BBC: "A controversial portrait of President George W Bush, formed using monkey heads, has been projected on a giant billboard in Manhattan."
See also here for previous story.
2:50:16 PM
CommonDreams: "The single most important fact about the birth of Jesus, as recounted in the Gospels, is one that receives almost no emphasis in the American festival of Christmas. The child who was born in Bethlehem represented a drastic political challenge to the imperial power of Rome. The nativity story is told to make the point that Rome is the enemy of God, and in Jesus, Rome's day is over."
The Ebenezer Scrooges of Wall Street are already calculating what they could earn with Bush's privatization of Social Security.
12:10:21 PM
ICH: "A document released for the first time today by the American Civil Liberties Union suggests that President Bush issued an Executive Order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq.
Also released by the ACLU today are a slew of other records including a December 2003 FBI e-mail that characterizes methods used by the Defense Department as 'torture' and a June 2004 'Urgent Report' to the Director of the FBI that raises concerns that abuse of detainees is being covered up."
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