Pound Gets Hammered by King and Euro Slumps

The greenback climbed higher against the majors amid weaker US data and a pullback in commodities prices. The major stock indexes drifted lower, with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 sliding by over 1% and the Dow Jones drifting lower by 0.5%.

Weekly jobless claims improved from the previous week, declining to 530k from 545k. However, August home sales eased up, slipping 5.1 million units from 5.3 million units a month prior.

The pound sold off sharply in the Thursday session as government jawboning hammered the currency against the euro and the dollar.

The sterling plunged to its lowest level in 6-months at 91.55 and a 2-month low against the dollar at 1.6020.

The catalyst for the sharp sell-off was comments from Bank of England that suggested a weaker currency would be beneficial to stabilizing the economy. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown echoed a similar tone, saying “all factors that make for a stable economy” are welcome.

Euro Slumps against USD

The euro tumbled lower to the 1.4620 mark versus the dollar amid a general slump in commodities and equities in the Thursday session.

Germany’s September Ifo sentiment survey missed consensus estimates, improving to 91.3 instead of forecasts for an increase to 92.0 from 91.3.

The Ifo expectations component improved to 95.7 from 95.0 in August, albeit less than the expected improvement to 96.5 and the current conditions index improved to 87.0 from 86.1.

 

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Obama Protecting America From Terrorist - Our Saviour

I was watching the news tonight, not sure which channel, but they covered three stories of recent terrorist being captured in the USA while planning to use WMD in busy places within the USA.  It seems that while under Obama, our government has been successful in just the last few days.  I think we should look at how many attacks have been stopped since Obama has become our leader.  Unlike Bush, he has managed to protect us from any major attacks.

Notice, even though Obama has captured several terrorist recently in the USA, he didn’t create a lie so he can go invade some country for oil and defense profits while he kills someone that doesn’t believe in his God.  Wow, what a change from the last president.

My first entry

Well I never really written anything to be published but I am thinking that in today’s world if your not writing your not really there. So here I go for it. I’m not really sure what ill be writing about, but I’m assuming as times goes by I will figure it out. Hope you enjoy yourself.

I just got back from 2.5 months in the US, and all I can think about is when am I going back. It’s not that I don’t like it here in Israel but I feel like I just need a big change in my life, you know start anew somewhere else. Sometimes I think it’s also the girls in my life that make me wanna go. I mean for the past year there was one girl in particular. It’s not that we were going out or anything but it was obviously going that way, and Gd did I love her. A few years ago there was another girl and she broke my heart you know the story. After her I closed myself to love completely until she came around. It was a good year, I would say one of the best years of my life, and it was going so well. I’m not sure what happened but when I got back to Israel at first she was so excited for me to come home but very quickly after one day she suddenly said hey please don’t call or talk to me again. Why? No clue. So once again I walk around heart broken. But hey who am I to complain I know lots of you had it worst than me, just kinda hard to care about others when you are thinking about yourself. So I’m thinking maybe this is just another sign that I need to make a big move.

That’s my next big plan and I’m gonna make it happen.

Anyhow i think ill write next about happier stuff and probably more about my line of work, but for a start this is me.

A New York, un Sarko (trop) parlant

Nouveau rebond dans l’affaire Clearstream. Le tout-petit-président s’est offert un dérapage indigne de sa fonction. Une phrase qui ridiculise au passage l’avocat qu’il fut. Parce que tout lecteur d’un “Que sais-je” sur la justice connaît la différence entre le présumé innocent qu’est le prévenu et le coupable qu’il peut devenir s’il est condamné par le tribunal (et encore, il faudrait attendre que la sanction soit définitive et qu’il ait donc épuisé toutes les voies de recours : appel, cassation). Bref, gentiment questionné sur le procès Clearstream et Villepin, voilà notre Naboléon qui lance : “au bout d’une longue enquête, deux juges indépendants ont estimé que les coupables devaient être traduits devant le tribunal correctionnel…Eh bien moi, je vais vous dire une chose: je fais totalement confiance à la justice.”

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Pour le reste, le nain élyséen a été impeccable, maîtrisant son sujet, volontariste et ayant les choses bien en main pour nous prendre pour des cons pour faire changer le monde (rien que ça). La preuve via Systaime :

C’est peut être du délit de sale gueule (mais c’est sa spécialité après tout) mais même comme ça j’ai du mal à le supporter et le trouve pitoyable, nuisant à l’image de la France.

Bahamas prosecutors say 2 extortion defendants threatened John Travolta

By: JUAN McCARTNEY Associated Press NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Prosecutors said a paramedic who treated John Travolta’s son shortly before he died in the Bahamas threatened to release private information unless the movie star paid $25 million. Travolta is among those expected to take the stand during the trial, but he did not appear in the courtroom Tuesday during the first day of testimony in the island chain off the Florida coast. “Contact was made with certain persons to communicate a threat to John Travolta,” Bernard Turner, chief prosecutor in the Bahamas, said in his opening argument. Ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne and former Bahamas senator Pleasant Bridgewater, a co-defendant who allegedly acted as an intermediary, have pleaded innocent to extortion charges. Defense lawyers had not yet presented opening arguments. Police say the alleged scheme involved a document related to the treatment of Jett Travolta, a chronically ill teenager who died Jan. 2 following a seizure at a family vacation home on Grand Bahama island. It would have released emergency responders from liability if the family refused an ambulance but police said that did not happen. The first trial witness, police inspector Andrew Wells, testified that after 16-year-old Jett was loaded into an ambulance, Lightbourne told him that Travolta wanted his son taken directly to the local airport instead of the hospital. Wells said Travolta signed a release form. It was unclear why Jett Travolta was not taken to the airport and why the defendants allegedly believed the actor would pay to keep the document secret. Another paramedic, Derrex Rolle, testified Tuesday that Jett was unresponsive and showed no signs of life when he arrived at the actor’s home inside a resort community. Travolta, who has kept a low profile since his son’s death, is on a list of 14 witnesses who could be called to testify. Prosecutors have not said when the actor might take the stand. The other potential witnesses include lawyers and friends of Travolta as well as five police inspectors and detectives. A jury of six women and three men was seated in the Supreme Court case Monday.

By: JUAN McCARTNEY

Associated Press

NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Prosecutors said a paramedic who treated John Travolta’s son shortly before he died in the Bahamas threatened to release private information unless the movie star paid $25 million.

Travolta is among those expected to take the stand during the trial, but he did not appear in the courtroom Tuesday during the first day of testimony in the island chain off the Florida coast.

“Contact was made with certain persons to communicate a threat to John Travolta,” Bernard Turner, chief prosecutor in the Bahamas, said in his opening argument.

Ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne and former Bahamas senator Pleasant Bridgewater, a co-defendant who allegedly acted as an intermediary, have pleaded innocent to extortion charges.

Defense lawyers had not yet presented opening arguments.

Police say the alleged scheme involved a document related to the treatment of Jett Travolta, a chronically ill teenager who died Jan. 2 following a seizure at a family vacation home on Grand Bahama island. It would have released emergency responders from liability if the family refused an ambulance but police said that did not happen.

The first trial witness, police inspector Andrew Wells, testified that after 16-year-old Jett was loaded into an ambulance, Lightbourne told him that Travolta wanted his son taken directly to the local airport instead of the hospital. Wells said Travolta signed a release form.

It was unclear why Jett Travolta was not taken to the airport and why the defendants allegedly believed the actor would pay to keep the document secret.

Another paramedic, Derrex Rolle, testified Tuesday that Jett was unresponsive and showed no signs of life when he arrived at the actor’s home inside a resort community.

Travolta, who has kept a low profile since his son’s death, is on a list of 14 witnesses who could be called to testify. Prosecutors have not said when the actor might take the stand. The other potential witnesses include lawyers and friends of Travolta as well as five police inspectors and detectives.

A jury of six women and three men was seated in the Supreme Court case Monday.

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New solar power plant in Arizona

Albiasa Corporation, subsidiary of Spanish based Albiasa Solar, has chosen Arizona as the new location for the renewable energy firm’s development headquarters and has selected a site near Kingman as the future location of its 200 megawatt (MW) concentrating solar power (CSP) plant.

The Albiasa project uses parabolic CSP technology similar to that at the SEGS I-IV power plants in the California Mojave Desert. These plants have reliably operated since the 1980s using the sun to generate electricity via parabolic collectors.

Albiasa Solar has worked for years in Spain to improve the parabolic trough technology, making overall operation and cost of CSP more efficient. The Albiasa trough collector has been assessed as the most efficient parabolic trough system in the world.

“The Albiasa Kingman project involves over $1 billion capital investment and will generate annually, with molten salt thermal storage, more than 665,000 MWh of renewable solar energy when completed in 2013,” said Albert Fong, Albiasa Corporation’s Chief Project Engineer.

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USA: Video-Barack Obama TV show from Letterman!

Ospite del talk show della Cbs, Obama show nella famosa trasmissione USA di David Letterman, tra battute varie, ha anche sdramattizzato sul tema sempre difficile delle discriminazioni razziali anche in politica.

Dopo un’estate all’insegna delle proteste dei conservatori contro il progetto di riforma dell’assistenza sanitaria, si dice che questo sia anche dovuto anche ad un progetto di sottofondo razziale.Ad una particolare domanda di Letterman , come al solito al vetriolo, Obama ha anche avuto il tempo di sfoggiare una battuta esilarante : «E’ importante capire che io ero di colore anche prima delle elezioni