01-21-09 - A New Beginning
- President Obama halts Gitmo trials for 120 days (nytimes) - draft executive order calls for closing Guantanamo prison within a year (yahoo)
- White House halts all pending Bush regulations for review (yahoo)
- Obama freezes senior staff pay, sets ethics rules (reuters)
- Obama bans revolving door for 4 years (motherjones)
- America Celebrates Obama, But Democrats Celebrate Lobbyists (firedoglake)
- The President will only be as brave as ordinary citizens move him to be (thenation)
- President Obama's amazing new limo (csmonitor - wired)
- Oval Office Dress Code Changing (cnn) [Update: But pathological liar Bush didn't tell the truth about his own 'jacket always required' policy (americablog)]
- Roberts' Flubbed Presidential Oath (Mark Crispin Miller, buzzflash)
- About That Oath, Redux .... (washingtonmonthly)
- After Flub, Experts Say, A Do-Over Couldn't Hurt (washingtonpost)
- Obama retakes oath of office after Roberts' mistake (cnn)
- President Franklin Roosevelt 1933 Inauguration (youtube)
- Mr. Roosevelt Must Lead (February 8, 1933 thenation)
- Republicans, fearing he will prosecute Bush regime criminality, obstruct confirmation of Eric Holder as Attorney General (cnn)
- Roubini: The entire US banking system is effectively bankrupt (businessweek)
- Al Nakba Redux (sjlendman) - A better understanding of Israel's cruel and crushing treatment of Palestinians, not a lot unlike the shameful US history of cruelty and genocide of Native Americans
- Antarctica is getting warmer rather than cooling as widely believed (reuters)
- Antarctic ice shelf set to collapse due to warming (reuters)
- FDA list of salmonella tainted products (fda.gov)
- Lenticular Cloud Over New Zealand (apod)
