More than 400 US Banks Will Fail: Roubini9/7/2010: Even if the US and European economies manage to avoid a double dip, it will still feel like a recession, while more than half
   (0/10)U.N. Lays Plans to Spend $290M on Aid to North Korea9/6/2010: As the xenophobic North Korean regime of Kim Jong Il appears to be inching toward a murky transition of power, the United Nations
(0/10)Russia, Israel sign military cooperation agreement9/6/2010: A military cooperation agreement signed between Russia and Israel will advance bilateral relations, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Monday
(0/10)G20 pathologist suspended from medical register9/6/2010: A pathologist at the centre of a row over the death of a man during the G20 protests has been suspended from the medical register for three months
(0/10)Gunmen elude police dragnet after five-hour stand-off downtown9/6/2010: Two gunmen, who it was believed had taken employees hostage at the Juici Patties outlet at the corner of Beckford and West streets in downtown Kingston late yesterday evening
(0/10)By: skycrabBy: skycrabBy: skycrabGot a beef with food tasting like deja moo?9/5/2010: Australians will be eating beef from the offspring of cloned cattle within two to three years, the creator of Australia's first cloned cow says.
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A secret society that rules the world9/5/2010: Want to influence super powers? Hungry for a piece of the action? Bite into a big juicy Super Bildenberger!
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N. Korea's leader set to begin power shift to son9/5/2010: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il will probably use an upcoming meeting of party elites to introduce his heir apparent, initiating the Stalinist dictatorship's second hereditary power transfer
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Anti-Google campaign on privacy9/4/2010: It has in fact been a constant thorn in the search giant's side and has set up a special Google website to log and monitor what it sees as its misdeeds
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Fed Engineering a Delebrate State of Slow Economic Collapse 9/4/2010: Almost two years ago the US Treasury was selling large amounts of short-term Treasury bills to fund bailouts and stimulus. That caused a major increase
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Why the Big Lie About the Job Crisis?9/4/2010: The cause of the crash is no mystery. The Great Depression happened the same way: a skewed distribution of income combined with a deregulated financial sector
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By: skycrabPsychics and Fortune Tellers Being Regulated to Reduce Fraud9/4/2010: Starting this week, fortune tellers in Warren, Mich., must be fingerprinted and pay an annual fee of $150 - plus $10 for a police background check
(0/10)By: skycrabCompanies pile bigger share of health-care costs onto workers9/3/2010: Amid high unemployment and a weak economy, employers are shifting more health-care costs to workers, according to a study released Thursday
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Fed Will Buy Stocks And Real Estate In Its Next Attempt To Create Inflation9/3/2010: As part of the Fed's latest QE iteration, it has already been made clear that despite initial disclosures that the Fed would stay in the 2-10 Year bound of Treasurys, Ben Bernanke is now also gobbling up the very long end of the curve.
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Karzai urges Afghans not to panic as bank withdrawals accelerate9/3/2010: As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, President Hamid Karzai told Afghans on Thursday not to panic shortly after his brother, a major shareholder in the beleaguered Kabul Bank,
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6 Accused In Forced Labor Of 400 Thai Workers9/3/2010: Six recruiters were accused Thursday of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal indictment that the FBI called the largest human-trafficking case ever
(0/10)By: skycrab60 states to lobby U.N. for currency transaction tax9/2/2010: A group of 60 nations, including France, Britain and Japan, will propose at the U.N. this month that a tax be introduced on international currency transactions
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Morning Bell: The Obama Doctrine9/2/2010: Aside from the wooden performance, there was nothing particularly noteworthy about President Barack Obama’s Oval Office address on Iraq last night
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Auto sales: Worst August since 19839/2/2010: The nation's top automakers reported disappointing sales Wednesday, resulting in the worst August for industrywide auto sales in 27 years
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Ferrari recalls 'cursed' supercar after FIVE 458 Italias burst into flames9/2/2010: Ferrari today recalled more than 1,200 supercars worth more than £212million because of a design fault which can cause them to burst into flames
(0/10)By: skycrabU.S. drones to watch entire Mexico border from September 19/1/2010: The U.S. government will have unmanned surveillance aircraft monitoring the whole southwest border with Mexico from September 1, as it ramps up border security in this election year
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Investors Head for Bunkers, Driving Up 'Shelter Shares' 9/1/2010: Amid the market tumult, a handful of stocks have seen their share prices ratchet up to record highs in recent weeks. And many of them are connected by a curious
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Don't get fooled by Bernanke9/1/2010: The Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/comstock/10w!i:dji/delayed (DJIA 10,015, +4.99, +0.05%) jumped nearly 200 points Friday after the Federal Reserve chairman's pep talk on the economy
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Problem bank list climbs to 8299/1/2010: The government's list of troubled banks hit its highest level since 1993 during the second quarter, although the pace of growth continued to slow, according
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Calif Doctor Gets Stuck In Chimney, Dies9/1/2010: A doctor involved in an "on-again, off-again" relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend's home by sliding down the chimney
(0/10)By: skycrabRon Paul questions whether there's gold at Fort Knox, NY Fed8/31/2010: Paul, a longtime critic of the Federal Reserve and U.S. monetary policy, said he believes it's "a possibility" that there might not actually be any gold in the vaults of Fort Knox or the New York Federal Reserve bank.
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Mysterious death of Russian military intelligence high-up in Syria8/31/2010: Gen. Yuri Ivanov, 52, deputy head of GRU, the Russian military's overseas intelligence arm of Russian military, was found dead in mysterious circumstances described
(0/10)By: skycrabFive dead, 25 wounded during violent 50 hours 8/31/2010: Three men and two teenage boys were killed -- and at least 26 other people suffered violent injuries -- during an especially bloody 48-hour period.
(0/10)By: skycrabChina's expanding 'coastal waters'8/30/2010: Would someone please provide the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) spokesman with a map! Over the last few months, since it was rumored, then denied, and then confirmed
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The latest from Ben Bernanke8/30/2010: The worry that many people had this time last year (or gleeful anticipation (for those who held gold)), was that with all the QE and the bailouts
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Administration halts prosecution of alleged USS Cole bomber8/30/2010: The Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide
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Migrants killed for refusing to be assassins8/30/2010: The sole survivor in the massacre of 72 illegal immigrants headed to the U.S. has said a notorious drug gang gunned them all down after they refused to work as assassins
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Brewer condemns report to UN mentioning Ariz. law8/30/2010: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state's controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations' human rights commissioner
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Mormon Official, Gunman Killed In Calif. Shootings8/30/2010: Police are seeking clues in the fatal shooting of a lay bishop at a Mormon church by a man who was killed in an ensuing
(0/10)By: skycrabOfficials scramble after fire destroys vote machines8/29/2010: A fire that destroyed nearly all Harris County's electronic voting machines Friday has election officials scrambling to re-equip the county for an election
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Fidel Castro claims Osama bin Laden is a US spy8/29/2010: Former Cuban president says the 9/11 mastermind is in the pay of the CIA and cites WikiLeaks as his source
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Citigroup Is Cooking the Books8/29/2010: An all-out war has broken out between Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit and a prominent securities analyst who is saying that the big bank may be cooking
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The Fed prepared to launch most Radical Intervention in History8/29/2010: The equities markets are in disarray while the bond markets continue to surge. The avalanche of bad news has started to take its toll
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Shoppers 'panic buying' old 75W bulbs before EU ban comes into force8/29/2010: Shoppers across Europe are panic buying the last remaining stocks of old fashioned 75W light bulbs before the traditional household items are banned in the EU next week.
(0/10)By: skycrabFamily win 18 year fight over MMR damage to son8/29/2010: A mother whose son suffered severe brain damage after he was given the controversial MMR vaccine as a baby has been awarded £90,000 compensation
(0/10)By: skycrabOver 3,500 visitors evacuated from British Museum after mysterious 'gas' incident8/29/2010: People were escorted from the prestigious museum in central London shortly after 1pm on Saturday as investigators moved inside to try and determine the cause of the scare.
(0/10)By: skycrabNinth human foot washes ashore in the Pacific Northwest8/29/2010: A human foot washed up on a Washington State island Friday morning, raising the tally of feet found on beaches in the Pacific Northwest since 2007 to a total of nine.
(0/10)By: skycrabBlockbuster plans bankruptcy in mid-September8/29/2010: Home video rental giant Blockbuster Inc. is preparing to file bankruptcy next month, media reports said today
(0/10)By: skycrabSwine flu vaccine probed over narcolepsy fears8/29/2010: The European Medicines Agency said Friday it was probing whether there is a link between the Pandemrix swine flu vaccine and the sleeping disorder narcolepsy
(0/10)By: skycrabGoogle Earth Shows Clandestine Worlds8/27/2010: By analyzing a series of satellite images easily accessible on Google Earth, an archaeologist has drawn the first independent map
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China Buys Euros as Fear of World Depression Grows8/27/2010: The US Treasury has just announced that China’s official holdings of U.S. Treasury securities declined
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Ron Paul Calls for Audit of US Gold Reserves8/27/2010: U.S. Rep. Ron Paul , R-Tex., plans to introduce a new bill next year that will allow for an audit of US gold reserves, he told Kitco News in an exclusive interview
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Taliban ‘seize’ camera from crashed drone8/27/2010: A Nato reconnaissance drone crashed in a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, allowing militants to seize its camera, the coalition force said
(0/10)By: skycrabPolice Chopper Camera Falls Off, Smashes Cars8/27/2010: A camera mounted to a police helicopter in Ohio fell off mid-flight, striking at least three vehicles in a parking lot.
(0/10)By: skycrabHomeland Security head praises city's security cameras8/27/2010: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday ranked Chicago’s Big Brother network of well over 10,000 public and private surveillance cameras
(0/10)By: skycrabKim Jong Il Makes Surprise China Trip as Carter Visits North Korea8/26/2010: North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Il may be on a surprise visit to China, in what would be his second trip this year to the country’s main ally and source of financial support
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Russia cops seize critical book of Putin8/26/2010: Russian police have seized thousands of copies of a critical book of the country's powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
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Troops still deploying to Mideast from BIA8/26/2010: Pvt. Zane Clossey of Robbinston keeps an eye out for family members as he and other soldiers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Fort Hood, Texas, get some fresh air after their troop
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Mysterious Russian 'Buzzer' radio broadcast changes8/26/2010: The output of a mysterious radio station in Russia, which has been broadcasting the same monotonous signal almost continuously for 20 years, has suddenly changed
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Plane Crashes in Northeast China, Killing 428/25/2010: A passenger plane carrying 96 people tried to land in Yichun city's Lindu airport amid heavy fog, overshot the runway, broke into two pieces and caught fire.
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G20 charges in 73 cases cleared8/25/2010: Twenty-four hours after the fact, Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General confirmed the final head count after Monday’s mass court
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72 dead bodies found on a ranch in Mexico8/25/2010: The Mexican Navy discovered 72 dead bodies on a ranch Tuesday in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, a statement released
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Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession: Rosenberg8/25/2010: Positive gross domestic product readings and other mildly hopeful signs are masking an ugly truth: The US economy is in a 1930s-style Depression
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Tony Robbins Issues Financial Collapse Warning 8/25/2010: I don’t know what came over me with the commentary below about my absurd attempt to make it as a real estate agent. Robbins’ voice is powerfully associated
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Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans8/25/2010: As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security
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'British spy' found dead in bath8/25/2010: Police were last night investigating the murder of a man whose body was found stuffed in a sports bag in the bath of his London flat
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Power Outages just a coincidence8/25/2010: BC Hydro says four major power outages in Metro Vancouver over the last four days is no cause for alarm and simply a coincidence.
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