EFF | Taylor noted a shocking number of requests that Sprint had received in the past year for precise GPS (Global Positioning System) location data revealing the location and movements of Sprint’s customers.

MSNBC | Researchers say the last Ice Age surprisingly may have taken place over the course of a few months, or a year or two at most.

Richmond Times-Dispatch | The decorated veteran of three wars, now 90 years old, raises the American flag every morning on the pole.

[H]ard|OCP | The lawsuit by the nonprofit Internet rights watchdog group includes the CIA.

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

Press TV | Obama gave no deadline for a full US withdrawal in his speech.

Phoenix New Times | The Transborder Immigrant Tool gives people crossing the border “a way not to die.”

Press TV | The Taliban vows to boost attacks against the US forces in Afghanistan, following Barack Obama’s pledge to deploy thousands more troops to the war-torn country.

Steve Watson | “Scientific Consensus”, rather than skepticism, is driven by profit and big business.

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

Infowars | Not only will Obama not bring the troops home from Afghanistan, he will use the build-up to go into Pakistan.

Kurt Nimmo | A printable guide explains what your rights are.

Fox News | While President Obama might help strike a broadly worded climate change deal in Copenhagen, a legally binding replacement for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol may be just as unlikely after his visit as before.

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

Giordano Bruno | Recent events across the globe indicate more and more that our predictions for 2010 were correct.

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

U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works | Inhofe sends a letter to Barbara Boxer on the conspiracy by scientists to block debate on climate change.

GlobalGulag | “I have a message for them: ‘you’re going to die sooner’”

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Infowars | Shocking newly uncovered UN strategy documents reveal how elitists are recruiting members of academia from all over the globe.

Bloomberg | Gold surged to a record for a second day as investors stepped up purchases to protect their wealth against fiat currencies.

BBC | Users who click on more than five articles in a day may be routed to payment or registration pages.

Paul Joseph Watson | Warmists attempt to burn climategate crooks in sneaky damage limitation exercise, but the scandal is still boiling over.

Chuck Baldwin | All this talk about “national security” is simply a ruse for Big Government elitists to steal our liberties and make slaves out of us.

David Bollier | The whole world must adopt US-style “notice-and-takedown” rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused — without evidence or trial — of infringing copyright.

Dave Lindorff | Merry Xmas Jarheads!! The Man of Peace, Nobel Laureate-to-be , President Barack Obama, your chickenhawk commander-in-chief, is shipping you out as a holiday gift to the people of Afghanistan.