Business And Big Government | The New Republic Why Wikileaks will be the death of big business and big government.
The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed -- but refuses to publish -- the key evidence in one of the year's most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source.
Deus Assange: Digital Revolution
Karzai Releasing Scores Of Drug Traffickers In Afghanistan, WikiLeaks Cables Show (all in the family)
FDL’s Merged Version of Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Now Available | FDL Action

US missiles hit Pakistan borderlands, killing 18 - Yahoo! News - alleged militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
U.N. Maps Rate Afghanistan Less Secure - WSJ.com U.N. Maps Show Risks in Many Districts Have Increased Despite Troop Surge (who you gonna believe, your eyes or the lyin' military?)
AlterNet: America in Decline: Why Germans Think We're Insane (because America is insane?)
Al Jazeera Top 10 Of The Year - Al Jazeera English (fuck Time magazine)
Pope Benedict Blames Society Not The Church For Child Sex Scandal
Johann Hari: David Cameron's Anti-Government, Tea Party Agenda Is Built on Lies
Flotilla Protest Ship Greeted By Thousands In Turkey
The German Model Works For Every German | Firedoglake
Special Report: Is America the sick man of the globe? | Reuters
Portugal's drug policy pays off; US eyes lessons (the main lesson: America is stupid and owned by the DA/cop/prison/DEA industry)

Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours - NYTimes.com
NASA: NASA must spend $500 million on canceled rocket program - OrlandoSentinel.com

The 111th Congress - Swampland - TIME.com despite record unpopularity and minority obstinacy, the 111th Congress has been almost unprecedentedly prolific.
Jon Stewart’s Advocacy Role in 9/11 Bill Passage - NYTimes.com (while the village media sat on their asses)
Vermont bucked tea party tide in 2010 elections | The Burlington Free Press | Burlington, Vermont (thile the New Hampshire hill-billies went all teatard)
CNN Poll: Independents Still Hate the Mandate | Firedoglake President Obama likes to blame liberals for the discontent over this “historic” legislation — but it’s really those independents he’s so eager to please that are pissed off.
In Michigan, a City Pleads for a Bankruptcy Option - NYTimes.com Rick Snyder, a Republican who is to be sworn in as governor of Michigan on Saturday (sorry, have to cut pensions)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Don’t you know the crime rate’s going up up up up up the majority (and usually the overwhelming majority) of Americans believed the crime rate had gone up over the last year (even though it hasn't; what TV network are they watching?)
Hullabaloo: Capra Was A Commie Simp (FBI: "It's A Wonderful Life" is commie infiltration of the movie industry; they never change)

Persistent unemployment and the jobless recovery : The New Yorker (unemployment cyclical not structural - so Republicans want to kill us all)
Beltway Media: It's Okay to Steal from Retirees | MyFDL conventional wisdom now solidifying among the D.C. Beltway elite is that old people are a huge problem America just can’t afford, and the only solution is to take benefits and money from them, even if it’s their money they’ve been saving for decades (they always use their fuckups to fuck you over even more)
Robert Samuelson's Social Security Demagoguery at the Washington Post | Beat the Press
Yglesias » Fed Tilting Stronger Toward Disinflation Failure to appreciate the importance of the Federal Reserve and the need to get good people confirmed in a reliable manner is very high on the list of errors.
Bailed Out Banks Teeter Towards Collapse Nearly 100 banks previously rescued by the federal government are again poised to fail, despite billions of dollars of support from the American Treasury.
The Economy in 2011 | FDL News Desk (media cheerleaders on board, don't give a shit about jobs)
Yglesias » Subnational Government Debt Loans in China As of the end of June this year, there are 8,221 platforms and their outstanding loan balance is ¥7.7 trillion, of which 20 percent to 25 percent are deemed “problematic” by the China Banking Regulatory Commission.

What happens when two black holes are smashed together?
Unreported Heritage News: Did the Scots visit Iceland? New research reveals island inhabited 70 years before Vikings thought to have arrived

Animalarium
Family of suicide victim says Notre Dame betrayed them The parents of a Northbrook teenager who killed herself a week after accusing a University of Notre Dame football player of sexually attacking her say they feel betrayed by the school they love and that several generations of their family have attended (the sexual abuse coverup culture)

Useful Notes - Television Tropes & Idioms
YouTube - Haikus of The Heart
Grantbridge Street & other misadventures: Dune.

YouTube - DEFCON 18: How I Met Your Girlfriend 1/3

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Blizzard Warning for New York as Storm Heads Up East Coast - NYTimes.com

Assange Book Deal: WikiLeaks Founder Lands $1.5 Million Autobiography Deal (Obama will bomb Alfred A. Knopf for providing "material support" for terrorists, Visa/MC to cancel their credit cards)
WikiLeaks given $1.3m in 2010, and Julian Assange pays himself two thirds of the salary budget | Mail Online
WikiLeaks founder baffled by sex assault claims | The Australian ONE of the women claiming she was sexually assaulted by Julian Assange took a "trophy photo" of him lying naked in her bed, he says.
WikiLeaks Archive - Cables Show D.E.A.’s Global Reach - NYTimes.com The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation so expansive it has to fend off foreign politicians who want to use it against their political enemies, according to secret diplomatic cables (your war on drugz at work destroying democracy everywhere)

Cuban medics in Haiti put the world to shame - Health News, Health & Families - The Independent Castro's doctors and nurses are the backbone of the fight against cholera (Cuba's 1200 doctors putting Obama's relief efforts to shame)

The Big (Military) Taboo - NYTimes.com It’s the military/security world, and it’s time to bust that taboo ... President Obama, a Democrat who symbolized new directions, requested about 6 percent more for the military this year than at the peak of the Bush administration. (+they're corrupt)
Defense firms lure retired generals - The Boston Globe In large numbers, and with few rules, retiring generals are taking lucrative defense-firm jobs (more wars! more jobs for generals!)
Robert Gibbs: 'It's Going To Be A While Before' Guantanamo Closes (campaign promise broken; Obama leaving the job to Sarah Palin)

Congress To Take Harder Line On Illegal Immigration (and Obama hates immigrants to start with)
The Washington Monthly - It Depends On The Meaning Of 'Extraordinary'. (Rick Scott will extraordinarily destroy Florida, eat it up, suckers)
Coburn predicts 'apocalyptic pain' if spending isn't reined in now - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room (big spenders suddenly concerned about getting their money)

Cantor Fitzgerald Expands in Las Vegas Sports Book - NYTimes.com Cantor Fitzgerald is one of the biggest brokers of United States government securities, considered among the safest places to put one’s money. Cantor Gaming handles some of the riskiest (Wall Street just like a casino)

NASA discovers amino acids on an ‘impossible’ meteorite (Wired UK)
YouTube - CNN: Dolphins see themselves in mirror
The Gift of Endless Memory - 60 Minutes - CBS News Lesley Stahl Reports on Superior Autobiographical Memory
Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time - America produced more than 100,000 doctoral degrees between 2005 and 2009. In the same period there were just 16,000 new professorships.
New Scientist TV: Best videos of 2010: The progress bar illusion
Mark of the Ancients, Part 2: Taos Pueblo | Death of the Old

Vaginal steam bath finds a place among Southern California spa options - Los Angeles Times
BBC News - Coded American Civil War message in bottle deciphered (hope is not on the way)
Great Rock and Roll Pauses
YouTube - Santa Claus is a Republican

Cambridge university refuses to censor student's thesis on chip-and-PIN vulnerabilities - Boing Boing - Your letter shows that, instead, your member banks do their lamentable best to deprecate the work of those outside their cosy club, and indeed to censor it.
Responsible disclosure and academic freedom (Melanie Johnson, UK Cards Assoc. just made herself famous for bankitude)

Response summary - [ 4chan Users' Survey ] - Google Docs (6.5% transexual)
HTML5 differences from HTML4

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Frost/Assange: An Exchange on Anarchy | MyFDL< (Obama is thre real anarchist)/a>
What WikiLeaks revealed to the world in 2010 - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (alot of shit Obama doesn't want you to know)
The day that Barack Obama lied to me | Philly | 12/01/2010 (he's good at that)
WikiLeaks: Yadlin wanted Hamas takeover - Israel News, Ynetnews Diplomatic cable reveals former military intelligence chief regarded 2007 Islamic takeover of Gaza as positive step; said it will allow Israel to declare Strip as hostile entity (and turn it into a huge prison camp like Dachau)
'WikiLeaks to publish Israel cables on Second Lebanon War, Dubai assassination' - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Julian Assange, founder of whistle-blowing website, says thousands of documents related to Israel are due to be released over next six months (Obama will give them tons of free money anyway while Americans have no jobs)

Swiss Judge Seeks Atomic Secrets Trial for C.I.A. Moles - NYTimes.com (Obama order Switzerland to destroy evidence, will arrest country for treason)
Haiti Voodoo Killings Rise As Cholera Epidemic Rages: Report
'Jihadist' issues Christmas bombing threat - Yahoo! News The recording, titled "The Zero Hour has arrived" and directed to "the unbeliever and Christian countries celebrating Christmas" (and they will stone Santa)
Quake causes small tsunami in south Pacific | Reuters Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji after the 7.6 magnitude quake.
BBC News - India satellite rocket explodes after take-off
AP IMPACT: Mexico says its troops killed US man - Yahoo! News (your American drug war at work)

Late Night: Triangulation by Any Other Name | Firedoglake the word “triangulation” has been banned by Mr. Obama because he does not believe it accurately describes his approach (after all, he's only triangulating with himself)
Democrats Seek Changes to Senate Procedures - NYTimes.com
Raising the debt ceiling will be one of many battles facing President Obama in 2011 | Crooks and Liars Will the Obama administration finally call their bluff? (not a chance)
LRB · Eliot Weinberger · ‘Damn right,’ I said Decision Points by George W. Bush ... ‘The mark of the writer is … nothing more than the singularity of his absence.’ (Foucauldian analysis of the idiot son of an asshole's book)
Booktryst: It's Official: Decision Points "Limited" Edition a Bad Joke
The Presidential memoirs of George W. Bush, review : The New Yorker Dead Certain - George Packer
Hawaii’s Governor Seeks to Silence ‘Birthers’ - NYTimes.com critics who suggest that Mr. Obama’s mother slipped off to Kenya to give birth are engaging in a “demonological fantasy.”


Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » A Merry Christmas to all Bankers (UK banks try to censor academic paper on their vulnerable bank cards, Cambridge U says fuck you)
Why Economists Hate Presents, And How Seventh Graders Solved The Problem : Planet Money : NPR (Greenspan issues statement: "humbug" - solution: trade)

Progress in Algorithms Beats Moore’s Law « Algorithmic Game-Theory/Economics Grötschel also cites an algorithmic improvement of roughly 30,000 for mixed integer programming between 1991 and 2008.
Sculptor Wall of Galaxies-The Clue to the Missing Matter of the Nearby Universe
A Real Science of Mind - NYTimes.com As if it is news that the brain is not dormant during psychological activity! (neurobabble) (replace it with perceptual psychology!)
YouTube - The Brain as explained by John Cleese
YouTube - John Cleese - The Scientists - 2008

Firms' lobbying push comes amid rancor on TSA use of airport full-body scanners About eight of every 10 registered lobbyists who work for scanner-technology companies previously held positions in the government or Congress, most commonly in the homeland security, aviation or intelligence fields (of course)

Camera Works: Photo Essay (washingtonpost.com) (Joe NcNally)
On Sugar Plums | Joe McNally's Blog
Streetcar photo raises questions about inspiration - thestar.com
How original was the Toronto Star Emerging Artists Winner? | Flickr (nailed)

YouTube - A Very Zombie Holiday (Instructional video)
YouTube - Rare Exports: The Official Safety Instructions
Luisa Tetrazzini's gift ends S.F. era on high note
YouTube - Luisa Tetrazzini - 1911 - The Last Rose Of Summer
YouTube - The Manganiyar Seduction
YouTube - Jingle Bell [Gujarati & Tamil] - MTV India

David Ehi Reverse Scam (how to deal with the Nigerians)
HTTP Post Denial Of Service: more dangerous than initially thought | Acunetix Web Application Security Blog
Exclusive: MegaUpload Issues Response to RIAA Over Mastercard Cutoff ... “Are payment processors trying to become the legislature of the new decade?”
The 50 Best Registry Hacks that Make Windows Better - How-To Geek

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Julian Assange, homme de l'année pour "Le Monde" - LeMonde.fr (that's "man of the year" to you freedom-fry Americans)
Julian Assange: FOX News Is Closer to Terrorism Than WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks Has Sharply Raised Spending - WSJ.com
Daphne Eviatar: Bradley Manning's Confinement Conditions Are 'Not Customary' (Obama's torture regime)

YouTube - Psywar (2010): full length - The real battlefield is your mind
OSCE Press release - Hungarian media law further endangers media freedom, says OSCE media freedom representative
The Associated Press: Germany welcomes EU probe on Hungarian media law
BBC News - How Russian airports stay open in winter (suck it up, Heathrow)
What victims hear in pope's talk on sex abuse | National Catholic Reporter Every time Pope Benedict XVI says something about the never-ending sex abuse nightmare, he inches closer and closer to the dark reality that has been like a black cloud over the church for more than two decades (Popester: child porn and sexual abuse "normal")
Pope’s child porn 'normal' claim sparks outrage among victims - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk (WLPR)

Iraqi kills daughter recruited as Al-Qaida bomber
Israeli, Palestinian ads won't run on buses, Metro says | KING5.com (Israeli lobby killed free speech in Seattle)
Chemical Safety Board: Keep Companies Away From BP Oil Spill Evidence (too late)

Biden: Same Sex Marriage Is 'An Inevitability' | TPMDC (Obama: not while I'm Pres)
Why do Americans claim to be more religious than they are? - By Shankar Vedantam - Slate Magazine Why do Americans claim to be more religious than they are? - Religion in America seems tied up with questions of identity in ways that are not the case in other industrialized countries (otherwise they're a bunch a draft-card burning free-love atheist hippies but they don't mind lying to God)

The Humbug Express - NYTimes.com Hey, has anyone noticed that “A Christmas Carol” is a dangerous leftist tract? (Scrooge=Gingrich + Republicans)
Housing—For Housing to Recover, It Comes Down to Confidence - CNBC (jobs and money have nothing to do with it, so there)
Virginia puts homeowners on fast track to foreclosure (State owned by bankers, so fuck you, Virginians, you voted for these assholes)

PLoS ONE: Placebos without Deception: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Meet the Ethical Placebo: A Story that Heals | NeuroTribes
Pictures: Giant Mars Pits Revealed in Sharp Detail
Chinese Fossil Find: Discovery Of 20,000 Fossils Sheds Light On Life After Mass Extinction (Livescience is a malware vendor)
A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation - NYTimes.com
YouTube - drelbcom's Channel
YouTube - crazeclassics's Channel
YouTube - Endless jumping into the pool

YouTube - Woman Arrested for Refusing To Be Groped By TSA at Austin Airport (rape victim raped again by TSA)
Pilot in Hot Water for Exposing Security Flaws - AOL Travel News the TSA was sending a message that "you've angered us by telling the truth and by showing America that there are major security problems despite the fact that we've spent billions of dollars allegedly to improve airline safety." (TSA thugs at work)
Wendy Dennis: Carol Anne Riddell, John Partilla And The Myth of the Sophisticated Divorce
Ultimate payback after a breakup? Plastic surgery Forget "Bridalplasty." The real money is in "surgical vengeance."

106th King William's College quiz | Life and style | The Guardian
The Guardian Review literary quiz | Books | The Guardian
The philosophical underpinnings of David Foster Wallace's fiction. - By James Ryerson - Slate Magazine To understand the fiction of David Foster Wallace, it helps to have a little Wittgenstein.

Restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila photographed and kicked out of Red Medicine | Daily Dish | Los Angeles Times
Red Medicine Boots S. Irene Virbila Out of Restaurant - To Catch A Critic - Eater LA

Free online Dictionary of English Pronunciation - How to Pronounce English words
YouTube - Silent Monks Singing Halleluia
YouTube - Part 2 John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together
YouTube - Willie Nelson : Pretty Paper | YouTube - Roy Orbison - Pretty Paper

The Open Internet: A Case for Net Neutrality
How the FCC Is Flushing Your Open Internet | Motherboard
We're back. FileVo was taken offline by SoftLayer due to a DMCA notice against us (Softlayer, the TSA of hosting companies, avoid if you don't want your data raped)
YouTube - Defcon 18 Pwned By the owner What happens when you steal a hackers computer zoz part


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YouTube - ISS Crew Sends Holiday Greetings to All

U.N. to investigate treatment of Bradley Manning - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
UN to investigate treatment of jailed leaks suspect Bradley Manning | World news | The Guardian Office of rapporteur on torture confirms it is looking into complaint made by Manning supporter
The NYT spills key military secrets on its front page - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (didn't even need Wikileaks to commit treason)
How Wikileaks killed Spain's anti-P2P law (Obama bullying Spain on behalf of big media)
The Blast Shack We asked Bruce Sterling (who spoke at Webstock ’09) for his take on Wikileaks.
Phil Trupp: Regulators Scramble Ahead of WikiLeaks Financial Disclosures The last minute push by regulators comes ahead of a threatened WikiLeaks data dump.
Apple Explains Why It Deleted The WikiLeaks App would Apple pull an issue of The New York Times or Rupert Murdoch's iPad-only Daily if it published WikiLeaks documents that Apple think endanger people's lives? (Steve Jobs controls what you can think)

North Korea War Threats Resume North Korea threatened Thursday it would launch a "sacred" nuclear war if Seoul hit it and warned that even the smallest intrusion on its territory would bring a devastating response.
Israel Settlement Building Booms After Freeze (and they keep their $3Bn bribe)
Ivory Coast violence may have claimed almost 200 lives, says US envoy | World news | guardian.co.uk UN human rights council in Geneva told of credible reports of killings and torture in violence sparked by disputed election
Conservative links to Murdoch under scrutiny as private meeting revealed | Politics | The Guardian Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt held private talks with James Murdoch shortly after News Corp announced BSkyB offer (King of England)
Argentina's former dictator Jorge Videla given life sentence | World news | guardian.co.uk Head of military junta that took power in 1976 convicted for deaths of 31 prisoners, in trial of several officials from regime (Bush/Cheney)

NationalJournal.com - Senate's Returning Democrats Unanimously Favor Filibuster Reform - Thursday, December 23, 2010 All except Dodd sign a letter urging Majority Leader Harry Reid to change the rules (good old Dodd, Senator, Bankers)
Lisa Murkowski: Joe Miller Continuing Legal Fight Would Smack Of 'Desperation'
Rachel Maddow: Obama Has Accomplished 85% of First Term Agenda in 2 Years
The Anti-Gay Donations That Target Apologized For? They Never Stopped | The Awl (Target's Pres still hates gays)
Gillibrand Emerges as Senate Force With 9/11 Aid Victory - NYTimes.com (but the Times was just telling us that Harold Ford, Harld Ford)

Ireland Puts Another $4.8 Billion in Allied Irish Banks - NYTimes.com (more gifts to rich bankers, because they just couldn't give it to their people, could they now?)

A new working paper entitled "The Effects of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Public Health and Welfare" - same-sex marriage bans reduced tolerance for gays and increased the MSM syphilis rate, perhaps by making monogamy less common (+intolerance)
E15 and Engines - Can Ethanol Damage my Engine - Popular Mechanics
'Mayday. Mayday. . . We've got guys trapped' - Chicago Breaking News
VIDEO: Chicago Firefighters Search For Trapped Comrades : The Two-Way : NPR

New Type of Ancient Human Found—Descendants Live Today? Evolution's "new twist": Neanderthal-like "sister group" bred with humans like us.
BBC News - Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us Scientists say an entirely separate type of human identified from bones in Siberia co-existed and interbred with our own species.
YouTube - HD: Wild Polar Bears Playing Football! - Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice, Preview - BBC One

Schneier on Security: Recording the Police
Homeland Security Trolling We Won’t Fly Blog
Abusive Homeland Security ‘troll’ attacks anti-TSA website: report | Raw Story "F**k you, f**k all you c**ksuckers, you wont change anything,"
Missoula District Court: Jury pool in marijuana case stages ‘mutiny’ No, they said, one after the other. No way would they convict somebody for having a 16th of an ounce.

Bugarach: the mystery surrounding the village - Telegraph The village of Bugarach, population 189, is situated 24 miles southwest of Carcassonne in the Aude department, southwestern France.
Phantoms and Monsters: Paranormal, UFOs, Cryptids and Unexplained Phenomena
YouTube - The hideous financial monster - Haka by Te Waka Huia
Gurafiku: Archive
Never-Seen: Hells Angels, 1965 - Photo Gallery - LIFE
30 Years of BAD Pictures on Vimeo highlights of Bruce Dale's 30 year career at National Geographic
Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Bianca, the Covert Toronto Escort with a Day Job.

The Simple Software That Could -- but Probably Won't -- Change the Face of Writing - James Somers - Technology - The Atlantic
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
Fortifying Phones From Attackers - WSJ.com AT&T Hires Ph.Ds for Security Lab; Verizon Wireless Teams With Start-Up on Data-Security App
And the Smartest Site on the Internet Is... - Technology Review

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Julian Assange Lashes Out In New Interview

South Korea Drills: North Korea Attack Prompts More Exercises South Korea vowed Wednesday to "completely punish" North Korea if it attacks again (raising the rhetoric)

The Obama Indefinite Detention Regime | FDL News Desk
Proposal to Review Guantánamo Detainees Is Prepared - NYTimes.com
New START Victory Clear; Broader Nuclear Disarmament Vision Looks Unlikely | FDL News Desk
Americans See U.S. as Exceptional; 37% Doubt Obama Does Americans widely agree that the United States has a unique character because of its history and Constitution that sets it apart from other nations as the greatest in the world. This view, commonly referred to as "U.S. exceptionalism," is shared by at least 73% of Americans in all party groups, including 91% of Republicans (The America (actually "Republican") Team)

9/11 First Responders Health Care Bill Passed By Senate (Republicans hate "heros")
Rep. Holt: Sen. McCain Objected To My Military Suicide Prevention Bill ("maverick" = "cranky old fuck")
The Washington Monthly - White House Extends Well-Deserved Praise To Jon Stewart (and where was the other tall skinny guy?)

Fed Action Has Aided Stocks, Not Rates or Jobs: CNBC Survey - CNBC (keeping their priorities straight)
Banks Accused of Illegally Breaking Into Homes - NYTimes.com “This is in essence a burglary,” said Ms. Ash, walking through the vacant home, with its four levels and commanding mountain views. “But when a burglar goes in, they don’t take your photos and your husband’s ashes.” (Bank of America at work)
House Democrats Push For New Foreclosure Regulations

The vindictive grand jury investigation of pain-relief advocate Siobhan Reynolds. - By Radley Balko - Slate Magazine The vindictive grand jury investigation of pain-relief advocate Siobhan Reynolds.
At Kaplan University, 'Guerilla Registration' Leaves Students Deep In Debt (while making "billions" for WaPo, which will never print this story)

Prominent Web 2.0 Companies Do Not Have Any Women on Their Board of Directors | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD
Craigslist Adult Services Section Yanked From International Sites four months after it did the same for its U.S. sites. (another sign free speech is over)

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When Did Assange Know Pvt. Manning? - CBS Evening News - CBS News WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Denies Having Any Contact with Pvt. Bradley Manning; Could Affect U.S. Espionage Case Against Him ("co-conspirators" that didn't know each other)
WikiLeaks Founder: We Have Enough Information To Make An Exec At A Major Bank Resign (what this is really about)
The Meaning of the Assange Wars, or, None Dare Call It Tyranny - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Apple Removes WikiLeaks App From App Store (Jobs: we don't like free speech)
Noah Kalina. Blog. Julian Assange by Philip Toledano

BBC News - Kevin Connolly's guide to American culture
2010 Census Data - 2010 Census
2010 Census Count Expected To Bring News Of GOP Gains

The Plum Line - Conservative bloggers agree: Haley Barbour is toast
The Washington Monthly: A Senator Scorned - One of Pres. Obama's biggest supporters in the Senate in the past week is not even a member of his own party: Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
New START Treaty: Dems Beat Back GOP Efforts To Alter Accord
Tom Coburn To Block 9/11 Responders Bill (the South rises again)
Quiet Deal On Obama Judicial Nominees Unfolds In Senate After Prolonged GOP Blockade
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » First They Came for the Applebee’s Salad Bar When the Haley Barbour voting population can’t waddle up to a Golden Corral buffet bar safely after the weekend sermon on the threat of gays, it is time for all out war.
The Great Recovery Starts With Strong Progressive Taxation | News Junkie Post (the possibility of that has passed)
‘$823,200 to Study Genitalia Washing’: Sen. Coburn Releases Gov’t Waste Report | The Blaze

In Obama Anti-Foreclosure Program, Thousands Of Homeowners Strung Along For A Year (Obama's fake program to make people think he cares about foreclosures)
New Jersey Judge Could Freeze All State Foreclosures | FDL News Desk

Bayer: Bee-Toxic Pesticide Killed German Bees, But Is Safe in America | Fast Company (American bees are tough and patriotic)
In One Country, Chronic Whiplash Is Uncompensated (and Unknown) - New York Times ("It's mass hysteria" invented by lawyers)
Vietnam’s Mammoth Cavern - National Geographic Magazine There’s a jungle inside Vietnam’s mammoth cavern. A skyscraper could fit too. And the end is out of sight.

Texas Curriculum Changes Prompt Civil Rights Groups To Seek Review Of Public Schools In Lone Star State , the Republican-dominated Texas State Board of Education, voting along party lines, adopted a social studies and history curriculum that amended or watered down the teaching of the civil rights movement, religious freedoms, America's relationship with the United Nations and hundreds of other items (educated stupid)
Texas Textbook Massacre: 'Ultraconservatives' Approve Radical Changes To State Education Curriculum (no church-state separation, etc)

The Story Behind That Controversial NYT ‘Vows’ Column - Jeff Bercovici - Mixed Media - Forbes - (In both cases, the first marriage was also written up in the Times.)
Homewrecking Couple's Scandalous New York Times Wedding Announcement
Times No Longer Even Euphemizing Spouse-Dumping -- Daily Intel
Gross: People Who Reveal in the ‘Vows’ Column How They Cheated on Their Previous Spouse -- Daily Intel

Neocon Like Me: How I Spent A Year In Iraq Teaching With The Bush-Cheney Crazies - By John Dolan - The eXiled (good times! when young Republicans ran the country!)
> Mark Grueter: Inside the American University of Iraq
Student Eye: John Dolan, Academic Fraud by Dr. John Agresto
Tips for New Paupers - By John Dolan - The eXiled
Mugged By Mediocrity: Dr. Dolan Schools Neocon Imbecile John Agresto In The Art Of Character Assassination - By John Dolan - The eXiled
THE EXILE - A Million Pieces Of Shit - By John Dolan - Book Review This is the worst thing I've ever read (while Oprah was sucking Frey's dick)

Our Books | digitalculturebooks
'Israeli War Crimes' signs to go on Metro buses | KING5.com | Seattle Area Local News (Israel lobby squelches free speech)

A Traveler’s Guide To The History Of Death Death wasn’t always so scary. Learn how the changing face of death has varied across time and cultures.
Mary Rogan Examines NHL Legend Brian Burke and His Advocacy for Gay Athletes: Profiles: GQ
New Criminologist : Issei Sagawa: Celebrity Cannibal

Vimeo Video School
FCC Commissioner: Net Neutrality A 'Threat To Internet Freedom' a Republican FCC commissioner (Republicans: freedom=big corp controlling what you can surf for extra money)
FCC Net Neutrality Rules Slammed From All Sides | Epicenter | Wired.com
Google Docs presentation makes PowerPoint weep, beg for mercy (video) -- Engadget
Microsoft's Biggest 2010 Missteps - PCWorld Business Center
ViewSonic ViewPad 7 Android Tablet Review - HotHardware

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WikiLeaks: Israel-Palestinian Cooperation Hints Released
Funding illegal Israeli settlements? Priceless. | Crikey Visa, Mastercard and PayPal all enable donations to be made to US-registered groups funding illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank in defiance of international law (yeah, but those are our terrorists)
Transparency: What's Next for WikiLeaks? - Politics - GOOD
WikiLeaks cables: US suspected Allen Stanford long before ECB deal | World news | The Guardian American diplomats told to avoid contacting or being photographed with billionaire two years before his fall from grace
Anti-terror police arrest 12 in UK raids | UK news | guardian.co.uk Fear of Christmas bombing behind 5am raids to detain men aged 17-28 and searches of properties in four cities
WikiLeaks cables: Yemen radioactive stocks 'were easy al-Qaida target' | World news | The Guardian Sana'a official told US diplomats solo sentry had been removed from atomic facility and CCTV system was broken (The cable revealed that the facility holds large quantities of radioactive material used by hospitals, local universities for agricultural research and in oilfields.)
Julian Assange like a hi-tech terrorist, says Joe Biden | Media | The Guardian US vice-president makes strongest remarks by any White House official over WikiLeaks founder and dipomatic cables (they are terrorized by the truth)
Joe Biden v. Joe Biden on WikiLeaks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - It's really not an overstatement to say that WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are the new Iraqi WMDs ... scary villains threatening the security of The American People and who must therefore be stopped at any cost (Biden voted for Iraq War, was Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in 2002, is basically a war criminal)
Trolls defend Assange against rape accusations by threatening rape | The Hathor Legacy

Monitoring America | washingtonpost.com (Obama's National Secrecy State)
The government's one-way mirror - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com One of the hallmarks of an authoritarian government is its fixation on hiding everything it does behind a wall of secrecy while simultaneously monitoring, invading and collecting files on everything its citizenry does.

Ten Years In, Afghanistan War Barely An Issue In 2010 Campaign (Republicans support our troops by not giving a shit)
Suspected UK Terrorism Plot Leads To 12 Arrests
University places to be cut by 10,000 by 2012, minister reveals | Education | The Guardian David Willetts says this year's extra funding to meet surge in applications will be withdrawn (conservatives destroying education everywhere)
The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers | Foreign Policy

Misinformation_Dec10_rpt.pdf Misinformation and the 2010 Election A Study of the US Electorate

Equality Matters | Equality Matters "It's a tragic day for America," Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council
The Washington Monthly If Republicans' vulnerability among Hispanic voters does not persuade them to compromise, (Reid) noted, "they have real problems with their mental capacity." (we've noticed that too)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Because Even The Thought of the Unborn Counts For More Than A Real Live Girl. House Republicans thwarted a bill that aimed to protect girls around the world from being coerced into child marriage. They opposed it because, they claimed, it might fund abortions ("might" because they would get "health services")

Secessionists were clear about their cause: slavery - Editorial - TheState.com
Gone With the Myths - NYTimes.com The authors of these papers flattered themselves that they’d conjured up a second American Revolution. Instead, the Secession Convention was the beginning of the Civil War, which killed some 620,000 Americans; an equivalent war today would send home more than six million body bags ... n other words, the only state right the Confederate founders were interested in was the rich man’s “right” to own slaves (Southern "states-rights" bullshit can never be defeated)
Hullabaloo There's lots of chatter about these comments by Haley Barbour, "whitewashing" the Conservative Citizens' Council and saying that racism in the South before the civil rights movement "wasn't that bad."
The White Citizens Councils The White Citizens Councils: Respectable Means for Unrespectable Ends by David Halberstam
Yglesias » Haley Barbour’s Affection for the White Supremacist Citizens’ Council - The Citizens’ Council is the South’s answer to the mongrelizers. We will not be integrated. We are proud of our white blood and our white heritage of sixty centuries (6,000 years of white racisim and they're proud of it)
Yglesias » Yazoo City Citizens’ Council Was a White Supremacist Organization Barbour wants you to believe the Citizens’ Council was avoiding trouble by organizing boycotts of the KKK. The reality is they were organizing boycotts of NAACP supporters.
Barbour Spokesman: Mississippi Gov. Is Not Racist | TPMDC (out and proud)

Barack Obama and the Art of Negotiation | FDL Action ("negotiation" = "capitulation" to his Republican daddies)
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Opponents Taking Revenge On Russian Arms Treaty - Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) (Obama's go-to bipartisan Republican muhahaha)
Pat Buchanan On DADT Repeal: Imposing 'Values Of Fire Island' Will Be 'Hellish' | TPM LiveWire (Tom Ashbrook's favorite paleoconservative)
Daily Kos: Russia reacts to Senate GOP posturing: Warns of changes to treaty There's nothing like antagonizing a nuclear power in a fit of pique over gays being allowed to serve in the military. The Republican obstruction of and posturing over START Treaty ratification is not amusing Moscow
Matt Wilstein: The Top 5 Funniest Political Comedy Videos of 2010
Daily Kos: 60 Minutes joins austerity bandwagon In a stunningly one-sided story last night, 60 Minutes gave GOP Gov. Chris Christie the floor to push his war against public employees and the GOP narrative that has taken hold of the country--the debt crisis in the states isn't a revenue problem, it's a spending problem.

When Zombies Win - NYTimes.com “Ireland,” declared George Osborne in 2006, “stands as a shining example of the art of the possible in long-term economic policymaking.” Whoops. But Mr. Osborne is now Britain’s top economic official (always rewarding Conservative failures)
60 Minutes' one-sided, GOP-friendly report on state budgets | Media Matters for America
State Budget Crisis 'Largest Threat To The U.S. Economy' (says Republican idiot Chris Christie = "everyone")
State Budgets: The Day of Reckoning - 60 Minutes - CBS News (Republican propaganda)
The Europe of North America (Canada's provinces not in such great shape either)
William K. Black: Congress Threatens to Sow the Seeds of Our Next Banking Crisis ("Congress" = "Republicans" - because no regulation worked so well last time)
Ernst And Young Charged Civil Fraud Of Lehman Accounting
Senate panel ban seen as double standard The Senate Armed Services Committee prohibits its staff and presidential appointees requiring Senate confirmation from owning stocks or bonds in 48,096 companies that have Defense Department contracts. But the senators who sit on the influential panel are allowed to own any assets they want (of course)

Four in 10 Americans Believe in Strict Creationism Americans' views on human origins vary significantly by level of education and religiosity. Those who are less educated are more likely to hold a creationist view ... Americans who attend church frequently are most likely to accept explanations for the origin of humans that involve God, not a surprising finding. Still, the creationist viewpoint, held by 60% of weekly churchgoers (religious and stupid; 60% doesn't believe in science, either)
A Tough Season for Believers - NYTimes.com Christianity has become what Hunter calls a “weak culture” — one that mobilizes but doesn’t convert, alienates rather than seduces, and looks backward toward a lost past instead of forward to a vibrant future.
YouTube - Father Morris: It's Not Healthy to Have an Imaginary Friend (on Fox: too stupid to recognize irony)
Robert M. Price - Is the Bible Mein Kampf? | Point of Inquiry
A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I'm An Atheist - Speakeasy - WSJ So what does the question “Why don’t you believe in God?” really mean. I think when someone asks that they are really questioning their own belief. In a way they are asking “what makes you so special? “How come you weren’t brainwashed with the rest of us?” “How dare you say I’m a fool and I’m not going to heaven, f— you!”
Let him who is without sin fudge the first story. | Foxhole Atheism Jesus is famously quoted as saying “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” ... According to a footnote in the New Oxford Annotated Bible (my bible of choice) the “episode is not found in the most authoritative manuscripts.”
Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party
Tea Party Nation Founder: Let's Get Rid Of The 'Socialist' Methodist Church | TPMMuckraker (what about the UU's?)

Solstice Lunar Eclipse - NASA Science
Shadow & Substance Home Total Eclipse of the Moon (animated) for December 21, 2010
SPACE.com -- Tonight's Lunar Eclipse Comes With a Rare Twist

The myth of hypothesis-driven science | HIV / AIDS, science, sex, drugs
Prospect_Big_data.pdf - Has the internet changed science? Elizabeth Pisani
The Gift of Endless Memory - 60 Minutes - CBS News Lesley Stahl Reports on Superior Autobiographical Memory
Custom Electronic Instruments | Folktek

The Daily Patdown - Your daily dose of security theater (it's ok if your government molests you)
High school hazing probe embroils Boise State football player | Reuters Blackfoot residents and officials say the lurid allegations of sexual hazing have divided the farming community of 11,000 (half the town supports rape)

YouTube - Werner Herzog Reads Twas The Night Before Christmas
YouTube - Mt View Elementary Christmas Program - "Must Be Santa"
YouTube - Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa
YouTube - Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel 5 - Wake Up Little Susie
Hulu - Saturday Night Live: SNL Digital Short: I Just Had Sex
Video: Christmas road test: Packard-engined Bentley - Telegraph

Al Franken: The Most Important Free Speech Issue of Our Time Internet service giants like Comcast and Verizon want to offer premium and privileged access to the Internet for corporations who can afford to pay for it.
Robert M. McDowell: The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom - WSJ.com 'Net neutrality' sounds nice, but the Web is working fine now. The new rules will inhibit investment, deter innovation and create a billable-hours bonanza for lawyers (WSJ: let the "free market" control everything, muhahaha)
20% of All Peak Traffic Due to 3.5M Netflix Data Hogs?: Video «
Broadband firms urged to block sex websites to protect children | Society | The Guardian Government wants BT, Virgin and other internet providers to put access to pornography on 'opt-in' basis (which would give them a nice list of, you know, porno-watchers, muhahaha)
These astroturf libertarians are the real threat to internet democracy | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian As I see in threads on my articles, the online sabotaging of intelligent debate seems organised. We must fight to save this precious gift

Online Ads Pull Ahead of Newspapers - WSJ.com The digital-marketing research firm says U.S. spending on online ads will hit $25.8 billion, surpassing the $22.8 billion spent on print ads in newspapers.
When Parents Text™
5 Web titans that withered under Yahoo - CNN.com (remember broadcast.com?)
Lord chief justice approves use of Twitter for court reporting | Technology | The Guardian Guidance follows district judge's decision to allow tweeting of bail hearing for Julian Assange earlier this month

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Swedish Police Report Details Case Against Assange - NYTimes.com
The Law Office of David E. Coombs: A Typical Day for PFC Bradley Manning
YouTube - Assange in respect for himself
What We Learn From WikiLeaks Media paint flattering picture of U.S. diplomacy
Dear Government of Sweden ... | MichaelMoore.com - Sweden has the HIGHEST per capita number of reported rapes in Europe (but they never prosecute anybody unless the CIA tells them to)
Hullabaloo SNL Does Wikileaks

Joe Biden: We'll Be Out Of Afghanistan By 2014, 'Come Hell Or High Water' (depends on your definition of "out")
DynCorp, Other Private Contractors In Afghanistan Behaving Badly Interior Minister Hanif Atmar claimed the embarrassing publicity could cause a backlash in Afghanistan and "endanger lives."
Mitch McConnell Announces He Will Oppose New START Treaty (Republicans endangering the world)
BBC News - Nigeria drops Dick Cheney bribery charges Nigerian officials said Halliburton agreed an out-of-court deal worth $250m (£160m). The firm has not commented (Cheney bribes Nigeria to drop bribery changes against Cheney)

Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Passes Senate 65-31
Gay troops cautiously optimistic following 'don't ask' repeal
DADT Repeal Marks Milestone In Fight For Gay Rights
Jon Kyl: DADT Repeal Could Cost Lives ("countless lives" as Republicans' heads explode +McCain being himself)
FreakOutNation » McCain On Repeal Of DADT: We Have Marines With No Limbs (we have ancient Senators with no brains)
Tea Party Era Begins With Refusal To Debate 'Omnibus' Spending Bill by eagerly backing the successful efforts of Tea Party favorites to block debate on a $1.1 trillion "omnibus" spending bill that would fund the entire federal government until next October -- but which contained billions of dollars in "earmarks" Republicans, including McConnell, once stoutly defended.
The Bipartisanship Racket - NYTimes.com the new political organization called No Labels ... Gawker, which deemed it “the most boring political movement of all time.” (no brains)
Former Justices Stevens & O'Connor Reject 'Citizens United' Ruling

Obama to blink first on Social Security - POLITICO.com Print View Robert Kuttner 0 Obama is finally getting the bipartisanship he craved — but entirely on Republican terms (capitulator-in-chief)

Is the End in Sight for The World’s Coral Reefs? by J.E.N. Veron: Yale Environment 360 t the science is clear: Unless we change the way we live, the Earth's coral reefs will be utterly destroyed within our children's lifetimes (Republicans: "God gave us the coral reefs to destroy")

Man passes through TSA security with loaded gun in carry-on bag, boards plane | abc13.com
CBC News - British Columbia - Police video of B.C. man's shooting released
WTF CNN! How can you not tell which one of these stories is more important? - Imgur

YouTube - streets of fire 1 10
YouTube - Kids Sing Still Alive Again
Should Jews Own Christmas Trees? A debate between Mark Oppenheimer and Jessica Grose. (1) - By Jessica Grose and Mark Oppenheimer - Slate Magazine
The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Barbara Newhall Follett, Disappearing Child Genius : NPR

Google Voice, transcribed - Have a chicken bye!
The Great Typekit Table – Sleepover

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Getting to Assange through Manning - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Joe Biden v. Joe Biden on WikiLeaks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are the new Iraqi WMDs because the government and establishment media are jointly manufacturing and disseminating an endless stream of fear-mongering falsehoods designed to depict them as scary villains threatening the security of The American People and who must therefore be stopped at any cost.
YouTube - Rap News 6 - Wikileaks' Cablegate: the truth is out there
Columbia School of Journalism Comes Out Against Prosecution of Julian Assange | FDL News Desk
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect Charging Assange.
Conspiracy charge wouldn't end problems with Wikileaks prosecution - Josh Gerstein - politico.com (Pres Constitutional Lawyer)
Balkinization the conspiracy theory also threatens traditional journalists as well.
Lawfare › The Implications of Charging Assange for Conspiracy to Leak [Updated] The Implications of Charging Assange for Conspiracy to Leak [Updated]
Bank of America says it won't process payments intended for WikiLeaks - KansasCity.com - WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments." (returning Obama's favors)
WikiLeaks: Cuba banned Sicko for depicting 'mythical' healthcare system | World news | guardian.co.uk Authorities feared footage of gleaming hospital in Michael Moore's Oscar-nominated film would provoke a popular backlash
10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange | Media | The Guardian Unseen police documents provide the first complete account of the allegations against the WikiLeaks founder

Foreign troop toll in Afghanistan in 2010 nears 700 | World | Reuters (for nothing)
YouTube - Drone attacks in Pakistan
CIA Waterboarding Legal Defense: $5 Million Shield For Pair Of Contractors (your tax money defending torturers)
VOA | Sudan President Accused of Hiding Billions of Dollars | News | English
Late Night: Years Later, Judith Miller Is Still Doing Scooter Libby’s Laundry | Firedoglake (Judy "Aluminum Tubes" Miller lies in the Wall Street Journal)
Your right to protest in under threat : Johann Hari The message to Nicky Wishart and his generation is very clear: don’t get any fancy ideas about being an engaged citizen. Go back to your X-Box and X-Factor, and leave politics to the millionaires in charge.

A Primer On The Fallout Of OmnibusFAIL | TPMDC
Top Homeland Security Dem: Muslim 'Radicalization' Hearings Could 'Chill' Muslim Relations | TPMMuckraker A planned Republican-led inquiry into the "radicalization" of Muslim-Americans could "chill" relations between the U.S. government and its Muslim citizens
High-speed rail: Rick Scott's aversion to it imperils Orlando-Tampa route - OrlandoSentinel.com Rick Scott's aversion to high-speed rail threatens Florida's economy (Repubiicans hate infrastructure and jobs)
Calitics:: House Republicans Plan to Force California Into Bankruptcy to Bust Unions (Republicans at work)
PolitiFact | PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'A government takeover of health care' (Fox/Satan at work)

Payrolls Drop in 28 U.S. States, Joblessness Rises in 21 in Labor Setback - Bloomberg
Arizona Sues Bank Of America, Alleges Loan Modification Fraud
Peter Schiff: Real US Collapse May Happen in 2011

Cassini Solstice Mission: Cassini Spots Potential Ice Volcano on Saturn Moon
Planet Hunters
Did Monster 'Dark Stars' Spawn the Supermassive Black Holes of a Trillion Galaxies?
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » QCut So imagine how excited I was to learn that YouCut’s first target—yes, its first target—was that notoriously bloated white elephant, the National Science Foundation (Republicans hate science)
Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes | Video on TED.com
New Species: California Academy of Sciences - More Than 100 New Species Described in 2010

Pennsylvania Girls Fight 'Boobies' Bracelet Ban in US Court - ParentDish (breast cancer awareness encourages promiscuity, says school)

Top 10 Ways to Find Better Answers Online (that Aren't Google)
YouTube - Funny British Animal Voiceovers

The Video: The Shooting of John T. Williams | Slog | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper another officer can be heard telling Birk, "You did the right thing. Hang in there, Ian."
Good Samaritans Face Fine After Rescuing Deer From Icy Water « CBS Baltimore – News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of Baltimore They say they were ticketed for not wearing life vests, although both are over the age for mandatory use of flotation devices.

IPhone and Android Apps Breach Privacy - WSJ.com
Learn HTML5, JavaScript and CSS With Mozilla's "School of Webcraft
3 Ways to Host Your Own Delicious Alternative - ReadWriteCloud
MapQuest Maps - Driving Directions - Map
Smart phone rivalry plays out in patent suits - Yahoo! News

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US criticises court that may decide on Julian Assange extradition, WikiLeaks cables show | World news | The Guardian Leaked dispatches reveal diplomats' disdain for Council of Europe's stance against extraditions to US and secret renditions
WikiLeaks: the man and the idea | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
Q&A: Julian Assange allegations | Media | The Guardian
Julian Assange-Katie Couric Interview: WikiLeaks Founder Defiant On CBS 'Evening News'
YouTube - Newsnight: Bailed Julian Assange live interview (16Dec10)
Freed on bail – but US steps up efforts to charge Assange with conspiracy - Americas, World - The Independent Accused soldier offered plea bargain if he names WikiLeaks founder ("co-conspirator" offering "material support" to "terrorists")
U.S. Tries to Build Case Against WikiLeaks Founder - NYTimes.com (you want a conspiracy case? we'll show you a conspiracy)
DCX2: Meanwhile, there's a WikiLeaks cable that details how US contractor “Meanwhile, there's a WikiLeaks cable that details how US contractor DynCorp sold child prostitute­s to Afghan police officers as part of a bacha bazi party. Real, actual evidence of sexual crimes with victims who could not possibly consent. Where's the Interpol red notice?
Julian Assange: WikiLeaks faces 'very aggressive' investigation by US | Media | The Guardian Organisation's founder says he is reliant on public opinion to rein in 'superpower that does not appear to be following rule of law' (Obama could give a shit about your fucking "laws")
US lawyers explore extradition routes for Julian Assange | Media | The Guardian US justice department has still not approached British government as lawyers struggle to mount prosecution
Bradley Manning's health deteriorating in jail, supporters say | World news | The Guardian The intelligence analyst suspected of leaking US diplomatic cables is being held in solitary confinement
Bradley Manning's Inhumane Detention - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime (Obama could give a shit about your human rights)
Liam Fox cancels Sri Lanka trip amid claim in cables of Colombo's war crimes complicity | Politics | The Guardian US embassy cables leaked tonight provided fresh allegations of the Sri Lankan government's complicity with paramilitary groups in last year's offensive against the Tamil Tigers.

CIA chief in Pakistan leaves after drone trial blows his cover | World news | The Guardian
World Affairs Journal - Facts Meet Freedom: On the Air in Afghanistan
Lebanon braced for bloodshed over report into Rafik Hariri killing | World news | The Guardian

House Passes Tax Deal 277-148, Sending Bill To President - A coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats (what deficit?)
Tax Cut Package Passed By Congress: See The Bill's Highlights
David Wu: 2 For 1 Deal On Tax Cuts And Jobless Aid Goes Against Core Democratic Values (about what you'd expect from our Republican Pres)
HuffPost TV: Roy Sekoff: Obama 'Just Not That Into' Taxing The Wealthy (core Republican values)
Hullabaloo - Different Than You And Me (Washington/Versailles sees the world very differently)

Wall Street Whitewash - NYTimes.com How naïve we were. We should have realized that the modern Republican Party is utterly dedicated to the Reaganite slogan that government is always the problem, never the solution. And, therefore, we should have realized that party loyalists, confronted with facts that don’t fit the slogan, would adjust the facts ... all four Republicans on the commission voted to exclude the following terms from the report: “deregulation,” “shadow banking,” “interconnection,” and, yes, “Wall Street.” (Obama's Liars' Commission)
Why Tax Cuts For The RICH Killed The economy in 1929 and Are Killing Us Again (always their plan)
Peter Orszag: The Shoe That Didn't Drop - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic If you're wondering just how taken for granted such arrangements are in today's Washington/ Versailles, here's a data point. The Washington Post, still aspiring to be official journal of politics, has not published a single story about Orszag's new job (corruption the Washington way of life)
The Inequality That Matters - Tyler Cowen - The American Interest Magazine
Why Wall Street won’t get shrunk | Analysis & Opinion |
The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. The bankers, fed up with regulation, dissatisfaction, and downright hostility, decided to unleash the planet-destroying superweapon in their arsenal: they went on strike, not once, but three times.
There Are Now Enough Vacant Properties In China To House Over Half Of America
Inside the Rolling Stones Inc. - September 30, 2002

MINA Breaking News - Los Alamos Scientist: TSA Scanners Shred Human DNA (oh, what a surprise)
Physicists Finally Find a Way to Test Superstring Theory « Not Even Wrong
Exploring how partners perceive each other’s emotion during a relationship fight ... links between different types of emotion, different types of underlying concern, and different types of perceived partner emotion.
Study identifies couples’ underlying concerns during a fight "When people have underlying concerns about a perceived threat or perceived neglect, they may be likely to engage in reflexive, emotionally charged behavior that can initially serve to escalate the conflict"

Stewart Spends Last Show Of 2010 ENTIRELY On 9/11 First Responders Bill (video)
Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed: Study (+crazy: watching Satan)

scanzen: Women aircraft builders 1942-43
Bully’s Killing Is Unsolved, and Residents Want It That Way - NYTimes.com
Vigilante Justice: A Proper Response to Government Failure
Pregnancy Calendar
Is ‘Muslim’ a Dirty Word? « Arc of '72
TrentHead.Com: TSA at work

Generations 2010 | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

Sixth Circuit Rules that Emails Protected from Warrantless Searches - Law Blog - WSJ (Obama is pissed)
Sex Pill Peddler Makes It Hard for the Po-Po to Peep at Your Email « Above the Law: A Legal Tabloid - News, Gossip, and Colorful Commentary on Law Firms and the Legal Profession “This is a very big deal,” writes law professor Paul Ohm. “[T]his is the opinion privacy activists and many legal scholars, myself included, have been waiting and calling for, for more than a decade. It may someday be seen as a watershed moment in the extension of our Constitutional rights to the Internet.”

Phone-Wielding Shoppers Strike Fear Into Retailers - WSJ.com
Yahoo Plans to Shut AltaVista, Other Sites - WSJ.com
What Happened to Yahoo The problems that hosed Yahoo go back a long time, practically to the beginning of the company. They were already very visible when I got there in 1998. Yahoo had two problems Google didn't: easy money, and ambivalence about being a technology company.
Yahoo Shutting Down Delicious? | Geekosystem
Delicious's Data Policy is Like Setting a Museum on Fire
Twitter / Warren Ellis: So Yahoo fired a bunch of ...
Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » An Open Letter to Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo Inc. You, yes you, were the highest paid CEO in the Standard & Poors 500 last year (another loot and plunder asshole CEO in the line of eMeg and Carly)
Yahoo Killing Or Merging Del.icio.us, Yahoo Buzz, People Search And More
Delicious (website): What is a good replacement for the del.icio.us bookmarks service? - Quora
stumble-upon any other delicious magnolias lately? | Ask MetaFilter
Pinboard or Delicious?
Pinterest / Home
About Migratr | Calling Shotgun (move photos between photo-sharing sites, like flickr)

Marian Bantjes: Intricate beauty by design | Video on TED.com
49 Cats In Strange Poses: Pics, Videos, Links, News
YouTube - Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory" (1966) 1/6
YouTube - ExcentricPT's Channel

The LinkedIn Blog » Did you use one of these 10 most overused buzzwords in your LinkedIn profile this year? « - #1: "Extensive experience"
Microsoft Security Essentials 2 Released, Still the Best Darn AntiVirus Around
How to Use Gmail as Your Central, Universal Communications Hub
L.A. Noire Video Game, Developer Diary: The Technology Behind Performance | GameTrailers.com
Word Lens (the readularity is here)

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Q&A: Wikileaks and freedom of expression | Amnesty International
Julian Assange bail decision made by UK authorities, not Sweden | Media | The Guardian Swedish prosecutor's office says it has 'not got a view at all on bail' and that Britain made decision to oppose it
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange granted bail: live updates | News | guardian.co.uk UK, not Sweden, decided to oppose bail for Assange
WikiLeaks: the emperor wears no clothes | John Pilger and others | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Now WikiLeaks has laid bare the lies and collusion, we pledge to not just witness but actively participate in its fight for democracy
Julian Assange Bail Hearing: WikiLeaks Founder Court Hearing
Arianna Huffington: The Media Gets It Wrong on WikiLeaks: It's About Broken Trust, Not Broken Condoms the Air Force blocking its personnel from accessing more than 25 news sites that have posted material released by WikiLeaks (no news for grunts in the military)
Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks' Alleged Leaker, 'Very Annoyed' At Solitary Confinement
Is long-term solitary confinement torture? : The New Yorker The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?
leaking_by_humon-d34xwuj.jpg (wikileaks)

Australian police to investigate asylum-seeker boat deaths | World news | The Guardian Up to 100 people thrown into sea and at least 28 killed when boat hit rocks on Christmas Island coastline
Coalition wields axe over Christmas as 100,000 jobs to go by spring | Society | The Guardian (conservatives in UK committed to high jobless rate)
Afghanistan Strategy Review: Obama's Af-Pak Review Touts Progress, Lays Framework For Sustained Commitment (Obama loves his endless wars and his lyin' military)
Ireland Abortion Ban Violates Women's Rights, Says European Court - banned even if the woman's life is in danger (still ruled by the Vatican)
Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey - NYTimes.com
On the Death Sentence by John Paul Stevens | The New York Review of Books
The Story — RESTREPO — A Film by Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington
YouTube - Restrepo - Trailer (HD 720p)
YouTube - Firefight at Outpost Restrepo

After Bucking Holbrooke's Advice On Afghanistan, Obama Invokes His Name (have you no honor?)
New Advice for Nuclear Strike - Don’t Flee, Get Inside - NYTimes.com a nuclear attack is much more survivable if you immediately shield yourself from the lethal radiation that follows a blast, a simple tactic seen as saving hundreds of thousands of lives.
Obama tells lawmakers not passing tax deal could end presidency, Dem says - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room President Obama is using one of his go-to lines from the healthcare debate, according to a Democratic lawmaker.
2011 Spending Bill Is Loaded With $8 Billion in Pet Projects - CNBC (Reuters=the new Fox; "loaded" = .8%)

Peter Orszag: Everything Wrong With This Town (Comes Back To How Much This Guy Got Laid Here) - Das Krapital - Washington City Paper (example of Obama and same-old Washington)
Servicers Downgraded Credit Score of Man who Asked for His Note | FDL News Desk (that'll teach you)
Where's the Note? | Demand to see your mortgage note. : Homeowners are sending us reports of banks responding with threats and intimidation. It is your legal right to demand to see your original, signed mortgage note. It is illegal for banks to negatively report to your credit file during the 60 day period after requesting your note simply because you made a request to see it.
Fox Business' Gasparino Clings To Myth That Tax Cuts For Wealthy Will Spur Job Creation | Media Matters for America (well, if a Republican said it, it must be true)

The Top 14 Astronomy Pictures of 2010 | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Lera Boroditsky : How Language Shapes Thought - The Long Now
Economist Debates: Language
wsj.pdf Boroditsky - Lost in Translation
Blog > National Affairs t exposure to the Confederate flag results in more negative judgments of Black targets. As such, the prevalence of this flag in the South may have contributed to a reticence for some to vote for Obama because of his race.

HIV Drugs: Cash-Strapped Cut Access To Free AIDS Medication (death panels)
California Cap And Trade Rules: Sweeping Regulations Set To Be Adopted (until the Supreme Court kills the idea)
Boeing Whistleblowers Uncover Possibility Of 'Catastrophic' Event In Al Jazeera Exclusive (video)
All drugs should be legalised to beat dealers, says former minister - UK Politics, UK - The Independent

Abnormal Use: Views of 2011 From 1931
The LA Progressive Christian Nation
The Ongoing Mysteries of the Elizabeth Smart Case | Mother Jones The razor's edge of Mormonism: How obedience to authority became the flip side of prophesy, visions, and speaking in tongues.
Niagara Falls ran dry: Photos show moment iconic waterfall came to standstilll | Mail Online
The Ongoing Mysteries of the Elizabeth Smart Case | Mother Jones A guilty verdict for Brian David Mitchell is in. But the questions the case raised about polygamy, prophecy, and insanity remain murky. | Transom » Scott Carrier
Coming soon to journalism: Matt Thompson sees the “Speakularity” and universal instant transcription » Nieman Journalism Lab At some point in the near future, automatic speech transcription will become fast, free, and decent.
Bedford Bulletin : Angry parents want school officials fired - Dennis Taylor, a conservative Christian (hates books about poor people, wants to censor Nickeled and Dimed and fire the school board, calls Ehrenreich a "marxist," go Teaparty)
Do you use Boy Words or Girl Words? Or the other words, but I can’t ‘amember them. | thoughts ON
rhoner comments on Have you ever picked up a hitch-hiker?
10 Most Retweeted Tweets of Twitter in 2010 · Twitter
YouTube - Ladybug plays with sprinkles!
Jesse Moynihan - Forming


WaPo/Kaplan Test Prep seems to love FB)
Approval of Internet traffic rules likely: analysts - Yahoo! News The Federal Communications Commission will vote on December 21 on whether to adopt regulations that ban the blocking of lawful traffic but allow Internet service providers to ration Web traffic on their networks (Obama approves "rationing" the internet, kills net neutrality)
Google's ChromeOS means losing control of data, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman | Technology | guardian.co.uk New cloud computing OS released by Google is plan to push people into 'careless computing', warns free software advocate
Google Trends: assange, zuckerberg

Microsoft's Cracked Windows: How The World's Technology Juggernaut Lost Its Buzz And Became The 'Underdog'
'Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC' - MARC some ex-developers (and the company they worked for) accepted US government money to put backdoors into our network stack, in particular the IPSEC stack. Around 2000-2001.
'Re: Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC' - MARC
Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC - FBI backdoors in IPSEC stack? : programming
'Re: Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC' - MARC
An FBI backdoor in OpenBSD?
Feds probe '100 site' data breach • The Register McDonald's Silverpopped

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Transcript: Time Interview with WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government” « zunguzungu
The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe: Failure, Not Progress, in Afghanistan

Stewart On Obama Using Clinton: His Confidence 'Borders On Delusional' (that ain't all)
Tax Deal Polls: Reactions To A Bipartisan Deal (Americans hopelessly confused by Republican bullshit)
Obama: People Don't Feel I've Been Successful In Changing Washington (VIDEO) Obama explained that he had taken measures to make the White House more transparent, improve the flow of information to the American people, and cut down on lobbyist influence on his administration
Whiskey Fire: Proud to Show the Mess They Made
Earmark Lovers Feast On Pork Before Tea Party-Backed GOP Insurgents Storm Congress
John Cornyn Up In Arms Over All The Earmarks Not Requested By John Cornyn (box-turtle Ben at work)
Rick Scott's School Plan for Scoundrels | Mother Jones The Florida governor-elect's proposal to overhaul the state education system is a fraudster's dream - Conservatives have been plotting for years to blow up the public school system. Now, Florida's incoming governor Rick Scott is poised to light the fuse (what did you expect?)
Jan Brewer Medicaid Cuts Have Arizona Governor Under Fire she was willing to risk the lives of endangered patients all for the purpose of slashing the $1.4 million transplant program amid $1 billion Medicaid budget shortfalls.

Geithner Blocking Legal Help For Foreclosure Victims - , the administration's foreclosure prevention program had paid out $231.5 million to banks and nothing in borrower's legal fees, despite the urging of congressional Democrats who say legal funding is critical to easing the crisis. (Obama's program designed to screw home-owners)
Obama's Foreclosure Program Will Reach Less Than One Quarter Of Administration's Target (there you go)
Financial Crisis Panel In Turmoil As Republicans Defect; Plan To Blame Government For Crisis (how's that bipartisan thing working out for you?)


FOXLEAKS: Fox boss ordered staff to cast doubt on climate science | Media Matters for America


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British Court Orders Leader of WikiLeaks Freed on Bail - NYTimes.com - According to WikiLeaks, only 1,344 of a total 251,287 documents have so far been published on its Web site
BBC News - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange bailed but release delayed on conditions including cash guarantees of £240,000.
Julian Assange to stay in jail as Sweden fights bail decision | Media | guardian.co.uk Swedish prosecutors' appeal to be heard within 48 (what's up with Sweden?)
Julian Assange Court Appearance; WikiLeaks Founder Asks For Bail
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange | MichaelMoore.com
UK.gov braces for possible Wikileaks hacklash • The Register Bail denial for Assange 'may spark DDoS attack' (Anonymous to attack entire country)
Relatives of Spanish cameraman killed in Baghdad use WikiLeaks to press for justice - CSMonitor.com After years of delays, the family of a Spanish journalist killed in a 2003 US attack on a Baghdad hotel turns to WikiLeaks documents that suggest the US and Spain colluded to prevent legal action.
Naomi Wolf: J'Accuse: Sweden, Britain, and Interpol Insult Rape Victims Worldwide
WikiLeaks cables: You ask, we search | World news | guardian.co.uk
Allen West: Government 'Should Be Censoring The American News Agencies' That Collaborated With WikiLeaks (thanks, black dude)
What the Assange case reveals about rape in America

Holbrooke's Last Words On Afghanistan Downplayed As Joking Exchange By Obama Administration (really sick assholes)
Richard Holbrooke dies: Veteran U.S. diplomat brokered Dayton peace accords As Mr. Holbrooke was sedated for surgery, family members said, his final words were to his Pakistani surgeon: "You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan."
As U.S. assesses Afghan war, Karzai a question mark "If I had to choose sides today, I'd choose the Taliban," he fumed.
Kosovo PM is head of human organ and arms ring, Council of Europe reports | World news | The Guardian Two-year inquiry accuses Albanian 'mafia-like' crime network of killing Serb prisoners for their kidneys
Riots break out in Rome after Silvio Berlusconi survives confidence votes | World news | The Guardian
Student fees protest: lawyers launch legal challenge to kettling | Education | The Guardian Kettling breaches human rights, lawyers for five student fees demonstrators tell Metropolitan police commissioner
Boy of 12 hauled out of class by police over David Cameron Facebook protest - mirror.co.uk (everyone is a terrorist now)
YouTube - BBC Jody McIntyre interview

Georgia Prisoners on Strike?! | Revolution by the Book : The AK Press Blog In today’s installment of “what the media doesn’t tell you,” has everyone been following what’s going on in Georgia where thousands of prisoners—thousands—went on strike last Thursday in over a half dozen of the state’s prisons and penitentiaries to protest their treatment and demand their human rights

Obama's Judges Blocked At Historic Rate
Memo to the media: They’re called “obstructionists” | Media Matters for America - The GOP’s Obama-era brand of hyper-partisanship and obstructionist voting patterns has no precedent in modern American history. None (Atrios: remember Cokie Roberts "up or down vote up or down vote") (Republican media: too exteme for America?)
Middle Class Strife Left Out of Conversation
Whiskey Fire: Game of Pricks - John Heilemann and Mark Halperin - Game Change is a shallow and ultimately pointless book, but nevertheless irritating
Stewart To GOP: No More Using 9/11 For Political Gain Until First Responders Bill Is Passed (video)

More on the HAMP Train Wreck in Latest Congressional Oversight Panel Report « naked capitalism (if Obama hadn't created a sham program to screw you, the economy would be in better shape)
Obama to meet with CEOs and urge more hiring | MLive.com (about the level of his economic thinking)
Summers’ Farewell Speech – Hopefully Permanent | FDL News Desk (they never, ever, admit their screwups)
Special Report: What's a home worth? Pick a number, any number | Reuters
Obama Considering Another Goldman Sachs Alumnus to Replace Larry Summers | Firedoglake
More Talk of Severe Budget Cuts to Follow Tax Cut Deal | FDL News Desk (de-stimulus)
Wake Up: This Ruling Is Terrible News For The Health Insurers - Investors should wake up: If this were ultimately upheld, it would be horrible news for the insurers (they loved Obama making people buy insurance from monopolies)
Health Care Law Faces Long Legal Fight That Could Culminate In Showdown At Supreme Court
RealClearPolitics - Video - Flashback: Obama Criticized Clinton For Proposing Health Care Mandate
Pundits: Tax Cut Deal a Political Victory for Obama | The Atlantic Wire

The Physics of Terror | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.
HIV & AIDS Information :: Stem cell transplant has cured HIV infection in 'Berlin patient', say doctors
An evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image characteristics (guess what? they don't work. billion dollar security theatre at work)
Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autism, December 1, 2010, Giulivi et al. 304 (21): 2389 — JAMA
Future of Medicine: Growing New Organs - Newsweek Adult stem cells do more than turn into the types of cells needed for the new organ: they orchestrate the process of assembly.
BBC News - Voyager near Solar System's edge
Reaching for the Stars - NASA Science
YouTube - Speed of International Space Station
Mirror-Image Cells Could Transform Science — or Kill Us All | Magazine
To Eat Less, Imagine Eating More - ScienceNOW
Leaked document shows EPA allowed bee-toxic pesticide despite own scientists’ red flags | Grist (turns out Bush had more plans for destroying the world than we realized)

For now, Bedford to keep controversial book - Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 Meanwhile, the father who took his son out of Bedford High School because his teachers assigned "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," accused board members of negligence, and said school officials looked the other way when it came to the book's obscene language and offensive content (Dennis Taylor "conserative Christian" +read the comments and get depressed)
N.Y.C. Sanitation Officials Puzzled Over Missing Appliances - NYTimes.com
LGBT Books Vandalized With Urine in Lamont Library | The Harvard Crimson
California Appellate Report: Stahl v. U.S. (9th Cir. - Nov. 29, 2010) It's a tax opinion. So you wouldn't initially think it likely to result even in interest, much less total fascination. But fascinating it is.
Supreme Court Ruling: You May Not Be Able To Legally Sell A Product First Made Outside The US | Techdirt (right of first sale so over)

The Reel Mudd: John Van Antwerp MacMurray Archives
pj mcilvaine & goliath « celluloid blonde
Fox sues over sharing scripts online | Corona Coming Attractions
Atheist Bus Ads Rattle Fort Worth - NYTimes.com (four buses get Christians' panties in a knot)
The Christian Left Welcomes You

Bill 156 Locked to Go – Prime Minister Expresses Concern as Final Vote comes on Wednesday | Dan Kanemitsu's Paper Trail
The World’s Facebook Relationships Visualized [pic]
Teach Parents Tech

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WikiLeaks founder: Pentagon plans prosecution - U.S. news - WikiLeaks in Security - msnbc.com
Twitter / Bronwyn Bishop: Mr Assange should be aggressively interrogated until he reveals the location of the stolen cables, so they can be retrieved (Australian MP, just as stupid as American media and Congress +"aggresively interrogated" = waterboard the little fucker!)
WikiLeaks cables: UK police 'developed' evidence against McCanns | UK news | The Guardian (lotta fallout)
WikiLeaks cables: Drive to tackle Islamists made 'little progress' | World news | The Guardian Critical verdict on efforts to engage with Muslim communities published as police investigate UK links of Stockholm bomber
Julian Assange to appear in court to appeal for release | Media | The Guardian - Baroness Kennedy joins website founder's defence - "not a legitimate purpose for an EAW to be used to conduct an investigation to see whether that person should be prosecuted".
YouTube - WikiRebels - The Documentary (1/4)

NKorea threatens SKorea with nuclear war
Can We Finally End the Korean War? - NYTimes.com
One of the Sweden Bombs Exploded Prematurely - NYTimes.com bomber was a disaffected Iraqi-born Swede who had attended college in Britain.
The truth about suicide bombers - The Boston Globe Are they religious fanatics? Deluded ideologues? New research suggests something more mundane: They just want to commit suicide (Holder should just set up a hotline)
More Christians Are Fleeing Iraq In New Violence - NYTimes.com
Reality Check - NYTimes.com The failed attempt by the U.S. to bribe Israel with a $3 billion security assistance package, diplomatic cover and advanced F-35 fighter aircraft — if Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu would simply agree to a 90-day settlements freeze to resume talks with the Palestinians (they took the money and said fuck you ... why, just like the Republicans!)
Why Are the Feds Cultivating Their Own "Homegrown Terrorists"? | | AlterNet High profile domestic terrorism plots appear to have increased in recent months, but they’ve been largely concocted (terror theatre)
Abu Ghraib Torture Was "Like Nothing" - World Watch - CBS News
Transcript: Nir Rosen - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World.)
Haitian Cholera Outbreak Worsens - Health - GOOD
BBC News - Silvio Berlusconi appeal over confidence vote 'folly'

Federal Judge In Va. Rules Part Of Health Care Law Unconstitutional | TPMDC (the consequences of Obama killing the public option)
The Courts Divided: How Health Care Lawsuits Have Exposed A Partisan Judiciary | TPMDC
The Washington Monthly - Virginia Court Rules Against Health Care Mandate
You Know That You Are Right In Opposing Obama's Latest Capitulation When... | MyFDL You see the usual gathering of so called Democratic strategists and former advisers support extending the Bush tax cuts. Translation: the losers brigade has arrived to save the day.
In Tax Benefits to the Middle, Political Lift for Obama - NYTimes.com
'Sarah Palin's Alaska' Spinoffs -- Is Your State Next? | Myspace the network’s first significant program not based solely on our voyeuristic appetite for the exploitation of medical conditions (“Little People, Big World”), fringe religious practices (“Sister Wives”), or grotesquely large families (“John and Kate Plus 8, 19 Kids and Counting”). Instead, the Palin family is a combination of all three! That’s why it’s a hit!

News Flash: Wall Street Still Loathed | Mother Jones According to Bloomberg, virtually every person in American thinks big Wall Street bonuses should be either heavily taxed or banned outright (but Obama has their dick in his mouth)
Block Those Economic Metaphors - NYTimes.com America’s economy isn’t a stalled car, nor is it an invalid who will soon return to health if he gets a bit more rest. Our problems are longer-term than either metaphor implies.
Wall Street Set For Best Two Years Ever, Thanks To Bailout (thanks to Obama)
A&P Bankrupt: Grocer Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy once the nation's largest grocer (hey, AP: you might mention where they got their "enormous debt?"

PLoS Medicine: Lifetime Medical Costs of Obesity: Prevention No Cure for Increasing Health Expenditure
BBC - BBC World Service Programmes - Discovery, Science and Libel Dr Ben Goldacre, himself a defendant in a lengthy and costly legal case, explores the battle to keep libel out of science and what it might mean for us and the future of medical research if that battle is lost.
Out of Our Brains - NYTimes.com (philosopher has a hard time getting to the point)



Google Zeitgeist 2010 - How the world searched
Gawker Media gets hacked | Analysis & Opinion | What Gawker didn’t do — but what the good people at Hint did do — is email everybody whose email and password were made public, to inform them of that fact. “I
The Real Lessons Of Gawker’s Security Mess - The Firewall - the world of security - Forbes - An organizations source code can be a key enabler of identifying weaknesses in their applications, and is valuable to have if you are planning such an attack. It’s not clear that there is anything left for someone to take at Gawker now though (game over)
Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies | The Rundown News Blog | PBS NewsHour | PBS
Gawker hackers release file with FTP, author & reader usernames/passwords
FAQ: Compromised Commenting Accounts on Gawker Media (lazy fucks didn't salt their passwords)
Did I Get Gawkered? Powered by Duo Security
WARNING: Acai Berry Twitter Attack Spreading Like Wildfire [updated]
Gawker Hacked | Gnosis Explains Hacking Gawker | Mediaite
Regarding the Hacked Gawker Comment Accounts
Gawker Check
We're here for you in the Hackerpocalypse
Paj's Home: Cryptography: JavaScript MD5
Geek to Live: Choose (and remember) great passwords
Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » The Time to Act is Now: Defend Free Speech on the Internet

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Keeping Secrets WikiSafe - NYTimes.com
Mukasey: Prosecute Assange because it’s ‘easier’ than prosecuting New York Times | Raw Story
Report: Assange accuser flees to Middle East, may not be cooperating with police | Raw Story - It's unclear what US laws Assange could have broken with his release of US State Department cables, as he is not a US citizen and therefore not bound by US treason laws, and his activites with WikiLeaks were carried out outside the US.
FreakOutNation » Spying Charges Soon To Be Conjured Up Against Julian Assange
Does Julian Assange Have a Profile On OKCupid? - New York News - Runnin' Scared
N0DKu.jpg - Justice: Don't expect too much from it

BBC News - Stockholm shopping blasts kill one and injure two Swedish press reported that the second blast was a suicide bomber, but police said no cause had yet been determined.
Jailed Afghan Drug Lord Was Informer on U.S. Payroll - NYTimes.com - When asked about Mr. Juma Khan’s relationship with the C.I.A., a spokesman for the spy agency said that the “C.I.A. does not, as a rule, comment on matters pending before U.S. courts.”
UN Climate Deal A Small Step Forward In Global Warming Fight
Democracy Now!: Where is the Press? Amy Goodman Reports From the Empty Media Center at UN Climate Summit
What to do when the shells hit Seoul - INSIDE JoongAng Daily ‘To prepare for war, the Park Chung Hee regime asked construction companies to build basements when putting up new buildings.’
YouTube - Krishna: Indian envoy's pat-down search unacceptable (Diplomat molested by TSA, won't be back)
The US is after our integrity - Opinion - Al Jazeera English the Bush-Blair memo in which both leaders discussed the possibility of bombing Al Jazeera's Qatar HQ, where more than 1,000 people work.
Losing Effort: The United States’ War on Drugs - VisualEconomics.com (financing undercover ops around the world)

Attorney General Eric Holder defends legality of FBI stings against Muslim groups (creating terrorists so they can catch them)
David Axelrod: No 'Major Changes' To Tax Cut Deal As Van Hollen Calls For Estate Tax Vote
Rep. Jim McDermott: Obama's Tax Deal Good For Trust Fund Babies, 'Unfair' To The Unemployed (your Republican Pres at work)
A Sellout (or Three) Too Far? Obama's 2012 Support Collapsing in Wake of Latest Betrayals | MyFDL
Obama Finally Finds a Constituency That Loves His Tax Cut Deal: Village Hacks | Firedoglake truly virtuostic hackery from Dana Milbank (the hack's hack)
Get ready for the most conservative Congress ever - War Room - Salon.com By my estimate, the total number of moderate Republicans in the next Congress will be ... three
Mark Fiore - Dojo of Democracy
Justice Department Prepares for Ominous Expansion of "Anti-Terrorism" Law Targeting Activists ("material support" by talking)
An Unfortunate Decision by Peter Orszag - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic Americans may not "notice" Orszag-like migrations, in the sense of devoting big news coverage to them. But these stories pile up in the background to create a broad American sense that politics is rigged, and opportunity too. Why do we wince a little bit when we now hear "Change you can believe in?" This is an illustration.
Howard Dean On Tax Deal: 'A Short-Term Washington Fix' Filled With Easy Promises
An Insult to Their Memory - NYTimes.com Just eight months after the nation was shocked by the death of 29 coal miners in the Upper Big Branch explosion in West Virginia, Republicans have once again pandered to industry and blocked passage of an urgently needed mine safety reform.

Tinker to Evans to No Chance « Mercury Rising ?? The destruction of the United States is not a bug in the Republican plan. It’s a feature.
Secret GOP plan: Push states to declare bankruptcy and smash unions | Analysis & Opinion |
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, How the Oligarchs Took America | TomDispatch
Orwellian Centrism - NYTimes.com So look at how the Village constructs its mythology. The real story, of pretend moderates stalling action by pretending to be persuadable, has been rewritten as a story of how those DF hippies got in the way, until the centrists saved the day (Dana Milbank, elite wanker for WaPo)
Employment-Population Ratio, Young People: A Potential Lost Generation Of Young Americans. « Rortybomb
Post-Meltdown, Banks Still Rule Derivatives Trade - NYTimes.com In theory, this group exists to safeguard the integrity of the multitrillion-dollar market. In practice, it also defends the dominance of the big banks.

Scientists suggest that cancer is man-made (The University of Manchester) Cancer is a modern, man-made disease caused by environmental factors such as pollution and diet, a study review by University of Manchester scientists has strongly suggested.
SPACE.com -- U.S. Military in Talks to Share Fireball Data from Secret Satellites
Peru’s Ocucaje Desert Attracts Fossil Hunters and Smugglers - NYTimes.com
YouTube - Ascent - Commemorating Shuttle
EXCLUSIVE - Qantas QF32 flight from the cockpit | Aerospace Insight | The Royal Aeronautical Society

Gay Bashing at the Smithsonian - NYTimes.com - and the band played on (it's always been run by Republicans)
[video] Fareed Zakaria Takes on Glenn Beck’s “10% of Muslims Are Terrorists” Claim : Writes Like She Talks
YouTube - Soldier Speaks More Sense Than 80% Americans & Muslims Today
Wilmington settles lawsuit over death of former Marine Derek Hale | delawareonline.com | The News Journal Wilmington has settled for $875,000 a lawsuit filed by the widow of a decorated Marine who was shot to death more than three years ago by police ... Witnesses also said Hale did not appear to pose a threat and had just vomited and was shaking violently from the Taser blasts when then-Lt. William Browne shot him in the chest with three .40-caliber rounds. Browne was later promoted to captain.
N.J. doctor supplied steroids to hundreds of law enforcement officers, firefighters | NJ.com

Before you pay to volunteer abroad, think of the harm you might do | Ian Birrell | Comment is free | The Observer A damning report says that well-intentioned westerners do little to alleviate the lot of poverty-stricken children in developing countries
Inside the thriving industry of AIDS orphan tourism
Adults blame parents for education problems - U.S. news - msnbc.com
Revealed: The Nobel Prize winner who discovered his sister was really his mother | Mail Online
LRB · Terry Castle · Desperately Seeking Susan (Sontag) (clash of egomaniacs)
Unreliable Narrator | LOG IT (the dinner party attended by Terry Castle)
Awkward Pregnancy Photos - Pregnant Chicken

Why Drudge Is a Poor Target for Copyright Vigilantes - Jeff Bercovici - Mixed Media - Forbes
Children as young as 4 using iPad and iPhone games to go on £100 buying sprees | Mail Online (Apple scamming 4 yr olds) w

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WikiLeaks Cables For Dec. 10, 2010: Pakistan's Terror Camps, The Vatican And Iran
WikiLeaks: Vatican Pressured Ireland On Sex Abuse Scandal Newly released U.S. diplomatic cables indicate that Ireland caved in to Vatican pressure to grant immunity to church officials in the government probe of decades of sex abuse by Irish clergy in the predominantly Catholic nation (just like they caved to the bankers)
Lawfare › Seven Thoughts on Wikileaks by Jack Goldsmith
«Libération» abrite WikiLeaks - Libération
US embassy cables: Wiki witch-hunt | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian For large areas of the world the revelations about the private thoughts of their own leaders are important
No one gains from this 'rape-rape' defence of Julian Assange | Libby Brooks | Comment is free | The Guardian
They bombed al-Jazeera's reporters. Now the US is after our integrity | Wadah Khanfar | Comment is free | The Guardian Al-Jazeera reporters have been tortured and killed in defence of their values. That's why the WikiLeaks story must be challenged

m.guardian.co.uk WikiLeaks' chief crime has been to speak truth to power. What is at stake is nothing less than the freedom of the internet. All the rest is a sideshow distracting attention from the real battle that is being fought. We should all keep focus on the true target.
The media's authoritarianism and WikiLeaks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Assange really is their new Saddam Hussein and WikiLeaks their new WMD. (your proto-facist media lies to you)
From Judith Miller to Julian Assange » Pressthink To understand Julian Assange and the weird reactions to him in the American press we need to tell a story that starts with Judy Miller and ends with Wikileaks
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect - I'm From The Government, And I'm Here To Scare You. - NPR's Dina Temple-Raston (is wrong and a shitty journo; well, it is NPR)
Hatfill and Wen Ho Lee and Plame and al-Awlaki and Assange | Emptywheel
Wikileaks and the Long Haul « Clay Shirky

WikiLeaks cables: Vatican refused to engage with child sex abuse inquiry | World news | The Guardian Leaked cable lays bare how Irish government was forced to grant Vatican officials immunity from testifying to Murphy commission ("forced?" by the Vatican army?)
WikiLeaks cables: Pope wanted Muslim Turkey kept out of EU | World news | The Guardian Vatican diplomats also lobbied against Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and wanted 'Christian roots' enshrined in EU constitution
Naomi Wolf: Espionage Act: How the Government Can Engage in Serious Aggression Against the People of the United States (Obama hell-bent on criminalizing free speech in America)
WikiLeaks row: why Amazon's desertion has ominous implications for democracy | Technology | The Observer Amazon's decision to abandon WikiLeaks sends out a clear message: you can publish what you like – as long as it meets with the government's approval
Julian Assange supporters plan protests worldwide | World news | guardian.co.uk Detention of WikiLeaks founder is focus of demonstrations today as speculation grows over legal move by US authorities
Finextra: WikiLeaks day five: Moneybookers feels the wrath of hacktivists
Paypal shut my account today because my business donated money to wikileaks. : WTF

Officials Worry About Some Latino Converts To Islam : NPR
Cold War vs. modern day US propaganda — RT

Deal is reached at Cancún summit | Environment | guardian.co.uk All major economies agree to cut emissions and establish a fund to help nations most vulnerable to climate change
Bettencourt feud ends but battle rumbles on for Sarkozy | World news | The Guardian L'Oréal heiress and daughter settle court fight, but French elite still on edge after saga exposes gulf with rest of France - Nicolas Sarkozy's France is an oligarchy, where the president's coterie of extraordinarily wealthy business friends enjoy special privileges in exchange for financial support

Rocky Kistner: Angels of Mercy in the Oil Damaged Gulf
California Gets Wisconsin and Ohio's Rail Money - Transportation - GOOD (Republican Govs screw their states ... did we mention NJ?)
Talgo pulling out of Milwaukee in 2012 - JSOnline Train-maker cites end of high-speed rail project ... "Walker is going to fulfill his campaign promise of ensuring Wisconsin has a business climate that allows the private sector to create 250,000 new jobs." (good luck with those private-sector jobs, buddy)

The Obama Tax Deal: Giving the Hostage Takers More Hostages | TPMCafe but my greater concern is what happens to Social Security in this story. Effectively, this deal would give us a permanent two-percentage point reduction in the payroll tax in a Washington climate very hostile to Social Security (Obama's long-term plan to let Repubicans kill Social Security is worse than you thought)
The Sorrow And The Self-Pity - NYTimes.com There is a case for the tax cut deal, as the best of a very bad situation. But Obama did not help that case yesterday by lashing out at “purists” ... But there’s also a character issue: what we really don’t need right now is a president who blames everyone but himself, and seems more concerned with self-justification than with sustaining the alliances he needs (the arrogance of failure)
Trojan Horse in Tax Compromise: GOP Plan to Bankrupt States, Break Unions (Updated) « naked capitalism (and that ain't all, either - profoundly Republican Pres)

Get To Know Your Incoming House Committee Chairs (the impeachment gang)
Matt Bai's Post-Partisanship -- RollingStone.com

The Hard (Money) Men - NYTimes.com There’s a widespread impression that Keynesian fiscal policy has failed. I would argue that this impression is wrong — that the truth is that it was never tried (ideology always wins)
Mangano Lowers Taxes but Leaves Nassau County in a Fiscal Crisis - NYTimes.com He cut taxes, adding $40 million to the county’s deficit, which has since reached nearly $350 million. Now, with its bonds suddenly downgraded and a state oversight agency preparing to seize its checkbook and credit cards, Nassau is on the verge of a full-fledged fiscal crisis (Republicans at work; coming soon to you)
Bernard Madoff's son Mark found hanged | Business | guardian.co.uk

The Mysterious Decline Effect | Wired Science | Wired.com
Making Peace With The Decline Effect | The Awl
The Truth Wears Off | Wired Science | Wired.com Jonah Lehrer
Rethinking the scientific method : The New Yorker Is there something wrong with the scientific method?
BBC News - 'Superscope' yields first glimpse of Double Quasar
Physicists demonstrate teleportation-based optical quantum entangling gate
Sexual selection: Hunkier than thou | The Economist Scientists are finally succeeding where so many men have failed: in understanding why women find some guys handsome and others hideous
Quantis RNG - True Random Number Generator - Overview

Glass cookware: Consumer Reports Glass bakeware that shatters We put Pyrex and Anchor Hocking dishes to the test
Glass cookware dangers: Consumer Reports - The American-made Pyrex and Anchor Hocking bakeware we tested, made from soda lime glass, shattered at lower temperatures in our tough heat tests than European-made pans, which are made of a more expensive glass, borosilicate. U.S. Pyrex and Anchor Hocking glass bakeware used to be made of borosilicate but no longer are.
Flame Retardants Found in Butter : Discovery News There is currently no way to know how widespread this kind of chemical contamination is in food (Republicans hate safe food)
Formaldehyde in Wrinkle-Free Clothes May Pose Skin Risks - NYTimes.com (your non-wrinkle clothes are killing you; Republicans hate product safety)

Vidéo Ina - Les mods, vidéo Les mods, vidéo - Archives vidéos : Ina.fr (w/The Who)

Lowering the drinking age won’t curb college binge drinking: Study
Injunction issued against L.A.'s medical marijuana law | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

McDonald's Warns Customers of Data Theft

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WikiLeaks US embassy cables: live updates | News | guardian.co.uk
WikiLeaks Cables For Dec. 10, 2010: Pakistan's Terror Camps, The Vatican And Iran
Cable Viewer Nigeria: Pfizer Reaches Preliminary Agreement For (killing a bunch of people)
Wikileaks Reveals U.S. Tax Dollars Fund Child Sex Slavery in Afghanistan | End Human Trafficking | Change.org
UPDATED – Anna Ardin & Sofia Wilén’s contact information and addresses
Anonymous’ Operation Payback IRC Operator Arrested | TorrentFreak
WikiLeaks | Julian Assange | Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Lula described the WikiLeaks founder as a champion for free expression.
qJgBd.jpg (Natural Gas Intelligence Compnay)
WikiLeaks: Pope's offer to Anglicans risked 'violence against Catholics' | World news | The Guardian
d WikiLeaks: Pope's offer to Anglicans risked 'violence against Catholics' | World news | The Guardian
Julian Assange's lawyers 'preparing for possible US charges' | Media | The Guardian Legal team for WikiLeaks founder says Washington may be planning to invoke Espionage Act to indict their client (they will do anything: Obama's crazed national secrecy state)
Charging Julian Assange could be unconstitutional | Bruce Ackerman and Sara Aronchick Solow | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The due process clause rules out prosecuting WikiLeaks' founder – a non-US citizen – for extraterritorial offences (depends on your definition of "territory")
WikiLeaks cables: Anonymous declares online war against companies | Technology | The Guardian Shadowy group of 'hactivists' targets big US websites for Operation Payback as firms face web onslaught
Pakistani media: Fake WikiLeaks cables attacking India published – The Express Tribune (getting complicated)
Openleaks, WikiLeaks Rival, To Launch As Break Away From 'Slave Driver' Assange: Report
Meet the Most Dangerous Man in Cyberspace: The American Face of Wikileaks | Rolling Stone Culture American hacker Jacob Appelbaum fights repressive regimes around the world. Now he's on the run from his own government

Police must not be seen as arm of the state, warns top officer | UK news | The Guardian Sir Hugh Orde warns that repeated clashes with demonstrators risks damaging reputation of police force (too late)
Michael Scheuer - The Diplomat (Bush and Obama's lies about Bin Laden)
London tuition fee protest - The Big Picture - Boston.com
YouTube - Nick Clegg in 47 seconds
YouTube - An Irishman abroad tells it like it is !! :-) (coming to America +idiot reporter)
Liu Xiaobo Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony Goes Ahead With Empty Chair

FAA Aircraft Information MISSING For 119,000 Planes (stolen by terrorists)
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders Begins “Tax Cut Filibuster”
Obama and Republicans' tax deal | The Washington Post (notice, no mention of "Democrats")
Gary D. Bass, Ph.D.: Obama Tax Cut Compromise Capitulates on Estate Tax (and everything else)
Sanders won't respond to Obama's jab - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room "I'm not into getting in a fight with the president," Sanders told reporters. "I think the agreement that we now have is a bad agreement. I think we can do much better, and I intend to do everything I can to make it better." (the Great Capitulator is pissed that Dems don't like his Republican tax plan)
Why the Obama tax deal with Republicans is insane | Corrente - The failure of our national debate on tax cuts (which have never worked; Obama is ignoring history)
The Effect of Changing Top Marginal Tax Rates | Angry Bear (no one can see the disasterous failure of Reaganism - or success depending on who's looking at it)

AARP Signs Off On Obama Tax Cut Provision
Obama-Republican Deal Could Mean Tax Hike For One In Three Workers
Error could doom food safety bill | Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Sen. Tom Harkin says an error by the Senate Democratic leadership’s staff could doom the food-safety bill that overwhelmingly passed the Senate this week unless Republicans agree to fix the problem quickly (Harry Reid incompent - Dems can't do anything right)
Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com no prominent Republican is outraged that the GOP blocked the bill to give aid to 9/11 workers and victims. Not Giuliani, not Chris Christie, no one. Yesterday Bloomberg said it's "everyone's fault." They don't care. They never did. Like the non-crazy of us all knew all along, Republicans gave a shit about 9/11 vicims solely when it let them hate on Democrats.
Glenn Beck: "The revolution has begun" | Media Matters for America (sedition)
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Blind Trust: Holder's Bogus "Operation" and Obama's Wall Street Justice
Tea'd Off | Politics | Vanity Fair

How America will collapse (by 2025) - U.S. Economy - Salon.com Four scenarios that could spell the end of the United States as we know it -- in the very near future
Are the American people obsolete? - U.S. Economy - Salon.com The richest few don't need the rest of us as markets, soldiers or police anymore. Maybe we should all emigrate
Allianz Global Investors | Allentown Bill Gross Investment Outlook 12/1/2010 The United States seems to acknowledge no bounds to what it can spend to bolster consumption or how much it can print to support its asset markets

Politics and eye movement: Liberals focus their attention on 'gaze cues' much differently than conservatives do (conervatives self-centered and autistic)
YouTube - Lego Antikythera Mechanism

ReturnTheDVD.org Third, the cost and timing of this DVD disturbs us. Distributing 400,000 DVDs on the single subject of same-sex marriage shortly before a political election reflects misguided priorities, and strays from the essential teachings of Christ.
Elevating the God discussion - The Globe and Mail
Jeremy Marks "Attempted Lynching" Case - Page 1 - News - Los Angeles - LA Weekly Black teen who filmed an LAUSD campus cop hitting a student faces bizarre charges and years in prison
Battle Heats Up Between Police Officers And Civilians Who Record Them
SCP Series - The SCP Foundation

c6Agr.jpg - What if the largest countries had the biggest populations?
For Adam Parfrey, Publishing the Unabomber's Book Is All In a Day's Work - Page 1 - News - Seattle - Seattle Weekly
Sushi With You » Blog Archive » The DigiPen Survival Guide
YouTube - CodeRedFlame's Channel - The Bedford Diaries
Fiche Technique - Europa Film Treasures - 1913 Dunkirk Tram

Timeline of an Epic #FAIL: The WikiLeaks Takedown Fiasco » blog.easydns.org - Happenings and observations
Create a Highly Organized, Synchronized Home Folder with Dropbox

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Europeans Criticize Fierce U.S. Response to Leaks - NYTimes.com The United States considers itself a shining beacon of democracy and openness, but for many Europeans Washington’s fierce reaction to the flood of secret diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks displays imperial arrogance and hypocrisy, indicating a post-9/11 obsession with secrecy that contradicts American principles (what "principles"? - Obama doesn't seem to have any at all +Putin: “So, you know, as we say in the village, some people’s cows can moo, but yours should keep quiet.")
WikiLeaks cables had a huge impact in Spain, says El Pais editor-in-chief | World news | The Guardian 'It's probably the biggest story this newspaper has ever been involved with,' says Javier Moreno, El Pais editor-in-chief
Operation Payback fails to take down Amazon in WikiLeaks revenge attack | Media | guardian.co.uk
Sweden: we did not bow to political pressure over Julian Assange | World news | guardian.co.uk
WikiLeaks: Who are the hackers behind Operation Payback? | Media | guardian.co.uk 'Hacktivist' group Anonymous, linked to message board 4chan, has led online assault against MasterCard and Paypal websites
Julian Assange rape allegations: treatment of women 'unfair and absurd' | Media | The Guardian Lawyer for two women whose assault allegations led to arrest says case has nothing to do with WikiLeaks or CIA
WikiLeaks cables: Oil giants squeeze Chávez as Venezuela struggles | World news | guardian.co.uk American diplomats say president is now desperate to attract foreign partners after nationalisation frightened many away
WikiLeaks documents expose US foreign policy conspiracies. All cables with tags from 1- 5000 eBook: Heinz Duthel: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store (will Obama prosecute Amazon for treason?)
Ellsberg: “EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.” ... So shame on Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and all those who spew platitudes about integrity, justice and accountability while allowing war criminals and torturers to walk freely upon the earth ... Odd, isn’t it, that it takes a Pravda commentator to drive home the point that the Obama administration is on the wrong side of history.
Caving to pressure from supporters, PayPal releases WikiLeaks’ funds [Update: PayPal down] (the truth is now "illegal")
‘Hacktivists’ Pursue Campaign Against WikiLeaks Foes - NYTimes.com
Sarah Palin Cyber Attack: WikiLeaks Supporters Take On Ex-Governor
Fox News' Bob Beckel Calls For 'Ilegally' Killing Assange: 'A Dead Man Can't Leak Stuff' (as long as Obama is into extra-legal killing)
What Is LOIC? ("Low Orbit Ion Cannon")

'Bomb plotter' arrested in Baltimore - Telegraph he individual arrested was a 21-year-old male who is an American citizen and converted to be a Muslim ("no actual danger" because it was all a setup)
Russian spy row: Moscow warns UK of tit-for-tat expulsions | World news | guardian.co.uk Parliamentary assistant Ekaterina Zatuliveter's detention is a smokescreen, Russia's most senior official claims
China Moves to Block Foreign News on Nobel Prize Ceremony - NYTimes.com (sounds like ...)
Father-in-law of Time's Afghan cover girl with nose and ears sliced off ARRESTED | Mail Online Sulaiman then took her amputated nose and proudly showed it off around the village.' (bringing democracy to Afganistan)
Childless couples win the right to pay surrogate mothers - Telegraph Childless couples will be able to pay surrogate mothers large sums of money to have babies for them, following a landmark High Court ruling (UK)
Dutch Panel Found 2,000 Church Abuse Claims - NYTimes.com - “The Roman Catholic church has not faced a crisis like this since the French Revolution,” (WLPR)
Prince Charles, Camilla's Car Attacked By Student Protesters In London In Britain's worst political violence in years, furious student protesters rained sticks and rocks on riot police, vandalized government buildings and attacked a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, after lawmakers approved a controversial hike in university tuition fees.

'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal FAILS, Blocked By Senate Republicans (Scotty and the Susan)
Rep. Gary Ackerman: Tax Cut Deal Is GOP's 'Wet Dream Act' (which is why Obama thought of it)
Pelosi won't hold vote on Obama's tax plan -aide | Reuters The aide said Pelosi would require changes be made to the measure that most of her fellow House Democrats formally opposed by approving a resolution of opposition to it.
Hullabaloo We Didn't Think Of That - criminally inept or crudely malevolent. There is no other choice (Larry "criminally inept and crudely malevolent" Summers)
Hullabaloo One More Nail In The Social Security Coffin (Obama's timebomb)
Social Security Seeks to End Free Loans - NYTimes.com (the war on your retirement)
9/11 Health Bill Blocked in Senate - NYTimes.com (in case you had any doubt where their loyalties lie +Scott "Beefcake" Brown)
Maddow And Olbermann Slam Obama's Tax Cut Compromise (videos) | TPMDC
Dream Act Passes The House set the stage for tomorrow's vote in the Senate, where it is expected to fall short of the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster and proceed to a final vote (the arrogance of failure)
Anyone else miss this guy? - Imgur
Liberal Group Ad Recalls When Obama Said Bush Tax Cuts Offended His Conscience (what conscience?)
While Whacking Critics, Obama Gets Facts Wrong (a-historical Obama lying about history)
What's Wrong With Cutting Taxes? - NYTimes.com
House Dems To Biden: 'One Year Of Unemployment Benefits For Two Years Of Tax Breaks For The Rich?' (and nothing for the 99ers, remember)
Lindsey Graham Accuses Obama Of 'Whining,' Dares Dems To Block Tax Cut Deal
Media Matters Hires Angelo Carusone, Leader Of 'Stop Beck' Movement, To Ramp Up Campaign Against Fox News
SB-1070 Mastermind Russell Pearce: 'Obama May Not Be Visiting Arizona Because We Require Papers' (Arizona will deport Obama if he sets foot in the state)
Harry Reid Toppled Sharron Angle In Nevada Senate Election With Many Votes From Registered Republicans (too exteme even for exteme Republican extemists)

Fears of Oil Speculation Driving Up Gas Prices, Canceling Out Stimulus | FDL News Desk
The Obama Administration's Financial-Fraud Stunt Backfires : CJR The press shows the feds’ numbers are phony and asks where the whales are (Obama is lying more and more)
Homeowners Wrongfully Foreclosed Upon Go Through Legal Wringer
Wall Street Sees New Profits In Homeowner Distress

Geminid Meteor Shower Defies Explanation - NASA Science
Kawah Ijen by night - The Big Picture - Boston.com into the sulfur mine in the crater of the Kawah Ijen volcano in East Java, Indonesia
NASA - NASA's Spitzer Reveals First Carbon-Rich Planet
BBC News - 'Diamond exoplanet' idea boosted by telescope find

Critic's Notebook: David Wojnarowicz's 'A Fire in My Belly' - NYTimes.com (Catholics defining what is "art" for you)

Comedy Central’s New Logo = Suck - AgencySpy


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Twitter: WikiLeaks Not Being Blocked
MasterCard site partially frozen by hackers in WikiLeaks 'revenge' | Media | guardian.co.uk 'Operation: Payback' hacks into MasterCard site over payment network's decision to cease taking donations to WikiLeaks
Visa DOWN: WikiLeaks Supporters Take Down Site As 'Payback'
Democracy Now!: Assange's Attorney: Wikileaks Founder Is Endangered by Bail Denial and Illegal Threats of Violence "You have to remember, of course, that when the allegations came up, he remained in Sweden for more than a month-and-a-half to answer the allegations and to provide answers to the questions of the police. He left the country with the prosecutor's permission."
WikiLeaks cables: Shell's grip on Nigerian state revealed | Business | The Guardian US embassy cables reveal top executive's claims that company 'knows everything' about key decisions in oil-rich Niger Delta
WikiLeaks: The man who kicked the hornet's nest | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian As the disclosures continue, a number of questions about the way the world has changed are becoming more clearly framed ... "If it's OK for a democracy to just decide to run someone off the internet for doing something they wouldn't prosecute a newspaper for doing, the idea of an internet that further democratizes the public sphere will have taken a mortal blow."
WikiLeaks Prosecution Studied by Justice Department - NYTimes.com (the sleazy Senator from Israel behind the scenes)
The crux of the WikiLeaks debate - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (lying media weasels)

Ireland's 'morbidly obese cats' and runaway public sector pay | Business | guardian.co.uk

Petraeus, Obama Administration Continue Afghanistan Spin Prior to White House "Review" | MyFDL

White House Privately Pushing Data Showing Bush Tax Cut Extension Politically Popular - The survey, conducted before, during and after the tax negotiations, shows that only a third (35%) support keeping the lower rates for the highest earners (so, he lied again: the audacity of hope, the arrogance of failure)
Larry Summers: If Tax Deal Goes Down There's A 'Significant Risk' Of A Double Dip Recession (there's a name you can trust +it's all your fault)
Whose side is the White House on anyway? - Barack Obama News - Salon.com (not yours, for sure)
Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on McConnell-Obama Tax Deal: Must-See TV | FDL Action (you listened to Blanche Fucking Lincoln?)
Why the tax cut deal rebellion will fail - Taxes - Salon.com In this game of high-stakes poker, the longer the game goes on, the better the Republican hand becomes
Has Obama Lost His Sway Over Democrats? - Chris Good - Politics - The Atlantic
Tax Cut Deal A Hidden Threat To Social Security (Obama's timebomb to kill SS, which he's always hated)
Dem Rep. Michael Capuano: I 'May Or May Not' Support Obama Reelection (join the crowd, Mike)
Tax Cut Deal is Public Option Debate All Over Again: All Lies, No Fight | FDL Action (nice track record you got there)
Why Does Obama Keep Blaming Liberals for His Health Care Bill’s Unpopularity? | Firedoglake It’s unpopular because it forces people to become paying customers of Aetna and WellPoint without giving them the ability to fire them when they get screwed. And get screwed they will (Obama is always blameless and unreflective)
Maine's moderate senators sabotaging DREAM Act, "don't ask, don't tell" - U.S. Senate - Salon.com
Senate Convicts Federal Judge On Corruption Charges - Corruption Currents - WSJ (his pictue tells you all you need to know)

TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect Michael Bloomberg's Contempt for Democracy.
Citigroup 'Too Interwoven' to Fail, Chairman Says - CNBC (their plan all along)

Let Oprah know that Kim Tinkham is dying of cancer : Respectful Insolence (Oprah's addiction to wishful thinking)


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U.S. to Host World Press Freedom Day in 2011 (Irony overload dept. +from GG below: "Joe Lieberman suggested that not only Assange, but also The New York Times, may have committed crimes by publishing these cables (see the 5:15 entry). Journalists cheering for the prosecution of Assange are laying the foundation for the criminalization of their own profession")

WikiLeaks Archive — Julian Assange Issues Warning - NYTimes.com
Assange Is in Court to Face Charges in Sex Inquiry - NYTimes.com
REMINDER: The "Sex Crime" That Julian Assange Was Just Arrested For Wasn't Rape. It Was... A condom was apparently used--initially. But it broke. So the dispute is about whether it broke "accidentally" (he said) or it broke "on purpose" (she said). That DEFINITELY sounds like a job for Interpol.
Twitter / Heather Brooke: Julian assange is remanded ... in custody til dec 14th. surprising ruling coming after judge waxed long on lack of evidence.
2010-12-07: Julian Assange arrested on Swedish warrant [Update 9] | WL Central
Wikileaks: Julian Assange's 2 one-night stands spark a worldwide hunt | Mail Online
WikiLeaks US embassy cables: live updates | News | guardian.co.uk
British Court Denies Bail to Assange in Sex Inquiry - NYTimes.com (on a charge that isn't even recognized in UK or anywhere else)
Anti-WikiLeaks lies and propaganda - from TNR, Lauer, Feinstein and more - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com "They are releasing the documents we selected," Le Monde's managing editor, Sylvie Kauffmann, said in an interview at the newspaper's Paris headquarters... (yes, freedom and truth are so over)
Letters: Anti-WikiLeaks lies and propaganda - from TNR, Lauer, Feinstein and more - Salon About Feinstein's op-ed - (Surveillance-State-protecting, Iraq-War-supporting, defense-contractor-plutocrat" +one of Satan's Liars)
Julian Assange Arrested: WikiLeaks Founder Taken Into Custody In London On Swedish Warrant
Wikileaks Arrest: Julian Assange In Custody, Court Battle Underway
Why Britain is likely to send WikiLeaks' Assange to Sweden on rape charges - CSMonitor.com The legal team of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may fight his potential extradition to Sweden on human rights grounds, but it's unlikely Mr. Assange will avoid it, say legal experts (done deal, who justice works, may be extadited to Afganistan)
Editorial written by Julian Assange in The Australian
Naomi Wolf: Julian Assange Captured by World's Dating Police Thank you again, Interpol. I know you will now prioritize the global manhunt for 1.3 million guys I have heard similar complaints about personally in the US alone -- there is an entire fraternity at the University of Texas you need to arrest immediately.
Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice | John Naughton | Comment is free | The Guardian Western political elites obfuscate, lie and bluster – and when the veil of secrecy is lifted, they try to kill the messenger
Marc A. Thiessen - You're either with us, or you're with WikiLeaks Like the war on terror, we have been attacked in this new cyber war in ways we did not anticipate (Kaplan Test Prep's Wapo line: "Like the war on terror, we have been attacked in this new cyber war in ways we did not anticipate." see what they did there? war on terror just because war on truth)
The Great Beyond: US declares Wikileaks off-limits to government researchers (Obama's National Security State revs up)
Twitter / Jillian C. York: The KKK can accept payment ... via Visa and PayPal, but #WikiLeaks cannot. What a just world we live in.
FT Alphaville » Something else made in China – Chinese GDP
Christina Gagnier: Instigation Not Mitigation: The Failures in the Responses to Wikileaks

U.S.: Israel Settlement Freeze Demand Dropped (you don't say)
Top Israel Rabbis: Don't Sell Property To Non-Jews (sounds like a racist state, doesn't it?)

Attack on Pearl Harbor - Wikipedia

The End of Social Security | MyFDL (Obama's SS timebomb built into his payroll tax bill)
Obama Dresses Down 'Sanctimonious' And 'Purist' Progressives (video) | TPMDC - "some abstract ideal" (you can see the problem here +defining success down)
Echidne of the snakes - On That Compromise Package - Obama sounds kinda like a Republican president, don't you think? (why doesn't he just run as one?)
Flashback: Obama Slams Bush Tax Cuts For 'Millionaires And Billionaires' (flip ... flop)
Mary Landrieu: 'Obama-McConnell' Plan Is 'Almost Morally Corrupt' (our no-moral-center Pres)
Tax Cut Deal: Dean, Ex-Obama Advisers Lament President's Plan
White House Defends Lopsided Unemployment-For-Tax-Cuts Deal (Capitulator-in-Chief)
Steny Hoyer: Tax Cuts For Wealthy Are 'Ransom' (it's come to this)

Eschaton But if the economy needed more stimulus, why haven't they been making it the case? I understand that stimulus has become a dirty word because, well, I have no idea why, but they could have called it Magic Ponies or whatever.
Yglesias » The Trouble With Fiscal Stimulus, Part Zwei
Tax and Unemployment Agreement Leads to Jobs Growth It is, however, unfortunate that these jobs have to come from an agreement that is a balance between large, unneeded, bonus tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans and the needed continuation of unemployment benefits, middle-class tax relief, and additional help for the economy for the rest of us (rolled again)
Blighted Title: Banks Selling Homes They Don’t Own | FDL News Desk (oh, what's the problem?)
The $100 hamster wheel | Analysis & Opinion | On top of that, lots of sites rewrote the CNBC story, giving CNBC credit but doing no new reporting themselves, and sometimes mangling the facts along the way.


Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Captain’s Blog: Gulf of Mexico Oil Damage/Worse Than You Thought update
Warning To Gulf Volunteers: Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster Is Now Dead

Criminal-Justice and School Sanctions Against Nonheterosexual Youth: A National Longitudinal Study -- Himmelstein and Brückner, 10.1542/peds.2009-2306 -- Pediatrics Nonheterosexual youth suffer disproportionate educational and criminal-justice punishments that are not explained by greater engagement in illegal or transgressive behaviors
YouTube - When Did You Choose to Be Straight? (and adopt the heterosexual lifestyle?)
The most important news and commentary to read right now. - The Slatest - Slate Magazine If You See Something, Say Something to the Wal-Mart Greeter (you can see where this is going)
Sorry Sirius, Howard Stern Is “Not Taking A F—ing Pay-Cut” - Lacey Rose - Moneywood - Forbes
YouTube - Inception in Real-Time
Tramway - 1913 - Europa Film Treasures
YouTube - Network - The Illuminati Globalist View Of The World

AT&T Rated 'Worst Carrier' By Consumer Reports Reader Survey
Meet The Chinese Leader Who Googled Himself, And The System That Shaped Him - Gady Epstein - Beijing Dispatch - Forbes
Vitaly Borker Arrested: Alleged 'Bully' Online Retailer Apprehended In New York
Visited Porn? Web Browser Flaw Secretly Bares All

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Spending millions to kill each terrorist - Baltimore Sun We cannot win the war in Afghanistan through conventional military means, so what, exactly, are we doing there? - $100 million is being spent to kill each Taliban soldier."
Afghanistan Poll: Afghans Lose Confidence In U.S. & NATO Forces
Petraeus Not 'Sure' Of U.S. Victory In Afghanistan By 2014 (Obama rolled, will re-surge)
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe: Blowing Billions on War While American Workers Go Under (Obama loves his military daddies)
The Return of David Rees's "Get Your War On" - New York Magazine

WikiLeaks
Nice burn, Wikileaks. - Imgur
WikiLeaks - Support (-->contribute while you still can<--)
Twitter Appears to Censor Wikileaks-Related Trends (et tu, twitter .. get a call from the Senator from Israel?)
Swiss Cut Off Bank Account For WikiLeaks' Assange
Holder threatens WikiLeaks, again - War Room - Salon.com Attorney general says that unspecified but "significant" actions have been taken in the criminal probe of WikiLeaks (Obama's censor-flunkie)
UPDATE 1-US looks beyond espionage to deal with Wikileaks | Reuters U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Monday the Obama administration was considering using laws in addition to the U.S. Espionage Act to possibly prosecute the release of sensitive government information by WikiLeaks (because existing ones don't work)
NationalJournal.com - What's the Big Secret? - Monday, December 6, 2010 Both conservatives and progressives seem hypocritical in their views on WikiLeaks.
BBC News - List of facilities 'vital to US security' leaked
Columbia University Reverses Anti-WikiLeaks Guidance | Threat Level | Wired.com
Blogging The Wikileaks—Monday, Day 9, Return Here Often for Updates | The Nation - Remember, he did NOT leak the cables to the Times -- the paper got them from The Guardian. Or should we say, is getting them? (great source)
The lawless Wild West attacks WikiLeaks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com A consensus of legal experts agree that prosecuting the organization or Julian Assange for any of its leaks would be difficult in the extreme (Obama's censorship machine in high gear)
Hullabaloo many of the people who are threatening to imprison and assassinate Assange do know this and also understand that they are threatening not just him but the publishers of newspapers all over the world who also have these documents. Is everyone comfortable with that?
Wikileaks/Assange honored by CIA alumni :: News From Underground Julian Assange have received the 2010 Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence award for their resourcefulness in making available secret U.S. military documents on the Iraq and Afghan wars.”

President Bush Obama, GOP Agree: Bail Out the Rich, Destroy Democratic Party | MyFDL - It seems our faux Democratic President, now in full moral and policy collapse, and with the mindset of what once passed for a moderate Republican, views his job as negotiating with the most radically conservative wing of his radically conservative party to give them what they want
First Read - First Thoughts: Done deal? Today’s New York Times reports that the Obama White House and Senate Republicans are closing in on a deal to temporarily extend the Bush tax cuts for all income levels -- for two years perhaps? -- in return for also extending jobless benefits and the Obama middle- class tax cuts from the 2009 stimulus (yes, he caved yet again)
Tax Cuts Update: Despite Schumer's Threat, There's Little Appetite To Let Them Expire "If Republicans hold out, and taxes go up, he should tell the nation the truth, and denounce the blackmail attempt for what it is.
Defense Secretary: It's Not Looking Good For DADT Repeal In 2010 | TPMDC (never)
Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community Isn't Dick Lugar conservative enough for the Republican Party? Is it really necessary to give him a primary challenge because he's less than 100% unhinged?
It depends on what Glenn Reynolds means by “shrink rapidly” | Media Matters for America (lies, lies)
BIll Maher: Glenn Beck Is Like Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard
Hullabaloo Sore Knees On Forty Second St. (NYT gives a blow-job to Kentucky taxpayer-funded Creationist Ark theme park)

Yglesias » Morning in America
Chart of the day: U.S. taxes | Analysis & Opinion | Federal taxes are the lowest in 60 years, which gives you a pretty good idea of why America’s long-term debt ratios are a big problem. If the taxes reverted to somewhere near their historical mean, the problem would be solved at a stroke (but that would inconvience the rich; deficit liars at work)
Ben Bernanke: Income Inequality Is 'Creating Two Societies'
Jamie Dimon Profile Misses The Point: Trusting Bankers Is Too Stupid To Try Again
$100 Bill: The Fed Has a $110 Billion Problem with New Benjamins - CNBC (had to issue Bush money)

Cosmology: Going round in circles | The Economist In contradiction to most cosmologists’ opinions, two scientists have found evidence that the universe may have existed for ever

OUDaily.com | COLUMN: A nude awakening — TSA and privacy , but we are instead enraptured by xenophobic obscurantism that perverts our sense of risk, enables the abrogation of liberty and leaves us vulnerable to a self-defeating national policy that plays into the hands of terrorists.
XNCiU.jpg (and then the TSA touch their balls ... like this)

Immigration Hysteria Gone Crazy: Deporting A Resident of 50 Years
Beyond the scary Christmas list: the full parenting price tag - CSMonitor.com The parenting price tag has soared to about $220,000 per child. If you think the kids' Christmas list is hefty, there's no end in sight to the add-ons Americans can think of in the cultivation of kids.

Google eBookstore
Chinese leader googled self, got mad at Google? | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

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WikiLeaks - Mass Mirroring our website Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack.
Twitter / Keith Olbermann: RT @BiancaJagger '#Assange ... “rape” accuser has #CIA ties'
C35Ty.png (infowar is now engaged ... you are the troops)
WikiLeaks Cable Viewer (understand: they've only released 842+ of 251,287 things your government doesn't want you to see)
Cable Viewer Viewing cable 10BEIJING263, PRC: Nuclear Research At Chinese Academy (keeping us stupid)
Joe Lieberman emulates Chinese dictators - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
More Joe Lieberman-caused Internet censorship - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com another company has now capitulated to Lieberman's demands - benign, purely legal documents that have now been removed from the Internet in response to Joe Lieberman's demands and implied threats

Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FBI after informant infiltrates mosque
Exclusive: Submarine Dive Finds Oil, Dead Sea Life at Bottom of Gulf of Mexico Near BP Spill Site - ABC News Though Region is Healing, Damage From BP Spill Persists on Ocean Floor, Scientists Say

Stunning Video of Unemployed Workers: Meet Obama's Human Shields | MyFDL
YouTube - "Today In America We Have The Most Unequal Distribution Of Wealth Since The Great Depression!"
Daily Kos: President Obama is neither weak nor stupid... nor a progressive - It's time to consider that the president accepts centrist and conservative policies because he himself is a centrist or conservative." (we should try to avoid this next time)
Michael Lerner - Save Obama's presidency by challenging him on the left the president's unwillingness to veto any measure that includes continued tax relief for billionaires is the last straw, building on a record of spinelessness that includes his escalation of the war in Afghanistan, abandonment of a public option for health-care reform, refusal to prosecute those who tortured in Iraq or lied us into that war, and unwillingness to tax carbon emissions.
All the President’s Captors - NYTimes.com (he captured himself a long time ago)

Calculated Risk Chart Gallery (recessions: the only chart you need to see to know why Obama and the Rebuplicans are out of touch with reality and everyone else is screwed)
What Jamie Dimon Won’t Tell You: His Big Bank Would Be Dangerously Leveraged « The Baseline Scenario
FT.com / FT Magazine - How Annie got shot
How Tom Barrack and Rob Lowe Are Making Money Off of Distressed Celebrities -- New York Magazine

Tooth decay to be a thing of the past? Enzyme responsible for dental plaque sticking to teeth deciphered
The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block”

The Vulture Transcript: Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is ‘Like a Mall,’ and Much More -- Vulture
Own A Piece Of US History Home Of The Unabomber Huge Price Reduction!

Muslim Publics Divided on Hamas and Hezbollah | Pew Global Attitudes Project At least three-quarters of Muslims in Egypt and Pakistan say they would favor making each of the following the law in their countries: stoning people who commit adultery, whippings and cutting off of hands for crimes like theft and robbery and the death penalty for those who leave the Muslim religion
MUSLIM WORLD: Poll shows majority want Islam in politics; feelings mixed on Hamas, Hezbollah | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times (but fine with stoning women to death)

Infographic of the Day: The 28 Flavors of Online Conversation in 2010 | Co.Design

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WikiLeaks (wikileaks) on Twitter
WikiLeaks cables: Seven key things we've learned so far | Richard Adams | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Some in the media glibly dismissed the US embassy cables at first, but such WikiScepticism is on the wane
WikiLeaks site's Swiss host dismisses pressure to take it offline | Media | guardian.co.uk Swiss host Switch says there is 'no reason' why WikiLeaks should be forced off internet, despite French and US demands
NationalJournal.com - To Tell the Truth - Thursday, December 2, 2010 Maybe the government would earn more of our trust if it leveled with us more and invaded our privacy less.
PayPal Cuts WikiLeaks From Money Flow
WikiLeaks Science: DNA Collection, Climate Talks, & China’s Google Hack | 80beats | Discover Magazine
WL Central | An unofficial WikiLeaks information resource
Australia to help US over Assange
Legal As She Is Spoke » Blog Archive » Wikileaks Has Committed No Crime
Reporters Sans Frontières - Wikileaks hounded?
WikiLeaks just made the world more repressive - The Globe and Mail (author covered up genocide)
YouTube - President John F Kennedy Secret Society Speech version 2

Spain's Air Traffic Controllers Placed Under Military Control After Striking

Democrats Should Stand Tall Against Republican Tax Cut Extortionists
72 super PACs spent $83.7 million on election, financial disclosure reports show (end of Democracy)
Obama Issues First Pardons Of His Presidency Far from sending a message about the excesses and errors of the judicial system, Obama picked minor and sometimes ancient offenses -- such as a 1963 conviction for "mutilation of coins" -- to forgive. He also chose not to commute any sentences at all (and only because the NYT reported it)
Tea Party Nation Founder: 'A Wise Idea' To Only Let Property Owners Vote | TPMMuckraker (the road to serfdom)
Operation One-Term: Obama Reaches Bipartisan Agreement To Serve Only Four Years | Firedoglake 2012's will be “We may suck, but at least we’re not crazy.” Not exactly an improvement, but it should definitely free Obama up to run for mayor of Chicago (+"We had a Roosevelt moment and responded like Hoover")

Senate Republicans Defeat Reauthorization Of Jobless Aid, Tax Cuts
Freezing Out Hope - NYTimes.com - It would be much easier, of course, for Democrats to draw a line if Mr. Obama would do his part. But all indications are that the party will have to look elsewhere for the leadership it needs.
Getting Obama's Drift - NYTimes.com But here’s the thing: by now we know that this strategy has been a political disaster. So you would think that the administration would change its line ... I just think top management has gone missing. And so the administration drifts …

Why anthropology is ‘true’ even if it is not ‘science’ | Savage Minds
News: Anthropology Without Science - Inside Higher Ed A new long-range plan for the American Anthropological Association that omits the word “science” from the organization's vision for its future has exposed fissures in the discipline.
Anthropology Association Rejecting Science? - Innovations - The Chronicle of Higher Education
..:recycled minds:..: Views from the ANThill: Anthropology as Science
We're waiting, Mr President - opinion - 03 December 2010 - New Scientist (for scientific integrity: not a fact-based administration)

The truth about California Brett Arends' ROI - MarketWatch Commentary: Maligned state is actually saving the rest of us
Repairing California: The tide begins to turn | The Economist For once, California’s prospects seem better in the long term than in the short
Fatal Crossing: The Lives That End at America's Desolate Border | Archaeology | DISCOVER Magazine
Why I didn't like riding the bus as a kid - The Oatmeal

Please Fire Me: Submit If You Can't Quit


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Valerie Plame, YES! Wikileaks, NO! - English pravda.ru (Russia: how's that free speech thing working out for you? +state-sponsered infowar to control your access to the truth)
Net closes on Assange: arrest by British police expected in days - Home News, UK - The Independent
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: Has US already indicted him? - CSMonitor.com It is entirely possible that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is already under indictment in the US. Grand juries work in secret, and indictments can be sealed, but there have been hints.
Julian Assange answers your questions | World news | guardian.co.uk We should always look at censorship as an economic signal that reveals the potential power of speech in that jurisdiction. The attacks against us by the US point to a great hope, speech powerful enough to break the fiscal blockade (smart guy, speaking the truth, has to be silenced)
The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange - David Samuels - International - The Atlantic
Why Not Just Stamp 'Secret' Across the Front Page of the NY Times? - James Fallows - National - The Atlantic
Online, the censors are scoring big wins - WikiLeaks - Salon.com Attacks on WikiLeaks are part of an attack on free speech, aided by the companies that make up the Web's backbone
FoxNews.com - Bill Could Give Homeland Security Power Over Tech Giants
DHS | Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7: Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and Protection - terrorist attacks could include: undermine the public's morale and confidence in our national economic and political institutions (that's right, you are supposed to have confidence in our economic and political institutions or ...)
Amazon.com’s Excuse: WikiLeaks ‘Harming People’ -- News from Antiwar.com Spokesman Insists Ousting Site Was Ideologically Motivated, Not Cowardice
Amazon.com Evicts Wikileaks. Who's Next?
WikiLeaks and Amazon: A free speech issue? - CSMonitor.com WikiLeaks has been banned from Amazon servers. And for some critics, that's a very problematic development indeed.
Hal Roberts / Amazon’s Wikileaks Takedown
Will Cooler Heads Not Prevail? | Talking Points Memo By the LOC's logic, it should have blocked the Washington Post when Dana Priest blew the lid off the CIA's secret prison system and the New York Times when James Risen exposed warrantless wiretapping.
Meet the people who want Julian Assange "whacked"
The (Not So) Secret (Anymore) US War in Pakistan | The Nation (Pentagon, of course, lied)
US Cables: Mexico drug war lacks clear strategy - Yahoo! News (o rly; how about legalization?)
Cable reveals US behind airstrike that killed 21 children in Yemen | Raw Story
No, Wikileaks’s Julian Assange isn’t accused of rape | Liberal Conspiracy (your American media at work)
Arrest Warrant for "Sex Crimes" Against Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Is for "Sex Without a Condom", NOT Non-Consensual Rape Using Force ? Washington's Blog
White House Tells All Federal Agencies To Prohibit Unauthorized Employees From Wikileaks Site | TPMMuckraker (you can't read freely-available info)
U.S. Military In Iraq Tries To Intimidate Soldiers Into Not Reading Wikileaks | TPM LiveWire
Bank of America executive: We're preparing for Wikileaks - CharlotteObserver.com

Helen Thomas: Zionists Own Congress, The WH, Hollywood & Wall St. | TPMMuckraker (the deselected fact)

Harkin: If Obama Caves On Taxes, He Better Pray For Palin In 2012 (he's already pre-caved)
Eschaton Crazy Ideas: Perhaps politicians should be talking about policies to increase jobs now instead of ones to cut them in order to wage a futile war against imaginary problems 10 years from now.
Fox News Lawyers Up, Responds To Allegations Of Campaign Finance Law Violations to ward off a suit alleging that it made illegal in-kind contributions to a Republican gubernatorial candidate.
Alan Grayson Jabs Fox News Hosts, George W. Bush On Personal Stakes In Bush Tax Cuts Extension (VIDEO)
Christie Hires Law Firm to Fight Feds Over ARC Reimbursement - WNYC (Republican hires expensive lawyers to steal government money he's not entitled to)
Juan Williams on Unemployment Insurance | Talking Points Memo continuing unemployment insurance is hurting the unemployed by keeping them from working and thus losing their work ethic, losing their values and also not dressing well or getting up from bed in the morning and thus not able to get a job.

What makes the US health care system so expensive – Introduction | The Incidental Economist
Even more charts on total health care spending | The Incidental Economist
Unemployment Climbs, No Relief In Sight
Hullabaloo Saving Some Catfood for Later (defining bipartisan down)
Dem Senators Rally for Austerity | FDL News Desk if every Republican wanted a deficit reduction plan, there would be a filibuster-proof majority to do something (Obama's bright idea gave all the power to 14 conserva-dems)
On Jobs, Robert Rubin Points In The Wrong Direction Again (doing what he does best: destroying the economy)
We Have Now the Same Employment-to-Population Ratio We Had Eleven Months Ago - Grasping Reality with Both Hands
Simon Johnson: Jamie Dimon: Becoming Too Big To Save -- Creating Fiscal Disaster

Firestorm and contagion in the Eurozone: how Ireland got burned — Crooked Timber
Letter from Dublin making the same fundamental mistake of thinking that a solvency crisis is just a liquidity crisis (sound familiar?)
The Irish Economy » Blog Archive » Barry Eichengreen on the Irish bailout - As Tallyrand said of the Bourbons, “They have learned nothing, and they have forgotten nothing.” ... As John Maynard Keynes – who knew about matters like reparations – once said, leadership involves “ruthless truth telling.” (+why Obama can't lead - he has always gone with the consensus lie)

Bargain Junkies Are Beating Retailers at Their Own Game | Magazine
Watch a Girl Age 10 Years in 90 Seconds
How to avoid buying a meth house - MSN Real Estate

41Latitude - Google Maps & Label Readability

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Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe | Mother Jones A WikiLeaks cable shows that when Spain considered a criminal case against ex-Bush officials, the Obama White House and Republicans got really bipartisan (disgusting: they all should go to jail)
The moral standards of WikiLeaks critics - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Joe Klein: "Assange is a criminal. He's the one who should be in jail." (our whole media should be put in jail)
WikiLeaks reveals more than just government secrets - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com there are few countries in the world with citizenries and especially media outlets more devoted to serving, protecting and venerating government authorities than the U.S. (America loves torture and illegal wars that kill 100,000's of innocent people)
Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government” « zunguzungu - Theodore Roosevelt: “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people,”
WikiLeaks Archive - Dim View of Russia and Putin - NYTimes.com
Putin Criticizes U.S. on Larry King Live Over WikiLeaks - NYTimes.com - playing Robin to Putin’s Batman
The War on Wikileaks and the Radical Theory of Breaking Conspiracies | FDL News Desk
The Madrid Cables—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) These cables reveal a large-scale, closely coordinated effort by the State Department to obstruct these criminal investigations.

Ireland 'blocked' weapons to Israel - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Released cable says Irish blocked US arms shipments to Israel during war with Lebanon.
Exposé: Gitmo Detainees Mass Recipients of Controversial Drug | MyFDL
EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to "Pharmacologic Waterboarding"
Nigeria to charge Dick Cheney in $180 million bribery case, issue Interpol arrest warrant | Raw Story
FBI Entrapment Leads to TSA Pat-Downs | Emptywheel So it doesn’t matter that it was a fake terrorist plot, since the whole point of it seems to be to justify immigration and smuggling raids (their real agenda)
Mexican police chief who took the job men didn’t want is shot dead | News

Balkinization - Parliamentary Parties in a Presidential System

Offshore Oil Rig Explodes 20 Miles From New Orleans Offshore Oil Rig Explodes 20 Miles From New Orleans
Delaware Jury Awards $30 Million in Priest Abuse Case - NYTimes.com In an unusual outcome, the jury decided that the parish where the abuse occurred, St. Elizabeth in Wilmington, must pay $3 million of the damages, while the perpetrator is liable for the rest.
Warren Jeffs Is Extradited to Texas - NYTimes.com
Videos: Confederates Are Cool Again! | Mother Jones

More on Senator Sessions’ Spurious DREAM Act Memo | America’s Voice
A humane stop-gap: Debunking DREAM Act disinformation | The Economist

Ezra Klein - Why did the Democrats falter on the tax cuts? (could it be ... no leadership?)
Senate Republicans Threaten Blockade Over Tax Dispute - NYTimes.com Not even 24 hours after President Obama met with senior Republican Congressional leaders and expressed hopes for a “new dialogue,” (hopelessly naive Obama gets played yet again)
Debt Commission Plan Faces Opposition From Within - NYTimes.com (Obama's big bi-partisan idea a total failure)
Is Washington Politics A Criminal Enterprise? - Swampland - TIME.com (yes)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Playing Cards with Judas Again, capitulation is inevitable. It’s unthinkable that the US won’t ratify START, so the Bush tax cuts will be extended.
Rachel Maddow: Democrats call the GOPs bluff
Hullabaloo Kicking The Catfood Can Down The Road
Eschaton the fact that right before an election the Professional Left had to spend their time worrying about defending Social Security given that we had a Democratic president and huge Dem majorities in the House was a complete travesty.
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect Budget Delusions: Asked to estimate how much of the federal budget goes to foreign aid the median estimate is 25 percent. Asked how much they thought would be an "appropriate" percentage the median response is 10 percent. In fact just 1 percent of the federal budget goes to foreign aid (America, land of the really stupid)
Willful Self Destruction | Mother Jones (complete failure of Obama's "economic" "policy")
Ted Strickland: Democrats Suffering From 'Intellectual Elitism' After all of this you don't realize these people want to destroy you and your agenda?" he asked. "How many times do you have to be, you know, slapped in the face? (still searching for his angry, rejecting Republican daddies)
Bailouts Are For Banks: Unemployed People Get Zilch
FreakOutNation » Wealthy Fox News’ Hosts Push Hard For Tax Cuts For The Wealthiest
Tea Party Caucus Took $1 BILLION In Earmarks
Six Republicans Sign Letter Demanding Ethanol Subsidy Extension | RedState “If an uncontested re-election doesn’t give John Thune the political courage to say no to BP and the ethanol robber barons, then he has no business getting near the White House when the successor to Obama needs to stop trillions in red ink.”
Home | No Labels ("not left, not right, forward" - another really stupid "bi-partisan idea)
Creation Museum seeking tax breaks for Ark Encounter theme park | cincinnati.com | nky.com - $150 million

Citigroup May Hire Obama's Former Budget Chief Peter Orszag - Bloomberg (oh, who could have predicted?)
Eschaton The Fed said its free money for rich people program needed to be kept secret because there was tremendous stigma attached to being smart enough to opening your hands to catch all the free money that was being dropped on you.
Hedge Funds Tapped Rescue Program - WSJ.com
Fed wants to strip a key protection for homeowners | McClatchy The Fed's proposal to amend a 42-year-old provision of the federal Truth in Lending Act (your invisible government at work - pure evil)
Fed Audit-- Liveblog on Data Dig | OurFuture.org - So Paul Krugman's prediction of zombie banks creating a drag on the economy has not come true ... The zombie banks aren't just failing to boost the economy, they're actively sabotaging it.
County Recorder in Massachusetts Goes After MERS | FDL News Desk - This is a shoe that hadn’t yet dropped – the evasion of fees by the banks using MERS.
U.S. Stocks Advance Most in Three Months as Economy Improves - BusinessWeek (for big corps!)
Bernie Sanders Blasts Wall Street, Government In Wake Of Fed Disclosures (video)

NASA Discovers New Life: Arsenic Bacteria With DNA Completely Alien To What We Know
Darren Tanke and Gorgosaurus « Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
Earth-Size Planet Has Hot and Steamy Atmosphere?
Teen Mathletes Do Battle at Algorithm Olympics | Magazine

Woman Strips Down to Her Lingerie, Gets TSA Pat Down Anyway—Twice since it's obvious that the retired surgeon could be a secret Al-Qaeda terrorist carrying a bomb somewhere in her lace bra or panties, the astute TSA officials subjected her to a one-hour hand-search and interrogation. Yes, one hour.
Exclusive: TSA frisks groom children to cooperate with sex predators, abuse expert says | Raw Story

The 10 Best Books of 2010 - NYTimes.com
The Hyperlink Grows Up: The Times Releases New Linking Features - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

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Twitter / WikiLeaks: WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ... (Lieberman pulls the plug)
WikiLeaks' Amazon Servers Go Offline
Wikileaks moves to Amazon's cloud to evade massive DDoS (that didn't last long)
US embassy cables culprit should be executed, says Mike Huckabee | World news | The Guardian
Why The Wikileaks Document Release Is Key To A Functioning Democracy | Techdirt from the the-difference-between-democracy-and-the-state dept
WikiLeaks: guilty parties 'should face death penalty' - Telegraph
WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange | Media | guardian.co.uk
Julian Assange: Is the WikiLeaks Whistle-blower 2010's Person of the Year? - Time NewsFeed
YouTube - Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal 'Profound Hatred for Democracy' by U.S. Govt Officials 1 of 3
War Tard: Wikileaks and the death of American badassery.
Putin Criticizes Leaked U.S. Remarks on Russia - NYTimes.com
Wikileaks Honduras: State Dept. Busted on Support of Coup | CommonDreams.org

Good-bye to Dubai by Joshua Hammer | The New York Review of Books (that stupid idea worked out really well)
Iran Confirms Stuxnet Worm Halted Centrifuges - CBS News

Entire Senate Republican Caucus Commits To Filibustering Anything Prior To Budget, Tax Cuts (Obama still chasing his Republican daddies)
Tax cuts: The party that says no does it again - Taxes - Salon.com With the ink barely dry on bipartisanship pledges, GOP senators go on strike, in defense of the wealthy
Supreme Court Questions Broad Government Use Of FOIA Exemption To Withhold Documents Chief Justice John Roberts said the administration was asking the court "to torture the language in FOIA" to keep the documents from being made public (yeah, waterboard that sucker)
WaPo's 'Voices Of The Troops' Sidelines DADT-Repeal-Supporting Majority In Favor Of The Fringe (elite Republican media at work)
House Republican Freshmen Class Loaded With Millionaires Nearly a quarter of the incoming class of 84 House Republicans have assets of at least $1 million (populist teapartiers)
Post Carbon - Obama administration reimposes offshore oil drilling ban
For fawning press, Gov. Christie's $400 million blunder gets flushed down the memory hole | Media Matters for America (they love their Republican daddies)
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Case for a ‘Repeal Amendment’

Federal Reserve Documents: LIVE Updates a vast trove of documents that detail a massive $3.3 trillion dollar aid program offered to the financial industry during the height of the financial crisis.
Fiscal Commission Final Report | Firedoglake
Deficit Commission Slashes Taxes For Wealthy, Corporations, While Raising Retirement Age And Cutting Spending (Obama's Republican daddies come through for him)
Gregg and Conrad Endorse Debt Panel Plan - NYTimes.com

Wealth of Nations § Seedmagazine.Com
A revolution in global aid to the poor | Aditya Chakraborrty | Comment is free | The Guardian
Giving Money Directly to the Poor - NYTimes.com

Amazon's thirst alarming for Earth (2nd 100-yr drought in 5 years - there's a special place in hell waiting for Inhofe and the Kochtopus)
How Many Stars? Three Times as Many as We Thought, Report Says - NYTimes.com
How to see reality on drugs - opinion - 30 November 2010 - New Scientist
Mercury poisoning makes male birds homosexual - environment - 01 December 2010 - New Scientist
Narcissistic Disorder to Be Eliminated in Diagnostic Manual - NYTimes.com - DSM-5 has eliminated five of the 10 personality disorders that are listed in the current edition (NPD is out, "dimensional" menu replaces "prototype" diagnoses, Gunderson unhappy)

The Millions : Year in Reading | The Millions : A Year in Reading: Stephen Dodson (Languagehat)
The 10 States That Could Be The Hardest Hit By A Lapse In Unemployment Benefits: 24/7 Wall Street
Lowest Divorce Rates By State (Mass #1)
Conversation | Double X - Nothing is Natural - condescending article about the pill from Vanessa Grigoriadis of New York magazine.
Shocking: Agnostic Dad Loses Custody of Kids | Belief | AlterNet An Indiana judge pointed to a man's agnosticism when divesting him of joint custody.
Blake Gopnik - National Portrait Gallery bows to censors, withdraws Wojnarowicz video on gay love (its a Republican world, we just live in it)
The Monkey Cage: Oil, Ploughs, and Gender Roles (more influential than religion)
Business Day > Image > | Who Is J.C. Owsley, Mystery Taxpayer? -- Daily Intel

My TSA Anti-Rant | Mother Jones
The Nation Posts a Narrow Apology. And Publishes Another Error. - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Elected Official Says TSA Pat Downs Promote 'Homosexual Agenda' | WUSA9.com | Washington, DC |

YouTube - How to get a seal to hug you , I just had to share this
YouTube - Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah

Microsoft strong-armed into adding WP7 homebrew - ChevronWP7 discontinued as developers enter discussions | TechEye
Mozilla evangelist asks Apple, Google and Microsoft to stop installing unwanted plug-ins
Stephen Colbert has answered your questions : IAmA

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Administration Searches for Way to Arrest Julian Assange | FDL News Desk
Ecuador offers a home for founder of WikiLeaks | TPM News Pages Official in Ecuador's leftist government offers residence for embattled founder of Wikileaks
WikiLeaks reveals more than just government secrets - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
WikiLeaks: China, North Korea Not As Cooperative As Presumed
WikiLeaks: Israel Iran Stance Vindicated, Says Netanyahu
An Interview With WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes - the prophet of a coming age of involuntary transparency, the leader of an organization devoted to divulging the world’s secrets using technology unimagined a generation ago.
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes Assange tells Forbes that the release of Pentagon and State Department documents are just the beginning. His next target: big business.
The Media’s Hatchet Job on Julian Assange and the Privatization of Fascism « God and Whose Army? The Blog

The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Rio's drug war - The Big Picture - Boston.com (they mean "America's" drug war)
Medvedev: 'Arms Race' Possible If Missile Defense Agreement Fails (Republicans destroying the country so they can destroy the country again)
Afghan Police Officer Kills 6 US Service Members
Kareem Khan, Pakistani Journalist, Seeks $500 Million From U.S. For Relatives' Deaths, Threatens To Sue CIA
Palin: Hunt Wikileaks director; U.S. seeks espionage charge - thestar.com
WikiLeaks Cablegate LIVE Updates Guardian Editor Says 'We Have Not Seen Anything Yet'

Obama promises more outreach to GOP - CNN.com President Barack Obama told GOP leaders behind closed doors Tuesday that he had failed to reach across party lines enough during his first two years in office (just when you think he couldn't get worse)
Hullabaloo It's a Democratic disease to think that pleasing the wealthy celebrities who make up the political punditocracy is a good guide to successful governance (Federal pay freeze idiocy +Obama "bowing" to his Republican daddies)
All Talk: Voters Want Spending Cuts But No Consensus On How To Walk The Walk (propaganda at work)
Senate Passes Sweeping Food-Safety Bill (they managed to do something)
The Washington Monthly - If Only The Right Had A Stronger Aversion To Disenfranchisement (Republicans don't want people who rent to vote)

CBO Estimates Treasury Will Spend Just $12 Billion on HAMP, Under 1/4 of Promised Funding | FDL News Desk (failure from the beginning)
OFA Tries to Get Supporters to Write Letters to the Editor Praising a Federal Worker Pay Freeze | FDL News Desk OFA, the organizing arm of the DNC, originally began its life as an organization trying to get someone elected on the platform of hope, change, and progressive policies - That’s right, the organizing project of the Democratic National Committee wants you to organize in support of freezing public worker salaries (game over)
Deficit Panel Deeply Divided Over Taxes and Spending - CNBC (Fail)
FTC tightens debt collections post-mortem - UPI.com

Image of the Day: Supernova Fireball! A Never-Before-Seen Event
As diplomats debate, the climate doesn't wait
Cameron refuses to attend UN climate change talks | Environment | The Guardian


Santa Barbara County Applies New Alcohol Law | The Daily Nexus county officials will begin enforcement of a new ordinance next month that allows officers entry into residencies if they suspect minors are drinking on the premises (how's that Constitution thingy working out for you?)


Web Delivery Firm Says Comcast Charging Unfair Fee For Data
Stop Comcast from blocking Netflix! | Progressive Change Campaign Committee
Steve Tucker email search for Olivia
The real Steve Tucker story - All Men are Liars - Executive Style - Sydney Morning Herald Blogs

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AP Exclusive: Close calls for al-Qaida's No. 2 | TPM News Pages
Iran Bomb Blast Kills Nuclear Scientist Majid Shahriari In Tehran (Mossad)
Seoul vows naval, air strikes on NK
UN General Assembly Votes To Allow Gays To Be Executed Without Cause | The New Civil Rights Movement thanks to a United Nations vote that removed “sexual orientation” from a resolution that protects people from arbitrary executions. In other words, the UN General Assembly this week voted to allow LGBT people to be executed without cause.

The Guardian gave State Dept. cables to the NY Times - Yahoo! News (which they then censored - wikileaks doesn't think the NYT is trustworthy, wonder why?)
Bomb, Bomb Iran: The Top 5 Most Shocking Things About The Wikileaks | TPMMuckraker
Comment: The hypocrisy of the media attack on Wikileaks - politics.co.uk The traditional media has become so toothless it is reduced to attacking Wikileaks for doing its job properly.
China's Politburo Masterminded Google Hack, WikiLeaks Documents Reveal
WikiLeaks Update: U.S. Tries To Contain Damage From Leaked Embassy Cables
Simon Jenkins: The WikiLeaks Release: Blame the State Department, Not the World's Media ("countless lives endangered" by State Dept gossip)
Obama Administration Orders Review Of Procedures For Safeguarding Classified Information
Pete Hoekstra Blasts WikiLeaks Cables "there's a whole number of time bombs" in the documents made public
Shocking cable: US says Saudi donors are chief financiers of al Qaeda | Raw Story (which is why Bush attacked those other countries)

CBS Fumbles Again : CJR A lopsided report on Social Security (propagatin' propaganda is their job)
Daily Kos: State of the Nation The Very Serious People all believe that Social Security is on the verge of collapse, despite all evidence to the contrary (spreading the lies on the backs of poor people)
Federal Eye - Obama announces 2-year pay freeze for federal workers Bowing to growing budget concerns and months of Republican political pressure (Congress and him-truly is exempt)
Republicans seek pay freeze for federal workers; a 'cynical ploy,' Democrats say (Obama embraces "cynical ploy")
Yglesias » Pay Freeze Instead, following the principle of “if it didn’t work the first 20 times let me try it again” the Obama administration seems to have decided that making preemptive compromises will strengthen their hand in some unspecified way down the road.
Yglesias » The Misinformation That Matters Evan Bayh thinks “Democrats should support a freeze on federal hiring and pay increases. Government isn’t a privileged class and cannot be immune to the times.” (the only economics they believe in is supply-side/tinkle-down for the rich)
Daily Kos: President Gimmick The worst thing about President Gimmick isn't that he plays politics, though. The worst thing about President Gimmick is that he's not very good at it
Obama Flunks Economics with Pointless Federal Wage Freeze | MyFDL
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » The V-chip and school uniform phase of this presidency

ThinkProgress » Former Republican Sen. Warns GOP May ‘Have Gone So Far Overboard That We Are Beyond Redemption’
Democratic South finally falls - Jonathan Martin - politico.com - rural white males who are more conservative than their national party.

Holder Says U.S. Is Conducting `Very Serious' Investigation of Wall Street - Bloomberg
Mark Thoma Watches Barack Obama and His Political Advisors Go Off Message Yet Again... - Grasping Reality with Both Hands t on the eve of the recent election in which Democrats got trounced, the administration was still trying to figure out if the unemployment problem is structural or cyclical (Obama's clown posse of economic advisors +confusing cause with effect +One mention by Obama in a Saturday address to the nation doesn't get the job done...)
Food Banks Bracing For End Of Extended Unemployment Benefits (Republicans: let the lazy slackers eat air, they'll still vote for us)
Simon Johnson: The Economics and Politics of Elizabeth Warren (Republicans: protecting consumers in Unconstitutional)
APNewsBreak: NJ must pay $271M for killing tunnel | AP | 11/29/2010 (will Christie pay up?)

SpyTalk - CIA brain experiments pursued in veterans’ suit
GalaxyGarden.net - Tour of the Galaxy Garden

Big Polluters Freed from Environmental Oversight by Stimulus - The Center for Public Integrity
Sea level-ice sheet dynamics may help stabilize Antarctica's ice

The Cairo Project
Bingo May Be Fading, but for Fans, It’s in the Blood - NYTimes.com

271 Picasso paintings discovered in Paris - Telegraph
YouTube - Rachel Maddow: How to make an old fashioned cocktail
Interior Semiotics | Know Your Meme
Rhizome | Blogrolls, Trolls, and Interior Scrolls: A Conversation with Natacha Stolz
YouTube - Dennis

The Men Who Stole the World (and got squashed by big content)
TIL how to make Google beatbox for you! : todayilearned
Sarah Mei » Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora

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U.S, South Korea War Games To Go On After Deadly North Korea Shelling [South Korean Military Reports Artillery Fire]
North Korea "readies missiles" as China seeks talks - Yahoo! News
Saudi women sue male guardians who stop marriage - Yahoo! News
Argentinean man arrested for allegedly fathering 10 kids with daughter - CNN.com "This case is more serious than the one in Austria,"
Ireland Bailout: European Union Agrees To $89 Billion Loan

t r u t h o u t | Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion There is no hope left for achieving significant reform or restoring our democracy through established mechanisms of power

U.S. Asks WikiLeaks To Halt Document Release The Obama administration has told whistleblower WikiLeaks that its expected imminent release of classified State Department cables will put "countless" lives at risk, threaten global counterterrorism operations and jeopardize U.S. relations with its allies (lying military lies to keep their lies hidden, Obama agrees)
US embassy cables: The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian It is for governments – not journalists – to guard public secrets, and there is no national jeopardy in WikiLeaks' revelations
WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy Cables: New Documents Released
WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy - NYTimes.com
Los papeles del departamento de estado
WikiLeaks - Spiegel Online - Nachrichten
Foreign Policy Meltdown: Leaked Cables Reveal True US Worldview - Spiegel Online - International could prove highly embarrassing for the US State Department. The documents reveal what US diplomats really think of other countries, and their worldview is incredibly dark at times. Relations with several countries are likely to suffer as a result (Spiegel: "this shit is really dark, man")
US embassy cables: browse the database | World news | guardian.co.uk
A Note to Readers - The Decision to Publish - NYTimes.com (Times afraid to miss scoop, says fuck you to Obama)
Twitter / WikiLeaks: We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack (US cyberterrorists at work)
BBC News - Wikileaks 'hacked ahead of secret US document release'
WikiLeaks And The Failure Of Cyberattacks As Censorship - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes (your NSA at work)

WikiLeaks Archive — Mixing Diplomacy With Spying - NYTimes.com ordering State Department personnel to gather the credit card and frequent-flier numbers, work schedules and other personal information of foreign dignitaries (Hillary running secret spy agency)
Lindsey Graham: 'Don't Ask Don't Tell Is Not Going Anywhere' (Republicans: nothing is going anywhere, Obama rolled again)
Jon Kyl: START Won't Happen Because Of Process, Not Policy (Republicans: we'll put America in danger to spite Obama)
Conservatives love stupidity :: U4Prez, Social Networking For Politics What's up with Republicans and their love of stupid anyway? From Ronald Reagan, to major league dumbass George W. Bush, to the galactically stupid Sarah Palin, Batshit wacko Bachmann, Joe the Plumber, and most recent losers Christine O'Dummy, and Sharon Angle.

Battered but Not and Beaten - DeLong
What's The Difference Between Debt And Deficit? : NPR (most Amercians don't know the difference, which is why ...)
The Distributist Review

From 1918 Autopsy, A First Glimpse of Sickle Cell — and a Warning | Wired Science | Wired.com
Research team takes image of hydrogen atom | The Japan Times Online
Messenger Bacteria Could 'Tweet' Directions to Nanobots : Discovery News
Quartz crystal microbalances enable new microscale analytic technique

Why the TSA pat-downs and body scans are unconstitutional (Supremes: not unless you're a corporation)(Chertoff's deadly scanners not used in Europe, wonder why?)
Aerospaceweb.org | Ask Us - Commercial Airliner Bombings

What Food Says About Class in America - Newsweek As more of us indulge our passion for local, organic delicacies, a growing number of Americans don’t have enough nutritious food to eat. How we can bridge the gap.
Hindu Group Stirs Debate in Fight for Soul of Yoga - NYTimes.com
Amazon.com: Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice (9780195395341): Mark Singleton: Books makes perfectly clear that what has come to be regarded as a veritable icon of Indic Civilization -- postural yoga -- is, in fact, unambiguously the hybrid product of colonial and post-colonial globalization." (Yoga invented in 19th century Scandinavia)
New Statesman - NS Essay - How the British invented Hinduism By "reviving" the Hindu religion, the middle classes of India hope to turn their country into a world power. Yet before the 19th century, no such religion existed
YouTube - The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian ( official music video )

The Wrong Way Wizard Marx is sharper because he isolates the strikingly obvious fact that Authority must be Authored. Within this structure Marx finds that the person is not an identity but a character in a narrative.
Metaphilm ::: Inception
Pseudo-Occult Media: MTV's New Illuminist Video

For DecorMyEyes, Bad Publicity Is a Good Thing - NYTimes.com
EFF rescues ASL Ally's sign-language YouTube music videos - Boing Boing
YouTube Reinstates Ally ASL's Account - Houston Music - Rocks Off (Obama's big content at work)
YouTube - SXSW 2010: Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
Smartphone vs Superphone: Nokia N8 vs HTC Desire HD

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Expats recalled as North Korea prepares for war - Asia, World - The Independent "Traders have left the kiosks and markets, workers have abandoned building sites, and North Korean secret service employees working in the region have joined them and left"
Iraq’s Troubles Drive Out Many Refugees Who Came Back - NYTimes.com (great success)
Monterrey, Mexico's Wealthiest City, Succumbs To Drug War (American drug wars destroying the world)

2010-11-27: "The Embassy Files" ready for launch [Update 2] | WL Central Included are 251,287 cables and 8,000 diplomatic directives

Backlash Feared As Some In GOP Push Social Issues to pursue action on a range of social issues, including abortion, gun rights and even divorce laws (Republicans: American Taliban: no divorce for you)
AllGov - News - Obama Halts Sermons during Soup Kitchen Meals Faith-based organizations that accept federal funding cannot proselytize while providing social programs to the needy, under a new executive order signed by President Barack Obama.
Public Policy Polling: Decline your health care, say GOP voters (fat chance)
The Plum Line - Michael Gerson protests too much (Republicans will destroy the country to get back in power so they can destroy to country again)
Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news | Raw Story

Eschaton: Destroying The World: It is remarkable that all serious people agree that the best way to deal with struggling economies is to plunge them as deeply into recession as possible and steal money from poor people to cover the bad debts of billionaires (ever thus)
Irish Austerity Plan Stirs Dublin Protest - NYTimes.com (fat bankers plunder another country)
Debt crisis escalates in Europe; fears grow about Spain (nothing they've told us is true)
Silent partners - The Boston Globe When economists advise the government, who else are they working for? A UMass professor decided to find out (just like doctors in not disclosing financial ties)

The Top Ten Daily Consequences of Having Evolved | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine
Lake Tahoe warming rapidly, satellites find
Andromeda: born out of a massive collision? | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

I hate to tell you - The Boston Globe Phrases that announce ‘I’m lying‘

Alaska fighting uphill battle to reduce gonorrhea rate: Health | adn.com State ranks ninth in the nation as STD continues to spread (how's that abstinance thing working out for you?)

US Government Censors 70 Websites among which is Torrent-Finder.com, a mere torrent search engine which does not host or even link to torrents; it displays content hosted elsewhere through embedded iframes.
Satellite Internet Leaps Forward in 2012 | LiveScience (Obama already has the kill switch)

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North Korea Warns: 'Brink Of War'
U.S. Has Been In Afghanistan As Long As Soviet Russia
One in three South African men admit to rape, survey finds | World news | The Guardian 37.4% of men confessing to rape, while 25.3% of women say they are victims
Judge: Let lesbians into military so male GIs can turn them straight | Raw Story (by raping them)
New U.S. Politics Brings Mixed Message for Israel - NYTimes.com (NYT committed to supporting Israel no matter what)

WikiLeaks: Should sensitive diplomatic files be released? - Point of View
WikiLeaks Urges Public to Download ‘Insurance’ File
WikiLeaks release to show NATO ally Turkey helped Al Qaeda in Iraq | Raw Story
Blog: Middle East Diary (they hate having their lies and incompetence exposed)

ThinkProgress » Rep. Todd Akin: The Pilgrims Came To America To Flee ‘Unbiblical’ Socialism In The 1620's (Republicans: God is a Banker)
Israeli Company Hired by State Government to Spy on Pennsylvanians and Other Americans | CommonDreams.org
Airport Security | Pat-Down | Terror Alerts European Union governments take different approach than US to airport security (no sexual molestation)

The Instability of Moderation - NYTimes.com the Dark Age of macroeconomics, in which large numbers of economists literally knew nothing of the hard-won insights of the 30s and 40s – and, of course, went into spasms of rage when their ignorance was pointed out ... And Milton Friedman was wrong (economists are mostly Republican ideologues)
Eating the Irish - NYTimes.com - Then the bubble burst, and those banks faced huge losses. You might have expected those who lent money to the banks to share in the losses. After all, they were consenting adults, and if they failed to understand the risks they were taking that was nobody’s fault but their own. But, no, the Irish government stepped in to guarantee the banks’ debt, turning private losses into public obligations.
Iceland Is No Ireland as State Free of Bank Debt, Grimsson Says - Bloomberg “The difference is that in Iceland we allowed the banks to fail,” Grimsson said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Mark Barton today. “These were private banks and we didn’t pump money into them in order to keep them going; the state did not shoulder the responsibility of the failed private banks.” ... As a consequence, “Iceland is faring much better than anybody expected,”
Portugal Bailout Rumors Denied By EU

Oxygen detected on Saturn's moon Rhea | Science | The Guardian
Norfolk, Va., on Front Line, Tackles Rise in the Sea - NYTimes.com The result is that Norfolk has experienced the highest relative increase in sea level on the East Coast — 14.5 inches since 1930 ... The cost for the work on this one short stretch is $1.25 million (money down the drain to pretend it won't rise alot more)

Woman claimed TSA security staff singled her out for her breasts | Mail Online
X-Ray Nation | TSA Glass Box Mother Over Stored Breast Milk (TSA obsessed with breasts, could be terrorist weapons)
TSA Administrative Directive: Opt-Outters To Be Considered "Domestic Extremists"
My Helical Tryst: Review of the TSA X-ray backscatter body scanner safety report: hide your kids, hide your wife (TSA: "perfectly safe")

The high price of writing about the yakuza–and those who pay (Jake Adelstein)
YouTube - Crows vs Cat vs Cat Street Fight

How Ma Bell Shelved the Future for 60 Years And so we see that the enlightened monopolist can occasionally prove a delusional paranoid.
Journalist blogging and commenting guidelines | Community | guardian.co.uk Best practice for journalists blogging and/or responding to comments on guardian.co.uk
High Court rules newspapers can charge for web links - and you need a license to read links - Press Gazette (bought by Murdoch)
Diary Of An x264 Developer » Patent skullduggery: Tandberg rips off x264 algorithm

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Tension in the Koreas - The Big Picture - Boston.com
South Korea's Defense Minister Resigns In Wake Of North Korean Attack
Ireland Unveils Harshest Cuts, Tax Hikes In History (the whole country pays for English and German bankers' predatory capitalism)
Simon Johnson: Will Ireland Default? - NYTimes.com In the best scenario, Ireland’s government debt is likely to stabilize at more than 100 percent of gross national product, or G.N.P.; in the worst scenario, with greater real estate losses and a deeper recession, this level could reach 150 percent - over $500 billion — three times the scale of total claims against Greece.” ... And will the same underlying problem continue to grow in such a way that it can ultimately bring down the United States (the future of America)
Tory peer Howard Flight apologises over poor people 'breeding' comments | Politics | guardian.co.uk Lord Flight suggested coalition's child benefit cuts would give those on welfare every incentive to breed (look at the face of gene-depletion)
New Statesman - Inside the Whitehall kettle

Obama Administration Weighs Indefinite Detention : NPR (here we are)
CBC News - Canada - U.S. warns Ottawa of WikiLeak release - America is warning allies that they may hate the US after the latest Wikileaks release.
WikiLeaks 3: New Docs May 'Wreak Havoc,' Pentagon Warns Congress
YouTube - FOX News - Rick Leventhal interviews 9/11 WTC witness, Mark Walsh

The Presidential memoirs of George W. Bush, review : The New Yorker - Dead Certain
Lisa Murkowski Campaign Weighs In On Alaska Vote-Count Lawsuit Brought On By Rival Joe Miller - "She would go from her current rank of 43rd to 100th,"
Sarah Palin's North Korea Slip: 'We've Gotta Stand With Our North Korean Allies' (she can see N Korea from her window)

Foreclosure Probe Talks Include Investors Urging Resolution - Bloomberg (of course they are, and with no consequences for illegal behavior)
Family faces foreclosure after following the rules (HAMPed by Obama)
RECTOR: Significant food shortages rare in America - Washington Times According to the USDA, some 17 million households, or 14.7 percent of all households, experienced "household food insecurity" at some point in 2009 (Republicans: the hungry are responisble for their hunger)
YouGov - Know Anybody Making $250,000? meaning your typical survey respondent thinks that almost 1 in 5 families in America earn that kind of money, when the answer is closer to 1 in 50! (keeping American stupid)

Edge: Thaler's Question - An EDGE Special Event - examples of wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods. Can you name your favorite example and for extra credit why it was believed to be true?
Are Attractive People More Employable? - NYTimes.com evidence that female jealousy of attractive women in the workplace is a primary reason for the punishment of attractive women (women open the letters and wastebasket attractive women)
Predicting the Future With Porn? | Fast Company . Subjects were able to predict the appearance of the pornographic picture 53.1% of the time--significantly above the statistical average of 50%.
Chinese villagers 'descended from Roman soldiers' - Telegraph testing of villagers in a remote part of China has shown that nearly two thirds of their DNA is of Caucasian origin, lending support to the theory that they may be descended from a 'lost legion' of Roman soldiers.

Man Beaten By Police On YouTube Is Charged - cbs4.com ("resisting arrest without violence" - for covering his head while being beaten by cops)
Traffic Roundabouts Spread in U.S. - NYTimes.com (never been to Boston?)
YouTube - Female Sexuality: Radical Sexual Pedagogy at UC Berkeley
How Your Playboy Centerfold Sausage Is Made [NSFW]
Sustainable Growth Is An Oxymoron | Government & Policy | Chemical & Engineering News
File download · Sustainable Development Commission
Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

Anatomy of a journalistic smear job - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (the Nation smears John Tyner)
Twitter / jeremy scahill: The article my magazine, T ... The article my magazine, The Nation, published about John Tyner is a shameful smear
Twitter / Daniel Schulman: I'm with @ggreenwald & @je ... I'm with @ggreenwald & @jeremyscahill. This Nation story is journalistic malpractice of the worst kind
Ruth Marcus - Don't touch my junk? Grow up, America (that would be WaPo's "establishment-worshiping, political-power-defending" hack Ruth Marcus)
National Opt-Out Day a bust as few fliers reject full-body scans - The Denver Post
Mike Huckabee wants First Family to be TSA screened. His son got caught bringing gun on a plane | Crooks and Liars (no bounds to their shamelessness)
YouTube - TSA Breast Milk Screening Harassment Updated (ignores their own rules, holds woman for 45 min to teach her a lesson)

YouTube - Italian/Brooklyn man asks me out
YouTube - Young Girl Talking About Herself - Parry Gripp

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BBC News - Swaying footbridge 'triggered deadly Cambodia stampede' A preliminary investigation into the stampede that left 456 people dead in Cambodia on Monday has found a swaying footbridge triggered the panic.
Pike River: 'Our darkest hour' | Stuff.co.nz
BBC News - Student tuition fee protesters dispersed by police

Exclusive: Corruption charges to feature in WikiLeaks release | Reuters
Taliban Leader Mullah Omar: The US and NATO Are Being Defeated in Afghanistan | The Nation

Jury convicts DeLay in money laundering trial | TPM News Pages (some obscure law only liberals cared about)
Alan Simpson: 'Greediest Generation' Won't Leave Me Alone Over Debt Commission Report | TPMDC (rich asshole - thanks, Obama - whines while trying to screw you)
Plan to 'mess with' Social Security would backfire - latimes.com The co-chairs of President Obama's deficit commission have taken aim at Social Security. But their proposals are unfair and unwise.
GOP Lawmakers: Elizabeth Warren's Job 'Undermines' Constitution (consumer protection un-Constitutional according to Republicans)
'Sarah Palin's Alaska' Ratings Plummet In Week 2 the median age of the show's viewer is a whopping 57 years old (geezer partiers)
Palin Slams Michelle Obama Again, This Time For Anti-Obesity Campaign (health is socialistic)
What Tea Partiers Really Want | By Jonathan Haidt - WSJ.com The passion behind the populist insurgency is less about liberty than a particularly American idea of karma.
Family Research Council Labeled 'Hate Group' By SPLC Over Anti-Gay Rhetoric | TPMDC
No. 1: Richard Cohen - War Room - Salon.com The looooongtime Washington Post columnist is the hackiest pundit in America (beat out Bill Kristol and David Brooks)

Elizabeth Warren Helped Shoot Down Bill That Would Have Sped Foreclosures, Calendar Shows Elizabeth Warren was the first senior Obama administration official to recognize the potentially incendiary impact of a bill that would have made it significantly easier for mortgage companies to foreclose on homes (why he wants to fire her and replace her with Michael Barr, who is more "business-friendly" to the "business community" where there's a "rift")
Fines and “Resolving this Mess” | Emptywheel - Yves does a thorough smackdown on the departing Michael Barr’ (Obama's business-friendly choice to replace Elizabth Warren)
BBC News - Irish Republic's austerity plan: Key points at-a-glance corporation tax rate to remain unchanged at 12.5% (of course)
Lands of Ice and Ire - NYTimes.com Back in early 2009, it was supposed to be gallows humor: What’s the difference between Iceland and Ireland? Answer: One letter and about six months - And guess what: heterodoxy is working a whole lot better than orthodoxy
Ireland Cuts Minimum Wage 11.5% to Protect 12.5% Corporate Tax Rate | Emptywheel (priorities)
Daily Kos: Record profits for businesses, even as they whine about Obama
Harold Meyerson - How Germany got it right on the economy (but they're all socialists and should be more like America!)
Wall Street Excess Is Back: Hiring A Dwarf For A Bachelor Party, $40,000 Cell Phones
Countrywide's Mortgage Document Errors May Doom Bank of America - DailyFinance - If what one bank employee said on the stand proves to be accurate, paperwork problems it acquired when it purchased the failing mortgage provider Countrywide in 2008 could leave BofA on the hook for billions of dollars.
Don Chu Arrested In Massive Hedge Fund Insider Trading Sweep

Oral Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV — Another Arrow in the Quiver? — NEJM
AIDS Risk Greatly Lowered by Daily Pill, Study Finds - NYTimes.com ($12K/yr)
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Unlocking the mysteries of speech
Pumpkin Pie Arouses Guys More than Your Favorite Perfume - Lemondrop.com "The number one odor that enhanced penile blood flow was a combination of lavender and pumpkin pie,"

Schneier on Security: The Effectiveness of Air Marshals more air marshals have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshals - Let me repeat that: we are spending approximately $200 million per arrest
The TSA and America's Turning Point | Scragged If Americans will permit their wives, children, and themselves, to be sexually molested and openly humiliated in full view of the public by uniformed government operatives - in what still purports to be a representative democracy - then, indeed, they will tolerate anything, and there is little hope for the future.
Fear Pays: Chertoff, Ex-Security Officials Slammed For Cashing In On Government Experience (Skeletor, citizen of Israel)
Robert Dean Cites 4th Amendment Violation, Sues TSA Over Full-Body Scans An Arkansas man has filed a federal lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration, claiming that the agency's new screening rules are detrimental to his "emotional, psychological and mental well-being."
John Fiala, Texas Priest, Charged With Hiring Hitman To Kill Teen Who Accused Him Of Sexual Abuse

Motor Trend Magazine Disembowels Rush Limbaugh | The Atlantic Wire
Is America Falling Out of Love With the Car? | The Atlantic Wire
Dogs Are More Clever Than Cats, Study Says - Paw Nation


A virtual hideout for subway flashers - Salon.com - A video of a woman confronting her harasser is making the rounds, thanks in part to a website for "exhibitionists"
The Disturbing World Of Dickflash.com
Infographic of the Day: Should You Use Yahoo Answers, Metafilter, or Aardvark? | Co.Design
Apple-Approved 'Anti-Gay' iPhone App Sparks Outrage (no iboobs, but anti-gay propaganda fine with Jobs)

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Korea Attack: Yeonpyeong Island Shelled By North Korea
Belgium: Anti-Terror Sweep Detains 10 Suspects In 3 Nations
Israeli Referendum Bill Could Hinder Peace Moves (obstruct, lie, obstruct)
Taliban Leader in Peace Talks Was an Impostor - NYTimes.com (the whole thing was a scam, starting with Bush)
IMF urges Ireland to cut jobless pay, minimum wage | Reuters (they always do; in 2006 the IMF said Ireland was in great shape)


The Plum Line - Left accuses GOP of economic "sabotage" (Republicans are traitors to America)
Beck's upcoming "It's a Wonderful Life" stunt being promoted with lies | Media Matters for America (lies? no kidding!)
Roland Burris May Join Chicago Mayor's Race - NYTimes.com
Nice Timing: New York Times Investigation Of Incoming GOP Senator Drops After Elections (as usual, making sure crooks get elected)
instaputz: Um... Sally Quinn, Queen of the Villagers loves Bristol Palin and doesn't think conservative Christians would cheat
Introducing the Hack 30 - War Room - Salon.com

GOP Wants 'Rigorous' Oversight Of Consumer Agency
Yglesias » Suck on This (Ol' flathead wants France and Germany to give up their socialism because, well, because lots of exports are bad! or something)
Wall Street: Goldman Shares Slide 3% on Insider Trading Fears - CNBC amid investor fears the bank may be embroiled in a far-reaching insider trading probe by the U.S. Department of Justice (might get a slap on the wrist because Obama doesn't want to hurt investor confidence)


Don't like Chertoff's Porno Scans or Punitive Groping? Buy Chertoff's new Verified Bio ID for $179 and skip the lines! | MyFDL (Israeli-American makes huge profit from American fear he helped create)
Body scanner makers doubled lobbying cash over 5 years - USATODAY.com
Passenger Chooses Strip-Down Over Pat-Down | NBC San Diego (woman filming with phone is arrested)
TSA workers face verbal abuse from travelers - todaytravel - TODAYshow.com

Tux Life: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Expose A Bro: Thomas "Pat" Bohannan is the middle-aged sexual predator behind "Alexa di Carlo". Bohannan is also known as "Matt" when he scams escorts, and "Caitlain" when he flirts with minors on teen forums and solicits nude pics from them Thomas "Pat" Bohannan is the middle-aged sexual predator behind "Alexa di Carlo".
Expose A Bro (ExposingAlexa) on Twitter


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Twitter / WikiLeaks: Next release is 7x the siz ... Next release is 7x the size of the Iraq War Logs. intense pressure over it for months (the reason for Sweden cooperating with the CIA)
Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett: Assange Beseiged (case looking a very sketchy, "victim" saw rape accusations as a "weapon of the matriarchy", has CIA connections, in Sweden, women can retroactivy remove consent for intercourse, hmmmm)
Progressive Alaska: The Strangest Blog Thread Yet on the Swedish Charges, uh - Not Charges - Against Julian Assange - 7 Steps to Legal Revenge by Anna Ardin January 19, 2010 (the "victim" blogged about her plan)
TwitLonger: Press release by counsel for Julian Assange LONDON, 2pm Thursday November 18, 2010 Mark Stephens o
Israeli soldiers who used Palestinian boy, 9, as a human shield avoid jail | World news | The Guardian (IDF is always accountability-free)

The Two Most Essential, Abhorrent, Intolerable Lies Of George W. Bush's Memoir (looking forward)
Pentagon Warns Congress To Hurry Up On DADT Repeal (Obama signals tepid support, Republicans say go to hell)
Isarithmic History of the Two-Party Vote « David B. Sparks

Executive Ballsmanship | Politics & Media | SPLICETODAY.com
Will the GOP 'Shut Down' the Government in 2011? | The Atlantic Wire (led by Louie "Gumball" Gohmert)
Jim DeMint still battling to keep Murkowski from Senate | McClatchy Beyond its political intrigue, the DeMint-Murkowski tussle reveals the deeper ideological struggle within the Republican Party between hard-liners unwilling to bend their principles and moderates who say governing requires compromise.
Angle's campaign sank candidate - Shira Toeplitz - politico.com - . “If they were filming a sequel to the movie 'Dumb and Dumber,' Terry Campbell would have a feature role.”
GOP Bias In Landline-Only Polls, Confirms Pew Research

Eschaton - Insolvent (quick review in case you fell asleep the past three years)
Wall Street, investment bankers, and social good : The New Yorker What Good Is Wall Street? Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless.
US Banks Face $100 Billion Capital Shortfall - CNBC The top 35 US banks will be short of between $100 billion and $150 billion in equity capital after the new Basel III global bank regulations are imposed, with 90 percent of the shortfall concentrated in the biggest six banks, according to Barclays Capital.
The underwhelming Irish bailout | Analysis & Opinion | Color me underwhelmed by the Irish bailout. By all accounts it’s going to be less than €100 billion — probably in the €80 billion to €90 billion range — and that sum has to cover the country’s entire borrowing needs for the next three years (three days ago it was less than 25 billion dollars, not euros)
What $200,000 in Student Debt Looks Like
Foreclosure mess scares off homebuyers: Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance « HousingWire

TSA airport screeners gone wild in San Diego- again - Examiner.com (also, recording them is a federal crime)
TSA Pats Down Little, Half-Naked Boy In Airport (video)

Congressional Report Denying Climate Change Was Likely Plagiarized | TPMMuckraker The report was requested, and then often quoted, by Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) when he was chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Hold the phone: Prolonged cell use can trigger allergic reaction, as can body piercing, tattoos and cosmetics
Incredible Pics from ISS by NASA astronaut Wheelock | triggerpit.com
Epilepsy’s Big, Fat Miracle - NYTimes.com

What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones? | Mother Jones — Aiyana Stanley-Jones, pictured in family photograph. A nighttime raid. A reality TV crew. A sleeping seven-year-old. What one tragedy can teach us about the unraveling of America's middle class (she was reaching for a weapon)

Why reality TV works | Television & radio | The Observer
A Vegan No More | Voracious (ex-vegan who discovered she needed B12 threatened by peace-loving vegans)
Polygamy reference case could open door to legalizing multiple marriage
Court to decide if polygamy laws conflict with rights charter | Holy Post | National Post
Aish Hatorah is now offering the same Torah as the Kabbalah Centre | The Book of Doctrines and Opinions:

Another Hacker’s Laptop, Cellphones Searched at Border | Threat Level | Wired.com - . Under the Obama administration, law enforcement agents have aggressively used this power to search travelers’ laptops, sometimes copying the hard drive before returning the computer to its owner. Courts have ruled that such laptop searches can take place even in the absence of any reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.

Novell Agrees to be Acquired by Attachmate Corporation (Microsoft gets their patents)
Sources: FCC chief to move on net neutrality proposal - Kim Hart - politico.com (but Obama will get his China-like internets)
Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web | Technology | guardian.co.uk Founder of world wide web says some of the most successful social networking sites 'have begun to chip away at its principles' (the rise of AOL Hometown)

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Ireland Applying For Bailout From European Union, IMF - But the loan request – described by Brian Lenihan only as "very big" – is also a humiliating turnaround for the Irish government, which only days ago had denied that such a package was being negotiated or was even necessary (surrender)
North Korea Nuclear Facility Disclosed: Rogue State Shows Off Building To U.S. Nuke Scientist
BBC News - Berlusconi ally 'was link to Mafia'

BBC News - Wikileaks' Assange faces international arrest warrant Sweden has issued an international arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a rape case (CIA closing in)

FDR, Reagan, and Obama - NYTimes.com Once you got past the soaring rhetoric you noticed, if you actually paid attention to what he said, that he largely accepted the conservative storyline, a view of the world, including a mythological history, that bears little resemblance to the facts (Obama looked in the mirror and saw a center-right nation, but where did he get his far-right talking points?)
Rick Perry Insists Social Security Is Worse Than A Ponzi Scheme, Auto Bailout Was A Failure (they live in their own fact-free world)
A Fox News Fairy Tale: Sarah Palin Will Clean Obama’s Clock in 2012

Deposition: Countrywide Never Sent Mortgage Notes to Trust; Mortgage-Backed Securities in Question | FDL News Desk
Flawed Mortgage Papers May Pose Economic Risk, Panel Says - NYTimes.com yes, in fact, these paperwork problems may have significant implications for banks, investors and the stability of the financial system.
Global Economic Crisis » Blog Archive » U.S. Foreclosure Epidemic Visualized
Food Stamp Map (video): Usage Increased Almost 60% Since 2007 (slackers and free-loaders)


Update: TSA Will Work To Make Pat-Downs Less Invasive, John Pistole Says
TSA Has Met the Enemy _ and They Are Us - NYTimes.com "I think at some point Americans said to themselves, maybe in their collective subconscious...there's a line here where it's not just worth it anymore," he said. "There's a growing sense that that line has been crossed."
Al-Qaida Bomb Plans Published On Web Site: Editors Boast About $4,200 Cost Of Attack (very cost-effective)
TSA At The 'Tipping Point': Passenger Anger At Airport Pat-Downs Threatens To Boil Over the most surprising thing about increasingly heated frustration with the federal Transportation Security Administration may be that it took so long to boil over.
Clinton: We Need To 'Strike The Right Balance' With TSA Patdowns "Not if I could avoid it. No. I mean who would?" she told CBS' "Face the Nation"
TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine - Travel - News - msnbc.com
The TSA's New Security Procedures Touch a Nerve - Media - GOOD

The High Is Always the Pain and the Pain Is Always the High by Jay Kang - The Morning News - Gambling addiction is a simple disease. Living the addiction is a bit more complicated. A chronicle of dependency in seven parts


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Classic Messaging Fail | Talking Points Memo (Obama still triangulating with himself)
The Netherlands planned U.S.-supported invasion of Suriname in 1986
New Afghan war plans could cost US taxpayers an extra $125 billion - CSMonitor.com At the NATO summit, President Obama's push to soften troop withdrawal deadlines could bring remaining war costs to $413 billion, according to one independent analyst (Obama's big war, so we'll have to dump Social Security to pay for it and tax breaks for the rich)
Uniform burning ‘exorcism’ of memory of Russell Williams - The Globe and Mail
Pope approves use of condoms in fight against Aids - Telegraph After decades of fierce opposition to the use of all contraception, the pontiff will end the Catholic Church's absolute ban on the use of condoms (now approved for use by male prostitutes)

Alberto Gonzales: My Book Will 'Set The Record Straight' | TPMMuckraker
hindsight is always 20/20 - the text of individual State of the Union addresses from each presidency, sorting the words according to frequency of use, to generate a Snellen eye chart for each President.
Compromise on Social Security and Medicare? Why My Center-Left Friends are Wrong | MyFDL

Bi-Monthly Slurpees - Swampland - TIME.com Brookings scholar and congressional expert Thomas Mann told me. “Republicans are determined to defeat Obama in 2012; they have no interest in negotiating with him in order to provide him any sort of victory. This is a partisan war and the Republicans are playing to win. The only question is how long it will take Obama to accept this reality and act accordingly.” (that'll be the day ...)
Less Than Half The Nation Knows That GOP Took Back The House: Pew Poll
Chamber's Anti Health Care Advocacy Financed By Insurers, Big-Dollar Contributions | TPMDC In 2009, a single $86.2 million contribution from the health insurance industry's largest trade association, AHIP, accounted for almost half of the Chamber of Commerce's total contributions.
FEC Dismisses Complaint Against Ensign For Parents' Payment To Mistress | TPMMuckraker
Kentucky Stomper's Attorney: Tape Shows 'My Client Is Justified' (VIDEO) | TPMDC
The Dumb Social Security Ad Sharron Angle Never Aired (not dumb enough)
The Washington Monthly - None Dare Call It Sabotage.... Consider a thought experiment. Imagine you actively disliked the United States, and wanted to deliberately undermine its economy. What kind of positions would you take to do the most damage? (Republicans: traitors to America)
The 800-Pound Mama Grizzly Problem - NYTimes.com she literally commands as much of the public’s attention as the President of the United States,
Tea-Partying Like It's 1860 - NYTimes.com

U.S. Preparing Sweeping Insider-Trading Charges: Report
Yglesias » Social Security Trust Fund - Maya MacGuineas spreads more lies
Are the Rich Getting Richer? The Data Say Yes - DailyFinance

Have we found the universe that existed before the Big Bang?
Genome Biology | Full text | A Faustian bargain (SUNY Albany Pres dumps humanities, biologist has to explain Faust to him)
How HIV thwarts the body’s natural defense

Obama calls airport pat-downs frustrating but necessary - Arizona News from USA Today
$11,000 fine, arrest possible for some who refuse airport scans and pat downs - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com - "We have to ensure that each person getting on every flight is secure," Pistole said. (no, you can't opt out: airline ticket to prison)
Which is Worse for Children, the Pat-Down or the Porn Machine? - Jeffrey Goldberg - National - The Atlantic
Pigs Fly. Also, I Agree with Charles Krauthammer - James Fallows - National - The Atlantic
Why Congress Isn't So Concerned With TSA Nude Scans & Gropes: They Get To Skip Them | Techdirt
Bruce Schneier Interview - Security Theater and the TSA - Popular Mechanics

A Vegan No More | Voracious (hysterical vegan finds she needs meat, has nervous breakdown, but survives, writes very long post)
Let Them Eat Meat
Saturated fat prevents coronary artery disease? An American paradox — Am J Clin Nutrian (eat your ice-cream)
Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease — Am J Clin Nutr
What You Will Do On Drugs (Graphic) | I Can Has Internets
Rochester police log - Oct. 13-15 - Fosters - On Winter Street by Fisher fields, two boys battle, neither yields. But a crowd and both the bruisers, disappear before the cruisers.
Police Log | The Arcata Eye
Political Packrat: The Manitoba Herald Goes Viral

The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet | Techdirt (Dems: Leahy, Feinstein, Feingold, Schumer, Durbin, Whitehouse, Franken, Coons: fuck them all)
Stuxnet may be part of Iran atom woes: ex-IAEA aide - Yahoo! News
Whoa, Google, That’s A Pretty Big Security Hole

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Gold and the Periodic Table of the Elements : Planet Money : NPR
The Ghailani verdict and American justice - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com But even had he been acquitted on all counts, the Obama administration had made clear that it would simply continue to imprison him anyway under what it claims is the President's "post-acquittal detention power" (even Bush didn't claim that)
Joe Biden: 2014 Afghanistan Pullout Is 'Drop Dead Date' (which will always be moved)
Study: Few Afghans know of 9/11, reason for war - World news - South and Central Asia - Afghanistan - msnbc.com 92 percent of men in key province are unaware of 2001 attacks on U.S. (well, they should call their cable guy and get Fox)
Matthew Hoh: 110 Months in Afghanistan: How Do You Say Hubris in Russian?
Russia wonders why U.S. would stop START (because Republicans want to reSTART the cold war)
The Soviet Collapse - Grain and Oil

Oliver James | FiveBooks British and American women today are five times more likely to be mentally ill than women in the 1950s. Thatcherism and Reaganomics smashed the family to pieces.
The Challenge of Affluence | Energy Bulletin
File download · Sustainable Development Commission (Avner)

ThinkProgress » Incoming Labor Committee Chair Says Jobless Benefits Aren’t A Priority: ‘We Can’t Fund Everything’ Rep. John Kline (R-MN), pronounced that extending benefits is not a priority for the incoming Republican Congress because “we can’t fund everything.” (you've just been "defunded")
Alan Simpson: Deficit Plan Can Pass After Debt Limit 'Blood Bath' | TPMDC (which one of Obama's advisors advised him to appoint Alan Simpson?)
The Washington Monthly - The Wrong Question At The Wrong Time (yeah, where the fuck is the Jobs Commission?)
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect Messaging Doesn't Matter (unless you don't have anything else))
Grover Norquist: GOP Must Be Willing To Force Government Shutdown In Battle Against Federal Spending
Geoffrey Dunn: Sarah Palin Slams Michelle Obama in Racially Charged Passage From New Book (our next Pres)
Keith Olbermann To Jon Stewart: 'I Told You So!' (VIDEO) One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.
Joe Scarborough Suspended From MSNBC Over Political Donations

Aggressive lobbying defends mortgage-trading system The financial services industry has launched an aggressive campaign on Capitol Hill to bolster the legality of the way companies have turned mortgages into securities and traded them across the globe in recent years (the "legality" of completely illegal behavior)
US companies: Banks Must Pay for Some Mortgage Bond Losses: Ambac - CNBC
Twice bitten? Second Crestone resident claims fraud (someone please foreclose on Wells Fargo)
Unintended Consequences: Raising Retirement Age Could Cause Spike in Disability Payments | FDL News Desk
BBC News - Irish government rules out raising corporation tax the 12.5% rate - much lower than the EU average - was "non-negotiable".
Noose Closing on Ireland « naked capitalism the Irish government had been in the process of trying to steer an inevitable rescue operation towards salvaging its bloated, cancerous banking system rather than a government bailout, which would not only further reduce national sovereignty but also saddle Erin with debt that could not be restructured

The Decline of Marriage And Rise of New Families | Pew Social & Demographic Trends The Class-Based Decline in Marriage. About half (52%) of all adults in this country were married in 2008; back in 1960, seven-in-ten (72%) were (having wiped out the middle class, non-rich people can't afford to have kids)
Is Marriage Irrelevant? (perk for the elite)
Icelanders descended from Native Americans? | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine
BBC - Earth News - Attack of the rats The local farmers call it a flood; an inundation that happens every 50 years.
Gold and the Periodic Table of the Elements : Planet Money : NPR
Stephen Law: Plantinga discussion recorded - podcast available this Saturday
Are Alvin Plantinga and his frog on to something? - Premier Christian Community

Cancer survivor forced to show prosthetic breast to TSA agents during airport pat-down | Mail Online
TSA Gone Wild (Infographic) | Fork Party
Airport Full-Body Scanners Safe, Government Says - AOL Health

John F Kennedy’s dirty road to the White House - Telegraph Jack Kennedy won the presidency with the help of large amounts of cash – and a liberal number of lies, says Andrew Marr.
Dancing on Temple Tops · The Cat’s Meow
What it's like to have sex with someone with Asperger's | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist
The Case of the Vanishing Blonde | Culture | Vanity Fair
How Psychopaths Choose Their Victims | Psychology Today
Europe Map Video Shows Changing Borders, '10 Centuries In 5 Minutes' (video)

Senator Threatens to Block Online Copyright Bill - PCWorld Business Center Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said late Thursday that he would seek to block the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, or COICA, from passing through the full Senate, unless the legislation is changed
Long Live the Web: Scientific American The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending
4chan Censors Itself

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In Protest - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Airport stops Germany-bound suspected bomb - World news - Africa - msnbc.com 'Batteries, cables and similar things were found' in parcel, officials say (or something with wires)
India Microcredit Sector Faces Collapse From Defaults - NYTimes.com
Arrest warrant issued for WikiLeaks founder - The Local A Swedish court on Thursday issued a warrant for the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on suspicions of rape and sexual molestation (CIA is at it again)
Israel Palestine Conflict | Peace Process | West Bank Israel delays vote on new settlement freeze, part of US deal to jump start peace talks (no deal, but they'll get their free fighter jets)
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: Mr Pink, Mr White And Bottom - the Americans and the British striding into the fairy wood only to find themselves spun around so much by the Afghans that they do not know who is the enemy and who is a friend any longer. And they come out with a donkey's head. But on the way they kill 90 innocent people.

Poll: 'Sea Change' In Support For Gays In The Military | TPMDC

Republicans Attack Obama Administration Over Terror Trial Outcome | TPMMuckraker It signals weakness in a time of war." (no one innocent "in a time of war")
ThinkProgress » New Report Reveals Health Insurance Industry Pumped $86 Million Into The U.S. Chamber To Kill Reform (remember, Obama pre-triangulated with the insurance cos and in return they promised not to work against reform: rolled again! +just look at Karen Igagni) ("health insurers posted a 22 percent increase in profits for 2010, largely by shedding customers")
Roger Ailes: NPR Run By 'Nazis,' Jon Stewart 'Crazy' (straight from Satan's Mouth)
Leo Berman, Texas State Legislator, Introduces 'Birther' Bill more than a quarter of respondents said that the president was either "definitely" or "probably not" born in the United States (hard-core crazies)
Senator Rockefeller Wants FCC To 'End' Fox News, MSNBC (because they are the same)
Congressional Members' Personal Wealth Expands Despite Sour National Economy - OpenSecrets Blog | OpenSecrets
Palin’s daughter uses homophobic slurs to attack critic on Facebook | Raw Story (trailer trash)
The Tea Party Targets... Sustainable Development? | Mother Jones (and reason)
The Washington Monthly - Believing What They'Re Told To Believe - Disbelief in global warming in the GOP is a recent occurrence. Just a few years ago, in 2007, a 62%-majority of Republicans said there is solid evidence of global warming, while less than a third (31%) said there is no solid evidence (Rush and Fox control their minds)
Fox News Pundits Unafraid To Attack Palin . . . During Off-Air Commercial Break | TPM LiveWire but for reporters Judith Miller and Liz Trotta to be caught in this clip laughing dismissively of Palin (yes, that Judith Miller, they always take care of their own)

Federal Budget Statistics - Esquire Commission to Balance the Federal Budget - Esquire
Foreclosure Fraud Hearings Update: Just 21 Second-Lien Mods in HAMP | FDL News Desk Out of 495,000 permanent HAMP modifications. That’s absolutely crazy.
Treasury Admits It Hasn't Fined Banks For Failing To Comply With Mortgage Modification Program (no consequences ever for bankers)

CERN Press Release - Antimatter atoms produced and trapped
New Vision Online : 13 dead, as strange disease spreads “We were suspecting viral hemorrhagic infection, but results from Uganda Virus Research Institute have ruled out Ebola, Marburg and Lassa,”
Medical Errors Kill 15,000 Medicare Patients a Month - AOL Health (death panels)
McLean Hospital | News & Information : Press Releases McLean Study Shows Greater Cognitive Deficits in Marijuana Users Who Start Young
SPACE.com -- First Alien Planet From Another Galaxy Discovered

Sanford Airport to opt out of TSA screening - WDBO
Introducing the American Traveler Dignity Act (freedom from groping act)
Dave Barry's Blog: Groin Update
TSA - Denver - Photo - Junk Grab | Mediaite
Video of TSA Screener Accosting 3 Year Old Child at Security Checkpoint
BlogPost - Revolt against TSA: Ban the body scanner?
Protests Mount Over Safety And Privacy Of Airport Scanners : Shots - Health News Blog : NPR

Republican Push To Defund NPR Fails (they want everyone gone but Fox)
As the Plains Burn. ... SEC Football - TigerDroppings.com
Grandma's Superhero Therapy (18 photos) - My Modern Metropolis | index
Tom Shadyac: Life begins after you give away your Hollywood toys | The Big Picture | Los Angeles Times
The Pragmatist - The Tools You Really Need to Maintain Your Home - NYTimes.com
'We felt like moving targets' - Times Union
Is OpenTable Worth it? | Incanto

US Senate panel passes bill against piracy websites | Reuters Bill would give U.S. new power against foreign websites * Critics have called bill "Internet censorship" (Obama sells out to big content)
Tumbl.in Is StumbleUpon For Twitter
20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web

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Ahmed Ghailani, Guantanamo Bay Detainee, Acquitted Of All But 1 Charge In New York (our global war on terror is a projection)
Acquittal on All but One Charge for Ghailani, Ex-Detainee - NYTimes.com
NATO: Combat Role In Afghanistan Could Pass 2014 (16..18..20..22..)
NATO Destroys Booby-Trapped Homes in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com (hundreds, probably thousands, of home they "say" are booby-trapped)
Websites publish advice to student protesters on how to avoid arrest | Education | The Guardian Police act to close down anti-authority blog Fitwatch on grounds of 'criminal' activities - More than 70 websites today published guidance to student protesters about avoiding arrest, in defiance of a police ruling that doing so was unlawful

Democrats Pushing For Nuclear Treaty Vote Despite Setback By GOP (the party of fuck you)
Republicans Stall the START Treaty And Dream of More Deficit Spending

Tea Partiers: The Most Oppressed Minority? | Mother Jones Three-quarters of them also believe that their God has granted the U.S. a special role in the world, a view that makes them much more inclined than other Americans to say that torture is justified in some cases.
The White House, Chamber Of Commerce Attempt Rapprochement (Obama sucks up to far-right Republicans)
Health Insurers Paid U.S. Chamber $86.2 Million to Oppose Health-Care Law - Bloomberg
Second Group Of Deficit Hawks Calls For Regressive National Sales Tax (so predictable: tax the poor, eliminate the middle class, and give tax breaks to the rich is their new plan)
Tapped Archive | The American Prospect | The Candidate of Resentment (Sarah Palin: Americans' favorite whiny victim)
Roger Ailes: Obama A Far-Left Socialist (straight from the Mouth of Satan)
'The Daily Show' Takes On The Nanny State (video)
Daily Kos: Republican fiscal hawks avoid Appropriations Committee like the plague
Bryan Fischer: We've 'Feminized' Medal Of Honor By Not Giving It To Soldiers Who Kill More People | TPMMuckraker (there is nothing they won't say and nothing they won't atack)

Reed, Casey Seek One-Year Extension of Unemployment Benefits | FDL News Desk
Liveblog: Senate Banking Committee Hearing on Foreclosure Fraud | FDL News Desk
FDIC conducting 50 investigations at failed banks: report - CNBC (completely corrupt system)
Pretty Good for Government Work - NYTimes.com (rich guy supports bailing out rich guys)
Eschaton: Broke The Contract - As for the bailout, HAMP was what the administration offered to get people on board with authorizing the second half of the TARP funds. HAMP was supposed to help the little guy, not rich people. HAMP became a government blessed predatory lending system.
Dem Senators Want Major Changes to HAMP | FDL News Desk (you really wonder what they were thinking when they designed HAMP)
In California, Schwarzenegger Leaves New Deficit to Brown - NYTimes.com (the destruction left by Aahnold)

Weird Natural Remedies We Use Today | Health Secret,Care, Tips and much more... Curing leg cramps by going to sleep with soap is one such remedy.
Earth as Art: Stunning New Images From Space | Wired Science | Wired.com
US scientists significantly more likely to publish fake research, study finds (leading the world in fake research)

Taiwanese Animators Take On TSA Patdowns
YouTube - New Jersey Legislators Take on the TSA ("when you buy an airplane ticket, you don't give up your Constitutional rights ... enough is enough")

Is it raining in your city?
Setup Instructions : Google Sync - Google Mobile Help
Apple is number one danger to Internet freedom, says Columbia professor - Computerworld Blogs (after Obama)
A number of reddit users have reported finding the cycbot.b virus on their Windows systems. : announcements
how do i remove Backdoor:Win32/Cycbot.B

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Ireland Debt Crisis: Contagion Fears Loom Over EU Meeting
Women in the Netherlands work less, have lesser titles and a big gender pay gap, and they love it. - By Jessica Olien - Slate Magazine Women in the Netherlands work less, have lesser titles and a big gender pay gap, and they love it.
Why Dutch women work part-time | vox

Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » Now's the Time to Hold President Bush Accountable for Torture (but we'd have to look backwards, and that's not going to happen)

Yglesias » Obama’s Obsessive Focus (he was focused on "policy" instead of "politics" and got "policy" horribly wrong -- trapped in his own delusions)
Keith Olbermann Fires Back At Ted Koppel Over Objectivity, 'Real News' The journalism failed, and those who practiced it failed, and Mr. Koppel failed
The Washington Monthly - House Republican Wants His Government-Subsidized Health Care Now - Andy Harris is a newly-elected far-right congressman from Maryland (who ran against health care reform because it was socialistic)
Charles Rangel GUILTY: Convicted By House Ethics Panel Of 11 Charges (sleezeball)
Tina Fey's Sarah Palin Joke Cut From Mark Twain Prize Speech (PBS censored un-Republican comments)
Chicago Cubs Owners Rail Against Gov't Spending While Asking Taxpayers For $300 Million To Renovate Wrigley Field (hypocrisy, thy name is Republicans)

Merchants of Misery - NYTimes.com And the silence from conservative economists who know better is deafening. Greg? Marty? Anyone? (Republican "economists" - what a joke)
Mortgage Trouble - US Foreclosure Mess Impact Could Be Severe: Panel - CNBC
Congressional Oversight Panel Report Highlights Systemic Risk of Foreclosure Fraud | FDL News Desk (here comes the third wave of banker bailouts ... nice "policy", Obama)
'Robo-Signer' Foreclosure Scandal May Threaten Fundamental Financial Stability, Government Watchdog Warns
Just When You Thought You Knew Something About Mortgage Securitizations | zero hedge
GOP Wants To Strip Fed Of Power To Combat Joblessness (Republicans at work stopping anything that will help America)

Hubble Ultra Deep Field 3D

Hearings - U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation
Amid airport anger, GOP takes aim at screening | Washington Examiner
The 'Israelification' of airports: High security, little bother - thestar.com
100 Body Scans From Security Checkpoint Leaked (but this was never supposed to happen ... Total Sexual Assault at work)

Who's subsidizing whom? Varney's crusade on CA reverses reality | Media Matters for America
How Rep. Louie 'Terror Babies' Gohmert Got A College Art Director Fired | TPMMuckraker
Law enforcement guide to satanic cults (VHS tape, 1994) [WorldCat.org]
YouTube - The Victim's Body - what you find on a dead body killed by Satanic Abuse (now known as complete bullshit made up by cops and DA's)

You must be kidding, Facebook: "Incoming message will be placed in one of three folders - one for friends, another for things like bank statements and a junk folder for messages people do not want to see." Hell will freeze over before Facebook sees my bank statements. : reddit.com
The Java crisis: what are Oracle, IBM, Google and Apache fighting over? | Technology | guardian.co.uk IBM's decision to abandon the open source Harmony project just as Oracle is suing Google could have big implications for Java
The Digital Disruption: Connectivity and the Diffusion of Power | iRevolution

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Ireland, Greece Sink Further Into Debt After Austerity Measures | FDL News Desk - There are proofs of Keynesianism virtually all over the map. And yet the world has largely taken the wrong lessons. (who could have predicted they'd get it wrong again?)
Ireland: The Rise & the Crash by Ian Jack | The New York Review of Books (paywall, but you get the picture)
Second squadron of F-35s is ‘an offer hard to refuse’ Under the offer made to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during his meeting last week with US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, Israel would receive a second, free squadron of the advanced fighter jet if it agrees to impose a three-month freeze on settlement construction.
Cantor Spox Clarifies 'Check' Comments GOPer Made To Netanyahu | TPMDC He made clear that the Republican majority understands the special relationship between Israel and the United States, and that the security of each nation is reliant upon the other (America not safe without Israel protecting it)
PressTV - Settlers torch West Bank olive trees (Jewish terrorists)
George W. Bush can’t fight for freedom and authorise torture - Telegraph If the West’s aim is to spread the rule of law, it cannot be achieved by vile means, argues Boris Johnson.


Tapped Archive | The American Prospect On Not Creating Your Own Reality (Obama and his idiot team of advisors couldn't make their own tax-cut plan)
Pensito Review » GOP Tax Plan Costs $36.6 Bil More Than Dems’ – Swing Voters, You’ve Been Had
James Bonard Fowler Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter In Death That Sparked Selma March A white former state trooper pleaded guilty Monday to a lesser charge in the 1965 shooting death of a black man at a civil rights protest, a killing that inspired historic voting rights marches.
MSNBC President Phil Griffin Threatened To Fire Keith Olbermann (Griffen needs to be fired +Tom Brokaw is stupid)
John Ensign Secured Earmark Nearing $1 Million From Health Care Reform He Opposed
YouTube - Keynote Address: "The Tea Parties Now"
Complaint filed in Election Night robocall - baltimoresun.com The state attorney general's office is seeking millions of dollars in fines from a political consultant who sent out an election night "robocall" to thousands of Marylanders suggesting that they "relax" because the race was over, even though polls were still open.

YouTube - Mario Savio Memorial Lecture - Elizabeth Warren (starts when she really gets going)
YouTube - Mario Savio Memorial Lecture - Elizabeth Warren (starts at Q&A)
Elizabeth Warren Mario Savio Lecture - Grasping Reality with Both Hands
FT Alphaville » Kauffman: ETFs are the problem, not HFT Finally, a report that dares to outline the previously-taboo: Exchange-Traded Funds may pose a greater systemic threat to markets than high-frequency, or algorithmic, trading.
Kid Dynamite's World: An ETF Lesson - Part I
David Leonhardt, Please Shut Up | TPMCafe (your NYT at work)
A Deficit-Reduction Plan Rife With Problems - TheFiscalTimes.com (the stupdity commission)
Dean Baker: Action on Social Security: The Urgent Need for Delay
Yglesias » Medicare After Obama

Allergy Expert Says Peanut Bans Are An Overreaction To Food Allergies : Shots - Health News Blog : NPR
Nimby Rears Its Head Against Wind Power Project - NYTimes.com
Thermodynamics of hell - Encyclopedia of Humanthermodynamics
Cessation thermodynamics - Encyclopedia of Humanthermodynamics
21 Grams › Dr Karl's Great Moments In Science (ABC Science) "They say that we all lose 21 grams at the exact moment of death".
Hybrid batteries tease big energy capacity while charging in seconds -- Engadget

War Tard: Are 'terrorists' more dangerous than how we react to them?
Full Frontal Nudity Doesn’t Make Us Safer: Abolish the TSA - Art Carden - The Economic Imagination - Forbes
Our Little Chatterboxes: TSA - Total Sexual Assault (only perverts need apply)
YouTube - Fmr Asst TSA Admin - checkpoints violate 4th amendment (and tough shit)
Top Cop: You're Arrested For Videotaping Us | New Haven Independent

The Shadow Scholar - The Chronicle Review
Humanist Groups Aim to Push Back at 'Bible-Derived Morality' | The Atlantic Wire
Gay Michigan student defends suspended teacher - Yahoo! News

New Copyright Bill Bears Problems: Concerns with S.3804, the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) | Public Knowledge (Bush vetoed this as too extreme, Obama and the Dems pushing it through)
Obama Comes Out Against Censoring The Internet; Will He Veto Leahy/Hatch Censorship Bill? | Techdirt (no, that's why he appointed 5 RIAA lawyers to the Justice Dept.)
COICA Fact Sheet | Stop the Internet Blacklist! | Demand Progress The bill creates a blacklists of Internet domain names which the Attorney General can add to with a court order. Internet service providers, financial transaction providers, and online ad vendors (everyone from Comcast to PayPal to Google AdSense) would be required to block any domains on the list.

MeeGo May Have a Future Afterall; Nokia to Get ‘Engineering Expertise’ from AMD - DeviceMAG
Official Google Blog: What does the future of display advertising look like?

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Karzai: U.S. Should Reduce Intensity, Stop Night Raids In Afghan War (and get the fuck out, but leave your money)
Flawed projects prove costly for Afghanistan, U.S. | McClatchy (but not for you know who)
Germany and Bayern star Mario Gomez urges gay footballers to go public | Football | The Guardian Striker breaks ranks with German football federation, who had warned that coming out could destroy a player's career
Unemployed claimants to face loss of benefits for refusing work | Politics | The Guardian Severe welfare shakeup will introduce claimant contract with up to three years' benefits penalty for refusing a job (UK: eat shit and be happy)

Cantor Pre-Empts Clinton - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan He sides with the leader of a foreign country against the president of the US on an issue of great diplomatic significance. Cantor, of course, directly supports Israel's continued occupation and colonization of the West Bank and uncontrolled settlement construction (now ok to undermine President's foreign policy during "wartime")
NYT Releases Unredacted Report on “U.S. Aid for Ex-Nazis” | MyFDL The Justice Department has resisted making the report public since 2006.” A “heavily redacted” version was released last month to the private National Security Archive (NSA), and now a leaked version of the entire document has been released to the public (they'll coverup for sixty years)

Obama Without Tears | The Nation - "First he was rolled by the bankers, then he was rolled by the generals, then he was rolled by the Blue Dogs and other Democrats who had no interest in going along with what he proposed." (can a man who has always tried to fit in, and never led anything, learn to lead? or fight for anything?)
David Axelrod Leaving White House In First Half Of 2011 (primary architect of Obama's failure, with Larry Summers, of course)
The Washington Monthly - White House Ponders, What Now? (lurch to the right? they have no clue what happened to them)
'Soul-searching' Obama aides: Democrats' midterm election losses a wake-up call they think he must forge partnerships with Republicans on key issues and make noticeable progress on his oft-repeated campaign pledge to change the ways of Washington (well, that's what Kaplan Test Prep thinks, anyway)
Anis Shivani: Bush's 'Decision Points' Is A Terrifying Journey Into the Authoritarian Mind (and the stupidity of the American people)
Heath Shuler: If Nancy Pelosi Runs I'll Challenge Her, And Lose (Blue-Dog losers on the march)
CBS News Poll: 11/11/10 - CBS News
Antichoicers on the March When the 112th Congress convenes in January it will have at least fifty-three additional antichoice Republicans in the House and five in the Senate. Some of the newcomers are particularly extreme (no birth-control for you: American Taliban at work)
Most of Rand Paul's individual donors lived outside Kentucky | McClatchy (outside agitators)
Social Security Judges Face Violent Threats (wait 'til the Republicans cut off everything else)

O.K., You Fix the Budget - NYTimes.com (Times unaware that 25 million people aren't working as a result of experts making billions off the housing bubble that destroyed the economy, confuses "Medicare" with health care costs, which are most of the long-term deficit)
IMF expert warns Lenihan to 'seek bailout now' - Independent.ie - Simon Johnson
Why The Left Is Wrong About The Deficit Commission | The New Republic (Chait: Obama should cooperate more with Republicans)
Tapped Archive | The American Prospect First, a plurality of Americans already prioritize further stimulus spending. Second, the public don't care at all about the deficit as a priority. Economic boom = political boon, full stop.
It Does Not Seem to Me That Charles Ferguson Has Gotten It Right... - Grasping Reality with Both Hands

Extreme global warming in the ancient past
Daily Kos: It's only natural - in a two hour period on the afternoon of April 3, 1974, at least six F5 storms were spawned across the Midwest. Just before 5PM, one of these storms plowed through the city of Xenia, Ohio.

Louisiana Alert: Family Forum Is Targeting The Science Curriculum « The Wall of Separation
News flash: Deadly terrorism existed before 9/11 - Ask the Pilot - Salon.com We've been dealing with the same threats for decades. But we used to be a lot calmer about it, less self-defeating
: TSA encounter at SAN (molestation now standard TSA procedure)

Top 48 ads that would never be allowed today » Article » OWNI.eu, Digital Journalism


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'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Discharges Can Continue For Now, Supreme Court Rules

BBC News - Burma releases pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi
BBC News - Ireland 'in preliminary talks with EU on bailout' (next?)
Transparency International: Some Amazing Facts about Corruption Unveiled. | Light of Peace

The Blasé Mandate - NYTimes.com
House Democrats Avert Leadership Struggle By Accommodating Steny Hoyer & James Clyburn (Blue-Dogs lose big, so they win!)
John Shimkus, GOP Rep. Who Denies Climate Change On Religious Grounds, Could Lead House Environmental Policy
Sarah Palin's Unfavorability Numbers Hit New High, Survey Finds
The Washington Monthly: If it's Sunday, must be John McCain and Harold Ford on your teevee
"As close as I've heard on mainstream television to fascism" | Media Matters for America Writing for The Daily Beast, Michelle Goldberg described Beck's anti-Soros programs as "shocking, even by Beck's degraded standards" (whoaa, American Taliban?)
Study: 100,000 Hispanics Have Left Arizona - CBS News Since Immigration Law Passed
Ted Koppel: Olbermann, O'Reilly and the death of real news (Koppel always was an idiot who can't tell the difference between facts and crazy lies)
Ted Koppel “Natural Fit” at NPR News and Longtime Booster of Henry Kissinger (always has been a crypto-conservative shit)
Obvious Truth No.1: Fox News is Republican Propaganda | Republican Dirty Tricks

Comparing Democratic and Republican tax plans (Republican deficit reduction plan: big tax cuts for the rich!)
Are Obama and Congress Set To Screw American Counties, Homeowners and Give Wall Street Mortgage Banksters a Retroactive Immunity Bailout? | Emptywheel (what do you think?)
Goldman Sachs’s Tax Rate Drops to 1%, or $14 Million (Update1) - Bloomberg
Postal Service Lost $8.5 Billion Last Year Despite Deep Cuts
Wells Fargo 'Nightmare' For Homeowner Applying For Help Under Administration's Anti-Foreclosure Program t's a familiar nightmare to many lured by HAMP's promise of reduced monthly payments (Obama's program designed to protect bankers and screw homeowners stupid enough to try to use it)
G20: Profound And Complete Disappointment For The US Treasury « The Baseline Scenario It is hard to imagine how the summit could have gone any worse for the US Treasury and the president (another complete fail)

Scientists developing 30-second Alzheimer's screening test - Telegraph which could allow doctors to identify sufferers decades before they show symptoms.
The New Neurobiology of Severe Psychiatric Disorders and Its Implications for Laws Governing Involuntary Commitment and Treatment by E Fuller Torrey, Ken Kressy (disasterous wrong assumptions about severe mental illness and involuntary committment)

National Opt-Out Day - James Fallows - National - The Atlantic Items on security, security theater, a proper climate of caution, and an excessive climate of fear:
National Opt-Out Day Called Against Invasive Body Scanners | Threat Level | Wired.com
YouTube - TSA Screener Accosts 3 Year Old Child at Security Checkpoint

Dirty Coal, Clean Future - Magazine - The Atlantic
Texas Observer Exclusive: DNA Tests Undermine Evidence in Texas Execution - The Texas Observer New results show Claude Jones was put to death on flawed evidence (Bush: "we never executed an innocent person")
YouTube - Ark Hotel Construction time lapse building 15 storeys in 2 days
The Cliche Family in Televisionland | Basket of Kisses
James Frey’s Fiction Factory The controversial author is hiring young writers to join him in a new publishing company. The goal is to produce the next Twilight. The contracts are brutal.
YouTube - Borderline Personality Disorder
Tom Lubbock: a memoir of living with a brain tumour | Books | The Observer , language has been his life and his livelihood. But in 2008, he developed a lethal brain tumour and was told he would slowly lose control over speech and writing. This is his account of what happens when words slip away
America: The Grim Truth: Information Clearing House -  ICH You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin.

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Veterans Day: Denouncing The Insanity Of Permanent War | NEWS JUNKIE POST

Lame Duck Session Presents the Perfect Opportunity for Democrat (which they won't use, of course)
Top Palin aide is on Soros' payroll - War Room - Salon.com Revealed: the surprisingly close link between the liberal billionaire and the Republican superstar
Rachel Maddow Show interview w/John Stewart

The Hijacked Commission - NYTimes.com It seemed obvious, as soon as the commission’s membership was announced, that “bipartisanship” would mean what it so often does in Washington: a compromise between the center-right and the hard-right ... this proposal clearly represents a major transfer of income upward, from the middle class to a small minority of wealthy Americans. And what does any of this have to do with deficit reduction? (nothing; +Simpson, long-time hater of SS + Erskine Bowles, Clinton's chief triangulator +incredibly naive Republican Pres)
Get Ready for the Great MERS Whitewash Bill - CNBC (Congress will legalize fraud by big business)
Yglesias » Results, Not Words Alternatively, you could not fix the economy and try to get credit for “cutting the deficit” or some other crap that no one actually gives a shit about, least of all teabaggers or Republicans.

The Insanity Virus | Mental Health | DISCOVER Magazine Schizophrenia has long been blamed on bad genes or even bad parents. Wrong, says a growing group of psychiatrists. The real culprit, they claim, is a virus that lives entwined in every person's DNA.
Is this evidence that we can see the future? - life - 11 November 2010 - New Scientist
Have Scientists Finally Discovered Evidence for Psychic Phenomena?! | Psychology Today New studies show people can anticipate future events.
Back From the Future | Subatomic Particles | DISCOVER Magazine A series of quantum experiments shows that measurements performed in the future can influence the present. Does that mean the universe has a destiny—and the laws of physics pull us inexorably toward our prewritten fate?
SSRN-A Replication of the Procedures from Bem (2010, Study 8) and a Failure to Replicate the Same Results by Jeff Galak, Leif Nelson

‘Too Asian’? - Canada - Macleans.ca Worries that efforts in the U.S. to limit enrollment of Asian students in top universities may migrate to Canada
Pilots and passengers rail at new airport patdowns | Reuters Stepped-up security screening at airports in the wake of foiled terrorism plots has provoked an outcry from airline pilots and travelers, including parents of children who say they are too intrusive.
The Things He Carried - Magazine - The Atlantic Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease.
T&A at the TSA - Washington Times Government screening gets a little too personal
Schneier on Security: Surveillance and Morality
Are Cameras the New Guns? | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty


An Open Letter to Judge Jacqueline Davies
Adventures in Flay-land: Guest Post - Mark Phillips explains how Paul's #TwitterJokeTrial tweet was very clearly a joke.
Heresy Corner: With the Conviction of Paul Chambers, it is now illegal to be English

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Missile Over California: Pentagon, NASA Experts Say Mystery Plume Was Plane (or something)
Russian assassin 'sent to kill double agent who betrayed Anna Chapman' | World news | The Guardian Kremlin reportedly dispatches contract killer to US to pursue 'traitor' colonel, claims reputable Moscow newspaper

Bush's Waterboarding Admission Prompts Calls For Criminal Probe (oh, they could ...)
Nadler: 'Shameful' For Holder To Ignore Bush Waterboarding Admission | TPMMuckraker
Jon Soltz, VoteVets Founder, War Critic, Called Up For Military Service In Iraq

White House Gives In On Bush Tax Cuts (because the deficit is so important)
Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Open Left:: The details are worse (Obama's catfood commission outdid themselves)
Many deficit commission staffers paid by outside groups (paid lobbyists for business/Republican interests, what Obama likes to call "stakeholders" otherwise known as a "stacked deck")
The Plum Line - The Morning Plum White House denies giving in on Bush tax cuts (see below)
Administration Official: "Sebelius Misspoke." - Marc Ambinder - Politics - The Atlantic (Aug 2009: see, we've been down this road before with them)
Deficit panel leaders propose curbs on Social Security, major cuts in spending, tax breaks - "President Obama's bipartisan deficit commission" (Fox: ""Obama Debt Panel Eyes Cutting Social Security, Home Deduction." - he owns this abomination now: what were they thinking?)
Debt Commission Seeks Social Security Cuts and Tax Increases - NYTimes.com (idiots +moving us towards a flat tax)
Bipartisan commission proposes strict budget rules to stabilize U.S. debt
The Gavel » Blog Archive » On the Proposal Released by Co-Chairs of the Fiscal Commission (Pelosi pushes back against Obama's Commission to downgrade Social Security)
Eschaton - The Democratic Party Self-Destruction Act: That's what Bowles and Simpson have submitted
NPR, Corporation For Public Broadcasting Denounce Debt Commission's Recommendations (oh, they just got the memo)

Democrats Pressing Pelosi to Step Aside - time (blue-dog losers at work)

Matt Taibbi: Courts Helping Banks Screw Over Homeowners | Rolling Stone Politics Retired judges are rushing through complex cases to speed foreclosures in Florida
The force-placed insurance scandal | Analysis & Opinion (meanwhile, no commission on bankers)
Cisco Shortfall Shows Wider Risks in Government Cuts - BusinessWeek
YouTube - US-Sino Currency Rap Battle

TSA's Program to Spot Terrorists a $200M Sham? - CBS Evening News - CBS News Gov't Accountability Office Finds Army of Specially Trained "Behavior Detection" Agents Failed to Stop Terrorists
Free Taita Juan On Tuesday, October 19, 2010, indigenous Colombian healer Taita Juan Agreda Chindoy was detained in the Houston International Airport. He was formally arrested by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) for possession of his traditional medicine Ayahuasca. He is now being charged as a federal criminal and is facing up to 20 years in federal prison.
TSA agents singled Meg McLain out for special treatment. They yelled at her, cuffed her to a chair, ripped up her ticket and cal on Vimeo
The TSA Blog: Response to "Female radio host cuffed to chair, ticket ripped up..."
What the U.S. Can Learn from the Dutch About Teen Sex – TIME Healthland

ADL Condemns Glenn Beck For 'Offensive,' 'Horrific' Attacks On George Soros (video)
Yglesias » Kaplan, Inc Over the last decade, Kaplan has moved aggressively into for-profit higher education, acquiring 75 small colleges and starting the huge online Kaplan University - 72 percent of the Post’s customers find that they’re actually unable to repay those taxpayer-subsidized loans (Washington Post = Kaplan Test Prep = For Profit U = Scam)

Buzzblog: Amazon regains senses, pulls pedophile how-to book | Network World
Illadore's House o Crack - Copyright Infringement and Me
Lift a Blogger's Post? But Honestly, Cook's Source, You Can't Do That | BlogHer
Don't Get Cooks-Sourced: What Bloggers Need to Know About Copyright Law | BlogHer
The Cooks Source Scandal: How a Magazine Profits on Theft
Urban Dictionary: Cookssourced
Cooks Source
Who is David Thorne? | SEO Bullshit (a professional asshole with no social skills?)
27bslash6 update: They responded to complaints by distributing Redditors' personal information and threatening them to take down the post : WTF

Hosting Companies The Planet And SoftLayer Complete Merger
Filevo data being held hostage by hosting company - Reddit, please help? : AskReddit
Disgusting service from midphase/softlayer - currently holding data hostage. - Web Hosting Talk
Things You Should Do Immediately After Launching a Website

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Nation & World | White House moves away from 2011 Afghanistan withdrawal timeline | Seattle Times Newspaper (more Bush than Bush)
Obama officials moving away from 2011 Afghan date | McClatchy (as always, six more months)
Waterboarding: call to indict Bush following his memoirs confession - National Foreign Policy | Examiner.com
GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz: 'I'm Not Afraid Of Going After The Bush Administration' With Torture Investigation (video) (but Obama will veto any atempt to look backward)

Obama: new Israel settlements no help to peace | Reuters
Netanyahu Defends Israel Settlements Construction After Obama's Criticism
Are a small number of Slate writers creating news at the expense of abused immigrant women? | Media Matters for America

First Salvo In Social Security Fight: OweNo, A $20 Million Campaign Launched With Bayh, Conrad As Allies (billions for useless wars, sorry, no Social Security for you)
LaHood Threatens to Take HSR Stimulus Money from Ohio, Wisconsin | FDL News Desk (the only Republican in Obama's Cabinet knows how to deal with Republicans)
Midterm elections offer grim omens for Scott Brown’s future - Alexander Burns - politico.com
Chris Christie Skeptical That Global Warming Is Caused By Humans
Compassionate Conservatism, Texas Style • Progressive Nation After more than a decade of conservatism, Texas suddenly finds itself in a $25 billion hole. To address the shortfall, a growing number of Texas Republicans are interested in simply withdrawing from the Medicaid program altogether (and send them to the ER)

slacktivist: Yes, please, let's have hearings on the evidence of climate change

How Republicans and Their Big Business Allies Duped Tens of Millions of Evangelicals into Voting for a Corporate Agenda | | AlterNet The bible-thumping white underclass have given a big boost to the corporate bottom line.
CBC.ca | Ideas | The 2010 CBC Massey Lectures, "Player One: What is to Become of Us"

Question the TSA at your own Risk | We Won't Fly When she asked some question about what they planned to do to her, they flipped out. TSA agents yelled at her, handcuffed her to a chair, ripped up her ticket, called in 12 local Miami cops and finally escorted her out of the airport.
Flight attendants union upset over new pat-down procedures (sexual assault victims can't opt-out)

NYC Marathon Runners on Devour.com - Beautiful time-lapse of the 40,000 runners in this year's New York City Marathon.
Working in the design industry is like being a dirty robot whore (David Thorne deals with another idiot)

All 95 PCCC Net Neutrality Supporters Lost in the Election | The Precursor Blog by Scott Cleland Every single one of the 95 FreePress/PCCC House and Senate candidates that took the www.NetNeutralityProtectors.com pledge: "I believe in protecting net neutrality -- the First Amendment of the Internet," lost in the mid-term elections Tuesday.
Rockmelt Crashes and Burns: Nobody’s Extinguishing The Flames | Techi.com

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Mystery Missile Launch Seen off Calif. Coast - CBS News
Pentagon Has 'No Clue' Who Launched SoCal Missile | NBC San Diego

Waterboarding for dummies - Torture - Salon.com Internal CIA documents reveal a meticulous protocol that was far more brutal than Dick Cheney's "dunk in the water
No charges for destroying CIA interrogation videos - Yahoo! News - ("patriots defending our country")
Assassination in Court, U.S. Argues to Make Legal What It’s Always Done | MyFDL


Volcker Says No Quick Way to Cut US Unemployment - NYTimes.com Volcker's comments come after the U.S. Federal Reserve said last week it would purchase $600 billion in Treasurys in an effort to boost growth and create jobs, cutting unemployment that stands at 9.6 percent (jobs for bankers)

World’s Pilots Reject Naked Body Scanners Over Radiation Danger, Privacy Breach
Professor Loses Weight on Twinkie Diet | Geekosystem

Schneier on Security: Control Fraud It explained how a CEO optimized "his" S&L as a weapon to loot creditors and shareholders. The weapon of choice was accounting fraud.
The Control Fraud Theory | Bizcovering Control fraud theory was developed in the savings and loan debacle. It explained that the person controlling the S&L (typically the CEO) posed a unique risk because he could use it as a weapon.
New Study Links Homophobia with Homosexual Arousal Similarly, while 24% of the nonhomophobic men showed definite tumescence while watching the homosexual video, 54% of the homophobic men did.
Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected - NYTimes.com

Cox fires Andrew Shirvell, says he used state resources in attack on gay student | freep.com | Detroit Free Press Behavior wasn't appropriate, former assistant attorney general is told
Morgan Stanley Hit-And-Run: Plea Deal For Perp 'Far More Punitive' Than What Victim Wants, Says Colorado DA "Felony convictions have some pretty serious job implications for someone in Mr. Erzinger's profession, and that entered into it," Hurlbert told the paper

NYT’s Opinion Pages continue the march toward app-inspired design » Nieman Journalism Lab
Adwords Is Dying and Google Knows It (and they are doing something about it) | Fast Company
Apache declares war on Oracle over Java | ITworld

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Israel artists boycott new theater in settlement
Amanda Knox Indicted On Slander Charges (for defending herself against corrupt Italian "justice")

US attitude to pother eople’s national sovereignty > Americas > Redress Information & Analysis
The Washington Post rebuts The Washington Post's smears of Joe Wilson | Media Matters for America - on page 8 of the Style section. (assholes)

Criticism runs deep for spill commission findings - Yahoo! News - Critics of a presidential commission's preliminary findings that largely supported BP's internal probe of the Gulf oil spill questioned Monday how anyone could suggest money wasn't put ahead of safety in the days before the disaster (where has Obama been on the whole issue?)

US interactive guide: US interactive guide | The Economist

Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect - Standing For Nothing - The Wall Street Journal reports Democrats are ready to cave on DADT in the lame duck
Rep. Spencer Bachus: 'Sarah Palin Cost Us Control Of The Senate'

The Fed - Doing It Again - NYTimes.com - the Pain Caucus — my term for those who have opposed every effort to break out of our economic trap — is going wild.
How Companies Are Bypassing The U.S. High Income-Tax Rate

Climate science: Climate scientists plan campaign against global warming skeptics - latimes.com
GOP climate deniers vie to run House Energy Committee | Grist | half of the more than 100 new Republican Congress members are skeptics on global warming
US Mortgage Delinquencies Edge Up in Third Quarter - CNBC About 457,000 individuals had a foreclosure notation added to their credit reports between July 1 and Sept. 30
Department of "Huh?!" (Structural Unemployment Edition) - Grasping Reality with Both Hands Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? (the self-serving myth of "structural unemployment and the stupidy of our press)

Think Again: Global Aging - By Phillip Longman | Foreign Policy
Marijuana's Memory Paradox - Page 1 - MSN Health & Fitness - Health Topics
Cannabinoids for the treatment of dementia. [Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009] - PubMed result This review finds no evidence that cannabinoids are effective in the improvement of disturbed behaviour in dementia or in the treatment of other symptoms of dementia. M
A Molecular Link Between the Active Component of Marijuana and Alzheimer's Disease Pathology

Alleged hit-and-run driver may not face felony | VailDaily.com When Avon police arrived he was putting a broken side mirror and a bumper in his trunk, court record say.
ThinkProgress » 5th Circuit Rules That High School Cheerleader Is Required To Cheer For Her Alleged Rapist
Incarceration - Wikipedia

College Applications Continue to Increase. When Is Enough Enough? - NYTimes.com
"They Live": Jonathan Lethem explains a cult classic | Slide Show - Salon.com Slide show: The "Motherless Brooklyn" author peels back the many layers of John Carpenter's "They Live"
YouTube - Speedflying in Wengen 2010
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture (really crappy website, Smithsonian)
YouTube - TEDxHouston - Brené Brown
2011 Predictions by Thom Hogan
Guest post: Symbian OS – one of the most successful failures in tech history

Docvert - Microsoft Word to Open Standards [current 4.0 Beta 1]


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Lindsey Graham Makes The Case For Strike On Iran - His remarks stunned many in the audience at the Halifax International Security forum (Obama's go-to Republican +"all options are on the table")
Suu Kyi too hot for Asia's most brutal regime to handle - Asia, World - The Independent Burma's political heroine has spent 15 of the past 20 years under arrest. Now, as the country goes to the polls, her fate hangs in the balanc
Full Haaretz expose / How the state helped right-wing groups settle East Jerusalem - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News the state used a controversial law to transfer East Jerusalem assets to the rightist organizations Elad and Ateret Cohanim without a tender, and at very low prices (oh, what a surprise)
Daily Kos: State of the Nation Now a report by the CIA inspector general finds that the agency has blood on its hands (but no consequences for killing Americans)
AFP: Taliban call on US to send fact-finding team to Afghanistan to investigate what they called the lies and propaganda spread by American military chiefs to prolong the war.
Now Sweden accuses US of spying | Raw Story Sweden joins Norway in alleging US embassies spied on citizens
Silvio Berlusconi's sex antics disgust me and other Italian women | World news | The Observer One of Italy's leading journalists bemoans the prime minister's philandering and the culture of machismo that celebrates his habitual womanising
Why Silvio Berlusconi is still standing - Telegraph Prostitutes, parties and friendships with teenage girls have failed to bring about the downfall of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

Collapsing empire watch - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (result of Republicans)
A Superpower in Decline: Is the American Dream Over? - Spiegel Online - News - International
Robert Gates: Repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Now, Before GOP Takes Control Of Congress (Obama fiddled and diddled and it ain't going to happen)
t r u t h o u t | Bill Moyers: "Welcome to the Plutocracy!"

Barack Obama, Phone Home - NYTimes.com - The plot of Obama’s presidency has been harder to follow than “Inception.” (more stupidity from the WH)
Midterm Losses Bite Blue Dog Democrats : NPR (but Dems must lurch right)
Our Banana Republic - NYTimes.com - The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976 ... he United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana.
Bloomberg: Congress 'Can't Read' And Some Members Don't Know What, Or Where China Is
Texas Considers Medicaid Withdrawal - NYTimes.com Some Republican lawmakers — still reveling in Tuesday’s statewide election sweep — are proposing an unprecedented solution to the state’s estimated $25 billion budget shortfall: dropping out of the federal Medicaid program.
Rick Perry: Let States Secede From Social Security (VIDEO) | TPMDC (and then all the old people will secede from Texas: win, win!)
Lawmakers Discussing Dropping Health Care Program — Health Reform and Texas | The Texas Tribune
Support Pours in For Suspended MSNBC Anchor Keith Olbermann
FreakOutNation » Breaking: Rush Limbaugh Is Using $5,000 Worth Of Oxycontin Per Day Rush Limbaugh is using $20,000 worth of Oxycontin per day. This is ironic timing considering he has just claimed President Obama will be spending $200 million per day while visiting India.
Eric Cantor Opposes Compromise On Extending Bush Tax Cuts, Says Government Shutdown Will Be Obama's Fault
Thoughts On Pelosi - NYTimes.com
When 'House Effects' Become 'Bias' - NYTimes.com (Rasmussen is a Republican company)

Bernanke And The Shibboleths - NYTimes.com The simple fact is that we have a global excess supply of savings, which is doing terrible things to workers. The reasonable thing is to do something about it; it’s deeply unreasonable, and deeply irresponsible, to invent reasons not to act because you’re clinging to simplistic slogans.

.: Surface area required to power the whole world by solar power
Effing the Ineffable | Big Questions Online
Wright On: Cosmological Natural Selection | Big Questions Online

The Effects of the Recession on "The Used Car Economy" | Blinker Fluid News | DrivingSales
Watch your weight, and pass the cheese - CharlotteObserver.com The Department of Agriculture spends millions to get Americans to eat more dairy products - It teamed up with Domino's to develop a new line of pizzas with 40 percent more cheese and proceeded to devise and pay for a $12 million marketing campaign (eat cheese and die)
The Cocaine Trade by Brendan Kiley - Features - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
How WeedMaps turned marijuana reviews into big business. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
ø Medical Marijuana Dispensary & Cannabis Club Directory ø
Welcome to SPARC | San Francisco Patient and Resource Center

Gibberish rock song written by Italian composer to sound like English - Boing Boing
YouTube - Secret Cinema presents Blade Runner
No, you are not ‘running late’, you are rude and selfish – The Savage Truth

Microsoft vs. Software Piracy - Inside the War Room - NYTimes.com
Google To Facebook: You Can’t Import Our User Data Without Reciprocity
AFP: Google Maps embroiled in Central America border dispute

What a scientist didn't tell the NY Times on honeybee deaths - Oct. 8, 2010

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BBC World Service - Documentaries - My Lai Tapes US soldiers killed 504 innocent Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in Vietnam on March 16th 1968
Spain's gays and lesbians to stage 'kiss-in' during pope's visit | World news | The Guardian Organisers use Facebook to form 'queer kissing flashmob' in front of Barcelona's cathedral on Sunday
EU proposes online right 'to be forgotten' - Telegraph Websites could be compelled to delete all data held on users at their request, if new European laws come into force.

YouTube - Rachel Maddow Explores Right Wing Lying Echo Chamber (Michelle "Yes, I'm totally nuts" Bachman)
Report: Sean Hannity and Joe Scarborough also made political donations | OregonLive.com
YouTube - Rachel Maddow Responds To The Suspension Of Keith Olbermann
Dan Rather: Obama Has A 'Reputation For Playing A Little Soft'
Not All Polls Were Wrong In Nevada
Upset Republicans Believe Tea Party Cost GOP Senate Control
The Republican Decade? | Mother Jones Think Tuesday was bad? Wait 'til Republicans get to redraw the electoral map.

U.S. Banks Failing At Fastest Pace In 2 Decades (Obamacare for banks not working out)
The Fed's $600 Billion Statement, Translated Into Plain English : Planet Money : NPR

Mind Reading: Do Humans Prefer Free Love Over the Bonds of Nuclear Family? – TIME Healthland
ScienceDirect - Ethology and Sociobiology : Some differential attributes of lethal assaults on small children by stepfathers versus genetic fathers
Super Soaker Inventor Invents New Generator : Discovery Tech The Wide Angle: Super Soaker Inventor Invents New Thermoelectric Generator
Shooting for the Sun - Magazine - The Atlantic Best known for creating the state-of-the-art Super Soaker squirt gun, Johnson believes he now holds the key to affordable solar power.
Scientists find damage to coral near BP well
Marginal Revolution: Popularizing Arrow's Theorem II We know or should always have known that a group doesn't have preferences anymore than a group smiles

Alleged hit-and-run driver may not face felony | VailDaily.com A financial manager for wealthy clients will not face felony charges for a hit-and-run because it could jeopardize his job, prosecutors said Thursday (the rich have their own law)
Court orders new hearing for 'West Memphis 3' -- The three men convicted in the grisly murders of three West Memphis Cub Scouts won new hearings Thursday to argue their innocence, more than 15 years after they were sent to prison despite scant physical evidence linking them to the crime scene.
[Updated:] Noose Hung at Gay Rights Group's Office; Demand Made for Police Probe - Orange County News - Navel Gazing The officer said 'what it is, is a string on a door.' 'Sometimes you just have to live with being a victim'
BetweenTheBars.org : Recent posts from all authors

YouTube - Nokia N8. Filmed by and starring the Nokia N8!


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Guantánamo: Exception or Rule? | Mother Jones All-American justice for a child soldier at Obama’s Gitmo (this will stain Obama's conscience forever)
Pakistan Suicide Bombing In Mosque Kills At Least 50 People
YouTube Pulls Cleric's Videos Calling for Jihad | The Atlantic Wire

Fair Game :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews . When the administration blew her cover, several of her informants were killed; some reports say 70. Then the Bush spin doctors leaked the story that she was only a CIA "secretary." (but wikileaks threatened our security!)
ABC calls out conservative media for seizing upon "patently false" rumors about Obama's Asia trip | Media Matters for America ("conservative media" would be you know who)

Rasmussen Polls Were Biased and Inaccurate; Quinnipiac, SurveyUSA Performed Strongly - NYTimes.com
California went its own way - latimes.com - Strength of the Latino vote is a key factor in the GOP's tepid showing in the state.
KAL's cartoon | The Economist (Bipartisanship)
Republican Game Plan Led to Historic Victory - NYTimes.com (they forgot to mention buying the Supreme Court)
Pelosi Canvassing Dem Caucus For Support
Keith Olbermann Suspended from MSNBC - Political Hotsheet - CBS News (but Pat Buchanan, etc)
REPORT: More than 30 Fox Newsers support GOP in 600-plus instances during midterms | Media Matters for America

Employment Situation Summary Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 151,000 in October, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.6 percent
Ezra Klein - Two ways to respond to the foreclosure crisis the Home Affordability Modification Program (HAMP). Here Obama's Treasury team took a system that had a terrible design and doubled-down on it
Foreclosure crisis: New questions being raised about court filings in foreclosure cases - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Individuals hired by law firms to notify homeowners of pending foreclosure cases may have filed faulty or false documents
Behind a foreclosure, danger and tragedy - Nation - MiamiHerald.com It took months for the family's attorney, Janet Spence of Pembroke Pines, to sort through the property's muddied chain of title possessions and transfers. At one point, Spence said, the home had two separate foreclosure actions pending simultaneously
BBC News - China, Germany and South Africa criticise US stimulus Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on German television that "with all due respect, US policy is clueless."
Bank of America Rejects Call to Buy Back Mortgages - NYTimes.com (you can take our bad loans and stuff it)

How Science Saved my Soul [Video]
Letters of Note: In Event Of Moon Disaster
Flexible metamaterials at visible wavelengths
Orkneyjar Archaeology News - Neolithic tomb unearthed in South Ronaldsay garden
The Scariest Zombies in Nature | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine Parasites found in ant bodies tell us that Hollywood’s stories of the undead may be closer to truth than fiction
BBC NEWS | Health | Masturbation 'cuts cancer risk' Men could reduce their risk of developing prostate cancer through regular masturbation, researchers suggest.

Iain Boal: Crisis at Pacifica The Two-Percent Putsch
'London Futures': 'Postcards From The Future' Museum Of London Exhibit Imagines The Impact Of Climate Change By Artists Robert Graves And Didier Madoc-Jones (photos)
'Weeping' Virgin Mary statue draws hundreds of worshippers to Windsor residence The municipality's building department has now issued an order to the homeowners to remove the statue by Nov. 19, citing building code violations and a lack of a building permit.

Capital One Made Me Different Loan Offers Depending On Which Browser I Used - The Consumerist

Apple Xserve sales end January 31st, support will continue -- Engadget the Cupertino team has decided to discontinue sales of its Xserve enterprise server offering ... Apple says switch to the Mac Mini for your enterprise server needs

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Yemen Bomb 17 Minutes From Exploding
White House calls Brian Williams after he questions mail-bomb terrorist threat - NYPOST.com
Bush Directly Authorized Use Of Waterboarding, Still Rejects 'Torture' Classification In New Book

Peace Sucks a Hairy Asshole - First Draft Here's the problem, you gutless fucks. You had majorities.
Wealthy Candidates Come Up Short On Election Day
Daily Kos: Rejecting liberalism
Mama Grizzlies Die Hard | The Nation
Mr. Obama, It’s Time for Some Poetry - NYTimes.com “Where is the man I voted for?”
Mitch McConnell: Dumping Obama In 2012 Is The Only Way To Achieve The GOP Agenda
Michael Bennet Defeats Ken Buck In Colorado Senate Race
Obama Can Pursue Ambitious Agenda Without Congress's Help
The Chairmen: New House Leaders Have Familiar Ties to Business, Revolving Door
Dems Who Voted Against Unemployment Benefits Soon To Be Unemployed Of the 11 Democrats who opposed reauthorizing benefits at the beginning of July, eight are goners
Daily Kos: Rasmussen Is Biased
Daily Kos: Millennials' turnout 'typical' for midterm election
Heath Shuler Would Challenge Pelosi For House Minority Leader Post

High-Speed Rail Plans Imperiled by Governors-Elect - NYTimes.com (Republicans hate jobs and infrastructure)

Ben S. Bernanke - What the Fed did and why: supporting the recovery and sustaining price stability (supporting bankers and hedge funds, not jobless Americans)
Two Years Late and Many Dollars Short - Grasping Reality with Both Hands
The Volcker Rule After the Midterm Elections - NYTimes.com
Has Bernanke Pleaded? - NYTimes.com


Rupert Murdoch Will Now Pay You to Buy His Newspaper - Jeff Bercovici - Mixed Media - Forbes



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Did somebody just try to buy the British government? - Charlie's Diary
Iranian woman to be hanged Wednesday: rights group - Yahoo! News An Iranian woman whose sentence of execution by stoning for adultery provoked a worldwide outcry will instead be hanged for murder on Wednesday,

2010 Election Results: Who Won The Key Races
Broad And Deep: A Quick Look The GOP's Big Victory In The House | TPMDC
State Ballot Measures|Election Results|November 2, 2010|California Secretary of State
State Elections: Republicans Gain Control Of Key State Legislatures
2010 Elections To Usher In Era Of Gridlock (Obama will continue to triangulate with "no")
Obama Takes Responsibility For Voter Frustration On Election Night (by continuing to placate Republicans)
Reid Calls For Compromise: 'We Are Not Ostriches With Our Heads In The Sand'
John Boehner, GOP Leaders Throw Down Gauntlet To Obama
Tapped Archive | The American Prospect Blue Dogs Neutered (Rahm's and Obama's strategy bankrupt)
Hans von Spakovsky Will Help Certify A Tight Race In Virginia | TPMMuckraker
The Associated Press: Boehner wants to shelve health care 'monstrosity'
"Voice of the opposition": How Fox News won the 2010 election | Media Matters for America
Voters limit repeals to alcohol sales tax - The Boston Globe

Pundit sloth: Blaming the left - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Half of the Blue Dog incumbents were defeated, and by themselves accounted for close to half of the Democratic losses.
Bush: 'I Was A Dissenting Voice' On Iraq War | TPMMuckraker
Giuliani: Palin's Got 'A Hell Of A Lot More Qualifications' Than Obama Did | TPMDC

Defining “Rosy” Down - Jamison Foser
Fed to Spend $600 Billion More To Help Boost US Economy - CNBC
Federal Reserve Rains Money On Corporate America -- But Main Street Left High And Dry
Calculated Risk: LPS: Over 4.3 million loans 90+ days or in foreclosure


Ninth Letter Arts & Literary Journal - Kurt Vonnegut Didn't Know Doodly-Squat About Writing: Finally, Literary Analysis Worth Reading
A tale of two ghettoes Why is Shoppers Drug Mart pulling 3,500 copies of Adbusters, my magazine, off its shelves? (accusations of "anti-semitism" because they published comparison of Warsaw Ghetto w/Paletstine)
The Bachelor Guy » Your Guide to the Most Bizarre Fetishes & Fantasies [Infographic]

BBC News - Times and Sunday Times readership falls after paywall - by about 87%. (good luck, NYT)
Times 'hugely encouraged' by online readership - but will it pay? - Leadership, business and management news, tips and features from MT and Management Today magazine

What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York | Magazine | Wired.com
7 Free Online Virus Scan Websites
Real people experiencing the Real God in the real world. | MetaFilter

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Athens Mail Bombs Explode

What the fuck has Obama done so far?
Breitbart website names Media Matters to "New Axis of Evil" | Media Matters for America
ABC Drops Andrew Breitbart From Election Night Coverage (lie down with dogs)

Deficit Commission Plots to Overhaul Social Security Behind Voters' Backs | Beat the Press (+NYT giving cover to Obama and his gang of Republican hacks)
This measure would require the Washington State Seal to depict a tapeworm attached to a taxpayer’s intestine, encircled by the words: Committed to sucking the life blood out of each and every taxpayer.
Vote Republican If… | News Junkie Post (you're insane)

Calculated Risk: Wilmington Trust: A warning of more CRE Construction Losses coming? (extend and pretend running out of pretend)
Summers’s incentives | Analysis & Opinion | the fact is that most of the time Summers seems to end up doing and proposing exactly what Wall Street would most want him to do (acolyte of Greenspan)
Calculated Risk: Q3 2010: Homeownership Rate at 1999 Levels (Bush second-most proud accomplishment - after keeping us safe from airplanes flying into buildings - erased)
The Man Who Personally Owes Citigroup $126 Million - Nathan Vardi - The Jungle - Forbes The unholy mess is yet another reminder of Citigroup’s reckless lending in the years leading up to the credit crisis, which resulted with Citigroup being bailed out with $45 billion and currently 12% owned by U.S. taxpayers (beside being crooked, bankers aren't that smart)

Smart People Do More Drugs--Because of Evolution | The Atlantic Wire
A cure for the common cold may finally be achieved as a result of a remarkable discovery in a Cambridge laboratory - Science, News - The Independent

because we destroyed ourselves — Tremble the Devil - the United States now has a greater percentage of its black population in prison than South Africa did at the height of Apartheid. Our penal system has grown so massive that the U.S. criminal justice system now employs more people than America’s two largest private employers, Wal-Mart and McDonald’s, combined. (America's Republican/Clintonian/Obaman war on drugs)

Why the Supreme Court should rule that violent video games are free speech
Google Sues the United States of America

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Government accusations: no evidence needed - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Death Toll Rises After Iraq Church Standoff - NYTimes.com - The death toll was considerably higher than initially reported ... This was a successful operation with a minimum of casualties (looking forward, not backward)
Indonesian volcano erupts, tsunami aid effort slow - Yahoo! News

'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Extended Indefinitely By Federal Appeals Court heightening pressure on the Obama administration to persuade the U.S. Senate to repeal the law before a new Congress is sworn in (which will surely happen)

YouTube - Stunning - 'I Remember, So I'M Voting, And Not Republican.'
Final Election 2010 Polls Diverge: Will It Be Tsunami Or Bad Storm?
For Democrats In 2010, Losing Is An Expensive Proposition

ThinkProgress » ‘Kill Some Crackers’: GOP Group Pays Fox Affiliates To Influence Election With Anti-Obama Propaganda
Tapped Archive | The American Prospect | Blue Dog Bloodbath (that really worked out for them) (Pres Blanche going down)
ABC News and Breitbart are now at war | Media Matters for America When you lay down with Breitbart, you're gonna get fleas.
YouTube - MoveOn.org Back From the Future Campaign Ad
NYT public editor only perpetuates bad practices - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (Arthur Bisbane, public wanker)

Mugged by the Debt Moralizers - NYTimes.com And if you point out that their arguments don’t add up, they fly into a rage. Try to explain that when debtors spend less, the economy will be depressed unless somebody else spends more, and they call you a socialist.
Economist Stiglitz: We need stimulus, not quantitative easing

The Economy Is Growing -- But Jobs Aren't Following
Globalive financier: 'We will make pain, and they will suffer' - The Globe and Mail

Study: Alcohol 'most harmful drug,' followed by crack and heroin - CNN.com ecstasy was not as dangerous as riding a horse (call Hilary Clinton)

Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - World, News - The Independent Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War
Twenty-First Century Stoic -- From Zen to Zeno: How I Became a Stoic - Boing Boing

SEO for Bing Versus Google

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NYT v. the world: WikiLeaks coverage - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Diane Sawyer: Will WikiLeaks be arrested?
Greenwald Gets It on WikiLeaks Coverage : CJR (John Burns is a war-hungry Pentagon stooge)

Obama waiver allows U.S. aid to 4 countries using child soldiers

Google Vote: find your polling place
The Cook Political Report | The insider's choice for election analysis

David Broder Calls for War With Iran to Boost the Economy | Beat the Press (they always do, don't they: sending our youth to be killed so they can profit)
YouTube - Jon Stewarts Final Speech at Rally to Restore Sanity
Rally To Restore Sanity Attendance Estimated In Hundreds Of Thousands 215,000 people showed up for the rally on Saturday. By comparison, CBS estimated that 87,000 -- just 40% of the Sanity Rally estimation -- attended Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in August (sanity get no attention)
Just How Big Was The Stewart-Colbert Rally? | TPMDC
My Day At The Rally To Restore Sanity
The Rally To Restore Sanity Causes a Ma