Psyche's News Roundup

Derfor trykker vi dette bildet ("Therefore we ran this picture") : Stavanger Aftenblad (Norwegian paper breaks policy to print image of dead bodies for first time, shows girl in the rubble of her Gaza home)
Scenes from the Gaza Strip - The Big Picture - Boston.com
g07_17466021.jpg (Globe image: here's the "advanced" Kassam rocket worth killing school children for)

Cease firing to find truth | The Daily Telegraph | how many Israelis have been killed, not since Saturday's invasion but since Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in 2005? The answer is closer to 20.
Russia has cut off all Europe's gas supplies, says Ukraine - Telegraph
Philippe Sands Considers A Legacy Of 'Torture' : NPR

Rick Warren's Africa Problem - The Daily Beast: Team Obama likes to cite Warren’s work on AIDS in Africa to combat criticism about the controversial pastor. But how does burning condoms in the name of Jesus save lives?
Black support for Prop. 8 called exaggeration (only 58%, blame someone else, Mormons)
Whiskey Fire: Red State, Next Right -- The "Online Conservative Revolution" Will Be Spammed ("there is no brand of "conservatism" that is not completely insane")

Firedoglake » I Want to Play Poker with Harry Reid (even takes beatings from Blagojevich)
Roland Burris: Senate Will Seat Him, AP Says
Harry Reid: 'I Don't Work For Obama' (you do now, byotch!)

Specter Attacks Choice for Attorney General - NYTimes.com - Questions his political independence (head explodes)
Obama picks RIAA's favorite lawyer for a top Justice post | Politics and Law - CNET News (infinite copyright, throw your kids in jail)

Joe the Plumber to Become War Correspondent - NYTimes.com (satire dies)
End Times - The Atlantic (January/February 2009) Can America’s paper of record survive the death of newsprint? Can journalism? (about to default on some $400 million in debt, Times out of business by May, 2009?)

Stocks in biggest fall in a month on jobs and tech - Yahoo! Finance
Minutes Show Depth of Fed’s Concern - NYTimes.com - In Fed Rate Cut, Fears of Long Recession
Private job losses mount in December - Yahoo! Finance: 693,000 jobs in December, up sharply from the revised 476,000 jobs lost in November and far more than economists estimated

The Sec Watchdog Who Missed Madoff - New York Post - Don'T Blame Me: Cheung
Saxo Bank predicts 2009 will hit all economic lows | Saxo Bank (Switzerland) SA ("“It is not even outrageous to call this the worst economic crisis ever.")

Johann Hari: You Are Being Lied to About Pirates (who are the pirates?)
Terror Experts Warn Next 9/11 Could Fall On Different Date | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
On Truth: The West’s selective reading of history

Technology Review: Stem Cells Undo Birth Defects - Transplanted stem cells restore normal behavior in brain-damaged rodents
A Novel Way to Treat a Writer | Standpoint.Online
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