In addition to imposing new sanctions on the Tehran government, the US has reportedly begun beefing up its military presence and war paraphernalia off the Iranian coast.
Olympics Won’t Bring the Gold to Vancouver’s Economy
Temple University sport management professor Emily Sparvero says three major challenges – a struggling economy, decreased interest in the Olympics and disputes among social welfare groups – could hinder the Canadian host city from recouping its investment.
It is time for Asia to use its stronger voice to take a more prominent role in this new world order. The progression from the Western-dominated G8 to a more inclusive G20, with meaningful positions for leading Asian economies, rightly reflects the shift to a new equilibrium in which Asia has much greater weight.
Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi fails to extend his one-year term as AU president as Malawi’s president takes over.
Russia is to supply Libya with weapons to the value of $1.8bn, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announces.
Attempts to extend Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's chairmanship of the African Union cause a diplomatic spat.
Central Africa's diamond miners lose their sparkle
Would You Work the Graveyard Shift at a Chicken Slaughterhouse in Alabama? "Have you ever wondered why poultry plant workers don't hang their plastic smocks outside on a line to dry after a shift spent covered in chicken juice and meat?" Gabriel Thompson asked in a recent e-mail. "The answer: red ants." Continue
Swiss warn UBS bank could collapse...
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) said First Regional Bank in Los Angeles, Florida Community Bank, First National Bank of Georgia, American Marine Bank in Washington, Marshall Bank in Minnesota and Community Bank and Trust in Georgia had failed -- pushing the tally to 15 banks that have failed this year.
Max Berry: I was all set to do a blog about how using Windows is like growing evil tomatoes, then American corporations became real people. They’ve been people for a while, of course: they have the right to own things and sue you and claim they’ve been defamed. Your chair can’t do that. A corporation can, because it’s a person.
But they weren’t enough of a person, apparently, so now they have First Amendment rights. In particular, they have the right to spend as much money as they like on political advertising: airing ads in favor of anti-regulation candidates over pro-regulation ones, for example.
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The US has suspended evacuations of critically injured victims of the Haiti earthquake in a row over who will pay for their care, the military says. "Apparently, some states were unwilling to accept the entry of Haitian patients for follow-on critical care ... without a destination to fly to, we can’t move anybody," Captain Kevin Aandahl, a US transportation command spokesman, said. ‘We’ve temporarily suspended the flights, but that capability exists to…’.
Haitian police have arrested 10 U.S. citizens caught trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country in a suspected illicit adoption scheme, authorities said on Saturday. The five men and five women were in custody in the capital, Port-au-Prince after their arrests on Friday night. There are fears that traffickers could try to exploit the chaos and turmoil following Haiti's January 12 earthquake quake to engage in illegal adoption What the TV doesn’t tell us about Haiti
by Claudio Testa
January 30, 2010 - The world’’s TV is showing, as we might expect, a false picture of reality. In the case of Haiti, this is all the more outrageous given the circumstances. With barely disguised racism they paint the picture of a people who are suffering but "ignorant" and "barbarous", incapable of "keeping order" by themselves after the earthquake, necessitating a renewed colonial occupation, with a fresh US invasion. Of course, no-one mentions the two-hundred-year war…
Colorado Springs Cuts into Services Considered Basic by Many More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled. Continue
Ouch: Poll exposes just how clueless Americans are about politics
Incarceration Nation - Prisons: America's growth industry
Inside the borders of the United States resides a separate nation of 2.3 million people. I speak, of course, of America's prison population. Incarceration may be the only U.S. industry that enjoys unlimited growth potential. We lead the world, by a wide margin, in the number of citizens in prison. The per capita rate is six times higher than Canada, eight times that of France, and even surpasses China and Russia. According to Georgetown law professor David Cole, a new prison opens every week somewhere in America, a truly insane statistic that …
More than 60,000 jobs disappear in a single day
Caterpillar Inc., Pfizer Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and Home Depot Inc. led companies announcing plans yesterday to cut more than 60,000 jobs as sales withered and construction slowed amid the global economic decline. The biggest layoffs were at Peoria, Ill.-based Caterpillar. The world's largest maker of construction equipment said it is cutting 20,000 jobs after its fourth-quarter profit fell by almost one-third. Most of those cuts already have been made. They include 5,000 new layoffs of white-collar workers, which will occur globally by th…
It emphasizes the importance of our need to focus on the 3 "E’s" of energy depletion, environment, and economic collapse on local levels as opposed to federal government solutions which only exacerabate the severity of these issues. ~ Carolyn Baker
My comment: This is yet another way in which the poor are mosthammered by collapse. Slow, organic food is almost always moreexpensive at this point in time and mostly out of reach for them.
If you haven’t joined the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition, please do so by emailing our president, Anthony Marr, at Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org ~ Jason Miller
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Solar Ecology & Energy Efficiency Institute: New Exciting Training Course designed by Dr. Abe Abrahami Renewable-Sustainable Energy Consultant, Eco-Psychologist, Educator Introduction Our current demise is 2-fold: moral-economic and eco-psychological / mental blockage; The moral-economic recession..
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