Source: Global Research - 12/30/13, Patrick Martin

A lengthy front-page report in Sunday’s New York Times provides additional confirmation that the attack on a US facility in Benghazi, Libya in September 2012 was the outcome of the Obama administration’s use of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists in its war against the Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi.

The Times article, based on dozens of interviews in Benghazi, asserts that the attack that killed four Americans, including US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, was carried out by Libyans who had previously been allied with the US government in the 2011 war that overthrew and murdered Gaddafi. Times correspondent David D. Kirkpatrick writes that the attack was not organized by Al Qaeda or any other group from outside Libya, but “by fighters who had benefited directly from NATO’s extensive air power and logistics support during the uprising against Colonel Qaddafi.”

BBC - 12/28/13

The authorities in Croatia have charged a pharmaceutical company and 364 people - most of them reportedly doctors - for allegedly rigging the drugs market.

Senior managers at the drugs firm Farmal bribed a network of doctors and pharmacists to prescribe the company's products, officials said.

More: BBC.co.uk

EDIT: Turns out this was part of a marketing campaign: http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/01/05/salinas-crop-circle-and-project-192/

CNN - Tom Watkins, 12/31/13
 

What he saw was an elaborate design sculpted into one to two acres of his barley field: a crop circle -- more precisely, a lot of squares and rectangles within a large circle.

"To me, it looks like a computer chip, or something like that," said Anthony, who added that he had no idea what may have caused it. "To be that intricate in design, it kind of baffles me as to how that was done," he said about the flattened grassland. "It didn't look burned to me, it just looked like it was pushed over."

Video and more: CNN

Digital Journal - 12/27/13, Justin King