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t r u t h o u t | What Cooked the World’s Economy?
A great in depth study of the background of this mess. MBPosted by Michael Butler, Saturday, January 31, 2009
AlterNet: Stop Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic and Nationalize the Damn Banks
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, January 31, 2009Greg Palast Likes the Stimulus Package .. All in All a Good Day
go to story"Frankly, I was worried about this guy. Obama's appointing Clinton-droids to the Cabinet, bloated incompetents like Larry Summers as "Economics Czar," made me fear for my country, that we'd gotten another Democrat who wished he were a Republican. Then came Obama's money bomb. The House bill included $125 billion for schools (TRIPLING federal spending on education), expanding insurance coverage to the unemployed, making the most progressive change in the tax code in four decades by creating a $500 credit against social security payroll deductions, and so on. It's as if Obama dug up Ronald Reagan's carcass and put a stake through The Gipper's anti-government heart. Aw-RIGHT!" - Palast
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, January 31, 2009
NYT Op-Eds (2)
"A documentary about the women’s peace movement in Liberia spotlights the achievement of ordinary people who courageously intervene in their own fate" (Herbert); "Shape up people. It’s post-inauguration now. It’s all about the issues. And one issue at hand is every American’s God-given right to television reception" (Collins)Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, January 31, 2009
NYT (7): National Politics/Economy
Economic crisis deepens; Senate resistance to stimulus plan; Obama strengthens labor; First Geithner, then C. Kennedy, now Daschle (doesn't ANYONE pay taxes anymore?); Supreme Court moving toward complete elimination of "exculsionary rule"; Layoffs lead to lawsuits; and another State Speaker (Florida) resigns amid investigation.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, January 31, 2009
NYT (2): Environment/Energy
Rising acidity levels in oceans are endangering marine food web; and utility companies start giving "energy use report cards" to customers.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, January 31, 2009
NYT (3): International News
Despite recent murder of three candidates, mood in Iraq is calm for newest round of elections; and Somalia elects moderate cleric as new president.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, January 31, 2009
Will there be a thaw in US-Russian relations?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, January 31, 2009The House’s modern-day Hoovers
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, January 31, 2009Just what is a green job anyway?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, January 31, 2009NYT Op-Eds (4)
"The Democrats have created a stimulus package that is a sprawling, undisciplined smorgasbord. By trying to do everything all it once, the bill does nothing well" (Brooks); "Why has the Obama administration been silent about one of the key promises during the campaign — the promise of guaranteed health care for all Americans?" (Krugman); "Real cooperation between Democrats and Republicans on Social Security could pave the way for bipartisan bliss" (Ponnuru); "For Geert Wilders, a Dutch parliamentarian and film maker, who calls for a ban on the Koran to act as the champion of free speech is a bit rich" (Buruma)Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, January 30, 2009
NYT (6): National Politics/Economy
Obama bashes bankers on bonuses; Judge throws monkeywrench into Gitmo closing; Blagojevich is impeached; 4 million more children covered by Senate health bill; Soldier suicides at 30-year high; and Bloomberg and Paterson battle over $270 million fund.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, January 30, 2009
Economics focus | (Nearly) nothing to fear but fear itself | Economist.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, January 30, 2009daggatt blog: bad economic arguments
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, January 30, 2009AlterNet: The Economic Crisis Isn’t All Bad; It’s a Chance for Us and Obama to Reimagine How We Live Our Lives
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, January 30, 2009Glenn Greenwald: Increasing even-handedness in the Middle East
go to story"Only time will tell whether the appointment of [George] Mitchell presages real change in U.S. behavior, but whatever else is true, the presidential appointment of a Middle East envoy with a real history of even-handedness, and who therefore prompts praise from the likes of Jimmy Carter, J Street and Noam Chomsky, and anger from the ADL and The New Republic, is a significant and encouraging departure from the suffocatingly one-sided approach that has been so destructive for both the U.S. and Israel" - Greenwald
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, January 30, 2009
Medical Marijuana Raid Raises Question: What’s Obama Policy?
go to storyThe Jan. 22 raid near the California-Nevada border occurred two days after Obama took office and before the new president's own Justice Department team was in place. The raid resembled many conducted during the Bush administration, but seemingly clashed with Obama's campaign opposition to such tactics. "I think the basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs prescribed by doctors (is) entirely appropriate," Obama told Oregon's Mail Tribune newspaper in March. "I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue." - McClatchy news report
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, January 30, 2009
NYT (5): International News
In rare case, Obama taps retiring military official as ambassador; Iraq seeks to oust Blackwater, and U.S. moves to oblige them; Afghan presidential vote may be postponed; Heated argument at Davos over Gaza ends with Turkish president leaving permanently; and how do "new jungles" fit into the debate on rain forests and climate change?Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, January 30, 2009
