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• Kwanzaa’s popularity receding – AP
  Kwanzaa celebrations continue, but boom is over – Yahoo! News.
• It’s now Democrat vs. Democrat on health care – AP
  It’s one of the oldest spectator sports in American politics: Democrat vs. Democrat. Welcome to the health care overhaul edition.
  With just days remaining to prove that they can meet a self-imposed Christmas deadline and pass President Barack Obama’s signature initiative through the Senate, Democrats seeking a rendezvous with history instead detoured to an intraparty brawl.
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• Monica’s back – says Clinton lied – POLITICO.com
  In the years since their bitter battle, both former President Bill Clinton and independent counsel Ken Starr have predicted they’d be vindicated in the history books.
  Now the first definitive history of the Clinton scandal is about to arrive — and neither man can be completely happy about his portrayal in its pages.
  “The Death of American [...]
• Dutch rapper gets community service for threatening to behead Geert Wilders
  Mosheb, the real hater Mosheb here once again reminds us that the real haters are those who arrayed against Geert Wilders, not Geert Wilders himself, although he is the one who faces trial for inciting hatred. All he did was depict Qur’an-inspired hatred and violence; people like Mosheb glory…
• Kurt Loder: Avatar’s hackneyed politics – MTV Movie News
  Unfortunately, whenever the action lets up and we’re returned to the piddling story, the picture slumps like a failed soufflé. It’s also heavily laced with political instruction of a most familiar sort. Cameron, who’s now 55, is a self-acknowledged aging hippie, and his boomer worldview is strictly by-the-numbers. Quaritch and Selfridge are evil Americans despoiling [...]
• Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones – WSJ.com
  WASHINGTON — Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations.
  Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of [...]
• Kim Strassel: Democrats on the Health-Care Precipice – WSJ.com
  Barack Obama emerged from his meeting with Senate Democrats this week to claim Congress was on the “precipice” of something historic. Believe him. The president is demanding his party unilaterally enact one of the most unpopular and complex pieces of social legislation in history. In the process, he may be sacrificing Democrats’ chances at creating [...]
• New York Times Columnist Compares Health Care Filibuster Threat to Blackmail
  Paul Krugman, op ed columnist for The New York Times, wrote today that while Senator Joe Lieberman should be hung in effigy and President Obama should be chastised for caving completely on the public option, the health care bill as it now stands in the Senate should still pass.
  Unfortunately, none of us know what exactly [...]

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• Iranian troops invade Iraq, occupy oil well
  Because they can. Who is going to stop them? The UN may wring its hands, but so what? “Iran Forces Occupy Iraqi Oil Well, Border Guard Says (Update1),” by Maher Chmaytelli and Kadhim Ajrash for Bloomberg, December 18: Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) — Iranian forces yesterday entered Iraqi territory at dawn…
• Jihadic Judeophobia and Defamation of Judaism widespread in the Middle East: Human Rights Day Appeal for Highest UN Authorities to Act Now
  Comments by David G. Littman, NGO Representative to the United Nations (Geneva) for the Association for World Education (AWE) and World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ): A Human Rights Day Appeal (December 10) from AWE and WUPJ was sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the UN High Commissioner for Human…

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