It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. -Samuel Adams  New Years Eve Morning - December 31, 2009 |
  Nebraskans are happy this morning: Husker Gameday - Holiday Bowl: Nebraska 33, Arizona 0 (FINAL) |
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people" - John Adams - Second President (1797 - 1801) |
 New Year's Eve celebrations begin in the Pacific Islands across the Pacific were the first to welcome in the New Year, with celebrations to mark the start of 2010 beginning in the tiny nation of Kiribati at 10am GMT, followed by the Chatham Islands, Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand and Australia.  |
DrudgeReport.com New Year's Eve Morning headline:
Revellers to usher in 2010 with fireworks and parties
It's a wonderful life working for the government It looks like a happy new year for you -- if you're a public employee. That's the takeaway from a recent Rasmussen poll that shows that 46 percent of government employees say the economy is getting better while just 31 percent say it's getting worse. In contrast, 32 percent of those with private-sector jobs say the economy is getting better, while 49 percent it is getting worse. Nearly half, 44 percent, of government employees rate their personal finances as good or excellent. Only 33 percent of private-sector employees do. It sounds like public- and private-sector employees are looking at different Americas.... Another $3.8 Billion for GMAC |
Even Mogadishu Does It Better Than the Department of Homeland Security
Terrorism: For all the billions the U.S. spends on intelligence and homeland security, it's Somalia that has racked up a better record of stopping jet terrorists with explosive-filled underwear. Anyone out there appalled?
Last Nov. 11, sharp-eyed African Union troops, who serve as airport security in the failed state of Somalia, pinpointed a terrorist with a syringe detonator, lethal powder and explosives in his pants trying to board a Dubai-bound jetliner in Mogadishu. They yanked him out of line and stopped him from getting on. It's eerily similar in detail to the Christmas Day terror attack on a Northwest Airlines...
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Congressman introduces federal anti-SLAPP bill A Tennessee congressman has introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives known as “the Citizen Participation Act of 2009” that would provide protection for people who are sued for exercising their First Amendment rights of petition and speech. I f passed, the measure by Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., would become the first federal anti-SLAPP law on the books. SLAPP is an acronym for Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. A SLAPP suit seeks to silence an individual or a business simply because that person or entity has spoken out or exercised First Amendment rights. The filer of a SLAPP suit... |
Danger Room’s Top 10 Stories From a World Gone Nuts
First up: The drone war over Pakistan. This time last year, it was most definitely underway. But in 2009, it kicked into high gear. The Obama administration launched more than 50 reported robotic strikes, killing several hundred people. Compare that to 2008, when there were just 36 drone attacks.
The character of the drone war changed, too.
A year ago, the Pakistani government was denying any connection with the attacks. So was the U.S. military. And the idea that Blackwater was somehow mixed up in the whole thing was a plot twist worthy of Hollywood. But that was before Google Earth spotted U.S. Predators parked on a Pakistani runway; before the Air Force let slip that their drones were running missions east of the Durand Line; and before the CIA publicly announced that it was cutting Blackwater’s contract for rearming the drones.
By May, the unmanned attacks had become such an open secret that CIA director Leon Panetta confessed that the robotic campaign was “the only game in town in terms of confronting or trying to disrupt the al Qaeda leadership.” (This, despite the militants’ apparent understanding of how the drones were targeted, and how to see through the robotic planes’ eyes.) That view was shared by some in the White House, who wanted to recast the Afghanistan fight along the lines of the drone-heavy effort in Pakistan. But counterinsurgency experts continue to worry that the robotic attacks could destabilize the region as they continue into 2010 and expand to a new front: Yemen.
— Noah Shachtman
[Photo: Noah Shachtman]
Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke
Energy From Thorium has become a sort of open source project aimed at resurrecting long-lost energy technology using modern techniques. READ MORE http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_new_nukes/ |
Here's what's not gonna happen in the new year
This is the time of year when people make predictions about what will happen over the next 12 months.
Just to be different, I'm going to predict what won't happen in 2010.
* We won't stop hearing that the recession is ending -- even though it hasn't.
While I take no joy in knowing that the economy is still very weak, there is a certain pleasure in listening to Wall Street gurus, politicians and other know-it-alls try desperately to convince ordinary people that their lives have improved.
* President Obama's popularity won't improve.
That's because bad economies equal bad poll numbers for the guy in charge.
But Obama won't be bothered by his waning popularity and he won't stop golfing up a storm. He figures he's got at least another year in office before desperation needs to set in.
Yet the president's complacency in the face of a bad economy won't be justified, and when it comes time to pick the next president, what Obama didn't achieve in his first two years won't be forgotten or forgiven.
* You won't get much of a pay increase unless you cry in front of your boss;
companies will remain stingy for as long as they can, and then some.
* Christmas promotions by retailers won't start the week of Thanksgiving next year, but instead right after back-to-school advertising ends.
* Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao won't be coming to Washington.
He will, however, summon President Obama to Beijing, and though the president won't be able to get there fast enough, China will buy fewer bonds, sending interest rates here and around the world soaring.
13 Attorney Generals threaten suit over health care COLUMBIA, S.C.- December 30, 2009 – Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska's political deal from the federal health care reform bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday. "We believe this provision is constitutionally flawed," South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and the 12 other attorneys general wrote in the letter to be sent Wednesday night to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. "As chief legal officers of our states we are contemplating a legal challenge to this provision and we ask you to take action to render this challenge unnecessary by striking that provision," they wrote. ... The letter was signed by top prosecutors in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington state. All are Republicans, and McMaster and the attorneys general of Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania are running for governor in their respective states ...READ MORE |
RevolutionRadio.org | Morning Headlines - December 31, 2009
Losing the Bill of Rights
December 31st, 2009By Jacob Hornberger
Last month, President Obama announced that Khalid Sheik Mohammed would be transferred to New York, where he would stand trial in U.S. district court for his purported role as principal architect of the 9/11 attacks. At the same time, Obama announced that other terrorist suspects would continue to be tried for terrorism in the Pentagon’s military-commissions system, which was established after 9/11.
Coming Soon: The Bill for the Massive U.S. Debt
December 31st, 2009By Don Miller
MoneyMorning.com
Americans could be in for a rude awakening in coming months when they discover the true scope of the massive national debt racked up by the U.S. government.
United States Debt Ridden Road to Perdition
December 31st, 2009By: James Quinn
Market Oracle
Dec 30, 2009
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want – and their kids pay for it. – Richard Lamm
TSA Threatens Blogger Who Posted New Screening Directive
December 31st, 2009By Kim Zetter
Wired.com
December 30, 2009
Two bloggers received home visits from Transportation Security Administration agents Tuesday after they published a new TSA directive that revises screening procedures and puts new restrictions on passengers in the wake of a recent bombing attempt by the so-called underwear bomber.
Eurozone credit contraction accelerates
December 31st, 2009Bank loans and the M3 money supply in the eurozone contracted at an accelerating pace in November, raising the risk that a lending squeeze will choke the region’s fragile recovery next year.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
TelegraphUK
All Currencies will Continue to fall vs. Gold. Market Review
December 31st, 2009by Bob Chapman
Global Research
December 31, 2009
The rally in the dollar and the problems for other currencies prove what we have been saying and that is all currencies will continue to fall vs. gold. The impetus for the dollar rally originates as usual with the government and is added to by the disarray in the economies worldwide, particularly in Europe. One of the things central banks have never learned is that financial engineering only works for a short duration, after that the problem worsens. Even the world’s strongest currencies, the Swiss, Canadian, Aussie and Norwegian, are only holding their own versus gold. The reason why is almost all central banks have done the same thing and that is create money and credit recklessly at the behest of the US government. The US and British financial systems are insolvent. The euro is under severe pressure, because of problems in Greece, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Italy, and every other central bank is jockeying for position via competitive devaluation. The public may not notice it but the situation is really chaotic. As you can see, the US is never allowed a level playing field, but that is part of what comes with being the international reserve currency. Banks in Britain, Europe and the US continue to take losses, sometimes-severe losses. There is no intermediation going on with the dollar. Its rally is founded on manipulation. We suspect in the future we will have an interesting phenomenon and that is a fall in the dollar, pound and the euro, as gold moves higher as the only viable alternative. The world is going to be shocked when the euro collapses. It won’t happen overnight. It will take a year or two, but it has a good chance of happening. The US dollar cannot and will not for some time to come be a safe haven for wealth. That is because the dollar and the US economy have been deliberately destroyed.
A Hell of a Decade
December 31st, 2009by Peter Schiff
LewRockwell.com
In its recent look back on the first ten years of the century, Time magazine proclaimed the period to be “the decade from hell.” The editors made their case based on what they saw as the signature events of the last ten years, notably the ravages of terrorism, failed wars, and a global financial crisis. Taken together, these factors produced an era that Time is convinced will be remembered as one of the low points in our history.
Plentiful Petroleum
December 31st, 2009by George Giles
LewRockwell.com
As the first decade of the twenty-first century draws to a close it is worth reviewing topics that may impact every man, woman and child. The disastrous Bush Administration pulled the legs out from under the baby boomers retirement with his inability to veto any spending bill. He has even crippled the future of the unborn. Lil’ Bush launched a global war on an adjective (terrorism) without any strategic objective. Previous wars had nouns as the subject. Social spending increased as well, not to mention the subversion of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Obama HAS taken up right where Lil’ Bush left off. Immense deficits and a monstrous national debt are threatening to consume us. As awful as this scenario is these are abstract concepts to Joe Public, something that plays little or no part in their daily lives. What about the impending eco-doom and the fact that we are running out of oil? These are abstract concepts that all the benighted masses can reify for themselves.
The Old ‘False-Flag Trick’
December 31st, 2009by William Norman Grigg
LewRockwell.com
You know, Chief, this nude bomb might solve a lot of problems. For one thing, flashers…. And there’d be no more trouble with concealed weapons. I mean, if everyone were nude, there’d be no place to hide a gun or knife. Well, there is a place, but it could be painful.
THE MILLENNIUM BARACK
December 31st, 2009By Michael LeMieux
December 31, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
Barack Obama ran his campaign on many issues to “fundamentally change America.” Some of those issues seem to be very lofty goals even if it is not his job to do so or even constitutional, but when has that ever stopped a modern politician.
PHYSICIANS ARE CLOSING THEIR OFFICES
Erica Carle
December 31, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
Dr. Carl W. Peter Jr., M.D.
Lower Standards Will Cost Lives
NOTE BY ERICA CARLE: The accompanying letter was written by our son, Dr. Carl W. Peter Jr. in response to a Letter to the Editor complaining about the greediness of physicians. Dr. Peter’s letter appeared in the Sumter, S.C. paper in January 2003. It seems relevant today when even the President of the United States complains about “greedy physicians.”
It all happened at a well-fortified combat outpost in Eastern Afghanistan. Somehow a suicide bomber was able to bring his explosives on the base, walk up to a group of American civilians and blow himself up. It will take an investigation to determine how he did it. Eight US 'CIA agents' killed in Afghanistan bomb attack |
Xinhua top 10 world news events in 2009
BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) — The following were the top 10 events around the world in 2009 as selected by Xinhua:1. International naval forces jointly battle Somali pirates
Piracy continued to be rampant off the Somali coast in 2009. Nearly 40 vessels were hijacked and 500 crew members onboard have been held hostage so far this year.
China sent its first escort mission to the Gulf of Aden off Somalia on Jan. 7. Its fourth mission is now part of a multinational coalition of warships patrolling the pirate-infested area.
On Nov. 6-7, naval officers from Russia, India, the European Union, Japan and the multinational Combined Maritime Forces met in Beijing to coordinate their efforts to protect ships from Somali pirates.
2. Obama takes office, leading U.S. into era of change
On Jan. 20, Democrat Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th U.S. president, thus becoming the first African American president in the country’s history.
With the banner of “changes we believe” during his presidential campaign, Obama called for “a world without nuclear weapons” in an April address in Prague, sought “a new beginning” of relations with the Muslim world in Cairo in June, and looked to strengthen ties with the Asian countries in an Asian policy speech when he visited Tokyo in November.
President Obama brought about changes to U.S. foreign policy after he unveiled new Iraq and Afghanistan strategies, revised plans for a missile defense shield in Europe, and stressed his focus on Asia, especially on East Asia.
3. Six-party talks deadlocked after DPRK nuclear test
On Jan. 30, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced it was scrapping all agreements with South Korea preventing political and military confrontation between the two sides.
On April 14, the DPRK quit the six-party talks aimed at denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula in protest of a UN condemnation on its launch of a satellite.
On June 12, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution that allowed wider sanctions against the DPRK after Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test in May and fired several ballistic missiles in June.
In a letter to the president of the UN Security Council, the DPRK said “reprocessing of spent fuel rods was at its final phase” at the end of August.
When meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Oct. 5., top DPRK leader Kim Jong Il said his country was willing to attend multilateral talks, including the six-party talks, based on progress at the DPRK-U.S. talks.
4. U.S.-Russian satellite collision calls for better space traffic management
On Feb. 10, a privately owned U.S. communications satellite collided with a defunct Russian satellite about 790 km over Russia’s Siberia, spewing a pair of massive debris clouds and sparking fears that the debris might threaten other spacecraft.
The collision between the U.S. and Russian satellites, the first “car crash” in outer space, highlighted an urgent need to better manage increasingly dense space traffic.
The U.S. satellite was owned by the Iridium satellite company, which operates a constellation of 66 low Earth orbiting satellites that provide global mobile voice and data communications.
The Russian satellite Cosmos 2251 launched in 1993 was presumed non-operational.
5. China-U.S. relations redefined
On April 1, Chinese President Hu Jintao met with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama on the sidelines of a Group of 20 (G-20) summit on the financial crisis in London.
They agreed to build a positive, cooperative and comprehensive relationship for the 21st century and establish the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogues mechanism to deepen bilateral cooperation.
On July 27-28, the first round of the strategic and economic dialogues ended in Washington, with the two countries pledging to intensify bilateral ties and expand cooperation in economic and financial sectors as well as on major international and regional issues.
Hu made a five-point proposal on promoting China-U.S. relations while meeting with Obama in Beijing on Nov. 17.
6. Countries begin mass vaccination in fight against A/H1N1 flu
On June 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the A/H1N1 influenza alert to the highest Level 6, formally declaring that the outbreak had developed into a global pandemic.
On Sept. 7, China’s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) approved the release of the initial batch of the A/H1N1 vaccine, making the country the first in the world to be ready with a vaccine against the virus.
Shortly afterward, a number of countries launched mass vaccination programs against A/H1N1 flu after Australia, Hungary and the United States approved the vaccines.
At least 11,516 people worldwide have been killed by A/H1N1 influenza since the new flu virus was first identified in April, the WHO said in a report on Dec. 20.
The virus remains active in regions across Europe and Asia, but the speed of its spread has eased, the report said.
7. Democratic Party wins landslide in Japan’s general election
On Aug. 30, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won the lower house election by a landslide, sweeping the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) out of almost unbroken power since 1955.
After the DPJ’s victory, Japan seemed to be on the road to a two-party system.
The DPJ formed a tripartite coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the People’s New Party (PNP) on Sept. 16. The DPJ-led government decided to abolish the top bureaucrats’ meetings so that it could put politicians in charge of decision-making.
In diplomacy, while maintaining Japan’s long-standing alliance with the United States, the new government sought to create a “relationship of equals.”
By urging the creation of an “East Asian Community,” Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama also wanted to forge stronger ties with neighboring Asian countries.
8. World economy slowly emerging from crisis
The world economy plunged into a severe recession triggered by the global financial crisis in September 2008. The recession dragged down the economic growth of the United States, the euro zone and Japan as well as the world’s emerging economies.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected in an October report that global output would contract 1.1 percent in 2009, the first time since World War II.
The Group of 20 (G-20) governments launched major fiscal stimulus programs to foster global economic recovery after agreeing to reform international financial institutions and tighten financial regulations at summits in London and Pittsburgh.
Through close global cooperation, the international financial market has been stabilized and major Western economies have shown clear signs of recovery in the second half of this year. The IMF predicts the world economic growth in 2010 will reach 3.1 percent.
9. Start of Lisbon Treaty opens new era for EU
On Nov. 19, Belgian Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy was chosen as the first full-time EU president and British EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton as foreign policy chief of the 27-nation bloc at a special EU summit.
On Dec. 1, the Treaty of Lisbon approved by all 27 EU members came into force, stating the EU is “heading into a new era.”
The treaty features new rules to accelerate decision-making so that the EU can respond more swiftly to global issues such as defense, energy security, climate change and migration.
The Lisbon Treaty is a simplified version of a constitution treaty that was approved by EU leaders in 2004 but was aborted due to French and Dutch voters’ rejection in 2005.
10. Copenhagen meeting ends with non-binding climate accord
Frequent extreme weather events in 2009 such as tropical cyclones and flooding aroused concerns by the international community. Some 15,000 representatives from 190 countries, including 100 heads of states or governments, gathered in Copenhagen for the UN Climate Conference on Dec. 7.
The participants were expected to renew emissions reduction targets after the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
After 13 days of hectic negotiations,the meeting ended with a legally non-binding Copenhagen Accord. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the Copenhagen talks took “a significant step forward” in committing countries to responding to climate change.
FROM KOREA The Top National Stories of 2009◆ Last Farewell to Prominent Koreans Several prominent Koreans who played major roles in the country's modern history died in 2009. Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, the spiritual anchor of Korea's Catholics, died on Feb. 16, triggering a wave of mourning across the nation. Former President Roh Moo-hyun committed suicide on May 25 while being investigated by prosecutors, sending shockwaves throughout Korean politics. And when former President Kim Dae-jung died on Aug. 18 of multiple organ failure caused by complications from pneumonia, the opposition party lost two former presidents in a single year. Kim was given a state funeral, only the second former president in South Korea's history to be so honored. The first was Park Chung-hee in 1979. ◆ Korea's Global Status Rises Korea took major step toward becoming an advanced country in 2009 when, at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh in September, the country was selected to host the next meeting of leading developed and developing economies in November 2010. Korea is the first newly-industrialized country to host the G20 Summit, which has replaced the G8 as the top global consultative group. In November, Korea also joined the OECD's Development Assistance Committee, a club of developed donor nations. It was the first time a country has moved from receiving international aid to a becoming a major donor. ◆ N.Korea Stuns and Baffles the World ◆ Attempted Satellite Launch Fails Korea first space rocket lifted off as planned at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla Province on Aug. 25. But it failed to put the Science and Technology Satellite-2 into its targeted orbit when one of the protective satellite covers known as the payload fairings failed to separate. The mission was labeled a "half success." The satellite is believed to have re-entered the earth's atmosphere and burned as it fell to the surface. The government plans to launch another rocket one more time during the first half of next year. ◆ Athletes Triumph on World Stage Korean sports got off to a strong start in 2009 with the national baseball team finishing second in the World Baseball Classics in March. Team Korea lost to Japan 3-5 in the final round but gave the Japanese players a tough match by forcing the game into extra innings. In August, Yang Yong-eun became the first Asian-born golfer to win a major championship, outplaying world no. 1 Tiger Woods of the U.S. to claim the PGA Championship. Korea's national football squad also reached the World Cup finals, held in South Africa in 2010, for the seventh consecutive time. Figure skating star Kim Yu-na grabbed top prizes in all five major tournaments this year, from the Four Continents Tournament in February to the Grand Prix Final in December, bringing joy to Koreans all year long. |
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| Current Moon Phase http://www.die.net/moon/  BLUE MOON ON NEW YEAR'S EVE: Believe it or not, tonight's full Moon is a "Blue Moon." It's the second full Moon this month and the first Blue Moon to fall on New Year's Eve in nearly 20 years. Sounds like a rare excuse for a party... There's more. In Europe, Africa and Asia, the Blue Moon will dip into Earth's shadow for a partial lunar eclipse. At maximum eclipse, around 19:24 Universal Time, approximately 8% of the Moon will be darkly shadowed: animated preview. From the Lincoln, Nebraska JournalStar.com: All about tonight's BLUE MOON   A full moon rises over a barn in La Vista, Neb., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frauds hit carbon tradingWhy are mysterious UK businesses registering to trade carbon in Europe? Food Vs. Trees Agriculture: Already buffeted by rising food prices due to biofuels, consumers face a bigger hike if climate-change legislation is passed. Farming costs will rise, and it may be more profitable to plant trees than crops. If the cap-and-trade provisions of the Waxman-Markey bill become law, you can wave goodbye to those amber waves of grain as America's heartland falls victim to a perverse set of incentives and a process called "afforestation." Soybeans and wheat will give way to elms and oaks. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack wants a review of what amounts to an agricultural impact study of HR 2454, which... | ||
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Palestinians remember the one year anniversary of the Israeli Offensive in Gaza
An Afghan man walks past a Mickey Mouse wall painting in Kabul
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Two polar bears wrestle in in the Wapusk National Park in Manitoba, Canada. Photographer David C Schultz spent five days capturing a series of images, sat just 40 metres away from the bears along the shore of the Hudson Bay
 Members of a winter swimming club form a 2010 sign in the snow on the bank of the Yenisei River as they celebrate the coming of the new year in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, December 27, 2009. |
Body of Sea Urchin is One Big Eye
Sea urchins may use the whole surface of their bodies as compound eyes, scientists now suggest.
A purple sea urchin, Credit: Claire Fackler, NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries
— LiveScience
Bell Ringing To Usher In New Year in Suzhou, China
SUZHOU, Dec. 30, 2009 (Xinhua) — The belfry of the Hanshan Temple in Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province. The bell tower, pagoda, the Giant Bell and Stele Garden and other major scenic spots of the Hanshan Temple are illuminated to usher in the traditional New Year’s Eve Bell Ringing activity on the night of Dec 31. Some 6,000 guests and sightseers are set to take part in the event. (Photo by Xinhua/Wang Jianzhong)
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