BBC News - Your pictures: Copenhagen climate march - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/841027...

World's Largest Climate Change Demonstration in Pictures - http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/12/w...

Tuvalu Calls Out US in Emotional Plea - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/tuval...

The Future Existence of Many Island Nations Will be Determined by the Multi Global Corporate Puppets in the U.S. Senate. - http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/13/tuvulu-plea/
Greed vs Humanity...the struggle continues...

Final week of Copenhagen, and the last act is not clear - http://www.grist.org/article/final-week-of-co...
With the fate of the planet in the balance, Barack Obama and other world leaders will arrive in Copenhagen later this week. Could Obama's charm and energy policies make Copenhagen the start of a new era in diplomacy, science and economics?

Stupidity of the Extinctionists/Deniers/'skeptics': The AP DESTROYS the Phony 'Climategate' Scandal - http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009...
This is significant because it sweeps away any quasi-legitimacy the Global Warming deniers have had in isolating or trumpeting certain doubts that individual scientists may have had.
The 1,073 e-mails examined by the AP show that scientists harbored private doubts, however slight and fleeting, even as they told the world they were certain about climate change. However, the exchanges don't undercut the vast body of evidence showing the world is warming because of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

AP debunks the 'climategate' 'conspiracy' of the right wingnut noise machine: AP Review: Science not pretty, but not faked - http://www.desmogblog.com/ap-review-science-n...
There is a great review here by Seth Borenstein and a team of others at Associated Press. They looked at the emails, consulted some experts and concluded that the science remains robust, even if some of the emails were inappropriate in their tone and, at the time, overreaching in their ambition.
In the words of Mark Frankel, director of scientific freedom, responsibility and law at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, there is "no evidence of falsification or fabrication of data, although concerns could be raised about some instances of very 'generous interpretations.'"
The "trick" that Jones said he was borrowing from Mann was to add the real temperatures, not what the tree rings showed. And the decline he talked of hiding was not in real temperatures, but in the tree ring data which was misleading, Mann explained.
But in the end, global warming didn't go away, according to the vast body of research over the years. None of the e-mails flagged by the AP and sent to three climate scientists viewed as moderates in the field changed their view that global warming is man-made and a threat. Nor did it alter their support of the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which some of the scientists helped write.

How History's Biggest Climate Change March Almost Got Lost in the Media Smog - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/how-h...
But if you were here, you might have known that the biggest rally against climate change in history was, like much of the rest of the sideline activity in this cozy city, mainly about hope, play and compassionate concern. By the time the march ended -- with a civil candlelight vigil outside the Bella Center -- the greatest violence was registered only in a few broken windows at the foreign ministry.
That didn't matter to the mass media, which jumped at the chance to cast the march in tones borrowed from Seattle or Quebec City. That chance came when hundreds of police in full riot gear surrounded hundreds of demonstrators in a pre-emptive strike that resulted in nearly 1,000 arrests of mainly innocent people, only 4 charges, and an untold number of eye-grabbing photos.

Don't believe the big corporate media: On the message—not the arrests—at Copenhagen’s mass rally - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-12-13-on-th...
Saturday's demonstrators marched with a clear message, though you might not know it from the media coverage.
Here’s how the world’s media heavyweights presented it all: * CNN: “Arrests at climate conference” * The New York Times: “Hundreds of Protesters Arrested at Climate Talks”
* ABC News: “Green Rage: 600 Arrested at Climate Talks” and “Denmark: Nearly 1,000 Climate Protesters Released” * BBC: “Fury at Copenhagen police tactics” * Fox News: “Protesters Urge Action on Climate Change at Summit” and “Denmark: Nearly 1,000 Climate Protesters Released”
How about righteous anger??? How about message with force??? Nope...the key here by the corporatists is to paint environmental activists & advocates as 'thugs' or angry hooligans instead of passionate outrage over humanity vs greed & stupidity...

Cluster Fox Noise favorite...Monsanto Squeezes Out Seed Business Competition, AP Investigation Finds - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/13/mons...
"We now believe that Monsanto has control over as much as 90 percent of (seed genetics). This level of control is almost unbelievable," said Neil Harl, agricultural economist at Iowa State University who has studied the seed industry for decades. "The upshot of that is that it's tightening Monsanto's control, and makes it possible for them to increase their prices long term.
And we've seen this happening the last five years, and the end is not in sight." At issue is how much power one company can have over seeds, the foundation of the world's food supply. Without stiff competition, Monsanto could raise its seed prices at will, which in turn could raise the cost of everything from animal feed to wheat bread and cookies.
That's what you get with the 'free market'....monopolies....where competition goes to die....hence freedom also perishes....
PLEASE SEE THE FILM: Food, Inc.

Merkley (D-Oregon) counsels Obama on how to make “cash for caulkers” work - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-12-13-merkl...
In his much-anticipated jobs speech last week, Obama introduced a program meant to encourage energy efficiency retrofits for residential housing; it has since become known as "cash for caulkers." On Tuesday, Obama will host a discussion at a Washington-area Home Depot focusing on the economic benefits of retrofits and soliciting ideas for how such a program should work.
The attention to retrofits is welcome -- making buildings more energy efficient reduces climate pollution, creates jobs, and saves consumers money all at once.

Gee...we could learn a lot from the UK: Blair Iraq War Admission Sparks Fresh Outrage, Calls For War Crimes Prosecution - http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091213/wl_uk_af...
The former British prime minister, who backed the US-led invasion in 2003, told the BBC he would "still have thought it right to remove" Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein because of the threat he posed to the region. Lawyers representing the deposed Iraqi leadership said they would seek to prosecute Blair following his remarks, while one newspaper commentator said it was a "game-changing admission" for the ongoing official inquiry into the war.

Iraq: the crime of the century - http://www.newstatesman.com/international-pol...
The purpose of the Chilcot inquiry is to normalise an epic crime by providing enough of a theatre of guilt to satisfy the media....Under international law, "questionable legitimacy" does not exist. An attack on a sovereign state is a crime. This was made clear by Britain's chief law officer and attorney general, Peter Goldsmith, before his arm was twisted, and by the Foreign Office's own legal advisers, and subsequently by the UN secretary general.
The invasion of Iraq is the crime of the 21st century. During 17 years of assault on a defenceless civilian population, veiled with weasel monikers such as "sanctions" and "no-fly zones" and "building democracy", more people have died in Iraq than at the height of the slave trade. Set that against Sir Jeremy's skin-­saving revisionism about American "noises" that were "decidedly unhelpful to what I was trying to do [at the UN] in New York".
Moreover, "I myself warned the Foreign Office . . . that I might have to consider my own position . . ."
The undercard for this would be the 2007-2008 'bail-out' by the Bushevik Crime Family...the biggest heist/theft in the history of the world...

Rasmussen Poll (which Leans Republican) Shows Obama With Lowest Approval Rating Yet, Including Declining Democratic Support
- http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_conten...

Dead on: The Republican Party Has Become the New Confederate States of America - http://tpjmagazine.us/ardell41

EPIC FAIL by right wingnut noise machine: ACORN Vindicated by Federal Judge Ruling that Temporarily Rescinds Cut Off of Funds by Congress
- http://www.ccrjustice.org/acorn-v-usa

Frank Rich: "Up in the Air," With George Clooney." Hollywood’s Brilliant Coda to America’s Dark Year - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/opinion/13r...
Go see it...

MUST READ!!! NEO-FEUDALISM UPDATE: The Corporatocracy Systematically Destroying the American Middle Class - http://www.mybudget360.com/the-corporatocracy...
Many of these Wall Street elites have no allegiance to the country. They put money in secured tax havens in other countries and hide their money in multiple places avoiding taxes from a country that allows them to run their scam. They have allegiance to only one and that is money. They don’t care about the productive economy of the U.S. Lobbying with their fleet of lawyers is simply another business expense.
And here we are, 40 years later with a disappearing middle class, booming financial stocks, millions of foreclosures, and weak financial regulation. Nothing can be clearer than where the power has shifted.

Blood for Oil, we told you so: Global Oil Firms Win Iraq Contracts. Now, we're getting down to the whole goal of the war for oil. - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1260641930568...

Tens of thousands Stage World's Largest Climate March In Copenhagen - http://www.countercurrents.org/owen131209.htm

The con-servative reaction to President Obama's election is turning downright Faustian. - http://mediamatters.org/columns/200912110046

Lie bermans ass real quick, tell him no more aid to Tel Aviv and they can go finish the war in Afghanistan and Iraq also.

BTW, How many troops do they have stationed in those two countries?