Friday - December 12, 2008 - Bettie Page Dies, Earth's Rotation Slows Down, Missing Toddler . . . Is It Caylee Marie Anthony? Bank of America Layoffs

Earth's rotation slowing down so much that atomic clocks will add an extra second at the end of this year, meaning 2009 will start a second later, folks

Fort Pierce, Florida: Man comes home and coaxes drunk woman to come down off his roof with promise of more beer

Noble Prize winning Economist, Joseph Stiglitz, gives us 5 Reasons Why We are in the Financial Crisis we are in and labels his piece in Vanity Fair, "Capitalist Fools"

U.S. and U.N. Countries keep silent as Afghan ally removes war crime evidence

Grey diamond sells for $44.7 million

Washed-up poison bottle kills eight members of island tribe

Footsteps power billboards and more in busy Japanese train station

Former Key West citizen and famed 50's pinup girl, Bettie Page, dies in L.A.

Failure to prosecute the "villains" responsible for the financial crisis that brought the United States to its knees will leave the country without the moral compass needed to avert future crises, says Pioneer hedge fund manager, Michael Steinhardt. Hey Mr. Steinhardt, don't throw rocks inside glass houses. See the link directly below where Bernard Madoff used his hedge fund for a Ponzi Scheme to steal $50 Billion of investor's money.

Bernard Madoff, former Chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, arrested over alleged $50 billion fraud

Russian mine blast kills 9, while 3 others are missing

Jim Rogers says, most of the largest US banks are "totally bankrupt."



Media cirucs surrounds Orlanda neighborhood where child's skeletal remains are found. Is it missing toddler Caylee Marie Anthony?

Sheila Bair: are her ideas to help homeowners backfiring as more homeowners redefault?

A select group of Youtube video posters making enough money to make it a full time job

Senate Armed Services Committee blames Rumsfeld and other top Neo-Cons for prisoner abuse at Abu-Ghraib and Guantanamo

An actor narrowly escaped death after slashing his throat on a Vienna stage with a real knife, instead of a blunt stage-prop blade.





Layoffs: Bank of America plans to chop 30,000 to 35,000 jobs . . . or 11% of their workforce

Pakistan places founder of an Islamic militant group accused of links to the Mumbai attacks under house arrest

Blackwater guards indicted over the 2007 fatal shooting of 17 Iraqis used machine guns and grenade launchers against unarmed civilians, prosecutors have said.

Suicide bomber kills 50, injures 100 in crowded Kirkuk, Iraq family style restaurant (article + video)

One of 14 detainees Belgian police arrest is female living legend of Al-Qaeda

Honk Kong health authorities have found the new strain of Bird Flu H5N1 on a chicken farm

Ship wreck off coast of Cameroon kills at least 40

Sorry Detroit: US Senate shoots down the Big 3 Bailout

Detroit workers angered, stunned by stall of Bailout in Senate committee