FRI 8 January News Articles & Opinion

Here are the recent news articles and columns which I was interested in today.

December 2009 US Climatology Results

All in all, a little below normal, but nothing close to record breaking. However, Alaska was quite historically toasty,

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/?report=national&year=2009&month=12&submitted=Get+Report

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Warnings of Unrest on the Horizon

http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/01/the-coming-fury-of-an-angry-america/

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Very Alarming News from the Arctic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8437703.stm

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We All Want this Health Care Plan !

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/gop-rep-mike-coffman-says_b_414542.html

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Banks are Simply Shysters, Mobsters, Hoodlums, Gangsters, Loan Sharks Nowadays: Take Two ....

http://airamerica.com/ringoffire/blog/01-07-2010/papantonio-banking-industry-americas-new-thu/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/08/bonus-time-city-banks

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Yemen: Insight about the Next Serious American Foreign Policy Quagmire to Come

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/01/post-about-yemen

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Despite Ruthless Winter Storms, Look for a Record Hot 2010 Globally

http://climateprogress.org/2010/01/08/science-met-office-cold-weather-global-warming-el-nino-hottest-year/

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The Negative December '09 Jobs Loss Reports and More: Simply Disappointing and Alarming

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/business/economy/09jobs.html

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/01/08/broader-u-6-unemployment-rate-increases-to-173-in-december/

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/labor-force-participation-rate-plunges-5-year-low-646

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/01/reflections-on-boomer-demographics.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&sid=ad08vsb1VciM

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/01/employment-population-ratio-part-time.html

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/record-40-unemployed-without-job-27-weeks

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmU5NzgyMzZlMDdhZGE0OWUyMzRlNjVhOWJiNGE0YmM=

http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/01/06/trumka-to-solve-job-crisis-we-must-create-different-kind-of-economy/

http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/jobs_picture_20100108/

http://robertreich.org/post/323699652/the-bad-job-numbers-and-the-secret-second-stimulus

http://climateprogress.org/2010/01/08/clean-energy-global-warming-science-news-obama-clean-tech-manufacturing-jobs/

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Comparing International Health Care Costs

http://blogs.ngm.com/blog_central/2009/12/the-cost-of-care.html

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Hawaiian Public Education Continues to Slip

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20091020_Hawaii_cuts_school_year_to_shortest_in_U_S_.html

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More on Impact on Congressional Apportionment by 2010 Census

http://www.southernstudies.org/2010/01/politics-souths-clout-to-grow-after-2010-census----but-by-how-much.html

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Dreams and Hopes Continue to Increasingly Wane

http://www.indypendent.org/2010/01/07/hope-left/

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Serious Constitutional and Privacy Issues Must be Addressed

http://themoderatevoice.com/58650/body-scanners-health-insurance-mandates-and-the-constitution/

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The Perfect Storm of Strong Negatives will End America

http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/747176

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Home Values and Prices will Continue Downward for Quite Some Time into the Future

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1952132,00.html

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Corrupt Dishonest Geithner Must Go; Likely to be Prosecuted

http://www.newdeal20.org/?p=7329

http://www.newdeal20.org/?p=7348

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The Insight and Wisdom of Gary Hart

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/getting-the-government-we_b_413243.html

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Climate Reforms ? Hardly at All, with the Status Quo Likely Long into the Future

http://www.themediaconsortium.org/2010/01/08/weekly-mulch-climate-reforms-good-bad-and-ugly/

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Hawaii's Republicans on the Rocks

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-hawaii-gop9-2010jan09,0,4400225.story

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21st Century Teabagger Qualifying Test

http://www.alternet.org/story/145005/you_know_you%27re_a_conservative_when...

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Dashtop Computers on the Way; The Next New Hot Product

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9511411

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