Local NBC afflilate WJAR channel 10 hit Occupy Providence to get some reaction to Time Magazine’s Person of the year pick. The Occupy Supply gear was in full view during the NBC interview.

Time magazine has named “The Protester” the 2011 “Person of the Year.” First off, a congratulations is in order. Time managing editor Richard Stengel said in making the announcement: “They literally embodied the idea that individual action can bring collective, colossal change.”

Time’s cover, which seems right out of the March CIA advisory leak that recommended playing up women’s rights abuses to build support for the war in Afghanistan, may have humanitarian hawks arguing for more war but Afghan women’s rights activists have a different idea.

Writing on his blog last fall, the NYT’s Paul Krugman remarked, “I trust Joe Romm on Climate.” I agree with Mr. Krugman: when it comes to climate change — whether you are interested in either the science or the politics — Joe Romm’s Climate Progress blog is the single best source of information on the web. He’s blunt, extremely knowledgeable and solutions-oriented, a rare combination of attributes that leave him particularly well-suited to cover the scientific and political context of climate and energy policy.

TIME Magazine chose Bernanke for the same reason CNBC’s Ron Insana worshipped at his feet yesterday – that he’s the “world’s most important man in charge of the world’s most important economy,” that he had a history in Depressions so he knew how to avoid one, etc. They didn’t choose him because he actually did anything with regard to a core mission at the Fed — maximize employment. They also ignored his inability to see the freight train bearing down on the economy from subprime mortgages and collateralized debt objects.