Sunday Linkblast - Dec 13

• Monsanto controls 90% of seed crop gene codes
  Quietly dominating and controlling basic food stocks world wide
  
  
• HUAC North
  Dawg addresses the concerns over quasi official attempts to criminalize criticism of Israel.
  
  
• Is the compromise any good?
  Cautious optimism over the health plan emerging from the US Senate
  
  
• Survival of the Kindest
  The evolutionary advantages of altruism.
  
  
• Police murder squads in the aftermath of Katrina
  Trigger happy chaos.
  
  
• Berlusconi bloodied
  Souvenir cathedral model to the face at a rally.
  
  
• Billionaire Right wing businessman headed for victory in Chile
  Two decades of leftist rule left the country stable and prosperous.
  
  
• Atlas Obscura
  A dictionary of the world's oddest places.