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Sunday, December 7, 2008

Monday - December 8, 2008 . . . "Redefault" Enters the Lexicon, Criminal Marks Himself for Life with Bad Tats, Good-bye Trigger Happy Mercenaries,

Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and his Chief of Staff, John Harris, were arrested today by FBI agents on federal corruption

Tribune Co., owner of LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Cubs and more, files for bankruptcy

San Diego median home prices drop 6.1% in just a one month time frame (Oct to Nov 2008)

The leaders of 14 Caribbean nations urged US President-Elect Barack Obama to lift the decades-old trade embargo against Cuba

Growing consensus Marines in Western Iraq will shift to Afghanistan






Trigger-happy cowboys in Iraq have had their day

Chinese whistleblowers on corruption are not rewarded . . . sent to Mental Hospital instead

Two F-15 jets collide over the Gulf of Mexico off Eglin AF Base: one pilot dies after rescue

US F-18 crashes into heavily populated San Diego neighborhood, just missing a High School (video)

Riots intensify in third day of youngsters vs. Greek Police

Foreclosures have come to wealthy neighborhoods

Miles and Miles of Unsold Imported New Cars Stack Up Around the USA

State of Illinois tells Bank of America to settle with strikers at plant or suffer no state business







Frugal farmer who lived in a trailer leaves $2 million to his 80 member Church

Jihadists plan to invade Youtube

Wadena, Minnesota man takes horrifying work related accidents in stride. Don't open if you get queasy easy

NY Times to use its Manhattan HQ building as collateral for $225,000,000 loan

Five Blackwater mercenaries surrender to authorities in Utah over Iraqi death charges

Even as gas prices drop and unemployment rises, mass transit uses continues to surge

Doris "Tanta" Dungey of the Calculate Risk Blog passes away from ovarian cancer. She was one of the best















Homeowners refinancing frenzy

Layoffs: 3M cuts 1,800 jobs

Markets around the world surged earlier today on Economic Stimulus Plans in the USA

Taliban leader warns new President-elect that any increase in US Armed forces in Afghanistan will result in violent response by Islamic jihad forces

Seventy-year old Indian woman who received IVF treatments gives birth?

Pakistan arrests alleged mastermind of Mumbai massacre

McClatchy wants to sell the Miami Herald

Jim Kuntsler's latest just released at 8:40 AM today says,"Even CNBC's Lawrence Kudlow has been reduced to searching for stray "mustard seeds" of hope on hands and knees in a bleak and tortured financial landscape." Says we are transitioning from a wealth society to a hardship society.




Watchdog, debt rating agencies caught napping in this Credit Crisis . . . have had to downgrade "thousands" of security ratings it mis-graded early on

Taliban expanding in Afghanistan with permanent footprint in 3/4 of the country

Pressure grows from outside the company to oust CEO Wagoner of GM

Why Japanese carmakers do not want to see any of the Big 3 go under

Montana becomes the third state where doctor assisted suicide is legalised

Brain steroids will change the way we think, remember, work and take tests. Debate rages over the ethics.

Intel is claiming "world record" performance in optical communications using silicon photonics




First Vietnamese-American, Anh Cao (R-LA), is elected to the House of Representatives

Atlantic City Council Stars in Sex, Lies and Videotape

How marketing using research into neural brain patterns tricks you into becoming a member of the Holy Consumer Congregation

Gators and Sooners scheduled to play January 8th for the BCS Title Game

The Recession has killed the recyclables business

Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin and Barbara Bush's dog: Typing without a clue

Pakistani Taliban militants destroy more than 100 NATO trucks loaded with supplies in Peshawar


Two US and one Russian hacker are charged with International Banking Trojan scheme

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