Friday

Heart ailments linked to terror worries, UC Irvine researchers find - Los Angeles Times So 9/11 is profitable for the pharmaceutical industry, too - surprise, surprise.
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 01/10/2008 | U.S. counterfeiting charges against N. Korea based on shaky evidence: "'I can't remember if I was laughing or asleep,' said one person."

Tuesday

America's inflated asset prices must fall - Yahoo! News

America's inflated asset prices must fall - Yahoo! News: "A sharp decline in asset prices is necessary to rebalance the US economy. It is the only realistic hope to shift the mix of saving away from asset appreciation back to that supported by income generation. That could entail as much as a 20-30 per cent decline in overall US housing prices and a related deflating of the bubble of cheap and easy credit."

Voting Machines - Elections - Ballots - Politics - New York Times

Voting Machines - Elections - Ballots - Politics - New York Times The NYT Sunday Magazine asks "Can You Count on Voting Machines?" The answer depends on who "you" are.

Saturday

News Hounds: It Was a Terrible Day on Wall Street but Neil Cavuto Blew it Off

News Hounds: It Was a Terrible Day on Wall Street but Neil Cavuto Blew it Off: "Cavuto spends his days touting the wonders of capitalism, the 'free market,' and the Republican way of doing business, but when those policies begin to collapse the economy, he protects the very people who created the mess because his first allegiance is to them, not to his viewers. Watch Cavuto, he'll lie to you and treat you like an idiot"

Zeitgeist - The Movie, 2007

Zeitgeist - The Movie, 2007

US doomed if creationist president elected: scientists - Yahoo! News

US doomed if creationist president elected: scientists - Yahoo! News: "This is a way of leading our country to ruin"

Friday

Dark Reading

Dark Reading The World's Biggest Botnets - What makes three of today's largest botnets tick, what they're after – and a peek at the 'next' Storm

Monday

The Year in Review: The planet - Independent Online Edition > Climate Change

The Year in Review: The planet - Independent Online Edition > Climate Change: "an area of 1.2 million square kilometres, or more than 385,000 square miles. This represents an extra area of ice five times the size of the United Kingdom. Gone in a single summer. If you consider that and you don't think the world is rapidly warming up, what do you need to convince you?"

Natural disasters increase as climate change takes effect

Natural disasters increase as climate change takes effect: "Nine-hundred-and-fifty natural catastrophes have been recorded during 2007, the highest number since Munich Re records began, in 1974."