Democracy Now Headlines- Mon. Feb, 09, 2009

DemocracyNow
February 09, 2009
Today's Headlines * 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 Constitution * Australia Wildfire Toll at 131 * Haiti Pleads for Aid, Urges End to Indirect US Funding * Ex-Police Officer in Oakland Transit Shooting Freed on $3M Bail