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Meridian, Mississippi Hundreds of bikers poured into Meridian on Saturday for the 8th annual Dixie Thunder Run.

The Dixie Thunder Run is a motorcycle rally that began in 2006 after the organizers returned from Iraq. All of the proceeds from the event go towards "Operation First Response," an organization that donates to all five branches of the military. Organizers say the event has grown tremendously and the staff has tripled in size since it first began, which has been great news for their fundraising capabilities.

"When we were deployed to Iraq, we had some soldiers hurt," Tony Shackleford says. "We had like 28 killed in action, 75 wounded." The military takes care of you to a certain point, but there's other obligations that these guys need help, and that's why we do it. "

The Dixie Thunder Run won't be ending anytime soon. Bikers look forward to future rallies and say they've even spread to Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana.

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Bombing suspect Eric Rudolph arrived in Birmingham, Monday, after five years on the run.

The North Carolina man will await trial for the fatal bombing of an abortion clinic there.

That incident yielded evidence that authorities say ties him to the Olympic Park bombing, among others.

Rudolph did not enter a plea but has a court-appointed attorney.

"He is not guilty," said Sean Devereux. "He asked for an attorney at some point over the weekend, either Saturday, probably Saturday certainly.Yesterday and the court here and the U.S. Attorney's Office saw to it that somebody was out there so he wouldn't be alone, somebody to give him advice."

Rudolph had been on the FBI's ten most wanted list, and the government had offered a $1 million reward for information leading to his capture.

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Speaker Billy McCoy said Wednesday the House will release a budget next week that will fully fund public schools, cover a teacher pay raise and pay all costs for state employees' health insurance, and he says they'll do it all without raising taxes.

McCoy said several chairmen have been meeting late into the night the past ten days to dig through budgets to find money to spread around.

Proposals by Gov. Haley Barbour and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee would leave public education about $161 million short for the year that starts July 1.

Barbour also has said he wants to change the state employees' health insurance plan to offer a variety of options. Some of those options could require workers to pay part of their own premiums.

In other business, Mississippi lawmakers Wednesday adopted the final version of rules to let the public attend all conference committee meetings, even those for money bills.

The joint rules of the House and Senate had passed each chamber earlier in slightly different forms. The rules do not need the governor's approval and take effect immediately.

Conference committees consist of three House members and three senators who negotiate final versions of bills.

For decades, conferences were conducted behind closed doors, but those for general bills have been open in Mississippi since 2001.

Appropriations conferences had remained closed because some lawmakers said opening them would complicate their work. The new rules say conferees can't use cell phones or e-mail during their meetings to communicate with lobbyists or other non-legislators about the bills.

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The supervisors had been presented a petition asking them to rename Sweet Gum Bottom Road to A.M Walker Drive. Since it was a city street the county sent a letter to the City Council endorsing the request without checking the petition and signatures. The council granted the request.

Recently Sadie Martin, a resident of the road, was notified her address had been changed. Thursday she appeared before the board of supervisors. She said the petition actually dated back to 1998 and had been signed by people who were not even residents of the area.

"These are lists of people who never even had any idea that it was even under consideration for a change," Martin said. "Now this is a list of persons who were never part of the signatures here or had never even heard about it and I am one of them."

Martin said she spent several days researching the nearly six-year-old petition.

"I still think the board of supervisors could have taken the opportunity to check out the validity of the signatures on here. We have many people who signed for others. We have people on here who were minors. We have folks here, some of them can't even write their name. We have people here who do not even live on the road," she said.

Martin and fellow resident Marie Franklin said they have spoken to city council members.

"A couple of them said they did not want to make the change. Well, why did they?" asked Franklin. "Because in their reading of your letter they were under the understanding that you were asking them to do this and all the homework for doing it had been done."

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Jackson, Miss. Trial is scheduled to begin Monday for a Mississippi woman and her son, a former University of Alabama basketball player, both charged with conspiring to kidnap a 6-year-old girl from school.

Jesse Mae Brown Pollard and Devonta Pollard maintain their innocence.

The child was taken from East Kemper Elementary School in Scooba in April and turned up unharmed on a rural road the next day.

The child's mother is Jesse Pollard's cousin. Authorities say Pollard planned the abduction to pressure her relative in a land dispute.

Court records say Jesse Pollard is planning an insanity defense during trial in U.S. District Court in Jackson.

An attorney for Devonta Pollard has said he didn't conspire to kidnap anyone and will fight the charges.

Five people have pleaded guilty in the case.

Officials expected jury selection to take all day Monday, with opening statements expected Tuesday.

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Just before 1 a.m. Wednesday, in Queens, New York, a truck driver’s camera captured a freight train zoom by and collide with an 18-wheeler tractor-trailer.

The train pushed the tractor-trailer about 100 to 200 feet down the tracks, according to ABC News station WABC-TV in New York.

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Meiji Mura Museum

Meiji Mura, Aichi - An outdoor museum showcasing Meiji period (1868-1912) architecture and culture. The name basically translate as "Meiji Village", and the extensive park (nearly 250 acres) has buildings of architectural note rescued from demolition from all over Japan. Although the name and the majority of the buildings are from the Meiji era, there are a couple of exceptions including several buildings from the Taisho period (1912-1926) and from the early Showa era. A classic example of this is the preserved main entrance and lobby of the Imperial Hotel, moved from Tokyo when demolished in 1967, which was one of the masterpieces designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Meijimura is easy to get to and makes a good day trip from Okazaki or Nagoya, especially if combined with a visit to Inuyama Castle and the cormorant fishing on the Kiso River.

Opened in 1965, Meijimura was the brainchild of Taniguchi Yoshiro (an architect and professor at Tokyo University) and Moto Tsuchikawa (an executive of the Meitetsu Company). The two were previously classmates when studying in Kanazawa. Taniguchi wanted to preserve as much as possible of the architecture of the Meiji period, which was endangered by projects ranging from road widening and straightening to urban renewal construction during the period of high economic growth known as the "golden sixties". Meitetsu, the Japanese name of the Nagoya Railroad Company created the open air museum as a combination museum/themepark. The park preserves more than 60 western style buildings of cultural and/or historical importance, as well as working steam engines and trams, and important industrial heritage including railway workshops.

Meiji Period

The Meiji period involved rapid change as the country shook off more than 200 years of self enforced isolation and embarked on a rapid modernization. It was a period of tremendous friction, internal migration and urbanization, saw further civil disturbances (the rebellion led by Saigo Takamori in 1876, and not infrequent rioting) and then external conflict with China and Russia. The country was also forced into signing treaties which included extraterritorial provisions, struggled to modernize its financial system and transportation networks, and experienced political upheaval. Meijimura does not cover much of the above, and unless you are able to read Japanese and are familiar with the history it is easy to obtain the impression that Meiji was purely a period of westernization.

Most of the buildings preserved are identifiably "foreign" in either their appearance or inspiration, though there are some interesting examples of what ordinary Japanese dwellings and structures from the period looked like (both inside and out). Almost all of the buildings are registered as tangible cultural assets, nine of these as Important Cultural Assets. It is unusual to have so many cultural gems in such close proximity.

Japanese Architecture

Some of the more interesting buildings include the house used by the authors Ogai Mori and Soseki Natsume built in 1887 in Tokyo, which is a pretty representative example of a private residence in a well-to-do part of the city at the time, and the interesting rooflines (and interior) of the sake brewery owned by the Nakai family (built in 1870, just 3 years after the civil war leading to the Meiji restoration) in Kyoto. Another early Meiji period Japanese house is the summer residence of Irish author Lafcadio Hearn, built in 1868 in Shizuoka, it is a pretty good example of an ordinary family dwelling.

Western Architecture

What attracts most Japanese visitors to Meijimura is more the western architecture, particularly what is perceived as "romantic" or "exotic". The gothic St. Francis Xavier church, which was the former Catholic cathedral of Kyoto (built in 1890) is a classic example, interesting not only for its stained glass and history (also interesting for those who haven't visited pre-vatican II cathedrals) but also for the frequent weddings taking place here. Also interesting are the private dwellings from the foreign settlements (read up on extra-territoriality) such as "No. 25" from Nagasaki City (1889) with its double boarded walls and the two storey house from the Kobe settlement, one of the fastest growing cities of that period.

There are also a number of buildings that tend to be overlooked, including those involved emmigration. During the Meiji period large numbers of Japanese began to emmigrate in order to escape the poverty Japan was experiencing, and many made their way to Hawaii to work on the sugar plantations as indentured labourers (or made the journey as "picture brides" in many cases), or to farm in Brazil (which still has the largest overseas Japanese community and is now the largest source of "return migrants", or to the continental United States (there is an interesting evangelical church from Seattle) prior to the immigration restrictions. The difficulties experience are well documented (some ability to read Japanese is required) and of interest.

Opening Times

Meiji Mura is open from 9:30 to 5:00 daily from March to October, and until 4:00 pm from November to February. Admission is 1600 yen for adults. Food is fairly expensive inside the park, so pack a sandwich and an onigiri or two if you are on a tight budget, but be sure to put the food discreetly inside your bag when entering the gates.


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For all the talk China's economic problems are getting (and yes, its official PMI came just slightly ahead of expectations on Saturday printing at 50.8 with consensus looking for 50.0: after all the Politburo can't give the impression of an out of control stall), the real action continues to unfold in its primary derivative economy, that of Australia, and particularly its "China-feeder" resource space, which is a far more accurate indicator of the true demand picture in China than manipulated data out of Beijing.  What is going on there, for those who have not been paying attention, is in one word, a disaster.

CLSA's Damien Kestel summarizes, "As noted in recent weeks it has been happy days for investors enjoying the highs on the S&P 500 and associated rallies across Germany, the UK, Japan and elsewhere. But that joy is a world away from the pain that has been inflicted on the majority of resource related equities and their investors. The AS39 Index on Bloomberg includes 87 mid and (now) small cap Australian resource companies. It has been smashed – just like many of its constituents. From early 2011 it has fallen >65% to now sit at GFC levels while there are plenty of examples of stocks that not so long ago had mkt caps of $800m that are now $50m. The evidence of pain in the resources space is everywhere but probably none more so than in Western Australia, the “engine room of Australia”.

Kestel goes on to compile a page of quotes from "conversations over the past week with friends and associates in the Perth mining game and it brought back memories of the Asian Crisis, Tech bust and of course the GFC."

  • “We’re seeing a much sharper contraction in the Australian economy than we’d anticipated four or five months ago”. Coffey MD, John Douglas. The engineering group has seen its shares, which traded above $4 in 2007, hit 10c last week.
  • “We’ve still got a lot of construction under way or committed and there’s a lot of activity that will go on for the next three years or so. I think where the question mark comes in my mind is, well, what will follow those projects?”. Western Australia’s Premier, Colin Barnett
  • “Perth has the highest population per capita of self made millionaires in the world”. Extract from a list of fun facts on Western Australia. I dare say there are a few less after the recent carnage in mining stocks.
  • The current feeling on St George’s Terrace (Perth’s main business street) amongst brokers and miners is that today is worse than the GFC ever was. It’s 100% pain out there” Perth mining investor
  • “I was at the Mines and Money conference in Hong Kong recently. They should really call it Mines and No-Money because no one has any and no one wants to give it to them” Mining CEO
  • “By 10am, the Fitness First gym in the city is packed full of brokers who’ve had a gutful of sitting at their desk doing nothing – salary cuts are starting and next it will be jobs” Perth broker
  • “Oh mate, the funding market is dead. You are now seeing a few deeply discounted rights issues for those that are reaching desperate levels ….. liquidity has completely disappeared” Perth broker
  • “Private equity firms are gearing up for a multi-billion-dollar push into the mining sector, with a wave of proposed asset sales by the big miners, a shortage of competing buyers and the funding headaches faced by smaller companies paving the way for a rise in deals”. The Australian

So, bargain-basement purchasing opportunity, or just the beginning of a secular shift and much more pain to come, as the China "paradigm" finally cracks?

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geminiRX's picture

I think this is bargain basement pricing....demand for resources will always be there. Reminds me of the call zerohedge made on BP during the gulf oil disaster. Anyone who bought BP at the time did nicely.

kliguy38's picture

thank god someone of your stature brought that "breaking news" to our attention on this get back in your mommies basement before she spanks you.

Herd Redirection Committee's picture

The superrich scooping up assets for pennies on the dollar.  Same as it ever was.

I am not saying the US-China lovefest will continue, just that the world will find ways to grow again, if the current limiting factors are reduced.

One of the top things plaguing the world economy...  Is the excessive concentration of wealth.  On top of that, that wealth was for the most part acquired illegally.  But really, if you smuggle drugs, and then earn interest on that money, was the interest acquired legally? Any way, I postulate the wealth inequality of the 21st century is more stark than EVEN FEUDAL TIMES.

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You think this is "bargain basement pricing", gemini? Because they have the word "resources" in their name, and "resources" are good? Lol, great analysis. You should move to Australia and become a stock shill, you would fit right in.

First off, these companies don't actually produce any resources or profits, and never will. They exist by issuing shares at inflated prices to the gullible. Every couple of years insiders ramp the share price, and with stunning regularity this sucks in the next round of moron investors.

Secondly, as their share prices have plummeted, prices have become easier to control. These formerly-midcap-currently-penny-stocks are even more manipulated now than before, with prices thus certainly not in bargain basement territory, especially considering many of them having a true value of zero.

For more information about fraud in the Australian market:

JPM Hater001's picture

Meh- on our way back happening here in America but visit India or china and the disparity jumps by leaps and bounds.

And in feudal times 1 knights word was better than 6 peasants.

Now we have video...

aint no fortunate son's picture

screw the penny stock miners in Perth - here's a (formerly) big US company with a lot of interests in Australia - Cliffs - symbol CLF - check out their 3 year chart:

"...The company also operates two iron ore mines in eastern Canada that primarily provide iron ore to steel producers in Asia; and two iron ore mining complexes in Western Australia. In addition, it holds a 45% economic interest in a coking and thermal coal mine located in Queensland, Australia;"

Yah some of that is met coal problems in the US but a lot is China...

Herd Redirection Committee's picture

Its tough, who is poorer, an Indian who is debt-free living on $3 a day, or an American, with underwater mortgage, $44,000 in credit card debt, just lost their job, etc.

But the point is, I am talking on the global scale.  There has never been a bigger gap between the avg. person and the megawealthy ($1 billion +)

GMadScientist's picture

Start examining the right axes; is the American's high-stress environment better than the Indian's risk of say a Cholera outbreak and which has better access to the coping mechanisms to survive each?

You don't think there were "log scale" differences between Croesus and your average Lydian or Emperor/Pope/Duke what-his-name and the ones fighting the battles?

Something the megawealthy (all 400 of them LOL) should be thinking about...

Herd Redirection Committee's picture

I honestly think if you compare the wealth of a peasant who owned 1 cow, 2 goats, and 5 chickens, to his medieval ruler, the current wealth disparity between peasants and lords would be greater.

mkkby's picture

Then you should stop thinking because it hurts anyone in the vicinity.

Even the poor in the US are richer than the 50% of the world living on less than $5 a day.  Compare someone on welfare to someone drinking filthy water and foraging in land fills.  Go live in India or Africa and report back.  Your perspective from watching TV makes this the fuck tard comment of the year.

greatbeard's picture

>> Even the poor in the US are richer than the 50% of the world living on less than $5 a day.

And that has what relevance to the issue of wealth disparity in the US?

Oldwood's picture

And why do you care what someone else has as long as you have what you need? Wealth disparity is a issue designed to divide. You cannot realistically compare someone of three hundred years ago with today. Most people were barely scatching an existence out and lived half as long as today, and few "owned" anything. While it is questionable what we "own" now days given taxation and debt, but I really don't think there is much comparison relative to idividual wealth. Now freedom, now thats a different discussion.

greatbeard's picture

>> And why do you care what someone else has as long as you have what you need?

It has to do with a level playing field and how the super wealthy got and maintain super weaalthy status.  I'm a  human equality kind of guy.  I'm supposing you're more of an Animal Farm type?  And who are you to judge what I need?  What do the super wealthy need? Our economy is hamstrung by the concentration of wealth and our governments hauling water for the greedy sons of bitches.

>> Now freedom, now thats a different discussion.

Are you so naive as to presume I, and folks like myself, have the same freedoms as the super wealthy.  I can tell you, we don't, and it's because of their mostly ill gotten gains that gives them freedom and takes mine.

So now, off to carry water for your masters.

Buck Johnson's picture

I totally agree.  The smaller companies and financial houses there aren't able to compete with the downturn and so the mines will be taken by the bigger and more diverse companies.  Don't get me wrong, the bigger ones will have trouble also but what they will have is time on their side so when or if they have to liquidate to another they have assets.  Where the smaller ones can't.

Also it will be worse than the feudal times, in fact I like to callit Neo-Feudal.  Where the rich will have more access to power and control and will get what they want and the rest of us will sell out mother out to get some droppings from their table.

geminiRX's picture

Words from a true hypocrite likely....

mick68's picture

I'm in Canada and we're the resource basin for the US. Same deal, Obama can spout all th rhetoric he likes about a recovery but we're taking the orders. And it's no different than the China/Aussie story. Anyone who says different doesn't know the facts or these days, is probably just another liar.

hardcleareye's picture

So what exactly are you seeing for order changes?  What resource industry are you in?  It is hard to find data that has not be mulitpulated by TPTB or Lame stream Media....  I think that the Governement of Canada produces more "franken numbers" than the USA......

I have been expecting to see this "bleed" though, wonder when it will show up in the Globe and Mail etc...

kaiserhoff's picture

What idiot can down vote an honest request for information?

Now that we have a speech code like the rest of the parasite media, international communication is about all ZH has left to offer.  Hell, yes.  Details please.

Room 101's picture

The reason for the down vote was the reference to "frankennumbers" which is of course a sexist slur against lesbians living in small cities of western Bulgaria.

The term is probably a violation of the swiss politically correct and inoffensive speech code that we now have to operate under.  Tyler explained it a few weeks ago.  Something about the swiss getting so upset at ZH that they stopped counting their raubgold for a few minutes and told us how we need to talk nice about preferred social, religious, and ethnic groups. Or something like that...

greatbeard's picture

>> Anyone who bought BP at the time did nicely.

Count this squashed gold bug as one who seriously considered doing just such a thing, should have, wished he had.  Problem is I'm a self made millionaire in the rear view mirror and one step away from homeless looking forward.

mick68's picture

Bought paper gold did you? Then you deserve your fate. If you own physical you've lost nothing.

ElvisDog's picture

Exactly. Gold (physical) is an insurance policy, a retirement and/or emergency fund if you will.

greatbeard's picture

>> Bought paper gold did you?

Speaking of things you know nothing of makes you look very foolish to those that have the knowledge.

>> Then you deserve your fate.

You don't have any idea what my fate is so you certainly couldn't judge whether I deserve it or not.

>> If you own physical you've lost nothing.

Monitarily that's got to be one of the most idiotic positions I see spouted.  You wouldn't happed to know anyone buying physical for $1,900 per oz, would you?  Is your position that the folks who held Enron stock lost nothing?

You seem to be a mindless follower, mouthing the gold bug platitudes that TFMetals if rife with.

Richard Chesler's picture

where women glow and men plunder.

OpenThePodBayDoorHAL's picture

Damn they do glow down here. I've lived here six years after stints in Paris, NYC, and San Francisco, with side trips to places like Milan and Bangkok. They had a program here in the 1950's called "Beautiful Balts" where they encouraged people from Baltic nations (Finland etc) to move to Australia. You see them and their daughters in the supermarket, I can't decide which are more heart-stopping, the leggy 19-year old daughters, or the MILF-y Mom straight outta the fantasy book. Damn.

Dareconomics's picture

The lack of Chinese demand for Australia's natural resources is driving down the value of the Aussie.  You can add that dynamic to the anecdotes above.

JOYFUL's picture

That the lack of demand for Australian(or pretty much any other western commodity suppliers)natural resources can be attributed to a completed program of stockpiling - whereby the Chinese intend to be fully prepared for the Great Reset... wherein the six months or so following the complete collapse of the western ponzi scheme and attendant collapse of global demand have been correctly anticipated as a slack time - after which, being along with Rus and several resource-rich formerly 'third world' powers the last man standing....

the Chinks will forge ahead with the game plan which has already guaranteed their ascendance in the coming shift to a gold-based trade regimen which has been long predicted and anticipated by certain beyond-fringe blogistas but is apparently outside the ken of the collective brain trust of what purports to be the ...."alternative media" ....

important new signalling the arrive of which is 3.2.1 ....ooops...ZH hits the snooze button ... one more time!

earleflorida's picture

gosh,... your good reading JOYFUL

again, nice follow through...

thanks  :-))

disabledvet's picture

what the fuck are you talking about?

hardcleareye's picture

"There's just one thing Dude, do you have to use so many cuss words?"  The Stranger, Big Lebowski

Pure Evil's picture

Gold based trade with China?

Who in their right mind is gonna want to trade their gold for the majority of crap coming out of China?

What do the Chinese have: adulterated and/or highly polluted food products, crap electronics, crap textiles, and other manufactured products that contain dangerous chemicals, i.e., lead in toys, toxic pet treats, etc., the list is endless.

If the Chinese had practically endless barrels of oil instead of cheap labor, then you'd have something to talk about.

Why do people seem to think China is gonna come out of this smelling like a rose.

China has a lot of internal political dissension and the Communists will be fighting tooth and nail to maintain control when the great reset happens. Why else are they hoarding except with the hope of placating their own internal populations.

I bet we see a new Chinese civil war before we see a new Chinese dragon rising.

Middle_Finger_Market's picture

You missed the key phrase above: ''the Great Reset''. Not much will survive of the current fiat system, we are entering a world where commodities trade commodities. The Chinese produce all sorts of shit, but that eceonomy whether by chance or vision has propelled them into a world superpower capable of hoarding the large majorities of the worlds resources. Is this check mate...beware the yellow man.

11b40's picture

No, he did not miss the point of the great reset.  No one knows if, when, or how any such reset is coming.  And if/when one happens, no one has a clue as to the outcome.  The Chinese better well stock pile, as they simply don't have enough natural resources within their borders to take care of their population, let alone save the world in a new melinnium.

Any great new reset is very likely to involve big-time protectionism as the workers of the Western world awaken and make their voices heard against the multi-national cartels that have been selling us all down the river for 4 decades.  Then see what hapens to the economic miracle of China.....

Their system is one of predatory mercantilism, and sooner or later, everyone else is going to get tired of.  It sure did not take Korea long to tire of Japan's QE.

laomei's picture

As I mentioned below, yep China's got resources, but it's kinda stupid to rush in and exploit them all when there are far better options on the table.  Many of those resources are untapped and undeclared.  China's got plenty of uranium, yet, China looks overseas to buy it up.  China's got some massive untapped oil fields, but there's absolutely zero reason in the world to tap them right now.  When you have tons of foreign capital sitting there, what the hell's the point of it?  When there are countries with oil that are sick of the US bullshit (wherein they sell oil for USD and then are compelled to dump said USD into US T-bills and piss it away on useless crap).  Nope, trade that oil for something far more valuable... actual, real, sustainable development that will help transition the economy away from reliance on oil.... a thing that the west NEVER wanted to happen.

Doubt me? Go talk with some of the few foreign China veterans in the industry here, not the ones sitting at a desk, but the ones in the field helping exploration of resources.  So much gets found all the time, and it's hushed up.  In the end all resources are property of the state and all major exploration concerns are state-owned, state-controlled, and that's that.  There's a lot of "peak" everything on the horizon in the not-so-distant future.  So what you do is stockpile and accumulate the foreign resources, while generally concealing the domestic (save that for later).  On the fringe parts of the country, yes, you announce those large finds, but insular? You shut the fuck up about it.  You don't declare it, you don't document it, you leave it entirely off the books and bury the area in red tape to keep it quiet.  This is what happens all the time.

Say for example, China goes fully declared and opts for full exploitation of domestic reserves.  China's energy needs are met in full and it'll be that way for a decent length of time.

  • When there are shifts in energy policy/usage/strategy, you have a lot of fighting to do and interests to placate
  • You have to worry about all jobs from top to bottom
  • You have to worry about environment even more
  • You have to worry even more about energy prices
  • You derive no international benefit, you simply become a hermit kingdom that needs nothing from the outside
  • When resources start to REALLY matter, you're used up and at the whims of the rest of the world

It makes perfect sense if you bother to think about it, and when anyone (like me) tries to explain it, they can be dismissed with the sheets saying that said resources don't exist.  Even better, when China goes around buying up energy companies in the outside world, there's less scrutiny... the reaction is "poor china, obviously they are trying to secure what they need, they are so weak and have no energy".  When in reality, what China is doing is getting cheap energy and placing all the burden on foreign countries for it.   And in the meantime, you are making more nations RELIANT on China for their damned economy... which encourages greater opening up to China.

g speed's picture

you wouldn't trade gold for a GM chinee "Buick" ????  --er Cadillac that is???

mkkby's picture

@pure evil -- who in their right mind will buy chink products?

You will, dumb ass.  All of us will.  In case you slept through the last 30 years, almost all manufacturing has been shifted there.  Yes, a lot of it is dishonest crap, but most isn't.

They already won the future because we begged them to take most of our productive capacity.

laomei's picture

Said it before, saying it again.  China actually does manufacture some top-grade stuff.  Where the disparity comes into play is that factories only produce what is demanded of them by importers, and importers are greedy bastards who are looking for essentially free money.  There are countless products out there that you can buy wholesale for $5 which get a new brand name slapped on them, thrown into a pretty box, and presto, it's $100 plus tax.  Of course, then they press the factory to make it for less and less, while at the same time the actual cost is going up.  Corners get cut, and the importing nation ignores the fact that they are being scammed by the importer, nope, bitch at China.

This is why you are seeing such an influx of Chinese brands now.  That's where the money is, they can cut out the middleman, sell for a reasonable price and make quality that doesn't get bitched about.  Of course, this is taking money out of the pockets of the crooks, so they jack up the fear about Chinese manufacturing.  In the end, ya get what is paid for, not what you are paying for though.  There is TONS of great stuff here as long as you are able to pay for it

As for oil in China, there's more than they're willing to admit or announce.  There's no point, all it would do is deplete reserves faster.  The current game plan is to trade development for oil, development means new markets.  Simple as that really.  China learned this lesson long long long ago already.  Going too insular makes for bad relations and no power or say.  Same goes with non-perishable staple farming.  It's nice but pays shit, the weather is finiky, the harvest can be unreliable.  Go cash crop and trade for the unmet needs.  When there's a downturn in the economy, you only have to worry about factory orders, not the mines too and all the other labor involved.   Let that be someone else's worry... when it's their economy on the line, you'll suddenly find yourself surrounded with new friends who really don't want to see you fail.

And that's how you hedge your economy.. you don't try to take the whole pie, just the good parts.

joego1's picture

when you are feeding a billon people you have a lot of stock pilling to do.

macholatte's picture

whereby the Chinese intend to be fully prepared for the Great Reset...

WWIII .... bloodless:

take over Oceania, just buy it

take over Africa, just buy it

take over a government, just buy it

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

Vladimir Lenin

PT's picture

Re:  "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."  So true.  Even blind Freddy can see it is happening right now.

These days I also like to say, "Capitalism is two blokes holding knives at each other's throat and complaining, 'But I have my knife at the other guy's throat, why am I bleeding?'"

Totentänzerlied's picture

You give the comMaonists too much credit. Can they print oil?

JOYFUL's picture

Why bother printing oil when you can use that 2 trillion or so in Treasury paper to buy oil refiners and the fleet to send it home in?

4 cryin out loud: do people still have no idea just how much firepower the Chinese have to spend on offshore investment?

InvalidID's picture

 I think you're missing a key component here. Come the 'great reset' as it's being called, that 2 trillion in TBills will be worth less than the ink that printed it. Who the fuck will buy it if the dollars dead?

 As for real firepower... The Chinese might have some reserves but I would bet a years salery it's not nearly as much as we think/they say. Moreover, they'll be spending it to keep thier own country together if the global economy collapses. A billion angry, unemployed, hungery mother fuckers... That's gonna take some real 'firepower' to deal with.

mkkby's picture

Well, I wouldn't want your miserable salery or even cellery.  The chinese people don't have many guns, and they will be slaughtered like insects if they revolt.

Yes, china has a history of revolution, but those were battles of the elites jockeying for positions of power.  Try turning off the TV and learning something other than how well stars dance.

11b40's picture

You have no idea what ou are talking about.  There are violent protests in China virtually every week about one thing or another, and the government has great fear of a peasants revolt, or major factory strikes that spread.


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Dow Hits New All-Time High On Lowest Non-Holiday Volume Day Of The Year

Tyler Durden's picture

SSDD. Collapsing confidence, check. Housing Recovery meme toast, check. Volume at 2013 lows, check. BTFATH and send Trannies up for 13th of last 15 days (+10.4%), Dow near all-time highs again (thank you IBM buybacks), and S&P to new all-time highs... but don't tell Treasuries (which stand +/-1bps on the week). VIX wasn't drinking the kool-aid but the NASDARK session enabled futures to drag us back to higher before limping lower into the closer. The USD oscilatted around Nowotny comments and POMO ending the day up a rather notable 0.5% from Friday's close and that pressured commodities in general lower (gold hovering at $1345). The last 2 minutes saw stocks scream higher on their own as the world was terrified it would miss out on something (but no other market moved) and all the major indices managed new highs.

US Equity markets have only one master... JPY carry levered muppetry...

But bonds weren't buying the stock exuberance (or was the post-PMO rally in both bonds and stocks just more of the same Un-Taper hope?)....

And credit is absolutely ignoring stocks' exuberance...

But the straight line rise to infinity and beyond continues as the entire market finds Birinyi's ruler...

Homebuilders rejoin Discretionary stocks at the top of the heap post Debt-ceiling lows... (up 8.5%!)...

Volume continues to slump as stock prices rise...

VIX remains 'relatively' bid as we head into tomorrow's FOMC decision...

Intriguingly, shorts have actually not done so badly in the last week or so (but today saw a late day squeeze)...

When the Nasdaq cash indices cat is away, the futures mice will play...

Charts: Bloomberg

Bonus Chart: As an FYI - the only valuation method that counts indicates that stocks have pushed to their "most expensive" in 10 weeks...

Bonus Bonus Chart: Let The Kool Aid Flow... (h/t @Not_Jim_Cramer)

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Manthong's picture

I feel so freaking wealthy I could just throw up.

Battleaxe's picture

Instead of QE why doesn't the Fed just take control of the market scoreboards?

kaiserhoff's picture

Some aspects of volume are pretty constant.  Think pension funds, mutual funds repositioning, insurance companies..., which makes the fall off in volume even more impressive.  Traders must be bailing out big time, or maybe foreign investors?

Any thoughts?

NDXTrader's picture

I said it a week or so ago, but there just don't seem to be any sellers. Again, it's hard to tell that for sure, but bids just seem to be chasing anything that is even real on the ask side and the ask just keeps getting dragged higher

kaiserhoff's picture

Makes sense.  If you sell, you have to find something to do with the cash.  At least running stops for fun and profit never goes out of season.

I remember when that shit was illegal;)

Say What Again's picture

Did the DOW really hit an all-time high today?

fooshorter's picture

How is this NOT banging the close?

gjp's picture

When crime clearly pays, why not do it every day?

Say What Again's picture

Options on HGX halted and the Home-Builders scream 8%.  I'm shocked!

ghostfaceinvestah's picture

I just noticed that Yelp reported 61M in revenue for the quarter (and of course lost money).  They have a market cap of over $4B.  That is over 10X revenue!

Wow, this bubble is going to pop violently.

gjp's picture

LNKD is nearly 20x 2013 revenue.  On a GAAP basis they lose money too.  Their revenues are growing fast, but their shares outstanding are growing pretty fast too.  The whole thing is a farce.  But these are all just pokemon cards to trade in a fed-funded trading game, a popularity contest that has little to do with fundamentals and more to do with the daily activities of a narcissistic, unproductive, ADD investor-consumer class.

ghostfaceinvestah's picture

Wow, $28B+ market cap there.

The thing is, someone, somewhere is counting that their share of that $28B as an asset, and is either borrowing against it, or making future spending plans based on that value, or a pension fund manager is basing future benefit payouts on that value...

This is why asset bubbles are so much more dangerous to the economy than mild inflation or deflation.  Our economy is heavily levered to asset values.  Once they return to fundamental value, and they will, no matter what the Fed does, the fallout is ugly.

DOGGONE's picture

Agreed, I try to combat this status quo by showing real asset price histories, which show bubbles very well:
I reckon that keeping these out of sight is a/the main instrument of the con.
Please feel free to use!

El Hosel's picture

The only thing getting popped violently around here is DKS maid.

RmcAZ's picture

As long as the Fed is in control, fundamentals are useless

rustymason's picture

I guess it can just go on like this  f o r e v e r   . . .

Bay of Pigs's picture

It's getting hard to breathe way up here...I need some oxygen!

SDShack's picture

My back of the napkin calculations show that the charts indicate Consumer Confidence needs to go below -.45 in order to trigger that -20% drop in the SP500 that will be necessary for bigger QE junkie hit by the Fed. With 0zer0care sucking the sheeple's holiday spending, it appears we will reach that about year end. A crash in January will be what TPTB will need to extort congress to avoid a budget/debt fight in February when the previous faux debt ceiling is reached again.

FieldingMellish's picture

New All Time High on Lowest Volume of The Year...

... rinse... repeat....

GrinandBearit's picture

Algos running wild accounts for 80-90% of the market action.

The higher it goes, the greater the crash will be.

bdub2's picture

I remember April 2010, market crept higher on ridiculous volume, all was well, and quiet. Seems familiar. but but but, this time it's different. So...S&P500/Fed CD to launch to 1900 by year's end? Who wants to take the cap gains this year. Sell in January.

ahhh, life is good floating on this sea of market bubbles and bullshit.

mr. mirbach's picture

November 13-14, GridExII. Mark it on your (paper) calendars.

Tsar Pointless's picture

I'll see you on this sit on November 15, then. You can tell us why nothing exciting happened.

screw face's picture

Bullish....disengage plunge control....

NOTaREALmerican's picture

DOW 35k.    Buy now or be priced out forever!

dobermangang's picture

The masses appear to be buying Grand Theft Auto V.  29 million copies sold.  Amazing quarter by TTWO.

bdub2's picture

"...the fastest selling entertainment release in history."

proud to be an 'merikan!

to speak of a brilliant political "revolution" is an 'asurd asinuation with masses buying bread and circuses hand over fist.

to hell with it...BTFATH forevermore...

orangegeek's picture

Time to go puke my fucking guts out again.

Fuck you Bernanke!!!

buzzsaw99's picture

BtATH - So Easy a Caveman Can Do It

1835jackson's picture

I think the 10 year yield y axis is wrong in the second chart 3.6076%???

NotApplicable's picture

That would be the non-Bizarro World axis.

"Those were the days!"

DOGGONE's picture

On a real (inflation adjusted) basis, the Dow today closed
at 100.0, equal to the average real Dow close in the (all time record) month January 2000.
You can see why the bandits keep real asset price histories out of sight!

venturen's picture

kevin is getting lonely trading with the Steve Cohen is out.

Luke 21's picture

Precious metals might take a hit tomorrow.

El Hosel's picture

Supply wins again, we don't need no stinking demand.


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Review: Nightwise by R. S. Belcher

As I graced the first page of Chapter One, I was already hooked with the narration. R.S. Belcher is a good storyteller. Nightwise is short but it's full of action. The plot moves at a quick trot, almost with no respite that you can't quite catch your breath before you're plunged into the next heart-thumping scene.

Nightwise by R.S. Belcher Review
Author: R.S. Belcher
Publishing Date: August 18, 2015
Publisher: Tor Books
Edition: ebook (I got an ARC via Netgalley)
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
ISBN-13: 9781466842748
Size: 320

In the more shadowy corners of the world, frequented by angels and demons and everything in-between, Laytham Ballard is a legend. It's said he raised the dead at the age of ten, stole the Philosopher's Stone in Vegas back in 1999, and survived the bloodsucking kiss of the Mosquito Queen. Wise in the hidden ways of the night, he's also a cynical bastard who stopped thinking of himself as the good guy a long time ago.

Now a promise to a dying friend has Ballard on the trail of an escaped Serbian war criminal with friends in both high and low places--and a sinister history of blood sacrifices. Ballard is hell-bent on making Dusan Slorzack pay for his numerous atrocities, but Slorzack seems to have literally dropped off the face of the Earth, beyond the reach of his enemies, the Illuminati, and maybe even the Devil himself. To find Slorzack, Ballard must follow a winding, treacherous path that stretches from Wall Street and Washington, D.C. to backwoods hollows and truckstops, while risking what's left of his very soul....

I don't know how old Laytham Ballard is but let me assume him to be in his mid-thirties. He's your typical male alpha. And no, this isn't one of those romantic books, nor a romantic one for that matter. Nightwise is a real thriller book with a knockout antihero to boot.

Anyway, if you're a male reader, you could imagine yourself in Laytham's shoes while reading especially that it's written in the first-person POV. Laytham's a real badass. If you're a female reader like me, you can simply swoon.

Belief has power. Getting someone else to believe what you believe has even greater power. I’ve always been all about the power, not so much with the following or the believing. I believe in me, that’s pretty much it. Believe in someone else too much and they’ll fail you or screw you, or both.

I say that Laytham is an antihero because as how the publishers put it, "he's also a cynical bastard who stopped thinking of himself as the good guy a long time ago". He's selfish and yet, practical (if summoned evil things are following his trail, he'd drop his items on someone so these things will pounce on that unsuspecting victim). He's quick to react to possible danger unless much of his energy's already exhausted from his various chakras or he's too stoned or too occupied battling his hangover. He's also conceited.

"What do you believe in?"
"I believe in how amazingly badass I am."

There's a great touch of the mystic in this book. More often than not, the author would use terminologies you'd usually find in books for meditation and perhaps, books from the underworld. If you're not into this kind of things, don't let a complicated word put you off, you can simply move on.

The story revolves mostly around New York with high places like the Wall Street and Times Square with a few mention of outside places from past events.

For a contemporary thriller story of urban fantasy, this book is quite typical. You'd come across the Illuminati and have a peak into the BDSM scene. And one must not forget, the character must always go to a pub/club.

While so much mojo is involved in the story, technology is quite utilized here. But still, with a touch of magic. The author also made use of modern things to keep with our time like Minecraft and P90X. Moreover, Laytham is well-connected. He has an ex-military friend who's good in hacking, collecting intel, and in covering his tracks. I'm not sure if Laytham's ex-military himself.

Nightwise is a quick read with its small size and fast-paced plot that will have you reeling when hell starts breaking lose. And just when everything starts getting so good, it ended at an effing cliffhanger.

I spent my life at the frayed edges. I didn’t have anyone to be that invested in, to make my breath catch or my heart race. No one to protect or to avenge. Most times I was cool with it, part of the price I had chosen to pay for the power and the Life.

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Gun dealer sold to health club shooter, other mass killers

August 8, 2009

— An online weapons dealer who sold a gun or accessories to three mass killers, including a man who opened fire at a Pittsburgh-area health club this week, said Friday that any of the shooters could have just as easily found what they wanted at a Wal-Mart or another store.

Eric Thompson, whose company TGSCOM Inc. last year sold an empty Glock 9 mm magazine and magazine loading apparatus to George Sodini, the man who shot up a Collier Township, Pa., health club on Tuesday, said the sale was legal and his company did nothing wrong.

“The firearms industry and firearms dealers are lambasted by the media and by politicians all the time and very often nobody stands up and says, ‘Hey, we didn’t do anything wrong,’” Thompson said. “I’m ... being penalized by doing a good job and employing a lot of people and selling sporting goods. ... I’m not some backwoods guy just making to look a buck off of tragedy.”

Thompson’s company, which is based in Green Bay and employs about 40 people, also sold a gun or accessories to the shooters in the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University attacks.

Seung-Hui Cho used a .22-caliber handgun bought from TGSCOM in his attack at Virginia Tech in April 2007, in which 32 people were killed. Stephen Kazmierczak, who killed five people in an NIU classroom before killing himself in February 2008, bought two empty 9 mm Glock magazines and a Glock holster through a TGSCOM site.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms doesn’t keep statistics on online gun sales, but Thompson said online sales are taking business away from stores. Thompson declined to say how much the company made in sales last year, but said it was “in the millions of dollars.”

“It’s just the nature of the business,” he said. “We just happen to be on the forefront in this industry.”

Thompson visited the Virginia Tech campus after the attack to support a local chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. And after the NIU attack, he said the Web site Kazmierczak visited saw a spike in traffic.

RoeDapple 8 years, 4 months ago

Magazines, clips, loaders, holsters. All accessories and not in and of themselves classified as weapons or capable of firing projectiles. This is nothing more than a witch hunt by the media, somehow connecting the legitimate business to crimes committed with expectations that the business owner should have somehow 'known' these shooters would kill upon receipt of accessories purchased from him. If gun(s) were sold, they would have to be purchased at the TGSCOM inc. location, or transferred through a legitimate licensed gun dealer in the state of the purchaser. Nothing newsworthy here, just another Associated Press witch hunt.

OldEnuf2BYurDad 8 years, 4 months ago

If I drive my Ford through a crowd and purposefully kill a dozen people, is Laird Noller part of the problem? He's a BIG seller, so yes, many of his sales have been used in crimes, just as many Laird Noller Fords have been used for illegal activities.

It's statisically unavoidable.

RoeDapple 8 years, 4 months ago

OldEnuf, In the spirit of the article, I would say that if you purchased a trailer hitch and a horse trailer (accessories) for your Ford, then used it to steal your neighbors cattle, the business where you purchased these accessories should have known you had no horses and intended to use them along with your Ford to commit crimes.

beatrice 8 years, 4 months ago

Fords have a utilitarian purpose and are not made or designed to kill others. Guns, on the other hand, are. “It’s just the nature of the business,” he said.

Nice business.

RoeDapple 8 years, 4 months ago

bea, as you seem infinitely knowledgeable on the subject please point out gun or guns from this list that are designed to 'kill others'. Take your time, wouldn't want you to err

(buzzer) Okay, times a-wasting bea.

All the above guns, even the ancient muzzle loader were designed to shoot at targets in a precise, measured and as accurate way as possible.

Once again your lies have been discredited

OldEnuf2BYurDad 8 years, 4 months ago

Some guns are "home defense" in purpose, or "anti-personnel". That doesn't mean that the "purpose" of the gun is for illegal uses or for shooting innocents.

Corey Williams 8 years, 4 months ago

Since they still fire a projectile at amazing speeds, couldn't they be pointed at a human instead of a paper target? Just because their purposely built to be target guns, does it mean you have to use them that way?

All guns are designed to fire a projectile of some sort at targets. It's up to the user what those targets are.

Flap Doodle 8 years, 4 months ago

Will Axelrod's puppet pitch this as America's Dunblane moment? Stay tuned to see which industry is the next target of Barry's howling mob....

puddleglum 8 years, 4 months ago

yeah, most people use fords to kill others... good argument

RoeDapple 8 years, 4 months ago

Yes tumbleweed, my hand made solid maple baseball bat stands ready by my door as my first line of defense if someone comes knocking late at night, with my back up close by if they are kicking in the door instead of knocking. But at 6'3", 265# and ugly as a mud fence, usually all I have to do is open the door and smile. Have had a couple back off the steps rapidly with that approach.

LadyJ 8 years, 4 months ago

So I'm trying to imagine the type of gun the 500 pound man hid in the folds of his fat while he was in prison. It had to be really small, did he have spare bullets? Something new for the guards to check. Who would of thought, just when you thought you had heard everything (such as cats downloading porn).

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Archive for Sunday, June 14, 2009

Weapons makers looking overseas

Defense contractors seek business as U.S. cuts back on costs

June 14, 2009

— Foreign governments looking to kick the tires of fighter jets and cargo planes at this week’s air show in Paris will likely hear a clear message from U.S. defense contractors: We need your business now more than ever.

With the United States looking to cut defense costs and rethinking the way it fights wars, many defense companies are looking for international buyers to take the big, pricey weapons that the Pentagon no longer wants or needs fewer of. U.S. contractors are chasing some lucrative deals, but could also face some legal and political hurdles as they hawk weapons overseas.

Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. are competing to sell fighter planes to countries such as India and Brazil. Boeing is trying to spark international interest in its C-17 cargo plane. Middle Eastern nations fearful of threats from Iran are bulking up on missile defense equipment from Lockheed and Raytheon Co.

“This is a world market right now,” says Chris Chadwick, Boeing’s president of military aircraft.

Globalization is nothing new for many U.S. industries, which often use overseas operations and sales to tap into fast-growing areas like China and as a hedge against domestic downturns. Some of the nation’s biggest manufacturers, companies like Caterpillar and General Electric, make more than half of their sales overseas.

But the defense industry is closely tethered to one primary buyer — the U.S. government. It has been a lucrative relationship. Defense spending is up more than 40 percent over the past eight years, fueled in part by spending on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Much of the money flowed to defense contractors that supply the Pentagon with everything from warships to bullets.

Overseas arms sales represent a relatively small segment of defense contractor sales. But many are turning to the global markets for growth now that the appetite for big and expensive weapons is waning in the United States. The push is helped by countries worried about security threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran. Many European allies need to upgrade their aging equipment, and are turning to U.S. companies as likely suppliers.

However, budgets for big weapons are getting tighter as costs like personnel expenses eat up more Pentagon resources. Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposes spending more money on tools like unmanned drones to fight insurgencies instead of big and pricey equipment like $140 million apiece for F-22 fighters jets meant for more conventional wars.

In the 2008 fiscal year, the military spent $164 billion to buy weapons. For the 2010 fiscal year, the Pentagon proposes spending only $131 billion, though that number will probably grow when Congress adds weapons spending as it reviews the budget.

Big defense companies would take a hit. Lockheed will have to shut down its assembly line at its big Marietta, Ga. plant, putting thousands of jobs at risk. Boeing, which gets 80 percent of its defense unit sales from the Pentagon, could stop selling the $276 million C-17.

“There is a softness in the home market right now,” said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst with the Teal Group.

That could grant some new life to programs that would be cut under the Pentagon’s new budget.

Defense companies will display their jets, engines, missiles, pilotless drones and other hardware for several days this week at an airfield outside Paris. The show is one of the biggest that brings together contractors and militaries from around the globe to broker weapons deals.

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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Economic zone reduces collection – BIR

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

 LINGAYEN -The leadership of the Bureau of Internal Revenue felt insecure about the taxes it will lose in case the Northern Luzon Summit organized recently by Pangasinan Governor Amado T. Espino bear fruits. The summit discussed the possibility of an economic zone in the province. A BIR official, based in Region 1 but who asked anonymity, opined that the presence of the economic zones in Pangasinan will diminish the tax collection of the agency because of the five percent flat rate given as incentives to foreign and local investors inside the zone.
“Pag sa loob ka ng export processing zone uniform ang tax five percent. Example , garments 5 %. Pag sa labas ka may income tax, merong VAT (valued added tax), percentage tax, etcetera pag sa loob ka mababa ang babayaran mo. Uniform five percent international (investor), five percent local investor. So maliit lang makukuha ng BIR,” the official said.
 She cited as example Mamasita, a business entity, in La Union that once operates its business outside the Special Economic Zone at Poro Point Free Port Zone in San Fernando City, La Union.
 The source said according to the law of the Board of Investment, a Filipino investor who operates a business inside the processing zone is required to export 70 percent of his finished goods while he can sell locally 30 percent of his product. She said the 30 percent of the goods sold at the local market is still taxed with five percent and not with the rates imposed by VAT and income taxes. “Excess of the product to the 30 percent allowed is subject to different Philippines taxes being charged to other business outside of the EPZA,” she said.
 She explained 100 per cent foreign owned businesses are allowed inside the zone. Philippine laws mandate that foreign ownership is up to 40 percent in a Philippine industry.
 According to the Omnibus Investment Code of 1987 a registered enterprise (in the economic zone) which exports 100% of its total production need not comply with this (constitutional) requirement.

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Bear Lake Trailhead: Otis Peak, Photo Gallery, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Bear Lake Trailhead: Otis Peak

Rocky Mountain National Park

Otis Peak (12,486') caps an arÃªte along the Continental Divide between Chaos Canyon (north), and Andrews Glacier (south). No maintained trail reaches Otis Peak, however a well-established x-country route runs south from Flattop Mountain across open tundra to the base, where a moderate scramble leads to the summit.

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The World's Largest Yard Sale is this weekend at the Hamburg Fairgrounds. The event is now two day and here is just some of what you will find.

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