ALBANY, N.Y. – Thousands of utility customers around the Northeast awoke without power Wednesday morning, a day after the season's first big snowstorm blew through the region. The wet snow fell on trees still covered in fall leaves, and its weight, combined with gusty winds, sent limbs crashing down on power lines.
In upstate New York, more than 40,000 customers were without power Wednesday morning, most of them in the Mohawk Valley, Adirondacks and the Catskills, according to statements by utilities National Grid and New York State Electric & Gas. The National Weather Service reported snowfall totals ranging from 6 to 8 inches in northern New York, to a foot or more along the northwestern edge of the Catskill Mountains. Lower elevations and coastal areas were soaked by heavy rain.
In New Jersey, crews were working to restore power to more than 30,000 customers, mainly in the northern part of the state. Jersey Central Power and Light says most of its outages are in Morris, Warren, Hunterdon and Sussex counties. Service could be restored by Wednesday afternoon, the utility said.
Accumulations from the unusual wintry weather include about 14 inches at New Jersey's High Point State Park and about a foot in Lebanon Township, the National Weather Service said. In Pennsylvania, parts of the Pocono Mountains were under a foot of snow, but an earlier wind advisory has been canceled.
A lake effect snow warning has been posted for northwestern Pennsylvania Wednesday, with accumulations of up to 12 inches possible in higher elevations. More snow and wind was in the forecast for Vermont Wednesday as the storm works its way through the northern part of the state. The National Weather Service posted a winter storm warning for heavy snow in Orleans and eastern Franklin counties through Wednesday night, with 3 to 9 inches accumulation. The northern central and eastern parts of the state also are expected to see more snow Wednesday.
There was even snow in western North Carolina. One school system in the state's mountains was closed Wednesday because of slick roads after 1 to 3 inches of snow fell a day earlier. The earliest known snowfall in the Asheville, N.C., area was less than a half inch on Oct. 1, 1952, the weather service said.
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Ya and it was 39* this morning in central fl. I know....I had a PT test in it!!!!
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Earliest snow in 29 years in lower Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 9,000 homes without power last night. Lots of tree damage because the leaves hadn't fallen yet and accumulated the additional load of the ice and snow plus wind.
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It was 30 degrees in east Tennessee last night. Had the fireplace going up until about midnight. I've got a lot of firewood that I've cut and split that helps cope with rate increases. Cutting and splitting firewood is a lot like work. Screw my carbon footprint--I would like to put it places where the light don't shine with regards to the global warming goofballs.
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Well here's your problem, John:
"Former Vice President Al Gore last night accepted the National Civil Rights Museum's annual Freedom Award in Memphis."
http://www.memphisdailynews.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=39191
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John, it was cold out side of Fall Branch (East Tennessee), too. Firewood warms you twice. Once while splitting and again while burning. I heat with a wood stove in the kitchen. I filled the propane tank back in September. 723 bucks, so I'm gonna be a bitt cooler this winter than past. We had snow Monday night and on and off yesterday.
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What are we gonna do if Al Gore dies unexpectedly? The whole dam' planet will spontaneously combust!
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Several inches of snow has fallen here & there in NE OH. My tomatoes and peppers still haven't been frostbitten, yet particles of sleet are falling.
Presuming that nothing catastrophic occurs to Earth beforehand, it seems Humanity only has approxi 1.1 Bilyuhn years, not 5.0B-plus, before the GLOBAL WARMING = THE SUN CAUSES THE EARTH TO GET SO HOT AS TO WIPE OUT ANY AND ALL HUMAN AND BIOTIC LIFE, besides also boiling the oceans and the atmosphere. Hopefully, by that time, Humanity will had developed a SUPERMASSIVE SOLAR/ENERGY SAIL TO MOVE THE EARTH AWAY FROM ITS PRESENT ORBITAL TRACK IN ORDER TO SAVE IT FROM THE SOLAR HEAT???
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As per TOPIX + SCIENCEBLOGS, scientists have affirmed that MINI-GAMMA RAY BURSTS DO OCCUR in space.
Nice, but as per the LHC-HADRON COLIDER the MINI/MICRO-BLACK HOLES which have been appearing over Guam-WESTPAC do so not just in space, but ALSO INSIDE EARTH's ATMOSPHERE, AKA THE "GUAM-WESTPAC" IN GUAM-WESTPAC.
* "BLACK HOLES DON'T SIMPLY EVAPORATE" > well then, the HADRON PERTS have yet another new Rush Limbaugh "Frechie" problem to contemplate and resolve, don't they!?
SA earthquake of magnitude 6.4 has hit Balochistan province in south-western Pakistan, with at least 100 people reported dead. It struck 70km (45 miles) north of Quetta at 0409 local time (2309GMT Tuesday) at a depth of 10km, the US Geological Survey said.
A senior official in Balochistan said he expected the toll to rise. Many houses collapsed during the quake and some destroyed in landslides that followed it, officials said.
Reports say the provincial government of Balochistan has asked for help from the army and that the military has sent troops and helicopters to the area.
A senior army official Major General Salim Nawaz said the area where the earthquake had struck is thinly populated, and remains accessible for convoys carrying relief material.
A top civilian official in Balochistan province, Sohail-ur-Rehman, told a local news channel: "80 people are dead in this area where I am standing now."
Dilawar Khan, mayor of the town of Ziarat, said two areas in his district had been "badly hit".
The majority of the homes in the district are made of mud and are fragile, raising fears of a higher toll. "Hundreds of mud houses have collapsed. We are using whatever resources we have to help the people and have asked for help from the provincial government," he said. "There is a large number of injured people but we don't have an exact figure."
A television correspondent said he could see people retrieving bodies and that people in the villages were expressing anger that no local officials had arrived on the scene despite its relative proximity to the city.
Deaths have also been reported in Pishin district.
Local officials quoted by Reuters news agency said that 40 people had received treatment for minor injuries, mostly caused when mud walls collapsed or in the ensuing panic.
Mr Khan said that 14 people had been killed in one area of Ziarat, and 11 in another, with five deaths reported in Pishin.
"There were two tremors, the second one was serious and people rushed out of their houses," said Amjad Hussain, a resident of Quetta.
Quetta itself suffered almost complete destruction in an earthquake in 1935, with the death of about 30,000 people. More than 73,000 people were killed in the earthquake in Pakistan in October 2005 and almost an equal number were seriously injured. Map
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ISRAELI MILITARY FORUM > ISRAELIINSIDER.net = IRAN SOURCE: "QUAKE" SATURDAY [10/25/2008] WAS A [massive underground] IRAN NUCLEAR BOMB TEST, but was allegedly the SECOND NUCBOMB TEST vee 10/21/2008???
*ISRAEL MIL FORUM POSTER > iff true, IRAN MAY BE PREPARING TO FORMALLY ANNOUNCE A DE FACTO NUCLEAR BOMB/WARHEAD RETALIATORY CAPABILITY, as it is known in US-Israeli-World INTEL that Itan had already tested TWO FUNCTIONAL STRATEGIC NUCLEAR-CAPABLE DELIVERY ROCKETS????
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OOOPSIES, forgot to add that POSTER > infers or believes that IRAN truly desires to dev the ability to produce dozens of nucweapons/bombs per year, that IN TEN YEARS [2018 = 2020 r.o.], IRAN MAY BE WORLD'S #3 OR #4 RANKED NUCLEAR POWER???
Congolese rebels fought their way closer to the provincial capital of Goma in eastern Congo on Tuesday as tens of thousands of villagers fled down muddy roads and an air of panic gripped the beleaguered city.
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(SomaliNet) While Leaders of several southern African countries are meeting in Harare to try to solve the current political impasse in Zimbabwe in a hotel, police arrested approximately 50 demonstrators who had gathered outside to demand that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai reach an agreement soon so they can solve the country's economic chaos.
Mr. Mugabe and Mr. Tsvangirai six weeks ago, agreed to form a government of national unity. However, disagreement over the division of ministerial posts stalled the process.
Mr Mugabe's chief negotiator, Patrick Chinamasa, said he was confident that an agreement would be reached soon.-
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Frustrated by a crackdown on South Texas drug smuggling routes, the Mexican Gulf Cartel is stockpiling high-powered weapons and recruiting local gang members on both sides of the border to prepare for possible confrontations with U.S. law enforcement, according to an FBI intelligence report.
The regional leader of the cartel's enforcer group, the Zetas, Jaime "El Hummer" Gonzalez Duran ordered dozens of reinforcements to Reynosa, Mexico, across the river from McAllen, the report said.
"These replacements are believed to be armed with assault rifles, bulletproof vests and grenades and are occupying safe houses throughout the McAllen area," the report obtained by The McAllen Monitor said.
The Monitor reported in today's editions that the local FBI office refused to comment on the report.
Erik Vasys, an FBI spokesman in San Antonio, refused to discuss the details of the report but told The Associated Press "we acknowledge the Zetas are a significant problem in Mexico and they have the potential to pose a significant problem to law enforcement on this side of the border."
Less than two weeks ago, the Border Patrol, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Hidalgo County sheriff announced that they would not be intimidated by cartel violence. At the time, they would only say that they felt the smugglers had become increasingly confrontational and the agencies planned to increase their coordination.
Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino said at the time that his deputies patrolling near the Rio Grande would be issued high-powered rifles and authorized to return fire.
U.S. law enforcement has had several recent successes that have likely frustrated the cartel.
In September, "Project Reckoning" nabbed more than 175 cartel members and affiliates in the U.S.
The sheriff of neighboring Starr County was indicted and is being held without bond on conspiracy charges alleging that he shared intelligence with the head of a cartel cell operating in his county.
The Rio Grande Valley and its Mexican sister cities have largely avoided the drug war massacre that has plagued Ciudad Juarez, Mexico across the border from El Paso. More than 1,100 people have died in the violence there this year.
The BBC has discovered evidence that Georgia may have committed war crimes in its attack on its breakaway region of South Ossetia in August. Eyewitnesses have described how its tanks fired directly into an apartment block, and how civilians were shot at as they tried to escape the fighting.
Research by the international investigative organisation Human Rights Watch also points to indiscriminate use of force by the Georgian military, and the possible deliberate targeting of civilians. Indiscriminate use of force is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, and serious violations are considered to be war crimes. The allegations are now raising concerns among Georgia's supporters in the West.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has told the BBC the attack on South Ossetia was "reckless". He said he had raised the issue of possible Georgian war crimes with the government in Tbilisi. The evidence was gathered by the BBC on the first unrestricted visit to South Ossetia by a foreign news organisation since the conflict. Georgia's attempt to re-conquer the territory triggered a Russian invasion and the most serious crisis in relations between the Kremlin and the West since the Cold War. And Georgians themselves have suffered. We confirmed the systematic destruction of former Georgian villages inside South Ossetia. Some homes appear to have been not just burned by Ossetians, but also bulldozed by the territory's Russian-backed authorities.
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Russia Tuesday declared its opposition to deploying European Union monitors in Georgia's rebel provinces, while Russian rights groups reported pillaging in Georgian border villages.
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President Mikhail Saakashvili has denied that Georgia's armed forces committed war crimes during their attack on South Ossetia in August. Evidence obtained by the BBC in the breakaway region suggests Georgia used indiscriminate force, and may have targeted civilians.
Witnesses said tanks had fired on an apartment block, and civilians were shot at as they fled the fighting. UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has raised the issue with Tbilisi. South Ossetia and another region, Abkhazia, broke away from Georgia in the early 1990s, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Georgia's attempt to re-conquer South Ossetia triggered a Russian invasion and the most serious crisis in relations between the Kremlin and the West since the Cold War. The BBC recently undertook the first unrestricted visit to South Ossetia by a foreign news organisation since the conflict.
Marina Kochieva, a doctor in the regional capital Tskhinvali's main hospital, told our reporters that she and three relatives were targeted by a Georgian tank as they were trying to escape by car from the town on the night of 9 August. She said the tank fired on her car and two other vehicles, leading them to crash into a ditch. The firing continued as she and her companions lay on the ground, she added.
Georgy Tadtayev, a 21-year-old dental student, was one of the Ossetian civilians killed during the fighting. His mother, Taya Sitnik, 45, told the BBC he bled to death in her arms on the morning of 9 August after a fragment from a Georgian tank shell hit him in the throat as they were both sheltering from artillery fire in the basement of her block of flats.
Mrs Sitnik said she subsequently saw the tank positioned a few metres from the building, firing shells into every floor. Extensive damage to the five-storey block appeared consistent with her version of events. Mr Saakashvili said: "We strongly deny... accusation of war crimes - but of course, we are very open for any kind of comments, we are very open for any kind of investigation.
"We called indeed for international investigation into [the] conduct of this war, into conditions leading to this war, into circumstances leading to this invasion." He added: "Those areas which were under Georgian control - and they were not Georgian villages, they were basically villages mostly predominantly populated by ethnic Ossetians but they were affiliated with the Georgian government - were 100% destroyed.
"So, you know, there were certainly war crimes committed, certainly not by us."
Mr Miliband - normally a strong supporter of Georgia - told the BBC: "I think the Georgian action was reckless, I think the Russian response was disproportionate and wrong. "And that is the series of events that have landed us where we are. "On my visit to Tbilisi of course I raised at the highest level in Georgia, the questions that have been asked and raised about war crimes and other military actions by the Georgian authorities. "We have acted in this without fear, without favour." The BBC visit also confirmed the systematic destruction of villages inside South Ossetia that were inhabited by ethnic Georgians. Some homes appeared to have been not just burned by Ossetians, but also bulldozed by the territory's Russian-backed authorities.
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--- A French judge has rejected President Nicolas Sarkozy's attempt to stop sales of a "voodoo doll" in his image.
--- Dismissing the case, the Paris judge said the doll was "within the authorised limits of free expression and the right to humour".
What would happen if anyone attempted to see a "voodoo doll" of Obama in the USA?
Moody's Investors Service cut Pakistan's credit rating by one level to B3 on Tuesday, and warned of further cuts, given the depletion of the country's foreign exchange reserves.
The country is scrambling to borrow funds to provide it with some breathing room, although many analysts expect it will have to seek support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to overcome economic problems that stemmed from high oil and food prices.
Moody's retained a negative outlook, which it had imposed last month after Pakistan's rapidly deteriorating external liquidity position accompanied a stalling of economic reforms and mayhem in its domestic politics.
Aninda Mitra, Moody's sovereign analyst for Pakistan, said recent policy moves were not sufficient to stanch the decline in its foreign currency pile, which was further hastened by delays in assistance from key bilateral and multilateral creditors.
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Following are excerpts from a program featuring Dr. Ahmad Al-Muzain, a Palestinian expert on Koranic science, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on September 19, 2008: Oh, boy. This should be good.
Ahmad Al-Muzain: The Prophet Muhammad said: "If a fly falls into your drink, you should dip it in the drink, and then dispose of the fly, because one of its wings bears a disease, and the other wing bears the cure." This hadith was included in the Al-Bukhari collection. This hadith makes it absolutely clear that the Prophet Muhammad confirmed a clear scientific fact: If a fly falls into a vessel – before a person drinks from this vessel, he should dip the fly in his drink, before disposing of it. Then he should drink the beverage, because it won't do him any harm. Why? Because one of the fly's wings bears the disease, and the other one bears the cure. Where's the fly?
It's in there...
In Germany, the Church paid a very large sum of money to two scientists to disprove this hadith. Since this hadith appears in the Al-Bukhari collection, we cannot claim that it is unreliable or anything, and so they thought that if they could prove that this hadith contradicts science, they would be dealing a devastating blow to Islam. Where does one view the Al-Bukhari collection? At Sears?
The scientists took samples from the wings of flies, and began to examine them, analyze them, and take samples from their surface, in order to expose what existed on each wing. The devastating result constituted a slap in the face. The truth was devastating, and it backfired on them. Devastating, I tells ya! Devastating!!
The two scientists reached an astounding conclusion. They said that on one of its wings, the fly carries a huge amount of different types of bacteria, which adhere to it when it lands on rotting pieces of food that it eats. As for the other wing, Allah has given the fly the great ability to carry antidotes to these microbes. Ha! Pasteur's got nuthin on us, Achmed!
When Bayer, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, learned about this study, it derived great benefit from it. It established biological breeding farms, where they would raise flies and extract antibiotics from their wings – the strongest antibiotics in the whole world. This antibiotic was made into a course of five pills, which is given to the patients, and it is used – believe it or not, my brothers – to treat AIDS patients. It strengthens their immune system, and destroys all types of microbes with which they are afflicted. This is all thanks to the power of this antibiotic. Obviously, this antibiotic is very expensive, and one course costs more than $500, but it is very strong and effective. How did they discover it? From this hadith. Y'know, I'll bet Bush made Bayer sit on the Amazing Fly Wing AIDS Cure...
Did the Prophet Muhammad have labs to carry out research? Did Abu Bakr know anything about entomology, parasitology, or bacteriology? Of course not. Absolutely not. So how did they make all these scientific accomplishments? The only logical conclusion is that this science was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the Creator. Yeah...logical! That's the ticket!
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So, from this guy, the very truth in the Master Religion™ lies in 1) its accuracy on baby pee, and 2) its accuracy on flies wings...
You know,... I can see why that Master Religion™ is so OBSESSED in bodily fluids, human excretions, in how and what people should eat, what bodyparts they must wash in what order before praying publically to show they're obedient rubes, etc, etc, ad nauseam and up to a somewhat ridiculous degree...
It's BECAUSe they've found those two elementary truths, and so didn't need to even question dogmas, go on theological disputations, examine their scriptures, try to figure what those stoopid Christian theologians spent literally centuries discussing, refuting, affirming, confronting,...
No, when you know your religion is true because it's right on pee, then, you don't have to do all that silly stuff.
Really, WHY exactly are we supposed to take those people seriously? Back in th emiddle ages, Christian theologians were aware and savvy about islam, but didn't even try to refute it, as it was seen as too pointless to do so, they saw it as a Christian heresy that was so recessive it was not even useful to intelligently debate it, why bother to clash minds with idiots? But now, with oil money and post-Christian multiculralism, we're supposed to pretend it's an "adult" religion, not some dumbass cult obsessed with bodily fluids. Nice.
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A Google search indicates that Bayer doesn't make any HIV/AIDS drugs, let alone a fly-wing-derived one. And antibiotics are useless for viruses anyway. The Muslims made stuff up 1,300 years ago and they're still making stuff up today.
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Wait until they find out that the symbol for addition and powerline poles are crosses, and cogs are variations on the Star of David.
Actually, you've been beaten up to that by Reality... in 2005 there was a internal report that got leaked out of the french public education system that was making a summary of the "diversity"-caused problems (that was put much more PC-ly than that, but it was it), and one nice incident was young muslim kiddies refusing to use the "+" sign in arithmetics, as "it looked like a cross".
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Drat! Found out did they, well our plan to continue to use the St. Andrew 'x' for multiplication is still in effect, and that the use of the Chinese invention of gunpowder disqualifies them from club paradise.
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Actually, you've been beaten up to that by Reality.
Given the weird-ass tangents the world is spinning off on these days, it is becoming harder and harder to write meaningful satire and parody without finding that that Reality(tm) has beaten you to the mark. I don't know how ScrappleFace manages to stay in business.
After reading the article and the comments about unislamic arithmetic operators, one might be forgiven for thinking that Muslims are the stupidest of all God's children.
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HMMMMMM, well, not to degrade anybody's traditional beliefs but in many OLDER ASIA-PACIFIC CULTURES E.G. PARTS OF THE PHILIPPINES, SE ASIA, PAPUA-NEW GUINEA, ETC. ITS "WORMS", i.e. believers deliber or consensually ingest themselves wid [harmless?]worm-infested/tainted foods usually in their indigenous ancient naturalist belief that it improves physical potency as well as satisfies links to ancient creation myths = social-hereditary rank. Also proclaimed to make food just taste better.
COMPARE TO BREATHING IN TOXIC VOLCANIC GASES-VAPORS, + DELIBERATE BITES VEE VENOMOUS SNAKES, SPIDERS, ETC .... TO SEE/FIND "GOD" + "VISION QUEST(S)"!?
Iranian Interior Minister Ali Kordan says he will not resign from his post, arguing that doing so does not serve the country's interest. Kordan, who acknowledged in a September 27 letter that he was in possession of a forged Oxford University degree, must obtain a confidence vote on November 4.
Ever since the revelation about his doctorate degree, Iranian parliamentarians have called on Kordan to resign before he is impeached on the Majlis floor. More than 30 lawmakers from the Iranian Parliament's Principalist bloc, which holds the majority of seats in Parliament, have supported the impeachment move.
In a Tuesday meeting with members of the bloc, Kordan rejected widespread calls for his resignation. "I feel that my resignation will not serve the raison d'etat. Therefore, I will not resign," said the newly appointed minister.
A spokesman for the Principalist bloc, Mohammad-Hassan Abou-Tourabi, who attended the meeting confirmed that Kordan was asked to resign before his impeachment day.
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I like Chuck despite his Huckabee fascination. But really, can't he find a decent stylist. Even letting the hair and beard grow wild would look better than the weird thing he's got going on.
Fear of a global recession again punished stock markets Monday, while governments tried to stem the damage from an eroding world economy.
Kuwait stepped in to avoid a major bank failure, South Korea slashed interest rates, and the world's top industrialized nations hinted at possible action to curb the rapid rise in the value of the Japanese yen. The International Monetary Fund over the weekend said it had reached preliminary agreement on emergency loans for Hungary and Ukraine.
By day's end in Asia, Japan's Nikkei had closed at a 26-year low, while the Paris CAC 40 closed down 4 percent. Losses weren't as bad in London's FTSE, down 0.8 percent, and Germany's Dax gained 0.9 percent. U.S. market futures through much of the morning indicated a sharply lower opening on Wall Street but moderated after the U.S. Treasury said it expected to release this week $125 billion it is investing in the preferred stock of nine banks. But a sell-off in the last 10 minutes of trading sent major U.S. exchanges down between 2.4 percent and 3.2 percent by closing.
A soaring yen is making Japanese exports more expensive, even as global demand for them dwindles. The currency's swing has been so sharp that the Group of Seven industrialized nations warned of "possible adverse implications for economic and financial stability."
The yen is up 13 percent against the dollar this month and 29 percent versus the euro, while the Nikkei stock average has become one of the worst performers in the world. Japanese stocks have lost 30 percent of their value this month and fell another 6.4 percent Monday. Japan's two biggest banks fell 15 percent.
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso ordered his government to prepare emergency measures to stabilize markets. They are expected to include government purchase of bank stocks, tighter rules on short selling and a five-fold increase in the amount of government money that can be injected into banks.
"Unless we take appropriate steps, there will be major impact on the real economy," Aso told reporters. "We must act as soon as possible, starting today."
Interesting how the American slide whacked the Asians. They can't sell us near as much stuff so now they're getting hammered. Interesting to see where this leads ...
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"Interesting to see where this leads"
Very bad for the status quo in China.
Also, the $ is at a two year high against the Euro. In the contest between American capitalism and europeon socialism, that's an interesting vote by the international markets. It's a stark counterpoint to the "capitalism is dead" wishful thinking emanating from the serfs in europe.
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WAFF.com > UK:WORLD CREDIT LOSS ESTIMATED AT L1.8Trilyuhn [US$2.8Trilyuhn]. London anticip to get infusion of L37.0Bilyuhn from Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS + Lloyds TSB to offset losses from US Crisis.
CHIN POSTER > US MAY BE DELIBERATELY HURTING ITS OWN ECONOMY TO INDUCE US-CONTROLLED/DOMINATED [and UK = NATO-EU]GLOBAL FINANCIAL-BANKING ORDER [imperialism]???
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INTERESTING > 2008-2012 [2016]= the GLOBALIST-SOCIALIST AGENDA is the closest its ever been to becom POPULARLY ELECTED in America per se, whilst at the same time the US is engaging in MASSIVE NEW ENTRENCHMENT EFFORTS IN EURASIA, ESPEC FROM MIDDLE EAST TO PAN-ASIAN MAINLAND.
OTOH, WORLD MILITARY FORUM [China] > THE WEST SHOULD NOT DOUBT THE SUPERIORITY OF CAPITALISM SYSTEM NOR FEAR ANY RISE OF CHINA, ASIA, the latter relying heavily on Western/International, Capitalist FOREIGN INVESTMENT-TRADE FOR NATIONAL-REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; + THE US IS NOW IN WORLDWIDE RETREAT DUE TO TERROR WAR SETBACKS, FINANCIAL CRISIS, + JAPANESE RIGHT WING GROUPS DEMAND US PAY US9.0TRILYUHN DOLLARS FOR ECONOMIC LOSSES, espec as per unilateral US advantages derived from the 1985 US-Japan NYC Plaza Hotel Accords. curr US Crisis, BUT EXCLUSIVE OR SEPARATE FROM WW2 US ATOMIC BOMBINGS OF JAPAN???
Also, SAME > RUSSIAN MEDIA: RUSSIAN AIR DEFENSES HAS SHOT DOWN THREE US SPY UAVS. RUSSIA, FORMER SSRS, + CHINA UNDER ROUTINE ILLEGAL/COVERT US SPY DRONE SURVEILLIANCE [UAVS]; + GERMAN MEDIAS: ANTI-CHINA DILPOMATIC "FROZEN PERIOD" UNDER MERKEL IS OVER [China-Tibet flap], GERMANY MUST NOW EMBRACE CHINA AND ASIA.
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Careful; it will only take frank and palosi to say that with an ohbama presidency and fillibuster proof congress they could go ahead and repeal death and capital gains taxes immediately after inauguration to send it down the shitter.
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The 1st year of new administrations are BAD for the market. They tend to front load unpopular decisions, perhaps in the hope that voters will forget by the next election.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street has the interest rate cut it wanted, but still turned in a baffling late-day performance, shooting higher and then skidding lower in the very last minutes of trading as some investors rushed to cash in profits after the market's big advance.
The Dow Jones industrials were up nearly 280 points in the last quarter hour of the session, giving them a two-day gain of more than 1,160 points, when another bout of last-hour volatility wiped out the advance. Some analysts said hedge funds were cashing in their gains, while others said some investors were giving a bleak interpretation to the Federal Reserve's statement on the economy that accompanied its half-point rate cut.
The Dow is down 74 points at the 8,890 level. The broader market indexes have ended the day mixed.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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A earthquake of magnitude 6.4 has hit Balochistan province in south-western Pakistan, with at least 100 people reported dead. It struck 70km (45 miles) north of Quetta at 0409 local time (2309GMT Tuesday) at a depth of 10km, the US Geological Survey said.
Russia Tuesday declared its opposition to deploying European Union monitors in Georgia's rebel provinces, while Russian rights groups reported pillaging in Georgian border villages.
Moody's Investors Service cut Pakistan's credit rating by one level to B3 on Tuesday, and warned of further cuts, given the depletion of the country's foreign exchange reserves.
Fear of a global recession again punished stock markets Monday, while governments tried to stem the damage from an eroding world economy. 
