Below are some articles that I have read over the weekend and the past few days.  I wanted to make sure I shared them with you as I think you might find them as interesting as I did.

Political Stuff:

• Analysis: Why everyone is saying no to Obama
• U.S. regulator to unveil open Internet plan

Economic Stuff:

• HSBC bids farewell to dollar supremacy
• Sanctions and isolationism
• Car showrooms quiet after clunkers clamor ends
• Obama open to newspaper bailout bill
• US May Face ‘Armageddon’ If China, Japan Don’t Buy Debt – This article has a great video, which is below.

Recipe Stuff:

• Slow-Cooked Tomato and Herb White Beans – Haven’t made but plan to.
• Eggplants stuffed with ricotta and ham — Aubergines farcies à la ricotta et au jambon – Making on Tuesday!

Interesting Stuff:

• The Post–9/11 Roundup of Innocents
• US Detention Camps For Political Subversives

In 2002, FEMA sought bids from major real estate and engineering firms to construct giant internment facilities in the case of a chemical, biological or nuclear attack or a natural disaster. Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz went public three years ago with his contention that his county was set to be a location for one of the camps. Alex Jones has attended numerous military urban warfare training drills across the US where role players were used to simulate arresting American citizens and taking them to internment camps.

• Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Contract to Add Temporary Immigration Detention Centers - (NYT Subscription)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work in Iraq.KBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space, company executives said. KBR, which announced the contract last month, had a similar contract with immigration agencies from 2000 to last year.

The contract with the Corps of Engineers runs one year, with four optional one-year extensions. Officials of the corps said that they had solicited bids and that KBR was the lone responder.

A spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jamie Zuieback, said KBR would build the centers only in an emergency like the one when thousands of Cubans floated on rafts to the United States. She emphasized that the centers might never be built if such an emergency did not arise.

“It’s the type of contract that could be used in some kind of mass migration,” Ms. Zuieback said.

• Jim Rogers Knows – His 10 Tips for a Successful Life
  • I think I should point out Jim’s list here and you can click the article for more.
    1. Conduct your own research and trust your own judgment.
    2. Focus on what you yourself love.
    3. Be persistent.
    4. Broaden your horizons and see as much of the world as you can.
    5. The most important thing you can learn is how to think and question everything you hear.
    6. Study and learn from history.
    7. Master more than one language – and make sure one of them is Mandarin.
    8. Don’t panic.
    9. Take care of yourself and don’t neglect the sunscreen.
    10. Remember that boys need girls more than girls need boys.