Attention! New website address for A1A News which has been presented here for the past 3 weeks!

Dear Readers,

Thank you for the emails of support.

Today, we have given the news portion of Rock Trueblood's Watchworld it's own blog address.

It is set up and we've already got this afternoon's news posted to it.

Here is the new address:

http://www.a1anews.blogspot.com/

As you will see, the blog for news is still evolving. Soon we will have our own website(s) which will allow better formatting of the front page . . . which will be our only page for faster loading.

You will also notice we've changed fonts and have decided to go with all black for all links while dropping the prefix headings to every post. This will allow faster uploading of news to our new site.

If any of you have any suggestions, please drop a line to rocktrueblood@gmail.com

Thank-you to all the new readers who are returning on a daily basis. Thank-you to our Key West fans.

Be sure to click on one of our advertisers at the bottom of the blog so as to help defray expenses.

Ciao for now,
Rock Trueblood

Monday 24 Nov 08 - AM - Scientology Guard Kills Sword Wielder, Axel Rose Finally Drops New G&R Album,

Issac Mao, freedom fighter, and leader of China's 107 hundred-million bloggers who are breaking on through to the other side

China: Now over 107 hundred-million bloggers in China, who as a result of blogging, young Chinese brainwashed by their education system are now trying to think for themselves, work together and find smarter solutions. Mice (bloggers) are now over-running the cat (China's firewall)

Bailout: Mish on Citigroups Terms of Agreement . . . no common stock dividends for 3 years, no executive compensation or bonuses unless submitted to the US Government

Wall Street: Another great piece from Watching the Herd which could be titled "No, Hell No"

Health: If you, a loved one, or a friend suffers from severe epilepsy, read this

Economy: Deflation, Monetary Velocity, and Why Gold's a Buy



Gold: Overnight, gold rises to $819 and change on weaker dollar, declining German confidence


Economy: More Americans are late on car and truck loans $22.9 Billion at risk

Bailout: Citigroup plan unveiled . . . Feds will "backstop" $306 Billion of Citi's riskiest "assets"

Bailout: Dems and Repubs in the House beat each other up over the Economic Stimulus

Music: Guns and Roses "Chinese Democracy" finally released

Saudi Arabia: Underground all female band keeps on rockin' in a Wahabi World




Detroit: NYT Op-Ed writer says no car company would survive a Chapter 11 filing



Iraq: Thirteen women burned alive after bus is bombed

New Jersey: Gunman shoots his wife in Church, wounds two others

Hollywood: Scientology guard shoots sword wielding man dead

Housing: One of the biggest myths about "The American Dream"

NFL: Scores and Schedules
NFL: Standings

NBA: Scores and Schedules
NBA: Standings

Sunday 23 Nov 08 - PM - Richardson to be Commerce Secretary, McDonald's Employees "Secured" a Lost Phone, The 5 Stages of Collapse, Hal O' Boyle Seer

Irrational Exuberance of Spring 2007: Costa Rican writer for Key West the Newspaper, Hal O' Boyle, was one of the few who saw clearly what would come to pass this year

Credit Crisis: Banking regulator played advocate instead of enforcer

Bailout: Citigroup in discussions this weekend with US government to set up "Bad Bank" which would house some of the bank's riskiest "assets" of which Citigroup owns $1.23 Trillion off books

Guatemala: Prison riot leaves 5 decapitated, 2 more dead, plus 10 injured

Checnya: Rebels kill 4 police officers and 2 civilians

Thomas Friedman: We found the WMD . . . sub-prime loans and derivatives

Saudi Arabia: Steel camels - Harleys rumble across the desert sands

NFL: Jets hand Titans their first loss 34-13

Business: McDonald's sued over woman's naked buns

Automakers: Pelosi says there will be no bailout without accountability

Cuba: Russian oil companies could soon be drilling offshore on Cuba's shelf

Israel: Jail terms for Neo-Nazi immigrants, one of whom's grandfather was a Holocaust survivior

France: The neighborhood cafe empties

Obama: Bill Richardson to be named Commerce Secretary

Georgia: Georgian, Polish presidents' motorcades fired upon

Economy: The Five Stages of Collapse

Sunday 23 Nov 08 - AM - Sweet Mother of Satan, Worst year for stocks since 1931, Chaos in Congo, Viagra to banned in Sports?

Photo #4 out of 39: Children who have been abandoned or orphaned by war eat dinner at the Don Bosco center in Goma in eastern Congo, November 20, 2008. Fighting in eastern Congo has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians in recent weeks, with 1,519 people taking shelter in the Don Bosco school compound. There were 89 children with no parents among them. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly)

(Photo #13 out of 39: Government soldiers transport looted goods on a wooden scooter after a day of fighting in the village of Kayna in eastern Congo, November 18, 2008. Demoralised Congolese government troops, retreating before eastern rebels, clashed on Tuesday with their own local militia allies who tried to make them stand and fight after the armed forces chief was replaced. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly))

Congo: Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog in the Boston Globe showcases the chaos and heartbreak in this war torn country

Sports: Viagra, yes, Viagra . . . to be banned in sports?

Guinea-Bissau, Africa: 3 Hour gun battle in an attempted government coup

Interview: Financial Times interviews Jim Rogers who says the dollar is a flawed currency

Rock Trueblood asks, "Will 2008 be the worst year in the stock market since 1931?" Click on graphs above for larger image, courtesy of NYT.

Interview: WSJ poses questions to Michael Lewis author of "Liar's Poker" and the new book "Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity".

Wall Street: What was hot last week. What was not. Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal online. Click here.

New Zealand: Prime Minister John Key blames "reckless money men" for collapse of Global financing

California: Unemployment in the Golden Bear state reaches 8.2%

NCAA Football: Number 5 Oklahoma decimates No. 2 Texas Tech 65-21. Open this link for a capsule of all the scores from yesterday's action

Privacy: Verizon fires workers who snooped into Obama's call records

Florida: Losses at Thrifts spike ever upward

Terrorism: NBC obtains videotape of 9/11 terrorist being coached by al-Qaeda Shows a reluctant terrorist, scripted jihadism

Global Economy: IMF's chief economist says the worst is yet to come Says turnaround won't come until 2010

Wall Street: Famous 94 year old investor, Saul Glickenhaus, is buying stocks now. Says stock market has been discounted too much.

Health: Americans strongly support healthcare reform

Pakistan: 100 people demonstrate against the US killings of foreign born militants in the lawless Western part of Pakistan.

Seattle: Shooter kills one, injures one at shopping mall. Both vics were in their 20s. Gang related?

Family Values: West Virginia's "Sweet Mother of Satan"