Crises in NKorea and Auto Industry? and More for Monday, March 30, 2009

USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) image licensed under Creative Commons by Matt Watts

U.S. deploys anti-missile ships before N.Korea launch

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52t0f8-us-korea-north/

Obama: We Cannot Let Auto Industry Vanish

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/business/main4903151.shtml

Auto Workers Uneasy Over Obama's Auto Plan

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/business/main4902920.shtml

Obama denies bailout funds for automakers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29944834/

Car problems slam Wall Street

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/

World stock markets tumble on automotive, banking concerns

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/03/30/world-markets.html

GM, Chrysler rocked by Obama autos team hard line

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52s1vv-us-autos/

GM chief Wagoner ousted by Obama

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7971202.stm

Rick Wagoner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Wagoner

Japanese Anxious Over U.S. Auto Woes

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/business/main4902178.shtml

Officials: Waterboarding Foiled No Plot

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/29/politics/washingtonpost/main4901154.shtml

Abu Zubaydah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Zubaida

2nd U.S. GI Convicted For Iraqi Executions

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/iraq/main4902039.shtml

North Korea rocket shown on launch pad

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/30/north.korea.rocket/index.html

China dismisses cyber-espionage claims

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/30/ghostnet.cyber.espionage/index.html

Israeli military rejects Gaza abuse claims

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/30/israel.gaza.abuses/index.html

Fargo braces as new storm nears

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29873706/

Obama monitors flooding, pledges federal help

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29938827/

Fargo Works To Protect Good Water From Bad

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/national/main4902624.shtml

'Torture' Could Haunt Bush Officials

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7203966&page=1

Brown accused over green spending

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7971183.stm

Judge to rule whether British MP can enter Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/29/galloway-mp--ruling-injunction.html

George Galloway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Galloway

Hamas (Wiki page)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas

Spain bank bail-out hits shares

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7971582.stm

Japan debates digging itself out

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29951880/

Why wasn't I hired? How to deal with rejection

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29796678/

Court hears Khmer Rouge testimony

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7971231.stm

Thirty years on, Khmer Rouge torturer in dock

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52t0kz-us-cambodia-rouge/

Khmer Rouge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge

Death toll cut in Australia fires

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7971270.stm

2009 Victorian Bush Fires

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2009_Victorian_bushfires

Tibet reopens to foreign tourists

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7971445.stm

Border corruption US graft fuels the drugs war, Mexico's president tells BBC (…actually most Americans think/believe it’s the other way around…)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7971335.stm

Felipe Calderon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_calderon

Fans blamed for Ivorian stampede

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7971596.stm

'Open cloud' computing sparks dissent

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7969458.stm

Cloud Computing Manifesto (Wiki page)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Computing_Manifesto

Google China to push music tracks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7972399.stm

Obama plans climate summit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7970274.stm

Nasa man's 'extinction' warning

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7951833.stm

Coyote attacks in urban areas on the rise, alarming residents

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1050867

Canis latrans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_latrans

Microbes In Mud Flats Clean Up Oil Spill Chemicals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205505.htm

Panel: All teens should be tested for depression

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29945008/

The Conficker Worm: What Happens Next?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/60minutes/main4897053.shtml

Statistical Road Safety Illuminated By Mathematics Of Eighteenth Century Minister

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090327092904.htm

Thomas Bayes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bayes

Could the Internet run out of space?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/03/28/execed.websites/index.html

Internet (Wikipage)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Supreme Court Won't Revive Anti-Spam Law

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/supremecourt/main4903078.shtml

High-Tech Hijinks: Top 7 Web and PC Pranks

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=7193603&page=1

Tanzania train wreck 'deliberate'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7972019.stm

How passengers are getting even with cruise lines

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29921431/

For Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Christmas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

Aid Group Names Top 10 Humanitarian Crises of 2008

Doctors Without Borders' Top 10 Humanitarian Crises

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/topten/

Military 'seizes power' in Guinea

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7796902.stm

Dictator's death sparks coup in Guinea

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28366192/

Lansana Conte

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansana_Conte

Guinea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea

Fear at army takeover

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7797371.stm

World Watch : Russian Missile Test A Dud

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/23/link/main4684076.shtml

US Warns Russia Against Selling Missiles to Iran

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_russia_iran;_ylt=AjcCITEr0IXQ0xfKF30kxj0DW7oF

Ex-Clinton adviser pleads to child-porn charge

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28363279/

Wade Sanders

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Sanders

Official: Calif. could be broke in 2 months

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28359987/

Economy slows some areas' population growth

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28355559/

Governments must be ready to spend more on stimulus: IMF

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4bm1th-us-financial-imf-economist/

GDP shrank in third quarter as economy chilled

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4bm2wi-us-usa-economy-gdp/

Economy, consumer spending shrank in Q3

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28365353/

World economies limp to Christmas

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4b70me-us-financial/

Existing home sales plunge 8.6 percent in November

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4bm3f0-us-usa-economy-housing-1/

Home prices take record tumble

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28365973/

Retirement Woes: Forced to Work to Death?

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/story?id=6513517&page=1

ABC News: Your Complete Guide to Refinancing

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/ConsumerFinance/story?id=6498727&page=1

When mortgage rescues go bad

http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/23/real_estate/new_modifications_same_problems/index.htm?cnn=yes

Contraction of UK economy speeds up

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7796960.stm

Putin says 'cheap gas era' ending

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7796806.stm

Interpol 'not given Mumbai data'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7796993.stm

US questions net overhaul plans

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7797206.stm

Motorists plucked from flood water in US

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7797727.stm

Investigators: Doomed jet made odd noise

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28330517/

NY Times sued over copyright issues

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28366260/