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Archive for May, 2008
De nieuwe Lopende Schommeling van de Oplopende markt?
May 31st
Men zou kunnen benieuwd zijn of zal een nieuwe lopende oplopende marktschommeling durend zijn aangezien de effectenbeurs op vrij prestaties over recente handelzittingen heeft gezet. Laatste Friday' s de handelzittingen over NYSE en NASDAQ waren aandacht die het verbazen krijgt. CitiGroup rapporteerde een reusachtige $13 miljard voor het eerste trimester neerschrijft en dat het 9.000 banen sneed. Dat werd genomen als goed nieuws aangezien het laatste van het slechte nieuws en Citi' zou kunnen zijn; s voorraadschommelingen. Welke optimisten de stroom grotendeels onbeproefd in een baissemarktgroep geldmanagers is. Google rapporteert dan dat de inkomens voor het eerste trimester beter waren dan verwacht en de voorraad opstijgt en 20% hoger, Google' sluit; s beste dagprestaties in meer dan twee jaar. Nog eens 4650 baanbesnoeiingen worden aangekondigd door AT& T en dit worden genomen als meer goed nieuws aangezien het dat AT& betekent; T voert actie in aanwezigheid van een recessie. Gebeurt hier voor de dag Dow omhoog meer dan 200 punten is en op Dow 13,000.What dichterbij komt? Een investeerder die de effectenbeursprestaties van laat bekijkt kan alle verkeerde gevolgtrekkingen maken. Hij zou kunnen denken dat de onroerende goederenmarkt plotseling heeft teruggekregen, die het fiasco van de subprimehypotheek over is, die de 45 triljoen dollars of zo van bizarre onverkoopbare derivaten die op de boeken van world' zitten; s de belangrijke financiële instellingen zijn de stevige investeringen van de Amerikaanse club van automobilisten, en dat de recessie van de V.S. over zal zijn alvorens wij het kennen. Het zou gemakkelijk zijn om elk van deze dingen die op de voorraad market' worden gebaseerd te denken; s prestaties sinds Helikopter Ben en het Hameren Streng Paulson bouwden het de reddingsplan van de Achterstevens van de Beer en stelden het Gevoede nachtelijke venster voor makelarijfirma’s open. Talloze miljarden van lage kostengeld werden plotseling ter beschikking gesteld van de makelarijfirma’s. En daarin waarschijnlijk is ons antwoord aan de voorraad market' s het nieuwe leven. Met verse multimiljarden die in de bankwezen en voorraadmakelarijgemeenschappen worden ingespoten wie kan betwijfelen of een significant deel van het de recente voorraadvooruitgang van brandstof heeft voorzien? Bravo voor Ben en Paul, beide helden van Wall Street. Nochtans, aan welke kosten? Miljarden dollars die Bernanke in het financiële systeem giet moeten ergens komen uit en zij. Fed' s de hoge snelheidsdrukpersen moeten heet deze dagen roken. Het geld wordt door Gevoed en de overheid van de V.S. als zij heeft het werkelijk besteed om te besteden. Droevig zij niet. Als world' s de grootste schuldenaarnatie zich de V.S. graaft in zulk een diepe gat met it' s borrow en besteedt beleid dat het kan volledig nooit terugkrijgen. M3, die de overheid tegenhield een tijdje geleden rapporterend, heeft ongeveer 15% tot onlangs gekweekt. Momenteel wordt M3 geschat om zich aan een tarief uit te breiden groter dan 20%. Deze druk van toestemmingsmunt gaat de V.S. dearly op lange termijn kosten. De inflatie beklimt reeds snel als prijzen voor energie, voedsel, gezondheidszorg, en de harde goederen stijgen aangezien de monetaire inflatie terrein wint. Maak geen fout over het. Een perfect financieel onweer brouwt en het helikoptergeld voor iedereen wie een vette kat in de tactiek van Amerika van Bernanke en Paulson in het dumpen emmershoogtepunt van geld op Wall Street is gaat tot storm' bijdragen; s intensiteit. Zodra de inflatie werkelijk binnen bij aantallen met tientallen schopt, die waarschijnlijk te spoedig maar al zullen zijn, zal Gevoed moeten beginnen rentevoeten te verhogen. Het opheffen van tarieven in een zwakke economie zal Wall Street terug naar aarde brengen. Uiteindelijk het netelige Grote Gemiddelde draagt zijn manier zal hebben. Don' t vergeet om de verzameling te verkopen. Het zou uw laatste kans kunnen zijn om zich uit voorraden aan aantrekkelijke prijzen voor een lang tijdje te bewegen. Het schijnt aan me dat dit laatste hijgt oplopende marktverzameling vóór de markthoofden lager op een met afschuw vervullende manier is.
aandelen-beleggen.com
Purported UFO video to be shown Friday
May 30th
A video that purportedly shows a living, breathing space alien will be shown to the news media Friday in Denver.
Jeff Peckman, who is pushing a ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver to prepare the city for close encounters of the alien kind, said the video is authentic and convinced him that aliens exist.
“As impressive as it is, it’s still one tiny portion in the context of a vast amount of peripheral evidence,” he said Wednesday. “It’s really the final visual confirmation of what you already know to be true having seen all the other evidence.”
When Peckman went before city officials this month to discuss his proposed ET initiative, he promised to show the video.
Peckman said the general public will have to wait to see it because it’s being included in a documentary by Stan Romanek.
“No one will be allowed to film the segment with the extraterrestrial because there is an agreement in place limiting that kind of exposure during negotiations for the documentary,” he said.
But people won’t have to wait too long to see it for themselves.
“There is an open, public meeting in about a month in Colorado Springs,” Peckman said. “We’ll hope to do one in Denver at some point, and then in a few months, there will be the documentary that anybody can have, and it’ll have the footage.”
An instructor at the Colorado Film School in Denver scrutinized the video “very carefully” and determined it was authentic, Peckman said.
Peckman, 54, said the video was among the reasons he was “compelled” to launch the proposed ballot initiative, which has generated news as far as South Africa.
“It shows an extraterrestrial’s head popping up outside of a window at night, looking in the window, that’s visible through an infrared camera,” he said. The alien is about 4 feet tall and can be seen blinking, Peckman said earlier this month.
In a statement, Peckman said “other related credible evidence” proving aliens exist will be shown at Friday’s news conference, too.
In 2003, Peckman authored an off-beat ballot initiative that would have required the city to implement stress-reduction techniques. The “Safety Through Peace” initiative failed, but garnered 32 percent of the vote.
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Source: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/28/purported-ufo-video-be-shown-friday/
Teacher wanted to be a sex slave
May 30th
A Melbourne female teacher charged with sexually penetrating a 15-year-old student urged the boy to treat her like a sex slave, court documents show.
Nazira Rafei, 25, who is a teacher at a Melbourne high school, is charged with one count of sexually penetrating a child under 16 and four counts of an indecent act with a child under 16.
She is also charged with trying to conceal the relationship by making an unwarranted demand on the boy.
During a brief filing hearing at the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday, her lawyer, Steve Pica, indicated Rafei would plead not guilty.
“This case is likely to attract a fair degree of media attention,” Mr Pica told the court.
“I do want to place on the record that my client has been fully cooperative with police and is pleading not guilty.”
Police charge sheets tendered to the court allege she had sexual intercourse with a child under her “care, supervision or authority”.
On another occasion, it is alleged, the teacher told the student to “treat her like a sex slave” as she lay on top of him pinching his nipples in the back seat of her car.
Another charge relates to the teacher allegedly kissing the student on his lips and touching his genitals through clothing.
The case was adjourned for committal mention on August 29 at the same court.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/080530/2/172in.html
Vietnam reports “UFO” explosion
May 29th
HANOI (Reuters) – An unidentified flying object exploded in mid-air over a southern Vietnamese island, state media said Wednesday, a day after Cambodia’s air force retracted a report of a mysterious plane crash.
The Vietnam News Agency said residents of Phu Quoc island, 10 km (6 miles) off the coast of the Cambodian province of Kampot, found shards of grey metal, including one 1.5 meters (1.5 yards) long.
“The explosion happened at about 8 km (5 miles) above the ground, and perhaps it was a plane, but authorities could not identify whether it was a civil or military aircraft,” VNA said in a report headlined “UFO explodes over Phu Quoc Island.”
Soldiers were sent out to look for wreckage and survivors, and local authorities contacted airlines in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, but received no reports of missing aircraft, the official state news agency added.
Villagers in Kampot said Tuesday that they had heard a loud explosion. Wednesday they told Reuters they had found small chunks of metal near the coastline.
Kung Mony, deputy commander of Cambodia’s Air Force, said Tuesday he had been told of a foreign plane crashing in Kampot province, but later backed off his claims of an aircraft accident.
(Writing by Grant McCool and Ed Cropley in Bangkok; Editing by Bill Tarrant)
HK, China customs crack high-wire smuggling act
May 29th
HONG KONG (AFP) – Hong Kong and Chinese customs have cracked an audacious smuggling operation that saw millions of dollars in goods ferried across the border along a long cable, officials and reports said Thursday.
Sixteen people — four from Hong Kong and 12 from China — were arrested and electronic goods, including computer accessories and mobile phones, worth more than six million Hong Kong dollars (0.8 million US) were seized.
“The ring was suspected of smuggling high-value electronic goods and computer accessories across the Sha Tau Kok river to the mainland,” Hong Kong’s customs department said in a statement.
A 300-metre-long cable was suspended between a house in rural Hong Kong and a high-rise building in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, allowing smugglers to move goods into the mainland using an elaborate pulley system, the South China Morning Post reported.
“There were many ways of smuggling in the past, such as by underground drains,” the report quoted Leo Sin, head of Hong Kong’s customs intelligence co-ordination group, as saying.
“But this is the first time we have found wire being used for smuggling.”
The cable was shot across the border using a crossbow and the goods were ferried across at night in black plastic bags, the report said.
The syndicate had been operating for two or three weeks, the report added.
Hong Kong and mainland China run independent legal and taxation systems, and smugglers often try to take advantage of different prices and tax rates to smuggle goods either in or out of China.
source: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080529/tod-hongkong-china-crime-smuggling-offbe-575248e.html
Heartbroken man climbs into morgue freezer
May 28th
TAIPEI (Reuters) – A Taiwan man grieving over the death of his girlfriend climbed inside a morgue freezer to be with her and was only pulled out alive half an hour later, media and an official said on Tuesday.
The 41-year-old man was discovered on Monday when workers detected an unusually high temperature in the freezer and realized the hatch was not securely fastened.
“A morgue manager opened the hatch, saw two people lying inside, felt scared enough to yell out and then even cried,” the Liberty Times reported. “She didn’t stabilize for a long time.”
The man took a drug before entering the freezer to speed what appeared to be suicide attempt, local papers said. They said his girlfriend died on Friday from an overdose of sleeping pills.
The morgue would step up security to ensure that family and others who come by to identify bodies do not stay too long, morgue administrator Chang Lung-ching said.
(Reporting by Ralph Jennings; Editing by Nick Macfie and Alex Richardson)
Source http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTP34671220080527?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
Man admits having sex with 1,000 cars
May 27th
A man who claims to have had sex with 1,000 cars has defended his “romantic” feelings towards vehicles.
Photo: Edward Smith with one of his former partners
Edward Smith, who lives with his current “girlfriend” – a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, insisted that he was not “sick” and had no desire to change his ways.
“I appreciate beauty and I go a little bit beyond appreciating the beauty of a car only to the point of what I feel is an expression of love,” he said. More >
Man Calls 2600 Times To Hear The Voice Of Operator
May 26th
Tokyo – A Japanese plumber was arrested for calling a toll-free number around 500 times so he could hear a taped female voice, police said on Monday.
Hiroyuki Nomoto, a 38-year-old Tokyo resident, was arrested on suspicion of obstructing the business of the company, a food firm based in the city of Takasaki north of the capital.
“The company has the number for 24-hour order-taking with a female voice. He said he wanted to hear a woman’s voice,” a police spokesperson said.
“The company paid the call charges, which amounted to 3,8-million yen (about 36,800 U.S. dollars) for the call time of 3100 hours,” the official said.
Obsession with female voices is not new for Japanese police.
A 37-year-old man was arrested in January after placing at least 2 600 calls to directory help over several months.
Telephone operators – who in Japan are almost always women – reportedly nicknamed him the “don’t-hang-up-man”.
Source: http://www.pretorianews.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=nw20080526072217721C654843

