Wednesday 20 Nov 08 - AM

Shopping malls are running on empty

Jim Kuntsler on "Zombie Economics"

Nebraska's infamous "Butt Bandit" charged with 10 misdemeanors

Web Star: The Running Shrimp

Sarah Palin could rake in $7 million on book deal

Current Defense Secretary Gates will stay with Obama White House for at least one year

Indian Navy says now that sunk"Mother Ship" of Somali pirates was actually a Thai fishing trawler

World's first digital camera with a built in printer

Brazilian death toll from floods raised again, this time to over 100

Somali gunmen kidnap two more Western journalists

Justice handed down to just caught acid attackers of Afghan schoolgirls: public execution

REUTERS PHOTO Factory workers surround an overturned police car during a protest outside Kaida toy factory in Dongguan, China, Nov. 25, 2008.

Workers riot at Chinese toy factory, flip police car, destroy computers all over a pay dispute

Economic crisis dampens building boom in Persian Gulf

British father of nine jailed for life after raping his daughters for 25 years

Joe Biden to have a broader role as Counselor to Obama

Fewer Americans going "home" for this Thanksgiving

Taliban, drug lords await $770 opium harvest

Five kids' - ages 8 to 15 - have joyride end tragically with the deaths of two of them

Pro-peace Somali factions agree on power sharing

Brazilian bee rampage kills one, hospitalizes nine

Brazilian floods death toll rises to 84

Two men, one wearing what appeared to be an Iraqi military uniform, gun down two American troops on a humanitarian mission in Iraq while others are injured

Latin America has the highest murder rates in the World

It's not good to be the richest man in China

Russia accuses US troops of running one of their Embassy cars off the road in Bagdhad

The Atlantic bluefin tuna is threatened with extinction

Analysis: Tuna a victim of gutless politicians and myopic industry

Al Qaeda shifting its focus from Afghanistan to Pakistan says U.S. Senior Commander

Not the brightest zoologists in the world: zookeepers tried to mate two female Polar Bears

Sri Lankan Army poised to take the Tamil Tigers' HQ and end the 25 year old civil war?

Drunk driver drives over himself

European Union jumps on the Bailout Bandwagon . . . will offer $260 Billion to rekindle the Continent's economy

Afghan President Karzai criticizes US and NATO for being unable to defeat the Taliban. Asks for timetable to end of the war.

US claims coalition troops kill 25 Taliban in Afghanistan




Cult of Personality idol, Britney Spears, trying for a comeback at age 26


Girls Gone Wild - Female students at a Gaza University throw fists and chairs in Hamas vs Fatah Smackdown

Iraq Shiites, Kurds meet Sunni demand on US pact

The mayor of Vladikavkaz, a southern city in Russia's conflict-prone North Caucasus region, was assassinated
Thai Army calling for new elections, airport still closed down by sitting protesters

Nasty looking quarterly banking review from the FDIC shows a clear trend of rapid deterioration of asset values, earnings, and income.

Former Fed Reserve Chairman, Paul Volcker, will be head of Obama's new White House advisory board called the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board


Zimbabwe - where a T-shirt cost 3,000,000,000 Zimbabwe dollars. Open this link to see a blogger's photos of the runaway hyper-inflated currency

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