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No matter how hard you try, every single thing you do, even in the privacy of your own home, can be watched, followed, monitored and even exploited...
 You've gotta read this investigative story that'll open your eyes about the number of people keeping their eye on your every move...from my newest on-line source of techno-insight, PopSci.com:
"During a week of attempting to cloak every aspect of daily life, our correspondent found that in an information age, leaving no trace is nearly impossible: In 2006, David Holtzman decided to do an  experiment. Holtzman, a security consultant and former intelligence analyst, was working on a book about privacy, and he wanted to see how much he could find out about himself from sources available to any tenacious stalker.
So he did background checks.
He pulled his credit file.
He looked at Amazon.com transactions and his credit-card and telephone bills.
He got his DNA analyzed and kept a log of all the people he called and e-mailed, along with the Web sites he visited.
When he put the information together, he was able to discover so much about himself—from detailed financial information to the fact that he was circumcised—that his publisher, concerned about his privacy, didn’t let him include it all in the book. 
I’m no intelligence analyst, but stories like Holtzman’s freak me out. So do statistics like this one: Last year, 127 million sensitive electronic and paper records (those containing Social Security numbers and the like) were hacked or lost—a nearly 650 percent increase in data breaches from the previous year. Also last year, news broke that hackers had stolen somewhere between 45 million and 94 million credit- and debit-card numbers from the databases of the retail company TJX, in one of the biggest data breaches in history." Read the entire special report...
 A reminder from the "always remember SOMEBODY'S watching you" department: Comes this eye-opening video of cops acting incredibly bad...caught on video!
Struggling lender Countrywide Financial Corp. reported last Friday that both foreclosures and delinquencies  rose in January: The nation's largest mortgage lender said foreclosures for the month rose to 1.48% from 1.44% a month earlier. Delinquencies, too, continued to climb, up to 7.47% from 7.27% in December 2007. Is this still considered news? Read the rest of the story and then you tell me...any surprises or revelations?
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When a ‘rebate’ from our government really isn’t a rebate: It sounded simple enough. The economic stimulus package President Bush signed last week requires the U.S. Treasury Department to send "tax rebates" of $300, $600,  $1,200 (or more, if the recipient has kids) to 128 million American households.
Except these checks aren't rebates, exactly. And nothing about them is simple. The rebate is technically a credit against your 2008 tax bill that is being paid (in most cases) as what we'll call a "prebate." This prebate is based on your 2007 income tax return. The actual credit is based on your 2008 tax return. Whichever year produces the bigger check for your family is the year that counts. Are you confused yet? When you realize what the pinheads inside the Beltway have done this time, you’ll be outraged…read more.
Danger Will Robinson! Don't believe the latest lies solution coming from Dr. Smith the mortgage  industry and their latest "Project Lifeline Lifeless." Let's see...your mortgage company's already done ya wrong once, so you're not really gonna jump on their latest offer to "save you" from the mess they had a hand in creating, are you? Of course you're not, especially after you've read the truth about their latest scheme...
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