Daily Star | Israel took extraordinary care to lull Hamas into a sense of complacency ahead of its deadly onslaught of the Gaza Strip, officials and media said on Sunday.

Bloomberg | Crude oil rose the most in two weeks after Israeli air strikes in the Gaza strip raised concerns that supply from the Middle East, the world’s largest producing region, may be disrupted.

Syd Walker | The prototype for dual-loyalty neocons, the Rothschilds are the original megacons of modern times.

Carolyn Harris | The irony is that if any parent were to lock their child inside a small closet, they would be considered by the state’s Child Protective Services to be abusing the child, but not so the schools.

Paul Joseph Watson | UN Professor Falk cites targeting of civilians, disproportionate military response as Obama and Pelosi express terse approval.

Associated Press | Minnesota is deep in the hole financially, but the state still owns a premier golf resort, a sprawling amateur sports complex, a big airport, a major zoo and land holdings the size of the Central American country of Belize.

Kurt Nimmo | A Greek television show has revealed how Greek police posed as anarchists and destroyed property.

Infowars | A compilation of breaking news reports as Israel continues its attack of the Gaza Strip for a second day.

Infowars | People just don’t get it and most won’t even get it when they’re standing in line at the FEMA camps.

BBC | Dozens of people in the Iranian capital have thrown shoes at cartoon pictures of US President George W Bush.

| Japan’s economy — the second-largest in the world and a barometer of global consumer demand — was described yesterday as being “on a knife-edge” amid fears that it might plum- met into deflation within months.

Telegraph | An English-language “information” pamphlet claimed the EU “is delivering a better life for everyone” and described the single market as “a winning formula.”

Associated Press | Marked “for official use only,” the report does not specify its audience, but the assessments typically go to law enforcement, intelligence officials and the private sector.

Future Storm | The intention of the U.S. Department of Justice is to put pain ray weapons into the hands of police on the streets of America.

WSWS | More than 2,000 opponents of the federal Labor government’s plans to censor the Internet rallied in cities across Australia on December 13 — the second national protest in the past two months.

Kurt Nimmo | Obama is vacationing with his family in Hawaii and he had no comment on the worst slaughter of Palestinians in more than 20 years.

Kurt Nimmo | The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team under Northcom command conducts “humanitarian” exercises in Maryland.

YouTube | A matrix within a matrix.

Telegraph | Andy Burnham is planning to negotiate with Barack Obama’s incoming administration to draw up new international rules for English language websites.

AFP | At least 195 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip on Saturday in massive Israeli air strikes on the Hamas-run enclave, the head of Gaza emergency services Moawiya Hassanein said.

Pravda | Is the United States going to put dictatorship into effect under the guise of the anti-terrorist struggle? What may trigger another major transformation in 2009? The answer is obvious: another 9/11 in the USA.

Philly 9/11 Truth | Bill O’Reilly– now clearly a FOX propaganda mouthpiece– used to be interested in uncovering the CIA involvement in the JFK assassination. When confronted, he says he’d like to ‘figure it out before I die.’

Mike Whitney | A strong economy must be built on a solid foundation of steadily rising wages. If wages don’t keep pace with production, the only way the economy can grow is through the expansion of debt, which leads to disaster.

Bloomberg | Sales of single-family houses in the U.S. dropped in November by the most in two decades and resale prices collapsed at a pace reminiscent of the Great Depression, dashing speculation the market was close to a bottom.

Kurt Nimmo | Apparent war preparations on the part of India and Pakistan shed new light on a RAND report calling for a major conflict to save the American economy.

Wall Street Journal | Price-slashing failed to rescue a bleak holiday season for beleaguered retailers, as sales plunged across most categories on shrinking consumer spending, according to new data released Thursday.

Associated Press | Pakistan began moving thousands of troops away from the Afghan border toward India on Friday amid tensions following the Mumbai attacks, intelligence officials said.

Daily Tech | Consumer advocacy group calls for Google to adopt an easy zero day data retention “opt out” provision.

AFP | President-elect Barack Obama has replaced US President George W. Bush as the most admired man in America, according to a poll published Friday in the USA Today newspaper.

Daily Telegraph | The riots have begun. Civil protest is breaking out in cities across Russia, China, and beyond.

David Icke | Vast numbers of people across the world, including many who should know better, have been duped by the mind-game called Operation Obama.

Press TV | The ship will carry medicine and foodstuffs including rice, flour, sugar as well as six tons of medicine for the impoverished population of Gaza.

Telegraph | Tax inspectors have divided England into 10,000 new “localities” with each neighborhood ranked on the socioeconomic class of its residents.

Infowars | Alex talks about the premeditated demolition of Building 7 on September 11, 2001.

Infowars | Obama’s Trade Rep is a NAFTA booster who works for a law and lobbying firm serving corporate interests.

Kurt Nimmo | Is the surveillance state ramping up to snoop the internet in near real time, or do they already have this capability?

Telegraph | China is sending tens of thousands of unemployed graduates into the countryside to teach peasants, in a repeat of one of Chairman Mao’s most controversial policies.

AFP | The Internet has surpassed newspapers as the main source for national and international news for Americans, according to a new survey.

Bill Van Auken | Having failed to quell resistance and restore order in Iraq and Afghanistan, what would be the prospect of the military succeeding in an occupation of the US itself?

Bob Patterson | If Bill O’Reilly’s assessment of American Journalism was accurate, wouldn’t the New York Times and the Washington Post be all over this new book and putting reviews on the front pages?

Stephen Lendman | Creating the Federal Reserve System to let bankers and not the government control the price and amount of fiat money debased the currency and is the root cause of today’s financial problems.

George Washington’s Blog | America now has some 300 million people, 50 states, and more federal, state and local agencies than anyone can possibly list. It is hard to govern such a large, complex and populous system when anything goes seriously wrong.

BBC | Since a policeman shot dead 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos on 6 December, daily riots are estimated to have cost the entrepreneurs in the capital more than $1bn.

Gaston Gazette | “If they do impose the tax, it’s going to put a greater detriment on dairy farmers. It’s hard enough to sustain the dairy industry with all the regulations put on them.” s

Amy de Miceli | The push of an armed escort into Santa’s itinerary is an obvious attempt to condition children to accept the control grid.

YouTube | Short anti-Nazi propaganda cartoon produced by Walt Disney during WWII.

National Lampoon | C-SPAN coverage of Santa Claus asking Congress for a financial bailout of the North Pole – Present Giving Industry. If they dont approve his aid package, Christmas may be ruined.

Associated Press | A series of gloomy economic reports Wednesday showed consumers holding tight to their wallets with job losses expected to mount in the months ahead.

Washington Post | The Army needs to add at least 30,000 active-duty soldiers to its ranks to fulfill its responsibilities around the world without becoming stretched dangerously thin, senior Army officials warn.

Los Angeles Times | Word of the cutbacks came the same day that 1,000 angry workers stormed the Orange County Hall of Administration to protest previously announced plans to lay off 210 social services employees.