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To: carranza2 who wrote (107039)	8/14/2014 12:55:49 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217591

the french of fiat money inflation fame are ... at it again Running out of other people's money..... dailymail.co.uk SNIP: France is resorting to selling off many of its most prestigious and valuable properties in a desperate bid to raise funds and keep its national debt under control. With France's total debt expected to hit almost €2trillion ($2.7trillion) by the end of the year and President Francois Hollande's government hoping to save around €50billion ($67billion) over the next three years, state-owned properties across the world are having to be offered up for sale. The latest property to go on the market is 1143 Fifth Avenue in New York - a stunning seven-floor, red brick and limestone block in central Manhattan once home to many of France's top U.S. diplomats. Covering 16,000 sq ft, the imposing block was built in 1923 and has an asking price of $32.5million (€24million). It consists of five apartments each boasting an impressive 1690 sq ft as well as a stunning eight-room duplex offering a huge 2712 sq ft. It follows the sale earlier this year of the luxurious 18-room French ambassador’s residence at 740 Park Avenue which was reportedly snapped up by an American financier for a cool $70 million (€52 million). Once dubbed the world's 'richest apartment building' the block was once home to Jacqueline Kennedy and John D Rockerfeller. The 18-room, 7-1/2 bath duplex apartment featured five fireplaces was reportedly used to host parties on an almost daily basis. France has an estimated €190billion worth of state-owned property in Europe, more than any other country. A government website is currently listing some 2150 properties that are currently up for sale or in the process of being sold, indicating the scale of the sell-off. Among the prestigious properties that have already been offered for sale are Louis XV's hunting lodge at La Muette outside Paris and Chateau Thonon-les-Bains by Lake Geneva in the French Alps.

To: carranza2 who wrote (107039)	8/15/2014 2:42:15 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217591

U.S. share of Latin America’s trade has dropped from 53% of the region’s worldwide trade in 2000 to 35 percent in 2013. Meanwhile, China’s share has soared from 1.9 percent to 12 percent over the same period, according to Inter-American Development Bank figures. What’s more, if current trends continue, by 2025 Latin America’s trade with the United States will have declined to 17 percent of its total trade, while Latin America’s trade with China will have reached 17 percent, says chief development bank trade economist Mauricio Moreira. And these figures include Mexico, a huge Latin American economy that does relatively little business with China. If you exclude Mexico, China’s presence in the region will dwarf the United States’ by 2025, the projections show. dallasnews.com

To: carranza2 who wrote (107039)	8/22/2014 2:34:12 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217591

it may soon be that we shall long for the old days of bird flu and swine flu, as opposed to what we now may have to deal w/, ebola and eventually air-borne ebola it may soon also be that we shall miss the secular versions of syria, libya, and iraq, as opposed to dealing w/ folks we do not wish to know that are a part of isis / isil folks like to believe turkey cannot next fall folks are often wrong now the boyz who cried wolf too many times may have found a real wolf, and are tee-ing up yet another existential danger for all to gather and fight against except this time the danger is existential, and when joined w/ the existential dangers that is the global monetary / financial mess, a difficult situation emerges in the mean time, an afro-american black revolution is starting to stir (or would it be afro-american spring?) and now we have a situation of british folks killing american folk, and i suppose soon enough more similar episodes we have a mess