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CALIFORNIA BRIEFING February 23, 2009 LOS ANGELES 1 dead, 6 wounded in 3 weekend drive-bys Three drive-by gang shootings over the weekend left one person dead and six wounded in less than five hours. The fatal shooting occurred about 2:10 a.m. Sunday in the 2600 block of Lacy Street...

http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_11762856?source=rss 1 in 5 in LA County receiving public aid

Mexican drug violence spills over into the US U.S. authorities are reporting a spike in killings, kidnappings and home invasions connected to Mexico's murderous cartels. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090209/ap_on_re_us/border_spillover_violence

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-money9-2009feb09,0,1729122.story Campaign donations add luxury to California politics Some lawmakers use the gifts to finance the good life, expenditure reports show.

ROTFLMAO, He should've been speaking at Davos.

About 400 workers at the financial products unit may get the money in two installments, said the people, who declined to be named because the payments were confidential. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a4iG4N0ZcsTU&refer=home

Citigroup cancels plans to buy $50 million executive jet A http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090127/ap_on_bi_ge/citigroup_jet

Fearing the Feds’ possible seizing of property down the line, Dick Fuld has transferred his Florida home to his wife Kathleen. But the sale price was nowhere near the $13.75 million they paid for it. More like the price of a Manhattan cocktail, $10...

$45 billion in TARP money, $300 billion in backstops, and Citi is still pushing ahead with the purchase of a new corporate jet. Perhaps they can have a raffle among taxpayers to see who gets to ride on the inaugural flight with Vikram Pandit. http://www.dealmakerdaily.com/news/item/28463.html

Ya, read them every weekend, need something to offset American press.

US companies face a greater risk of liquidation because sources of finance to let them reorganise under the country’s bankruptcy code are drying up in the global financial crisis. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a524770a-eb1c-11dd-bb6e-0000779fd2ac.html

For the third time in the post-war period, the United States banking system is insolvent. When President Barack Obama's economic advisor Paul Volcker chaired the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors in 1981, the collapse of emerging-market borrowers left the big American banks on the verge of...

LAGOS (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery. Vigilantes took the black and white beast to the police saying it was an armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a Mazda 323...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aPsokRQkdnqM&refer=home Thain Said to Pay $1.2 Million to Redecorate Office (Update1)

People just don't understand the arrogance of these fucs http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/378a38d4-e814-11dd-b2a5-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_chec They've been getting away with it for so long they think it's their right. Above the law. Geithner is talking about China and he's not even confirmed...

Electronic trading and brokerage firm Interactive Brokers said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit rose 7% as rising revenue helped the firm outpace slipping margins...

Merrill Lynch took the unusual step of accelerating bonus payments by a month last year, doling out billions of dollars to employees just three days before the closing of its sale to Bank of America. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/378a38d4-e814-11dd-b2a5-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- A nasty worm has wriggled into millions of computers and continues to spread, leaving security experts Tuesday wondering whether the attack is a harbinger of evil deeds to come. U.S. software protection firm F-Secure said a computer worm known as "Conficker" or "Downadup"...

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