top news this morning on bbc is that France has sent troops to Mali and elsewhere in north and east Africa, including Somalia where they took a command post in a surprise attack today. reuters has more specifying this action is within an ECOWAS or west african nation agreed set of policies, not French aggression.
Zombie Foreclosures: there may be a couple million out there: excellent article where major banks threatened to foreclose, so people moved out expecting the bank to foreclose, yet the bank didn't follow through. So the abandoned home gets inhabited by squatters etc. + trashed until the neighbors notice ... but the old owner still gets bills and then contacts from the city... the bank says it's not their fault.... Of course there has been still more ramifications of the CFPB's actions, those of the courts and certain state houses. More on that by the end of the month as it all gets tallied...
Planet Money asks How to turn a boomtown into a real town: 13 min audio and the shorter four minute version
If you ever wondered why is there so much spam? They also have a story on black market pharmacies that sell everyday health items, from acne meds to viagra copies, but for much cheaper and ends up in everyone's spam boxes; five min audio
Energy and giant Manufacturers tussle as US weighs raising natural gas exports. Manufacturers like Alcoa, Dow Chemical worry prices will go back up for them, given that Energy Co's will always want highest possible prices.
the proleftpodcast this week is great with driftglass & bluegal: "Maddow and ... Casablanca?" 57 min audio, they've been doing this for three years or close to it, every week, NSFW
Why don't they mint a Trillion $ coin? The talk is revealing: up with chrishayes does it well, weighing options; four segments, 29 min video
David Bowie has a new single released on his birthday 8jan, "Where Are We Now?" which sounds to me a bounce-off the late '90's "Thursday's Child" but has a different subject matter altogether. It was released on the internet as a video which is intriguing. The album that Visconti says has been two years in the making has Earl Slick gushing and explaining the secrecy behind it. Which is now the hype, of course.
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