Occult Mosaic

Fool: On the Ledge

2012-01-26T13:58:00.000-08:00

The Fool

is the spirit in search of experience. He represents the mystical cleverness bereft of reason within us, the childlike ability to tune into the inner workings of the world. The sun shining behind him represents the divine nature of the Fool's wisdom and exuberance. On his back are all the possessions he might need. In his hand there is a flower, showing his appreciation of beauty. He is frequently accompanied by a dog, sometimes seen as his animal desires, sometimes as the call of the "real world", nipping at his heels and distracting him. He is seemingly unconcerned that he is standing on a precipice, apparently about to step off.

The number 0 is a perfect significator for the Fool, as it can become anything when he reaches his destination. Zero plus anything equals the same thing. Zero times anything equals zero. Zero is nothing, a lack of hard substance, and as such it may reflect a non-issue or lack of cohesiveness for the subject at hand.

In many esoteric systems of interpretation, the Fool is usually interpreted as the protagonist of a story, and the Major Arcana is the path the Fool takes through the great mysteries of life and the main human archetypes. This path is known traditionally in Tarot as the Fool´s Journey, and is frequently used to introduce the meaning of Major Arcana cards to beginners.

The conventional explanations say that The Fool signifies the flesh, the sensitive life, and by a peculiar satire its subsidiary name was at one time The Alchemist, as depicting folly at the most insensate stage. When The Fool appears in a spread, he would be a signal to strip down to the irreducible core, and interrogate whether the Querant's self-vision is obscured. It may also be a warning that significant change is coming.

Another interpretation of the card is that of taking action where the circumstances are unknown, confronting one's fears, taking risks, and so on.

A dog appears on most versions of the card. Some versions of the dog depict him biting at The Fool. The dog symbolizes the natural world, one path to knowledge and a valuable ally; he can be seen as providing The Fool with a "reality check," a link to the everyday world. Although it cannot be seen in all modern cards, The Fool is often shown walking off a cliff. This raises the question "Is The Fool making a mistake, or is The Fool making a leap of faith?"

January 25, 2012, Series Premiere of Touch

January 27, 2012, Release of Man on a Ledge

January (26th)

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January 1, 2012, A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes south of Japan; no damage is caused. (Wall Street Journal)
January 1, 2012, The Iran Navy test-fires a surface-to-air missile. (MSNBC)
January 1, 2012, A joint New Year editorial by North Korean media calls for human shields to protect Kim Jong-un. (The Telegraph)
January 1, 2012, Egypt's military rulers bring forward elections for the Shura Council, the upper house of the Parliament to expedite progress in developing a new constitution. (AFP via France 24)
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January 2, 2012, Iran successfully test-fires two long-range missiles during military exercises in the Persian Gulf. (Reuters via Yahoo News)
January 2, 2012, Mount Ranier National Park in the US state of Washington remains closed as dozens of police search for a man who shot a ranger on New Years Day. (CBS News)
January 2, 2012, ExxonMobil wins US$908 million from an arbitration panel of the International Chamber of Commerce for the nationalization of its Venezuelan oil project in 2007. (BBC)
January 2, 2012, The Russian Federal Space Agency expects that parts of its failed Fobos-Grunt spacecraft will re-enter the earth's atmosphere and may crash into the earth during the next week. (The Telegraph)

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January 3, 2012,Voters in the U.S. state of Iowa go to the polls for electoral caucuses, with Mitt Romney defeating Rick Santorum by 8 votes in the Republican Party contest, and Ron Paul following in third place. (BBC)
January 3, 2012, Voters in Egypt go to the polls for the third round of voting for the lower house of the national parliament. (Reuters via The Irish Times)
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January 4, 2012, The President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner temporarily hands over power to her deputy Amado Boudou ahead of surgery for thyroid cancer. (CNN)
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January 5, 2012, The President of the United States Barack Obama announces a new defense strategy, cutting spending dramatically. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)

January 6, 2012, Release of The Devil Inside

January 6, 2012, A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all eleven onboard. (BBC)

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January 6, 2012, The Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller announces that the country is to become a republic, with plans to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and the Jamaican monarchy in general. (The Guardian)

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January 8, 2012, Series Premiere of The Firm

January 8, 2012, Series Premiere of House of Lies

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January 9, 2012, Season Premiere of Shameless

January 9, 2012, Alabama defeats LSU 21-0 to win the 2012 BCS National Championship, their second championship in three years, in the first shutout in BCS National Championship history. (ESPN)

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January 11, 2012, Series Premiere of Are You There, Chelsea?

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January 11, 2012, Joran van der Sloot pleads guilty to killing a Peruvian woman. (msnbc)

January 11, 2012, Republican candidates for United States President are campaigning in South Carolina for the upcoming South Carolina primaries. (ABC News)

January 12, 2012, Series Premiere of Rob
January 12, 2012, Series Premiere of The Finder

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January 13, 2012, Release of Beauty and The Beast 3D

January 13, 2012, Release of Contraband

January 13, 2012, Release of Joyful Noise

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January 13, 2012, European sovereign debt crisis: The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency lowers its long-term credit ratings on the eurozone countries of Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain by two notches each and Austria, France, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia by one notch each. (Standard & Poor's)

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January 13, 2012, Lions Gate Entertainment, the largest independent studio in the United States, purchases Summit Entertainment for US$412.5 million. (Reuters)

January 14, 2012, The cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground at the Isola del Giglio in the Mediterranean Sea with 3 deaths and 14 other casualties confirmed. (Sky)

January 14, 2012,

January 14, 2012, Rescue teams find two survivors trapped inside the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the coast of Tuscany on January 13, killing at least three people. The ship's captain is detained by police for questioning. (New Zealand Herald)

January 15, 2012, Series Premiere of Napolean Dynamite

January 15, 2012, 2011–2012 Bahraini uprising: Opposition leaders and activists say reforms proposed by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa are "cosmetic" and will do little to stop the uprising. (Al Jazeera)
January 15, 2012,Three trapped survivors are rescued from the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia, over 24 hours after it ran aground off the coast of Italy. Two corpses are also found, bringing the known death toll of the incident to five. (BBC)
January 15, 2012, Russia's unmanned Fobos-Grunt space probe re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after a failed mission to the Martian moon Phobos. The 13-ton spacecraft disintegrates over the southern Pacific Ocean at approximately 16:45 UTC. China's first Mars probe, Yinghuo-1, which was launched together with Fobos-Grunt, is also destroyed. (BBC)
January 16, 2012, Series Premiere of Alcatraz

January 16, 2012, Series Premiere of The Revolution

January 16, 2012, The King Center publishes online 200,000 personal papers belonging to Martin Luther King, Jr. to mark his birthday. (BBC News)

January 16, 2012,

January 16, 2012, European sovereign debt crisis:The Standard & Poors credit rating agency lowers its long-term credit rating on the EFSF, the eurozone's bailout fund to help indebted European countries with their finances, from AAA to AA+ following the downgrade of France and Austria, who are two of the fund's backers. (FT)
January 16, 2012, The English Wikipedia will be shut down on Wednesday in protest against anti-piracy legislation proposed by the United States Congress. (Wikimedia Foundation)

January 17, 2012,

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January 17, 2012, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang resigns as chief executive officer. (San Jose Mercury News)
January 17, 2012, Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of new North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, predicts the regime will fall if reforms are not made soon. (UPI)

January 18, 2012,

January 18, 2012, Italian cruise ship captain Francesco Schettino admits having made navigational errors that led to the capsizing of the Costa Concordia in Italian waters on January 13, killing at least 11 people. (BBC)

January 18, 2012,

January 18, 2012, Severed human hands and feet are found near the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles, California, close to where a man's severed head was recently discovered. Los Angeles police continue their search for more body parts connected with the case. (Huffington Post)
January 18, 2012, Protests against Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act: Several major websites, including Reddit and the English Wikipedia, undergo blackouts in protest against controversial internet legislation proposed by the United States Congress. The two pieces of legislation in question are designed to combat online piracy, but are feared to inadvertently threaten online innovation and freedom of speech.(New York Times)

-A number of American lawmakers, including SOPA co-sponsor Marco Rubio, withdraw their support for the SOPA proposal. (BBC)

January 19, 2012, Series Premiere of Unsupervised

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January 19, 2012, Kodak files for bankruptcy protection. (Reuters)
January 19, 2012, The FBI shuts down Megaupload. In response, hacker group Anonymous shuts down the United States Department of Justice website and many websites of the government and entertainment industry. (Washington Post)
January 19, 2012,News International pays out compensation to 37 people, including the actor Jude Law and politician John Prescott. over phone hacking by the News of the World. (BBC)
January 19, 2012, Rick Perry drops out of the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries and endorses rival candidate Newt Gingrich. (CBS News)
January 19, 2012, Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke dies from complications of injuries she received in a skiing accident nine days earlier. (BBC)
January 20, 2012, Release of Haywire

January 20, 2012, Release of Red Tails

January 20, 2012, Release of Underworld: Awakening

January 20, 2012, An Indonesian man is charged with blasphemy after saying that God does not exist on his Facebook page. (The Jakarta Globe)
January 20, 2012, China warns Iran against developing nuclear weapons. (UPI)
January 20, 2012, SOPA and PIPA are postponed indefinitely as a result of the recent protests. (CNN)

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January 27, 2012, Release of The Grey

January 27, 2012, Release of Man on a Ledge

January 27, 2012, Release of One for the Money

January 27, 2012, Series Premiere of Spartacus: Vengeance

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January 30, 2012, Release of Ringo album Ringo 2012

January 30, 2012, Release of Lana Del Rey album Born to Die

January 30, 2012, Release of Never Dead video game

January 30, 2012, Release of Soul Calibur 5

The Stoned Monks (2007-2011)

2012-01-09T17:10:00.000-08:00

Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. for a novelty record in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual; and Theodore, the chubby, impressionable one. The trio is managed by their human adoptive father, David Seville.

In reality, "David Seville" was Bagdasarian's stage name, and the Chipmunks themselves are named after the executives of their original record label Liberty Records.

{Liberty Records was a United States-based record label. It was started by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Al Bennett as president and Theodore Keep as chief engineer.}

[As Liberty literally represents the Liberty (Phrygian) Cap Mushroom]

The characters became a success, and the singing Chipmunks and their manager were given life in several animated cartoon productions, using redrawn, anthropomorphic chipmunks, and eventually films.

The Symbolism

Do the Chipmunks represent the "Monk"?

A monk (from Greek: μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary") is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose. The concept is ancient and can be seen in many religions and in philosophy.

Although the term monachos (“monk”) is of Christian origin, in the English language it tends to be used analogously or loosely also for both male and female ascetics from other religious or philosophical backgrounds.

Early Promo for First Chipmunk Movie: The 3 Chipmunks are looking "stoned" or high on some certain drug/fungus and their 3 colors represent the main colors associated with the psychedelics of Psilocybin being blue when its bruised (libery caps), Amanita being red with white spots (fly argaric) and Cannabis being green.

Chipmunks are usually classified either as a single genus, Tamias. Tamias is Greek for "storer," a reference to the animals' habit of collecting and storing food for winter use. The common name originally may have been spelled "chitmunk" (from the Odawa word jidmoonh, meaning "red squirrel") The earliest form cited in the Oxford English Dictionary (from 1842) is "chipmonk", but "chipmunk" appears in several books from the 1820s and 1830s.

So far in the Hollywood reboot of the Chipmunk franchise 3 films have been released and all 3 seems to follow the Archetypal theme presented in the original "The Stoned Chipmunks" post in 2007, 2 months before the first film in the franchise was released.

December 14, 2007, Release of Alvin and The Chipmunks

The first film begins and obviously alludes to Christmas and its rituals (Christmas tree and Amanita), which was the original thesis in "The Stoned Chipmunks" post, being that Alvin was representing Amanita.

December 23, 2009, Release of Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

The 2nd film in the series then alludes to the obvious "dualism" of it being the 2nd film bringing in the counterparts to the Chipmunks, the "Chipettes". The Chipmunks also align with common symbols such as checkerboard, caduceus, eagle, rainbow and even a picture drawn by Theodore which looks like 3 mushrooms drawn in grass.

Alvins also closes out the film with a stylized Alvin Peace sign/Broken Cross.

December 16, 2011, Release of Alvin and The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

And then the 3rd film tackles Alchemy, with hidden treasure and X marks the spot. Symbols which represent the transmutation of ones consciousness to a higher plane through psychedelics.

Alvin the Amanita Apple

As noted in a earlier post Alvin the Chimpmunk is voiced by Justin Long who is known as "The Mac Guy" aka "The Apple Guy"

and following that up Britney the lead Chipette is voiced by Christina Applegate, confirming said apple theme with the Chipmunks.

Ophiuchus: 2011

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January 2011, A statement by Parke Kunkle of the Minnesota Planetarium Society repeating the idea of "the 13th zodiac sign Ophiuchus" made some headlines in the popular press.
October 11, 2011, Series Premiere of Last Man Standing

November 18, 2011, Release of Happy Feet 2

November 30 - December 18, 2011, Constellation of Ophiuchus (Serpent Bearer)

December 16, 2011, Barefoot Bandit (Colton Harris-Moore) pleads guilty; Sentenced to 7 years
December 16, 2011, Barefoot Diva (Cesaria Evora) dies at age 70
December 20, 2011, Series Premiere of NBC's "Who's Still Standing" 4 Holiday Marathon

December

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December 1, 2011, Series Premiere of Weed Wars

December 1, 2011, Parks And Recreation S4 Ep9: The Trial of Leslie Knope

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December 2, 2011,

December 2, 2011, The United Nations Human Rights Council denounces the crimes against humanity during the 2011 Syrian uprising which killed over 4,000 people since the uprising started in March. (CNN)
December 3, 2011, Herman Cain announces that he will suspend his campaign for Republican nomination in the United States presidential election following a series of sexual harassment and other misconduct allegations. (CBS)

December 3, 2011,

December 4, 2011, Mini-Series Premiere of Neverland

December 4, 2011, Dexter S6 Ep9: Richocet Rabbit

December 4, 2011,

December 4, 2011, 45,000 citizens of Koblenz, Germany, are allowed to return home after bomb squads defused World War II bombs that were hidden under the Rhine River for almost 65 years. (CNN)
December 4, 2011, Transparency International releases the 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index, declaring North Korea and Somalia the most corrupt nations in the world, and New Zealand the least corrupt. (CNN.com)
December 4, 2011, Former Brazilian football captain Sócrates dies in hospital in Sao Paulo from complications of food poisoning. (The Telegraph)

December 4, 2011, American golfer Tiger Woods wins the Chevron World Challenge, his first tournament win in over two years. (AP via NPR)

December 5, 2011,

December 5, 2011, Eurozone debt crisis:Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, and Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, call for a new European Union Treaty to help prevent future Eurozone crises. (BBC)

-There are widespread reports that credit ratings agency Standard & Poors will put 15 nations in the Eurozone under review for a possible downgrade, including France and Germany. (Bloomberg)

December 5, 2011, Julian Assange is allowed a final appeal to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom against his extradition to Sweden to answer questions over sexual assault allegations. (Wall Street Journal)
December 6, 2011, Release of Chevelle album Hats off to the Bull

December 6, 2011, Release of Korn album Path of Totality

December 6, 2011, Release of Tintin The Game: Secret of the Unicorn

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December 6, 2011, The US Mine Safety and Health Administration releases the final report into the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in Raleigh County, West Virginia, that killed twenty-nine miners last year. (MSHA)
December 6, 2011, The Parliament of Greece approves an austerity budget. (Dow Jones via Wall Street Journal)
December 7, 2011, The United States commemorates the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i. (AP via WVEC)
December 7, 2011, The board of Japan's Olympus Corporation announces its plans to resign early next year due to its accounting scandal. (Reuters)
December 7, 2011, The former President of Israel Moshe Katsav arrives at a prison outside Tel Aviv to start a seven year term for rape. (BBC)
December 7, 2011, The former Governor of the US state of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is sentenced to 14 years in jail for corruption. (Reuters)
December 7, 2011, The Russian Federal Space Agency officially gives up attempting to rescue Fobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1, and expects them to fall back to Earth in January 2012. (Space.com)
December 7, 2011, The European Central Bank reduces interest rates to 1%. (BBC)

December 8, 2011,

December 8, 2011, Iranian state television shows footage of a United States Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel drone that its forces claim to have shot down. (AP)

December 8, 2011, Two people are killed at Virginia Tech, formerly the site of the largest mass shooting in US history. (MSNBC)

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December 9, 2011, Release of New Years Eve

December 9, 2011, Release of The Sitter

December 9, 2011, Release of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

December 9, 2011, Release of Young Adult

December 9, 2011,

December 9, 2011, Credit rating agency Moody's downgrades the ratings of France's three biggest banks, Crédit Agricole, BNP Paribas and december 4Société Générale. (BBC)
December 9, 2011, Stock prices rise at stock exchanges around the world, and some analysts see this as a reaction to a fiscal agreement among the leaders of the eurozone. (Reuters)

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December 10, 2011, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim wins the game of the year at the Spike Video Game Awards. (AP via WVEC)
December 10, 2011, A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits the Mexican state of Guerrero, resulting in three deaths and felt across several other central states. (AP via CBS News)
December 10, 2011, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is sworn as President of Argentina in a second consecutive mandate. (Yahoo)
December 10, 2011, Astronomers in Asia, Australia and North America observe a total lunar eclipse. (BBC)
December 10, 2011, NASA clears SpaceX to launch Dragon COTS Demo Flight 2 toward the International Space Station in a window opening on February 7, 2012. (Reuters)
December 10, 2011, Robert Griffin III, the quarterback for the Baylor Bears wins the Heisman Trophy, awarded to the best player in college football. (New York Times)

December 11, 2011, Dexter S6 Ep11: Talk to the Hand

December 11, 2011, American Dad S7 Ep7: Season's Beatings

December 11, 2011, North Korea warns of "unexpected consequences" if South Korea lights a Christmas tree near their mutual border. (BBC)
December 11, 2011, The 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference finishes in Durban in South Africa with an agreement to begin negotiations on a new treaty. (USA Today)

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December 12, 2011, Credit rating agency Moody's in its weekly credit report dismisses the significance of last week's EU agreement, saying it "does not change our view that risks to the cohesion of the euro area continue to rise." (Reuters)
December 12, 2011, United States President Barack Obama has asked Iran for the RQ-170 Sentinel that was captured near Kashmar on December 4. (CNN)

December 12, 2011,

December 13, 2011, Premiere of NBC Special Inside The Royal Marraige

December 13, 2011, Two separate experiments carried out at the Large Hadron Collider may have detected the Higgs boson particle, according to researchers. (CBC)

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December 13, 2011, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 becomes the fastest selling entertainment product of all time passing $1bn in sales in 16 days. (The Guardian)
December 13, 2011, Iran has turned down the United States request to return a RQ-170 that was captured recently by Iranian forces after it crash landed in the country. Iranian officials report that they are extracting data from the aircraft. Officials also report that the drone was brought down by a cyber attack. (Voice of America)

December 14, 2011,

December 14, 2011, Time names "The Protester" the magazine's 2011 Person of the Year, as a result of the Arab Spring and subsequent movements. (Forbes)

December 15, 2011, The 2010 United States Census shows 1 in 2 people are classified as low-income or poor. (Associated Press)

December 15, 2011,The United States flag is lowered in Baghdad marking the end of U.S. military operations in Iraq after nearly nine years of the Iraq War. (BBC)
December 15, 2011, Former editor of The Sun and the News of the World Piers Morgan is called to give evidence before the Leveson Inquiry, and will appear next week. (The Guardian) December 15, 2011, The US National Institutes of Health places a temporary moratorium on new studies using chimpanzees in response to a report that claims nearly all medical research on the animals is scientifically unjustified. (Washington Post)

December 16, 2011, Release of Alvin and The Chipmunks: ChipWrecked

December 16, 2011, Release of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

December 16, 2011, Release of Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows

December 16, 2011, Release of Carnage

December 16, 2011, Chuck S5 Ep6: Chuck vs Virus

December 16, 2011, Flash floods triggered by Tropical Storm Washi kill at least 400 people in the Philippines with hundreds more missing. (AP via WVEC)

December 16, 2011,

December 16, 2011, Colton Harris-Moore, the so-called "Barefoot Bandit", pleads guilty to dozens of charges in the US state of Washington and is sentenced to seven years in jail. (AP via ABC News)

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December 16, 2011, Clashes take place between pro-democracy protesters and security forces in Cairo, Egypt. (Al Jazeera)
December 16, 2011, Russia joins the World Trade Organization. (BBC)
December 16, 2011, Moody's Investors Service downgrades Belgium's credit rating two notches to Aa3. (Wall Street Journal)
December 16, 2011, The stock price of Research in Motion, the maker of BlackBerry smart phones, falls after the release of disappointing quarterly numbers and news of the delay of expected product upgrades. (Christian Science Monitor)
December 16, 2011, Japan declares the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in cold shutdown. (Kyodo)
December 16, 2011, The United States and North Korea are expected to hold diplomatic talks regarding North Korea's nuclear program. The talks are the first meeting after the six-party talks stalled in 2008. (Yonhap News)
December 16, 2011,Hollywood actor Christian Bale is prevented from visiting Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng by police. (CNN)

-Chinese dissident Gao Zhisheng is sent back to jail, in the first confirmation he is still alive in 20 months. (AP via Google)
December 16, 2011, Star baseball player Barry Bonds is sentenced to 30 days of home detention on obstruction of justice charges following misleading evidence about steroid use. (ESPN)

December 17, 2011, Merlin S4 Ep12: "The Sword in the Stone (Part 1)

December 17, 2011, Egyptian Army soldiers beat protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square in a second day of clashes which have resulted in 10 deaths and hundreds injured. (Reuters)

December 17, 2011,

December 18, 2011, Dexter S6 Ep12: This is the way the World Ends

December 18, 2011, The death of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il on December 17 is announced by Korean Central Television. (CNN)

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December 18, 2011, Clashes continue in Cairo's Tahrir Square for a third day between the Egyptian Army and protesters. (Reuters)

December 18, 2011, The last convoy of United States Army soldiers withdraws from Iraq, marking the formal end of the Iraq War. (Reuters)

December 18, 2011,

December 18, 2011, Thousands protest in several Russian cities for a second week, against the results of the parliamentary elections. (AP via Google)
December 18, 2011, Václav Havel, former President of Czechoslovakia and President of the Czech Republic, dies. (The Telegraph)

December 19, 2011, Terrnanova S1 Ep11/12: Occupation & Resistance

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December 19, 2011, Kim Jong-un is proclaimed the expected successor to his father. (Wall Street Journal)

December 19, 2011, Fighting continues in Cairo's Tahrir Square for a fourth successive day. (Al-Jazeera)
December 19, 2011, Saab Automobile officially files for bankruptcy.(AFP via News Limited)

December 20, 2011, Series Premiere of Still Standing

December 20, 2011, The body of Kim Jong-il lies in state at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang. (Al Jazeera)

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December 20, 2011, A Socata TBM-700 small plane crashed onto Interstate 287 in Northern New Jersey, killing 5. (New York Times)
December 20, 2011, Thousands of Egyptian women demonstrate against abuses by military police. (New York Times)

December 21, 2011, Release of The Adventures of Tintin

December 21, 2011, Release of A Girl with a Dragon Tattoo

December 21, 2011, Release of Albert Nobbs

December 21, 2011,

December 21, 2011, The Japanese media reports that prosecutors are raiding the offices of Olympus Corporation over an accounting scandal. (Reuters)

December 21, 2011, The death toll from flooding in the Philippines caused by Tropical Storm Washi reaches 1,002 and is set to rise further. (AP via ABC News America)
December 21, 2011, Health authorities in Hong Kong start slaughtering 17,000 chickens after a carcass infected with bird flu H5N1 is found at a poultry market. (New York Times)

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December 22, 2011, The Large Hadron Collider makes its first clear observation of a new particle since opening in 2009, the boson Chi-b 3P. (BBC)
December 23, 2011, Release of We Bought a Zoo
December 23, 2011, Release of In The Land of Blood and Honey

December 23, 2011, Chuck S5 Ep7: Chuck vs Santa Suit

December 23, 2011, 2011 Egyptian revolution: Activists gather in the Egyptian capital Cairo, calling for the end of the post-Hosni Mubarak military regime. (Al Jazeera)
December 23, 2011, A series of large aftershocks from the 22 February earthquake – the largest registering magnitude 6.0 – strike the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. (New Zealand Herald)
December 23, 2011, A Chinese court sentences dissident Chen Wei to nine years imprisonment for "inciting subversion of state power", after he published essays online calling for multiparty democracy. (Times of India)
December 23, 2011, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is treated in hospital for a blocked coronary artery. (BBC)

December 24, 2011, Merlin S4 Ep13: Sword In Stone Pt.2

December 24, 2011, Tens of thousands of people protest across Russia against parliamentary elections that they allege were rigged in favour of the ruling United Russia party. (RIA Novosti)

December 24, 2011, North Korean media name Kim Jong-un – the son and successor of late leader Kim Jong-il – as the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army. (Straits Times)

December 24, 2011, Libya celebrates its independence for the first time in 42 years; independence celebrations were banned under the regime of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi. (Tripoli Post)

December 24, 2011,

December 25, 2011, Release of War Horse

December 25, 2011, Release of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

December 25, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI delivers the annual Christmas message at Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City. (CNN)
December 25, 2011, The warmest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole is set with a top of -12.3°C set at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. (Weather Underground)

December 26, 2011,

December 26, 2011, Brazil surpasses the United Kingdom to become the world's sixth-largest economy. (BBC)
December 26, 2011, The government of China sentences activist Chen Xi to ten years imprisonment for "inciting subversion". (The Telegraph)
December 26, 2011, In American football, Drew Brees, the quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, breaks the 1984 National Football League record for yards passing in a season. (AP)

December 27, 2011,

December 27, 2011, Over $30 billion was spent on holiday online shopping in the United States, a 15% increase from last year, according to comScore. (Reuters)
December 27, 2011, Sears Holdings Corporation announces plans to close over 100 Sears and K-Mart stores in the United States. (Financial Post)
December 27, 2011, The death toll from flash floods in the Philippines caused by Tropical Storm Washi reaches 1,500 per some sources, but the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council currently puts the number lower.(AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
December 27, 2011, The government of Argentina announces that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has cancer in her thyroid gland, and will have an operation on 4 January and step aside as president for 20 days until 24 January. (BBC)

December 28, 2011, North Korea begins two days of funeral services for former leader Kim Jong-Il, who died on December 17 of a heart attack, aged 69. (BBC)

December 28, 2011,

December 28, 2011,

December 28, 2011, A Russian court rejects an attempt to ban Bhagavad Gita As It Is, a Russian translation of the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita. (BBC)
December 28, 2011, Stones reportedly fall from the Colisseum, one of Rome's most famous landmarks. (MSNBC)
December 28, 2011, The Silence of the Lambs, a 1991 thriller film starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, is to be preserved by the United States Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry. (BBC)
December 28, 2011, Strait of Hormuz dispute: Iran threatens to close down the key oil route of the Strait of Hormuz if more sanctions are imposed on it by Western nations. (CNN)

-The United States Navy responds that it will not tolerate a disruption to the Strait. (BBC)
December 28, 2011, The corruption trial of the former President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, resumes in Cairo. (BBC)
December 28, 2011, China's Compass satellite navigation system, a rival to the American Global Positioning System (GPS), becomes operational, offering navigation services on the Chinese mainland. The system is expected to become available worldwide by 2020. (BBC)

December 29, 2011,

December 29, 2011,

December 29, 2011, The United States sells 84 F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.(Reuters)
December 29, 2011, Kim Jong-un is acknowledged as the Supreme Leader of North Korea at the conclusion of a state funeral for his father. (AP via MSNBC)
December 29, 2011, The Pacific Island nations of Samoa and Tokelau move from east to west of the International Date Line in order to align their time zone better with their main trading partners, meaning that they will not mark December 30 this year. (AP via Chicago Tribune)
December 29, 2011, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg states that there is 'no chance' that the National September 11 Museum will open on time (September 11, 2012), due to a financial dispute. (MSNBC)

December 30, 2011, Release of The Iron Lady

December 30, 2011, Chuck S5 Ep7: Chuck vs The Baby

December 30, 2011,

December 30, 2011,

December 30, 2011, The stock for McDonald's rose 31 percent in 2011, the largest gain in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, while Bank of America fell 59 percent, the largest loss in the Dow Jones. (CNN)
December 30, 2011, The death toll from the 2011 Thailand floods reaches 790. (Jakarta Post)
December 30, 2011, North Korea says that "foolish politicians around the world" should not expect any change in the country's policies. (Al Jazeera)
December 30, 2011, In yachting, the New South Wales boat Loki is declared the overall winner of the 2011 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. (Sydney Morning Herald)
December 31, 2011, A 4.0-magnitude earthquake hits Ohio, with no immediate reports of damage. (MSNBC)
December 31, 2011, In Hollywood, a string of 35 fires burned within 5 hours that caused at least $350,000 in damage. (CNN)
December 31, 2011, The President of the United States Barack Obama signs a law providing for new sanctions against Iran. (AFP via Google News)
December 31, 2011, Kim Jong-un is named as the Supreme Commander of North Korea's armed forces following the death of his father Kim Jong-Il. (AP via The Australian)

December 31, 2011, NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the moon. (BBC)

November

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November 1, 2011, Release of Album Lulu by Metallica and Lou Reed

November 1, 2011, Re-Release of Goldeneye

November 1, 2011, Release of Lord of the Rings: War in North

November 1, 2011, Release of Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception

November 1, 2011,

November 1, 2011,

November 1, 2011, The President of the United States, Barack Obama, makes Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia, a National Monument. (Reuters)
November 1, 2011, The FBI and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission launch an investigation into MF Global after $600 million of customers' money went missing. (CNN)
November 1, 2011, Over 1.5 million people are still without power and four states declare a state of emergency after a nor'easter hits the Eastern United States. (CNN)
November 1, 2011, China launches the unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft, intending to robotically dock it with the orbiting Tiangong 1 space station module. If successful, the mission will mark China's first orbital docking, and will be a major milestone in its efforts to construct a full-scale space station. (BBC)

November 2, 2011,

November 2, 2011,

November 2, 2011, Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange loses his appeal in England's High Court against extradition to Sweden to face questioning over sexual assault allegations. (The Guardian)
November 2, 2011, Four men are arrested in the U.S. state of Georgia for plotting to kill government officials with explosives and the toxic substance ricin. (Washington Post)
November 2, 2011, Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is convicted in New York City for conspiracy to smuggle weapons to the Colombian terrorist group FARC. (The Guardian)
November 2, 2011, Russia and Georgia strike a deal that will allow Russia to enter the World Trade Organization. (The Moscow Times)
November 2, 2011, Greek economic referendum:

-The Greek Cabinet unanimously supports plans by Prime Minister George Papandreou to hold a referendum on the European Union's proposed economic rescue plan. (AP via Newser)
-The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel warn that a sixth tranche of financial aid will not be paid to Greece unless the referendum is successful. (Market Watch)

November 2, 2011, China's unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully docks with the orbiting Tiangong 1 space station module, marking China's first orbital docking. (BBC) (China.org)

November 3, 2011, Community S3 Ep4: Advanced Gay

November 3, 2011, The Port of Oakland in the US state of California reopens after a second police crackdown on Occupy Oakland. (USA Today)
November 3, 2011, Eurozone debt crisis:

-The 2011 G-20 summit gets underway in the French city of Cannes, with discussions expected to focus on the continuing Eurozone debt crisis. (BBC News)
-The Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou holds an emergency Cabinet meeting, during which the cancellation of the Greek economy referendum is announced following negotiations with opposition lawmakers. (AP via Washington Post)
November 3, 2011, The U.S. Department of Energy publishes 2010 greenhouse gases levels, showing they are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago. (AP via CBS News)

November 4, 2011, Release of Harold and Kumar Christmas

November 4, 2011, Release of Tower Heist

November 4, 2011,

November 4, 2011,

November 4, 2011,

November 4, 2011,

November 4, 2011,

November 4, 2011,

November 4, 2011,

November 4, 2011, Millions of Muslims start the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. (Radio Free Europe)
November 4, 2011, The jury retires to consider its verdict in the trial of Dr Conrad Murray for the alleged involuntary manslaughter of U.S. entertainer Michael Jackson. (CNN)
November 4, 2011, The Hellenic Parliament votes on a no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou following a failed attempt to hold a referendum on a eurozone bailout. (Reuters)

November 5, 2011,

November 5, 2011, Rescuers pull a further 45 trapped coal miners to the surface in Sanmenxia in the People's Republic of China, with eight miners reportedly having died. (AP via Washington Post)
November 6, 2011, Series Premiere of Hell on Wheels

November 6, 2011, A 5.6 magnitude earthquake, the largest in the state's history, strikes 21 miles NNE of Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA, causing significant damage. (USGS)
November 6, 2011, Thousands of people protest in Washington DC against the proposed Keystone XL project. (CBS News)
November 6, 2011, The two leading Greek political parties reach an agreement to form a coalition government with the Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou to resign once the new government is formed. (Washington Post)

November 7, 2011, S1 Ep7 Terranova: Nightfall

November 7, 2011, Conrad Murray is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in relation to the death of American entertainer Michael Jackson. (USA Today)

November 7, 2011,

November 7, 2011,

November 7, 2011,

November 7, 2011, Former world champion boxer Joe Frazier dies of liver cancer. (ESPN)

November 7, 2011, Barnes & Noble, a company best known for its chain of book stores, enters the tablet computer market with the Nook Tablet, an extension of its line of Nook eReaders. (Reuters)

November 8, 2011, Release of Modern Warfare: 3

November 8, 2011,

November 8, 2011,

November 8, 2011, Russia starts commercial natural gas deliveries to Central Europe via the Nord Stream, the world's longest submerged pipeline. (The Local)
November 8, 2011, A record number of Americans — 49.1 million — are living below the poverty line, based on a new census measure. (Washington Post)
November 8, 2011, The International Atomic Energy Agency releases a report that says that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear device, and that the project may still be under way. (The New York Times)
November 8, 2011, The Australian Senate votes to introduce a carbon tax, a form of carbon pricing. (The West Australian via Yahoo! 7 News)
November 8, 2011, Berlusconi announces that he will resign after the parliament passes a budget law. (Reuters)
November 8, 2011, NASA observes the asteroid YU55 as it makes a close Earth flyby, passing within 0.85 lunar distances (about 201,700 miles) of the Earth. YU55 is approximately 400 metres (1,300 ft) across, and is the largest asteroid to make a close pass since 1976. (BBC)

November 9, 2011, A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hits Van, Turkey, leading to the collapse of numerous buildings. The tremor comes in the wake of last month's destructive 7.1 magnitude earthquake. (USA Today)
November 9, 2011, Response to IAEA report on Iran's nuclear program: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the International Atomic Energy Agency report is based on "empty claims" and that Iran would not budge from its nuclear program despite allegations it may be trying to develop nuclear weapons; European countries and the US say they will consider fresh sanctions against Iran. (BBC)
November 9, 2011, Voters in San Francisco, California, elect Ed Lee as the city's interim Mayor. Lee is the first Asian-American to become Mayor of San Francisco. (San Francisco Chronicle)
November 9, 2011, Russia's Fobos-Grunt mission to the Martian moon of Phobos runs into problems shortly after its launch, with no telemetry reported from the spacecraft. (MSNBC)
November 9, 2011, Dutch scientists build a nanoscopic electric car made of a single complex molecule. Currently the world's smallest vehicle, the nanocar is capable of travelling small distances when an electric current is applied to it. (BBC)
November 9, 2011, The trustees of Pennsylvania State University sack the coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Joe Paterno, and the University president, Graham Spanier, following allegations of a coverup of alleged sexual abuse by assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. (Los Angeles Times)

November 10, 2011,

November 10, 2011, Lucas Papademos is appointed interim prime minister of Greece's new unity government, and pledges to implement a European bailout package to help resolve the Greek government debt crisis. (BBC)

November 10, 2011,

November 10, 2011, Hinchingbrooke Hospital in the English county of Cambridgeshire becomes the first NHS hospital to be run by a private firm. Healthcare partnership Circle has been awarded a ten-year contract, and will take over administration of the hospital – which has heavy financial debts – in February 2012. (BBC)
November 10, 2011, The New Zealand Department of Labour files 25 criminal charges in relation to the Pike River Mine disaster, which killed 29 miners in November 2010. (AP via Google News)
November 10, 2011, James Murdoch, the chief executive of News International, makes his second appearance before the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee, as the News International phone hacking scandal continues. (BBC)

November 11, 2011, Release of Immortals

November 11, 2011, Release of J. Edgar

November 11, 2011, Release of Jack and Jill

November 11, 2011, Release of Elder Scroll: Skyrim

November 11, 2011, Fringe S4 Ep6: Those We've left behind

November 11, 2011,

November 11, 2011,

November 11, 2011, First-person shooter video game Modern Warfare 3, published by Activision, sells over 6.5 million copies in North America and United Kingdom, setting a new record. (Los Angeles Times)
November 11, 2011, The Gold Coast in the Australian state of Queensland is chosen as the host city for the 2018 Commonwealth Games ahead of Hambantota in Sri Lanka. (The Australian)
November 11, 2011, In Major League Baseball, the Florida Marlins officially change their name to the Miami Marlins. ESPN.com

November 12, 2011,

November 12, 2011, APEC United States 2011: The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit gets underway in the US city of Honolulu. (Wall Street Journal)
November 12, 2011, In athletics, the International Association of Athletics Federations names Usain Bolt of Jamaica and Sally Pearson of Australia as its World Athletes of the Year. (IAAF)

November 13, 2011, Release of Super Mario 3D

November 13, 2011, Once Upon a Time S1Ep4: The Price of Gold

November 13, 2011,

November 13, 2011, Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy to make way for an emergency government to address the country's economic crisis; thousands of Italians celebrate his departure in street demonstrations. (BBC)

November 13, 2011, Undercover British police officer Mark Kennedy admits that, in the guise of an environmental activist, he was used by the police forces of 22 countries, was responsible for the closing down of the Youth House community centre in Copenhagen, and committed two crimes on behalf of German police between 2004 and 2009, one of which was arson. (The Guardian)
November 13, 2011,The police in the US city of Portland, Oregon close down the Occupy Portland site resulting in 50 arrests. (Reuters)

November 14, 2011,

November 14, 2011,

November 14, 2011, British television soap Coronation Street becomes the first prime time television show in the UK to use product placement after signing a deal with the Nationwide Building Society. A Nationwide cash machine is seen on screen in an episode. (Sky News)
November 14, 2011, Riot police shut down the Occupy Portland and Occupy Oakland rallies. Dozens of people are arrested. (Los Angeles Times)

November 15, 2011, Release of Assassins Creed: Revelations

November 15, 2011, Release of Need for Speed: The Run

November 15, 2011, Release of Saints Row 3

November 15, 2011, Release of Marvel vs Capcom 3

November 15, 2011, Release of Rayman: Origins

November 15, 2011, Release of Mario and Sonic at the 2012 Olympics

November 15, 2011, Release of album Take Care By Drake

November 15, 2011, The New York Police Department clears Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park. (New York Times)

November 16, 2011, Release of The Descendants

November 16, 2011,

November 16, 2011, The President of the United States Barack Obama arrives in Australia for a visit to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the ANZUS treaty; the United States and Australia announce an agreement to expand military cooperation between them, including the stationing of up to 2,500 U.S. Marines near Darwin. (CNN)
November 16, 2011, Two bullets are found to have been fired at the White House in Washington, DC., one into a window that was stopped by bullet-proof glass. (CNN)
November 16, 2011,Mario Monti is sworn in as Italian prime minister and temporary finance minister, with the task of implementing austerity measures to prevent the euro area's third-biggest economy from collapsing as a result of the debt crisis. (Business Week)
November 16, 2011, The new Greek prime minister, Lucas Papademos, wins a vote of confidence in Parliament, opening the way for his government of national unity to take the steps to restore financial stability in Greece. (CNN)

November 17, 2011, The British Government sells the Northern Rock bank – which was nationalised in 2008 – to Virgin Money for £747m. (BBC)
November 17, 2011, The United States House of Representatives considers censoring the Internet for the first time with the Stop Online Piracy Act. (Washington Post)
November 17, 2011, China's unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully returns to Earth, landing in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region after docking twice with the Tiangong-1 orbital laboratory module. (Xinhua)
November 17, 2011, The ongoing NBA lockout continues, with NBA commissioner David Stern warning NBA team owners that the 2011–12 NBA season might be cancelled. (ESPN)

November 18, 2011, Release of Twilight: Breaking Dawn Pt.1

November 18, 2011, Release of Happy Feet Two

November 18, 2011,

November 18, 2011, An Idaho man, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, is charged with the attempted assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama, after two bullets are found embedded in the exterior of the White House. The President and First Lady were not present at the time of the alleged attack. (New York Times)

November 18, 2011,

November 18, 2011,

November 18, 2011, The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reopens its investigation into the death of film star Natalie Wood after receiving fresh information. Wood drowned off the coast of California in 1981. (BBC)
November 19, 2011, At least two people are killed and over 600 injured in violent clashes with police in Cairo's Tahrir Square, following mass protests against Egypt's post-revolutionary military leadership. (BBC)
November 19, 2011, The United States successfully tests a new hypersonic weapon system, capable of striking targets 3,700 kilometres (2,300 mi) away in under 30 minutes, as part of its Prompt Global Strike program. (BBC)

November 20, 2011, Release of Zelda: Skyward Sword

November 20, 2011, Jose Pimentel, a 27-year-old Dominican-American, is arrested in New York City after planning to detonate pipe bombs, according to New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. The suspect is believed to have Al-Qaeda sympathies, although no wider conspiracy is suspected. (CNN)

November 21, 2011, Release of Michael Jackson album Immortal

November 21, 2011, Release of Nickelback album Here and Now

November 21, 2011, Release of Yelawolf album Radioactive

November 21, 2011,

November 21, 2011, 2011 Egyptian revolution: At least 11 people are killed in ongoing clashes between Egyptian protesters and security forces in Cairo's Tahrir Square. (BBC)

-The Cabinet of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf submits its resignation to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, but its resignation is officially rejected. (BBC)
November 21, 2011, The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada impose further sanctions against Iran's nuclear program. (CNN)
November 21, 2011, The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada impose further sanctions against Iran's nuclear program. (CNN)
November 21, 2011, Dutch baseball player Greg Halman of the Seattle Mariners is stabbed to death, with his brother as a suspect. (AP via BET)
November 21, 2011, A Congressional panel fails to agree on proposals to cut the United States' national budget deficit by $1.2 trillion, leading to automatic budget cuts. (CBC)

November 22, 2011,

November 22, 2011, 2011 Egyptian revolution: Three American University in Cairo students are arrested after throwing firebombs at security forces amid ongoing protests in Cairo, Egypt. (CBS News)

November 23, 2011, Release of Arthur Christmas

November 23, 2011, Release of Dangerous Method

November 23, 2011, Release of The Artist

November 23, 2011, Release of The Muppets

November 23, 2011, Release of Hugo

November 23, 2011, The European Space Agency claims to have made contact with Russia's stranded Fobos-Grunt probe, two days after the closure of the spacecraft's window for launch to Mars. (Discovery.com)

November 23, 2011, Egypt protests: Violent anti-regime protests enter their fifth day in Cairo's Tahrir Square, with 35 people killed and over 3,200 injured to date in clashes between protesters and security forces. (CNN)

November 24, 2011,

November 24, 2011,

November 24, 2011,

November 25, 2011, Kamal Ganzouri is appointed as new Prime Minister of Egypt as a replacement for Essam Sharaf, who resigned after protests. (VoA)

November 26, 2011, NASA launches the robotic Mars Science Laboratory, the largest rover yet sent to Mars, with the aim of finding evidence for past or present life on Mars. (BBC)

November 26, 2011, NBA team owners and players reach an agreement to end the 149-day NBA lockout and to begin the current NBA season on Christmas Day. (ESPN)

November 26, 2011,

November 26, 2011,

November 27, 2011, Dexter S6 Ep8: Get Gellar

November 27, 2011, Voters in Egypt go to the polls for the first round of voting in parliamentary elections. (Reuters)

November 27, 2011,

November 28, 2011, Fitch Ratings maintains the credit rating of the United States government at AAA, but downgrades its outlook on the government to negative. This follows rival ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating in August. (Fox Business)
November 28, 2011, The 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference (also known as COP 17) begins in Durban, South Africa. (Joburg.org.za)

November 29, 2011,

November 29, 2011,

November 29, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik is declared to have been criminally insane when he committed the 2011 Norway attacks that killed 77 people. (The Telegraph)

November 29, 2011, American Airlines, the world's fourth-largest airline, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (CNN)

November 29, 2011, Dr. Conrad Murray is sentenced to four years in jail for involuntary manslaughter in Los Angeles in connection to the death of Michael Jackson in 2009. (CNN)

November 30, 2011, Researchers at Washington State University develop an artificial bone "scaffold" which can be produced using 3D printers, potentially allowing doctors to quickly print replacement bone tissue for injured patients. (BBC)