December 31, 2009
A Betti Page New Year's Treat

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December 25, 2009
Christmas Present from Daichi

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December 24, 2009
Caller Asks GOP Senator If He Prayed 'Hard Enough' For Byrd To Die

On Tuesday, a C-SPAN caller appeared to mock Senate Republicans and specifically Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma for a speech he made that seemed to wish death upon Democratic Senator Robert Byrd. A caller named "Abraham" got through to C-SPAN during an interview with Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and asked Barrasso if Coburn's call to prayer had backfired on Republicans--on Tuesday it was Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), not Sen. Byrd that failed to appear at a health care vote. "We got our vigil together and took sen. coburn's instructions and prayed real hard that Sen. Byrd would either die or couldn't show up at the vote the other night. how hard did you pray, because I see one of our members is missing this morning. Did it backfire on us? Did one of our members die?!"

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December 23, 2009
More Proof That America is Run By Children

Darth Vader and a number of Storm Troopers from the Star Wars Saga rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. They, along with R2-D2, were there as representatives of Lucasfilm Ltd.

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December 22, 2009
The Known Universe / American Museum of Natural History

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

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December 21, 2009
Don't Bring Guns to a Snowball Fight

An undercover cop in DC admits that he pulled a gun at a snowball fight because he was hit by a snowball. This event occured at 14th and U streets in DC on Dec. 19, 2009.

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December 18, 2009
Modern Jazz Opera Extreme Elimination Challenge

What would happen if Most Extreme Elimination Challenge met Jazz at Lincoln Center? Chalrie Parker, Miles, Monk, Horace Silver, Bill Evans, Art Blakey, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane and more in a unique staging by Japan's Modern Jazz Opera.

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December 17, 2009
Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of 'Friendster' Civilization

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November 16, 2009
National Student Protest in Iran

Babak Yektafar: It's significant that thousands of students demonstrated despite threats from Rev. Guard.

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December 15, 2009
Cap & Trade: A Critical Look at Carbon Trading

Democracy Now! Tuesday, December 15, 200
Will the expansion of carbon emissions trading help stop global warming or just create a new market for Wall Street to make billions?

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December 14, 2009
Cab Calloway — Reefer Man

From the 1933 movie "International House."

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December 10, 2009
Afghans' Anger at Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Win

In making Obama the third sitting US President to win the award, the Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama's co-operative approach to global issues. But many critics say that Obama's resume is too thin to stand scrutiny with other Nobel peace laureates. And for many Afghans, Obama's strategy of even more troops does not fit into their vision of what will bring peace. From Kabul, Steve Chao reports.

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December 9, 2009
Syrian Farmers Battle Drought

Climate Change has left farmers in Syria doing something they have never done before - relying on food hand-outs. Three years of consecutive drought has led to the country producing less than half of its food needs. According to the UN World Food Programme, about 1.3 million people are severely affected, and 300,000 are in urgent need of help. Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports on the people who are losing hope that things will ever return to how they once were.

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November 8, 2009
DEA Recruits Lil Wayne To Use Up All Drugs In Mexico

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November 7, 2009
The Real Reason Behind Obama’s Afghan Surge

Something just doesn’t add up about the stated logic of sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, says Jamal Dajani, who has a theory about the president’s real reason for escalating the war.

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December 4, 2009
"We Rescued at the Top and Left the Bottom to Fend for Itself"
Elizabeth Warren from 'Capitalism: A Love Story' on MSNBC's Morning Joe: "The way I think of it is: they say something like 'Give me your money, investors and I'm going to Las Vegas and put it all on red 22. And if red 22 comes in — woo! we are RICH. If red 22 doesn't come in, don't worry because the tax payers will pay you back the money you invested."

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December 3, 2009
Copenhagen: No Sense of Urgency

Goerge Mobiot comments on the US and Canada's convenient stand off with China and India.

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December 2, 2009
Nir Rosen: "We Managed to Make the Taliban Look Good"

Nir Rosen, independent journalist and fellow at the NYU Center on Law and Security, responds to President Obama decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan. Rosen has covered both Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003. His latest articles cover the current state of the US occupations in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

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December 1, 2009
Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP

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