10 Jan - Night News

 Why Is the Whistleblower Who Exposed the Massive UBS Tax Evasion Scheme the Only One Heading to Prison?
A former banker for the Swiss giant UBS who blew the whistle on the biggest tax-evasion scheme in US history is preparing to head to prison tomorrow to begin serving a forty-month federal sentence. Bradley Birkenfeld first came forward to US authorities in 2007 and began providing inside information on how UBS was helping thousands of Americans hide assets in secret Swiss accounts. We speak with his attorney, Stephen Kohn, the executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/7/why_is_the_whistleblower_who_exposed
Chavez Devalues Venezuela's Currency
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126305109903923235.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular
After Years in Guantanamo Prison Without Charge, Future Even More Uncertain for Yemeni Detainees
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/8/after_years_in_guantanamo_prison_without
Although President Obama came into office last year promising to close down the infamous prison camp at Guantanamo, nearly 200 men are still imprisoned there. On Tuesday, Obama noted that the would-be Christmas Day airline bomber had received training in Yemen and emphasized his links to a Yemeni branch of al-Qaeda. He went on to announce that he had suspended the transfer of any more Guantanamo detainees to Yemen. About half of the men remaining in Guantanamo are from Yemen.
Viva Palestina Aid Convoy Arrives in Gaza, George Galloway Describes “Desperate” Situation
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/7/viva_palestina_aid_convoy_arrives_in
“Blackwatergate”–Private Military Firm in Firestorm of Controversy over Involvements in Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany
Blackwater is all over the news. In the last seventy-two hours, a series of breaking developments involving the notorious private military firm have come to light, ranging from their involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, and even Germany, as well as legal cases here at home. We speak with investigative journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a leading member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the chair of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, who is launching an investigation into why two Blackwater contractors were among the dead in the December 30 suicide bombing at the CIA station at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/8/blackwatergate_private_military_firm_in_firestorm
A Look at the Future of TV: Media Consolidation Opponent Byron Dorgan to Retire, Comcast Takeover of NBC Under Review
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/7/media_consolidation_opponent_byron_dorgan_to
Veterans Today
IS ISRAEL CONTROLLING PHONY TERROR NEWS?

Who says Al Qaeda takes credit for a bombing?  Rita Katz.  Who gets us bin Laden tapes?  Rita Katz.  Who gets us prettymuch all information telling us Muslims are bad?  Rita Katz?  Rita Katz is the Director of Site Intelligence, primary source for intelligence used by news services, Homeland Security, the FBI and CIA.  What is her qualification?  She served in the Israeli Defense Force.  She has a college degree and most investigative journalists believe the Mossad "helps" her with her information.  We find no evidence of any qualification whatsoever of any kind.  A bartender has more intelligence gathering experience.

Nobody verifies her claims.  SITE says Al Qaeda did it, it hits the papers.  SITE says Israel didn't do it, that hits the papers too.  What does SITE really do?  They check the internet for "information," almost invariably information that Israel wants reported and it is sold as news, seen on American TV, reported in our papers and passed around the internet almost as though it were actually true.  Amazing.

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New data show young, minorities disproportionately hit by H1N1 in L.A. County
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/new-data-shows-young-minorities-disproportionately-hit-by-h1n1-in-la-county.html
Soda Fountains Squirt Fecal Bacteria
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Germs/soda-fountains-squirt-fecal-bacteria-study-finds/story?id=9506583
Clean future in nuclear power
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9824
Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions
How one company made $1.8 billion by paying peanuts to human plasma donors, and then manipulated the market by restricting supply to the desperately ill.
Unemployment: The 2010 Time Bomb
New figures show jobs were lost in December at ten times the expected rate.
Business As Usual Is History: Corporations Won't Save Us, But Co-ops May
As economic hardship threatens communities, there is one bright light in the fog -- cooperatives -- which already serve 4 in 10 Americans and are growing strong.
Worldwide, roughly 750,000 cooperatives serve 730 million members, according to the National Cooperative Business Association. Here in this country, some 72,000 co-op establishments operate, providing more than 2 million jobs and serving 120 million members--that's four in 10 Americans. These establishments exist in energy, childcare, food distribution, health care, insurance, agriculture, telecommunications and other industries. But co-op advocates want growth, and they say the time is now, as wealth concentration has reached dangerous levels, large investment banks have crumbled and unemployment affects 10 percent of the American population.