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Last night's Season 2 finale of Californication on Showtime had what has to be one of the funniest, falling-down-laughing scenes I've ever seen on television. Hank had been mumbling all season that he wasn't sure if he was the father of Sonja's baby. He said it again, a few times, ... [Link] [Cache]

Columbia Journalism Review caught the whiff of a U-turn when few others did. “I have not made yet a determination in terms of how we’re going to deal with the rollback of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans,” Obama said. [Link] [Cache]

Hey folks, many of you have emailed me to ask about the rest of my trip and especially about my little dog (see here if you have not followed the saga). I am sorry I have not updated you. I got so sick the last few days of my trip ... [Link] [Cache]

AbhisitHave the CIA and its friends, including reportedly the King of Thailand, almost completed their coup in Thailand?On 15 December 2008, Thailand's parliament elected Abhisit Vejjajiva, as the new prime minister. (Thai opposition leader elected PM)Outside parliament, rocks were thrown at cars belonging to politicians who voted for Abhisit.Abhisit is ... [Link] [Cache]

International Herald Tribune Iraqis and other Arabs erupted in glee Monday at the shoe attack on George W. Bush. Far from a joke, many in the Mideast saw the act by an Iraqi journalist as heroic, expressing the deep, personal contempt many feel for the American leader they blame for ... [Link] [Cache]

The governmental Human Rights Commission has put out a plan to promote the culture of human rights in the Kingdom. The announcement came as the world celebrated the 60th birthday of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this past week [Link] [Cache]

A proposed new Department of Energy regulation would eliminate the so-called “public interest” balancing test that encourages DOE officials to release information under the Freedom of Information Act even when it is legally exempt from disclosure if doing so would serve the public interest. “This proposed rule would remove the ... [Link] [Cache]

The elite JASON defense science advisory panel dismissed claims that high frequency gravitational waves (HFGW) could pose any kind of national security threat. In a study (pdf) prepared for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the JASONs concluded that “No foreign threat in HFGW is credible, including: communication ... [Link] [Cache]

In a December 10 letter to President-elect Obama, Sen. Russ Feingold urged the next Administration to take a series of specific measures to strengthen the rule of law. Distilled from the record (pdf) of a September 16 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the subject, the recommendations addressed four topics in ... [Link] [Cache]

Noteworthy new and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service obtained by Secrecy News include the following. “Iran’s Nuclear Program: Status,” updated November 20, 2008. “Iran: Ethnic and Religious Minorities,” updated November 25, 2008. “Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses,” updated November 24, 2008. “Presidential Libraries: The Federal System and ... [Link] [Cache]

Secrecy News is available for free to all interested readers, but it is not free to produce. If you are deriving value from our reporting and from the access to publications that we provide, then please consider supporting this activity with a tax-deductible donation. Donations may be made online here. ... [Link] [Cache]

On 13 November Palestinian conceptual artist Emily Jacir was awarded the prestigious Biennial Hugo Boss Prize. Established in 1996 in conjunction with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to "recognize significant achievement in contemporary art," the prize includes a $100,000 award and a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum New York ... [Link] [Cache]

I don't watch US television, as a rule, but I do get Media Matters for America in my email, watching the right-wing media's lies and slander antics. Here's their latest update on Sean Hannity's view of nutjob Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, (caught last week auctioning off the senatorship now that ... [Link] [Cache]

UPI.com India's air force was preparing for a likely strike against Pakistan following the Mumbai terror attacks, Pentagon sources told CNN. The report quoted three Pentagon officials as individually confirming the Untited States has information about Indian air force personnel preparing for a possible mission against Pakistan. One official told ... [Link] [Cache]

In a new decision, the Oregon Appeals Court has ruled that the inside of your car is "public space." The particulars of the case may not raise some people's hackles the way it does mine - it pertains to the right to have an unconcealed loaded firearm in your vehicle ... [Link] [Cache]

It’s a story too strange to be true: a wealthy Bangladeshi film-maker is building a life-sized replica of the Taj Mahal near Dhaka so that Bangladeshis can see the famous building without making the expensive trip to India. At least, that’s what AFP is reporting: He hired specialist architects, sending ... [Link] [Cache]

Gadafi’s Daughter gave the Iraqi journalist Al-Zaidi a medal of courage for his act of standing by the Human rights. [Link] [Cache]

Obama May Keep CIA ChiefMichael Hayden, a major player in the Bush administration' wiretapping program, may stay on as head of the CIA under Obama. Panel to Call for Review of Wiretapping ScholarThe House Select Intelligence Oversight Panel plans to ask the NSA to open a formal investigation into whether ... [Link] [Cache]

At the order of Israel's ministry of the interior, Israeli border police denied Prof. Falk entry into Israel on 14 December 2008, on his way to the West Bank to carry out his official functions. He was deported from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv on 15 December 2008. In ... [Link] [Cache]

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org, for Monday, December 15 2008 On Monday, Israeli military detained three Palestinian residents from the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Palestinian security sources reported these stories and more coming up Stay tuned. The sources said that ... [Link] [Cache]

Now, 2000 years later, the modern-day city of Bethlehem - home of the Millennium - invites you to make a symbolic and historic journey commemorating that event by walking Palestine's Nativity Trail.The carefully researched route-a 11-day journey is the first leg of the new Palestine Trail.Meeting the People Walking the ... [Link] [Cache]

this is long overdue. the spineless so.called journalist who are the mouthpieces of imperialism should be ashamed of themselves that almost eight years on none of them thought of doing something to this devil dog. [Link] [Cache]

If everything the MPAA said was true actually turned out to be true, the movie industry would have been bankrupt years ago. In 2005 the organization funded a study which claimed that in the US alone, over $6 billion was lost to MPAA members due to piracy. However, the figures ... [Link] [Cache]

Just took a test that I can not classify as anything better than bogus. EQ my ass! via Tiia Your Score: 48 45 - 54 Congratulations! You have very high emotional intelligence. This is good news! EQ counts for twice as much as IQ and technical skills combined in determining ... [Link] [Cache]

The most important thing is that Iraqi Resistance group “Jihad and Reform” reacted on the Iraqi journalist act saying: “This is the referendum [on the Security Agreement] you asked for, you saw it with your own eyes”. While we admire this courageous act and we promise him that his courage ... [Link] [Cache]

The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) told in a news briefing that so-called anti-terror service raided the house of Sheikh Gomaa Al Dahmiyah member of AMSI Tikrit branch, arresting him and his four children taken them to the headquarters of the Service [Link] [Cache]

The freedom of expression rapporteurs of the United Nations, the OSCE, the Organization of American States (OAS), and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) released a joint declaration today on defamation of religions, and anti-terrorism and anti-extremism legislation [Link] [Cache]

General Headquarters of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) strongly denounced the footprints in the Parliament of Representatives in Iraq who have signed the Convention on Iraq to comply with the U.S. occupation administration and vote to assure the Iraqi people that the Iraqi Parliament had sold Iraq ... [Link] [Cache]

Human rights defenders continue to face serious threats in countries across the OSCE region, concludes a report published today by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) [Link] [Cache]

Branches of the Association of Muslim Scholars at the Iraqi provinces carry out to provide material and moral support to Iraqis who suffer from problems and crises caused by the continues occupation and lack of interest in failed government formed under the shadow of the occupation [Link] [Cache]