unusual suspects?

Today's lead story is weirder than normal, unbelievably it involves real Wall Street bloodsuckers making 1.8 billion dollars soaking the poor and the sick, and that's not a metaphor.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/145044/cerberus_capital%3A_literally_blood-sucking_the_poor_to_make_their_billions

You can go listen to this morning's entire show by clicking selected audio above. It's all there and includes all the great music I played today.

Next story is about factory farms and the diseases that have been spawned there and something called H5N1 which might explain why gov't.s behaved they way they did in treating the relatively mild H1N1.

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/144963/factory_farmed_meat_can_tr...

Here's a link to Mark Fiore's cartoon for which he is receiving death threats... from crazy zealous Mooslims? Nope. From teabaggers. Funny how they have so much in common with the people they spend all their time worrying about, huh? http://www.markfiore.com/mark-fiore-blog/learn-to-speak-teabag-tea-party...

Stories I didn't have time for but are worthy of note: Parliment should matter http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Parliament+should+matter/2421754/st... (thoughts on the prorogue from the Ottawa Citizen)

A great piece from Wired on Think-tanks and the people in the msm who love them http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/12/think-tanks-and-the-reporters-wh...

Everything else was headline news but there will be lots more tomorrow - drop me a note at oldpunk@cjlo.com or twitter me @ knoxkp   Cheers!