Health Care Overhaul Bill Is 'Hanging by a Thread': Dodd
Published: Monday, 11 Jan 2010 | 2:48 PM ETBy: CNBC.com
Health care reform is "hanging on by a thread," and one or two votes could determine the outcome of the heavily-debated bill, Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd told CNBC Monday
http://www.cnbc.com/id/34804315
Amish families exempt from insurance mandate
HEALTH REFORM: People with religious objections can opt out
By MARC HELLER
TIMES WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT / www.watertowndailytimes.com
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010
WASHINGTON — Federal health care reform will require most Northern New Yorkers — but not all, it turns out — to carry health insurance or risk a fine. Hundreds of Amish families in the region are likely to be free from that requirement.
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20100109/NEWS02/301099964
Swine flu'False Pandemic' Claim
Published: 11 Jan 2010
A LEADING health expert says the swine flu scare was a "false pandemic" led by drugs companies that stood to make billions from vaccines.Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2803049/Swine-flu-false-pandemic-claim.html#ixzz0ct4JoZpL
Guantanamo guard reunited with ex-inmates
By Gavin Lee
BBC News
Why would a former Guantanamo Bay prison guard track down two of his former captives - two British men - and agree to fly to London to meet them?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8452937.stm
Witness: Gay marriage made her feel like familyBy LISA LEFF
Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Getting married brought big changes to the lives of author Helen Zia and her partner Lia Shigemura.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GAY_MARRIAGE_TRIAL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-01-11-15-26-20
Wall Street frets over Google's future in China
Wed, Jan 13 2010
By Franklin Paul and Alexei Oreskovic
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's threat to withdraw from China over censorship and cyber attacks has suddenly jeopardized any plans it has for the world's biggest Internet market, stunning investors and analysts.
http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USTRE60B5RV20100113
Chinese surprise at Google pull-out threat
By Chris Hogg
BBC News, Shanghai
Google's warning that it might pull out of China over cyber attacks has surprised human rights activists here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8456950.stm
Google denies leaving China, seeks negotiations
3:49am EST By Melanie Lee
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc enters a second week of high stakes brinkmanship with China's government, amid speculation the firm has decided to pull out of the world's biggest Internet market over cyber-spying concerns. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60E0BC20100117Google and China: the attacks and their aftermath
By Nate Anderson | Last updated January 13, 2010 12:39 PM
Google and China: the attacks and their aftermath
Yesterday's announcement that Google would stop censoring its search results in China, and that the company had been the victim of sophisticated Chinese cyberattacks, was a Big Deal; Secretary of State Hilary Clinton even felt the need to weigh in on it with an official statement. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/google-and-china-the-attacks-and-their-aftermath.ars
BBC NEWS
Haiti devastated by massive quake
A massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake has struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti.
The extent of the devastation is still unclear but there are fears thousands of people may have died. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8455629.stm
Haiti earthquake: police open fire on looters
Haitian police have opened fire on a group of looters, killing at least one of them as hundreds of rioters ransacked a market in quake-hit Port-au-Prince.
By Philip Sherwell in New York and Colin Freeman
Published: 7:44PM GMT 16 Jan 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7005853/Haiti-earthquake-police-open-fire-on-looters.html
White House criticizes evangelist's Haiti remark
Thu Jan 14, 5:26 pm ET
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – A White House spokesman on Thursday slammed evangelist broadcaster Pat Robertson's remark that Haiti has been cursed.
A devastating magnitude-7 earthquake hit there Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_haiti_pat_robertson/print
Limbaugh: 'We've Already Donated To Haiti, It's Called US Income Tax'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/14/limbaugh-weve-already-don_n_422958.html?view=print
TSA Isn't Telling the Whole Truth About Scanners, Charges Privacy Group
By Erika Morphy
TechNewsWorld
01/12/10 10:00 AM PT
The TSA has been "disingenuous" about the capabilities of backscatter airport scanners to store and send images, according to the privacy group EPIC. Concerns are growing that the scanners may violate individual rights and may even be harmful to the health of some passengers. Furthermore, say critics, they're not very effective in detecting explosives.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69086.html?wlc=1263742893&wlc=1263744618#
Businessman is arrested in front of wife and son... for ‘anti-gipsy’
email that he didn’t even write
By James Millbank
Last updated at 10:04 AM on 10th January 2010
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1241994/Businessman-arrested-wife-son--anti-gipsy--email-didn-t-write.html#ixzz0ctleVZvS
Businessman sues BA 'for treating men like perverts'
By Sophie Borland
Last updated at 4:32 PM on 16th January 2010
Mirko Fischer claims BA brand all men as potential sex offenders
A businessman is suing British Airways over a policy that bans male passengers from sitting next to children they don't know - even if the child's parents are on the same flight.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243625/Businessman-Mirko-Fischer-sues-British-Airwars-treating-men-like-perverts.html?printingPage=true
Appeals court to decide if 'sexting' is child porn
Saturday, January 16, 2010
By Nathan Gorenstein, Philadelphia Inquirer
Matt Rourke/Associated Press
The case involves photos of two 12 year-old-girls in training bras, and a 16-year-old wrapped in a towel with her breasts exposed as she leaves a shower.
Sexting is the widely talked about practice of using cell phones to send sexually provocative photos of yourself. The girls, from Wyoming County, northwest of Scranton, have not been accused of disseminating the photos, which have not been made public.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10016/1028736-454.stm
Four-hour electric rationing to be implemented in Greater Caracas: http://english.eluniversal.com/2010/01/12/en_eco_esp_four-hour-electric-r_12A3279811.shtml
Chávez suspends electricity rationing in Caracas
http://english.eluniversal.com/2010/01/14/en_eco_esp_chavez-suspends-elec_14A3286691.shtml
11-Year-Old Reports Mom, Her Boyfriend as Drug Dealers
Jennifer Lynn Patterson's 11-year-old son called police to tell them his mom and her boyfriend, Michael Dewayne French, were dealing drugs out of their home. Jennifer Lynn Patterson's 11-year-old son called police to tell them his mom and her boyfriend, Michael Dewayne French, were dealing drugs out of their home. By Jon Jordan, NEWS 9:http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?s=11818508&clienttype=printable
FDA Blocked From Stopping E-Cigarette Shipments
E-cigarette company wins import case in federal court, but faces challenge from California AG
By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON January 14, 2010 (AP) : http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9565843
Tsunami spending? Wave your money bye
By Michael Stetz, UNION-TRIBUNE COLUMNIST
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 2:50 a.m.
Imperial Beach spent $47,000 in grant money. San Diego County, $30,000. San Diego City has received $1,500 and may seek another $150,000 to protect us from a terrible tsunami. Link to Video produced to show the school kids where to run to in case of tsunami
Call Michael at: 619-293-1720
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/10/tsunami-spending-wave-your-money-bye/
Police fight cellphone recordings
Witnesses taking audio of officers arrested, charged with illegal surveillance
By Daniel Rowinski
New England Center For Investigative Reporting / January 12, 2010
Simon Glik, a lawyer, was walking down Tremont Street in Boston when he saw three police officers struggling to extract a plastic bag from a teenager’s mouth. Thinking their force seemed excessive for a drug arrest, Glik pulled out his cellphone and began recording.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/12/police_fight_cellphone_recordings/
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