The Best Videos of 2011: Day 1

It's strange to think that, around this time last year, The Nexus was terrorizing John Cena, The Rock's return was a fanboy fantasy, "King Sheamus" was still reigning supreme, Dolph Ziggler was dating Vickie Guerrero and CM Punk was on commentary. Suffice to say, things went in a different direction in 2011, and as we cross over into 2012, WWE.com takes the next five days to review our 25 favorite moments from the long, strange trip of these last twelve months. Check back each day for five new videos and see if your favorites made our list.

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CM Punk takes control of The Nexus

Not yet The Voice of the Voiceless and a few months away from the WWE Championship, The Second City Saint kicked off his 2011 by making a huge power play.

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WWE.com exclusive: HBK gets his ring from Vince McMahon

Shawn Michaels' long-anticipated induction to the WWE Hall of Fame was an emotional moment for the WWE Universe. But in this WWE.com exclusive, Mr. McMahon privately presents The Showstopper with a true token of his legacy.

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2/21/11

The mysterious "2/21/11" videos revealed the return of The Undertaker. Yet before he could address the WWE Universe, The Phenom was interrupted by another returning Superstar who had plans of his own.

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Dolph Ziggler vs. "Bro-verine"

Who said celebrities are afraid to get their hands dirty? Raw guest and "Real Steel" star Hugh Jackman - yes, Wolverine himself - showed his mettle when he cold-clocked Dolph Ziggler in the #Face, costing the show-off?his match against Zack Ryder.

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When Little Jimmy Comes Marching Home

After weeks of imagined torment at the hands of ?Little Jimmy,? R-Truth interrupted Mr. McMahon and ?Stone Cold? Steve Austin to announce his secession in Richmond, Va.

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Jones-Drew: Suits fuel NFL's concussion crackdown

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ? Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew says lawsuits have fueled the NFL's crackdown on concussions.

The league's leading rusher spoke out about the issue again Wednesday, nearly a week after telling The Associated Press he would hide a concussion to stay in a game.

Jones-Drew has been questioned several times about his concussion views since. His latest comments are his strongest.

He says until recent years there "wasn't this big deal about concussions," and adds "the only reason they're making a big deal about concussions right now is because the league is getting sued over it."

He reiterates that he knows the risk of playing such a physical game, calling injuries an "occupational hazard." He adds that "you have to be willing to accept it, and I am."

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UN Lowers Flags to Half Staff for Kim Jong Il Funeral (Michellemalkin)

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NKoreans line streets for Kim Jong Il's funeral

In this image made from KRT video, Kim Jong Un, foreground, Kim Jong Il's youngest son and successor, salutes as he walks next to his father's hearse during a funeral procession for the late North Korean leader in snowy Pyongyang, North Korea Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. Walking behind Kim Jong Un is Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law and a vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission. (AP Photo/KRT via APTN) TV OUT, NORTH KOREA OUT

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In this image made from KRT video, a huge portrait of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is carried during his funeral procession in snowy Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/KRT via APTN) TV OUT, NORTH KOREA OUT

In this image made from KRT video, a huge portrait of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is carried during his funeral procession in snowy Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/KRT via APTN) TV OUT, NORTH KOREA OUT

In this image made from KRT video, Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Il's youngest son and successor, salutes as he walks next to his father's hearse during a funeral procession for the late North Korean leader in snowy Pyongyang, North Korea Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. Walking behind Kim Jong Un is Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law and a vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission. (AP Photo/KRT via APTN) TV OUT, NORTH KOREA OUT

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) ? Tens of thousands of North Koreans lined the snowy streets of Pyongyang on Wednesday, wailing and clutching their chests as a black hearse carrying late leader Kim Jong Il's body wound its way through the capital for a final farewell.

The funeral procession from Kumsusan Memorial Palace, where Kim's body had lain in state, was accompanied by top military and party officials, but there was little doubt who the leader was. Son and successor Kim Jong Un was the head mourner, walking with one hand on the hearse, the other raised in salute, his head bowed against the wind.

State media ? which over the past week have called Kim Jong Un "great successor," ''supreme leader" and "sagacious leader" ? made it clear that the family's hold on power would extend to a third generation, declaring the country in the younger Kim's "warm care."

The funeral procession passed by huge crowds of mourners, most of them standing in the snow with their heads bare, many screaming and flailing their arms as soldiers struggled to keep them from spilling onto the road.

The procession was expected to head to the city's main plaza, Kim Il Sung Square, where hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have been paying their respects over the past 10 days. Sobs and wails filled the air as mourners in the front rows stamped their feet and cried as the hearse passed by.

"How can the sky not cry?" a weeping soldier standing in the snow said to state TV. "The people ... are all crying tears of blood."

Kim Jong Il, who led the nation with an iron fist following his father Kim Il Sung's death in 1994, died of a heart attack Dec. 17 at age 69, according to state media.

Even as North Koreans mourned the loss of the second leader the nation has known, the transition of power to Kim Jong Un was under way. The young man, who is in late 20s, is already being hailed by state media as the "supreme leader" of the party, state and army.

Like his father's in 1994, Kim Jong Il's coffin was wrapped in a red flag. A limousine carrying a huge portrait of a smiling Kim led the procession, and soldiers followed the hearse and lined the streets. A national memorial service will take place at noon Thursday, state media said.

Wednesday's footage was accompanied by rousing military music. North Korean state media said the memorial route was about 25 miles (40 kilometers) long, though top officials did not walk the entire route.

Outside observers will be watching Wednesday's footage closely for clues on the make-up of Kim Jong Un's inner circle.

Walking behind him was Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law and a vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission who is expected to play a crucial role in helping Kim Jong Un take power.

Also escorting the limousine were military chief Ri Yong Ho and People's Armed Forces Minster Kim Yong Chun. Their presence indicates they will be important players as the younger Kim consolidates his leadership. Top Workers' Party officials Choe Thae Bok and Kim Ki Nam and senior military officer Kim Jong Gak also were prominent positions, according to Seoul's Unification Ministry.

"It shows they will be core powers in North Korea," said Yoo Ho-yeol, a professor at Korea University in South Korea. "Particularly, Jang Song Thaek and Ri Yong Ho will be key to Kim Jong Un's leadership."

The military presence at the funeral Wednesday also suggests Kim will uphold his father's trademark military-first policy, Yoo said.

After the funeral, the young Kim is expected to cement his power by formally assuming command of the 1.2 million-strong military, and becoming general secretary of the Workers' Party and chairman of the party's Central Military Commission, Yoo said.

Kim Jong Il's two other sons, Kim Jong Nam and Kim Jong Chol, have not been spotted.

Kim Jong Un made his public debut just last year with a promotion to four-star general and an appointment as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers' Party.

Heavy snow was falling in Pyongyang, which state media characterized in the early days of mourning as proof that the skies were "grieving" for Kim Jong Il as well. Footage on state TV showed images of swirling snow, the log cabin in far northern Mount Paektu where Kim is said to have been born and the mountain named after him, where his name is carved into the rocky face in red.

Earlier, state television also replayed images of missiles being fired and the April 2009 long-range rocket launch that earned North Korea strengthened U.N. sanctions. The U.S., South Korea and other nations called it a test for a missile designed to strike the United States; North Korea said the rocket sent a communications satellite into space.

Even as they mourned his father with dramatic displays of grief at memorials and at Kumsusan, North Korea's officials have pledged their loyalty to his son.

In an essay paying homage to Kim Jong Il on Wednesday, Workers' Party mouthpiece Rodong Sinmun said North Korea under his leadership had been "dignified as a country that manufactured and launched artificial satellites and accessed nukes," referring to the country's nuclear program.

"Thanks to these legacies, we do not worry about the destiny of ourselves and posterity at this time of national mourning," the essay said, carried in English by the Korean Central News Agency.

"Supreme leader of our party and people Kim Jong Un takes warm care of the people left by Kim Jong Il. Every moment of Kim Jong Un's life is replete with loving care and solicitude for the people," the essay said.

Wednesday's procession had a stronger military presence than in 1994.

Kim Jong Il, who ushered in a "military first" era when he took power, celebrated major occasions with lavish, meticulously choreographed parades designed to show off the nation's military might, such as the October 2010 display when he introduced his son to the world.

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Associated Press Korea bureau chief Jean H. Lee and writers Hyung-jin Kim, Foster Klug, Scott McDonald and Sam Kim in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report. Follow North Korea coverage at twitter.com/newsjean, twitter.com/APKlug and twitter.com/samkim_ap.

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Helicopter crash kills 3, puts transplant on hold

A Clay County Sheriff's deputy walks by smoldering brush on his way to wreckage from a helicopter crash in an area west of Green Cove Springs, Fla. Monday afternoon, Dec. 26, 2011. The helicopter was enroute to Gainesville from Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville to receive a heart for a transplant when it crashed. The three people who were in the helicopter died at the scene. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Kelly Jordan)

A Clay County Sheriff's deputy walks by smoldering brush on his way to wreckage from a helicopter crash in an area west of Green Cove Springs, Fla. Monday afternoon, Dec. 26, 2011. The helicopter was enroute to Gainesville from Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville to receive a heart for a transplant when it crashed. The three people who were in the helicopter died at the scene. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Kelly Jordan)

A Clay County fire official drives through smoldering brush on his way to wreckage from a helicopter crash in an area west of Green Cove Springs, Fla. Monday afternoon, Dec. 26, 2011. The helicopter was enroute to Gainesville from Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville to receive a heart for a transplant when it crashed. The three people who were in the helicopter died at the scene. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Kelly Jordan)

Clay County Sheriff's officials create a staging area about 150 yards from wreckage from a helicopter crash in an area west of Green Cove Springs, Fla. Monday afternoon, Dec. 26, 2011. The helicopter was enroute to Gainesville from Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville to receive a heart for a transplant when it crashed. The three people who were in the helicopter died at the scene. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Kelly Jordan)

Clay County Sheriff's deputies head deep into the woods on four wheelers in an attempt to locate wreckage from a helicopter crash in an area west of Green Cove Springs, Fla. Monday afternoon, Dec. 26, 2011. The helicopter was enroute to Gainesville from Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville to receive a heart for a transplant when it crashed. The three people who were in the helicopter died at the scene. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Kelly Jordan)

MIAMI (AP) ? Three people were killed when a helicopter on its way to retrieve a heart for transplant crashed in northern Florida, leaving the patient to wait for another organ to become available.

The helicopter crashed at 5:53 a.m. Monday, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen.

Bergen said no flight plan was filed for the helicopter, which was headed to a Gainesville hospital, Shands at the University of Florida.

Clay County Sheriff's Office spokesman Russ Burke told The Florida Times-Union the helicopter originally left the St. Augustine airport.

The helicopter was carrying heart surgeon Dr. Luis Bonilla and procurement technician David Hines of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. Sheriff's officials say the name of the pilot has not been released.

Mayo Clinic spokesman Layne Smith said the heart they were to pick up could not be used in another transplant because its viability expired. The patient is back on the waiting list for a new organ.

Kathy Giery, a spokeswoman for Shands' LifeQuest Organ Recovery Service, told The Gainesville Sun that finding a new match for that heart would have taken longer than the roughly four-hour window between the harvest and transplant operations.

"In a last-minute situation like this one, there is no time, actually, to regroup and start over," Giery said.

Bergen said the helicopter went down about 12 miles northeast of Palatka, which is about 40 miles east of Gainesville.

The wreckage, which was in remote, densely forested area, was spotted around noon Monday by another helicopter, Burke said. Debris was scattered around the crash site, which was hidden from the road by rows of pine trees.

Officials with the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.

The National Weather Service in Jacksonville reported there was light fog with overcast conditions in the area but no rain.

"As we mourn this tragic event, we will remember the selfless and intense dedication they brought to making a difference in the lives of our patients," John Noseworthy, Mayo Clinic president and chief executive officer, said in a statement. "We recognize the commitment transplant teams make every day in helping patients at Mayo Clinic and beyond. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families."

FAA records show the Bell 206 helicopter is operated by SK Jets. The St. Augustine company released a statement: "The focus of our efforts at this time is to attend to the needs of our passengers, crew and their families and work with the NTSB and local public safety officials to determine the cause and extent of the accident."

Gary Robb, a Kansas City aviation attorney specializing in helicopter safety, said SK Jets is known as a careful and safe operator in the industry. The small, lightweight craft has low weight and speed capabilities and is primarily used by traffic reporters or police departments, Robb said.

"It's not usually used in donor flights," he said.

"If you're on a mission where time is sensitive, why use an engine that is low performance?" Robb said, adding that the helicopter has a cramped cabin.

An NTSB investigator will scour the crash site for clues and look into the pilot's experience and any factors that might have impaired the pilot, any environmental factors such as birds or low visibility that may have contributed to the crash, and any mechanical problems with the helicopter, he said.

The Bell 206 usually has an older engine no longer installed in new models, Robb said.

"We've seen a number of instances where that engine simply failed," Robb said.

The crash and others like it illustrate the delicate nature of transporting organs.

In 1990, a surgeon and an assistant flying to pick up a donor heart for a patient were killed in a plane crash in New Mexico. And in 2007, a twin-engine plane carrying a team of surgeons and technicians ? along with a set of lungs on ice being brought to a patient already prepped for surgery ? crashed into the choppy waters of Lake Michigan. Six were killed.

Doctors ultimately got another set of donor lungs that were transplanted into the patient.

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Nigerians fear more church attacks after 39 killed (AP)

MADALLA, Nigeria ? At a Nigerian Catholic church where a terror attack killed 35 people on Christmas, women tried to clean the sanctuary ahead of Mass on Monday while one man wept uncontrollably amid the debris.

Outside St. Theresa Catholic Church, crowds gathered among the burned-out cars in the dirt parking lot, angry over the attack claimed by a radical Muslim sect and fearful that the group will target more churches.

Rev. Father Christopher Jataudarde told The Associated Press that Sunday's blast happened as church officials gave parishioners white powder as part of a tradition celebrating the birth of Christ.

Some already had left the church at the time of the bombing, causing the massive casualties. In the chaos after the bombing, Jataudarde said one mortally wounded man, cradling his shredded stomach, begged him for religious atonement.

"Father, pray for me, I will not survive," the man said, according to the priest.

At least 52 people were wounded in the attack, said Slaku Luguard, a coordinator with Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency. Victims filled the cement floors of a nearby government hospital, some crying in pools of their own blood.

On Christmas, attacks by the radical Muslim sect left 39 dead across Africa's most populous nation. A bomb also exploded amid gunfire in the central Nigeria city of Jos and a suicide car bomber attacked the military in the nation's northeast.

After the bombings, a Boko Haram spokesman using the nom de guerre Abul-Qaqa claimed responsibility for the attacks in an interview with The Daily Trust, the newspaper of record across Nigeria's Muslim north. The sect has used the newspaper in the past to communicate with public.

"There will never be peace until our demands are met," the newspaper quoted the spokesman as saying. "We want all our brothers who have been incarcerated to be released; we want full implementation of the Sharia system and we want democracy and the constitution to be suspended."

Boko Haram has carried out increasingly sophisticated and bloody attacks in its campaign to implement strict Shariah law across Nigeria, a multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people. The group, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the local Hausa language, is responsible for at least 504 killings this year alone, according to an Associated Press count.

This Christmas attack comes a year after a series of Christmas Eve bombings in Jos claimed by the militants left at least 32 dead and 74 wounded. The group also claimed responsibility for the Aug. 26 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria's capital Abuja that killed 24 people and wounded 116 others.

While initially targeting enemies via hit-and-run assassinations from the back of motorbikes after the 2009 riot, violence by Boko Haram now has a new sophistication and apparent planning that includes high-profile attacks with greater casualties.

That has fueled speculation about the group's ties as it has splintered into at least three different factions, diplomats and security sources say. They say the more extreme wing of the sect maintains contact with terror groups in North Africa and Somalia.

Targeting Boko Haram has remained difficult, as sect members are scattered throughout northern Nigeria and the nearby countries of Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

Analysts say political considerations also likely play a part in the country's thus-far muted response: President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south, may be hesitant to use force in the nation's predominantly Muslim north.

Speaking late Sunday at a prayer service, Jonathan described the bombing as an "ugly incident."

"There is no reason for these kind of dastardly acts," the president said in a ceremony aired by the state-run Nigerian Television Authority. "It's one of the burdens as a nation we have to carry. We believe it will not last forever."

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Jon Gambrell reported from Lagos, Nigeria and can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP.

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Democrats turn tables on GOP as Boehner relents on payroll-tax deal

House Speaker John Boehner agreed to let the Senate's payroll-tax deal come to the floor for a vote, where it is expected to pass Friday. It was a rare win in a tough year for Democrats.

In a stunning reversal, House Speaker John Boehner late Thursday abandoned a bid to force Senate Democrats to the bargaining table to resolve an impasse over the expiring payroll tax cut ? a strategy that had risked tax hike for some 160 million American workers.

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In the end, carrying on the fight was a losing proposition for a party that took back the House in 2011 on a pledge never to raise taxes. And ? in a new development ? Democrats learned to say, "No."

The deal marks a capitulation by the speaker, who appeared at the podium alone to announce the agreement, worked out with Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D) of Nevada and endorsed by President Obama.

It also marks a breakthrough for Senate Democrats and Mr. Obama, who said "no" from the start of this impasse ? and stuck with it.

As a result, near empty chambers in the House and Senate on Friday will pass by unanimous consent a slightly modified version of a Senate bill that extends by two months the payroll-tax cut and other expiring measures, congressional leaders hope.

If the bill passes Friday, Obama will sign it before joining his family for vacation in Hawaii.?If any member objects, the next step would be to call the full House or Senate back into session next week, when the measure is all but certain to pass.?

This agreement means that the payroll tax cut, worth about $40 on the average paycheck, will remain in effect through February. Federal jobless benefits up to 99 weeks will also continue, and a proposed 27.4 percent payment cut for physicians serving Medicare patients will not take place on Jan. 1.

For five days, House Republicans struggled for traction to get the Senate to the negotiating table to take up the House version of that bill, which extended expiring provisions for a full year, and the so-called ?doc fix? by two years. But by midweek, they found themselves isolated and fighting alone.

In contrast with previous standoffs, this time the White House and Senate majority leader Harry Reid didn?t budge or even blink.

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Jerome Simpson Touchdown: Bengals WR Flips Over Cardinals Defender For TD (VIDEO)

Cincinnati receiver Jerome Simpson may have scored arguably the best touchdown of the season in Sunday's Week 16 game against the Cardinals. Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton looked to his left and found Simpson, who only had to beat Cardinals linebacker Daryl Washington to get into the end zone.

Well, Simpson decided to get by Washington in style, somehow pulling off a full front flip over the 6'2 defender and landing on his feet in the end zone. Touchdown Bengals!

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Simpson's gymnastics work was utterly amazing.

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Yaya Toure wins African Player of the Year

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE

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updated 7:00 p.m. ET Dec. 22, 2011

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure has been named African Player of the Year at an awards ceremony in the Ghanaian capital Accra.

The Manchester City player won ahead of Mali and Barcelona midfielder Seydou Keita, with Ghana forward Andre Ayew - who plays for French club Marseille - third.

Harouna Doula won Coach of the Year at Thursday's annual Confederation of African Football awards after he led Niger to its first African Cup of Nations finals, qualifying from a group containing South Africa and record seven-time champion Egypt.

Botswana won Team of the Year after it also qualified for its first African Cup.

Former Nigeria international Jay Jay Okocha and Morocco's Mustapha Hadji were honored with African legends awards.

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Terry to be charged

England captain will face a criminal charge over allegations that he racially abused an opponent in the Premier League.

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Mitt Romney: ?I?m hoping to become president, not to a talk show host? (The Cutline)

Romney and Huckabee at a Dec. 2007 GOP debate in Iowa. (AP)

"I'm hoping to become President of the United States, not a talk show host."

-- Mitt Romney, taking a swipe at former (and perhaps current) Republican presidential candidates in an interview on Fox News' "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday.

Mike Huckabee, who ran for the Republican nomination in 2008, became a syndicated talk radio host and Fox News host after dropping out of the race. Sarah Palin, the party's 2008 vice presidential candidate, was hired by Fox News chief Roger Ailes as a paid contributor for the network following the 2008 election. And Herman Cain, whose 2012 bid was throttled by allegations of sexual harassment, has been appearing on Fox News as a regular guest, and network executives have expressed interest in hiring Cain.

Rommey's remark was in response to criticism by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who said he wished Romney would be "edgier and bolder."

"I'm not willing to be a bomb thrower," Romney said, "or go over the top and say outlandish things or incendiary things simply for the purpose of getting people excited."

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Why Ron Paul Will Not Get the Republican Nomination (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | Before any fellow Ron Paul supporters pull my head off, I am a Paul supporter. I'm also a pragmatist. As much as I'd love to see America return to core Constitutional values, real money and elimination of the Internal Revenue Service, it's just not going to happen. I'm sorry. With the recent blackout of the candidate by CBS during the last Republican debate, it's clear now which way the wind blows. This must be understood.

He has been blocked and falsely maligned within almost every major media outlet because -- to put it simply -- he scares the powers-that-be in America. Perhaps we should refocus our energies not on the impossible candidate but on organizing our efforts to light and maintain the fires under the feet of whichever candidate does happen to win the presidency in 2012, whether they are Republican or Democrat. If only we'd defended our liberties as passionately, in the first place.

The congressman from Texas is just too much of a threat to the financial interests of far too many people, in silent power within the U.S. His position on ending the so-called war on drugs is like holding a knife to the throat of a cash cow to tax-drunk bureaucracy.

His willingness to propose an elimination of the IRS and at least auditing the Federal Reserve (from which our nation borrows our imaginary fiat currency) upsets those who rely entirely on crony capitalism to put food on their own families' tables. This action alone slaps in the face the wealthiest families on Earth.

When Paul talks about ending the multiple wars we're in now, and talks about engaging Iran in peaceful dialogue, he challenges the superstitions and religion-fed racism still so rampant in America today. To even suggest treating those with darker skin diplomatically enrages our behind-the scenes Dominionists. Without an agitator of some sort in the White House, war becomes less of an option.

In spite of the pain in my own heart to have to say it, Paul will not get the nomination. He's too good, too honest, too true to the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. Those who have not just their thumbs, but both hands in everyone's pies, refuse to let someone come along and wake up the citizens to the knowledge of their own human sovereignty. Such knowledge simply cannot be allowed to spread.

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UN official tells nations to end gay executions (AP)

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Study Identifies Strategies to Reduce Maternity, Child Deaths (ContributorNetwork)

The World Health Organization released findings from a three-year study on interventions to prevent death in mothers during pregnancy and childbirth and also deaths in children under five. Here are study results and how they affect parents.

Maternal and child mortality

According to the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) 358,000 women die each year during pregnancy or in childbirth. 7.6 million children die before their fifth birthday. Most maternal deaths occur during or right after childbirth. The most common causes are bleeding, high blood pressure, difficult labor and infection. 40 percent of under-age-5 deaths occur within 28 days of birth. 50 percent of the infant deaths happen during the first 24 hours and three-quarters in the first week of life. Leading causes of infant mortality are preterm birth, severe infections and asphyxia.

WHO study goals

The goal of the study was to determine what strategies were working best, were the best use of funds allocations and could be implemented most successfully in hospitals, birthing centers and by midwives in local communities. Study author and WHO Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health director Elizabeth Mason says what's new about the study is " putting together information in a different way and building consensus among physicians, scientists and professional organizations to lay out an evidence-based path to help women before, during and after birth and their children. "

WHO study details

WHO, in partnership with Aga Kahn University (AKU) in Pakistan and PMNCH, conducted a far-reaching global study which explored over 50,000 scholarly papers, from 440 PMNCH partners covering 142 different health interventions. The criteria for intervention took into consideration differing maternal and parent profiles: they looked for strategies that could be adapted to whatever families had available in treatment, from local midwife to large hospital.

Study findings

Study leader and chair of AKU's Women and Child Health Zulfiqar Bhutta says, "What came back was a hodge-podge. PMNCH partners had very different ideas of what should be undertaken." Of the various strategies, WHO identified 56 techniques that could be combined into "packages" of birthing care. WHO organized the 56 techniques into five main thrusts of mother-and-child care.

Key interventions for mothers

Anemia, they determined was a dominant factor in maternal death, so getting iron via nutrition and supplements to mothers during pregnancy and childbirth is crucial. Strategies to prevent post-partum hemorrhaging was also addressed.

Key interventions for infants and children

WHO found that immediate thermal care for newborns was essential. They recommend techniques like Kangaroo Mother Care (keeping the infant close to the mother's body and encouraging breast feeding). Other strategies include improving feeding support for LBW (low birth weight) and preterm babies. LBW is linked to several issue in childhood and even adulthood, Medscape says. WHO says pneumonia is a leading cause in child death, so the study recommended antibiotic therapy.

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UN makes $7.7 billion aid appeal for 2012 (AP)

GENEVA ? The United Nations on Wednesday asked donor nations to give $7.7 billion to pay for humanitarian emergencies from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe next year, significantly less than the global body has requested for 2011.

Somalia, Sudan and Kenya ? where tens of thousands of Somalis have sought shelter from war and famine ? top the U.N.'s projections for the costliest emergencies.

In all, the appeal is expected to meet the needs of 51 million people in 16 countries, the U.N.'s aid chief Valerie Amos told reporters in Geneva.

The 2011 appeal is significantly lower than the $8.9 billion that the global body requested for the current year. But requests to U.N. donors are revised throughout the year to respond to unforeseen disasters, which this year included floods in Pakistan, the civil war in Libya, and the ongoing conflict in Yemen.

Amos said the biggest amount in next year's appeal ? about $1.5 billion ? will be devoted to Somalia. This is followed by $1.1 billion for Sudan and $764 million for Kenya.

Some 4 million people in the Horn of Africa need humanitarian aid due to the ongoing drought and insecurity in the region, Amos said. Although the U.N. has downgraded some regions from "famine" to "emergency," gains could be short-lived, she said.

"The situation remains fragile, and aid organizations will only be able to sustain these improvements if the current level of assistance is maintained," said Amos

Newly independent South Sudan has humanitarian needs expected to cost $763 million next year, followed by Congo, Chad, Yemen, Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories and Zimbabwe.

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FACT CHECK: Gingrich off on his budget history

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Newt Gingrich overlooked a couple of years of red ink when he asserted Thursday night that he balanced the budget for four years as House speaker. And in claiming sole credit for the achievement, he glossed over the fact that budgets are not a one-man show: There was a Democratic president in town, too.

In the last debate before the leadoff Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, Gingrich persisted in repeating a claim he has made often in the campaign, sometimes more accurately than others. Here and there, other candidates, too, reprised misstatements or partial truths from the string of debates and from the stump. Mitt Romney once again declared he has spent his life in the private sector, once again ignoring his years as governor and political candidate.

A look at some of the claims in the debate and how they compare with the facts:

GINGRICH: "I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt ? pretty conservative."

THE FACTS: In the 1996 and 1997 budget years, the first two years he shaped as speaker of the House of Representatives, the government actually ran deficits. In 1998 and 1999, the government ran surpluses. Two more years of surpluses followed, but Gingrich was gone from politics by then and had nothing to do with them.

Moreover, the national debt went up during the four years Gingrich was speaker. In January 1995, when he became speaker, the gross national debt was $4.8 trillion. When he left four years later, it was $5.6 trillion, an increase of $800 billion.

To be sure, Gingrich did not single-handedly deepen America's debt, just as he didn't balance any budgets on his own. He was a driving force along with Democratic President Bill Clinton and figures in both houses of Congress in the economic setbacks and advancements of that time.

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ROMNEY: "I spent my life, my career, in the private sector."

THE FACTS: Except, that is, for four years as Massachusetts governor, recent years running for president in the 2008 and 2012 elections, a few years running the Olympics, and the time he put into his failed run for a Senate seat in 1994.

In essence, Romney has devoted himself to political endeavors since his successful run for governor in 2002, and has been pursuing the presidency for five years.

The month after his term as governor ended in 2007, he announced his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. After John McCain defeated him for the nomination, Romney devoted himself to building a political network, helping Republican candidates raise money, and writing a book that set the stage for his second run for president.

Indeed, Romney, who made his fortune as founder of the investment firm Bain Capital, has not held a private-sector job with a regular paycheck in more than a decade.

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MICHELE BACHMANN: "We have an IAEA report that just recently came out that said literally Iran is within just months of being able to obtain that (a nuclear) weapon."

RON PAUL: "There is no U.N. report that said that. It's totally wrong, what you just said."

Bachmann: "It's the IAEA report."

THE FACTS: As Paul said, the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency does not state that Iran is within months of having nuclear arms. The U.N. agency report does suggest that Iran conducted secret experiments whose sole purpose is the development of nuclear weapons but did not put a time frame on when Iran might succeed in building a bomb, and it made no final conclusion on Tehran's intent.

Bachmann also erred by arguing that Iran has "stated they will use it (a nuclear weapon) against the United States."

Iran vehemently rejects that it is developing a nuclear bomb, let alone that it plans to drop one on the U.S.

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ROMNEY: "I'm firmly in support of people not being discriminated against based upon their sexual orientation. At the same time, I oppose same-sex marriage. That's been my position from the beginning."

THE FACTS: In large measure, Romney has been consistent in those two positions, despite accusations of flip-flopping on gay rights.

He walked a fine line back in his failed 1994 Senate campaign, vowing to fight for equality but stopping short of endorsing gay marriage. That's the same line he walked Thursday night.

He has changed, though, on whether gay marriage should be addressed at the state or federal level. He has favored a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage at least since the beginning of his 2008 presidential bid, when he was the only major Republican candidate to do so. In 1994, he had said the matter should be decided by individual states. That was before the idea of a constitutional ban had gained traction in politics.

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BACHMANN: "After the debates that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true."

THE FACTS: Not true.

For the second debate in a row, Gingrich complained that Bachmann wasn't getting her facts straight, this time when she went after him for the big money he made from Freddie Mac. In her own defense, Bachmann cited ratings from PolitiFact, a fact-checking organization that ranks statements on a scale from true to false, with the worst offender being "Pants on Fire" false.

PolitiFact rated two Bachmann statements from last week's debate. One, claiming Gingrich once believed in an individual health care mandate, was ranked mostly true. The other, that Romney introduced "socialized medicine" in his state, was judged burning-pants false.

Indeed, Bachmann has the worst record of accuracy in the Republican field, as rated by that organization and traced by others. Fully 73 percent of her statements checked by PolitiFact were judged mostly false or worse. Gingrich was wrong the next most often, 59 percent of the time.

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Associated Press writers Steve Peoples, Bradley Klapper, Douglass K. Daniel and Jim Drinkard contributed to this report.

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December 16 'Moneybomb' Fundraiser Critical for Ron Paul (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | Fundraising is a critical part of any presidential campaign. Without funding a campaign properly, supplies run out, staff members leave to find other paying jobs, and chartered flights get replaced with bus tickets. Many candidates rely mostly on wealthy donors contributing the $2,500 per person maximum directly to their campaigns, and in the case of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, those wealthy maxed out donors contribute millions more through his Restore our Future Super PAC -- $6.4 million from just 55 elite donors, according to Open Secrets.

Rep. Ron Paul's campaign differs in that his campaign is funded very heavily by donors who cannot contribute the hefty $2,500 donation. Of the more than 100,000 individual donors to Paul's campaign, only 7 percent of them, says NPR, are maxed out donors. Compare that to Mitt Romney's 55,000 individual donors, per the Huffington Post, 54 percent of which were all maxed out donors to his campaign.

So how is it that Paul, the former physician whose Texas residence of 42 years recently went on the market for a surprising normal $325,000 price tag, is able to financially compete with the likes of Bain Capital's money man? He accomplishes this feat through a network of online fundraising that is second to none. A grassroots concept from 2007, where smaller donors who felt ignored and forgotten by the media decided to coordinate the timing of their donations into a single 24 hour period. The Paul online fundraising technique, affectionately known as a "moneybomb," has allowed small donors to have a big impact at key moments for the campaign.

The next Ron Paul moneybomb, slated for Friday, December 16, is quite possibly the most critical one his campaign has ever faced. Never before has he polled in a statistical tie for first in a key early contest like Iowa. Paul's effort to get his message out has produced big results in key early states, but only after a multimillion dollar investment by his campaign. The need for more funding, and this final moneybomb of 2011, could be make or break for the frontrunner status of Paul's campaign.

Only time will tell if Paul will be able to reach out and gather up enough of his supporters for his final fundraising effort of the year. Can they bring him a million dollars, perhaps two? The grassroots group who has never let him down in the past will need to dig in deep on Friday to prepare their candidate for a long primary contest.

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Cut public employee pensions, California voters say (San Jose Mercury News)

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Verizon Couldn?t Be More Full Of It

Yesterday news broke that Verizon would be blocking Google's flagship Galaxy Nexus phone from including Google Wallet, the NFC-based system that will let you tap your phone against special sensors to pay for goods and services. The decision was almost certainly spurred by Verizon's support of a rival NFC-based payment solution called ISIS. We've now learned more details. Some reports, including one in the WSJ, state that while the phone won't launch with Google Wallet, users may be able to download it from Android Market in the future. This isn't the case, we've learned. As things stand now, even once Google Wallet rolls out more broadly, the Verizon Galaxy Nexus won't be able to download it from Android Market. This could change down the line should the two parties reach another agreement (or Google just decides to tell Verizon to buzz off), but that's where the dust has settled at this point. And now, despite all this, Verizon is striking back with a statement that it is not actually blocking the app from the Galaxy Nexus. Except it is.

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Markets buoyed by euro crisis resolution hopes (AP)

LONDON ? Markets rose Monday on hopes that Europe's leaders will agree on a plan to restore long-term confidence in the euro, saving it from collapse and averting global economic chaos.

A crucial week for the future of the euro kicks off later with a meeting of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. The two are expected to discuss how to achieve closer political and economic union of the 17 euro countries, including stricter budgetary oversight.

Merkel wants to change the basic EU treaty to reflect the tougher rules on euro countries and make them enforceable, while Sarkozy is resisting giving up more powers to Brussels, especially since he faces a tough re-election campaign in April. Sarkozy is thought to prefer an intergovernmental deal between the 17 euro countries.

The markets are hopeful that, given the gravity of the situation afflicting the eurozone, the two leaders will come up with a common proposal for tighter integration on budget matters. Analysts say that such a plan could lead to further emergency aid from the European Central Bank, possibly through the International Monetary Fund.

"Markets have gained ground ahead of a Franco-German summit which is supposed to resolve some long-standing issues between the two continental titans," said Chris Beauchamp, market analyst at IG Index.

In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 0.5 percent at 5,582 while Germany's DAX rose 0.9 percent to 6,133. The CAC-40 in France was 1.2 percent higher at 3,202.

The biggest gainer was Italy's FTSE MIB, which was trading 2.2 percent higher, a day after the government led by Premier Mario Monti agreed big austerity and growth-boosting measures. They are to be presented to a skeptical Parliament later Monday.

Monti is to brief both Parliament chambers on the package, which includes euro30 billion ($27 billion) of spending cuts and tax hikes, euro10 billion of which will be reinvested to boost anemic growth.

His government agreed Sunday to slap taxes on property and luxury goods, increase the age at which retirees can draw pensions, trim the cost of Italy's political class and give incentives to companies that hire women and young workers.

Significantly, the pressure on Italy eased in bond markets. The country's ten-year bond yield was down 0.40 of a percentage point to 6.16 percent.

Italy is the eurozone's third-largest economy and is considered too big to be bailed out. Its borrowing rates have in recent weeks hovered around the 7 percent mark, a level that eventually forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek financial help. By comparison, bond yields in Germany, Europe's largest and most stable economy, are roughly 2 percent.

Wall Street was poised for a stronger opening, too ? Dow futures were up 1 percent at 12,120 while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 futures rose 1.1 percent to 1,257.

The upbeat tone in markets helped the euro advance 0.3 percent to $1.3448 and the main New York oil contract rise 83 cents a barrel to $101.79.

Earlier in Asia, Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index added 0.6 percent to close at 8,695.98 while Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 0.7 percent to 19,179.69. South Korea's Kospi ended 0.4 percent higher at 1,922.90.

Mainland Chinese shares lost ground on worries over the economic outlook. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index lost 1.2 percent to 2,333.23.

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Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/stocks/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111205/ap_on_bi_ge/world_markets

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Peeking from behind the wall...

Wee!

Gosh. It's been ages. Pretty sure I remember that lovely name of yours. Do you remember me? I quite possibly had the username "Sato" way the heck back then.

Anyways, yeah. Things are changing around here. Hopefully for the better. Don't be afraid to jump back into the RPs and whatnot. I'm just testing out the waters, too, so we're in the same boat in that regard.

.. Look at me and my nautical metaphors!

Haha, yeah, so, hope to see you around!

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