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		<title>I am out for longer divings</title>
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Find every day a new NGO here and see us again when back. Meanwhile have a good time. Heidi. </description>
		<link>http://blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch/wp-archive/3203</link>
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		<title>Index January 2010</title>
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	2010-01-01: Put Young Workers to Work;
	2010-01-01: Iran: Regime change by the people, for the people;
	2010-01-02: Capitalism, Banks, Economy and choice;
	2010-01-02: U.S. Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged;
	2010-01-03: Possession of Marijuana Now Legal in Breckenridge;
	2010-01-03: The Rise Of Judicial Activism: Is Democracy Under Threat?
	2010-01-04: Is the Fed Juicing the Stock ...</description>
		<link>http://blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch/wp-archive/3147</link>
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		<title>Glacier Meltdown: Another Scientific Scandal Involving the IPCC Climate Research Group</title>
		<description>Published on Global Research.ca, by by F. William Engdahl , January 23, 2010.

Only days after the failed Copenhagen Global Warming Summit, yet a new scandal over the scientific accuracy of the UN IPCC 2007 climate report has emerged. Following the major data-manipulation scandals from the UN-tied research center at Britain’s ...</description>
		<link>http://blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch/wp-archive/3292</link>
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		<title>Reinventing a faulty wheel</title>
		<description>Linked on our blogs with the Scottish Left Review SLR.

Scottish Left Review, page 12/28, by Margaret and Jim Cuthbert, Issue 56, online, January-February 2010.

... page 12: In an extensive piece of research, Margaret and Jim Cuthbert discover not only that many of the criticisms of PFI have turned out to ...</description>
		<link>http://blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch/wp-archive/3283</link>
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		<title>Many German local authorities nearing bankruptcy</title>
		<description>Published on World Prout Assembly (first on WSWS.org), by Elisabeth Zimmermann, Last Updated January 22, 2010.

To take one example: in Dortmund, where those heating and housing costs are no longer covered by the state "purse," such costs have risen over the last two years to €9.5 million. Thus, a rise ...</description>
		<link>http://blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch/wp-archive/3277</link>
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		<title>The Warning</title>
		<description>Watch this Frontline Video, published on PBS.org: THE WARNING, 55.16 min.

Introduction:

"We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market," says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] -- who not only warned of the ...</description>
		<link>http://blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch/wp-archive/3247</link>
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		<title>Deficit commission slammed as ‘reckless’ attack on Social Security, Medicare</title>
		<description>Published on People's World, by John Wojcik, January 22, 2010.

(graphic: the Bush deficit).

A group of conservative lawmakers, operating under the radar, is about to hatch yet another scheme and this one would kill a lot more than just health care reform, progressives are warning.

With Medicare, Social Security and jobs programs ...</description>
		<link>http://blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch/wp-archive/3258</link>
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		<title>Vietnam’s democracy activists</title>
		<description>Strong convictions - What is behind the latest crackdown on democracy activists in Vietnam?

Published on The Economist, January 22, 2010.

SPEAKING your mind can be costly in Vietnam. This week a court in Ho Chi Minh City, the main city in the south of the country, sentenced four democracy activists to ...</description>
		<link>http://blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch/wp-archive/3255</link>
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		<title>Haiti: Grants to repay an odious debt?</title>
		<description>Linked on our blogs with Eric Toussaint – Belgium. - Published on Voltairenet.org, by Eric Toussaint and Sophie Perchellet, 19 January 2010.

Geography and bad luck are only partly to blame for Haiti’s tragedy. Haiti was born of slavery and revolution, declaring independence from France on 1 January 1804. In exchange ...</description>
		<link>http://blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch/wp-archive/3252</link>
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		<title>Let Haitian Immigrants Stay in the US Till Haiti Recovers</title>
		<description>Published on Just Foreign Policy, January 14, 2010.

As you are no doubt aware, Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake earlier this week. The devastation was amplified by Haiti's unaddressed extreme poverty because Port-au-Prince is crowded with economic refugees from the countryside, forced to live in substandard housing. President Obama ...</description>
		<link>http://blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch/wp-archive/3287</link>
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