Sunday, March 13, 2011

STOCKS PLUMMET IN JAPAN - LOSSES IN AUSTRALIA - GET THE NEWS!

Tokyo Shares Fall 5.2 Percent in first Opening Since Earthquake

Published March 13, 2011

| NewsCore

Tokyo shares fell 5.2 percent on Monday in their first opening since Friday, when Japan was struck by the biggest earthquake in its history and a devastating tsunami.

The Nikkei index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell 540.39 points shortly after opening to 9,714.04, AFP reported.

Japan's central bank injected a record 7 trillion yen ($85.7 billion) into the short-term money market Monday in an attempt to build confidence.

Earlier, MarketWatch reported Asian shares started the week with losses, with investors selling out of the Australian resources sector in the wake of the earthquake.

The Australian S&P/ASX 200 index dropped 1.4 percent to 4,579.70, while the Australian dollar declined 0.4 percent to $1.0097 against the US dollar, and the greenback dollar rose to 81.24 yen as Japanese firms repatriated some foreign funds to meet needs at home following the disaster.

Oil futures fell below $100 a barrel in Nymex electronic trading, with the contract down $1.50 at $99.66 a barrel. Gold futures climbed $6.20 to $1,428.00 an ounce.

After Friday's earthquake and subsequent tsunami, Japan is struggling to control damage to its nuclear reactors.

"The earthquake, tsunami impact and potential for nuclear 'meltdown' have dominated weekend news. Traditional safe-havens are doing well so far this morning. Equities are likely to trade very nervously," said strategists at TD Securities.

Diversified mineral extractors fell in Sydney on Monday morning, with BHP Billiton Ltd. shares down 1.9 percent and Rio Tinto Ltd. shares down 1.7 percent.

Specifically, investors were selling shares in companies with uranium-mining operations, with Paladin Energy Ltd. shares down 10.8 percent, Energy Resources of Australia Ltd. shares down 9.2 percent and Extract Resources Ltd. shares down 6.7 percent.

LIBERALS DELIBERATELY DESTROYING JOBS AND ALLOWING GAS PRICES TO SOAR!

Subnitted by Darla Dawald at Patriot Action Network

Stopping Policies That Drive Up Gas Prices, Destroy Jobs

March 13, 2011 | Posted by Speaker Boehner's Press Office | Permalink

This week, the House will vote on another round of spending cuts aimed at ending some of the uncertainty facing job creators so they can begin hiring again. And with high gas prices burdening families and small businesses, Republicans have launched the American Energy Initiative

to stop Washington policies that are driving up prices and expand American energy production to help lower costs and create jobs. Learn more below and watch Speaker Boehner

discussing the initiative here:

SUCH FOOLISH ACTS SIMPLY HAVE TO BE PURPOSEFUL!

Submitted by: Myke
MISTEPS AND BUMBLES BY B.O

If any other of our presidents had doubled the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If any other of our presidents had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

If any other of our presidents had criticized a state law that he admitted he never even read, would you think that he is just an ignorant hot head?

If any other of our presidents joined the country of Mexico and sued a state in the United States to force that state to continue to allow illegal immigration, would you question his patriotism and wonder who's side he was on?

Spokesman Crowley Out at State Department After Comments on Egypt, Accused WikiLeaker

Published March 13, 2011

| FoxNews.com

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley is out of a job after criticizing the Pentagon last week for its detention of a private accused of feeding hundreds of thousands of documents to WikiLeaks.

Crowley resigned Sunday after also recently angering the White House for comment

ASK ANY MUSLIM REFUSING TO ASSIMILATE TO LEAVE OR BE DEPORTED!

Muslims are now calling for the removal of the
Statue of Liberty

Submitted by Darla Dawald at Patriot Action Network

March 13, 2011 at 7:26am

The Islamic Demolition of the Statue of Liberty

Muslims are now calling for the removal of the Statue of Liberty stating it is offensive to them for what it stands for.

IS THIS WHAT AMERICA HAS COME TO? OBAMA ADMINISTRATION INTERFERED WITH CITY STANDARDS!

CITY LOWERS REST STANDARDS AS NOT ENOUGH BLACKS PASSED!

DAYTON -- The Dayton Police Department is lowering its testing standards for recruits.

It's a move required by the U.S. Department of Justice after it says not enough African-Americans passed the exam.

Dayton is in desperate need of officers to replace dozens of retirees. The hiring process was postponed for months because the D.O.J. rejected the original scores provided by the Dayton Civil Service Board, which administers the test.

Under the previous requirements, candidates had to get a 66% on part one of the exam and a 72% on part two.

The D.O.J. approved new scoring policy only requires potential police officers to get a 58% and a 63%. That's the equivalent of an ‘F’ and a ‘D’

Earth's day length shortened by Japan earthquake

Scientists say impact of massive quake has forced Earth to rotate faster

Play CBS Video Video Japan's nuclear meltdown worries Workers at the Fukushima nuclear complex are trying to restore power and prevent the worst case -- a meltdown. Celia Hatton reports on what some Japanese are calling "Japan's Chernobyl."

The massive earthquake that struck northeast Japan Friday (March 11) has shortened the length Earth's day by a fraction and shifted how the planet's mass is distributed.

Monster aftershock could strike within days

Adam Morton

March 14, 2011

NORTH-EASTERN Japan can expect another monster earthquake large enough to trigger a tsunami within days, the head of the Australian Seismological Centre says.

The director, Kevin McCue, said there had been more than 100 smaller quakes since Friday, but a larger aftershock was likely.
''Normally they happen within days,'' he said. ''The rule of thumb is that you would expect the main aftershock to be one magnitude smaller than the main shock, so you would be expecting a 7.9.

AMERICA"S CHILDREN SUBJECTED TO LIBERAL INDOCTRNATION WITH UNIONS IN CHARGE!

Submitted by: John Butler
U.S. public schools: Progressive indoctrination campsPosted: March 07, 2011
1:00 am Eastern© 2011

(This is Part 1 of a two-part series on U.S. public schools.)
Why should liberals want to change the public educational system when it is turning out the product they have been striving for years to produce?
Check out these real news headlines from the past several weeks and months about the state of U.S. public education across the country:

REPUBLICANS NEED TO GROW SOME BBs!

Submitted by: John Butler

Republicans need to don a skirt and grow a backbone: Wisconsin revisited

By Carmen Reynolds, Editor-in-Chief, boogai.net

Rush Limbaugh is saying today the only Republican folks with a back bone are Palin and Bachmann.

Last week Congress was apprised by the Heritage Foundation about the provision in the Obamacare bill which appropriates $105 billion towards its funding- a complete and fraudulent circumvention of the legislative process.

In the bill, instead of following the rules and letting the next Congress go through the appropriations process, Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats appropriated billions of dollars in funding for Obamacare without holding a single hearing, or even allowing Members of Congress a chance to read the bill. Why is Bachmann one of the few sirens of this message? Why is she not getting the attention and backing of her fellow Republicans?

LIBERALS ARE AFRAID OF BEING SEEN AS RACISTS!

Video: Left-Winger Admits Left Won't Criticize Obama Because He's a Black Liberal

Watch the Video and Comment:

OBAMA WANTS NATIONAL GUARD CONTROL TAKEN FROM GOVERNORS!

Submitted by: BobJen

Obama plan unifies Defense, Homeland Security response

The U.S. Secretary of Defense yesterday announced that he's agreed to a plan that will allow one military commander to be in charge of both State National Guard and each military branch's reserve forces when they are deployed to respond to domestic emergencies including terrorist attacks, according to Lisa Daniel of the American Forces Press Service.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, along with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and the Council of Governors -- a group President Barack Obama formed in January 2010 to represent all of the states' governors -- signed off on the agreement, known as the Joint Action Plan, during a March 1 Pentagon meeting, Ms. Daniel reported in a statement obtained by the 14,000-member National Association of Chiefs of Police.

NEA OWNS DEMOCRAT'S PARTY!

Democrats Scramble to Save Their #1 Donor - The Teachers
America’s BIGGEST political donor is not corporate America, bankers, Insurers or Wall Street. It is the National Education Association, which gave over $56 million in campaign donations in the election cycle 2008 alone, and American Federation of Teachers, which gave over $12 million in 2008. Combined, these two teachers unions gave over $68 million in 2008, ALL of it to Democrats. Still trying to figure out why Democrats are.......
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by JB Williams

TO SAY, "A LEMON IS SOUR" IS LIKE TELLING EVERYONE "POLITICIANS ARE CROOKS"i

Betrayed
For the most part, Americans take the incompetence, selfishness and greed, which characterize many of our current politicians, in stride. However, the Obama administration is not merely incompetent, selfish and greedy, they are actively committing high treason against the very people who elected them. This betrayal of the highest order could very well result in the destruction of America. America is.....
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by Dave Hodges

GET OFF GOVERNMENT DEPENDENCE IF YOU WANT TRUE FREEDOM!

"America's Self-Fulfilling Prophecy!"

Many governments, including the American government, have learned the tricks of the Burmese monkey trapper, or so it would seem. The monkey trapper hollows out a coconut and then puts nuts inside the cavity. He then chains the coconut to a tree. Along comes a monkey who sticks his hand in the coconut and closes his fist around the nuts. With the nuts firmly in his grasp, his fist will not come back out of the coconut and he's stuck there, as in a trap. Alas, the monkey isn't very smart and he holds onto the nuts and won't let go. Along comes the monkey trapper and throws the hapless monkey in a cage for a trip to some zoo, or a dinner table.