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Things I read today 19-12-08



Obama Picks Arne Duncan for Education Post - NY Times Blog
"When to shutter failing schools"
More here

Predatory Employment in Higher Ed


Children forced into cell-like school seclusion rooms - CNN News
Teach them young

Higher Ed: Free For All


Winter medical myths 'debunked' - BBC News
So drink, be merry, eat late, feed the kids sugar, don't wear your hat, eat the poinsettia if you want and don't think that there are more suicides at Christmas.

Prominent neoconservative: 4,000 Americans 'had to die' - Raw Story
The attack was a go even without WMDs

Book: Tenet drunkenly mocked Bush neocons, right-wing Israelis - Raw Story
Truth serum doing its work

Obama and the new Latin America - Asia Times
Is Obama the 'hope' that everyone wants him to be?

Flaherty appoints economic advisory council - CBC News
Canadian finance minister to seek advice from 'prominent business leaders' - Now how can running government according to corporate advice help the country?

Bush ‘Worried’ About Potential for ‘Disorderly’ Auto Bankruptcy - Bloomberg
“I’m worried about a disorderly bankruptcy and what it would do to the psychology of the markets,” - Bush
Do I even have to comment on this? We have already been taught that bankruptcy is bad; the shame.

Children under 6 shouldn't get cough and cold medicines: Health Canada - CBC News
DUH

A Most Desperate Move by the Fed - Global Research
Get ready for the bubble to burst.

U.S. Stocks Fall on Concern Fed Is Running Out of Ammunition - Blacklisted News
Interest rate limbo - how low can it go. The see-saw of the markets

Goldman Sachs cuts taxes to one percent by moving profits offshore - Blacklisted News
At least someone is making money. Wait that's our money.

Why investors don't care about Madoff - CNN Money
Lots of things to keep you busy, what's another $50 billion?

Judge orders CSIS to stop listening to calls between terror suspects and lawyers - CBC News
For 'your safety' we will take away the rights. Do you think the 'spy' agency will do it?

People 'still willing to torture' - BBC News
This just in: people are lemmings.

The Bill Nobody Noticed: National DNA Databank - Blacklisted News
We WILL know everything about you - for your safety of course.

Simulated training urged for new wars - Blacklisted News
Simulate the new wars? Planning a few of them are we?

Iran Forms Spy Network In GCC States - Blacklisted News
Iran spies, Canada spies, U. S. spies; we all spy.

Ariz. police say they are prepared as War College warns military must prep for unrest; IMF warns of economic riots - Blacklisted News
Yup, we're ready for the civil unrest. There may be a revolution afterall. Yeah right, if people get off the couch.

LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA - Blacklisted News
That's the sound of someone with their fingers in their ears making noise so they don't have to listen to the person talking in front of them.

Gates Foundation to help libraries be better free 'net cafes - Story
'free' Internet that further locks one into Microsoft products.

Has anyone seen Steve Jobs lately? - Story
More 'idol' worship. Note how shares can 'fall' because of one man's health.

Panasonic Makes Formal Offer for Sanyo - Story
And big companies get huge.

Bush to Provide Emergency Loans to Big 3 - Washington Post
First paragraph:
"The troubled U.S. auto industry will receive emergency loans of $13.4 billion from the federal government in return for an extensive restructuring of its outstanding debt and labor costs over the coming year, according to administration officials."
Could the debt be related to pensions and the labor costs be to screw the workers even more?
More here

Secrecy surrounds those receiving benefits of Federal Reserve’s trillions - Blacklisted News
More secret democracy

This video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast Dec. 18, 2008. Raw Story

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