Headlines from Democracy Now 2/9/09 1/6

* Senate Nears Stimulus Vote After Cutting Education Spending * Nearly 600,000 Jobs Lost in January * Loopholes Could Bypass Bailout Pay Caps * Lawyer: Gitmo Conditions Deteriorating * Appeal in Boeing Rendition Case to Test Obama on Torture, Secrecy * Biden: US Will Continue Bush Missile Program, But Open to Compromise * 15,000 Flee Sri Lanka Fighting * Iraqi Girl Killed in US Attack * Trial Date Set for Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist * UN Halts Gaza Aid Delivery in Hamas Dispute * Bolivia Enacts New Consitution * Australia Wildfire Toll at 131 * Haiti Pleads for Aid, Urges End to Indirect U.S. Funding * Ex-Police Officer in Oakland Transit Shooting Freed on $3M Bail
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