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Former Blackwater employees accuse security contractor of defrauding government (washingtonpost.com)
Badass of the Week: Aki Ra (badassoftheweek.com)
Brain surgery boosts spirituality (scientificamerican.com)
Chip and PIN security is broken, say researchers (zdnet.co.uk)
European Swift bank data ban angers US (bbc)
Texas Rancher An Unlikely Environmentalist (npr.org)
Becoming a third-world nation (thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com)
Trolls: Conversation Hackers (cognitionandculture.net)
4chan's moot takes pro-anonymity to TED 2010 (arstechnica.com)
Yemen and The Militarization of Strategic Waterways (globalresearch.ca)
Christmas day crotch bomber tied to Israel, FBI (aljazeera.com)
Exxon Still Orchestrating Campaign to Undermine Public Acceptance of Global Warming (treehugger.com)
Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead (theatlantic.com)
Fabricated quote used to discredit climate scientist (independent.co.uk)
COAL - The Roundup (europe.theoildrum.com)
Defusing the Methane Greenhouse Time Bomb (scientificamerican.com)
Bollywood star exposes airport privacy flaw (nzherald.co.nz)
Operation Breakfast redux (atimes.com)
Operation Titstorm: Anonymous clogs Australian government websites (smh.com.au)
Pat Robertson Had Gold Deal with African Dictator (abcnews.go.com)
All Subversive Organizations Now Must Register in South Carolina (schneier.com)
Evolution and Knowledge (fallibleideas.com)
The annotated Rodney Hide: treating parliament with contempt (hot-topic.co.nz)
On John Key’s shonky agenda for the nation (gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz)
Temple Grandin: Animals in Translation - How Animals Think and Feel [video] (youtube.com)
Excerpts from Yves Lavandier's "Writing Drama" (clown-enfant.com)
Flag debate: John Key favours silver fern (nzherald.co.nz)
US soldier waterboarded his 4 year old daughter, because she couldn't recite alphabet (dailymail.co.uk)
The New Dating Game (weeklystandard.com)
Most Palestinians were killed by drones (mondoweiss.net)