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Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

Senate rejects $250 checks for elderly, which "would have made up for social security benefits not increasing this year"

Tsunami warning to every nation around the Pacific after massive 8.8 earthquake strikes Chile

Decaying apartments symptom of housing crisis, as landlords let maintenance go in effort to avoid foreclosure and bankruptcy

Britain at risk of worse deficit crisis than Greece, sparking serious fears over the economic stability of the country

Disillusioned Sen. Bayh advocates electoral “shock” to broken system, encourages voters to remove Congressional incumbents in mass

US debt will keep growing even with recovery

More Homeless Americans Living in Cars and Campers

A worthy cause!! S.A. Griffin, creator of The Poetry Bomb, has posted an appeal for his project

Fantastic Art!! Take a look at Diana Bonebrake's online studio sale and drink in the lovely skies...

Never-before seen photos of Marilyn Monroe with poet Carl Sandburg go up for sale (shot by Len Steckler)

Middle Class No More, Families Struggle to Fight off Homelessness

Photo: villagers remove petioles of red chili at Shertha village in India where they earn 7 rupees (US$ 0.14) for 44pounds

Winter blasted Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in need of HELP!

Mystery of missing painting by Rolf Harris now center of court battle over its possession

Haiti's children on their own on shattered streets

Haitians pray, cry for help in the ruins

For $65, tourists get peek at Los Angeles gangland

Haiti earthquake: Machete-wielding gangs roam streets as fears grow death toll could hit 200,000

Aid slowly reaching Haitians as desperation grows

Scientists turn stem cells into pork. One day it could be "a green alternative to raising livestock, help alleviate world hunger, and save some pigs their bacon"

Haiti quake aid snarled; up to 50,000 feared dead

How to help survivors of quake in Haiti

Haiti earthquake: Number of dead could be more than 100,000

Rustlers ride wideopen range of Great Basin

Bad year for biofuel ends on a dour note

Celebrate the new year early with the newly published Winter 2010 Issue of Luciole Press! Here is the Table of Contents

Indian tribes buy back thousands of acres of land

Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who denounced Juarez border killings and founded Casa Amiga, has died

TIME article: Why Indie Directors Are Releasing Movies Online -- For Free

225,000 Haiti children work as slaves, sold for as little as $128 to work as laborers or prostitutes

Can eco-friendly fashion be just as stylish?

Fear of violence grows in mountaintop strip mining fight

Newsweek article: How to Live Happily on 75 Percent Less ... (and photos of the homeless who need our help -- this winter is already very harsh)

Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change (photos: Monterey Bay, CA)

NHS maternity services in meltdown: former midwife reveals how understaffed wards are sinking into chaos as "births are turning into conveyer-belt productions"

Stephen King and his wife donate money so 150 soldiers can come home for the holidays

Protesters damage UC Berkeley chancellor Birgeneau's home; demonstrations at many schools against state funding cuts

Photo: workers in a salt field near Ohn-chaung in Burma's Ayeyarwady Delta

From Luciole friend/contributor Geraldine Green: ~ Poetry In Aid of Cumbria Flood Recovery ~

Swedish store pulls plug on N. Korean jeans

Italian police seize secret stash of masterpieces "by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne and other giants of art"

Rare copy of Poe's first book "Tamerlane and Other Poems" sells for $662,500 in NYC

From catwalk to laptop, fashion houses embrace web

Homeless S. Africans complain ahead of World Cup that they are being forced from the streets to make way for "glamorous events"

Germany still paying off reparations following WWI -- more than 90 years on

Swahili Fashion Week celebrates Tanzania's kanga fabric: "Just as India has saris and Japan has the kimono, we have the kanga"

"Vivid pink" diamond sells for record $10.8 million

Broadway shows returning to New Orleans

Wrong Number Miracle: Mom was going to miss mortgage payment if she sent daughter food money; the stranger who took the call decided to help

Recession sends older Americans to food pantries

Couture comes to the tea cup through luxury blends

Photo: a scavenger looks for recyclable items in the waters of the River Yamuna in New Delhi

Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

Photo: Indonesian women sell their harvest in a traditional floating market on the Martapura river in Borneo

Alert from Luciole friend S.A. Griffin: Dairyland Greyhound Racetrack in Kenosha is closing, and the greyhounds need to be adopted!

Article from Eco expert Fred Pearce: "How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world"

Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence

Photo: a child searches for recyclable material in a garbage dump on the outskirts of Gauhati, India

Afghans say poverty, not Taliban, main cause of war

Slaughter of the horses: More animals will be shot as recession bites. Please help Horse Sanctuaries if you can....

Italian inventor creates electronic holy water dispenser to lessen risk of H1N1/swine flu viral infection of church attendees

Thousands of Chinese women are vying to attend a lavish "Cinderella" ball, hoping to find a millionaire (the women must first go through "stringent screening of their looks, physique and intellect")

Official apology from Britain for 150,000 poor British children who were shipped off to the colonies over three and a half centuries, taken from their families to be used as workers (and often severely abused)

Kenya's wind power project snagged

To defang Taliban, some look to private schools: "the quality of public education is deteriorating day by day... when there's a vacuum of quality, someone will fill it"

Human trafficking for the "flesh trade" targets Natives: young Aboriginal women used as a sex commodity in cities across Canada (average age of girls trafficked is 7-12 years old)

Photo: children look for coins and other reusable material amid fancy boats offered by devotees at the Bindu Sagar pond in Bhubaneswar

Thousands line up for last Big Mac in Iceland

Russia's Millionaire's Fair: a chrome Mercedes, fridges wrapped in snake skin, and more as recession still bites deep for most of the population

Winds slow repairs after two rods and a 5,000-pound crossbeam fall into traffic lanes on Bay Bridge

Photo: welders wear improvised protection masks at a construction site in Hefei, eastern China

Australian town back-flips after cutting ties with its Japanese "sister-city" Taiji over its slaughter of dolphins

Thanks to Luciole contributor Bridget Van Loon for this article link about the practices behind large scale dairy farming. "Please educate yourself on what and who you are supporting with your dollars and diet"

Only 22 countries are paid-in-full members of U.N.

First woman wins Nobel Economics Prize. Elinor Ostrom: "I won't be the last"

"Olympian dreams and favela realities collide in Rio de Janeiro -- the documentary Dancing With the Devil depicts what's at stake if the city fails to get its act together"

The 10 least visited U.S. national parks

Endangered Ugandan gorillas join Facebook, MySpace

Geography makes a difference in health coverage

TIME article -- Reopening the Northeast Passage, Thanks to Global Warming

One in seven Germans want the Berlin Wall back?

DNC launches website to debunk "the outrageous lies and misinformation about health reform"

TIME article -- Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? ("Is he stirring the fears of Americans who feel left out?")

Wall Street’s New Gilded Age -- A year after the crash, a few financial giants are back to making millions, while average Americans face foreclosure and unemployment

Gov. Schwarzenegger to veto renewable energy bills, after California lawmakers "adopted landmark renewable energy plan"

Medvedev laments Russia's democracy, economy

Gazans improvise to honor Ramadan traditions

(Edit to add second article) First -- The 'You lie!' aftermath, and second --Analysis: 'You lie!' further erodes discourse

Video shows all male chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery: "there is no federal law that ensures the humane euthanasia of animals on farms or hatcheries"

As hybrid cars gobble rare metals, shortage looms

Wildfire makes menacing advance near Los Angeles

Nepal villagers on climate change frontline

McCain speaks with angry crowd at Ariz. town hall: "one man pointed at him and asked the senator why he deserves a better health care plan (than the rest of us)"

NYC's 'skinniest' house has fat price tag: $2.7M -- the house is 9 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long

Majority of Americans Believe Health Care Reform 'Myths'

Young Obama backers AWOL from health care fight: "(they) are young, feeling indestructible and not all that into what they see as an old folks issue" ... (let's hope that is not how everyone feels)

"His Name Might Be Tommy" -- a message from NativeProgress.org. Please donate what you can for the children at the General Beadle Community School!

Just received David Smith's wonderful new book -- White Time -- for which I happily wrote a blurb. Available at Off Beat Pulp

Widely accepted argument against government medical plan is that it would quash competition — just what private insurers seem to be doing themselves in many parts of the U.S.