Sunday - February 22, 2009 - California Median Prices Drop 10% In One Month! 100,000 People Protest In Dublin, Ireland Over Recession, Bejing Bust

ATTENTION! Must see: Rock Trueblood's Watchworld has just posted the entire CNBC documentary special "House of Cards". Click here to see all 8 segments with notes under each of what is contained. I've put part 1 above to tease you into viewing the entire documentary. Enjoy.

Dying woman spends £40,000 on plastic surgery.. to look like Demi Moore

Motley Fool poster relates how the Stimulus package has already put his son-in-law back to work

Ballcupping a male lion?

Cheap oil winners and losers

Miami Madness: Thousands wait overnight for subsidized housing applications; hundreds turned away

Vacancies everywhere: Bejing's building boom goes bust

11 year old boy shoots father's pregnant head in the back of the head, then gets on bus and goes to school

GOP Fighting For Money From Stimulus They Opposed

Police Close to Charging California Prisoner in Chandra Levy Case

Is Bill Gross of Pimco too big?

Ireland: 100,000 Dubliners protest against the Recession

Peter Schiff: Predatory Legislators, not Lenders, are artificially inflating the next bubble . . . this time taking advantage of foreigners funding our expansion of debt


California median prices drop 10% in one month and 41.5% in one year while 60.4% those selling last month had been foreclosed upon in the past 12 months

Mine blast traps 96 in China

Obama Tells Treasury to Begin Tax Cuts

Regulators Will Soon Begin Bank Stress Tests

Pros Say: Citi, BofA Will Survive — Without Equity

Saturday - February 21, 2009 - America's Air Superiority Threatened By Broke Government, Madoff Investors "Furious", Another Hedge Fund Wipe Out

Bill Maher back on cable last night with "New Rules"

How Amazon Aims to Keep You Clicking

How companies are struggling to maintain customer service amid sinking sales and declining employee morale (video included)


Outstanding pictorial from the Big Picture Blog titled "At Work"


Dodd, Frank disagree on Obama's plan to nationalize banks


America's 1st Homeland Security Director, Tom Ridge, Says We Were Wrong To Torture

Barron's: Housing will not recover any time soon . . . with unemployment and wages retracting, prices will continue to swoon

American air superiority threatened by broke Treasury

Layoffs: JP Morgan Chase cuts 730 jobs in Georgia credit card processing office

Upcoming U2 album all over P2P after band's label screws up

In one of the most famous cold cases in America, we're now told an arrest is imminent in the Chandra Levy murder

End city and county defecits by taxing booze and marijuana?

Gold fever sweeps suburbia

Majoring in Debt: Despite the crunch, credit-card companies keep targeting undergrads







In response to upswing in violent sex crimes committed by foreigners, Italy passes extremely tough emergency rape laws

What President Obama's housing plan will and won't do

Governor Schwarzenegger's rift with the GOP grows wider

BART holdup victim grabs knife, kills robber






Stanford Financial Bank in Antigua Seized

One banking CEO calls another banking CEO a liar

The horizon fills with banks about to fail

Hedge Fund declared insolvent, investors completely wiped out

Hedge Funds play the "We're not Madoff" card . . . Stanford Financial said they never touched Madoff, yet it turns out they lied in their advertising
Madoff Ponzi Scheme: trustee says he cannot find any evidence that Bernie Madoff acutally bought securities during the past 13 years
Madoff investors "furious" in latest discovery in Madoff's Ponzi Scheme

Dodd Says Short-Term Bank Takeovers May Be Necessary

Citigroup down to $1.95 a share, Bank of America down to $3.97 a share

Dow Drop to 6-Year Low May Spur More Losses, Chart Analysts Say

Oil down as much as 6.5 pct; copper 5 pct, corn 3 pct but Gold soars above $1,000!

Friday - February 20, 2009 - 21 Of The Worst Tattoos On Women, Fed Says High Unemployment Will Be With Us Through 2011, 90 Year Old Man Forced To Work

Commercial real estate's crisis point approaching?

Dr. Housing Bubble: Southern California median is only down 50% from 2007 peak . . . prices back to 2002 levels

Forced diapering is part of bizarre kidnapping in which abductor read from Bible

Nearly 5 million are getting unemployment benefits

21 of the worst tattoos on women (slideshow)

Sprint Nextel: The Canary in Wireless's Coal Mine?


90 year old man burned by Madoff is forced back to work after 30 years of retirement

The Smartest Bridge In America: smart technology that makes infrastructure safer and more efficient is ready just in time for a flood of government spending

Shoppers may never come back to department stores

CBS posts 52% profit drop, slashes dividend 81%

Fed leaders say high unemployment to last well into 2011

Pouring salt on their wounds, banks hit jobless with bank fees on their unemployment benefits

Rock Trueblood's Watchworld Videos: The Crisis of Credit Visualized, Rick Santelli's Rant Against The Housing Bail Out, House Prices Will Continue To Decline Into 2010


A giant rat with one-inch-long teeth has been caught in the southern Chinese province of Fujian


WSJ: Deregulation and the Financial Panic


California: All that glitters is not gold in the Golden State


DUKES OF MORAL HAZARD


Suicide bomber in Pakistan kills 25 people, wounds 50 more


Photo of battered singer Rihanna shows up on TMZ website Thursday night
LAPD opens internal investigation to see who leaked photo of beat up Rihanna

California state Senate finally approves a budget . . . sends to Governor Ahnold for signature

Atlantis Found?
New York Times Stock Now Costs Less Than Sunday Paper

A 19-year-old man has been charged with setting at least seven fires in the arson-plagued suburban Philadelphia town of Coatesville


Yahoo tries bridging search, display with 'rich ads'

Banking shares hit their lowest level since 1992

Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog does "Scenes From Pakistan"

Risk of stroke rises by 1% for every fast food restaurant near your home

IRS says UBS kept 52,000 secret Swiss bank accounts for wealthy Americans

Family can't get refinancing for their 17,000 sq. ft. cave, so they put it up for sale on eBay

Mortgage lenders busy after Obama plan laid out

US STOCKS-Dow falls to 6-year low as banks slide

William Walsh describes in detail how he murdered his wife, Leah, and tried to cover it up

Obama at center of Lovefest on visit to Canada

Chimp attack victim loses eyes, nose and jaw

Venezuela and Ecuador seize a bank and two companies hit by the widening Stanford Financial scandal
FBI gets their man in Virginia: serve financier Allen Stanford with supoena and take his passport

Thursday - February 19, 2009 - Gold Hits 7 Month High, Closes On $1,000 an Oz., NY Post Cartoon Causes Outrage, UBS Rats Out Rich Americans, Bank Runs

New foreclosure defense: Prove I owe you

US Housing starts and permits plunge to record low in January

COMMODITIES-Gold nears $1,000; dollar hurts most other commods


Obama does not rule out adding more stimulus down the road

Country Clubs play hell to retain members during the Great Recession

Banned by Zip Realty!

"The Maestro" Alan Greenspan says US rescue efforts of its financial system fall short

Poll: Public fears about troubled economy growing

NY Post cartoon of dead chimpanzee stirs outrage

Chrysler believes a merger with GM is their best option for American automakers down the line

Gen. David D. McKiernan, said Wednesday that the heightened troop levels that President Obama ordered for Afghanistan could remain in place for as long as five years

UBS to pay $780 Million fine, will release names of Americans who fraudently used their services to avoid taxes by setting up Swiss bank accounts

Freestyle Solar-Powered Watch Draws 12 Months of Energy From One Sunny Charge

Sexy women in bikinis really do inspire some men to see them as objects, according to a new study of male behavior

KKK leader in Louisiana charged with murder of a female initiate

Consumer Tip: During March, Sheraton Inns will charge 1/2 price for every second night you stay with them on weekends






President Obama throws $75 Billion into the pot, betting homeowners can put off foreclosures

Wedding dispute leads to beheadings in India

Sheriff: Ohio Man Claiming Financial Trouble Killed Family, Then Himself

Man kills himself in Schuller's Crystal Cathedral

Rich people fly into Antigua on private jets to withdraw money from offshore Stanford Financial banks only to find the doors shut tight and locals standing in long lines

Pro-golfer Vijay Singh is among many sports stars who've lost money investing in Stanford Financial
Hundreds stand outside Stanford's Latin American branches demanding their money

Latin American Depositors In Stanford Financial Banks Freak Out As Ugly American Financier Goes Missing While Hundreds Line Up Outside His Banks' Doors

Layoffs: Goodyear loses $330 Million last quarter and will slash 5,000 jobs

Chyrsler will say good-bye to PT Cruiser, Durango and Aspen

Wal-Mart Slashing Prepaid MoneyCard

George Will's climate howlers

A nearly intact mammoth, dubbed Zed, is among the remarkable discoveries near the La Brea tar pits

Wednesday - February 18, 2009 - Republican Governor Crist Hails Stimulus Plan This AM, GM Says Good-Bye To Saturn And Possibly Pontiac, Skanks On TV

Manhattan office tower prices in a freefall

Rock Trueblood: Watchworld Videos About Hypocrites

Sarah Palin hit with back taxes

Charles Hugh Smith: This Is Not The Bottom In Housing

California GOP ousts their Senate leader, budget deal in question

UK official says 60% of Afghan Police use drugs

GE's CEO Jeffrey Immelt waives his $12 Million bonus

Minority Report: "Why I Loathe Apple Stores"

Republican Gov. Charlie Crist in Fort Lauderdale to hail stimulus plan




The Name You Trust: The Onion News Network Looks at Skanks On Reality Shows

Republican Mayor Bloomberg warns New Yorkers that flooding of Long Island will pick up as Global Warming increases

2 Investigations Into Burris Are Begun

Say Good-Bye To GM's Saturn Brand . . . And Possibly Adios To Pontiac

Cool technology. . . rooftop wind turbines

The 2 afflicted groups of homeowners, only one of which Obama will try to help put off foreclosure

Sarah Palin is lost in Alaska

The Nosedive Global Recession

Next up on Obama's plate? Foreclosures.

Greek Police destroy car bomb set up by leftists and intended to go off outside a Citibank in Athens

Blackwater guards must still face charges after initial hearing where they tried to get off

33 year old ex-Marine in Hampton Roads beheads his 5 year old son last week so as to "purify" him for salvation

Layoffs: Governor Terminator terminates 10,000 California state employees

Bloomberg U.S. Mortgage Delinquency, Foreclosure Rates (Table)



Hypocrite of the Week . . . so far . . . Eric Cantor(R-VA) Minority Whip of Republicans in Congress

Maker of "Pull My Finger" wants company making "iFart" to stop using phrase

The German cabinet has agreed on a draft law that will allow it to temporarily nationalise troubled banks




Chimp attack 911 call: 'He's ripping her apart'

The Big Change Coming to Detroit: smaller companies making fewer cars with fewer workers and dealers

Mish: Sales Tax Time Bomb Explodes

Everywhere you look, unsold inventory piles up

Vitamins and nutrient supplements not efficacious?

California's Balance Sheet Teeters On The Knife Edge

In first major military move of his Presidency, Obama sends 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan




Oil Drops Below $35 . . . Market and Business News

GM says it needs $30 Billion total to stay solvent

Chrysler ups its aid request by $2 Billion more to bring its total request to $9 Billion

Shipping costs have more than doubled this year, so it may be time to buy kroner, Aussies and loonies

Canadian currency is taking a beating




Wild Weather Out West

Tuesday - February 17, 2009 - Gold Breaks Above $950 Over Night, Tonight on PBS: Inside the Meltdown, Have Muslim Women Had Enough With Misogynists?

Texas firm with big imprint in Antigua, Stanford Financial, investigated by SEC for "massive ongoing fraud"

Foreclosures still outnumber home sales

Markets Are Working: CA Home Sales Increase +85% in December As Home Prices Fall By -41.5%


The Big Picture Blog takes us into "Progress On NASA's Constellation"

In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update

Dead End in Detroit for White-Collar Workers

Obama gains support from G.O.P. Governors

How much further do equities have to fall?

How people in various countries view the theory of evolution

The Economist asks if America's banking crisis is worse than Japan's which lasted more than 15 years?

Just say "Yo!" Bristol Palin says abstinence is "not realistic at all" on Fox interview

Gang of British Islamists on trial for transatlantic airline bomb plots

Sirius XM Reaches Loan Deal With Liberty

Good-bye, Dubai! (video included)

More on the investigation of disappeared Billions of US Dollars in Iraq and which is being called "A Fraud Bigger Than Madoff"
And I thought Madoff was a thief...

Companies weigh suppliers and buyers with wary eyes, cutting the riskier ones loose

Former manager for Peanut Corp of America's Texas plant says he made repeated complaints to the owner about contamination

Trump Entertainment, Affiliates File for Bankruptcy

Japan finance minister resigns in blow to PM Aso

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Tuesday for a coordinated response to revive the global economy

Obama says he's an optimist, but no sap

America's emptiest cities

Caltrans orders removal of homeless from encampments under overpasses, bridges and elsewhere

Retailers to landlords: "Lower the rent or else"

60 Minutes "World of Trouble"

Another Payment Card Processor Hacked

The founder of an Islamic television station in upstate New York aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes has confessed to beheading his wife

5 Things: The Mirage of Wealth

Salesman Loses $300K in Starbucks Jewel Heist

How blue collar workers doing home repairs and renovations saw the crash coming

Zagat, Noted Rater of Restaurants, Brings Its Touch to Medicine

Nouriel Roubini thinks the "N" word is the right way for Geithner . . . whom he supports . . . to go

Karl Denninger posted a red alert last night about Foreign Exchange "dislocation" with the dollar up, gold up, and someone in Asia buying dollars . . . .

Gold Rises Above $950 to Seven-Month High on Recession Concerns

Peter Schiff pans government's direction on economy

Ex-Death Row Records Mogul and Producer, Marion "Suge" Knight, hospitalized in Arizona after hotel fight

Rock Trueblood's Watchworld reminds everyone to watch "Inside the Meltdown" tonight on PBS!

Investigators hope found parts will tell why plane crashed near Buffalo

3,000 new American troops in Afghanistan engage in combat

Hypocritical GOP Congress Persons who voted "NO" on the Stimulus package are now triumphing the benefits to their constituents

Australian Arson Suspect is held at undisclosed location to protect him from enraged Citizens

Just released from jail a few months ago: bombs end the life of commandingTaliban braggart who led ambush on Afghan Army convoy

Muslim women's meeting finally states the obvious: misogynist men using Islam as a "cover" to sublimate women

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$524 Billion in losses forecast at big banks

CEO of MidSouth Bank says break up the big banks

Tuesday - February 17, 2009 - Pakistan Gives In To Taliban

Pakistan gives in to Islamic radicals: truce allows for Taliban to legally set up shop in Swat Valley of Western Pakistan

The Proposition That the GOP Cares About the Burden of the Debt is Bogus

Layoffs: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is preparing to send pink slips to 20,000 state workers

Your Work, Home, Education and Auto Tax Breaks in the 2009 Economic Stimulus Package

Kansas suspends income tax refunds, may miss payroll

Hotel industry recession reaches 15 months

Marriott to open 57 new hotels in China, India, and Southeast Asia

Monday - February 16, 2009 - Deleveraging Has Only Just Begun? Dr. Housing Bubble's Look At "The Pyramid of Greed", How The Crash Will Reshape America

Jim Kunstler's latest: "President's Day"





"Live Sober or Die" the new state motto for New Hampshire?

Former Gitmo Guard Tells All

The net worth of America's households is now less than what it was in 2001

One vote shy, California lawmakers can't rescue the State Budget from Limbo

Nuclear subs from Britain and France collide deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean

How Don Basile, the CEO of a storage start-up, convinced Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to go back to work

Venezuelan referendum tells Chavez to stay just a little bit longer

America's 10 Most Miserable Cities

Rock Trueblood's Videos Du Jour (click here) for 16 Feb 09: Ron Paul's "What If?", "Dairy Cows Suffer Execution As Milk Prices Fall", "Efforts to Avoid Deflation Will Probably Lead to Hyper-Inflation Says "Shadow Stats" Founder" . . . and more




Deleveraging? We've only just begun says this analyst

Bigger is better in the eyes of male whales courting partners

The difference in bankruptcy court today vs the past: "Everyone's so leveraged!"

Suspended contacts between the U.S. and Chinese militaries will resume later this month

Texans report fireball in sky, sonic booms

"Diaper Dave" Vitter says Obama adopts judicial stands of a Dictatorship

Several shortcomings are holding back Google TV

Dr. Housing Bubble unveils the "Pyramid of Greed" in his latest look at "Real Homes of Genius"

Man gets prison term for making another man drink to death

U.S to confer with Afghanistan over strategy of fighting war in that country

Democrats May Be Headed to Showdown With Obama Over Bush Probes

As Housing Prices Plunge, Refinancing Gets Harder

How The Crash Will Reshape America

Matt Kenseth wins the Daytona 500
Tempers boil after Dale Jr. causes wreck
More NASCAR News and Stories

Barron's feels the U.S. will hit double digit unemployment and housing has many months (double-digit months) to go before hitting bottom

Georgia leads the U.S. in weak banks on the cusp of failing

3 companies, 3 differing technologies to vie against one another in 2009 for hi-def wireless supremacy

7,000 Columbians run from erupting volcano

World's 2nd Largest Economy In ICU: Japan's Economy Plunges At Fastest Rate Since 1974

Instead of a Car Czar, President Obama is opting for a task force for restructuring the auto industry

The Boom Is Over. Long Live The Art!

Do We Need A New Internet?

How Obama beat the bleating Doubting Thomases of the mainstream media yet again with his Stimulus package win: the Republican Party is led by out of touch pundits, not real leaders