Happy {New,Gnu,Blue,Pneu} Year Everybody! As usual there may be less than 10 items.

1. Sheldon Richman's Why WikiLeaks Matters
2. Fred Branfman on WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us
3. CBS news on How WikiLeaks Enlightened Us in 2010
4. Martha …

Here we go again:

1. FBI fabricated "terror emergencies" to justify illegal monitoring of phone calls
2. Bruce Schnier reveals how U.S. demands for monitoring capabilities lead to the Chinese(?) hackers hacking Google
3. ACTA, who taketh away the rights of the world
4. The trial of Peter Zengel …

Here's a few more tidbits. As I said last time, "This is not a monthly or even a regular listing; I'll repeat this when I have another ten.".

1. The Demise of Conscience, Part 1
   
2. The Man Who Would Murder Death
3. Free (legal) MP3 music downloads
4. Tyranny begins with …

Here are some links that I found worth passing on recently. This is not a monthly or even a regular listing; I'll repeat this when I have another ten.

1. End Software Patents
2. Jacob C. Hornberger: Hillary Should Have Apologized for Waco in Waco
3. Building a Green PC at ArsTecnica
4. Canadian …