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Top Stories, Video and Blog Posts for AlterNet January 6th, 2010 http://www.alternet.org____________ _______________________________________________
WHO'S GETTING RICH FROM THE NAKED FULL-BODY SCANNER BOOM?
By James Ridgeway, Mother Jones Online
The TSA has a dismal record of enriching private
corporations with failed technologies. Will the "digital
strip search" device just bring more of the same?
http://www.alternet.org/story/144971/who%27s_getting_rich_from_the_naked_full-body_scanner_boom
FLU SEASON: FACTORY FARMING COULD CAUSE A PANDEMIC
By Kathy Freston, AlterNet
The chicken and pork industries have wrought unprecedented
changes in bird and swine flu. Billions could die in a new
flu pandemic.
http://www.alternet.org/story/144966/flu_season%3A_factory_farming_could_cause_a_pandemic
CONSERVATIVE MOGUL BUYING UP REPORTERS TO PROMOTE HIS REGRESSIVE AGENDA
By William Greider, The Nation
Pete Peterson, the Wall Street billionaire who wants to loot
Social Security, has created a "news network" hooked up to
the Washington Post.
http://www.alternet.org/story/144961/conservative_mogul_buying_up_reporters_to_promote_his_regressive_agenda
2020: CHINA RISES, THE U.S. DECLINES AND THE PLANET STRIKES BACK
By Michael T. Klare, Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
Much will change in 10 years. China will rise, the global
South will gain importance, the U.S. will decline. But these
phenomena will be eclipsed by devastating planetary changes.
http://www.alternet.org/story/144968/2020%3A_china_rises%2C_the_u.s._declines_and_the_planet_strikes_back
TACO BELL PROMOTES WEIGHT-LOSS BENEFITS OF "DRIVE THRU DIET"
By Sara Novak, Planet Green
Christine Dougherty claims that she lost 54 pounds on Taco
Bell's new Drive Thru Diet. A closer look reveals this
"diet" is an environmental and health abomination.
http://www.alternet.org/story/144941/taco_bell_promotes_weight-loss_benefits_of_%22drive_thru_diet%22
JOBS: THE ONE ISSUE THAT CAN SINK DEMOCRATS IN NOVEMBER
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
If unemployment is 10 percent or more next November, the
Dems are in danger of losing the House and will almost
certainly be short of the 60 votes they need in the Senate.
http://www.alternet.org/story/144954/jobs%3A_the_one_issue_that_can_sink_democrats_in_november
ARE U.S. FORCES EXECUTING KIDS IN AFGHANISTAN?
By Dave Lindorff, OpEdNews.com
The apparent mass murder of Afghan school children,
including one as young as 11 years old, by a US-led group of
troops, was pretty much blacked out in the American media
http://www.alternet.org/story/144955/are_u.s._forces_executing_kids_in_afghanistan
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VIDEO: MAINSTREAM MEDIA UNWITTINGLY COLLUDE IN REPUBLICAN LIES ABOUT
OBAMA
By Adele Stan, AlterNet
On the "Today" Show and in <i>Politico</i>, DeMint and
Cheney's lies about Obama go either unchallenged, or weakly
corrected.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/144950/video%3A_mainstream_media_unwittingly_collude_in_republican_lies_about_obama
DESPITE THE FACTS, THE ACORN WITCH HUNT CONTINUES
By Katrina Vanden Heuvel, TheNation.com
"This story is bigger than ACORN. And that's what we're
going to try to get folks to continue to focus on."
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/144964/despite_the_facts%2C_the_acorn_witch_hunt_continues
OOPS! MICHELLE BACHMANN'S ANTI-CENSUS HYSTERIA MIGHT BACKFIRE
By Jed Lewison, Daily Kos
The Minnesota Representative just keeps the hits coming.
This one might cost her her job, though.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/144960/oops%21_michelle_bachmann%27s_anti-census_hysteria_might_backfire_
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