January 29, 2009

* Kucinich wants Federal Reserve put under govt control
* Senate GOP leader McConnell: Bush a "political burden"
* ACLU requests Bush memos from Office of Legal Counsel
* Attenborough asked why he doesn't give "credit to God"
* NATO commanders discussing new Arctic shipping routes

* President Ahmadinejad to stand for re-election in June
* Cold War era coup set stage for 1979 Iranian revoluton
* Current spat between US & China over renminbi exchange
* Pictures taken inside a Circuit City liquidation sale
* East German flat abandoned since fall of Berlin Wall

* Mercury cell chlor-alkali used in high-fructose syrup
* Survive a world without electricity and running water
* Google Measurement Lab to expose interference by ISP's
* Some words learned while reading David Foster Wallace
* House and Senate leaders at White House for cocktails