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Fed Cuts Key Rate To A Record Low

Edmund L. Andrews And Jackie Calmes -- New York Times
Going further than expected, the central bank cut its target for the overnight federal funds rate to a range of zero to 0.25 percent and brought the United States to the zero-rate policies that Japan used for years in its own fight against deflation. Though important as a historic milestone, the move to an interest rate of zero from 1 percent is largely symbolic. The funds rate, which affects what banks charge for lending their reserves to each other, had already fallen to nearly zero in recent days because banks have been so reluctant to do business ...

Madoff's Legal Challenges

Reuters
Video A stampede of victims seeks legal action against alleged Wall Street scamster Bernard Madoff. One lawyer preparing a class action suit predicts the flood of claims coming into his office will top 1 billion dollars Tuesday ...

SEC Failed To Act On 'Credible, Specific' Madoff Tips, Cox Says

Jesse Westbrook -- Bloomberg News
Allegations dating back until at least 1999 "were repeatedly brought to the attention of SEC staff, but were never recommended to the commission for action," U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox said in a statement yesterday. He announced an internal probe to review the "deeply troubling" revelations ...

Madoff Enjoyed $50 Pedicures, 9.8 Handicap, Boat Called 'Bull'

Mark Clothier and Oshrat Carmiel -- Bloomberg News
The arrested money manager owns a $21 million home on the Intracoastal Waterway about a mile from the Palm Beach Country Club. He was a regular at the club, where his 9.8 handicap this year has been as steady as the returns he promised investors ...

Madoff Scandal Forcing Foundations To Close

Associated Press
Video Shock waves from the Madoff affair have radiated worldwide as charitable foundations, banking institutions, and individual investors have fallen victim to what the SEC is calling a $50 billion Ponzi scheme ...

What's The Difference Between A Good Ponzi Scheme And A Bad Ponzi Scheme?

Time Magazine
Bernard Madoff appears to have operated a Ponzi scheme, in which money from new investors was used to pay off those who got in earlier. But there are other, perfectly legitimate financial endeavors that share this same basic model. The most obvious is Social Security ...

Best Buy's Profit Falls 77%

James Sweeney -- New York Financial Press
Video Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy announced this morning that its recent quarterly profit fell 77% when compared to last year ...

Honda Cuts Fiscal-Year Profit Forecast

Joseph Woelfel -- thestreet.com
Particularly damaging to Honda and other Japanese automakers has been the plunging dollar, which has declined to below 90 yen. For every yen the dollar declines, Honda loses about 18 billion yen ($200 million) in operating profit. The dollar fell to 88.24 yen Wednesday, its lowest level since 1995, before rebounding slightly ...

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Why Is Steve Jobs Skipping Macworld?

Josh Quittner -- Time Magazine
Apple's true believers are being put to the test. Late Tuesday the company announced that Steve Jobs will not be giving the keynote address at the annual Macworld Conference and Expo. Apple also said that Phil Schiller, its top marketing guy, will be giving the keynote this coming year, and that this will be the last Macworld in which Apple will participate ...

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Sneak Peek: 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'

Associated Press
Video The popular 'X-Men' movie franchise returns in spring 2009 with the story of how Hugh Jackman's character, Logan, became Wolverine ...

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Parties Clash Over Potential Special Election

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Video One week after his arrest, Gov. Rod Blagojevich remains in office and his impeachment proceedings are on hold ...

"Jackson-5" Ratted On Blagojevich

Celeste Katz -- New York Daily News
Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has been dropping dimes on his state's disgraced governor and other corrupt local pols for years, a spokesman said Tuesday. Jackson, a longtime congressman and son of the famed civil rights activist, has been pulled into the controversy surrounding Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged attempt to auction Barack Obama's now-vacant U.S. Senate seat ...

Obama Staff Clears The Air

Dean Reynolds -- CBS News
Video President-elect Barack Obama's staff has cleared itself of any wrongdoing in the Senate seat scandal. Meanwhile Ill. Gov. Blagojevich is at risk of being impeached ...

Bush Prepares Crisis Briefings To Aid Obama

Peter Baker -- New York Times
The memorandums envision a variety of volatile possibilities, like a North Korean nuclear explosion, a cyberattack on American computer systems, a terrorist strike on United States facilities overseas or a fresh outbreak of instability in the Middle East, according to people briefed on them. Each then outlines options for Mr. Obama to consider ...

Grand Jury Probes Contract Given To Richardson Donor

Seattle Times
A person familiar with the proceedings said on Tuesday that the panel is looking into possible "pay-to-play" dealings between CDR Financial Products and someone in a position to push the contract through with the state of New Mexico. The person asked not to be named ...

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Adam Walsh Murder: Case Closed

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Video Police in Hollywood, Fla., close the 1981 murder case of 6-year-old Adam Walsh. The boy's father, a tearful John Walsh, said "today is a wonderful day" ...

Text Report: Adam Walsh Case Finally Closed

Washington Post
In 1981, 6-year-old Adam Walsh went missing from a Hollywood, Fla., shopping mall, sending all of South Florida into a tailspin. Today, more than two decades later, Adam's killer has finally been named: Ottis Toole, a suspect who had twice confessed and recanted, admitted to the crime on his deathbed, Toole's niece told Adam's father, John Walsh. ...

After 146 Years, A Brooklyn Convent Is Closing

David Gonzalez -- New York TimesSister Camille D'Arienzo at the Sisters of Mercy's motherhouse in Brooklyn, which will be closed and possibly torn down by developers
Sister Camille D'Arienzo at the Sisters of Mercy's motherhouse in Brooklyn, which will be closed and possibly torn down by developers
Photo by James Estrin of The New York Times

"It kind of hurts in a lot of ways," said Sister Francene Horan, who came to the motherhouse in 1950 to teach kindergarten. "A building is one thing. This is a home, the place you knew would give you a place to stay. It's like saying your parents died and you don't have a home anymore." ...

Raw Video: Skiers Trapped On Gondolas At Resort

Associated Press
Video Dozens of passengers have been stranded in cars on a gondola line at a ski resort in Whistler, BC, after one of the gondola's towers broke in two. Authorities say there have been no serious injuries ...

Everyone Deserves A Roof

KNBC-TV
Video A Los Angeles man creates a cart that turns into a shelter for the homeless ...

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Clinton Factor

Be Nice To Caroline Kennedy, Says Hillary Clinton

Kenneth Lovett, Kenneth R. Bazinet And Michael McAuliff -- New York Daily News
Hillary Clinton has called off the dogs, telling her supporters to stop trashing Caroline Kennedy, sources told the NY Daily News. It's the latest sign the way is clearing for Kennedy to move into New York's celebrity Senate seat once Clinton ascends to secretary of state ...

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Not By Fire, But By Ice

Alan Caruba -- WEBCommentary



The reviewer, Alan Caruba, first became acquainted with Robert W. Felix through is book, "Not by Fire but by Ice: Discover What Killed the Dinosaurs...and Why It Could Soon Kill Us ," that pointed out that the Earth is on the cusp of a new ice age. Insofar as the Earth is now fully a decade into a new cycle of cooling, one that could last several decades or evolve into a new, full blown ice age, Felix not only got it right, but, in the course of writing his book, discovered an even more frightening scenario.
     "Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps: The True Origin of Species" is Felix's new book and, were it not for fans like myself and others, it is not likely to make it to the cover of leading news magazines or become a segment on "Sixty Minutes." It will be largely ignored by the mainstream news media for the same reason they ignored his first book. Enthralled by the bogus "global warming" hoax, the mainstream media will find his new book equally appalling for its presentation of facts that run contrary to their ignorance ...

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1950s Pin-Up Queen Bettie Page Dies

Dean Goodman -- Reuters
Bettie Page, one of America's most photographed pin-up girls during the 1950s, died in Los Angeles on Thursday from pneumonia, her agent said. She was 85. Page was a ubiquitous sight during the 1950s, propelled to stardom when she posed for Playboy as Miss January 1955. Soon her image was gracing playing cards, record albums and bedroom posters across the country ...

Mourners Leave Page Mementos At Boutique

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Video Mourners of model Bettie Page have been leaving notes and momentos at a local Bettie Page Boutique at the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood ...

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Are Colonoscopies Reliable?

Dr. Jon LaPook -- CBS News
Video Long considered the gold standard in screening for colon and rectal cancer, a new study finds that many colonoscopies only find as little as 60% of cancer cases ...

'Retail Therapy' Reality

Julie Chen -- CBS News
Video Dr. David Sulzer, author of a new study, suggests that when you shop, the brain emits a chemical that makes the body feel good ...

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I Can't Believe It's Not ... Legal In Mo. To Sell Yellow Margarine; Legislator Wants Law Fixed

Associated Press
A state legislator wants to dump a 19th-century law banning the sale of yellow margarine, though it's been years since any violator was ordered to spread 'em ...

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Part 36 Of Certifi-Gate, Our Special Report On Barack Obama's Legal Eligibility To Serve As President Of The United States

Robert Jay March -- March Report
Jorge Baro is a private investigator who was hired by World Net Daily to investigate issues related to Obama's birth amid allegations that he does not meet the Constitution's requirement that a president be a "natural born citizen." Baro was able to determine the previous owners of the residence at 6085 Kalanianaole Highway - the alleged address of Obama's parents when he was born - were Orland S. and Thelma S. (Young) Lefforge, both of whom are deceased. Beatrice Arakaki, who has lived at 6075 Kalanianaole Highway in Honolulu since before Obama was born, told Baro's investigators she had no recollection of Obama being born or of the family living next door having a black child born to a white mother. Baro's investigators were unable to locate any current or past resident of Kalanianaole Highway who could recall Obama or his family living at the address.
     Here is Baro's Affidavit in pdf form.
    
     If you're here for the first time, and would like to see our previous coverage to get caught up, go to our Certifi-Gate Page, wherein all the stories we have run thus far on this situation are gathered together ...

Investigator casts doubt on Obama's birth residence

Jerome R. Corsi -- World Net Daily
As described above ...

Mississippi Among States With Lawsuit in Federal Court Regarding Obama's Proof of Citizenship

Keith Burton -- Gulf Coast News
Questions regarding Obama's citizenship surfaced during the presidential campaign. Obama has never released an official birth certificate or many of his college records and has been fighting the release of the documents for months in the various court cases. The U.S. Constitution requires all presidential candidates to be natural born American citizens. While Obama insists that the issue is ridiculous, he has yet to produce any documents that could verify his citizenship with certainty. It turns out that there is no standard verification process and no federal or state agency actually verify whether presidential candidates meet the Constitutional requirements ...

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Questions Of KGB Ties For Activist

Associated Press
Video An independent activist from South Ossetia is challenging U.S. Support for Georgia in its war with Russia and describes atrocities by Georgian troops. But an AP investigation finds she may have ties to a spy service ...

China Bans BBC Chinese Website

BBC News (UK)
China appears to have banned a number of foreign websites, including the BBC's Chinese language news site and Voice of America in Chinese. The sites had been unblocked after journalists attending the Beijing Olympics complained that the government was censoring sites deemed sensitive. The BBC expressed disappointment at the apparent reinstatement of the ban ...

China Defends Right To Block Web Site Access

Sumner Lemon -- IDG News Service
"I hope these Web sites will exercise self-discipline and not do anything that violates Chinese laws," said Liu Jianchao, a ministry spokesman at a Tuesday press conference ...

India Lawyers Refuse To Represent Gunman Captured In Mumbai Attacks

Anjana Pasricha -- Voice Of America
Audio AND TEXT. Mohammed Ajmal Amir Qasab is one of 10 suspected terrorists who staged a 60-hour siege on luxury hotels, a restaurant and other sites across the city of Mumbai that killed and injured hundreds of people last month. Nine were killed, but Qasab was captured. He is in police custody in Mumbai, and has yet to be formally charged in court. Police say he is being held for offenses such as waging war on the country and murder. But Indian authorities, who say Qasab is a Pakistani national, are finding it difficult to get legal representation for him. Patriotism is cited as one reason for the refusal to represent the attacker ...

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2009 TV Preview: 'Torchwood' Returns

Neil Wilkes -- Digital Spy (UK)
Series 3 is about a government that did a deal with aliens back in the '60s, and they're now dealing with the consequences of that deal when the sins of their past come back to haunt them ...

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Joepa, Penn St. Agree On Extension

Associated Press
Video Joe Paterno agreed to a three-year contract extension with Penn State. The 81-year old Paterno is the winningest coach in major college football history ...

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Neil Young Has A Heart Of Gold And A Car Of Biodiesel

Nate Chinen -- New York Times
Mr. Young and his Electric Band were kicking around a tune that made its debut recently, on another stop of the tour. Fans have taken to calling it "Cough Up the Bucks," after its spoken refrain, though the title could double as a comment on ticket prices. It was one of more than half a dozen new songs in the show, and not remotely a good one. But it fell in line with a Neil Young tradition: the rushed-to-assembly, current-event song, created more for blunt efficiency than for subtlety or even style ...

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Mormon Missionaries Lean Toward Bigfoot Belief

San Francisco Sentinel
Two missionaries with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints received a scare on the night of Dec. 2 when they saw what they think was a set of sasquatch footprints outside of their Burns Lake home. ...

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Top UFO Disclosure Experts Review Global Progress

Jeff Peckman -- New York Examiner
A UFO Special Edition on the Richard Syrett Show will feature three of the world's foremost experts on governmental UFO Disclosure. Host Richard Syrett and co-host Victor Viggiani of Exopolitics Torontowill interview the guests live on NewsTalk 1010 CFRB Toronto AM radio, Wednesday December 17 - 10:00 PM to 1:00 am EST ...

UFO Seen In The Skies Above Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, UK

Herald (UK)
Video AND TEXT.  "We went into the garden and there was no sound coming from it was too large to be plane and too low down. This thing travelled across our house and then did 90 degree turn and travelled away from us till it disappeared. ...

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U.S. Immigration And Customs Enforcement Cautions Holiday Shoppers Of Telemarketing Fraud And Other Scheme

WPEC-TV
The holiday season is marked with many joyous celebrations, but it is also marked by scammers looking for their next would-be victim. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is increasing its outreach efforts to educate and warn consumers in Florida about the fraudsters who engage in telemarketing fraud, lottery scams, internet and mass mailing scams and Nigerian fraud schemes and many other crimes and avoid being victimized. ...

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Tough Decision Looms On Space Shuttle's Fate

Andy Pasztor -- Wall Street Journal
Bush-administration plans call for grounding the shuttle by 2010 for budget and safety reasons. But congressional and industry critics worry that the expected five-year gap before the shuttle's replacement is prepared to blast off would lead to a crippling loss of program expertise and sap political support for manned space flights ...

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