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• Libraries, Books, & Authors
• 25 titles added to National Film Registry "Steven Spielberg's 1998 World War II epic, 'Saving Private Ryan,' Joel and Ethan Coen's cult comedy 'The Big Lebowski' and the 1976 drama 'Please Don't Bury Me Alive!' — considered by historians to be the first Chicano feature film — are among the 25 titles added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress."
• Dec 17, 1843: A Christmas Carol is published 
• Agriculture regulators in Minnesota and Pennsylvania warn libraries about their seed-sharing programs 
• Norman Bridwell, Clifford creator, dead at 86 "Starting in 1963 with Clifford, the Big Red Dog, Bridwell wrote and illustrated more than 40 Clifford books, from Clifford and the Grouchy Neighbors to Clifford Goes to Hollywood. More than 120 million copies have sold worldwide, along with cartoons, a feature film, a musical, stuffed animals, key chains, posters and stickers. Images of Clifford have appeared everywhere from museums to the White House."
• Net & Tech
• How State Attorneys General May Help Hollywood Revive SOPA Anti-Piracy Efforts 
• Comcast Makes It More And More Difficult To Opt-Out Of Internet Sharing 
• Science
• Rare northern white rhino dies in US zoo There are now only five left. 
• Newly Discovered Class Of Antibodies Could Lead To Universal Dengue Vaccine
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• Authority Issues
• Key Witness in Darren Wilson Case Caught in Web of Lies  "McElroy told jurors that she saw Michael Brown beat up Wilson before charging at him 'like a football player, head down.' Her testimony, which closely mirrored Wilson’s version of the encounter, was cited by supporters of the now-former cop as corroboration of his claim that he had been attacked by Brown. However, the Smoking Gun has discovered that McElroy was never near the location at Canfield Drive that Saturday afternoon when Brown was shot dead." 
• Exonerated After Execution: Judge Tosses Teen's Murder Conviction "Seventy years after South Carolina executed a 14-year-old boy so small he sat on a phone book in the electric chair, a circuit court judge threw out his murder conviction."
• San Jose Officer on Leave for Controversial Protest Tweets "White's tweets read: 'Threaten me or my family and I will use my God given and law appointed right and duty to kill you. #CopsLivesMatter.' And another reads: 'By the way if anyone feels they can't breathe or their lives matter, I'll be at the movies tonight, off duty, carrying my gun.'"
• Family of man killed in BB gun case sues police and Walmart 
• The Frankenstein We Have Created (Police rep speaks to MSNBC) Please watch the video. It's very worrying when an authority figure basically tells you to sit down and shut up, that you have no right to criticize the authorities' conduct. 
• Wal-Mart must pay $188 million in workers' class action 
• Other
• Why America’s middle class is lost "It used to be that when the U.S. economy grew, workers up and down the economic ladder saw their incomes increase, too. But over the past 25 years, the economy has grown 83 percent, after adjusting for inflation — and the typical family’s income hasn’t budged. In that time, corporate profits doubled as a share of the economy. Workers today produce nearly twice as many goods and services per hour on the job as they did in 1989, but as a group, they get less of the nation’s economic pie. In 81 percent of America’s counties, the median income is lower today than it was 15 years ago." Related: No Relief for Air Travelers "...the biggest reason airlines are not passing on lower prices to consumers is that they don’t have to."
• 'The Interview' New York premiere canceled "The news comes after Rogen and Franco, stars of the comedy about a Kim Jong-un assassination plot, canceled their upcoming media obligations, following a new threat from hackers that invokes 9/11 and seems to warn of attacks against theaters showing the film."
• Elizabeth Warren was right: The links between Citigroup and government run deep