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I've decided to start posting the Missing Link Daily Twitter production here as a daily digest. Note that I cover "alternative media" (non-MSM fairly loosely defined) as well as blogs. Feedback welcome.  Anyway I'll be suspending it for Christmas in a couple of days.

• Crikey roundup of Xmas Island sinking tragedy coverage;  Ken Parish on bastardry from both extremes


• Clare Sambrook focuses on Britain's punitive asylum seeker detention policies


• Khalid Koser: Responding to Boat Arrivals in Australia: Time for a Reality Check (Lowy Inst)


• Richard Farmer: Rudd's conduct of foreign affairs is revenge served cold


• David Alexander argues Australia has found politically viable way of keeping the state both fair and relatively small


• Juan Cole: Fox News ordered journos to spin global warming; Fox also makes you stupid


• Alex White: Essential climate graphs for dealing with your denialist uncle at Xmas lunch


• Brendan O'Neill focuses on watering down of the criminal law double jeopardy rule in Britain


• Overlawyered: Maccas subject of California class action over Happy Meals with toys


• Wagner et al on tender-based alternative to emissions trading or carbon taxation


• December edition of feminist blogging carnival (links to lots of feminist posts)


• Kevin Donnelly on latest PISA international comparisons of literacy, numeracy of oz 15 year olds


• Lucía Atehortúa: Farming in cities could help feed the world


• Simon Grove: Forestry still getting a bum rap


• Joshua Hammer: Nelson Mandela combined greatness with pettiness, compassion with coldness, altruism with selfishness