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red Orbit: An Atlantic storm that kicked up huge waves reaching as high 30 feet has caused the beaches of Barbados to become littered with pieces of broken coral.
Some of the white coral had washed up in chunks as heavy as seven pounds, with their polyps rubbed away by the rough surf.
Scientists reported Sunday that the amount of coral rubble on the island’s coast may indicate damage to the region’s coral reefs.

MadCow Morning News: With hundreds of air charter companies and airliners to choose from, the Saudis chose a company that owns “Worship Ministries” and Christian Network, Inc., turning to Paxson Communications, a “Christian broadcaster” which owned the plane, to make its corporate jet available to spirit the Saudi princes and their entourage out of the U.S. six days after 9/11.

Summary: As American economy collapses, how can we build new energy system? Wall St plans to make billions from climate change. Buffett invisible on climate; and RAN on investment activism.

Notes: No music breaks. Cut first and last 15 second bits to get program time. Good insert point at 28:14.
Reaction to Bear Stearns, Fed bailouts, economic crisis now - and in 1929. Did Fed act to protect the billions in bonus money paid out to Bear brokers in January? Why no billions for the new homeless homeowners? Will there be any money left for a new energy transition? Will reduced consumption (because we are broke) help the environment? Wall St. is pushing cap and trade - with free emission credits to polluters, as the next big bubble.

PART 1
Born into poverty in colonial Trinidad, VS Naipaul won a scholarship to Oxford at the age of 17. Now 75, the Nobel laureate is widely regarded as Britain’s greatest living writer. Patrick French was given unprecedented access to Sir Vidia and his sealed archive to write his biography, and in this extract examines his tortured first marriage and the 24-year love affair that fuelled his genius

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The final night of the Lethem rodeo was cancelled last evening over security concerns.

Kaieteur News: Another Buxton resident was shot dead yesterday while fleeing from members of the Joint Services.
Tyrone Pollard, a television/DVD technician said to be in his mid-40s, and whom Police said was wanted for three murders, was shot, at around 09:00 hours, after he had managed to cross the Buxton Sideline Canal in his bid to escape capture.

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American Dictators is a 90+ minute expose chronicling the degeneration of America’s political process. Alex Jones rips away layer after layer of the false left-right paradigm and finally reveals the 2004 election for what it is — stage managed theater that would make Shakespeare proud.

The death of “senior Al-Qaeda leader” Abu Laith al-Libi is being celebrated by Neo-Cons as a reason for continuing the endless war on terror - absent one crucial detail - the corporate media widely reported that another “senior Al-Qaeda leader” named al-Libi had been arrested back in May 2005.

Edwidge Danticat. Award-winning Haitian American novelist. She is the author of several books including “Breath, Eyes, Memory”, “The Farming of the Bones”, “Krik? Krak!” and “The Dew Breaker.” Her latest book is a memoir called “Brother, I’m Dying.” It tells the story of her uncle, Joseph Dantica, dying in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security.

Facts that would not go away
The PPP leaders, most of the ministers of Government and President Jagdeo hardly miss an opportunity to denounce the private media that criticize the government. Listen or read any major speech and you are bound to hear either an emotional outcry or a political cussing down of the private media. What you should not expect is any point for point challenge from any of them. Read the rest of this entry »

The US military in a statement said four soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb during a patrol in southern Baghdad, after three soldiers were killed in a similar explosion in northwest Baghdad on Saturday.
The weekend attacks brought the number of total US fatalities to exactly 4,000…