The! Biggest! News! of! the! Day! - Not Countrywide Financial, E-Trade Financial, SunPower, Evergreen Solar, or First Solar

Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...

• Comments from Countrywide Financial (CFC) that follow chatter of bankruptcy...
• A turn around plan by E-Trade Financial Corp (ETFC)...[note - more on ETFC can be found here...]
• A dividend cut by MBIA Inc. (MBI)...
• Word that Goldman Sachs' economists are predicting a recession...
• An upbeat forecast from DuPont (DD)...
• Skepticism on solar stocks like SunPower (SPWR), Evergreen Solar (ESLR), Suntech (STP), and First Solar (FSLR)...[note - given the strong gains in the these stocks, a pullback isn't surprising. See yesterday's post on Solarfun Power Holdings (SOLF) and JA Solar Holdings Co. (JASO) for more on this]...

While those are all stories worth watching, I think it is obviously clear that the biggest news is this pair of seemingly unrelated articles -

• Man who hid knives in pants stabs self - "A man who hid hunting knives in his pants to try to steal them from a western Michigan store tripped while fleeing and stabbed himself in the abdomen"...
• Swedes to use body heat to warm offices - "A Swedish company plans to harness the body heat generated by thousands of commuters scrambling to catch their trains at Stockholm's main railway station and use it for heating a nearby office building"...

While at first glance they do appear to be unrelated, hindsight could well prove these were the beginning of the end for mankind. First let's start with "man puts knife in pants and then thinks it is a good idea to run". That provides just another example to build on yesterday's discussion of the looming animal uprising. That is plainly obvious. The second story, however, fits into a slightly different theme.

In a post last month we talked about the chimps taking control of the killer robots and I said - "Of course, after that happens and the animals win, the robots will then stage a Terminator revolt leaving us humans third on the food chain." Today's article about using humans for heating purposes creeps eerily close the plot line of the The Matrix where humans are farmed for energy. With this "heating" project, are we planting the seeds for the machine to build upon?