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    Gitmo Nation
      Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a "Battlefield" They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
        The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president’Äîand every future president ’Äî the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. Even Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) raised his concerns about the NDAA detention provisions during last night's Republican debate. The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself.
      Activist Post: S. 1253 will allow indefinite military detention of American civilians without charge or trial
        The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 1st of this year, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee, the "Honorable" Patrick Leahy, and Ranking Member of the Committee, the "Honorable" Charles Grassley who strongly decried the bill. The title of the four-page letter itself reveals the truly dangerous nature of this legislation, "Judiciary Committee Should Assert Its Jurisdiction Over Those Aspects of the Detention Authority Provisions in S. 1253, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Sections 1031, 1032, and 1036), That Affect Civilians Who Are Otherwise Outside of Military Control, Including Civilians Within the United States Itself."
      Cannabis News - Satellite imagery may spot pot
        While RCMP weren't hot about the idea a few years ago, a study just completed by the Canadian Police Research Centre shows that police forces would be crazy not to use the technology, if they can afford it.
        Staff Sgt. Brian Thiessen, who led the recent study in British Columbia, said he was initially told not to bother with the research since it had already been attempted and failed.
        Using satellite and airborne imagery in the summer of 2006, police researchers were able to find three outdoor grow-ops for every one located with existing detection techniques.
        Researchers learned they can easily differentiate the reflection patterns of marijuana from other vegetation, which could be concealing the illegal plants.
      Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown | TorrentFreak
        US authorities have initiated the largest round of domain name seizures yet as part of their continued crackdown on counterfeit and piracy-related websites. With just a few days to go until "Cyber Monday" more than 100 domain names have been taken over by the feds to protect the commercial interests of US companies. The seizures are disputable, as the SOPA bill which aims to specifically legitimize such actions is still pending in Congress.
      Dutch parliament refuses ACTA secrecy | ACTA
        A few weeks ago, the Dutch House of Representatives' committee of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation requested the ACTA negotiation texts (the earlier versions of ACTA). The minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, Maxime Verhagen, sent the texts to parliament, adding a non disclosure obligation. In debates, Members of Parliament may not refer to the documents, nor quote from them.
    Techno Experts
      Land Destroyer: Egyptian Protesters: US Stooge "ElBaradei for President"
        Once again after yet another disingenuous campaign by the corporate media, the "Arab Spring" mobs filling Egypt's Tahrir Square have revealed their true agenda, calling for US corporate-funded International Crisis Group trustee Mohammed ElBaradei to be named by the military as the next "president" of Egypt. Increasing violence in Tahrir Square along with calls by the White House and the EU for a "a quick transfer of power to a civilian government in Egypt," is pressuring the Egyptian military to quickly find a suitable replacement to quell the mobs.
        Wall Street and London, via their corporate-media have been building up ElBaradei for at least a year before the "Arab Spring" even began, portraying him as the great hope for Egypt. Foreign Affairs magazine, in March 2010, literally printed an article titled, "Is ElBaradei Egypt's Hero?"
      Lieberman Letter To Google | TPM Document Collection
    EUROLand
      Merkel and Sarkozy want exclusive treaty
        Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are considering a new stability treaty that would be limited to only a few countries in the eurozone, according to a published report. In a story appearing in Sunday's Welt am Sonntag, the two leaders want a pact between their countries and some other nations including Italy. Paris and Berlin will make the proposal in the days ahead of the December 9 EU summit, government sources told the newspaper. The EU's current stability pact requires the 17 countries of the eurozone to limit budget deficits to three per cent of gross domestic product and debt to 60 per cent of GDP. A German government spokeswoman on Saturday confirmed to AFP that discussions were under way with France but said any proposals would come from European Council president Herman Van Rompuy. Sarkozy has said that the eurozone's top three economies have said they are determined to do everything they can to support the single currency.
      Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns - Telegraph
        British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain.
      Germany suffers "disaster" at bond auction - Telegraph
        In one of the least successful debt sales by Europe's powerhouse economy since the launch of the single currency, the low returns offered - just 2pc annually over 10 years - deterred investors made uneasy by the escalating cost of the crisis to Germany.
        That meant the central bank had to pick up 39pc of the ’Ç¨6bn (£5.2bn) of debt Germany had hoped to sell after commercial banks bought just ’Ç¨3.644bn of the issue.
        "It is a complete and utter disaster," said Marc Ostwald, strategist at Monument Securities in London.
        "This does not bode well, it is the worst of uncovered auctions that we've had this year and little wonder that the Bund sold off on the back of it."
      German Bond Auction Fails
        In my opinion, the failed German bond auction was orchestrated by the US Treasury, by the European Central Bank and EU authorities, and by the private banks that own the troubled sovereign debt.
        My opinion is based on the following facts. Goldman Sachs and US banks have guaranteed perhaps one trillion dollars or more of European sovereign debt by selling swaps or insurance against which they have not reserved. The fees the US banks received for guaranteeing the values of European sovereign debt instruments simply went into profits and executive bonuses. This, of course, is what ruined the American insurance giant, AIG, leading to the TARP bailout at US taxpayer expense and Goldman Sachs' enormous profits.
      BBC News - Strikes: How will I be affected?
        Thousands of public sector workers are due to take industrial action on Wednesday in protest at planned changes to their pensions. The strike is likely to cause thousands of schools to close and the cancellation or postponement of many non-emergency hospital appointments, as well as disruption at airports. Use this table to check how you might be affected. This page will be updated in the run-up to the strikes.
      Belgian interest rates to 6 percent? - The Standard
        Even today, the rise in interest rates on long bonds Belgian unabated. The situation is becoming more poignant. The border with 6 percent is rapidly approaching. Very bad news for Belgium on Monday again between 1 and 2 billion euros in government securities will be auctioned.
      Belgian Gov calls for Human Resources to buy debt
        Belgium's prime minister Yves Leterme has called on savers to buy their country's debt. It's something usually left to the finance ministry, which makes a low key request every three months when there is a bond sale targeted at individuals.
      Greek Robin Hoods
        Nearly two years of pay cuts, job cuts and tax hikes have pummeled living standards in debt-crippled Greece and the country is facing record unemployment and a fourth year of recession in 2012. On a personal level, that means many in Veria can't pay for basic necessities such as electricity and end up getting cut off from the grid.
        That's where the "Citizens of Veria" activists step in.
        The group illegally reconnects needy households back to the electric grid in a direct challenge to the country's dominant power provider, the Public Power Corporation.
    Syria
      UN: 'Numerous' reports of child torture by Syria - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com
        A U.N. human rights panel expressed alarm Friday at reports it has received of Syrian security forces torturing children. Only on msnbc.com Making time stand still for military families Controversial sheriff set to endorse Rick Perry It's A Snap! Vote for your favorite photo Bachmann keeps at Gingrich over immigration amnesty Nurse! Medicare dollars tied to patient satisfaction US ranchers: We live in fear along Mexican border American filmmaker in Cairo tells of arrest ordeal The Committee Against Torture said it had received "numerous, consistent and substantiated reports" of widespread abuse in the country. The chair of the panel, Claudio Grossman, told reporters in Geneva that the reports referring to the abuse of children were of "particular concern." The U.N. human rights office says more than 3,500 people have been killed in the eight-month uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. Meanwhile, Syria ignored a deadline imposed by the Arab League to allow an observer mission into the country or face economic sanctions, a senior Arab League diplomat said Friday.
      The Script: Protests against military rule cloud Egypt election | Reuters
        Some protesters favor Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, who has offered to drop his campaign for the presidency and to lead a government of national unity. ElBaradei is respected among pro-democracy campaigners and has a high international profile, but many Egyptians view him as out of touch because he spent much of his career abroad. MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD Mohamed Badie, leader of the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood, which hopes the election will catapult it into a strong place in mainstream politics, offered Ganzouri qualified support, depending on the powers and makeup of his cabinet. He suggested conspiratorial hands were behind the unrest. "There are powers inside and outside Egypt that don't want stability for Egypt or development, and this is something that is being pushed and paid for," he said late on Saturday.
      Rebel army calls for air strikes on Syria - Economic Times
        Free Syrian Army chief Riyadh al-Asaad on Thursday called for foreign air strikes on "strategic targets" in Syria to speed up the fall of the regime, in a telephone interview with AFP. "We are not in favour of the entry of foreign troops as was the case in Iraq but we want the international community to give us logistical support," said FSA chief Colonel Asaad, who is based across the border in Turkey.
      Waarom willen de Amerikanen persé Assad weg hebben?
        Geen wonder dat zowel Israˆ´l als de Amerikanen graag zien dat al-Assad wordt afgezet (wat zal neerkomen op: afgeslacht, al zijn de stedelijke Syriˆ´rs iets beschaafder dan de Libische bedoeˆØenen). Ook Erdogan ziet dat graag: als Iran dit gebied overneemt, stopt dit de Turkse expansie naar het zuiden en dat zou zijn plannetjes flink in de war schoppen. Openlijke inzet van de luchtmacht van de NAVO kan niet. Dit zouden Rusland en China, die weinig last hebben van Iran en het land juist erg nuttig vinden als tegenwicht tegen de Amerikanen en de soennieten, niet toestaan. De mogelijkheden van de Amerikanen zijn beperkt. Ze hopen op een opstand binnen het Syrische leger, waarvan nu sprake lijkt te zijn -- al kan dit ook een propagandacoup zijn. Deze gewapende rebellen kunnen ze dan via de Turken of de andere buurlanden voorzien van wapens en geld. Na het waarschijnlijke bloedbad wordt Syriˆ´ dan een soort vazalstaat van Turkije. Een andere optie is een gewapend ingrijpen door het Turkse leger, uiteraard om "humanitaire redenen". Het is niet voor niets dat Erdogan zich plotseling zo druk maakt over mensenrechtenschendingen in Syriˆ´. Dit is de effectiefste oplossing. Dit heeft ook als voordeel dat het bloedbad voorkomen kan worden. Ook dit betekent vanzelfsprekend een flinke uitbreiding van de Turkse invloedssfeer.
      Naval Airpower Expo, prelude to Syrian Desert Fox | Essential Intelligence
        The resent Libyan campaign which toppled Qaddafi was conceded by Russia in exchange for protecting Syria from a large NATO invasion, definitely from an American or a European one, in order to allow Russia to keep its strategic naval ports in Syria i.e.in the Mediterranean. Since the total majority of the NATO aggresion against Libya was carried out by the USA, UK & France, it followed the tracks of the century old entente, putting an end to Qaddafi's attempt which admitted German economic development overseas intended to encompass Africa.
        It now seems Russia has struck a follow-on deal with the Anglo-American establishment, to limit the extent of western intervention in the Syrian crisis to deterrence only, i.e. allowing the USA to contain the militant acts of Syria to within its own borders under the threat of retaliatory attack the like of 'Desert Fox' in case Syria attacks Israel or Turkey. 'Desert Fox' punished Saddam Hussein for not letting the western observers carry out all their responsibilities, putting an immediate end to Saddam Hussein's resistance.
        This time round the fourth partner to the entente is Israel, which is about to conduct a Joint Military exercise with the Russian navy.
      Uncharted Waters: Thinking Through Syria's Dynamics - International Crisis Group
        Many in Syria and abroad are now banking on the regime's imminent collapse and wagering that all then will be for the better. That is a luxury and an optimism they cannot afford. Instead, it is high time to squarely confront and address the difficulties before it is too late. In the "draft political program" it released on 20 November, the Syrian National Council ’ an opposition umbrella group -- presented the image of an entirely peaceful movement enduring savage repression. The regime and its allies regularly describe the crisis solely as the local manifestation of a vicious regional and international struggle. The two black-and-white narratives are in every way contradictory and mutually exclusive. Both miss a central point: that successful management of this increasingly internationalised crisis depends on a clear-eyed understanding of the grey zone that lies between.
    OWS
      Molecules to Medicine: Should pepper spray be put on (clinical) trial? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network
        There are reports of the efficacy of capsaicin in crowd control, but little regarding trials of exposures. Perhaps this is because pepper spray is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, as a pesticide and not by the FDA. The concentration of capsaicin in bear spray is 1-2%; it is 10-30% in "personal defense sprays."
      The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
        But just when Americans thought we had the picture -- was this crazy police and mayoral overkill, on a municipal level, in many different cities? -- the picture darkened. The National Union of Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a Freedom of Information Act request to investigate possible federal involvement with law enforcement practices that appeared to target journalists. The New York Times reported that "New York cops have arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at reporters and photographers" covering protests. Reporters were asked by NYPD to raise their hands to prove they had credentials: when many dutifully did so, they were taken, upon threat of arrest, away from the story they were covering, and penned far from the site in which the news was unfolding. Other reporters wearing press passes were arrested and roughed up by cops, after being -- falsely -- informed by police that "It is illegal to take pictures on the sidewalk."
      Occupy Wall Street gets soundtrack | Stuff.co.nz
        Participants in the protest movement said Wednesday that Occupy This Album, which will be available sometime this (northern hemisphere) winter, will also feature DJ Logic, Ladytron, Warren Haynes, Toots and the Maytals, Mike Limbaud, Aeroplane Pageant, Yo La Tengo and others.
        Activist filmmaker Michael Moore is also planning to sing.
        Jason Samel, a musician who is putting together the disc, said the goal is to raise between US$1 million (NZ$1.35 millipon) and US$2 million to help fuel the movement that is protesting income disparity.
    Bank$ters
      China, Russia quit dollar
        St. Petersburg, Russia - China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday. Chinese experts said the move reflected closer relations between Beijing and Moscow and is not aimed at challenging the dollar, but to protect their domestic economies. "About trade settlement, we have decided to use our own currencies," Putin said at a joint news conference with Wen in St. Petersburg. The two countries were accustomed to using other currencies, especially the dollar, for bilateral trade. Since the financial crisis, however, high-ranking officials on both sides began to explore other possibilities. The yuan has now started trading against the Russian rouble in the Chinese interbank market, while the renminbi will soon be allowed to trade against the rouble in Russia, Putin said.
    Science!
      CERN Physicists: Higgs Boson Might Not Even Exist - International Business Times
        European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) physicists have raised the possibility that the Higgs boson, the particle that some believe gave the universe its form after the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, is a figment of the imagination. A scientist looks at computer screens at CERN's Large Hadron Collider control center in Geneva on Sept. 3, 2008. Researchers said it might soon be clear whether the Higgs boson is a chimera. They have narrowed down their search for the particle, leaving only a small range of masses that the elusive Higgs boson might have. CERN physicist Pauline Gagnon said that the low mass range, where scientists had always thought they would find the particle, was also the one where it would be more difficult to see. "It might be that it does not even exist," she said, a possibility already raised by other researchers including CERN chief Rolf Heuer. If the Higgs boson is not found, "we need to move on to explore the next set of possibilities, " said Gagnon.
    Squirrel!
      Boko Haram, Al-Qaeda invent deadly vaccine *To attack VIPs, top targets *Vaccine to be tested in W/Africa
        THE Al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula in collaboration with the dreaded Islamic militant group, Boko Haram are said to have invented a deadly vaccine, which is to be deployed in attacks on high targets, sources in government said at the weekend. It was learnt that part of the latest discoveries of some security agencies is the claim that the Al-Qaeda in Arabia Peninsular had collaborated with Boko Haram to develop a special vaccine, said to be twice as deadly as cobra venom, and is meant to be deployed by suicide attackers on some high target operations. Sources further confirmed that the vaccines are due to be first launched in West Africa and that the dreaded Nigerian based group, Boko Haram is the source of deployment.
      DutchNews.nl - Expert unease over deadly flu virus 'created' in Dutch laboratory
        Dutch scientists have created a flu virus which is so deadly there is doubt about whether the research should be published, the Volkskrant reports on Friday. The paper says American experts are worried detailed information could fall into the wrong hands and that terrorists could recreate the virus as a weapon. The fears are notable because the work was carried out on behalf of the National Institutes of Health in the US. The research team, led by Ron Fouchier, professor of virology at Erasmus teaching hospital, was able to create a highly infectious variant of the bird flu virus H5N1. H5N1 rarely transfers from animal to human, but if it does, the infection is often fatal.
    Drone Nation
      Pakistan and China stage war games - Yahoo! Finance
        Pakistan and China are staging joint military exercises, showcasing their relationship as Islamabad's ties with Washington suffer. The war games that began Monday follow remarks by Pakistani officials suggesting that China could step into the economic, military and diplomatic void if Pakistan's relationship with the United States collapsed. An army statement says the exercise in Punjab province showed that the "Pakistan-China friendship is higher than the mountains and deeper than oceans." It was the fourth military exercise between the two nations since 2004. Washington has courted Pakistan's army since 2001, but the raid on Osama bin Laden in May and disagreements over Afghanistan have poisoned the relationship over the last 1 1/2 years.
    $hadow Puppet Theatre
      Source says Barak won't Run in 2012 - Hillary Will and She will WIN!!
        My source said that all of Washington knows that Obama is about to step down. He said that he can't imagine that it won't be leaking soon.
        I wonder what excuse he will use. Of course he has to save face... so it will probably be his health. He could even use that excuse for his being so out of touch with people. And if you have noticed how much weight he has lost... he could possibly have cancer. Remember Steve Jobs toward the end.
      Rahm Emanuel: Iowa Saturday, NBC's "Rock Center" Monday - Lynn Sweet
        WASHINGTON--Mayor Rahm Emanuel protests that he has no interest in the White House; yet he sat down for an interview with NBC's Harry Smith for the new show "Rock Center with Brian Williams" where he is asked if he wants to be the first Jewish President. Emanuel's big profile on NBC Monday night comes just after he headlines a big Iowa Democratic Party dinner in Des Moines on Saturday. After just five months in office, Emanuel is eager to brag nationally about his "accomplishments." UPDATES Emanuel spokesman Chris Mather tells me I am wrong to link the timing of the NBC profile and the Iowa Dinner as I did in the struck out paragraph below. From Mather: 'We did not give big national interview to run after (Iowa) speech. This was supposed to run two weeks ago. You need to change this. ...Harry Smith approached us months ago and asked if we would do one of the first shows." Emanuel taped interviews for the piece late September and early October. Mather would like me to make sure I say Emanuel "considers being the Mayor of Chicago the best job in the world. He is not running for president and has said so repeatedly." END UPDATES Since Emanuel and his press staff know a lot about messaging, they had to know that giving a big national interview to run after the Iowa event would only fuel speculation about Emanuel's future. Anyone think Emanuel is going to sit in City Hall for 21 years?
      Emanuel steps up for Obama in Iowa - chicagotribune.com
        Mayor Rahm Emanuel today capped off a weekend of campaigning for his former boss by arguing Republicans are causing the gridlock in Washington that President Barack Obama had vowed to end while campaigning for the office.
      Rumors Persist Surrounding President Obama's "Body Man" WARNING theulstermanreport.com Readability
        Here now are the photos in question that have been available since at least 2008. Reggie Love himself acknowledged them in an offhand way when speaking of "mistakes" he made while as a college student during an interview given to the New York Times in 2008. The Times of course, did nothing to then follow up on what mistakes the man responsible for the day to day care of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama was speaking of. And even as Mr. Love then became perhaps the most intimate member of Barack Obama's White House inner circle, did any mainstream media do any semblance of due diligence on Reggie Love.
    Ministry of Truth
      Time Magazine's different US cover this week
    We Can't Wait
      Executive Order to save the day? Moody's threatens US downgrade - BlackListedNews.com
        Could another downgrade of America's credit rating be on the way? Moody's Investor Service on Wednesday warned that that might exactly be the case. The rating agency issued a statement today saying that while the congressional supercommittee's failure to come to a compromise on the US deficit dilemma won't necessarily trigger a downgrade, a change to the automatic cuts that are now set to go into play in 2013 will.
    Real News
      BBC News - UK women are 'fattest in Europe'
        The UK has more obese women than any other country in Europe, according to European Union figures. Data agency Eurostat, which looked at 19 countries, found nearly a quarter of UK women - 23.9% - were recorded as being obese in the year 2008 to 2009. Just over 22% of UK men were classed as obese, coming second only to Malta. A person is defined as obese if their body mass index (BMI), the result of a calculation involving weight and height, is above a certain level.
    Haiti
      Dad tells of Haiti horrors on aid visit | This is Somerset
      Still no Clintonfoundation IRS form 990
    Biodiversitée
      Global warming much less serious than thought - new science * The Register
        Climate scientists funded by the US government have announced new research in which they have established that the various doomsday global warming scenarios are in fact extremely unlikely to occur, and that the scenarios considered likeliest - and used for planning by the world's governments - are overly pessimistic.
        The new study improves upon previous results by including data from the remote past, rather than only examining records from recent times.
        "Many previous climate sensitivity studies have looked at the past only from 1850 through today, and not fully integrated paleoclimate date, especially on a global scale," says Andreas Schmittner, professor at the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State uni.
    Lone Wolf
      Fiery protest 'endangered public' - National - NZ Herald News
        Detective Sergeant Michael Priston said his actions 'clearly endangered' members of the public who were walking in the area.
        "Police are taking the behaviour of this man very seriously and the charge reflects his dangerous actions."
        Police also confirmed they had dealt with the same man earlier this week.
        Police have spoken to sixteen witnesses, but have asked anybody who saw the incident or made visual recordings to contact them.
        The man said in a video posted on Facebook that he was an ex-employee of the chairman of the Rural Bank of New Zealand.
        "I've learnt a lot of stuff since then, and I've had enough. I'm gonna make this car disappear," he said.
        He claimed that "fractional reserve lending is the root of all our problems" before walking to the boot of the car, which was filled with rubbish, with what appeared to be a lighter.
    Elite$
      STRAUSS-KAHN: Slog's September prediction comes good as DSK camp drops a stick of bombs into Sarkozy's re-election campaign. | The Slog
        On the surface, what we have here is some charges made by an investigative journalist in New York, closely coordinated with a decision by the DSK camp to sue Establishment newspaper Le Figaro, the ruling UMP Party of Sarkozy, and a close Sarko aide for 'malicious falsehood'....all in relation to allegations about the 'rutting chimpanzee' having it away in somewhat grubby circumstances in a northern French prostitute ring. So the overall imputation is that the French ruling class set up the former IMF leader in New York - and then tried to bury him with misleading accusations once he arrived back.
        What are we to make of this?
        Well, motive is very easy to establish: DSK would've been a shoe-in for the French Presidency against a discredited and ridiculed incumbent. Equally, there are unexplained facts about Sofitel phone calls made to the Elysee Palace in Paris, which make one wonder why an innocent hotel management would even be put through to the President's office...let alone have a conversation with its occupants. Set against this, however, we have Slog informants in Washington insisting there was "no way" the French General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) would dare carry out such a sting alone on American soil.
    Out There
      Apocalypse 2012 Back On? Second Mayan Inscription Uncovered - ABC News
        On Thursday, the institute released a statement saying that the date of the apocalypse had been found on the carved or molded face of a brick at the Comalcalco ruin in the southern part of the country.
        Most experts had previously said there was only one reference in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
        Arturo Mendez, an institute spokesman, said the fragment known as the Comalcalco Brick had been found years ago and studied thoroughly. It is not on display and is kept in storage.
        The Tortuguero and Comalcalco inscriptions were probably carved about 1,300 years ago.
        The Mexican institute cautioned Thursday that "Western messianic thought has twisted the cosmovision of ancient civilizations like the Maya." Its experts said that the Mayas believed that time started and ended with regularity, with nothing apocalyptic occurring at the end.
        The institute plans to hold a meeting of Mayan experts next week to "dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the Mayan Long Count calendar."
    VIDEO
      [VIDEO] Sarkozy's brother ays Euro RIP in 3 months
        Europe's Road to Recovery
      [VIDEO] Miley Cyrus Rock Mafia - IT'S A LIBERTY WALK!
        This is Dedicated to the thousands of people who are standing up for what they believe in. Miley Cyrus
      [AUDIO] War By Remote Control: Drones Make It Easy : NPR
        From his spot beneath the famous Wright Military Flyer in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Peter Singer is reminded of a modern military drone. "The story of manned airplanes is a great parallel to what's happening now with unmanned airplanes," he tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host Rachel Martin. Singer, a technological warfare expert and author of the book Wired for War, has had drones on his mind a lot lately. The Department of Defense is under pressure to cut close to a trillion dollars from its budget over the next 10 years, so there's a lot of talk around the Pentagon about what can go and what can't.
      [VIDEO] This Week 11/20: Interview with Rahm Emanuel Full Episode - This Week - ABC News
      [VIDEO] Joe Lieberman Wants Google To Provide Button To Flag Terrorist Activity on Blogger | Crooks and Liars
        Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) wants Google to implement a policy explicitly banning terrorist material on their Blogger servers and set up a YouTube-style "flag" system to bring such material to Google's attention.
      [VIDEO] Doug Brinkley on His Dust Up With Alaska 'Corrupt Bastards Club' Member Don Young | Video Cafe
        Ed Schultz spoke to historian and Professor Doug Brinkley about the heated exchange he had this week at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing where Brinkley got into it with "Corrupt Bastards Club" member, Alaska Rep. Don Young after Young insulted him after coming back into the hearing room near the end of Brinkley's testimony. I say good for Brinkley for standing up to him.
      [VIDEO] Syria under pressure as Arab deadline expires | euronews, world news
        As its crackdown on protesters continues, Syria has until the end of the day to sign an Arab deal letting monitors into the country or it could incur sanctions. The Arab League deadline has officially expired but a source said the door would be left open to Damascus for a few extra hours.
      [VIDEO] ten minutes ago in a packed Cuba mall
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      [VIDEO]: WORTH VIEWING
        Three American 'students' have been paraded on Egyptian TV.
        The trio studying Arabic at the American University in Cairo were accused of throwing firebombs, from a rooftop, at the military.
        The university identified the trio as Derrik Sweeney, 19, from Jefferson City, Mo.; Luke Gates, 21, from Bloomington, Ind.; and Gregory Porter, 19, of Glenside, Pa.
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  Gitmo Nation
    Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a "Battlefield" They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
      The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president’Äîand every future president ’Äî the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. Even Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) raised his concerns about the NDAA detention provisions during last night's Republican debate. The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself.
    Activist Post: S. 1253 will allow indefinite military detention of American civilians without charge or trial
      The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 1st of this year, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee, the "Honorable" Patrick Leahy, and Ranking Member of the Committee, the "Honorable" Charles Grassley who strongly decried the bill. The title of the four-page letter itself reveals the truly dangerous nature of this legislation, "Judiciary Committee Should Assert Its Jurisdiction Over Those Aspects of the Detention Authority Provisions in S. 1253, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Sections 1031, 1032, and 1036), That Affect Civilians Who Are Otherwise Outside of Military Control, Including Civilians Within the United States Itself."
    Cannabis News - Satellite imagery may spot pot
      While RCMP weren't hot about the idea a few years ago, a study just completed by the Canadian Police Research Centre shows that police forces would be crazy not to use the technology, if they can afford it.
      Staff Sgt. Brian Thiessen, who led the recent study in British Columbia, said he was initially told not to bother with the research since it had already been attempted and failed.
      Using satellite and airborne imagery in the summer of 2006, police researchers were able to find three outdoor grow-ops for every one located with existing detection techniques.
      Researchers learned they can easily differentiate the reflection patterns of marijuana from other vegetation, which could be concealing the illegal plants.
    Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown | TorrentFreak
      US authorities have initiated the largest round of domain name seizures yet as part of their continued crackdown on counterfeit and piracy-related websites. With just a few days to go until "Cyber Monday" more than 100 domain names have been taken over by the feds to protect the commercial interests of US companies. The seizures are disputable, as the SOPA bill which aims to specifically legitimize such actions is still pending in Congress.
    Dutch parliament refuses ACTA secrecy | ACTA
      A few weeks ago, the Dutch House of Representatives' committee of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation requested the ACTA negotiation texts (the earlier versions of ACTA). The minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, Maxime Verhagen, sent the texts to parliament, adding a non disclosure obligation. In debates, Members of Parliament may not refer to the documents, nor quote from them.
  Techno Experts
    Land Destroyer: Egyptian Protesters: US Stooge "ElBaradei for President"
      Once again after yet another disingenuous campaign by the corporate media, the "Arab Spring" mobs filling Egypt's Tahrir Square have revealed their true agenda, calling for US corporate-funded International Crisis Group trustee Mohammed ElBaradei to be named by the military as the next "president" of Egypt. Increasing violence in Tahrir Square along with calls by the White House and the EU for a "a quick transfer of power to a civilian government in Egypt," is pressuring the Egyptian military to quickly find a suitable replacement to quell the mobs.
      Wall Street and London, via their corporate-media have been building up ElBaradei for at least a year before the "Arab Spring" even began, portraying him as the great hope for Egypt. Foreign Affairs magazine, in March 2010, literally printed an article titled, "Is ElBaradei Egypt's Hero?"
    Lieberman Letter To Google | TPM Document Collection
  EUROLand
    Merkel and Sarkozy want exclusive treaty
      Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are considering a new stability treaty that would be limited to only a few countries in the eurozone, according to a published report. In a story appearing in Sunday's Welt am Sonntag, the two leaders want a pact between their countries and some other nations including Italy. Paris and Berlin will make the proposal in the days ahead of the December 9 EU summit, government sources told the newspaper. The EU's current stability pact requires the 17 countries of the eurozone to limit budget deficits to three per cent of gross domestic product and debt to 60 per cent of GDP. A German government spokeswoman on Saturday confirmed to AFP that discussions were under way with France but said any proposals would come from European Council president Herman Van Rompuy. Sarkozy has said that the eurozone's top three economies have said they are determined to do everything they can to support the single currency.
    Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns - Telegraph
      British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain.
    Germany suffers "disaster" at bond auction - Telegraph
      In one of the least successful debt sales by Europe's powerhouse economy since the launch of the single currency, the low returns offered - just 2pc annually over 10 years - deterred investors made uneasy by the escalating cost of the crisis to Germany.
      That meant the central bank had to pick up 39pc of the ’Ç¨6bn (£5.2bn) of debt Germany had hoped to sell after commercial banks bought just ’Ç¨3.644bn of the issue.
      "It is a complete and utter disaster," said Marc Ostwald, strategist at Monument Securities in London.
      "This does not bode well, it is the worst of uncovered auctions that we've had this year and little wonder that the Bund sold off on the back of it."
    German Bond Auction Fails
      In my opinion, the failed German bond auction was orchestrated by the US Treasury, by the European Central Bank and EU authorities, and by the private banks that own the troubled sovereign debt.
      My opinion is based on the following facts. Goldman Sachs and US banks have guaranteed perhaps one trillion dollars or more of European sovereign debt by selling swaps or insurance against which they have not reserved. The fees the US banks received for guaranteeing the values of European sovereign debt instruments simply went into profits and executive bonuses. This, of course, is what ruined the American insurance giant, AIG, leading to the TARP bailout at US taxpayer expense and Goldman Sachs' enormous profits.
    BBC News - Strikes: How will I be affected?
      Thousands of public sector workers are due to take industrial action on Wednesday in protest at planned changes to their pensions. The strike is likely to cause thousands of schools to close and the cancellation or postponement of many non-emergency hospital appointments, as well as disruption at airports. Use this table to check how you might be affected. This page will be updated in the run-up to the strikes.
    Belgian interest rates to 6 percent? - The Standard
      Even today, the rise in interest rates on long bonds Belgian unabated. The situation is becoming more poignant. The border with 6 percent is rapidly approaching. Very bad news for Belgium on Monday again between 1 and 2 billion euros in government securities will be auctioned.
    Belgian Gov calls for Human Resources to buy debt
      Belgium's prime minister Yves Leterme has called on savers to buy their country's debt. It's something usually left to the finance ministry, which makes a low key request every three months when there is a bond sale targeted at individuals.
    Greek Robin Hoods
      Nearly two years of pay cuts, job cuts and tax hikes have pummeled living standards in debt-crippled Greece and the country is facing record unemployment and a fourth year of recession in 2012. On a personal level, that means many in Veria can't pay for basic necessities such as electricity and end up getting cut off from the grid.
      That's where the "Citizens of Veria" activists step in.
      The group illegally reconnects needy households back to the electric grid in a direct challenge to the country's dominant power provider, the Public Power Corporation.
  Syria
    UN: 'Numerous' reports of child torture by Syria - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com
      A U.N. human rights panel expressed alarm Friday at reports it has received of Syrian security forces torturing children. Only on msnbc.com Making time stand still for military families Controversial sheriff set to endorse Rick Perry It's A Snap! Vote for your favorite photo Bachmann keeps at Gingrich over immigration amnesty Nurse! Medicare dollars tied to patient satisfaction US ranchers: We live in fear along Mexican border American filmmaker in Cairo tells of arrest ordeal The Committee Against Torture said it had received "numerous, consistent and substantiated reports" of widespread abuse in the country. The chair of the panel, Claudio Grossman, told reporters in Geneva that the reports referring to the abuse of children were of "particular concern." The U.N. human rights office says more than 3,500 people have been killed in the eight-month uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. Meanwhile, Syria ignored a deadline imposed by the Arab League to allow an observer mission into the country or face economic sanctions, a senior Arab League diplomat said Friday.
    The Script: Protests against military rule cloud Egypt election | Reuters
      Some protesters favor Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, who has offered to drop his campaign for the presidency and to lead a government of national unity. ElBaradei is respected among pro-democracy campaigners and has a high international profile, but many Egyptians view him as out of touch because he spent much of his career abroad. MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD Mohamed Badie, leader of the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood, which hopes the election will catapult it into a strong place in mainstream politics, offered Ganzouri qualified support, depending on the powers and makeup of his cabinet. He suggested conspiratorial hands were behind the unrest. "There are powers inside and outside Egypt that don't want stability for Egypt or development, and this is something that is being pushed and paid for," he said late on Saturday.
    Rebel army calls for air strikes on Syria - Economic Times
      Free Syrian Army chief Riyadh al-Asaad on Thursday called for foreign air strikes on "strategic targets" in Syria to speed up the fall of the regime, in a telephone interview with AFP. "We are not in favour of the entry of foreign troops as was the case in Iraq but we want the international community to give us logistical support," said FSA chief Colonel Asaad, who is based across the border in Turkey.
    Waarom willen de Amerikanen persé Assad weg hebben?
      Geen wonder dat zowel Israˆ´l als de Amerikanen graag zien dat al-Assad wordt afgezet (wat zal neerkomen op: afgeslacht, al zijn de stedelijke Syriˆ´rs iets beschaafder dan de Libische bedoeˆØenen). Ook Erdogan ziet dat graag: als Iran dit gebied overneemt, stopt dit de Turkse expansie naar het zuiden en dat zou zijn plannetjes flink in de war schoppen. Openlijke inzet van de luchtmacht van de NAVO kan niet. Dit zouden Rusland en China, die weinig last hebben van Iran en het land juist erg nuttig vinden als tegenwicht tegen de Amerikanen en de soennieten, niet toestaan. De mogelijkheden van de Amerikanen zijn beperkt. Ze hopen op een opstand binnen het Syrische leger, waarvan nu sprake lijkt te zijn -- al kan dit ook een propagandacoup zijn. Deze gewapende rebellen kunnen ze dan via de Turken of de andere buurlanden voorzien van wapens en geld. Na het waarschijnlijke bloedbad wordt Syriˆ´ dan een soort vazalstaat van Turkije. Een andere optie is een gewapend ingrijpen door het Turkse leger, uiteraard om "humanitaire redenen". Het is niet voor niets dat Erdogan zich plotseling zo druk maakt over mensenrechtenschendingen in Syriˆ´. Dit is de effectiefste oplossing. Dit heeft ook als voordeel dat het bloedbad voorkomen kan worden. Ook dit betekent vanzelfsprekend een flinke uitbreiding van de Turkse invloedssfeer.
    Naval Airpower Expo, prelude to Syrian Desert Fox | Essential Intelligence
      The resent Libyan campaign which toppled Qaddafi was conceded by Russia in exchange for protecting Syria from a large NATO invasion, definitely from an American or a European one, in order to allow Russia to keep its strategic naval ports in Syria i.e.in the Mediterranean. Since the total majority of the NATO aggresion against Libya was carried out by the USA, UK & France, it followed the tracks of the century old entente, putting an end to Qaddafi's attempt which admitted German economic development overseas intended to encompass Africa.
      It now seems Russia has struck a follow-on deal with the Anglo-American establishment, to limit the extent of western intervention in the Syrian crisis to deterrence only, i.e. allowing the USA to contain the militant acts of Syria to within its own borders under the threat of retaliatory attack the like of 'Desert Fox' in case Syria attacks Israel or Turkey. 'Desert Fox' punished Saddam Hussein for not letting the western observers carry out all their responsibilities, putting an immediate end to Saddam Hussein's resistance.
      This time round the fourth partner to the entente is Israel, which is about to conduct a Joint Military exercise with the Russian navy.
    Uncharted Waters: Thinking Through Syria's Dynamics - International Crisis Group
      Many in Syria and abroad are now banking on the regime's imminent collapse and wagering that all then will be for the better. That is a luxury and an optimism they cannot afford. Instead, it is high time to squarely confront and address the difficulties before it is too late. In the "draft political program" it released on 20 November, the Syrian National Council ’ an opposition umbrella group -- presented the image of an entirely peaceful movement enduring savage repression. The regime and its allies regularly describe the crisis solely as the local manifestation of a vicious regional and international struggle. The two black-and-white narratives are in every way contradictory and mutually exclusive. Both miss a central point: that successful management of this increasingly internationalised crisis depends on a clear-eyed understanding of the grey zone that lies between.
  OWS
    Molecules to Medicine: Should pepper spray be put on (clinical) trial? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network
      There are reports of the efficacy of capsaicin in crowd control, but little regarding trials of exposures. Perhaps this is because pepper spray is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, as a pesticide and not by the FDA. The concentration of capsaicin in bear spray is 1-2%; it is 10-30% in "personal defense sprays."
    The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
      But just when Americans thought we had the picture -- was this crazy police and mayoral overkill, on a municipal level, in many different cities? -- the picture darkened. The National Union of Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a Freedom of Information Act request to investigate possible federal involvement with law enforcement practices that appeared to target journalists. The New York Times reported that "New York cops have arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at reporters and photographers" covering protests. Reporters were asked by NYPD to raise their hands to prove they had credentials: when many dutifully did so, they were taken, upon threat of arrest, away from the story they were covering, and penned far from the site in which the news was unfolding. Other reporters wearing press passes were arrested and roughed up by cops, after being -- falsely -- informed by police that "It is illegal to take pictures on the sidewalk."
    Occupy Wall Street gets soundtrack | Stuff.co.nz
      Participants in the protest movement said Wednesday that Occupy This Album, which will be available sometime this (northern hemisphere) winter, will also feature DJ Logic, Ladytron, Warren Haynes, Toots and the Maytals, Mike Limbaud, Aeroplane Pageant, Yo La Tengo and others.
      Activist filmmaker Michael Moore is also planning to sing.
      Jason Samel, a musician who is putting together the disc, said the goal is to raise between US$1 million (NZ$1.35 millipon) and US$2 million to help fuel the movement that is protesting income disparity.
  Bank$ters
    China, Russia quit dollar
      St. Petersburg, Russia - China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday. Chinese experts said the move reflected closer relations between Beijing and Moscow and is not aimed at challenging the dollar, but to protect their domestic economies. "About trade settlement, we have decided to use our own currencies," Putin said at a joint news conference with Wen in St. Petersburg. The two countries were accustomed to using other currencies, especially the dollar, for bilateral trade. Since the financial crisis, however, high-ranking officials on both sides began to explore other possibilities. The yuan has now started trading against the Russian rouble in the Chinese interbank market, while the renminbi will soon be allowed to trade against the rouble in Russia, Putin said.
  Science!
    CERN Physicists: Higgs Boson Might Not Even Exist - International Business Times
      European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) physicists have raised the possibility that the Higgs boson, the particle that some believe gave the universe its form after the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, is a figment of the imagination. A scientist looks at computer screens at CERN's Large Hadron Collider control center in Geneva on Sept. 3, 2008. Researchers said it might soon be clear whether the Higgs boson is a chimera. They have narrowed down their search for the particle, leaving only a small range of masses that the elusive Higgs boson might have. CERN physicist Pauline Gagnon said that the low mass range, where scientists had always thought they would find the particle, was also the one where it would be more difficult to see. "It might be that it does not even exist," she said, a possibility already raised by other researchers including CERN chief Rolf Heuer. If the Higgs boson is not found, "we need to move on to explore the next set of possibilities, " said Gagnon.
  Squirrel!
    Boko Haram, Al-Qaeda invent deadly vaccine *To attack VIPs, top targets *Vaccine to be tested in W/Africa
      THE Al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula in collaboration with the dreaded Islamic militant group, Boko Haram are said to have invented a deadly vaccine, which is to be deployed in attacks on high targets, sources in government said at the weekend. It was learnt that part of the latest discoveries of some security agencies is the claim that the Al-Qaeda in Arabia Peninsular had collaborated with Boko Haram to develop a special vaccine, said to be twice as deadly as cobra venom, and is meant to be deployed by suicide attackers on some high target operations. Sources further confirmed that the vaccines are due to be first launched in West Africa and that the dreaded Nigerian based group, Boko Haram is the source of deployment.
    DutchNews.nl - Expert unease over deadly flu virus 'created' in Dutch laboratory
      Dutch scientists have created a flu virus which is so deadly there is doubt about whether the research should be published, the Volkskrant reports on Friday. The paper says American experts are worried detailed information could fall into the wrong hands and that terrorists could recreate the virus as a weapon. The fears are notable because the work was carried out on behalf of the National Institutes of Health in the US. The research team, led by Ron Fouchier, professor of virology at Erasmus teaching hospital, was able to create a highly infectious variant of the bird flu virus H5N1. H5N1 rarely transfers from animal to human, but if it does, the infection is often fatal.
  Drone Nation
    Pakistan and China stage war games - Yahoo! Finance
      Pakistan and China are staging joint military exercises, showcasing their relationship as Islamabad's ties with Washington suffer. The war games that began Monday follow remarks by Pakistani officials suggesting that China could step into the economic, military and diplomatic void if Pakistan's relationship with the United States collapsed. An army statement says the exercise in Punjab province showed that the "Pakistan-China friendship is higher than the mountains and deeper than oceans." It was the fourth military exercise between the two nations since 2004. Washington has courted Pakistan's army since 2001, but the raid on Osama bin Laden in May and disagreements over Afghanistan have poisoned the relationship over the last 1 1/2 years.
  $hadow Puppet Theatre
    Source says Barak won't Run in 2012 - Hillary Will and She will WIN!!
      My source said that all of Washington knows that Obama is about to step down. He said that he can't imagine that it won't be leaking soon.
      I wonder what excuse he will use. Of course he has to save face... so it will probably be his health. He could even use that excuse for his being so out of touch with people. And if you have noticed how much weight he has lost... he could possibly have cancer. Remember Steve Jobs toward the end.
    Rahm Emanuel: Iowa Saturday, NBC's "Rock Center" Monday - Lynn Sweet
      WASHINGTON--Mayor Rahm Emanuel protests that he has no interest in the White House; yet he sat down for an interview with NBC's Harry Smith for the new show "Rock Center with Brian Williams" where he is asked if he wants to be the first Jewish President. Emanuel's big profile on NBC Monday night comes just after he headlines a big Iowa Democratic Party dinner in Des Moines on Saturday. After just five months in office, Emanuel is eager to brag nationally about his "accomplishments." UPDATES Emanuel spokesman Chris Mather tells me I am wrong to link the timing of the NBC profile and the Iowa Dinner as I did in the struck out paragraph below. From Mather: 'We did not give big national interview to run after (Iowa) speech. This was supposed to run two weeks ago. You need to change this. ...Harry Smith approached us months ago and asked if we would do one of the first shows." Emanuel taped interviews for the piece late September and early October. Mather would like me to make sure I say Emanuel "considers being the Mayor of Chicago the best job in the world. He is not running for president and has said so repeatedly." END UPDATES Since Emanuel and his press staff know a lot about messaging, they had to know that giving a big national interview to run after the Iowa event would only fuel speculation about Emanuel's future. Anyone think Emanuel is going to sit in City Hall for 21 years?
    Emanuel steps up for Obama in Iowa - chicagotribune.com
      Mayor Rahm Emanuel today capped off a weekend of campaigning for his former boss by arguing Republicans are causing the gridlock in Washington that President Barack Obama had vowed to end while campaigning for the office.
    Rumors Persist Surrounding President Obama's "Body Man" WARNING theulstermanreport.com Readability
      Here now are the photos in question that have been available since at least 2008. Reggie Love himself acknowledged them in an offhand way when speaking of "mistakes" he made while as a college student during an interview given to the New York Times in 2008. The Times of course, did nothing to then follow up on what mistakes the man responsible for the day to day care of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama was speaking of. And even as Mr. Love then became perhaps the most intimate member of Barack Obama's White House inner circle, did any mainstream media do any semblance of due diligence on Reggie Love.
  Ministry of Truth
    Time Magazine's different US cover this week
  We Can't Wait
    Executive Order to save the day? Moody's threatens US downgrade - BlackListedNews.com
      Could another downgrade of America's credit rating be on the way? Moody's Investor Service on Wednesday warned that that might exactly be the case. The rating agency issued a statement today saying that while the congressional supercommittee's failure to come to a compromise on the US deficit dilemma won't necessarily trigger a downgrade, a change to the automatic cuts that are now set to go into play in 2013 will.
  Real News
    BBC News - UK women are 'fattest in Europe'
      The UK has more obese women than any other country in Europe, according to European Union figures. Data agency Eurostat, which looked at 19 countries, found nearly a quarter of UK women - 23.9% - were recorded as being obese in the year 2008 to 2009. Just over 22% of UK men were classed as obese, coming second only to Malta. A person is defined as obese if their body mass index (BMI), the result of a calculation involving weight and height, is above a certain level.
  Haiti
    Dad tells of Haiti horrors on aid visit | This is Somerset
    Still no Clintonfoundation IRS form 990
  Biodiversitée
    Global warming much less serious than thought - new science * The Register
      Climate scientists funded by the US government have announced new research in which they have established that the various doomsday global warming scenarios are in fact extremely unlikely to occur, and that the scenarios considered likeliest - and used for planning by the world's governments - are overly pessimistic.
      The new study improves upon previous results by including data from the remote past, rather than only examining records from recent times.
      "Many previous climate sensitivity studies have looked at the past only from 1850 through today, and not fully integrated paleoclimate date, especially on a global scale," says Andreas Schmittner, professor at the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State uni.
  Lone Wolf
    Fiery protest 'endangered public' - National - NZ Herald News
      Detective Sergeant Michael Priston said his actions 'clearly endangered' members of the public who were walking in the area.
      "Police are taking the behaviour of this man very seriously and the charge reflects his dangerous actions."
      Police also confirmed they had dealt with the same man earlier this week.
      Police have spoken to sixteen witnesses, but have asked anybody who saw the incident or made visual recordings to contact them.
      The man said in a video posted on Facebook that he was an ex-employee of the chairman of the Rural Bank of New Zealand.
      "I've learnt a lot of stuff since then, and I've had enough. I'm gonna make this car disappear," he said.
      He claimed that "fractional reserve lending is the root of all our problems" before walking to the boot of the car, which was filled with rubbish, with what appeared to be a lighter.
  Elite$
    STRAUSS-KAHN: Slog's September prediction comes good as DSK camp drops a stick of bombs into Sarkozy's re-election campaign. | The Slog
      On the surface, what we have here is some charges made by an investigative journalist in New York, closely coordinated with a decision by the DSK camp to sue Establishment newspaper Le Figaro, the ruling UMP Party of Sarkozy, and a close Sarko aide for 'malicious falsehood'....all in relation to allegations about the 'rutting chimpanzee' having it away in somewhat grubby circumstances in a northern French prostitute ring. So the overall imputation is that the French ruling class set up the former IMF leader in New York - and then tried to bury him with misleading accusations once he arrived back.
      What are we to make of this?
      Well, motive is very easy to establish: DSK would've been a shoe-in for the French Presidency against a discredited and ridiculed incumbent. Equally, there are unexplained facts about Sofitel phone calls made to the Elysee Palace in Paris, which make one wonder why an innocent hotel management would even be put through to the President's office...let alone have a conversation with its occupants. Set against this, however, we have Slog informants in Washington insisting there was "no way" the French General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) would dare carry out such a sting alone on American soil.
  Out There
    Apocalypse 2012 Back On? Second Mayan Inscription Uncovered - ABC News
      On Thursday, the institute released a statement saying that the date of the apocalypse had been found on the carved or molded face of a brick at the Comalcalco ruin in the southern part of the country.
      Most experts had previously said there was only one reference in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
      Arturo Mendez, an institute spokesman, said the fragment known as the Comalcalco Brick had been found years ago and studied thoroughly. It is not on display and is kept in storage.
      The Tortuguero and Comalcalco inscriptions were probably carved about 1,300 years ago.
      The Mexican institute cautioned Thursday that "Western messianic thought has twisted the cosmovision of ancient civilizations like the Maya." Its experts said that the Mayas believed that time started and ended with regularity, with nothing apocalyptic occurring at the end.
      The institute plans to hold a meeting of Mayan experts next week to "dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the Mayan Long Count calendar."
  VIDEO
    [VIDEO] Sarkozy's brother ays Euro RIP in 3 months
      Europe's Road to Recovery
    [VIDEO] Miley Cyrus Rock Mafia - IT'S A LIBERTY WALK!
      This is Dedicated to the thousands of people who are standing up for what they believe in. Miley Cyrus
    [AUDIO] War By Remote Control: Drones Make It Easy : NPR
      From his spot beneath the famous Wright Military Flyer in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Peter Singer is reminded of a modern military drone. "The story of manned airplanes is a great parallel to what's happening now with unmanned airplanes," he tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host Rachel Martin. Singer, a technological warfare expert and author of the book Wired for War, has had drones on his mind a lot lately. The Department of Defense is under pressure to cut close to a trillion dollars from its budget over the next 10 years, so there's a lot of talk around the Pentagon about what can go and what can't.
    [VIDEO] This Week 11/20: Interview with Rahm Emanuel Full Episode - This Week - ABC News
    [VIDEO] Joe Lieberman Wants Google To Provide Button To Flag Terrorist Activity on Blogger | Crooks and Liars
      Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) wants Google to implement a policy explicitly banning terrorist material on their Blogger servers and set up a YouTube-style "flag" system to bring such material to Google's attention.
    [VIDEO] Doug Brinkley on His Dust Up With Alaska 'Corrupt Bastards Club' Member Don Young | Video Cafe
      Ed Schultz spoke to historian and Professor Doug Brinkley about the heated exchange he had this week at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing where Brinkley got into it with "Corrupt Bastards Club" member, Alaska Rep. Don Young after Young insulted him after coming back into the hearing room near the end of Brinkley's testimony. I say good for Brinkley for standing up to him.
    [VIDEO] Syria under pressure as Arab deadline expires | euronews, world news
      As its crackdown on protesters continues, Syria has until the end of the day to sign an Arab deal letting monitors into the country or it could incur sanctions. The Arab League deadline has officially expired but a source said the door would be left open to Damascus for a few extra hours.
    [VIDEO] ten minutes ago in a packed Cuba mall
    [VIDEO] Andrew Napolitano - What If There Was Tyranny?
    [VIDEO]: WORTH VIEWING
      Three American 'students' have been paraded on Egyptian TV.
      The trio studying Arabic at the American University in Cairo were accused of throwing firebombs, from a rooftop, at the military.
      The university identified the trio as Derrik Sweeney, 19, from Jefferson City, Mo.; Luke Gates, 21, from Bloomington, Ind.; and Gregory Porter, 19, of Glenside, Pa.