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France's Sarkozy suffers election setback in regional vote

 

Anti-Berlusconi protest in Rome

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, right, is flanked by People of Freedom party candidate, for the upcoming regional elections, Renata Polverini at the end of a press conference at the party's headquarters in Rome,Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Berlusconi has called on his supporters to take to the streets this month to defend their right to vote in coming local elections. The call Wednesday came amid weeks of chaos surrounding the registration of candidates from Berlusconi's center-right party for the March 28-29 balloting.

Riccardo De Luca / AP Photo

 

Tens of thousands of Italians have been taking part in a protest in Rome's main square against the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

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Haiti’s Do-It-Yourself Recovery

In poverty and disaster, Haitians left on their own are doing what needs to be done.

 

Two Drug Slayings in Mexico Rock U.S. Consulate

The White House responded angrily to deadly attacks that appeared to be the first on U.S. officials and their families by Mexico’s drug cartels.

Vatican officials defend pope on abuse

 

EU facing biggest crisis in history - Czech president Klaus

 

By Madelyn Hoffman
Questions about U.S. military presence in Haiti. Is it what the Haitians really need?

 

India signs weapons deals worth $4bn with Russia.

 

Ex-Vienna Choir Boys Say They Were Abused.

 
 

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Greece warns of worse downturn as strikes loom...

 

 
 
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CANADA

telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com
New Brunswick's 13,000 aboriginals are the fastest-growing segment of the population in the province.

 

Report on “Industrial Schools” for Indians and “Half-Breeds” Submitted by Luc Majno

 

Stolen Sisters A Human Rights Response to Discrimination & Violence Against Indigenous Women
Submitted by Luc Majno

 

 

MARKETS/ECONOMICS

HOW DESPERATE ARE CITIES TO GET MONEY? IN LITTLETON, COLORADO, A MAN IS ARRESTED FOR OVERDUE LIBRARY BOOKS

 
 
 
 
China enters Latin America in oil deal

 

6 Theories On Why the Stock Market Has Rallied

 
Why is the Market Ignoring the $3.5 Trillion Commercial Real Estate Market Implosion? Pricing in Another Bailout.
 

BUSINESS

 
 
 

Trade Papers Struggling in Hollywood
By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES
Waning ad revenue and increasing competition on the Web raise the question if entertainment trade papers like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter can survive.

 

India's ties with Africa distinct from others: Anand Sharma.

 

Its business mixed with pleasure for visiting Africans.

TECH

5 WAYS TO BUILD BACKLINKS WHICH WILL DOMINATE GOOGLE

 

Online News Readers Use 5 Sites or Fewer, Study Says

Only 35 percent of the people who go online for news have a favorite site, and just 21 percent are more or less "monogamous," relying primarily on a single Internet news source, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center, in a report to be released Monday by Pew's Pro...

U.S.

Storm leaves Northeast soggy, windblown and dark

 

By Rick Rozoff

U.S., NATO Intensify War Games Around Russia's Perimeter

U.S., NATO Intensify War Games Around Russia's Perimeter

 

Reposted from Jan 21:
Supreme Court allows China and others unlimited spending in US elections.
 
 
 

AFRICA

Just what Haiti doesn't need: Rwandan police
In case anyone needed further evidence that President Paul Kagame's Rwanda is the Pentagon's proxy, 140 Rwandan police are about to undertake special training before heading to Haiti, as reported in the Rwanda New Times.

UN agency acts on Somali claims

The UN ’s food agency blacklists three contractors named in a UN report alleging that food aid in Somalia is being diverted.
 
Up to half the food aid in Somalia is routinely diverted to corrupt contractors and militants, a leaked UN report says.
 

ASIA/MIDDLE EAST

Final Destination Iran?

Hundreds of powerful US "bunker-buster" bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island.

Afghan resistance: Australia and Canada Take a Rationale Decision after Holland

Hundreds of powerful US "bunker-buster" bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island.

AIPAC urges Obama admin to quiet criticism of Israeli government ~

Laura Rozen

Amid continued tensions between Washington and Jerusalem after an Israeli government announcement last week during the goodwill visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that it would approve the construction of 1,600 new Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, the influential pro-Israel lobby group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) says recent U.S. criticism of the Israeli government is "a matter of serious concern" and has called on the Obama administration to defuse tension with Israel...

 

IRAQ: Women Miss Saddam

By Abdu Rahman and Dahr Jamail

AMERICAS

EVA GOLINGER: PERMANENT AGGRESSION AND WAR IN LATIN AMERICA

 
Two Americans Dead in Mexico Drug Shooting

Americans Among 3 Killed in Drive-By Shooting in Drug-Plagued Mexican City; Obama "Outraged"

 

SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT

 
 
PTSD AND THE INABILITY OF VETERANS TO ACCEPT LOVE
Many veterans with PTSD cannot accept love for they feel they do not deserve love and they continually sabotage their joy for the same reason ~ their hearts have closed and they live in the Gray Zone where no light can penetrate and no one dare enter.
 
Baby's Obesity Risk: What's Mom's Influence?

Ongoing studies funded by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) could provide new insights into why aspiring moms may be advised to achieve a healthy weight before they become pregnant, and to gain only the recommended amount of weight during their pregnancy.

 

Health: Raw-Stazia Blogspot

HOUSE CALLS

OP ED

Social Security and the fiscal event horizon  The Ides of March, 2010 may be remembered as the day the entitlements crash began. Social Security liabilities exceed inflow, and SSA has begun tapping its vault full of Treasury bonds. “Too bad” (as the AP story notes) “the federal government already spent that money…”

 
Jihad Blondes Prove Racial Profiling a Waste of Time

Will the cases of Jihad Jane and Jihad Jamie finally convince the knee-jerk, race-obsessed folks on the far right (and their pliant followers) that terrorism is not synonymous with brown skin or an exotic accent?

 

Why Are We Afraid to Tax the Super-Rich?

 

This week in crazy: Eric Massa The Democrat's scandal roped together dark conspiracy theories, Glenn Beck and a naked Rahm Emanuel
By Mike Madden

 

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As the Colorado River disappears, a photographer captures the suffering on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
 
 
Give me seven minutes and I’ll show you how the world works. Watch the BBC TV investigative report, then my update with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now – Greg.

 

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Splitsville for Sarkozy and Carla Bruni?

GlobalPost: French Bloggers Buzzing with Rumors of Infidelity, But France ’s Mainstream Media Remains Silent Read full story

LETTERS/INTERVIEWS

Jason Miller: I want to announce the formation of our new radical collective,  which encompasses both Internet and on-the-street activism. Please take a look at the essay I penned to kick things off for RAGE and at the links to our various blogs and social networking groups
 
George Albayan sent a message to the members of Bite Club of KC.
Please sign this Petition IMMEDIATELY.....The animal torturers at UCLA are glueing metal rods onto animals eyeballs, and they are using OUR tax dollars to pay for it. Please sign Camille Marinos Petition IMMEDIATELY. This torturing of animals has GOT to STOP.

 

Bite Club protest ~ from Jason Miller
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