Money and Economics

Drug company implosion as Novartis and others slash U.S. jobs  (Reuters)

U.S. treasury raids federal employee pension funds to cover debts  (Yahoo News)

Zappos Says Hackers Accessed 24 Million Customers' Account Details  (Forbes)

Deadly Dow 36,000 & The Secret History Of A 70% Market Loss  (Daniel Amerman)

Everything You Need to Know About Wall Street, in One Brief Tale  (Rolling Stone)

BURN THE BED POSTS: BofA told Fed it could sell branches in emergency to stay insolvency  (Reuters)

GAMIFICATION: Banks start playing games with your money; New gimmickry to hook and separate citizens from their hard earned $  (IBN Live)

HISTORIC FIND: Check Lincoln wrote day before being shot is found in Ohio bank storage; Also checks from George Washington, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison!  (Boston Globe)

INVASION OF THE 'TALL TAX' - Tall flier decries extra legroom fee, charged $50 extra EACH CONNECTION FLIGHT - $200 total on trip  (CNN)

INTERESTING: Strangeness in the 1960s; '64 & '65 like day and night  (Coin World)

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Preparedness and Disasters

Retire Here, Not There: South Dakota  (WSJ)

EXCELLENT: How To Prepare For The Difficult Years Ahead  (The Economic Collapse)

EXCELLENT INFO: Fish - A Cheap and Easy At-Home Survival Food  (The Survivalist Blog)

The Bamboo Fence: Beauty Meets Strength  (Mother Earth News)

PICS: Haiti STILL devastated 2 years after the earthquake; Almost zero rebuilding has taken place  (National Post)

A Prepared Child is a Safe Child  (Survival Blog)

Seasons Readings - Fallout from Japan Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Hits Middle America; Analysis, readings  (Enviro Reporter)

VITAL READ: Strategies For Survival: Are You Going To Be A Refugee Or Evacuee?  (Codgerville)

Plutonium From Fukushima Has Now Circled The Planet  (Activist Post)

Successful Permaculture in Winter  (Mother Earth News)

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Food and Agriculture

Menu prices expected to rise in 2012 due to higher food costs (aka greed and corruption)  (NY Daily News)

PRODUCE COLLAPSE: Apple juice made in America? Think again - 85% imported  (AP)

Top 15 Healthy Foods for 2012 (You May Not Know About)  (Eating Well)

'Dolphin safe' labeled tuna still being caught with practices involving deliberate, life-threatening harassment of dolphins  (Natural News)

Inspectors ignored FDA produce guidelines before listeria outbreak, gave falsified 'high marks' report finds - 30 died as result  (WDSU News)

IMPETUS TO QUIT: The rising price of Americans favorite beer brands  (WTVM 9 News)

Healthful Greek Yogurt Trend a Boon for New York State  (New York Times)

5 Foods the Experts Won't Eat and Why  (GMA / Yahoo)

Impending food truck crackdown?  (Washington Post)

Thais Help Dogs Escape Vietnamese Dinner Table  (ABC News)

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Health and Medicine

CDC researchers say mothers should stop breastfeeding to boost 'efficacy' of vaccines  (NaturalNews)

Healthy Sex  (NaturalNews)

LA school district students would rather starve than eat healthy menu items  (NaturalNews)

Health insurance company preys upon the poor with junk food reward program for vaccinating your baby  (NaturalNews)

Told ya so! Now TSA says it won't test employees for radiation after all  (Infowars)

Repeat business? FDA approves new cancer drug to treat toxicity caused by another cancer drug  (Reuters)

Grapes found to help prevent age-related blindness  (Eurekalert)

One in five American adults mentally ill  (Reuters)

Processed meat once again linked to huge increases in pancreatic cancer  (BBC)

Depression drugs linked to falls in elderly  (BBC)

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Environment and Nature

Valdez, Alaska: 322 Inches of Snow so Far This Winter! DOUBLE normal yearly snowfall  (WGRZ NBC 2)

NICKEL AND DIMED: Amid 2-year low of natural gas prices, Ameren Illinois to increase rates 5%; Utilities now hiking rates 2-3 times per YEAR  (KMOV News 4)

The 'Cool' Particle: Researchers discover amazing particle which could help cool the planet  (WUWT)

Solar Activity at Eruptive Levels... (vid)  (ExoHuman)

Radioactive tissue box holders yanked from Bed Bath & Beyond shelves; Contain carcinogenic Cobalt-60!  (NY Daily News)

The future's never looked brighter for the global solar biz  (MNN)

Scientists Show Soot, Methane Far Worse Than CO2 In Any Potential Climate Change  (Austin Statesman)

PREPPING: Oil refiners sever links to Iran  (Financial Times)

Comedian, Actor/Author Ben Stein Sues: Ad Agency Replaced Me Over My Global-Warming Position  (The Wrap)

MID-WINTER TWISTER? Possible tornado injures 10 in North Carolina  (Reuters)

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Take Action

BBB warns: Don't rush to sell your gold - Learn about karats, weight, etc  (Your Houston News)

31 (Fun) Ways To Get Smarter In 2012  (Newsweek)

Don't Like SOPA? Contact List of Congressional Supporters  (Cell Pig)

AWESOME: How One App Empowers Citizens to Take Control of Urban Noise Pollution  (Mashable)

HIDDEN EPIDEMIC: January - A Perfect Month to Test Your Home for Radon  (Patch Network)

Five practical ways to raise your consciousness in 2012 (and beyond)  (Natural News)

New Years Resolution - Learn How To Program Your Computer  (Slate)

The American Dietetic Association's Monopoly Continues to Grow - But You Can Stop It Cold!  (ANH)

Petland USA: Stop Selling Pets - Fire Puppy Mills - Petland Canada Has!  (Change)

Support Our Work - Support Doctors Without Borders  (MSF / DWB)

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Politics and Tyrants

Ron Paul warns police state in America "growing out of control" after U.S. Senator Rand Paul unconstitutionally detained by TSA  (NaturalNews)

BOGUS: Iowa Caucus Vote Count Finalized, Though 8 Precints Never Counted  (Des Moines Register)

Dancing the Apocalypso with the Microbial Gestapo  (Activist Post)

What American corporatists are getting away with now  (Bart Blog)

MUST READ: Reading The Tea Leaves On Obama's New Military Strategy  (Forbes)

EXCELLENT: How Propaganda Targets Iran  (Consortium News)

EXCELLENT: US History exposes the 1%'s crimes then and now (6 parts)  (Examiner)

MUST READ: Corrupt Regimes Crumble When the Foot Soldiers Refuse to Carry Out The Tyrant's Draconian Orders  (Washington's Blog)

Why Congress Will be Immune from NDAA Arrest and Imprisonment - With Exceptions  (Activist Post)

CLARION CALL: America's Last Chance  (Infowars)

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Science and Technology

Apple Kills the Textbook with iBooks 2, iBooks Author  (IB Times)

NEAT: Rare Caterpillar-like Horizontal Earthquake Discovered  (Live Science)

Mobile phone charger that runs on water - PowerTrekk  (Daily Mail)

What If Humans Were Twice as Intelligent?  (Live Science)

SLAVE LABOR: Apple factory inspections turn up scores of labor violations - STILL  (CNN)

SIGN OF THE TIMES: More Android smartphones activated every day than babies are born; 700k phones vs 300k babies  (Daily Mail)

Email in your eye? Next-generation video screen glasses could display text, GPS in field of vision  (Daily Mail)

Google Just Made Bing the Best Search Engine  (Gizmodo)

SOPA Author Congressman Lamar Smith's Own Website Violated Copyright  (Geek O System)

UK student to be extradited to US to face trial, charges over TVShack website  (Independent UK)

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Odd and Unusual

Man's hospital stay for pneumonia - $44 million bill  (NY Daily News)

SCUM: Woman slugs 70-year-old Walmart greeter after she asks to see receipt  (NY Daily News)

BIZARRE: Breeders beauty contest for cows, chickens  (CNN)

PROFOUND: The shoes are still left outside the cabins to be polished: An eerie trip with the tourists diving two miles to see the Titanic  (Daily Mail)

POSITIVE: Homeless Long Island Teenager Is Intel Competition Semifinalist  (CBS News)

NEAT: Iraqi woman, 111, sworn in as US citizen; Credits green tea for her longevity  (ABC News)

Friday the 13th times three; This year it occurs in Jan., April and July - each 13 weeks apart  (Deleware Online)

Alexander to Kim Jong Il: A Short History of Leader Preservation  (WSJ)

BIZARRE: Mercedes' uses massive display of guerilla murderer Che Guevara to promote car brand  (Fox News)

ODD COUPLE: Pebble Beach Golf Pro-Am Considers Pairing Up Tim Tebow, Tiger Woods  (CBS News)

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