CNN | A growing number of policymakers and urban planners have begun to endorse farming as a solution.

Marc Ambinder | In response to questions about Brennan’s potential conflict of interest, White House ethics counsel Norm Eisen has issued a waiver for Brennan, official said.

Raw Story | A Libertarian political consultant says that in many places the tea party struggle against being coopted is already “a lost cause.”

Dow Jones Newswire | FBI has been brought onto the scene.

Daily Telegraph | All the while, Mr Abdulmatallab seemed dazed, he said. “He was staring into nothing.”

Houston Chronicle | The state will destroy an estimated 5.3 million blood samples legally collected from newborns but kept without parental consent under a federal lawsuit settlement announced Tuesday.

New York Times | The crew had requested police assistance on the ground because a passenger was “verbally disruptive,” according to a statement from Delta Airlines, which acquired Northwest last year.

MLive.com | Hoekstra says that Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab may have a common link with the Fort Hood shooter that shot 13 people in November.

Raw Story | Only 78% of Americans now identify as Christian, while 22% describe their religious preference as either “other” or “none.”

Campaign for Liberty | The suspense is over and it is inevitable that the monstrous medical care bill will become law. There is no way to sanitize this thing, period. It is the ultimate “Progressivist” legacy.

WeAreChange | This holiday season WeAreChange NYC held a toy drive for underprivileged children.

Star Tribune | A large winter storm with the potential to dump a foot or more of snow is grinding will ensure a very white Christmas.

Dow Jones | U.S. legislators have obtained a court order unsealing documents in a case involving a multi-million-dollar cap-and-trade fraud.

CNSNews | A majority of Americans believe an increased government role in health care would lead to more government corruption.

CNN | Avoiding issues of substance, Gov. Schwarzenegger granted Obama an “A” for effort as the President approaches the end of his first year.

Raw Story | The White House urged lawmakers to pass contentious health care reform, saying that the watered-down version of a bill before the Senate still accomplishes the president’s goals of changing the troubled system.

The Hill | The White House chief of staff last month expressed frustration with DeFazio’s resignation calls for President Barack Obama’s top two economic aides.

Sen. Mitch McConnell | At the end of this rush, they want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader’s conference room has even seen. That’s right. The final bill we’ll vote on isn’t even the one we’ve had on the floor.

Morning Bulletin | Graham Demeny said he questioned the safety of adding fluoride to the city’s water supply and ethically wasn’t prepared to do the job.

Philadelphia Daily News | The nine are current or former employees of the Department of Licenses and Inspections or the Mayor’s Office of Community Services.

Wall Street Journal | Support for the Democratic Party continues to slump, amid a difficult economy and a wave of public discontent.

My Fox New York | The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the nation’s largest transportation agency, is facing a $383 million budget shortfall.

PRNewswire | Global automotive retail consulting firm Urban Science has announced that 1,467 U.S. dealerships closed from January 1 to November 1– at 7.3 percent loss, the worst closures on record. Normal attrition is 1 percent.

Watts Up With That? | It appears bigger things are brewing related to CRU’s Climategate.

Wall Street Journal | Obama called his session with the leaders of 12 banks, including Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., candid and productive.

NewsChief | The energy cap-and-trade bill could cost us more than $100 trillion.

Lew Rockwell | The root evil here is simply statism and its media handmaidens using a convenient pretext to advance their eternal goals of command and control.

Anthony Gucciardi | There is a growing resistance to the phony claims.

NPR | Obama is scheduled to meet in the Oval Office Monday afternoon with Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to warn humanity about the perils as he sees them of a warmer climate.

Harris Meyer | The latest cases arose from several whistleblower complaints.

WKSU | Professor Randy Roth explains there is a corollary between homicide and people who distrust or hate government.

Sacramento Bee | The governor released a new report determining that global warming, left unabated, would lead to higher sea levels.

Watts Up With That | When Al baby pulls the plug, you know it’s hosed.

DontTreadOnCat | The feds seem intent upon murdering Sherry Jackson.

Kurt Nimmo | Zeituni Onyango has lived in the United States illegally in public housing for years and suffers from Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

US News & World Report | The Penn State administration plans to investigate Climategate and determine if it needs to take further action.

Fascist Soup | I think its time to turn the “Denier” title back on the fascists who are still blindly supporting this global fraud.

ABC News | Police have used teargas and could be heard firing shots and encouraging Maurice Clemmons, 37, to surrender.

Times Online | Four police officers were shot dead in a cold-blooded ambush at a coffee shop on the edge of a US Air Force base in America’s Pacific Northwest.

Infowars | Ed Schultz talks with Eliot Spitzer, the former Governor of New York, about auditing the Federal Reserve.

Press TV | Top US Federal Reserve officials have predicted unemployment rate in the United States to remain high by the end of 2012.

Bill Estep | A part-time U.S. Census worker found dead near a secluded Clay County cemetery killed himself but tried to make the death look like a murder, authorities have concluded.

Watts Up With That? | A programmer’s comments are less open to interpretation than email.

Rev. Ted Pike | While deploring the conspiracy theories of others, ADL has produced a 27-page special report.

Infowars | Rallies demanding an end of the Federal Reserve pick up momentum.

End the FED Houston | Congressman Ron Paul, Adam Kokesh and hundreds of protesters will be at Buffalo Bayou Park between 1:00pm and 4:00pm to peacefully protest.

Chuck Baldwin | Can anyone in the country possibly not break out in cacophonous laughter when politicians tell us we need to surrender more liberties so that they might pass more laws to protect us crummy little peons?

Fox News | A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the corps’ failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive floods when Katrina hit in August 2005.

Denver Post | Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said in a legal opinion released late today that the sale of medical marijuana is subject to taxation.

David Kramer | The old “anti-Semitic” canard is rapidly losing its scare hold on people who are starting to wake up to our totally fraudulent monetary system

Guardian | With just two days remaining, the inability to overcome disagreements about the shape of a deal to combat global warming led to hours of inaction today.

Toronto Star | Danish police fired pepper spray and beat protesters with batons as hundreds of protesters tried to disrupt the conference.

Reuters | Italians asked on Monday if an ugly assault on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was prompted by a “climate of hatred” splitting their nation.

Paul Joseph Watson | Developing nations discovered neo-colonial agenda behind globalist carbon tax scam.

Joe Weisenthal | Like just about every other big, international conference, from world trade to human rights, it appears the Copenhagen climate summit has ended in a complete fiasco.

Newsmax | The economic crises in Greece and Ireland may necessitate financial bailouts or even an exit from the euro for these countries.

USA Today | Greenhouse gas emissions are difficult to measure and highly susceptible to manipulation by government officials and companies.

China Daily | The UN Population Fund claims between 40 per cent and 60 percent of emissions growth due to population.

BBC | McKinnon, 43, who has Asperger’s syndrome, is accused of breaking into the US military computer system.

Paul Joseph Watson | Millions dying from starvation as a direct consequence of global warming fraud.

The Moral Liberal | UNICEF is an evil organization intent on controlling the hearts and minds of our children.

James Corbett | The eugenicist’s agenda rolls on.

Guardian | A draft Copenhagen climate agreement prepared by the hosts.

Infowars Wordpress | “Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.”

New York Post | Shakespeare’s Marcellus was right. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

AFP | “The level of trust is definitely shaken, especially now that we are about to conclude an agreement that … is going to mean sacrifices for our economies.”

Copenhagen Post Online | Participants in the COP15 climate summit should not be subject to Christmas symbols such as fir trees.

Bloomberg | Obama should come to the climate-change talks this month in Denmark with strong goals for cutting greenhouse gases in the biggest economy, United Nations climate chief Yvo de Boer said.

Mail Online | They are to publish a hard-hitting report which they claim proves the weapons expert did not commit suicide as the Hutton Report decided.

Financial Times | Labor lacks a majority in the upper house and needs the support of seven non-government senators to have its bills passed.

Reuters | China, the world’s top emitter, together with India, Brazil and South Africa demand that richer nations do more.

Infowars | Carbon cops in nice matching tops go around Australia harranguing carbon criminals.

Tom Moberly | The study reveals the scale of drug and alcohol abuse in the UK.

Reuters | Bosnia faces no threat of a new war but European Union peacekeepers will stay on to boost its fragile political stability.

Jim O’Neill | Lawyers need to get off their butts, and realize what a financial bonanza the Climategate criminal scam represents.

Dana Gabriel | Together with NAFTA and the North American Leaders Summit (new name for the discredited SPP), these deals are building blocks for an integrated system of global governance.

Times Online | Rescue workers searching the mangled debris for 18 people still unaccounted for escaped injury when a second bomb partially detonated nearby yesterday afternoon.

Christopher Booker | Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash.

Times Online | Roman Polanski’s family yesterday praised the role played by Nicolas Sarkozy in securing the film director’s release on bail after two months in a Swiss prison.

CBC News | Climate change scientists are on the defensive after hackers broke into a server of a British climate research centre over the weekend and posted hundreds of private emails that appear to show scientists have overstated the threat of man-made global warming.

Dr. Tim Ball and Judi McLeod | Climategate is already the biggest scientific scandal in history because of the global policy implications.

An Indian financial newspaper report suggests that the country is considering buying the remainder of the IMF gold currently up for sale over and above the 200 tonnes it has already bought.

James Delingpole | If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW.

CTV | Mint officials double-counted some gold bullion they sold, and also underestimated the shrinkage of the gold during processing.

Made for Mums | Limiting parents to having just one or two children was necessary to combat over-population, according to 29% of those surveyed.

Wall Street Journal | A partial review of the hacked material suggests there was an effort at East Anglia, which houses an important center of global climate research, to shut out dissenters and their points of view.

Bild-English | Germany signed a secret contract to prepare for a pandemic of deadly flu — in 2007!

This morning Lord Lawson, who has reinvented himself as a prominent climate change sceptic since leaving front line politics, demanded that the apparent deception be fully investigated.

Wall Street Journal | The hacked documents and communications reveal how top scientists conspired to falsify data in the face of declining global temperatures in order to prop up the premise that man-made factors are driving climate change.

Daniel Taylor | Rompuy will undoubtedly serve globalist interests during his reign of the European Union.

Guardian | So far the veracity of the emails has not been confirmed and the scientists involved have declined to comment on the story which broke on a blog called The Air Vent.

CBC News | An anti-abortion club has had its campus rights suspended by McGill University’s student body council.

Telegraph | In an interview with the New Statesman, the fourth eldest son of the world’s most wanted man said that he “passionately wants to try to stop violence”.

Telegraph | Bank’s asset team said state rescue packages over the last year have merely transferred private liabilities onto sagging sovereign shoulders, creating a fresh set of problems.

Times Online | The man tipped to be Europe’s first president is already considering new EU taxes to fund the rising cost of Brussels and the welfare state.

Telegraph | 94-page State of the World Population Report 2009 calls for “family planning services,” i.e., abortion.

Fars News Agency | Researchers managed to develop delivery techniques that would allow controlled release of drugs.

Reuters | Obama and other world leaders Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later.

Telegraph | Kids sent to colonies by government ended up as slaves, abused, and neglected.

MINA | Controversy in Croatia after famous Croatian priest Miroslav Bustruk appealed to Croatians not to get vaccinated against the Swine flu vaccine

USA Today | Greenhouse gas emissions are difficult to measure and highly susceptible to manipulation by government officials and companies.

China Daily | The UN Population Fund claims between 40 per cent and 60 percent of emissions growth due to population.

BBC | McKinnon, 43, who has Asperger’s syndrome, is accused of breaking into the US military computer system.

Paul Joseph Watson | Millions dying from starvation as a direct consequence of global warming fraud.

The Moral Liberal | UNICEF is an evil organization intent on controlling the hearts and minds of our children.

James Corbett | The eugenicist’s agenda rolls on.

Guardian | A draft Copenhagen climate agreement prepared by the hosts.

Infowars Wordpress | “Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.”

New York Post | Shakespeare’s Marcellus was right. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

AFP | “The level of trust is definitely shaken, especially now that we are about to conclude an agreement that … is going to mean sacrifices for our economies.”

Copenhagen Post Online | Participants in the COP15 climate summit should not be subject to Christmas symbols such as fir trees.

Bloomberg | Obama should come to the climate-change talks this month in Denmark with strong goals for cutting greenhouse gases in the biggest economy, United Nations climate chief Yvo de Boer said.

Mail Online | They are to publish a hard-hitting report which they claim proves the weapons expert did not commit suicide as the Hutton Report decided.

Financial Times | Labor lacks a majority in the upper house and needs the support of seven non-government senators to have its bills passed.

Reuters | China, the world’s top emitter, together with India, Brazil and South Africa demand that richer nations do more.

Infowars | Carbon cops in nice matching tops go around Australia harranguing carbon criminals.

Tom Moberly | The study reveals the scale of drug and alcohol abuse in the UK.

Reuters | Bosnia faces no threat of a new war but European Union peacekeepers will stay on to boost its fragile political stability.

Jim O’Neill | Lawyers need to get off their butts, and realize what a financial bonanza the Climategate criminal scam represents.

Dana Gabriel | Together with NAFTA and the North American Leaders Summit (new name for the discredited SPP), these deals are building blocks for an integrated system of global governance.

Times Online | Rescue workers searching the mangled debris for 18 people still unaccounted for escaped injury when a second bomb partially detonated nearby yesterday afternoon.

Christopher Booker | Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash.

Times Online | Roman Polanski’s family yesterday praised the role played by Nicolas Sarkozy in securing the film director’s release on bail after two months in a Swiss prison.

CBC News | Climate change scientists are on the defensive after hackers broke into a server of a British climate research centre over the weekend and posted hundreds of private emails that appear to show scientists have overstated the threat of man-made global warming.

Dr. Tim Ball and Judi McLeod | Climategate is already the biggest scientific scandal in history because of the global policy implications.

An Indian financial newspaper report suggests that the country is considering buying the remainder of the IMF gold currently up for sale over and above the 200 tonnes it has already bought.

James Delingpole | If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW.

CTV | Mint officials double-counted some gold bullion they sold, and also underestimated the shrinkage of the gold during processing.

Made for Mums | Limiting parents to having just one or two children was necessary to combat over-population, according to 29% of those surveyed.

Wall Street Journal | A partial review of the hacked material suggests there was an effort at East Anglia, which houses an important center of global climate research, to shut out dissenters and their points of view.

Bild-English | Germany signed a secret contract to prepare for a pandemic of deadly flu — in 2007!

This morning Lord Lawson, who has reinvented himself as a prominent climate change sceptic since leaving front line politics, demanded that the apparent deception be fully investigated.

Wall Street Journal | The hacked documents and communications reveal how top scientists conspired to falsify data in the face of declining global temperatures in order to prop up the premise that man-made factors are driving climate change.

Daniel Taylor | Rompuy will undoubtedly serve globalist interests during his reign of the European Union.

Guardian | So far the veracity of the emails has not been confirmed and the scientists involved have declined to comment on the story which broke on a blog called The Air Vent.

CBC News | An anti-abortion club has had its campus rights suspended by McGill University’s student body council.

Telegraph | In an interview with the New Statesman, the fourth eldest son of the world’s most wanted man said that he “passionately wants to try to stop violence”.

Telegraph | Bank’s asset team said state rescue packages over the last year have merely transferred private liabilities onto sagging sovereign shoulders, creating a fresh set of problems.

Times Online | The man tipped to be Europe’s first president is already considering new EU taxes to fund the rising cost of Brussels and the welfare state.

Telegraph | 94-page State of the World Population Report 2009 calls for “family planning services,” i.e., abortion.

Fars News Agency | Researchers managed to develop delivery techniques that would allow controlled release of drugs.

Reuters | Obama and other world leaders Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later.

Telegraph | Kids sent to colonies by government ended up as slaves, abused, and neglected.

MINA | Controversy in Croatia after famous Croatian priest Miroslav Bustruk appealed to Croatians not to get vaccinated against the Swine flu vaccine.

Telegraph | Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for every person will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

AFP | The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit.

Mail Online | A soldier facing charges of desertion for refusing to return to Afghanistan has been arrested and charged with five further offences after joining an anti-war demonstration.

Washington Post | It arrived at the Capitol, until that moment the seat of American government, in the form of the stooped and bespectacled figure of Ban Ki-moon.

Times Online | Many of the world’s richest tycoons and entrepreneurs have embraced environmentalism.

Telegraph | Chancellor Angela Merkel put Berlin’s emboldened role in the international arena on display by calling on America to accept it must channel its interests through global institutions.

East Anglia, which houses an important center of global climate research, to shut out dissenters and their points of view.

Bild-English | Germany signed a secret contract to prepare for a pandemic of deadly flu — in 2007!

This morning Lord Lawson, who has reinvented himself as a prominent climate change sceptic since leaving front line politics, demanded that the apparent deception be fully investigated.

Wall Street Journal | The hacked documents and communications reveal how top scientists conspired to falsify data in the face of declining global temperatures in order to prop up the premise that man-made factors are driving climate change.

Daniel Taylor | Rompuy will undoubtedly serve globalist interests during his reign of the European Union.

Guardian | So far the veracity of the emails has not been confirmed and the scientists involved have declined to comment on the story which broke on a blog called The Air Vent.

CBC News | An anti-abortion club has had its campus rights suspended by McGill University’s student body council.

Telegraph | In an interview with the New Statesman, the fourth eldest son of the world’s most wanted man said that he “passionately wants to try to stop violence”.

Telegraph | Bank’s asset team said state rescue packages over the last year have merely transferred private liabilities onto sagging sovereign shoulders, creating a fresh set of problems.

Times Online | The man tipped to be Europe’s first president is already considering new EU taxes to fund the rising cost of Brussels and the welfare state.

Telegraph | 94-page State of the World Population Report 2009 calls for “family planning services,” i.e., abortion.

Fars News Agency | Researchers managed to develop delivery techniques that would allow controlled release of drugs.

Reuters | Obama and other world leaders Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later.

Telegraph | Kids sent to colonies by government ended up as slaves, abused, and neglected.

MINA | Controversy in Croatia after famous Croatian priest Miroslav Bustruk appealed to Croatians not to get vaccinated against the Swine flu vaccine.

Telegraph | Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for every person will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

AFP | The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit.

Mail Online | A soldier facing charges of desertion for refusing to return to Afghanistan has been arrested and charged with five further offences after joining an anti-war demonstration.

Washington Post | It arrived at the Capitol, until that moment the seat of American government, in the form of the stooped and bespectacled figure of Ban Ki-moon.

Times Online | Many of the world’s richest tycoons and entrepreneurs have embraced environmentalism.

Telegraph | Chancellor Angela Merkel put Berlin’s emboldened role in the international arena on display by calling on America to accept it must channel its interests through global institutions.

Telegraph | The Colombian leader has denied Venezuela’s charge saying that the military agreement with America exists to combat drug traffickers and leftist guerrillas.

CBC News | An Ottawa city councillor wants to call in the Armed Forces to help conduct swine flu vaccinations.

Guardian | A judge found Nicholson’s views on the environment were so deeply held that they were entitled to the same protection as religious convictions

Recombinomics | The number of infected patients has almost doubled to just under ½ million, compared to the report two days ago.

CNN | Two dozen Americans — most thought to work for the CIA — were sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday by an Italian court.

Guardian | Money paid by rich countries to fight global warming will have to “be scaled up” from the $100bn a year on offer, the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said today.

AFP | “Only in cooperation with Russia and the United States can Europe play its role in the global process of creating a new world order,” said Gorbachev.

Guardian | Facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warming and that appealing to their spiritual side is the way forward.

Bloomberg | India’s central bank bought 200 metric tons of the metal from the International Monetary Fund, heightening speculation about more official purchases.

The First Post | The Lisbon Treaty is in line with the country’s constitution, and President Vaclav Klaus now has no option but to ratify it.

Recombinomics | A hotel in the mountain resort of Sinaia was closed Sunday after 40 Romanian and foreign law students meeting for a conference caught swine flu, officials said.

Bloomberg | The World Health Organization sent a team of experts to Ukraine today to investigate an outbreak of respiratory disease that’s sickened a quarter of a million people.

CNN | Observers say Karzai’s real test will be whether he can form a government that is seen as legitimate in the eyes of the Afghan people and the international community.

Wall Street Journal | The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty.

Mail Online | A British nuclear expert who fell from the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide and may have been hurled to his death

The Age | A promising young Canadian singer and musician has died after two coyotes attacked her while she was hiking alone in a national park in Nova Scotia.

News.com.au | An outspoken Kiwi politician has proposed a new solution to the country’s child abuse problem – pay the “appalling underclass” not to breed.

Financial Times | Tony Blair’s chances of becoming the European Union’s first full-time president were in serious trouble late on Thursday.

Bernama | One of the students, a freshman, was accused of uploading groundless rumors about flu vaccination on an Internet web site, claiming all vaccinated people, particular teens, would die.

Daily Express | A son hailed a hero for tackling two teenage burglars, stabbing one of them to death, was charged with murder.

Mail Online | One in five doctors admit to keeping the terminally-ill heavily sedated until they die, in what critics have dubbed ’slow euthanasia’.

Daily Express | The plans – with a foreword by European Union Commissioner Jose Manuel Barroso – would cost every British family at least £155 a year.

Alex Newman | Recent surveys indicate that most Americans do not believe global warming is a serious problem or even caused by human activity at all.

Shirat Devorah | Last week it was announced that George Soros (the man who helped bring us Obama) had pledged $1.1 billion to fund “Climate Change initiatives”.

New York Times | Ban Ki-Moon says we all agree “climate change is an existential threat to humankind.”

Reuters | The younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro worked undercover for the CIA in Cuba in the early 1960s.

Bosnia is heading for a new civil war as a constitutional crisis threatens to cause the collapse of the political system, the country’s leaders have warned.

Anthony Gregory | The immediate threat is so-called “cap and trade,” a scam to legalize and normalize pollution, regulate industry and impose massive costs onto the American people.

Telegraph | Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, is the only EU leader who has not yet completed ratification of the treaty.