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You shoulda have that in place whenever you log on to the OD.
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To a large extent, this indicator reflects the high number of illiterate and near-illiterate people relative ... This is the culprit giving me a shoking eye opener the other day. Here I have this guy, who is fluently bilingual, English/Spanish. Born from Mex parents raised in Cali. Recently he tells me he's going to take Spanish classes. So, I am like As he continues his story, I couldn't believe my ears ... He doesn't know how to read and write Spanish and has no clue about grammar!!! All he knows is, how to talk Spanish, because his parents always spoke it around home. English he learned at school. I thought, OMG, how many??? ... of those who don't speak English and only rattle away in Spanish do actually not know how to read and write their language ....
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US home foreclosures surge
Published: Tuesday January 29, 2008 Home repossessions spiked across the United States during 2007 leaving over one percent of all households in some stage of foreclosure, an industry report showed Tuesday. RealtyTrac, a California-based company which tracks foreclosure activity, said 2.2 million foreclosure filings were lodged during 2007, marking a 75 percent increase compared with the prior year. The percentage of households in foreclosure almost doubled from 0.58 percent in 2006, signalling the slump in the US housing market has yet to abate. "Some properties may have just entered the initial stage of foreclosure in 2007 and could be going through the rest of the foreclosures process in 2008, unless lender and government intervention efforts begin to gain more traction," RealtyTrac chief executive James Saccacio said. America's housing market has been in a downturn since early 2006 following a multiyear boom. The foreclosure report followed a government survey a day earlier which showed that sales of newly built homes across the country plunged by a record 26.4 percent during 2007, compared with the prior year, to an estimated 774,000 properties. The foreclosure snapshot was released as Federal Reserve policymakers gathered in Washington for a two-day meeting to mull interest rates. Most economists expect the central bank to cut interest rates again. The Fed launched a rate-cutting drive in September to underpin economic momentum which has been threatened by the housing downturn. It cut its key federal funds rate by an historic three quarters of a percentage point to 3.50 percent in a surprise move last Tuesday. The foreclosure report also showed that 215,749 foreclosure filings were recorded in December, marking a 97 percent increase from the same month in 2006. Saccacio said December marked the fifth straight month in a row with over 200,000 foreclosure filings reported. The RealtyTrac report showed that the states of Nevada, Michigan, California and Florida were suffering the highest rates of property foreclosures.
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It's about China and India.
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Surplus of Nat Gas, ya sure. Watch this movie, I rented it at blockbuster.
http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=54349#ff-film Basically, people in western Canada who are being forced from their land by companies in their pursuit of Nat Gas. Nice. Never thought this could happen in Canada. Hope you guys enjoy your heated pools in the summer. How about this one http://www.mongrelmedia.com/films/ManufacturedLandscapes.html Watch rivers run red from industrial waste in China. Enjoy your "made in China" plastic crap from Walmart. |
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