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March 27, 2024, 12:55:24 pm Mark says: Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked  When Hamas spokesman Abu Ubaida began a speech marking the 100th day of the war in Gaza, one confounding yet eye-opening proclamation escaped the headlines. Listing the motives for the Palestinian militant group's Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, he accused Jews of "bringing red cows" to the Holy Land.
December 31, 2022, 10:08:58 am NilsFor1611 says: blessings
August 08, 2018, 02:38:10 am suzytr says: Hello, any good churches in the Sacto, CA area, also looking in Reno NV, thanks in advance and God Bless you Smiley
January 29, 2018, 01:21:57 am Christian40 says: It will be interesting to see what happens this year Israel being 70 years as a modern nation may 14 2018
October 17, 2017, 01:25:20 am Christian40 says: It is good to type Mark is here again!  Smiley
October 16, 2017, 03:28:18 am Christian40 says: anyone else thinking that time is accelerating now? it seems im doing days in shorter time now is time being affected in some way?
September 24, 2017, 10:45:16 pm Psalm 51:17 says: The specific rule pertaining to the national anthem is found on pages A62-63 of the league rulebook. It states: “The National Anthem must be played prior to every NFL game, and all players must be on the sideline for the National Anthem. “During the National Anthem, players on the field and bench area should stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand, and refrain from talking. The home team should ensure that the American flag is in good condition. It should be pointed out to players and coaches that we continue to be judged by the public in this area of respect for the flag and our country. Failure to be on the field by the start of the National Anthem may result in discipline, such as fines, suspensions, and/or the forfeiture of draft choice(s) for violations of the above, including first offenses.”
September 20, 2017, 04:32:32 am Christian40 says: "The most popular Hepatitis B vaccine is nothing short of a witch’s brew including aluminum, formaldehyde, yeast, amino acids, and soy. Aluminum is a known neurotoxin that destroys cellular metabolism and function. Hundreds of studies link to the ravaging effects of aluminum. The other proteins and formaldehyde serve to activate the immune system and open up the blood-brain barrier. This is NOT a good thing."
http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-08-11-new-fda-approved-hepatitis-b-vaccine-found-to-increase-heart-attack-risk-by-700.html
September 19, 2017, 03:59:21 am Christian40 says: bbc international did a video about there street preaching they are good witnesses
September 14, 2017, 08:06:04 am Psalm 51:17 says: bro Mark Hunter on YT has some good, edifying stuff too.
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26911  General Category / General News / Re: Christian commentators? on: August 09, 2011, 01:36:00 pm
What Christian commentators are there other than Dr. Johnson that are fitting to listen to?

Scot's one time a week post is not enough for me, I need more. They need to be audio or video,

I can not read while I work, but I can listen.

Thanks in advance.

Pastor Sam Adams on sermonaudio.com, as well as Mike Slattery on the same site.

Brian Denlinger at http://www.kingjamesvideoministries.com is another good one to listen to. Christian40 made a thread with all his sermons in the Dr. Johnson/Audio forum(look for the one with the "BD" initials in the title thread).
26912  General Category / End Times / Re: U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P on: August 08, 2011, 03:29:09 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/wall-st-takes-dive-first-day-downgrade-191937399.html

Wall St. takes a dive on first day after downgrade

8/8/11

..NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are plummeting at the close after anxiety overtook investors on the first trading day since Standard & Poor's downgraded American debt.

The Dow Jones industrials closed down 634 points, or 5.5 percent, to 10,809 Monday. It was the first time the Dow fell below 11,000 since November and its biggest one-day point drop since December 2008.

The S&P 500 is closing down 79or 6.7 percent, at 1,119.46. The Nasdaq is down 174.72, or 6.9 percent, at 2,357.69. More than 69 stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Trading volume was heavy at 9.7 billion shares.

Investors are worried about the slowing U.S. economy and escalating debt problems threatening Europe. Money flowed out of stocks and into safer investments, including Treasurys and gold.

26913  General Category / The Mark / U.S. unease hits stocks; ECB supports Italy, Spain on: August 08, 2011, 12:00:28 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/u-stocks-oil-dollar-fall-downgrade-043140524.html

8/8/11

..NEW YORK (Reuters) - World stocks slid to their lowest level in nearly a year on Monday, overshadowing relief that the European Central Bank was buying Italian and Spanish government bonds in the latest move to staunch the euro zone debt crisis.

U.S. stocks extended losses in early trading, falling more than 3.0 percent on the heels of its worst week in more than two years. MSCI's all-country world stock index <.MIWD00000PUS> dropped 3.8 percent. The index was at its lowest level since September 2010.

Despite Standard & Poor's downgrading the U.S. government's long-term credit rating on Friday night, safe-haven U.S. Treasury debt was higher in price. The 30-year U.S. Treasury bondposted a full-point gain, its yield at 3.73 percent.

Investors continued to seek safe haven in gold, which vaulted above $1,700 an ounce for the first time after respective pledges by the G7 and the European Central Bank failed to quell turbulence in the financial markets and did nothing to put investors at ease.

"What's concerning us and holding us back from buying what we think is value is that the ferocity of the momentum of the downside is still quite strong," said Paul Zemsky, head of asset allocation at ING in New York.

After an hour of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> dropped 368.28 points, or 3.22 percent, at 11,076.33. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> was down 45.55 points, or 3.80 percent, at 1,153.83. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> was down 105.68 points, or 4.17 percent, at 2,426.73.

ECB BOND BUYING

Even the European Central Bank's dramatic intervention in bond markets, which pushed down yields on Spanish and Italian bonds, was not enough to stem selling in stocks.

European shares <.FTEU3> were down 3.3 percent after earlier registering gains on the ECB action, intended to take the heat out of the spreading euro zone debt crisis. The FTSEurofirst 300 index is nearing bear market territory, characterized by a drop of 20 percent from the peak.

"The markets don't believe that the situation in Europe is under control," a trader said. "This market is very difficult to make money. In fact, this past two weeks have been the hardest in 10 years."

The euro fell against the U.S. dollar after gaining initially on the ECB action.

Investors were seemingly unimpressed by weekend talks among industrialized countries aimed at safeguarding the smooth functioning of financial markets following S&P's downgrade of the U.S. government long-term rating to AA-plus from AAA.

"It won't be long now before other ratings agencies follow suit, considering the state of the U.S.' finances. One thing is for certain, and that's that volatility will continue to remain high, making trading conditions difficult," said Angus Campbell, head of sales at Capital Spreads.

Moody's repeated a warning on Monday that it could downgrade the United States before 2013 if the fiscal or economic outlook weakened significantly. But it said it saw the potential for a new deal in Washington to cut the budget deficit before then.

(Additional reporting by Edward Krudy in New York, Blaise Robinson in Paris; Editing by Dan Grebler)

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26914  General Category / Wolves in Sheeps clothing / It looks like Joel Rosenberg is lining himself up with the Apostates... on: August 07, 2011, 08:44:55 pm
Right out of the horse's mouth...

http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/a-call-to-prayer-fasting-for-our-country-the-politicians-dont-have-any-answers-but-where-is-the-church/

8/5/11

A CALL TO PRAYER & FASTING FOR OUR COUNTRY: The politicians don’t have any answers, but where is the Church?Posted: August 5, 2011 by joelcrosenberg in Uncategorized

(Denver, Colorado) –Here’s one sobering headline that caught my eye this morning: “Global stocks tumble amid recession fears: Market panic spreads across globe as investors fear double-dip recession.”  Here’s another: “Dow’s losing streak now in ninth day; Dow’s losing streak unmatched since 1978.”

U.S. and global markets have been severely rattled in recent weeks by the inability or unwillingness of politicians in Washington to make the truly serious and dramatic reforms necessary to move our country back from the brink of bankruptcy. Our national debt now equals 100% of our GDP. That is, we will produce about $14.5 trillion in goods and services as a nation in 2011. Yet we have just hit $14.5 trillion in federal debt. We now owe to our creditors every single penny that we will make this year., yet we have no real plan to ever pay this deb down. It just keeps going up and up. America hasn’t faced a debt crisis this serious since we were fighting for our lives against the Nazis in World War II. Meanwhile, millions of Americans remain out of work. Millions are losing their homes. Nearly 46 million Americans are now on government food stamps.  No wonder a stunning 73% of Americans say our country is on the “wrong track.” We certainly are.

America is in trouble, morally, spiritually and financially. Yet no one seems to have any answers. The politicians seem clueless. The media certainly doesn’t have any answers. Academia seems more out of touch than ever. Sadly, far too many Church leaders are asleep, as well — or too timid, or drifting off course spiritually and theologically — just at the time they could and should be powerfully proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ as the only real hope of mankind. God hasn’t failed us. We have failed God. Christ is ready to come help us, care for us, get us back on the right track, if we would only turn to Him en masse. The Church’s job is to be a light to the nations, ours and the world. But too much of the Church is sleeping. We need a wake up call.

America needs a revival — a dramatic spiritual renewal like the “Great Awakening” of the early 1700s, and the “Second Great Awakening” of the mid-1800s. But such a revival has to begin first and foremost with the Church waking up and asking the Lord to purify us, heal us, and re-inspire us with the life-changing truths of His Word. Only then can we truly love our neighbors with Christ’s love and be a blessing to our country in a time of severe crisis. The Hebrew Prophet Joel told us to, “Wake up, drunkards!” (Joel 1:5). He called us to “lament, O priests” and “wail, O ministers.” (Joel 1:13)  He urged us to “consecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly; gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God” because “the day of the Lord is near.” (Joel 1:14-15). He told us to “blow a trumpet in Zion and sound an alarm on My holy mountain” because “the day of the Lord is coming; surely it is near.” (Joel 2:1). This was the message I shared last night at an event in Denver last night. The Day of the Lord is coming, and as that day approaches, the Lord is shaking America, Israel and the nations to get our attention and persuade us to let go of anything and everything we are holding onto for peace and security other than faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, this was the theme of our Epicenter Conference in Jerusalem in May. But it needs to be shared not just in Jerusalem but to the ends of the Earth.

Today, I’m flying to Houston to participate in tomorrow’s day of prayer & fasting for our country. The event was called by Texas Governor Rick Perry. It’s based on the Book of Joel.Huh  And despite enormous opposition from liberal groups and atheist organizations, I believe this is exactly what we need right now. We need to take a day out from our normal lives and stop everything we’re doing — stop working, stop playing, stop entertaining ourselves, stop texting, stop emailing, stop Facebooking, stop eating — and just spend it with the Lord. In His Word. With His people. In praise and worship. In prayer and fasting. Asking Him to show mercy to us….before it’s too late.

If you’re anywhere near Reliant Stadium in Houston tomorrow, I hope you’ll join us. If not, may I encourage you to take time out of your busy schedules to pray and fast tomorrow for a true, deep and powerful revival in America, beginning in the Church?

“‘Yet even now,’ declares the Lord, ‘return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, weeping, and mourning; and rend your heart and not your garments.’ Now return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness and relenting of evil. Who knows whether He will not turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him?” (Joel 2:12-14)

26915  General Category / General News / Re: London wakes up to aftermath of worst riots in years on: August 07, 2011, 08:33:40 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/disturbances-london-night-rioting-210001976.html

8/7/11

New disturbances in London a night after rioting

LONDON (AP) — Police deployed extra officers on London's streets to prevent a repeat of the rioting and looting in a deprived area amid community anger over a fatal police shooting, as new disturbances broke out in another district of the city late Sunday.

A peaceful protest against the killing of the 29-year-old man in north London's Tottenham area degenerated into a Saturday night rampage, with rioters torching a double-decker bus, destroying patrol cars and trashing a shopping mall in the nearby Wood Green district.

Disturbances broke out late Sunday in Enfield, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) north of Tottenham. TV footage showed riot and mounted police patrolling the streets, and there were also images of smashed shop windows, and police with dogs detaining at least one man.

There were also reports that a police car was vandalized in Enfield. Sky News television reported that several hundred young people were on the streets causing trouble.

"We do have extra resources out tonight on duty across the capital," police commander Christine Jones said. "We are carefully monitoring any intelligence and ensuring we have our resources in the right places. No one wants to see a repeat of the scenes that we witnessed last night in Tottenham."

In Saturday's violence, several buildings were set ablaze. TV footage showed the double-decker bus in a fireball and mounted police charging through the streets trying to restore order. Police said 26 officers received injuries, most if not all apparently minor, and made 55 arrests, including four Sunday. The majority of arrests were for burglary; other offenses included violent disorder, robbery, theft and handling of stolen goods.

London's fire department said it dealt with 49 "primary" fires in Tottenham. No firefighters were injured.

Social networking websites swirled with rumors of other riots beginning or being planned in other areas of the city, but police warned the public not to trust everything they saw on the Internet — adding that officers were keeping a close eye on what was being said online as well.

The violence has cast a pall over a city preparing to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

"I hope people will have a fantastic Olympics no matter what happened last night," London Mayor Boris Johnson said in a telephone interview with BBC television, trying to assure the world his city was safe.

Others weren't so sure, suggesting that the riots had exposed incipient tensions at a time of sharp public sector cutbacks and economic uncertainty.

"This is just a glimpse into the abyss," former Metropolitan Police Commander John O'Connor told Sky News. "Someone's pulled the clock back and you can look and see what's beneath the surface. And what with the Olympic Games coming up, this doesn't bode very well for London."

The protest against the death of Mark Duggan, a father of four who was gunned down in disputed circumstances Thursday, was initially peaceful. But it got ugly as between 300 and 500 people gathered around Tottenham's police station. Some protesters filled bottles with gasoline to throw at police lines, others confronted officers with makeshift weapons — including baseball bats and bars — and attempted to storm the station.

Within hours, police in riot gear and on horseback were clashing with hundreds of rioters, fires were raging out of control, and looters combed the area. One video posted to the Guardian newspaper's website showed looting even carried on into the following day, with people even lining up to steal from one store just after dawn.

The devastated area smoldered Sunday — in Tottenham, streets were littered with bricks and lined with overturned scorched trash cans. Two police helicopters hovered over the burnt-out buildings as residents inspected the damage and firefighters doused the last of the flames. Glaziers were busy replacing the smashed windows of looted shops.

Very few details of Duggan's death have been released, although police said initially that an officer was briefly hospitalized after the shooting — suggesting there was some kind of an exchange of fire. Media reports said a bullet had been found lodged in the officer's police radio.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission, which is investigating Duggan's shooting, provided more details in a statement Sunday night, saying a "non-police firearm" was recovered at the scene. It added that the weapon and a police radio "have been sent for forensic testing."

Duggan's family rejected any suggestion that he had fired at officers. His brother, Shaun Hall, said his sibling would never attack police.

"That's ridiculous," he told Sky News television. As for the rioting, he condemned it.

"There was a domino effect, which we don't condone at all," he said.

Local lawmaker David Lammy, speaking to residents from behind police tape earlier in the day, said that Duggan's shooting "raised huge questions and we need answers," but he warned against renewed violence.

"The response to that is not to loot and rob," he said. "This must stop."

Tottenham has a history of unrest. It was the site of the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots, a series of clashes that led to the savaging stabbing of a police officer and the wounding of nearly 60 others — brutally underscoring tensions between London's police and the capital's black community.

Relations have improved since, but mistrust still lingers.

___

Juergen Baetz, Jill Lawless and Frank Griffiths contributed to this report.

26916  General Category / End Times / Re: U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P on: August 07, 2011, 08:05:07 pm
World Financial Officials Hold Emergency Call To Discuss U.S. Credit Downgrade

8/7/11

Financial officials from the Group of 20 major economies reportedly held an emergency conference call Sunday to the discuss the debt crises in the U.S. and Europe following several days of market panic and a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Reuters reported that Japan and South Korea said that they were still confident in U.S. treasuries. "I expressed our country's position on the (G20 conference) call that there will be no sudden change in our reserve management policy," South Korean Deputy Finance Minister Choi Jong-ku told Reuters.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/07/world-financial-officials-hold-emergency-call-to-discuss-us-credit-downgrade/
26917  General Category / General News / Re: CEO of trends research predicts food riots in USA within 12 months on: August 07, 2011, 06:09:13 pm
I remember hearing Celente's comments way back in 2008...ultimately, it won't surprise me if this very thing happens very soon.
26918  General Category / End Times / Re: U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P on: August 07, 2011, 01:12:03 pm
Germany Says Italy’s $2.5 Trillion Debt Is Too Big To Bailout

8/7/11

In The Latest Firestorm Of Bad News That Will Hit Wall Street Monday, Germany says Italy’s $2.5 Trillion Debt Is Too High To Be Saved By A Bailout.

As Wall Street found itself in a vertical free-fall on Friday the news hit the wires that the ECB would step in to bailout Spain and Italy.

Suddenly stocks the markets turned positive and put an end to the 417 point loss the DOW saw in intraday trading.

Now the Germany is backing out of the ECB pledge to bailout Italy saying their problems are so enormous they will not be able to backstop the countries debt without crashing their won economy.

As Zerohedge reports, come Monday we are going to see a blood bath on Wall Street if this news does not change.

It Just Went From Bad To Far, Far Worse As Germany Says Italy Is Too Big For EFSF To Save, Refuses To Carry Euro Bailout Burden
Remember when we said (yesterday) that Germany will soon balk over the fact that it is pledging its entire economy to bail out an insolvent Europe? Well, that moment has come.

Dow Jones just hitting the tape referencing Spiegel

•German Govt: Italy Too Big For EFSF To Save – Spiegel
•German Govt: Doubts Whether Tripling EFSF Would Help It Save Italy
•German Govt: Italy Must Make Savings, Reforms To Exit Crisis – Spiegel
•Italy Debt Guarantee Could Raise Doubts Over Germany’s Finances – Spiegel
•German Govt: EFSF Should Only Help Small, Mid-Size Countries – Spiegel
As a reminder, yesterday’s stopgap announcement by the ECB to expand its SMP purchases of secondary market Italian and Spanish bonds was merely as a precursor to full EFSF monetization until its comes fully online in September (or sooner) in a vastly expanded format (between €1.5 and €3.5 trillion).

If Germany is now against this, which appears to be the case, it pretty much means, well, game over.

Add the uncerainty over the unwind of the Europe rescue “gamechanger” as one of the more naive CNBC anchors said yesterday, and Monday is now guaranteed to be a bloodbath.
26919  General Category / General News / Re: Texas Governor Rick Perry Calls for National Day of Prayer on August 6th 2011 on: August 07, 2011, 09:40:58 am
FWIW, my mom commented to me about James Dobson this morning(he was in Houston for this event) over how he's a staunch fundamentalist. I commented back to her how Dobson is yoked with the Vatican, and how this "prayer event" in Houston was full of heretics. Her response was, "Don't hate and don't judge!".

I know we have to continue to defend the faith, but *sigh* why can't people see these "evangelicals" are trying to get the Christian masses to fight and entangle in this world system.
26920  General Category / Wolves in Sheeps clothing / Re: Young Baptist Exposes Paul Washer on: August 07, 2011, 08:29:49 am
Washer seems to be pretty popular among the more popular (end times)Christian message forums I frequent. No, it's not like these MBs are runned by the establishment or anything, but nonetheless, those popular MBs are not cheap to maintain, so obviously they end up allowing alot of this stuff(Washer, John MacArthur, Churchianity, other bible versions, FOX News, voting Republican no matter what, etc) for fear that they will lose members, and ultimately funding to their sites.
26921  General Category / General News / Re: Texas Governor Rick Perry Calls for National Day of Prayer on August 6th 2011 on: August 06, 2011, 11:00:28 pm
Although the thing is too small in the picture posted above, it DOES look like Perry's "cross" has an occultic-look(ie-the Rosacrucians maybe?).
26922  General Category / Audio Section, Scott Johnson, Bryan Denlinger, others... / Re: Sherry Shriner? on: August 06, 2011, 10:55:15 pm
http://www.sherryshriner.com/

Does anyone know much about Sherry Shriner?

She lives in Carrollton, Ohio. So she would be close to you Dok as you live in Akron area correct?

I thought I remember Scott Johnson mentioning her in one of his teachings I listened to way back when, and he said I thought she was like the next best source regarding this whole "UFO agenda," however as he pointed out its a woman running a ministry. I think I remember finding her site back in like December/January of 2010/2011, but have not really checked it out since.

Just decided to go check it out once more, but didn't know if anyone could tell me much about her. I believe she is a King James Bible Believing Christian correct?

Or is she just a wolf in sheep's clothing?  Huh

Scott may have recommended her in one of his earliest teachings, however, later on Scott did find out the truth on her and exposed her in later teachings.

Email Scott and he will send you a Word doc on her, I did last year.
26923  General Category / Weather/Earthquakes/Global Science Hoax's / Powerful typhoon bears down on China's east coast on: August 06, 2011, 06:12:31 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/powerful-typhoon-bears-down-chinas-east-coast-121452337.html

8/6/11


..BEIJING (AP) — More than 200,000 coastal residents in eastern China have evacuated and thousands of ships were called back to shore Saturday as Typhoon Muifa bore down on the country after battering the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan.

Zhejiang province moved 206,664 people from its coastal areas while another 80,400 were evacuated in Fujian province, according to local government websites. Thousands of ships along the eastern coast were also called back to shore, they said.

Typhoon Muifa is forecast to hit China early Monday morning, making landfall in the eastern province of Shandong and skimming the coast as it heads north, China's Central Meteorological Administration said.

On Saturday evening, the storm was about 285 kilometers (180 miles) south of Zhoushan city in Zhejiang province and moving northwest over the East China Sea at about 20 kilometers (12 miles) an hour, it said.

Though earlier forecasts put China's commercial hub of Shanghai directly in the typhoon's path, the city of 23 million appeared late Saturday to have dodged the brunt of the storm. It was still expected to experience torrential rains and high winds, the administration said.

Dozens of flights in and out of Shanghai and the nearby cities of Wenzhou and Hangzhou were canceled as a precaution and more than 500 people evacuated from Shanghai's coastal areas. The municipal government said rail authorities were also prepared to slow or delay high-speed rail services, depending on the severity of the storm.

Last week, Typhoon Muifa killed four people in the Philippines even though it did not make landfall. The storm caused power outages and injuries as it passed by Japan's southern island of Okinawa on Friday and dusted northern Taiwan with light rain and moderate winds.

Japan's Kyodo News agency said the typhoon caused 27 injuries on Okinawa and knocked out power to more than 60,000 homes.

North Korea's state news agency reported late Friday that some parts of the country would receive heavy rain from the typhoon between Monday and Tuesday. Flooding in recent weeks has caused deaths and damage to homes and farmland in the impoverished country.

26924  General Category / End Times / Power companies prepare as solar storms set to hit Earth on: August 06, 2011, 06:03:52 pm
Luk 21:25  And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luk 21:26  Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Luk 21:27  And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Luk 21:28  And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh
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http://news.yahoo.com/power-companies-prepare-solar-storms-set-hit-earth-144759933.html

8/6/11

Power companies prepare as solar storms set to hit Earth

..NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three large explosions from the Sun over the past few days have prompted U.S. government scientists to caution users of satellite, telecommunications and electric equipment to prepare for possible disruptions over the next few days.

"The magnetic storm that is soon to develop probably will be in the moderate to strong level," said Joseph Kunches, a space weather scientist at the Space Weather Prediction Center, a division of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

He said solar storms this week could affect communications and global positioning system (GPS) satellites and might even produce an aurora visible as far south as Minnesota and Wisconsin.

An aurora, called aurora borealis or the northern lights in northern latitudes, is a natural light display in the sky in the Arctic and Antarctic regions caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere.

Major disruptions from solar activity are rare but have had serious impacts in the past.

In 1989, a solar storm took down the power grid in Quebec, Canada, leaving about six million people without power for several hours.

The largest solar storm ever recorded was in 1859 when communications infrastructure was limited to telegraphs.

The 1859 solar storm hit telegraph offices around the world and caused a giant aurora visible as far south as the Caribbean Islands.

Some telegraph operators reported electric shocks. Papers caught fire. And many telegraph systems continued to send and receive signals even after operators disconnected batteries, NOAA said on its website.

A storm of similar magnitude today could cause up to $2 trillion in damage globally, according to a 2008 report by the National Research Council.

"I don't think this week's solar storms will be anywhere near that. This will be a two or three out of five on the NOAA Space Weather Scale," said Kunches.

SOLAR SCALE

The NOAA Space Weather Scale measures the intensity of a solar storm from one being the lowest intensity to five being the highest, similar to scales that measure the severity of hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes.

The first of the three solar explosions from the sun this week already passed the Earth on Thursday with little impact, Kunches said, noting, the second was passing the Earth now and "seems to be stronger."

And the third, he said, "We'll have to see what happens over the next few days. It could exacerbate the disturbance in the Earth's magnetic field caused by the second (storm) or do nothing at all."


Power grid managers receive alerts from the Space Weather Prediction Center to tell them to prepare for solar events, which peak about every 12 years, Tom Bogdan, director of the center said.

He said the next peak, called a solar maximum, was expected in 2013.

"We're coming up to the next solar maximum, so we expect to see more of these storms coming from the sun over the next three to five years," Bogdan said.

(Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by Alden Bentley)

26925  General Category / End Times / Re: U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P on: August 06, 2011, 02:47:20 pm
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/China-flays-US-over-credit-rb-3974888722.html?x=0

World leaders to confer on debt crises this weekend

On Saturday August 6, 2011, 3:03 pm
By Paul Taylor and Melanie Lee

PARIS/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Global leaders on Saturday arranged a round of emergency calls to discuss the twin debt crises in Europe and the United States that are causing turmoil in financial markets.

The European Central Bank's policy-setting council will hold a rare Sunday conference call to talk about the euro zone problems, ECB sources said.

Markets are anxiously looking for the central bank to start buying Italian and Spanish debt on Monday to stabilize prices, a move that has split the ECB governing council.

But more pressure on the bonds of the two countries after last week's steep sell-off could undermine an already damaged European banking system and lock Italy, the world's eighth largest economy, out of the market.

Worsening the outlook was the Standard and Poor's downgrade of the U.S. sovereign credit rating late on Friday on concerns about its budget deficits and growing debt burden.

While not totally unexpected, the loss of top-tier AAA status by the world's economic superpower drew fierce criticism from China, a huge holder of U.S. debt, and promised more anxiety for global financial markets.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who heads the G20 group of the world's leading economies, will discuss the financial situation in light of the U.S. downgrade with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday evening, his office said.

Finance ministers and central bankers of the G7 group of major industrialized nations will confer by telephone on Saturday or Sunday, a senior European diplomatic source said.

Their deputies from the broader G20 were due to hold a call on Saturday evening, a Brazilian finance ministry source said.

GRIDLOCK IN WASHINGTON

China bluntly criticized the United States after the S&P ratings cut to AA-plus, saying Washington had only itself to blame and calling for a new stable global reserve currency.

"The U.S. government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own making are finally gone," China's official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary.

After a week which saw $2.5 trillion wiped off global markets, the S&P move deepened fears of an impending recession in the United States as euro zone countries struggle with a debt crisis of their own.

S&P blamed the downgrade in part on gridlock in Washington, saying politics was preventing steps to address the U.S. debt and deficit problems. Amid a vitriolic fight between Democrats and Republicans, U.S. lawmakers reached a last-minute debt deal last week to avoid an unprecedented default by the government.

U.S. President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to set aside partisan politics, saying they must work to put the nation's fiscal house in order and stimulate the stagnant economy. He called on Congress to give tax relief to the middle class, extend jobless benefits and pass long-delayed trade pacts.

The European source said the U.S. downgrade, added to the situation in Europe, raised the need for international policy coordination.

"The G7 will confer by telephone. It's not yet confirmed whether it will be in one stage or in two stages, tonight and tomorrow," the source said.

French Finance Minister Francois Baroin, who would chair any meeting under France's G7 and G20 presidency, said it was too soon to say whether there would be an early G7 gathering.

Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager said: "I am in constant contact with colleagues in other countries and am following the development of the financial markets closely."

China and Japan have called for coordinated action to avert a new worldwide financial crisis. India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters: "There is no need to unnecessarily press the panic button."

"DEBT ADDICTION"

Recrimination flew thick and fast among U.S. politicians, with each side seeking to blame the other for the downgrade and the impasse over how to solve the fiscal crisis.

Senator Jim Demint, a Republican, said Obama should demand the resignation of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama believes "it is important that our elected leaders come together to strengthen our economy and put our nation on a stronger fiscal footing."

Xinhua scorned the United States for a "debt addiction" and "short sighted" political wrangling. China, it said, "has every right now to demand the United States address its structural debt problems and ensure the safety of China's dollar assets."

"International supervision over the issue of U.S. dollars should be introduced and a new, stable and secured global reserve currency may also be an option to avert a catastrophe caused by any single country," Xinhua said.

In contrast, France's Baroin said France had faith in the United States to get out of this "difficult period." Friday's U.S. unemployment numbers were better than expected and so things were heading in the right direction, he said.

"One should not dramatize, one needs to remain cool-headed, one should look at the fundamentals," he told France's iTele.

"There is no need for panic," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said. "We will see in August, and maybe more intensively in September what the effects for the world economy will be."

Because the S&P move was expected, the impact on markets may be modest when they reopen on Monday. But the ratings cut may have a long-term impact for U.S. standing in the world, the dollar's status and the global financial system.

"The consequence will be far reaching," said Ciaran O'Hagan, fixed income strategist at Societe Generale in Paris.

"It will weigh on secure assets. The bigger reaction will be on risky assets, including equities and on agencies (Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae) and states backed directly by the federal government."

But he added: "U.S. Treasuries will remain a benchmark. This is a ship which takes a long time to turn around."

Norbert Barthle, a budget expert for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, said the downgrade would certainly provoke further turbulence in markets.

"I'm not surprised about the U.S. rating downgrade, rather I am astonished that, for weeks, international rating agencies have focused their attention on the European debt situation but not the American one," he said.

"For a while, there have been clear worries about America's economic woes but also the fact the U.S. is heavily indebted."

NO EARLY ITALIAN ELECTION

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Saturday ruled out calling early elections to stem market panic that has pounded Italian assets and forced his government to bring forward austerity measures.

European policy makers are concerned that a debt emergency in the euro zone's third largest economy could completely overwhelm bailout mechanisms set up to help smaller troubled countries like Greece or Ireland.

Italy is due to go to the polls in 2013 but Berlusconi dismissed any suggestion of emulating Spain, where Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has called an early election to tackle the crisis.

"This has absolutely not been talked about," Berlusconi told reporters. "This has never been an option."

The European Union's top economic official praised Italy's decision to accelerate budget-balancing measures and structural reforms and said swift implementation was now crucial.

"I strongly support this announcement and call on the authorities to quickly translate it into concrete measures," European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn told Reuters in a telephone interview.

The ECB sources said the central bank remains divided over whether to buy Italian government bonds but that even some of those who favor the move say Italy should do more to front-load austerity measures.

(Reporting by Isabel Versiani and Brian Winter in Brasilia, Laura MacInnis in Washington and other Reuters bureaux worldwide; Writing by Angus MacSwan and Stella Dawson; Editing by John O'Callaghan)

26926  General Category / Authorized Version 1611/ King James Bible/ False Bibles / Re: King James Only a Cult? on: August 06, 2011, 10:55:11 am
OK, but how are we going to have a relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ if we DON'T have our (proper)bibles? HOW??
26927  General Category / End Times / Re: U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P on: August 06, 2011, 10:39:58 am
Yes, this is HUGE b/c short-term T-Bills were ALWAYS seen as RISK-FREE 100%(which is why they always had an AAA rating). Now? The fact that businesses, people et al are going to have to be a tad more bit cautious even on THIS will hurt the economy/paying back the debt et al.

With that being said, our trust should be in the Lord Jesus Christ, completely.
26928  General Category / End Times / Re: U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P on: August 05, 2011, 09:29:10 pm
FYI...

http://etfdailynews.com/2011/07/25/investors-the-1-billion-armageddon-trade-placed-against-the-united-states/

7/25/11
Investors: The $1 Billion Armageddon Trade Placed Against The United States

 Someone dropped a bomb on the bond market Thursday – a $1 billion Armageddon trade betting the United States will lose its AAA credit rating.In one moment, an invisible trader placed a single trade that moved the most liquid debt market in the world.

The massive trade wasn’t placed in bonds themselves; it was placed in the futures market.

The trade was for block trades of 5,370 10-year Treasury futures executed at 124-03 and 3,100 Treasury bond futures executed at 125-01.

The value of the trade was about $850 million dollars. In simple terms, if that was a direct bond buy, no one would be talking about it.

However, with the use of futures, you have to have margin capacity behind the trade. That means with a single push of a button someone was willing to commit more than $1 billion of real capital to this trade with expectations of a 10-to-1 return ratio.

You only do this if you see an edge.

This means someone is confident that the United States is either going to default or is going to lose its AAA rating. That someone is willing to bet the proverbial farm that U.S. interest rates will be going up.
I believe what happened is a debt-ceiling deal was done in Washington and leaked to a major proprietary trader. Everyone knows the debt negotiations in Washington have been an extreme game of brinksmanship between political parties, but now someone knows how that game played out.

This had the hallmarks of one of the largest bond shops in the world knowing something the rest of the market didn’t.

The number of shops or even central banks that can take on this level of market risk is extremely small. Some that come to mind are hedge fund manager John Paulson, Bill Gross’s PIMCO, and the U.S. and Chinese central banks.

Paulson already scored big – about $6 billion big – on a similar trade years ago when he bet against subprime mortgages, the investments that helped bring down Lehman Bros. and many other investors.

Whoever was behind it wanted a trade on ASAP, and didn’t care about the ripples they would cause.
26929  General Category / End Times / Re: U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P on: August 05, 2011, 08:15:31 pm
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/SampP-downgrades-US-credit-apf-2107320979.html

S&P downgrades US credit rating from AAA
S&P issues unprecedented downgrade of US credit rating, saying debt package falls short

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's on Friday downgraded the United States' credit rating first time in the history of the ratings.

The credit rating agency said that it is cutting the country's top AAA rating by one notch to AA-plus. The credit agency said that it is making the move because the deficit reduction plan passed by Congress on Tuesday did not go far enough to stabilize the country's debt situation.

A source familiar with the discussions said that the Obama administration feels the S&P's analysis contained "deep and fundamental flaws." Huh

S&P said that in addition to the downgrade, it is issuing a negative outlook, meaning that there was a chance it will lower the rating further within the next two years. It said such a downgrade to AA would occur if the agency sees less reductions in spending than Congress and the administration have agreed to make, higher interest rates or new fiscal pressures during this period.

S&P first put the government on notice in April that a downgrade was possible unless Congress and the administration came up with a credible long-term deficit reduction plan and avoided a default on the country's debt.

After months of wrangling and negotiations with the administration, Congress passed this week a debt reduction package at the 11th-hour that averted a possible default.

In its statement, S&P said that it had changed its view "of the difficulties of bridging the gulf between the political parties" over a credible deficit reduction plan.

S&P said it was now "pessimistic about the capacity of Congress and the administration to be able to leverage their agreement this week into a broader fiscal consolidation plan that stabilizes the government's debt dynamics anytime soon."

26930  General Category / End Times / U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P on: August 05, 2011, 07:45:29 pm
8/5/11

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's on Friday, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for the world's largest economy.

S&P cut the long-term U.S. credit rating by one notch to AA-plus on concerns about growing budget deficits.

U.S. Treasuries, once undisputedly seen as the safest investment in the world, are now rated lower than bonds issued by countries such as the UK, Germany, France or Canada.

The outlook on the new U.S. credit rating is negative, S&P said in a statement, a sign that another downgrade is possible in the next 12 to 18 months.

http://news.yahoo.com/p-reconsidering-u-downgrade-cnbc-001207261.html
26931  General Category / Weather/Earthquakes/Global Science Hoax's / North Korea: 30 dead, thousands homeless in flood on: August 05, 2011, 06:57:33 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-30-dead-thousands-homeless-flood-131051247.html

8/5/11

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Heavy rains late last month in North Korea caused flooding that killed about 30 people and left almost 16,000 homeless, state media said Friday.

Thousands of homes were destroyed and farm land was heavily damaged, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a short dispatch from Pyongyang.

In a separate report, it said heavy rain was forecast in parts of North Korea between Monday and Tuesday from a typhoon heading for neighboring China.

Earlier reports from KCNA said "dozens of people" had died, were hurt or went missing due to a typhoon and heavy rains from late June to mid-July. Other reports described North Korea's own relief efforts and said North Korea thanked China for offering sympathy over the flooding.

Flooding and landslides also caused dozens of deaths in South Korea in late July.

Heavy rainfall can be catastrophic for impoverished North Korea, which is characterized by poor drainage and deforestation. Floods in 2007 left some 600 people dead or missing and about 100,000 others homeless.

Separately, state television Friday reported heavy damage to farm land in the city of Kaesong near the border with South Korea. Footage showed fields filled with muddy water and plants and trees toppled.

KCNA reported Thursday that landslides had forced the suspension of train service between two stations in South Hamgyong province.
26932  General Category / Fellowship / Re: I am moving to Springfield Missouri - Period on: August 05, 2011, 06:52:42 pm
William, with the times we're living in now, I recommend you read this...

WHERE ARE THE GIRLFRIENDS of OBAMA?
I hadn't thought about this - but where are O's past girlfriends - surely he had at least one? No past girl friends popping up anywhere? Strange - strange to the point of being downright weird!

OK, this is just plain old common sense, no political agendas for either side. Just common knowledge for citizens of a country, especially American citizens, who know every little tidbit about every other president (and their wives) that even know that Andrew Jackson's wife smoked a corn cob pipe and was accused of adultery, or that Lincoln never went to school or Kennedy wore a back brace or Truman played the piano.

We are Americans! Our Media vets these things out! We are known for our humanitarian interests and caring for our 'fellow man.' We care, but none of us know one single humanizing fact about the history of our own president.

Honestly, and this is a personal thing ... but it's bugged me for years that no one who ever dated him ever showed up. Taken his charisma, which caused the women to be drawn to him so obviously during his campaign, looks like some lady would not have missed the opportunity....

We all know about JFK's magnetism, McCain was no monk; Palin's courtship and even her athletic prowess were probed. Biden's aneurisms are no secret. Look at Cheney and Clinton-we all know about their heart problems. How could I have left out Wild Bill before or during the White House?

Nope... not one lady has stepped up and said, "He was soooo shy," or "What a great dancer!"

Now look at the rest of what we know... no classmates, not even the recorder for the Columbia class notes ever heard of him.

Who was the best man at his wedding? Start there... Check for groomsmen. Then get the footage of the graduation ceremony
.

Has anyone talked to the professors? Isn't it odd that no one is bragging that they knew him or taught him or lived with him?

When did he meet Michele and how? Are there photos? Every president provides the public with all their photos, etc. for their library. What has he released? Nada - other than what was in this so-called biography! And experts who study writing styles, etc. claim it was not O's own words or typical of his speech patterns, etc.

Does this make any of you wonder?

Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from Obama's past, saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc.? Not one person has ever come forward from his past. This should really be a cause for great concern. Did you see the movie titled, The Manchurian Candidate?

Let's face it. As insignificant as we all are... someone whom we went to school with remembers our name or face...someone remembers we were the clown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or something about us.  Roll Eyes

George Stephanopoulos, ABC News said the same thing during the 2008 campaign. Even George questions why no one has acknowledged that the president was in their classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speeches on campus. Stephanopoulos was a classmate of Obama at Columbia-class of 1984. He says he never had a single class with him. Since he is such a great orator, why doesn't anyone in Obama's college class remember him? And, why won't he allow Columbia to release his records? Do you like millions of others; simply assume all this is explainable - even though no one can?

NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA

Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but not one remembers him. For example, Wayne Allyn Root was (like Obama) a political science major at Columbia , who graduated in 1983. In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me. I don't have a single classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia ... EVER!

Nobody recalls him.

Root adds that he was, "Class of '83 political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him."

At our 20th class reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, 'the macha' who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him."

Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook, and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.

How can this be?

NOTE: Wayne Allyn Root can easily be verified. He graduated valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School , then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major in the same '83 class in which Barack Hussein Obama states he was.

Some other interesting questions.

Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002?

Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by court order?

According to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama - but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 aliases.

WHAT!?

The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is never reported to have lived
.

No wonder all his records are sealed!

Please continue sending this out to everyone. Somewhere, someone had to know him in school...before he "reorganized" Chicago and burst upon the scene at the 2004 Democratic Convention and made us swoon with his charm, poise, and speaking pizzazz.

One of the biggest CONS this country has ever seen, and getting away with it. Go watch the movie The Manchurian Candidate, with Lawrence Harvey ! Good movie!

Ask George Soros, HE created Barack Hussein Obama!

http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=180356

26933  General Category / War On Family / Re: States making U.S. more pro-life on: August 05, 2011, 06:42:51 pm
To be frank, I think there's some kind of Hegelian Dialect going on in the midst - for example, Gov Christie in NJ got Planned Parenthood funding struck down, however, he admitted he was open to more gay rights laws et al. And our USSC has done next to nothing with abortion laws, despite Bush electing 2 "conservatives" a few years ago.

And let's not forget about the 501c3 Apostate Church - if these same states that are pushing pro-life laws also start pushing anti-501c3 laws, THEN we know they're REALLY in business.

Yes, their work is VERY far from done.
26934  General Category / End Times / Re: Elenin Comet: Astronomers killed 2 ... The end of the world? on: August 05, 2011, 02:16:04 pm
05-08-11 ONWARDS. AUGUST Solar & Geomagnetic events + Weather extremes + Earthquake/volcano watch....

=> Aug 4th massive 100Mev proton burst and Coronal holes facing Earth - part of drivers for predicted 6-7th and then 8-10th Quake/volcano and extreme weather periods

A massive 100Mev proton burst was recorded on August 4th, with ongoing high proton flux, see  http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/latest_events/

along with earth-facing coronal holes on Aug 4th
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?month=08&day=04&year=2011&view=view

"Let us be clear a 1MeV proton burst is significant, this is a hundred times bigger! These events are the prime drivers of fast solar wind to come and our predicted 'qv' period 6-7 Aug and 'Qv' period 8-10 Aug for extra earthQuake and possible volcano activity (with Q signifying probably bigger quakes than q)" said Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction.com ,
"The 6-7/8th is also a WeatherAction predicted period of extreme events in USA, UK and Europe - and more follow just after. These are important periods for solar-weather action so WATCH OUT!"

http://www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=362&c=5

26935  General Category / End Times / Re: Women Falling Away From Religion, Report Finds on: August 05, 2011, 08:19:13 am
I don't know, but don't you think the church structure in recent years may have caused people to fall away? I mean with the 501c3 status, it's really narrowed what preachers can preach, Sun school teachers can teach, etc...to the point where every week, the only thing they can come up with is "This is how you can get saved...", "This is how you can get saved..."(and read whatever study materials are thrown their way), etc. I mean after awhile, when you hear the same exact thing every week, it gets boring, and the next thing one does is just move on to something else.

Ultimately, there's no real meat and grind bible study on a consistent basis in the 501c3 structure anymore.
26936  General Category / General News / Re: Treasury confirms deadline for raising debt limit on: August 04, 2011, 09:45:22 pm
http://mediajackhammer.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/markets-plunge-worldwide-as-dow-crashes-italy-bank-run-rumoured/

8/5/11

Markets plunge worldwide as Dow crashes, Italy bank run rumoured
For the second time in three years, the world has been plunged into a financial crisis.

On opening, the Dow plunged 512 points following a global rout on equities coinciding with a sharp downturn in investor confidence overnight.

Earlier this morning, a steep fall in the Yen, prompted by Tokyo’s intervention to weaken the currency, tripped the first alarm with many expecting an imminent recession in Japan.

Then news of a possible bank run in Italy sent European markets into freefall. Other global markets promptly followed.

But the second alarm was tripped when Germany rejected calls for the Euro zone to step up its response to the continent’s debt contagion. In other words, all their efforts have been exhausted.

UBS Financial Services told CNBC “We’re hearing reports of funds being drawn out of European banks”. They added, “It might turn ugly.”

Shock, rumour and fear seem to be gripping markets, now paralyzed by a sudden spread of the crisis into the systemic areas of the global economy.

“I’ve never seen this happen, not in 25 years,” Gerard Cassidy, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets told Bloomberg (It’s noteworthy that 25 years ago was 1986 – The Great Wall St Crash).

With Italian and Spanish bond yeilds reaching crisis levels, we can expect some severe turbulence to be felt in the markets beyond what we’re seeing now.

On queue, the European Central Bank has just started buying up bonds like hotcakes, realizing that its attempts to extinguish the debt contagion have not worked.

In the US, panicked selling has become contagious with investor confidence evaporating at an alarming speed.  Policymakers, it seems, have run out of economic magic tricks.

John Prestbo, editor and executive director of Dow Jones Indexes, said: “The dog days have turned vicious for the market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging nearly 513 points, or 4%.”

“The question now,” he says  “is, have investors finished lowering their expectations or is there still some way to go? Time will tell, but it’s difficult to envision a sustained rebound without some evidence that the global economy is alive and kicking.”

Given the market trends over the last 48 hours, the term “dying and paralyzed” appears to be closer to describing the economic outlook.

Here in Australia, overseas hedge funds were big sellers of Aussie banks as the broader market suffered painful losses. It remains to be seen whether Treasurer Wayne Swan can pull any rabbits out of the hat to avoid a recession here.

With 3% having been wiped off the ASX this morning, there will be some consternation in the Reserve Bank as to where things will go from here.
26937  General Category / End Times / Re: Elenin Comet: Astronomers killed 2 ... The end of the world? on: August 04, 2011, 09:15:17 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUUm9nsQ9no

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6uLzotGDf4
26938  General Category / Wolves in Sheeps clothing / James White's Bible Blunders book EXPOSED! on: August 04, 2011, 08:10:57 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLOhkTUaWZE
26939  General Category / End Times / Unemployment rose in nearly all US cities on: August 04, 2011, 12:31:27 pm
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Unemployment-rose-in-nearly-apf-3394283988.html?x=0

8/3/11

Unemployment rose in nearly all US cities
Unemployment rose in nearly all US cities in June as hiring slows, natural disasters hit

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unemployment rates rose in more than 90 percent of U.S. cities in June, mirroring a national slowdown in hiring.

The Labor Department said Wednesday that unemployment rates rose in 345 large metro areas. They dropped in 20 cities and were unchanged in seven. That's worse than May, when rates rose in only 210 cities. And it is a sharp reversal from April, when unemployment rates fell in nearly all metro areas.

The biggest increase was in Joplin, Mo, which was hit by a major tornado on May 22. The city lost 9,400 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate jumped nearly 2 percentage points, to 9.6 percent.

The national unemployment rate ticked up to 9.2 percent in June, the highest level this year.

Businesses have cut back on hiring this spring. Employers added only 18,000 jobs in June, the fewest in nine months. That's down sharply from an average of 215,000 net job gains each month in the February-April period.

Economic growth declined to less than 1 percent in the first half of this year. That's slowest pace since the recession ended two years ago.

Stagnant wages and high gas prices have cut into consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of economic activity. Spending fell in June for the first time in 20 months, the government said Tuesday.

Unemployment rose in many college towns, likely because academic activity wound down for the summer. Unlike the national data, the metro unemployment data isn't adjusted for seasonal factors.

Champaign-Urbana, Ill., the home of the University of Illinois, reported the second-largest increase. The metro area's unemployment rate rose from 6.9 percent in May to 8.6 percent in June. College towns in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona reported similar jumps.

Twelve cities reported unemployment rates greater than 15 percent. Eleven of those cities were in California. El Centro, Calif., had the nation's highest rate at 28.5 percent. It was followed by Yuma, Ariz., at 26.9 percent. Both cities are big agricultural producers and depend heavily on migrant farm work.

Bismarck, N.D. had the nation's lowest rate, at 3.6 percent. It was followed by Lincoln, Neb. at 4.1 percent, and Fargo, N.D. at 4.2 percent.

26940  General Category / General News / Re: Treasury confirms deadline for raising debt limit on: August 04, 2011, 12:18:48 pm
Dow plunges 350 points on 'total fear'
By Annalyn Censky August 4, 2011: 12:10 PM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- U.S. stocks plunged, with the Dow losing more than 350 points Thursday, as investors remain on edge about the global economy.

There's "total fear" in the market right now, said Bob Doll, chief equity strategist at BlackRock.

More: http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/04/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm
 
 
 
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