NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
China Brings US Treasury Holdings To One Year Low, Russia Cuts Treasury Exposure By 50% In One Year. What this means is that the dollar can be dumped in a year. When they are down to their last 100 billion in China and Russia, they can dump their dollars and buy commodities driving up prices so Americans are impoverished. Wages will be cut in half in real dollars over the next 16 months.
World Bank warns on risk of global recession
Captain of Stricken Vessel Says He Fell Overboard in Passenger Panic.
MARKETS/BUSINESS
Out of Africa - Portugal solicits Angolan investment
China Casts Increasingly Large Investment Shadow Over Southeast Asian Neighbors
Has Algae.Tec Cracked Algae's Biofuel Pricing Ability to Compete with a Barrel of Oil?
Uruguay Seeks Investments in Wind Power - With Price Caps
G20 and BRICs - Who's in Charge?
Keystone XL pipeline - investor's dream or brewing nightmare
China Wind Power - Good Time to Invest?
Russia Drives Final Stake Through the Heart of the Nabucco Pipeline?
The Business of the Black Market. [Infographic]
UK back in recession, think tank warns.
HEALTH/MEDICAL
TECH
Facebook, Google argue against Web censorship in India
BLACKEDOUT: The internet is fighting back!! Even Big Bro Google!!
Firefox Add–on bypasses SOPA DNS blocking
EPIC: FOIA Documents Reveal Homeland Security is Monitoring Political Dissent.
U.S.
Twin winter storms slamming Pacific Northwest
Hindu dance at Mormon Church headquarters in Utah
Oil Shipment Finally Reaches Iced-In Alaska Port
AMERICAS
The Colombia rebels selling cows as drug money drops: Santos
Iranian president arrives in Cuba; U.S. warns of ‘dangerous alliance’.
CANADA
RCMP helicopter crashes near Cultus at Chiliwack, BC. Police have confirmed an RCMP Air 5 chopper has crashed east of Cultus Lake, 30 minutes ago
‘Radioactive iodine in rainwater: Public was in the dark.
Daughter of Gene Simmons lends her name to Surrey centre for abused children Vancouver Sun. January 15, 2012 9:20 PM Sophie Tweed-Simmons attends the announcement of a children'’s advocacy program in Surrey on January 15, 2012.
Snow flurries and bitter weather set to continue across Metro Vancouver
Vancouver Sun January 15, 2012 8:47 PM: More snow is on its way to Metro Vancouver as the cold, ...
MIDDLE EAST/ASIA
New panel to probe afresh on Fukushima N-disaster .
Fatal Building Collapse in Beirut
25 dead in Beirut building collapse
Dolphins to the Rescue. If Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Navy has a backup plan to save one–fifth of the world’s daily oil trade: send in the dolphins.
Obama Administration Finds Few Asian Takers for Oil Sanctions Against Iran
AFRICA
Mubarak no tyrant, defense tells Egypt court. CAIRO - Hosni Mubarak was "a just man, not a tyrant" and his accusers have no evidence to support their charge that he ordered the killing of protesters during the uprising against him, …
Ethiopia signs Djibouti railway deal with China
SC/ENVIRONMENT
REPORT: 30 Years of the Farming Systems Trial | Rodale Institute
US Court of Appeals Yet Again Delays the EPA’s Attempts to Reduce Pollution.
