beautiful news, with a beautiful graph: World Poverty Rate Plummets, 1970-2006, and capitalism did it
- http://freemarketmojo.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/world-poverty-rate-plummets/
[ graph should indicate, as always, if these are constant dollars or nominal - also, i assume graph is 1000s of people, and does it even reflect increasing population? ]

nice: Brazil Prez. says ‘Gringos’ should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest.
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34171122/ns/world_news-world_environment/

( links for 11-28-09 pt 1 )

just what we want to hear from our leaders: "The Secret Service is deeply concerned and embarrassed by the circumstances surrounding the State Dinner on Tuesday," the agency said in a statement Friday.