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Now, third woman who was
seduced by WikiLeaks founder emerges.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,
who is at the centre of sex assault
allegations by two women, is said
to have seduced a third right from
under her boyfriend’s nose
in Sweden. [So?] Assange, 39,
allegedly walked away with the
girl, who had arrived with the
American journalist, as they all
dined together at a Stockholm
restaurant.
And, the crime here is?

Undoubtedly, the U.S. and others are out to get WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, even though he has likely committed no crimes. As some see it, the Obama administration is about to criminalize investigative journalism.

Assange Says His Life Is In Danger

Viva WikiLeaks! SiCKO Was Not Banned in Cuba

Europe Struggles to Dig Airports Out of Ice

As massive street protests rock Europe, Americans accept tax–cuts for the rich with little outrage

South Korea’s planned live–fire military exercises in the Yellow Sea will begin Monday, the military said.

Heavy snow and ice bring travel chaos across UK. Christmas travellers are facing severe disruption as heavy snow falls across many parts of the UK.

Fox Slammed by L.A. Times -- 'Shouldn't Call Itself a News Organization'

After several revelations of Fox's blatant bias, the rest of the corporate media may finally be catching on. Read more

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Africa

Militants destroy two Nato trucks in Khyber tribal region 20 Dec 2010 Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan attacked Nato oil supply trucks with rockets and assault rifles Monday, destroying two vehicles, officials said. Militants fired rockets and then started shooting at the vehicles with assault rifles in Katakasht village near the town of Jamrud in the Khyber tribal district, tribal administration official Arshad Khan Afridi told AFP.

Sc/Environment

City lighting ‘boosts pollution’

Poisoning drives vulture decline. Vultures in Africa’s Masai Mara reserve have declined by 60%, say scientists, primarily because the birds are being poisoned.

Insecticide ‘killing Kenya lions’

Worms eat into GM crop myth – Insects expected to drop dead thrive on cotton plants.

Have We Really Solved the Mystery Behind the Shocking Die–off of Bees?

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Op–Ed

Obama to Blink First on Social Security

So You Need A Job?

Business

The U.S. is the Most Overworked Developed Nation in the World – When do we Draw the Line?

Regulators close banks in Ga., Fla., Ark., Minn. --157 banks closed in 2010 17 Dec 2010 Regulators on Friday shuttered three small banks in Georgia and one each in Florida, Arkansas and Minnesota, raising to 157 the number of U.S. banks brought down this year by the struggling economy and soured loans. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over the three Georgia banks: Appalachian Community Bank of McCaysville, with $68.2 million in assets; Chestatee State Bank, based in Dawsonville, with $244.4 million in assets; and Atlanta-based United Americas Bank, with $242.3 million in assets.

U.S.

FBI now spying on your garbage - send them yours By Lori Price, http://www.legitgov.org/ 20 Dec 2010 Yes, in between supplying terrorist-wannabes with explosives, the FBI has been a busy little bee, surveilling your garbage! Finished with that Starbucks latte? Send them your cup - save them time! Join us on Facebook!

Middle East/Asia

South Korea Detains Chinese Fishermen

Scores die as drones renew attack on Pakistan’s Khyber. Nearly 60 people have been killed in a series of attacks by US drones in the past 24 hours in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal district, officials say.

How China looks after its homeless people.

Americas

A Cherokee Legend ~ Submitted by Luc Majno

Cables bare US operations in Brazil.

Haiti’s Electoral Council Tries Alternate Ways to Legitimize Fraud.

Markets

Corporate America’s Plan to Loot Our Pensions Is the Latest Battle in Decades-Long Assault on the Middle Class

Tim Geithner "Discovers" Exchange Rate Problem.

Extreme Inequality Helped Cause Both the Great Depression and the Current Economic Crisis.

Health

US water has large amounts of likely carcinogen: study 19 Dec 2010 A US environmental group has found that drinking water in 35 American cities contains hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen, The Washington Post reported Sunday. The study by the Environmental Working Group -- the first nationwide analysis measuring the presence of the chemical in US water systems -- is to be made public on Monday, the daily reported. The group found hexavalent chromium in the tap water of 31 out of 35 cities sampled..

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Correspondence

Letter from Gov. Howard Dean, M.D. Founder, Democracy for America

Truth About Global Economic Crisis: Book Review. By Joel S. Hirschhorn

Put a little Palast in your stocking. from Greg Palast