Day November 26, 2004

Flu pandemic inevitable, plans needed urgently -WHO

After a startling rise in prices over the past several years, home prices in L.A. are dropping. My real estate agent tells me homes he showed a month ago at $899,000 are now $799,999 and that this drop started about…

Dollar’s record low levels contributed to the record rise in gold prices to $450 an ounce. This is the highest price in 16 years as gold began to be increasingly viewed as an alternative investment. Much of the fall of…

Guardsmen “from California describe a prison-like, demoralized camp in New Mexico that’s short on gear and setting them up for high casualties.” These are US troops being treated this way – by the US military!