Stacy Summary:  Anyone out there able to find ANY real factual headlines that support a green shoots theory?  Everything is pretty bleak from where I sit!

• California 50 days from financial meltdown as revenues dry up

• Is Russia talking their book?

• WHO expected to declare Swine flu a global pandemic

Updates:

• Pandemic officially declared

The move to phase 6 reflects the fact that the disease, widely known as swine flu, was spreading geographically, but not necessarily indicate how virulent it is.

“Phase 6, if we call a phase 6, doesn’t mean anything concerning severity, it is concerning geographic spread … Pandemic means global, but it doesn’t have any connotation of severity or mildness,” WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said.

“In fact, what we are seeing with this virus so far is overwhelmingly to date mild disease. So we would think that this event is really a moderate event for the time being, because the numbers are high but the disease is overwhelmingly mild,” he told Reuters Television before the committee meeting.