Soren wrote on Mar 11^th, 2009 at 3:11pm:


I can guarantee they are.

And not just in London.

IMF warns of civil unrest
March 11, 2009 - 5:20PM

The IMF warned on Tuesday the world was gripped by a "Great Recession" that could throw millions back into poverty and spark civil unrest, as the United States appealed for joint action by nations against the crisis.


"The global financial crisis, that might now be called the 'great recession' [it's a depression, muppets - Cal], provides a sobering backdrop to our conference," IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn told delegates at an anti-crisis meeting in Tanzania.

"The IMF expects global growth to slow below zero this year, the worst performance in most of our lifetimes," he said, urging wealthy Western countries to maintain financial support for low-income nations.

The IMF director also said there was now "a real risk that millions will be thrown back into poverty" across the African continent and that the economic crisis raised "the threat of civil unrest, perhaps even a war".

The worldwide recession also raised fears in Europe of a sharp erosion in public health as financially strapped patients are forced to defer care.

In Tokyo plummeting exports dragged down the Tokyo stockmarket to a 26-year low on Tuesday, although global markets later rose on hopes that US bank Citigroup would avoid nationalisation. (See report).

"So far, there are no visible signs of a fast recovery. The economies in industrial countries remain weak and the current crisis in Eastern Europe is a further strain," said Simon Juncker, an analyst at Germany's Commerzbank.

Germany, too, reported another sharp fall in export earnings in January, the fourth straight monthly decline.

In Washington, US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke urged world governments to forge a common strategy to regulate the financial system to tackle the worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

"We must have a strategy that regulates the financial system as a whole, in a holistic way, not just its individual components," he told the Council on Foreign Relations.

Fightback

However, stockmarkets in most of Asia, Europe and the United States bounced back from big losses on Monday, boosted mostly by investors hunting for bargains and an upbeat profit report from Citigroup.

Citigroup chief Vikram Pandit said in an internal memo obtained by AFP that the company was seeing a return to profitability in early 2009 after punishing losses last year, although he warned about continued "market volatility".

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq rocketed 4.3% and 5.9% higher, respectively, in afternoon trading.

London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed up 4.9%, while the Frankfurt Dax gained 5.3% and the Paris CAC 40 soared 5.7%.

But in Tokyo, the Nikkei fell 0.4% to hit its lowest reading since October 1982 on investor worries that there is no quick fix in sight for the troubles afflicting Asia's leading economy.

China was meanwhile the source of another worrisome indicator as it reported its first drop in consumer prices - deflation - in more than six years.

Deflation, combined with recession, can sap corporate earnings, cut deeply into growth and employment and reduce consumer spending.

http://business.smh.com.au/business/world-business/imf-warns-of-civil-unrest-200...

NorthOfNorth wrote on Mar 11^th, 2009 at 1:50pm:



helian,

Let me edit your comment to reflect a more accurate circumstance, and a circumstance which muslims are seeking [with all of their actions, expressing their gifted freedoms].....







And further, what Calanen said is very true....

Quote:

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1236730075/0#0




helian,

I think that the ideal which you are trying to express, is that we can't hope to enjoy rights, which we are not prepared to extend to others?

Yes?
[And i also agree with that sentiment.]

If that is what you are trying to express, then you should more properly direct your argument to the muslim community,
......who within Sharia jurisdictions, would not countenance your words, which express such thoughts.



If you doubt that, look at what happened to all of those innocents [ignorant sheeple] who supported the ISLAMIC revolution in Iran, when Khomeini 'came home'.



ISLAM is not tolerant.

Nothing about ISLAM is 'moderate'.

And muslims, in their support of their ISLAMIC Jihad [against 'unbelievers'], celebrate their deceit and treachery.

Calanen wrote on Mar 11^th, 2009 at 6:18pm:

Having a bit of a professional wank are we, lawboy...

The point was the tag.

helian, this is not about your fear, it is about silly horror of devoted(?) muslims and violence their silly leaders promise when they see something like this

Do you believe that they are sane when they promise to kill the artist?

and he can do that Calanen after all he's been ignoring his own brain since he became a Muslim.

NorthOfNorth wrote on Mar 11^th, 2009 at 9:44pm:




helian,

Making posts like these, i think....

"Christian militants kill U.K soldiers"
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1236559378/45#45

"Terrorist Attack on Sri Lankan cricket team"
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1236058544/42#42

....doesn't make me a wimp.

Such posts rather, prove that i am awake.








helian,

I know that you will like this one, from Ezekiel.         

It is about the WATCHMAN.


Ezekiel 33:1
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2  Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
3  If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
4  Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
5  He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
6  But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
7  So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
8  When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
9  Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.