01-17-09
- 200,000 US veterans sleeping homeless on the street every night (democracynow). How many flag-waving US war supporters with "Support Our Troops" stickers on their pickups and SUV's know or even care about this little bit of reality?
- Bailed-Out Firms Have Offshore Tax Havens, GAO Finds (washingtonpost). "Of the 100 largest public companies, 83 do business in tax-haven hotspots like the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands, where they can move their income into tax-free accounts," costing the US Treasury $100 billion a year in tax revenue. President Obama, if you want to help America out, close these tax loopholes for the very rich. See also my entry on 01-13-09 (Time For Tax Hikes).
- Media Hits & Misses of the Last 8 Years (Laura Flanders, grittv.blip video). Good panel discussion of the so-called US liberal media's real character.
- House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers: Why We Have to Look Back (washingtonpost).
- Conyers: Bush/Cheney ‘most impeachable’ (onlinejournal)
- Someone must stop Israel's rampant madness in Gaza (haaretz). As in Lebanon, Israel will stop its criminal warfare against the people of Gaza when they have reached the end of their bloody agenda in Gaza. Israel has lost all the moral high ground it may ever have had. The abusee has indeed become the abuser.
- The Blame Game In Gaza: Covering For Israel, Concealing War Crimes (Stephen Lendman, countercurrents)
- Al Jazeera now has a YouTube channel (youtube), if you want to watch a non-Israeli-biased perspective.
- IC 410 and NGC 1893 (apod). Like watching clouds, what do you see in it?
- Asteroid Flyby Today (1.3 km wide) (spaceweather), big enough but not close enough to buy a little more time for the human species in its mad plunge into self-extinction through massive overpopulation. Not this monster (youtube), but one that is somewhat smaller and less destructive. The one that extinguished the dinosaurs was an estimated 5 to 15 km wide. It is estimated that there are perhaps 100,000 to 1,000,000 undiscovered asteroids on Earth-crossing orbits (map of known asteroids).
