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• Republicans revive magical thinking: A nonpartisan tax expert says their new plan may not even be feasible.
• Employees at Billion Dollar Companies Fight for a Living Wage
• Welcome in 2013 With the Gift of Peace
• GOP Congressman’s Restaurant Refused To Serve Muslim Couple
• No Warrant, No Problem: How The Government Can Still Get Your Digital Data
• Top GOP Rep Wants "More Pain" For Middle Class, While Preserving Tax Cuts For The Rich
• A new Public Policy Polling survey shows finds that 49% of Republican voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama, as compared to 52% that thought ACORN stole the 2008 election, "a modest decline, but perhaps smaller than might have been expected given that ACORN doesn't exist anymore."
• House Democrats File Discharge Petition to Force Vote on Middle Income Tax Cuts
• Masses of Egyptian Protesters Force Morsi to Flee Presidential Palace
• "UN leader Ban Ki-moon warned Sunday that if Israel implemented its latest plan for new settlements it would deal an "almost fatal blow" to any prospects for peace with the Palestinians."
• Obama Stiffens Position on Tax Rate Increases for the Rich
• How Republicans Put Elizabeth Warren In The Senate — And On The Banking Committee
• Decade of US "War on Terror" Yields More "Terrorism"
• "Here’s a way to keep the Arctic cold: prevent aircraft from taking shortcuts over the Arctic or only allow cross-polar flights during the dark months of winter."
• US Weighing Military Options if Syria Uses WMD
• MSNBC Hosts Visit Obama: Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, Al Sharpton, and Lawrence O'Donnell all spotted entering the West Wing.
• Jewish Congregation Applauds U.N.’s Palestine Vote
• Senate Republicans Block Ratification Of U.N. Treaty On Rights For The Disabled, Citing Impact On Home-Schoolers
• Paul Krugman | Welcome Back to the Dark Ages
• Glenn Greenwald | Laptop Seizures by US Government Highlight 9/11-Era Climate of Fear
• VIDEO: Bradley Manning's Attorney David Coombs Speaks Publicly - 12/3/2012
• "The UN general assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to open its nuclear programme for inspection."
• Climate Activist DeChristopher Barred from "Social Justice" Work
• Reagan's "Welfare Queen" FOUND!
• GOP Balks at Short-Term Stimulus in Obama Plan
• Most New Yorkers Think Climate Change Caused Hurricane, Poll Finds
• Corporate Profits are Highest-Ever Share of GDP, While Wages are Lowest Ever
• Ray McGovern | Why to Say No to Susan Rice
• Carbon Pollution Up to Two Million Pounds a Second
• "The U.S. military's highest court ousted the judge in the Fort Hood shooting case Monday and threw out his order to have the suspect's beard forcibly shaved before his court-martial."
• How Wall Street Hollowed Out Industrial America
• Pregnant with an IUD: The Story of My Abortion
• Ashley Judd Seriously Exploring Senate Run Against Mitch McConnell
• VIDEO: Climate Cliff: As Global Emissions Peak, Hopes for U.N. Climate Deal in Doha at All-Time Low
• Elizabeth Warren Wins Senate Banking Committee Seat: Sources
• Fiscal Cliff Traffic Report -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Hostess CEO Cuts Worker Pay, But Leaves Own Salary Untouched
• Bob Costas Not Backing Down from Criticism of Gun Craziness
• "There is no reason to take House Republicans seriously on their pledge to raise revenue until they explain, in detail, where the new revenue will come from – and until they say flatly that they are willing to pass their proposal by the end of the year."
• How Petraeus Quietly Stoked the Fires of Sectarian War Without Getting Burned
• Dick Armey Quits Tea Party Group in Split Over Direction
• NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US Under Digital Surveillance, Trillions of Messages Stored
• 11 People Shot in Chicago Overnight
• VIDEO: United States of ALEC
• Expensive and Inhumane: The Shameful State of US Immigrant Detention
• Washington's Serious People Are on the War Path Against Middle-Income and Poor People
• Republicans Losing Blame Game on "Fiscal Cliff"
• Scottish Farmer Trumps Trump
• The House Makes an "Offer"
• Obama Plans for Climate Deal as Fiscal Cliff Talks Rage
• Spoiling For a Filibuster Fight
• McCain Once Offered Identical Assessment As Susan Rice On Benghazi Attack
• GOP Proposes Medicare Eligibility Age Increase
• Interesting: "Speaker John A. Boehner initiated today a small purge of rebellious Republicans — mostly conservatives — from prominent committees"
• VIDEO: Teacher Takes On ALEC: "This organization has no legal authority to make such policies."
• Papa John's Obamacare Stance Costs Company Its Reputation: Study
• Michael Copps | Promises to Keep on Media Consolidation
• Walmart's New Health Care Policy Shifts Burden To Medicaid, Obamacare
• Apple Censors Drone War
• Whistleblower: Nuclear Disaster in America is More Likely Than the Public is Aware of
• Dream Insider Informant Led FBI From Galleon to SAC
• HUMOR: Open Limerick To President Obama
• The Archeology of Decline
• FL's Former Republican Gov. Crist: "Crystal Clear" that GOP Claims of Voter Fraud are "Bunk"
• The Wealthy and Wall Street Want Us to Drive Off of a Fiscal Cliff That They Created -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Five Facts About America's Pathological Wealth Distribution -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Poor Women and Children Faced With Fiscal Threat
• Paul Krugman: The Big Budget Mumble
• Under Pressure, Boehner Submits Budget Counter Proposal
• Meet the Climate Denial Machine
• Obama Knifes GOP Plan To Avoid Rate Hike
• LOL Of The Week: The Worst Thing Allen West Ever Said
• "Criticized as Weak in Past Talks, Obama Takes Harder Line"
• False Start: GOP Stumbles Badly With Women In First Month Since Election Day
• The Anonymous Multi-million Dollar Ballot Initiative Donor in California
• Banks Are "Where the Money Is" In The Drug War: Big Lenders Face Few Hard Consequences for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
• The Impending Demise of Progressive Talk AM1090 in Seattle?
• Will Obama Use His Campaign List to Break The Filibuster?
• GOP Rep. to former Bush staffer: Investigate WMD claims before attacking Susan Rice
• "Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, may be the most prominent advocate of the view that the greatest danger to the economy is the continued paucity of jobs. Krugman argues that only the government has the spending power to move enough people from unemployment lines back onto payrolls."
• Rolling Jubilee Poised to Retire $9,000,000 in Medical Debt!
• Humor: GOP Accuses Susan Rice of Misleading Statements on ‘The War on Xmas’
• 100 Injured, 92 Arrested in Protests Against Mexico’s New President
• More Children Growing Up With Parents Behind Bars
• The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: Full Color Excerpt, By America's Top Satirical Newswriters | Truthout
• Humor: These Are Ironic Times
• NY Times Seeks Buyouts From 30 Newsroom Employees
• Weirdest Headline of the Day: "Milkshake promoter denies reports of tear gas at Kim Kardashian protest in Bahrain"
• Britain summons Israeli ambassador over decision to build in occupied territory
• "Here’s a sentence you won’t read every day: The president and first lady sat down with the members of Led Zeppelin, a former prima ballerina and Dustin Hoffman on Sunday night. And, um, Buddy Guy and David Letterman were there, too. In other words, an unusual but somehow typical crew looked down from the main mezzanine box at the Kennedy Center for the 35th annual Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday."
• "Look it up The dictionary definition of entitlement is “the fact of having a right to something and the amount to which a person has a right.” I have been working and putting into Social Security since I was 19. I am now 80 — still working and putting into Social Security. This also includes Medicare, which I got when I was 65. So, please, tell me how the Republicans can ask for “entitlements” to be cut when, in the above case, I put into the system? Of course, I am fully aware that the Republican politicians in both the Senate and the House of Representatives get benefits the likes of which I will probably never see." Yeap.
• Race, Class, Lightweights and the Contradictions of Sport | Truthout
• NBC's Bob Costas calls for gun control after Chiefs shootings
• The Publisher of Ballotpedia, Judgepedia and WikiFOIA and Her Right-Wing Bedfellows
• "Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Georgia, hit back at Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, saying he doesn't want Washington to "dictate" how he votes and that his commitment is to his constituents."
• Bradley Manning's trial delayed for more pretrial proceedings

• McCaskill: ‘I Feel Almost Sorry For John Boehner’
• Nate Silver: Politico Covers Politics Like Sports But ‘Not In An Intelligent Way At All’
• Savita Had a Heartbeat, Too
• Roger Waters UN Address - Nov 29, 2012
• Hitham Emerges From the Rubble in Gaza | Truthout
• Protests flare in Bahrain for Kim Kardashian visit
• White House "No new Offers until GOP drops opposition to tax increases"
• Eviction of Occupy Sandy: Staten Island
• For-Profit Health Insurer HealthLink (WellPoint) Denies Man's Stage IV Cancer Surgery
• Truthout Radio: Gareth Porter on Petraeus
• Politico says left media has a problem with Obama
• Cuba pushes swap: its spies jailed in US for American contractor held in Havana
• Donald Trump: Chinese Made Up Global Warming (Video)
• West Point Chapel Hosts First Same-Sex Marriage
• Tax Incentives to Companies Bleeding Towns Dry, With Few Results | Truthout
• Aide to Obama Faces a Big Test in Fiscal Talks
• Netanyahu Forms Alliance with Far Right's Lieberman Shir Hever: UN Vote and criticism over Gaza attack matter little to Netanyahu who unites with Minister who advocates ethnic cleansing of Palestinian citizens of Israel
• North Korea plans new rocket launch as leader asserts power
• Egypt court halts all work amid Islamist 'pressure'
• US-Afghan base attacked in eastern Afghanistan
• Treating schools like "pop up" stores and kids like bubble gum trading cards
• Hot and Crusty Bakery Workers Seal the Deal on Unionization
• Local blogger surrenders to police after live broadcasting standoff Man turns to social media, live broadcast with police negotiator as officers attempt to serve warrant
• Finding Strength In The Extraordinary Ordinary
• From Dream to Reality in the Philippines
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The future will not be cool Futurists always get it wrong. Despite the promise of technology, our world looks an awful lot like the past
• New clues and a powerful Wall St. skeptic challenge the official story of CIA financier Nick Deak's brutal murder
• A detached Romney tends wounds in seclusion after failed White House bid
• The Squandered Potential of Occupy
• This week in the War on Workers: Warehouse workers seek to add Walmart to lawsuit
• Five Rich Americans Willing to Pay Higher Taxes
• New Israeli Settlements Set Back Peace, Clinton Says
• Stem Cells Being Made From Blood
• Police: Kansas City Chiefs linebacker kills girlfriend, then himself
• Rival Rallies Grow in Egypt as Tensions Mount over Constitution
• Eight Reasons Wall Street Greed Is the Cause of (and the Solution to) the Phony Fiscal Cliff Crisis
• How Walmart Is Devouring the Food System (Infographic)
• 200-Year Floods in California More Frequent with Climate Change
• House GOP addresses its “only white male committee chairs” problem
• The 'I Don't Remember' Files, Part II: Hedge Fund Chief Stevie Cohen
• The Rise of the Sharing Communities
• Obama debt-limit proposal would ease concerns on Wall Street
• HIV/AIDS Funding Is in Jeopardy
• Fast-food striker fired — but not for long
• DOJ Mysteriously Quits Monsanto Antitrust Investigation
• Obama Administration announces first offshore wind farm project
• 100 still out of homes over New Jersey train derailment
• AFL-CIO Demands 'Unionmade' Stop Its Fakery
• Fossil Fuel Lobby in the Driver's Seat at Doha
• Republicans Frustrated With the New Obama, Who Will No Longer Negotiate With Himself
• Israel's Latest Assault on Gaza - What Really Happened
• Tourist Snapshot Makes NYPD Cop An Overnight Hero
• Fracking's Health Calamities Left to Fester
• GOP centrists split on plan to extend only middle-class tax rates
• Loss and Damage From Climate Change Must Not Become the "New Normal"
• Odds Improving on Filibuster Reform
• Fake AP Graph Exposes Israeli Fraud and IAEA Credulity
• New York Times Undercounts Drone Deaths in Pakistan
• Five Reasons Obama Will Rout GOP in Lame Duck Budget Battle -- Robert Creamer for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• GAO Report on Guantanamo Doesn't Touch Indefinite Detention, Civil Liberties Offenses
• Manning Testifies About His Torture; Was It Aimed at Turning Him on Assange? (Video)
• 'Crisis Pregnancy Center' that Made Couples Study the Bible Now Suing for Taxpayer Dollars
• Post-Election Federal Education Priorities
• Senate strips ‘indefinite detention’ for Americans from 2012 NDAA
• Bangladeshi Garment Workers Rally for Union Rights after Deadly Fire
• Obama Breaks the Golden Rule on Drones
• The Changing Face of Southern Voters
• Strengthening the Ties That Bind in an Era of Alienation
• How Drug Company Money Is Undermining Science
• Meet the Climate Denial Machine
• Strike Launches Largest Union Drive in US Fast Food History
• The Trans-Pacific Partnership: What "Free Trade" Actually Means
• Nancy Pelosi threatens to use discharge petition to break stalemate on middle class tax cuts
• GOP Extremists Continue to Push Repugnant Anti-Women Laws
• Infrastructure Spending Needed: Century-Old New Jersey Bridge Collapses For Second Time In Four Years
• Cleveland Anarchist Bomb Plot Aided and Abetted by the FBI
• Nuke Power's Collapse Gets Ever More Dangerous -- Harvey Wasserman for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Charles Pierce | The Pirates Behind The Campaign To Fix The Debt
• On the News With Thom Hartmann: Thanks to Citizens United, Foreign Entities Are Meddling in Our Elections, and More
• Drone crashes mount at civilian airports - Just in time for the Holidays!
• Young Immigrants Say It’s Obama’s Time to Act
• Mexico's Pena Nieto to be sworn in as president. Return of the Corrupt PRI, One Party Rule to Mexico. Not that Calderon Was Anything to Write Home About.
• Senate Approves New Iran Sanctions
• Bradley Manning Tells His Story
• The New Right’s Rabid Watchdog: The only political party linked to organized ‘voter fraud’ in 2012 was the one loudly denouncing it.
• It's Not Just That Corporations Are Ignoring Global Warming, They Are Profiting From It -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Worker Health Advocates Say 9/11 Mistakes Repeated in Sandy Clean-up: OSHA has lowered safety enforcement for those doing Hurricane Sandy recovery work, despite hazards such as asbestos.
• Democrats express confidence that Republicans will give in on taxes
• Tax Burden for Most Americans Is Lower Than in the 1980s
• READ: The White House’s fiscal cliff proposal
• The cost of cheap clothes at Walmart, Sears
• Shirtwaist 2012: Discounting Lives to Maximize Profits -- Walter Brasch for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Pledges to Fight Global Warming Inadequate, U.S. Off Track: Study
• 5 States Where GOP Extremists Still Rage Against Women
• What the UN Vote for Palestinian Statehood Really Means
• Shell VP: Yeah, We’re Gonna Spill Oil in the Arctic