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To: sea_urchin who wrote (23309)	7/2/2005 12:10:36 AM
From: The Wharf	Respond to of 81023

thestandard.com.hk Where is honest in this writere caption i suppose. I also suppose he will get a quick course on making english as complex as possible Accounting changes help banks' books look better Bank of China, Construction Bank and other mainland lenders have started to adopt a new set of accounting rules that change the way they set aside money to cover potential bad loans, increasing the profit on their books.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (23309)	7/3/2005 12:46:03 PM
From: philv	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81023

This weekend's world wide concerts for the poor especially in Africa must be especially heart warming for you, as I saw the Reverend Tutu and Mandela, your countrymen, front and centre. Debt forgiveness and prosperity for all! I wonder though, to whom was this debt owned? If I was the president of the World Bank, or the IMF, I would also be pleased because I could now run around the world again, making new big deals. I also wonder how many of these nations were actually making payments, or is it just the old familiar perpetual paper game? In any case, will the average poor African see any difference in his standard of living? You don't have to answer that.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (23309)	7/3/2005 5:08:58 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81023

>it seems the US fell out of the frying pan into the fire, so I'll just wish you a happy week-end instead. Someone agrees with me (although I'm not as right-wing as this guy). presidentbushblog.com >>Am I in America or have I died and gone to Hell? About the only visible foundation laid by our forefathers that continues to exist today are the shells that house our three branches of the federal government…..the principles associated with government are but faint memories. Our moral compass is in a virtual spin; the political process is controlled by big business, lobbies, political machine, graft, greed; our pulpits are slinking behind tax free status; our Ten Commandments, the bedrock of national development is reduced to an outdated symbol; we are killing babies by the millions; kids are killing kids; men are marrying men and women are marrying women; sexual deviants are roaming near uncontrolled; heterosexual marriage is viewed as radical and intolerant; our schools are focused on “relativism” without a stable, solid foundation; the US Courts are making laws, the US Congress is without rudder and running scared; the White House is owned by corporations, God is not welcome in public; and in effect all control by “we the people” has been lost. The leadership in the White House, Congress and Supreme Court are at best ineffective. President Bush is shielded with so many layers of staff he doesn’t know what is going on; has anyone heard from the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, R-IL, in the last year? What about Senator Frist, R-TN, majority leader in the Senate….flip flop jelly sound is heard as he tries to appease the opposition, nearly every time he speaks. In addition the leadership allows a significant number of Congressional members to be AWOL but continue to draw the enormous salary. Now the US Supreme Court (which has transformed from legal to political) has ruled private property can be confiscated by government and given to private developers if the politicians find benefit to the tax base and citizens would have another place to shop, moor their boat, or play golf………if there was any courage in our Congress, there would be a vote scheduled to take the necessary steps to over turn the black robed tyrants decision, if not initiate impeachment action. Our current US Supreme Court is destroying our Constitution and “we the people” stand by as a flock of sheep waiting for the slaughter.<<