First rule of diplomacy - when matters between two countries gets bad enough, it's time to send in the "A" team.  Ergo, Chinese President Hu is in DC.  (And he didn't show up for American-ized wonton and egg-lolls.)

Nope, he's in town (messenger boy that he is to his masters) to get eyeball-to-eyeball with certain power brokers in our [infamously corrupt] government and corporate arenas to start laying down some new ground…

Another 'rat' deserting the ship.  Given the crisis state of the economy and the seriously 'low morale' problem in the Nation on whole, the announcement is just a little too timely(?), albeit without any real reason being given for the departure.

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=193709

I was getting ready to log-off my computer for the night, when I went to one more website just to see if I missed anything from the day - and then I found this (and I wish now I had missed it):

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70I6KR20110119?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=22&sp=true

I'm…

By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: January 18th, 2011…

Source: Zero Hedge



About a month ago, some took offense at our characterization of the Chair-hewlettpackard-man as a “bearded mutant-cum-supreme genocidal overlord” after we predicted to…

(JUST IN)January 19th,Mysterious fish kills in the fjords of Finnmark…

This year we will experience 4 unusual dates:

• 1/1/11,
• 1/11/11,
• 11/1/11 and
• 11/11/11.

Now, take the LAST 2 digits of the year you were born in and then add the age you'll be this year.  It should be 111 (unless you were born after 2000 then you will be 11).  Cool, huh?!?!

http://www.examiner.com/la-county-nonpartisan-in-los-angeles/oregon-legislator-reads-cafr-finds-billions-ends-budget-deficit-crisis-california-can-do-same

Sorry folks.  I'm new here and still learning the format.

http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/oregon-legislator-reads-cafr-finds-billions-ends-budget-deficit-crisis-all-states-can-do-sam

Sorry - the link didn't post to my previous blog about CAFR's.

I dislike being the one to bring this up (because this will make you mad as Hell; don't shoot the messenger, please!) but your town, city, county and state have been withholding a very BIG secret that's needlessly costing A LOT of people their jobs, their homes and their very sanity.

And to make matters even more insulting, behemoth corporations like JP Morgan, Citi, Goldman Sachs, BofA, et al, have been profiting handsomely from this 'second set' of bookkeeping practices…

GORDON DUFF: MLK, A DREAM FORGOTTEN, AWAITING REBIRTH

Fifty years after Dwight D. Eisenhower’s January 17, 1961 speech on the “military-industrial complex”, that threat has morphed into a far more powerful and sinister force than Eisenhower could have imagined. It has become a “Permanent War State”, with the power to keep the United States at war continuously for the indefinite future.

By…

Think about it. Over TEN TRILLION Dollars have been spent on BAILING OUT BANKS, ISRAEL, Grant Moneys, Foreign AID, and Govt. Bailouts....could have been spent into the economy by turning it over to 300 million US CITIZENS for a total of $33, 333 dollars and 33 cents.

Think this might have stimulated economic production?

How many truly think the BAILOUTS of Govt., Foreign Aid, Grants, and DIRECT SUPPORT of ISRAEL were better spent than on your own family and…