(KDKA)
In the aftermath of the weekend’s storm, hundreds of National Guard members have been helping Pittsburgh’s emergency personnel respond to residents’ needs; and beginning tonight, they’re also going to be patrolling some city streets.
“We will also begin to have the National Guard patrol our neighborhoods to deal with any issues that come up,” Pittsburgh Mayor [...]

(AFP)
US President Barack Obama’s administration announced plans Monday for a new office handling climate change, aiming to help businesses chart future plans as the nation shifts to a greener economy.
The first practical effect was the creation of a website, www.climate.gov, which came online Monday and brings together government resources on climate [...]

(WXII12)
Residents in King were fumed over the weekend after a state of emergency declaration restricted the sale of alcohol and the carrying of firearms in vehicles.
King Police Chief Paula May said she’s received hundreds of threats related to the restrictions, which banned driving from 12 a.m. Sunday to 5 a.m.
The state of emergency for King [...]

(America-Hijacked.com)

Look at how that neoconned fool Sarah Palin is all for war with Iran for Israel as well in this Olbermann segment which aired on MSNBC tonight:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#35304205
Neoconned fool Sarah Palin says ‘Attack Iran’ (she gets her foreign policy briefings from former PNAC Chairman Bill Kristol):
http://blog.micshots.com/2010/02/07/sarah-palin–attack-iran.aspx
Chief neo-conservative Bill Kristol urged McCain to [...]

(All Gov)
For some Americans it’s no questions asked. Bring your millions of dollars looted from foreign treasuries and spend lavishly in the United States, or simply stuff it into domestic bank accounts, including bundles of cash smuggled in on the persons of world leaders.
The U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations latest report (Keeping Foreign Corruption [...]

(AFP)
The battle-stretched US military Saturday vowed to keep up US assistance in Haiti as long as needed on Saturday as it pointed to a likely 45 to 50 day armed mission.
Colonel Gregory Kane, one of the top US commanders in the field, said American involvement in Haiti would last as long as [...]

(Bloomberg)
Real estate, stocks, credit. China sure has its share of bubbles. Oddly, little attention is paid to the biggest one of all.
China’s currency reserves grew by more than the gross domestic product of Norway in 2009. Its $2.4 trillion of reserves is a bubble all its own, one growing before our [...]

(USA Today)
Social Security’s annual surplus nearly evaporated in 2009 for the first time in 25 years as the recession led hundreds of thousands of workers to retire or claim disability.
The impact of the recession is likely to hit the giant retirement system even harder this year and next. The Congressional Budget Office [...]

(AlterNet)
A new web show called “BUMP+” is stirring up controversy and conversation about abortion. It’s a “fake” reality show in which three actresses portray women facing unintended pregnancies. These characters, entirely fictional, have agreed to appear on a reality TV show and let the public weigh in on what they [...]

(Daily Mail)
A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet.
Joshua Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry.
As his daughter ’squirmed’ to get away, Tabor said he submerged her face three or four times until the water was lapping around [...]