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• Rep. Giffords serves Thanksgiving to troops
• State of the Nation, Florida: "So far in every month of 2011, the number of people in Manatee and Sarasota counties seeking food, shelter, medical care and other aid — because they were homeless or on the verge of homelessness — has been higher than it was in 2010. The total number of people — women, men, children and families — who sought help from relief agencies in 2010 was higher than it was in 2009. The number in '09 was higher than it was in 2008. Now, five years after America's per-capita income began to decline, the needs of thousands of people in our region — and the charitable organizations that serve them — continue to rise."
• Report: The city of Los Angeles has told Occupy L.A. leaders to move their encampment away from City Hall by Monday.
• Thanksgiving dinner political arguments guide
• Members of Congress Still Legally Profit From Insider Training
• The Billionaire Stumbles: Bloomberg Uses "Terrorism" Charge as Distraction and Gets Pepper Sprayed by the FBI -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Newt Gingrich is a "a Stupid Man's Idea of What a Smart Man Sounds Like"-- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Glenn Greenwald: The biggest media myth isn't "The Liberal Media"; it's the "objective journalist"
• Torture Used on Protesters in Bahrain, Report Says
• Mike Bloomberg's Dictator Style: He Has NYPD Arrest, Intimidate and Injure Journalists "In Order to Protect Them."
• William Rivers Pitt: In the Shadow of the Mountain
• Occupy Wall Street Thanksgiving
• For Many "Occupy" Students, It's a Matter of Life and Debt
• Benedict Norquist (Satirical Illustration)
• An Occupy Wall Street supporter literally slipped President Obama a note today while shaking hands on the campaign trail in Manchester, New Hampshire. The tiny piece of paper read as follows: "Mr. President: Over 4,000 peaceful protesters have been arrested. While banksters continue to destroy the American economy with impunity. You must stop the assault on our 1st ammendment [sic] rights. Your silence sends a message that police brutality is a [illegible]. Banks got bailed out. We got sold out." Great photograph.
• UK: A Conservative party college student association in Britain will send a written apology to Barack Obama after its members burned an effigy of the U.S. president, it was announced Thursday.
• Gail Collins on Being Thankful for the Cheap Thrills of the Republican Debates: Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster who served as moderator, asked Santorum what message God was sending when he then lost the seat — by what I believe was 17 percentage points. Santorum was momentarily silenced.
• Honoring Richard Trumka, Honoring the American Worker on Thanksgiving
• Did Michele "Loose Lips" Bachmann Reveal Classified Info at CNN Debate?
• Report About Discovery Channel: "Climate change episode of Frozen Planet won't be shown in the U.S. as viewers don't believe in global warming."
• Two Scandals, One Connection: The FBI link between Penn State and UC Davis
• "Trying to prevent an increase in tax rates on the richest 1% of Americans looks to me like a losing strategy for the Republicans."
• "Think Walmart uses 100% clean energy? Try 2% Walmart claims that it wants to be powered entirely by renewable energy, but it's been moving very slowly toward that lofty goal, unwilling to put up the money to make it happen anytime soon."
• Kingdom of Bloomberg Update: “What the police have done is made 79th Street between 5th and Madison a no-First-Amendment zone,” said Norman Siegel, a civil liberties lawyer. “The Constitution doesn’t say you have First Amendment rights except where Mayor Bloomberg lives.”
• Michael Moore | Don't Sit This One Out - What's Your Vision for Occupy Wall Street?
• Egyptian Military Using "More Dangerous" Teargas on Tahrir Square Protesters
• Congress May Pass a Bill Similar to China's Internet Censorship, With Corporations in Charge -- Elliot Cohen for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• 13 Political Turkeys for the Groaning Board -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• The Unmentionable: Land Mines in Afghanistan Sexually Mutilate US Troops -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Yemeni Leader Signs a Deal to End His 33-Year Rule
• UC Davis to Pay Medical Bills of Pepper Spray Victims
• The Cop Group Coordinating the Occupy Crackdowns
• The Corporatization of the American University
• Thousands Rally in Tel Aviv in Support of Israel Democracy -
• The War on Vegetables
• What will climate change mean for California?
• The GOP's dual-trigger nightmare
• Mainstream Economic Media Cry Wolf
• Violence Goes to College
• The Senate's Detainee Disaster - How the pending defense bill could impede a US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
• Five Troubling Things About the For-Profit Industry’s Self-Policing Standards
• Inside the Corporate Plan to Occupy the Pentagon
• Meet Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney’s Teeth-Baring Press Secretary
• New Study: US Healthcare System Is More Effective at Delivering High Costs Than Quality Care
• Report: Bahrain Using Excessive Force in Crackdowns
• Herman Cain Signs Susan B. Anthony List's "Pro-life Presidential Leadership Pledge"
• Glenn Greenwald: What Endless War Looks Like
• BPA Levels Soar After Eating Canned Soup
• Egypt Protests: Death Toll Rises As Clashes Between Police, Protesters Continue
• The GOP Debate: Six Takeaways
• Financier, Tax Thyself -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Matt Taibbi: UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top
• Democrats Lobby Against Any Broader Exceptions to Contraceptive Coverage
• Jerry Sandusky Case Sees Two New Child Sex Abuse Investigations Where Alleged Victims are Under 18
• Gainesville, Florida Goes Solar
• The labor board’s sole Republican member, Brian E. Hayes, has threatened to resign to deny the NLRB the three-person quorum it needs to make any decisions.
• South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Presidential Primary Date
• Feds Sue Utah Over Illegal Immigration Enforcement Bill
• Did Newt Gingrich Really Say That Pepper-Spraying Students Was "Bull"? (Satire)
• James Murdoch Resigns From UK Newspaper Boards
• Obama Turns Anti-Tax Message on GOP
• State legislators have scheduled a December 14 hearing in Sacramento to look into the controversial use of pepper spray by UC Davis police against nonviolent student protesters last week and other recent instances of force used by UC Berkeley police against demonstrators.
• Violent police crackdowns on Occupy camps are real threat
• AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Named One of Esquire Magazine's "Americans of the Year"
• Oregon's Governor Announces Halt to All Executions - (Watch a video of him discussing his decision.)
• Super Committee Blowup May Hit States Hard
• Romney's First Ad Misleads Voters
• Protesters Interrupt Obama's Manchester Speech
• As Time Ran Out, (Republican members of the) Super Committee Watched Football, Hung Around in Bars
• House Calls Corzine to Testify at MF Global Hearing
• Pregnant Woman Blasted with Pepper Spray by SPD Says She Miscarried
• CNN Money: Bank of America About to Implode?
• Report: Nearly Half of All Americans Live on the Economic Edge
• President Obama Gets A Note From The 99%
• The Damning Video Tape that Shows That the UC Davis Police Chief Lied About "Justification" for Pepper Spraying -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Sexual Child Abuse and Anal Rape at Penn State and Elsewhere Should Trump Tailgating Parties -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Here’s What the Attempted Co-Option of OWS Looks Like
• Obama Responds to Occupy Protesters in N.H.
• Reporters Meet the Fists of the Law
• An Open Letter to the Winter Patriot
• Matt Taibbi: UC Davis Pepper-Spray Crystalized In One Image The Weakness In Our Principles Up Top
• Insane In The Cain Membrane: "As a descendent of slaves, I can lead the Republican Party to victory."
• "A confrontation between Pakistan’s powerful military and the civilian government, over a controversial offer supposedly made by the government to the U.S. administration to rein in the army forces and its spy agency, led Tuesday to the resignation of the Islamabad’s ambassador to Washington."
• Companies Lay Off Workers While Spending Billions on Share Buybacks to Enrich Executives
• 'You Can Crush the Flowers, But You Can’t Stop the Spring'
• On This Day in 1963, At 12:30 p.m., President John F. Kennedy Was Assassinated. This Is The Best Speech He Ever Gave. Period, End Of File. Read It.
• White House Openly Considers Caving to Bishops on Birth Control Coverage
• Gunman w/ No Connection to OWS Charged After Shooting During Occupy Houston Rally
• Supercommittee Was About the Bush Tax Cuts—and That Battle Isn't Over
• 'Occupy' Protesters Complete New York to D.C. March
• Sen. Patty Murray Laments Debt Panel’s Failure
• "Egypt's military ruler said on Tuesday that presidential polls will be held by the end of June, and offered a referendum on the immediate transfer of power in a bid to contain mass anti-military rallies."
• Obama Issues Veto Threat On Bush Tax Cuts
• William Rivers Pitt | The People's Surveillance State
• New Details Emerge About German Neo-Nazi Group
• Cash-Strapped Cities, Schools Say: 'Your Ad Here'
• Bank Earnings Hit Highest Level in 4 Years, FDIC Says
• The Trashing of the People’s Library
• Black Leaders Get Closeup View of Alabama’s New Jim Crow
• Cutting And Running Away: McKeon And McCain Vote For Mandatory Defense Cuts But Now Don’t Want Them
• OWS Education Activists Launch Student Debt Refusal Pledge
• Ow...My Brain...Fox's Megyn Kelly: Pepper Spray Used On UC-Davis Protesters Is "A Food Product, Essentially"
• Wisconsin Gov. Walker's Opponents Plagued By Threats, Thefts. I'm Sure It's Just A Coincidence.
• "For weeks now, Republicans have attacked Democrats for voicing support for the Occupy Wall Street protesters, in particular faulting the DCCC for standing up for them. And the incidents of violence and excess have led some neutral commentators to predict that Dems will pay a political price if they align themselves with the movement. So it’s interesting to see that the DCCC is sticking by Occupy Wall Street."
• Columnist Tears Into “Criminal” Government Before New Law Makes It Illegal
• Julie Doucet: It's Amazing I'm Able to Make a Living
• As Crowds Swell In Cairo, Military In Crisis Talks

• Why I Got Arrested at Occupy Wall Street
• Teen in Gay-Student Slaying Case Agrees to 21-Year Prison Term
• With Collapse of the Super-Committee, Defense Spending is Likely to Be a Key 2012 Campaign Issue in National Election
• UC Davis Chancellor Apologizes to Protesters During Student Gathering on Monday
• Obama: I Will Veto Attempts To Get Rid Of Automatic Spending Cuts
• "Herpes is now slightly more popular than Congress"
• Former Head Of Godfather's Pizza Gets Secret Service Protection - Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Scientists Grow Stem Cells that Integrate into Brain
• Former AIG CEO Suing Treasury and Fed Over AIG Bailout
• Elizabeth Warren: Obama’s Natural Heir?
• The Deficit Supercommittee Has Officially Folded
• Egypt's Civilian Government Submits Offer to Resign
• Gingrich: Put Poor Kids to Work Cleaning Schools
• Schadenfreude: Law Firm Behind "Homeless Halloween Party" Goes Under
• Rush Limbaugh Says First Lady Was Booed Partly Because NASCAR Fans Hate Her ‘Uppityism’
• Poll-itics: “Fox News leads people to be even less informed than those who don’t watch any news at all.”
• Bloomberg Grandstanding Revealed to Take the Heat Off His Hosni Mubarak Imitation of Late: New York bomb suspect Jose Pimentel not a serious terror threat: FBI sources FBI did not pursue Pimentel case because they thought he was incapable of carrying out terror plot, according to officials
• Rally at UC Davis: Students Who Were Pepper Sprayed Call for Katehi to Resign
• Seymour Hersh: Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency
• Women Are Becoming Unions' New Voices
• Michael Bloomberg, "I Found You Just in Time, I Found You Just in Time." Michael "Mubarak" Bloomberg Tries to Bail Out His Sinking Reputation as a Tyrant for the Wealthy by Holding a Rare Sunday News Conference, in His Golf Course Orange, to Suddenly Announce the Arrest of a An Allegedly Wannabe Bomb Planting American "Al-Qaeda" Terrorist. Just as His Police State Tactics Were Starting to Make Him Look Like Ivan the Terrible.
• Latino Groups Urge Obama to Stand Firm on Birth Control Without Co-Pays
• Banks Near Record Spending on DC Lobbyists
• Poet-Bashing Police
• The Roots of the UC-Davis Pepper-Spraying
• Honduras: America's Great Foreign Policy Disgrace
• How the 99 Percent Won in the Fight for Worker Rights
• Austerity Will Sink the Economy; Budget Cuts Are Not the Answer
• Greenhouse Gases Hit Record Levels; Concentrations Exceed Scientists' Worst-Case Scenarios
• The Turning Point: The Moral Example of UC Davis Students, and Occupy Wall Street
• Tahrir Square protest continues to grow after two days of fighting with security forces left at least 22 people dead.
• Media Activist Runs for Congress
• OWS: Where Does Feminism Fit
• Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer May Attempt to Fire Redistricting Chair Again
• UC Davis Police Chief Placed on Leave Following Pepper-Spray Incident
• President Obama’s Base of Support Remains Solid Heading into 2012
• The Super Committee's Big Lie Is That the Deficit Must be Closed By Cutting Government Spending Rather Than by Raising Taxes on Corporations and the Super-Rich
• How Does Wall Street REALLY View the Protesters?
• Robert Kuttner: American Policy Made in China
• Paul Krugman: To Save the World Economy We Must Topple Dangerous Romantics from their Pedestals
• University of California President Issues Statement That Police Misconduct at U of C Campuses Will Not Continue and That He is Appalled by by the Berkeley and UC Davis Incidents
• Sen. Patty Murray: Supercommittee Stuck on Bush Tax Cuts
• The Large Percentage of Millionaires in Congress Is Creating an Empathy Deficit
• Pre-Occupied: The Origins and Future of Occupy Wall Street
• Frank Rich: What Killed JFK?
• At the very last minute on Friday, the Delaware River Basin Commission canceled a public meeting at which its five members were scheduled to vote on ending a moratorium on fracking in the Delaware River watershed. The obvious reason: There weren't enough votes to pass it.
• What Drugs Was Your Thanksgiving Turkey On? Antibiotics and other drugs are common in the turkey that thousands of Americans eat every day.
• Thailand's Hidden Child Soldiers - The UN Has Been Reluctant to Investigate Militias for Recruiting Kids to Serve
• Norquist Proud of His Role in Firing Up Anti-Tax Fervor in Washington
• Top GOP Donor Claims South Carolina Gov. Haley Illegally "Exploited Her Public Office For Personal Financial Gain"
• The Top 0.1% Of The Nation Earn Half Of All Capital Gains "Income and wealth disparities become even more absurd if we look at the top 0.1% of the nation's earners-- rather than the more common 1%. The top 0.1%-- about 315,000 individuals out of 315 million-- are making about half of all capital gains on the sale of shares or property after 1 year; and these capital gains make up 60% of the income made by the Forbes 400."
• Walker Recall Picks up Steam: "Thousands of people gathered at the Wisconsin capitol on Saturday to demand a recall of Republican Governor Scott Walker, whose controversial and successful drive to limit public unions last winter sparked the biggest protests in the state since the Vietnam War."
• Lobbying Firm's Memo Spells Out Plan to Undermine Occupy Wall Street
• UC Davis Chancellor Walks Gauntlet of Shame, As Students Silently Protest Campus Police Pepper Spraying and Brutality Incidents
• The cop group coordinating the Occupy crackdowns
• The Science of Sarcasm? Yeah, Right
• Making Sense of Syria
• Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Occupy Wall Street's Political Victory in Ohio
• Who Are the 1 Percent? Vote On It Now
• What Changes in Unionization Rates Have Done for Society
• Evidence: non-profit policing organization orchestrating nationwide anti-occupy crackdown
• Big ISPs dwell in tax-break heaven, according to corporate tax study
• How to Make Robin Hood Proud
• Two UC Davis officers placed on paid leave after pepper spray incident Now it's time for the UC Davis chancellor and the mayors of cities who have unleashed militarized police action on peaceful protesters to be put on leave also
• (Satire)Bloomberg Ties Alleged Terror Plot to Lex Luther
• Aides: 'Super Committee' likely to announce failure to reach debt deal
• NYT suggests UC Davis police lied about attack on peaceful OWS students yesterday
• This Is No Christian Nation
• At Religious Right Forum, GOP Candidates Weep and Proselytize
• Drum Circle at Bloomberg's House
• Maher Arar On Syrian Conflict
• Senator Baucus Put on Notice by Occupy Bozeman
• How Wall Street really views the protesters
• Live Blog for #Occupy Movement: Occupy Oakland Sets Up a New Camp
• Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb Test Chamber Claim
• Deal May Fail; Super Committee Co-Chair Says Bush Tax Cuts are the "Sticking Divide"
• AFL Warns Super Committee Dems: Not One Vote For GOP Plans
• Syria Uprising Falls Victim to Power Plays
• Lobbying firm's memo spells out plan to undermine Occupy Wall Street
• The Ruling Class links arms—Journalist suspended from National Press Club for asking tough question of Saudi prince
• Group in US Hoped for Big Payday in Offer to Help Qaddafi
• Occupy Nashville Infiltrates and Disrupts Rumsfeld Fundraiser
• Heather Ault: Visualizing 4000 Years of Choice
• Interview with a pepper-sprayed UC Davis student
• Upscale Fla. town in fight over immigrant prison
• Military Moves In as Violence Rages in Streets of Cairo for Second Day
• Occupy Wall Street Continues in New York City LIVE
• Are Jay-Z, Kanye and the Hip-Hop Establishment too Conservative for OWS
• SOPA’s ugly message to the world about America and internet Innovation
• City Dismisses 9 Cases of Occupy Sacramento Protesters
• Reporters Arrested All Across America For Reporting On Police Assaults On OWS Camps
• Horrific Peek into Women's Prisons Finds: "Sisters, Fighting For Our Lives Together'
• Video UC Davis: “The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble…”
• It's the Corporate State, Stupid
• Protect... Serve...
• California Faculty Union goes on Strike
• Professionals Moving to Organized Labor
• Ten Immodest Commandments: Lessons From a Fumbling-and-Bungling Lifetime of Activism
• Fallows: "Think how we’d react if we saw it coming from some riot-control unit in China, or in Syria"
• Lobbying Firm Turkey Day Memo Warns of OWS "altering the political ground for years to come"
• Clarence Thomas attends hometown museum dedication; source of funding for institution prompts questions
• How Did It Come to This? American Police Attacking US Citizens Who Are Assembled in Peace?
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  THE LIGHTER SIDE:
• The GOP's Last Chicken In The Shop
• Supercommittee on Suicide Watch
• Report: Military Contractor Overcharged Pentagon For Torturing Iraqi Citizens
• Casually Pepper Spray Everything